The snacks that Mama Bai brought up were small and exquisite. They were the most popular four-color cakes in Beijing recently. They were sweet and sticky, with red bean paste and almonds inside. They were the favorites of the ladies. However, Liu was born with a weird mouth and didn't like sweet and soft things. She smiled and said nothing, "Just leave it there."
"Madam, this is the snack from Jinxiu Pavilion. It's excellent. Please try it." Seeing that Liu was not interested, Madam Bai could not help but persuade her anxiously.
Liu looked at her in confusion. Seeing sweat on her forehead, she frowned. However, since Gu Huixiu was present, she did not blame her. She just smiled good-naturedly and said, "I am old and don't like these sweet and greasy things. Let the eldest lady and Qingqiu eat them."
As she spoke, she pushed the snacks in front of the two of them and said politely, "Hui Xiu, this is what you brought, try it."
Gu Huixiu picked up a piece and put it to her mouth.
Shen Qingqiu also picked it up casually, but did not eat it. He just put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, with a strange look in his eyes.
This taste...
It's a bit strange!
"Oh, young lady, these snacks were brought by you for Madam and Miss Shen. How could you eat them by yourself? This, this is so bad. This is not what the Second Madam taught you when you were in the boudoir!" Mother Bai became more and more anxious, and her voice became slightly stern.
She was Shen's personal wet nurse, and Gu Huixiu grew up under her care, so even though she was a slave, she was extremely rude to her.
"This, this... Madam, I'm sorry for being rude." Gu Huixiu stammered and put down the snack awkwardly.
"It's okay, it's not a big deal." Liu Shi hurriedly said, feeling sorry for Gu Huixiu. She wanted to help her out in a friendly way, so she picked up a piece of dessert and put it to her mouth, "Since the young lady is so kind, I'll try it."
"Didn't they say they had to wait two hours? It's so popular, it must be really good. Maybe it can cure my problem of not liking sweet food!"
As she spoke, she was about to put the snack into her mouth.
Gu Huixiu looked at her with gratitude.
Mother Bai's eyes lit up, and she urged, "Yes, yes, Madam, try it, you will love it!"
If you eat it, it will kill you! She muttered to herself, thinking of the five hundred silver coins that the second wife gave to her son, her heart was burning with fear.
No, no! Anyway, she was dying of illness and there was no cure. She could exchange her life for the reward and spare the life of the wife of the marquis to accompany her in the grave. This was not a loss for her.
Mother Bai was shaking with excitement.
Liu put the cake into her mouth and was about to chew it when suddenly, a fair and tender little hand next to her hit her arm hard. There was a crisp "snap" sound and Liu cried out in pain.
The cakes fell onto the table.
"Ah!!" Mother Chen couldn't help but scream out, her eyes wide open.
Gu Huixiu was also at a loss.
"Qingqiu, what are you doing?" Liu turned around puzzled and looked at her daughter's little face. "Why are you hitting me for no reason?"
The person who had just hit her arm was undoubtedly Shen Qingqiu.
"This pastry can't be eaten." With a cold face and frost in his eyes, Shen Qingqiu turned around, kicked Mother Chen over, grabbed her neck and asked harshly, "What did you put in this pastry? Tell the truth!!"
She felt that the smell was a little off, too sweet, but Shen Qingqiu didn't dare to judge whether it was a problem or not, so she didn't say much just now, but focused her attention on Gu Huixiu and Bai Mama, carefully observing their reactions...
Mother Bai was too anxious.
She was too impatient to get Liu and Shen Qingqiu to eat something, and urged them too hard. Liu and Gu Huixiu had no bad intentions, so they didn't notice. But Shen Qingqiu was always on guard, so he naturally felt that something was wrong.
"Tell me now, don't hide it!"
She said coldly.
"Ouch, ouch, Miss Shen hit me!" Mother Bai's waist was bruised from the kick. It hurt so much that tears came down. She howled, "Help, I can't survive!"
"Sister Shen, what are you doing..." Gu Huixiu was also shocked and frightened, and stood up suddenly.
"Qingqiu, don't hit anyone, let go of Mother Bai."
Liu reached out and pressed her daughter's shoulder.
Shen Qingqiu dodged slightly, avoiding his mother's hand, but his legs were still holding down the struggling Bai Mama. He turned his arm and grabbed Gu Huixiu's arm again, "Sit down, you can't leave now."
She snapped.
Gu Huixiu was such a grown-up, but she was overwhelmed by the little girls like Shen Qingqiu. She fell softly onto the couch, her face pale with pain.
Unable to move for a while.
Seeing that she had become obedient, Shen Qingqiu finally took the opportunity to turn around and look at Liu, "Mother, there is something wrong with the snacks that Gu Huixiu sent over. There must be drugs in them."
"Medicine?" Liu was surprised.
Gu Huixiu also widened her eyes in fear.
Mother Bai was so frightened that she forgot to scream in pain. Her body was stiff and she could only struggle and sob, "No, I, I don't know, I don't know anything..."
"Don't accuse me, girl!"
“Don’t know? Don’t you know that you’re urging my mother to eat some snacks?” Shen Qingqiu sneered. Seeing that Bai’s mother was desperately denying it, she grabbed a piece of snack and stuffed it into Bai’s mother’s mouth, saying as she stuffed it in: “Okay, I’ll assume that you don’t know, and I’ll assume that you’ve been wronged. Now, show me your wrongdoing!”
"Just eat this snack honestly, and I will assume that you really know nothing!"
"No, no, wuwuwu!" Mother Bai screamed and struggled desperately.
She knew that there was a deadly poison in her heart, and even though she was dying, her life was threatened and her instinctive desire to survive made her fight back.
Seeing this, Shen Qingqiu became even more resentful, "Don't you know? Isn't it unfair? Just eat it!! If you take the initiative to eat it, even if you die, I will still treat you as innocent!!"
"If you don't dare to eat it and want to survive, just tell me honestly who made this poisonous snack!"
When she was pressuring people just now, Shen Qingqiu didn't dare to say with 100% certainty that there was something wrong with the snacks. She was just bluffing. But now, seeing Mother Bai's reaction, she understood.
I feel even more angry!!
"It's the second house, it's Shen's, right?"
She spoke loudly.
Liu's face was filled with horror and her expression changed.
"Woo woo!!" Gu Huixiu shrank her neck in fear.
Shen Qingqiu, however, refused to give in and pressed Mother Bai down to interrogate her.
Mother Bai struggled painfully, still refusing to give in. "Miss Shen, Madam, I am really innocent. I really didn't know anything about it. No, it wasn't my wife who drugged me. It must have been my eldest daughter. She and Xiao Ruyun are good friends. She must have wanted to harm Madam to vent Xiao Ruyun's anger..."
The plan to drug Liu and Shen Qingqiu failed. Mother Bai knew that she had no chance of survival. For the sake of the five hundred taels of silver, she suppressed her suicidal thoughts and simply held on to Gu Huixiu as planned.
Anyway, we can't let Liu and Shen Qingqiu pin the blame on the second house, otherwise, the second master won't spare her family.
"It was the eldest girl. She asked me to do it. I admit it. It was all her instructions!"
Mother Bai roared, made up her mind, and bit the poisonous snack in one bite.
Shen Qingqiu didn't expect her to be like this and was caught off guard for a moment.
Mother Bai swallowed it without chewing it. Blood foam gushed out of her mouth. She stared at Gu Huixiu and yelled, "It was the eldest girl who ordered it..."
Before she could finish her sentence, she died.
Without closing his eyes.
He died with his eyes wide open.
Shen Qingqiu frowned fiercely, stepped forward to check her nose, and found that she was indeed not breathing, "Dead!"
"The snack is indeed poisonous."
She whispered.
Liu's eyes subconsciously fell on Gu Huixiu.
"I, I, it's not me, Madam..." Seeing someone die and having half of her neck sprayed with blood, Gu Huixiu was so scared that she lost two and a half souls. Not to mention that before her death, Mother Bai pinned the blame on her.
She was completely stunned.
Trembling and stiff, tears were streaming down her face. She was so panicked that she couldn't make any excuses. She just shook her head desperately, "Madam, please believe me, it really wasn't me... How could I hurt you? I, I can't even try to please you."
"What about you and Xiao Ruyun?" Liu asked instinctively.
"We, we just knew each other. She got along well with my stepmother. I flattered her all the time when I was still in the boudoir in order to please her. Later, I got married and I never had any contact with her again."
"Madam, please think about it. I, I have a family and a husband now. I am already a broken heart. How could I harm you for a former friend? That is murder and punishable by beheading. How dare I!"
Gu Huixiu tried desperately to explain, she knelt on the ground, hugged Liu's legs and cried.
Liu was bewildered and turned to look at her daughter.
What happened today was beyond her expectations. She didn't even have time to react before someone died. She didn't even have time to react to the fear of being poisoned to death...
"Qingqiu, what do you think..."
Was it the eldest girl who poisoned the woman? Was she telling the truth? Liu was able to figure it out.
"Big sister, please get up first. We have something to talk about." Shen Qingqiu looked at Gu Huixiu's face carefully. Before she traveled through time, she had learned some simple expressions. Gu Huixiu's panic and sincerity did not seem fake...
Moreover, her excuse made sense. As a married woman, she had no conflict of interest with Liu Shi, so the possibility of her poisoning was very small...
So, let's go with the second wife! Only when interests are related can there be life and death disputes.
Shen Qingqiu pondered, and reached out to pull up Gu Huixiu, asking her what she knew. However, before he could put his hand on her, Gu Huixiu's eyes suddenly glared, and she knelt down tremblingly, leaning against Liu's legs.
"Puff!" She raised her head and spat out a mouthful of blood.
She felt a sharp pain in her chest and was completely unable to breathe.
"Ahhh!!" Liu screamed in fright.
Shen Qingqiu grabbed her and pinched her palm hard, "Jin Cai, go to the Houye Courtyard and call the palace doctor over. Tell them that something has happened!"
She drank loudly.
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