Chapter 966 Kill three birds with one stone!
The ginseng soup was boiling hot when it was first scooped out of the casserole.
In order to avoid scalding the princess, the maid stirred the ginseng soup with a spoon and fanned it with a fan to speed up the cooling of the soup.
When the temperature of the ginseng soup dropped a little and became just right to drink, the maid put down the spoon and fan, picked up the ginseng soup and left the kitchen.
Xiao Xixi held the spoon, slowly stirred the chicken soup, and continued to ask.
"Is this how you stirred the ginseng soup?"
Maid: "My hand should go down a little bit."
Xiao Xixi moved her finger downwards: "Like this?"
The maid nodded vigorously: "Yes, that's it!"
In order to restore the scene at that time as much as possible, Xiao Xixi asked someone to bring a fan.
She stirred the chicken soup and waved the fan.
Xiao Xixi stopped stirring the chicken soup only after the temperature dropped and it became less hot.
She put the spoon aside and looked at the maid again and asked.
"That was all you did at the time, nothing else?"
The maid shook her head subconsciously: "No more."
No one present thought there was anything wrong with this series of actions.
Everything seems normal!
until……
The court physician detected poison in the bowl of chicken soup.
Everyone present was suddenly shocked.
Luo Yechen asked, "Is it the same poison as in the ginseng soup?"
The court doctor nodded and said yes.
The housekeeper explained hurriedly.
"This chicken soup was cooked in the kitchen this morning to nourish the princess after she gave birth.
Since the ginseng soup was poisoned, in order to prevent the same thing from happening again, I specially assigned two food tasters to the kitchen.
All food must be tasted after it comes out of the pot.
The same goes for this bowl of chicken soup, there’s no problem trying it!”
The court physician had checked in front of everyone before and found out that the chicken soup was non-toxic.
So what the butler said is credible.
Luo Yechen couldn't wait to ask.
"What the hell is going on?"
Luo Qinghan already understood that the problem was with the spoon.
From the first inspection of the chicken soup that determined it was non-toxic to the second inspection that found it to be poisonous, Xixi only touched the bowl of chicken soup with a spoon during this period.
As expected.
Xiao Xixi shook the small and exquisite red jade spoon.
"Because this spoon is poisoned."
The court doctor hurriedly said, "But I checked before, there is no poison on the spoon."
Xiao Xixi: "Do you have silver needles?"
"Yes." The court physician opened the medicine box he carried with him, took out the needle bag, and took out a thin silver needle.
Xiao Xixi took the silver needle.
She turned the spoon over and found a small hole at the bottom of the spoon.
The hole is so small that it is almost invisible to the naked eye.
It was not until she inserted the silver needle into the hole that everyone noticed its existence.
When Xixi pulled out the silver needle again, she found that the front part of the needle had turned black.
The court doctor exclaimed, "There's really poison in this!"
Luo Yechen snatched the spoon and brought it close to his eyes for a closer look.
Xiao Xixi: "The inside of the spoon handle is hollow. Someone hid poison inside. I guess the poison should solidify at room temperature and melt when exposed to heat. Once it melts, the poison will flow into the soup through the hole."
Because the surface of the spoon handle is carved with complex patterns, people have a sensory dislocation and mistakenly believe that the poison is the natural texture of the red jade.
Luo Yechen looked at it for a long time but couldn't figure out the secret in the spoon, so he simply broke it and found that it was indeed hollow inside.
There was still a little reddish liquid left inside.
After examination, the government doctor confirmed that this was Tiandangzi, which was exactly the same toxic as the one in the ginseng soup.
Dangmenzi is actually the raw material of a spice, but if taken orally, it will cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness and nausea.
The palace doctor said, "When the door is taken from the body, it is a substance similar to oil, with a faint fragrance. It will melt when exposed to heat, so people often use it to make scented candles and incense pills."
Xiao Xixi looked at the maid with sympathy.
"When you were stirring the ginseng soup, the poison had already seeped into the soup without you noticing. You really didn't know anything, but you almost killed the princess."
If she hadn't come today and no one had stopped her from taking the bowl of ginseng soup, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
The person who poisoned the food probably didn't expect that someone like her would show up out of nowhere.
Her and the emperor's appearance became the biggest surprise in this plan.
When the maid next to her heard this, her face turned as pale as paper.
She knelt down hurriedly, crying, "I didn't know that this spoon was tampered with. I never thought of harming the princess and the young master. Please spare my life, my lord!"
Luo Yechen originally wanted to severely punish the maid who almost poisoned the princess, but considering that the princess had just given birth and blood should not be seen in the mansion, he had to suppress the urge to kill and said with gritted teeth.
"Send her to the farm. I never want to see her again!"
When the maid realized that her life was saved, she kowtowed and expressed her gratitude with tears and snot.
She was taken away.
Luo Yechen looked at the butler and asked about the origin of the spoon.
The housekeeper said, "This spoon was a gift from a foreign merchant. The merchant specializes in jade. He came to the palace to give the gift, firstly to show his favor to the prince, and secondly to get an advertisement for the jade he sells in the Shengjing Daily."
Ever since Shengjing Daily became popular in Shengjing City, people soon discovered the business opportunities therein, one of which was advertising.
Of course, they didn't know the word "advertisement" at first. It was because Xiao Xixi mentioned the word "advertisement" that the King of England thought it was appropriate and used it. When other people heard the King of England mention "advertisement", they spread the word.
Nowadays, a small section is specially set aside in Shengjing Daily for advertising.
These advertisements not only bring popularity to businesses, but also provide convenience to the people in Shengjing City and generate income for the newspaper.
Kill three birds with one stone!
It is precisely because newspapers have a good advertising effect that more and more businesses are hearing about it and hope to place advertisements in newspapers.
Shengjing Daily does not accept all advertisements. It needs to screen and make sure that the content of the advertisement is true and the merchant has good reputation before it can be published.
Even with strict censorship, there are still many businesses that place advertisements, and the wait list is now three months later.
In order to jump the queue and place advertisements in advance, some businesses would privately come to the newspaper office with gifts, but there were also some brave ones who would go directly to the King of England.
The jade merchant mentioned by the housekeeper is obviously a courageous one.
When the businessman arrived at the palace, the King of England was still in Wanhai City. The Queen was too lazy to deal with him, so she asked the butler to receive him.
After hearing his purpose, the butler politely rejected his request.
(End of this chapter)
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