Yuhe saluted Doctor Yu and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

She turned around and followed them to the tent where the water was being boiled.

Water had fallen into the tent, creating a muddy mess.

Zhu'er pointed to the left side of the square table and said, "I put it here at the time."

The commander waved forward, and several people came up to search carefully along this area.

The tent was damp, and the maids' footprints on the ground were crisscrossed and messy. It was obviously impossible to find traces from the footprints.

I thought I had found a clue just now, but now there are too many people coming and going in this place, and I can't find anything at all.

The general walked up to Jiang Yuanyi and said, "Can Madam Xiao please look for it based on that smell?"

Jiang Yuanyi shook her head and said, "There are too many people moving around here, and it's very open, so the smell can't be retained at all."

After a careful investigation, the group stood up and shook their heads at the general without exception.

Jiang Yuanyi's heart sank.

The best thing at the moment is to find evidence that directly points to He Huilan. But if not, Jiang Yuanyi turned around and looked over there through the crowd.

Sure enough, He Huilan was looking over here, and when she saw Jiang Yuanyi looking over there, she immediately smiled gently.

But Jiang Yuan still saw a hint of panic in her expression.

If there is no clue...

Jiang Yuanyi was thinking of a countermeasure in her mind. A guard in front of her left lifted his foot and muttered: "What's wrong with your foot?"

Jiang Yuanyi walked over quickly and grabbed his foot.

Everyone around was stunned by her action. Jiang Yuanyi slowed down for a few seconds before realizing that her behavior was inappropriate. She looked a little embarrassed.

Xiao Tuo came over to help Jiang Yuanyi grab the guard's foot. The guard: "..."

Xiao Tuo looked at Jiang Yuanyi: "What's wrong?"

Jiang Yuanyi buried her head in his feet and took a look. Sure enough, she saw a bulge with a lot of gray-brown mud on it. Its color was faintly visible from the gap. It was red.

Jiang Yuanyi moved closer and prepared to reach out and pry it off.

Xiao Tuo stopped her, reached out and took the stone down, and then held it in front of Jiang Yuanyi's nose.

Jiang Yuanyi sniffed it, and her eyes lit up. She grabbed Xiao Tuo's arm and held it in front of the doctor: "Smell it, are they the same?"

Xiao Tuo pulled the guard's foot and turned around: "...Master Xiao."

Xiao Tuo reacted and put his foot down.

The other hand was held by the old doctor, and the old man came closer to smell it. The smell was very similar. He took it from Xiao Tuo's hand, dug out a small piece of soil from the concave surface and smelled it.

The general and Yu He looked at him nervously.

Doctor Lao Yu's frown relaxed and he nodded affirmatively: "Yes! This is it!"

Yuhe took the thing, poured a cup of tea and washed it carefully. After washing it, she could find that it was an item on a woman's hairpin. Yuhe looked at the commander: "Search carefully, take out everything on your body, and check carefully. Don't let go of either man or woman."

The maid took the cup of water and carefully kept it.

The deputy commander brought three teams to check the suspicious people outside, and the commander stayed in the tea party with the rest of the people.

Jiang Yuanyi called Xiaoqing and whispered in her ear, "Go to Prince Hui's mansion and find Xiuyuan."

Xiaoqing nodded and said, "Yes."

Jiang Yuanyi walked to Yuhe and whispered, "My maid has to go out for something important. If you are worried, you can send someone to follow her."

As soon as she finished speaking, Mingyue looked over unhappily. Yuhe lowered her chin slightly and said, "Second Young Madam, please go."

Xiaoqing bowed her head and turned away.

Surrounded by tall and strong guards, everyone stayed where they were and could not move. The palace maids and guards had already searched the second table on the left, less than five steps away from her.

Jinxiu's forehead was dripping with cold sweat. At this time, the hairpin was in her sleeve. As long as they came to search, they would find it soon. Jinxiu knelt on the ground, took the hairpin out of her sleeve, and secretly moved her hand from her waist to put it into her shoe.

Jiang Yuanyi had sent several guards to watch this place. When they saw her head hanging very low and her movements were abnormal, they immediately surrounded her.

"Hand it over! What do you have in your hand?"

The eyes of everyone present suddenly surged. Chu Huan turned his head to look at Jinxiu. She was skinny and often stayed beside He Huilan like a little quail, not even daring to look him in the eye.

This time was no exception. She knelt on the ground, shaking violently visibly.

What a coward...

The corners of his lips slightly lifted, and he remembered that time in the carriage when he cornered the beautiful girl in a corner. She was also like this, trembling with fear. The difference was that she always pretended to be stubborn on the surface. She was obviously a flower that would break if it was bent.

The trembling came along the tabletop suppressedly. Chu Huan came back to his senses and turned his eyes slightly to look at He Huilan.

The lady, who had always been watertight, now had a pale face. Everyone looked at Jinxiu, except her.

"Take it out!" The imperial guard shouted.

Jinxiu had already stuffed the hairpin back into her sleeve. She didn't dare to speak, and shook her head violently.

Seeing that she didn't hand it over, the palace maid went straight forward and began to search her body.

Jinxiu finally screamed out in fear: "Ahhh!" There was a hint of crying in the sharp scream.

Chu Huan's head skipped a beat, and he could no longer maintain his expression. He resisted the urge to turn around and look at Jiang Yuanyi, and stared at He Huilan.

Several palace maids surrounded Jinxiu, groping around nimbly.

Chu Huan frowned, stood up as if surprised, and walked closer: "What's going on?"

When the palace maids saw that it was him, they paused, and the other two continued to search her. One of the women said: "We saw that she looked flustered and sneaky, so we came to check."

Chu Huan nodded lightly, with a gentle face like jade and a decent smile, and stepped back half a step, without any intention of stopping her.

As he stepped back, his arm rested slightly on He Huilan's shoulder, bringing the lingering winter coolness from her shoulder straight into her heart. He Huilan shuddered, and her hand holding the teacup froze on the table, motionless.

Jiang Yuanyi stood ten steps away from them, watching Chu Huan's acting.

The words he said when he stood up and the half step he took back showed that he had nothing to do with this matter, and also represented that he didn't care whether He Huilan lived or died.

Jiang Yuanyi looked at He Huilan's desperate expression and found it a little ridiculous.

The moment Chu Huan stood up, He Huilan's eyes brightened a little, and she actually thought that Chu Huan would help her... I don't know whether to say she is stupid or naive.

"Found it!" One of the palace maids took out a hairpin from Jinxiu's hand.

The hairpin was made of pure gold, with only the silver part below the hairpin head left, and white powder remained in the concave part in the middle.

Jinxiu's legs suddenly went limp, and she fell to the ground. She stared at the ground with empty eyes, and whispered softly, "It's not me... It's not me..."

Two guards held up Jinxiu's arms, and a palace maid walked up to He Huilan and Chu Huan and said, "Please come with us."

He Huilan stood up, holding up her skirt, and walked forward with Chu Huan.

Everyone around was shocked. There was no sound in the huge garden, only the rustling of the wind. When the group walked into the private room in the teahouse, the discussion gradually rose, like waves, and it became bigger and bigger.

"No way..."

"That maid is too bold,

isn't she?" "Are you stupid? For a maid to do this, someone must have instructed her."

"Who? Who?"

"Whose maid is that?" A woman raised her eyebrows, hinting clearly.

Someone suddenly slammed the table and said, "Yes, I noticed that the maid went out and didn't come back for a while..."

Yuhe has been in the palace for more than ten years and is very familiar with this kind of trick. She pulled Jinxiu to a room alone to ask questions, while Chu Huan and He Huilan stayed in different rooms. He Huilan waited in the room

, and it was quiet, with occasional heavy footsteps. Four tall guards were guarding outside the door. Just standing there, it was as heavy as a mountain.

With a "creak--" sound, the door next door was gently opened. He Huilan stood up and walked to the door, listening attentively. After the sound passed, silence returned, as quiet as death.

He Huilan walked back to the table, her hands clenched tightly together, shaking a little.

She couldn't understand how Jiang Yuanyi could smell that something was wrong with the tea. It's not that she hadn't given it to people with a keen sense of smell before, but no one had ever noticed it the first time.

How could Jiang Yuanyi identify it so quickly, and determine that the tea was poisonous...

He Huilan had been staring at that place intentionally or unintentionally, and was about to stand up and find a reason to stop Princess Mingyue, but Jiang Yuanyi got there first.

She watched Jiang Yuanyi's face change, and she quickly moved to stop Xiao Tuo and the princess' hands. And then——

looked at herself.

Cold, sharp eyes flashing like a knife.

So quickly and without any doubt, looking at herself.

How could it be possible...

"Creaky——"

The door was pushed open. He Huilan was stunned for a few seconds, then she raised her head with an impeccable expression, and then she stood there in a daze.

The two guards at the door nodded and lowered their eyes, respectfully holding the door. Jiang Yuanyi stood one step away from the entrance with his hands behind his back, his back to the light, looking straight at her.

He Huilan raised the corners of her lips stiffly: "Why are you here?"

Jiang Yuanyi walked closer slowly, staring at her without a single mistake, with a mocking smile, and sat down beside her calmly.

She sat upright, and because of her long-term martial arts training, she exuded a natural aura. He Huilan was already feeling guilty, and after she fell behind, she reacted and walked to Jiang Yuanyi with a smile, asking softly, with some genuine concern in her eyes: "Why would Jinxiu do such a stupid thing... I have always taught her to be kind and polite, but who would have thought that she would go astray..."

She sat down slightly, adjusting the hem of her skirt, with a sad look on

her face. Jiang Yuanyi lowered her eyes and drank tea, listening to her nonsense, and only put down the teacup when she began to sob softly.

The porcelain cup collided with the wooden table with a crisp sound, "click".

Jiang Yuanyi looked at her coldly: "You don't have to act in front of me."

He Huilan still had an innocent smile, looking at her ignorantly as if she didn't know anything.

Jiang Yuanyi rested his hands on the table, staring at her with his amber eyes, and approached her slowly: "You said you didn't teach me well, but you poisoned the horse race yourself."

He Huilan was very surprised. She paused and said with a smile: "How can you be so reckless? I really don't know what you are talking about..."

Jiang Yuanyi interrupted her: "The potted plant you poured the tea into is now in my house."

He Huilan's face changed slightly.

Jiang Yuanyi looked at her, and her white knuckles made a crisp sound on the table. She looked at He Huilan's expression, suddenly clasped her hands, and said lightly:

"You can let Doctor Liu try to see if the potted plant in which the poison water was poured will die in the same way as the one in my house after seven days."

The author has something to say: You should try to die like that.

My daughter has grown up, and she is so handsome.