Gather all the servants from Cong's room together.
Shang Ruoyi is carrying a pink purse.
He looked at the three maids fiercely.
Normally, there was only one maid serving in a room, but Cong was pregnant, so the old princess specifically instructed to assign two more servants.
If they were still in Prince Ding's palace, the number of people serving them would have increased several times.
"Do you have any impression of this sachet?"
Xiangyun walked forward, took a look, and said, "This was sewn by the young lady herself a few days ago. She specially added the soothing flowers of the Chinese albizzia tree, amber, five spices, and some spices that she likes to use on a daily basis."
Xiang Huan also nodded: "After the young lady finished, she specially asked me to hang it on the head of the bed."
Xiangyu looked at the sachet and frowned slightly.
"What's wrong?" Shang Ruoyi asked.
"Before going to bed today, the young lady asked me to put away the sachet. I put it in the cabinet and I don't know when it was taken out again." Xiangyu whispered, "The young lady said that she had a headache these two days and it might be because of the sachet."
There is tan grass in it. I smell it for a long time and of course I have a headache.
She could drink some spiritual spring water every day, but she was probably poisoned a long time ago.
"Has anyone come in after your young lady fell asleep?"
"Young Madam has been sleeping lightly recently. Before she went to bed, she specifically told the servants not to disturb her, so no one went in." Xiangyun said softly, "The servants are all resting in the lower room."
"Did anyone leave during this time?"
Xiangyu shook her head and said, "We servants thought that the young master was about to be born. We didn't have much money, so we wanted to make some tiger-head shoes and a small pillow for the young master. While the young lady was taking a nap, we servants have been doing needlework in the lower room."
Shang Ruoyi looked around the room and found no signs that it had been searched, which meant that the person who hung the purse knew where it was.
"Did anyone see you putting away your purse?"
"At that time, there were only the young lady and the servants in the room. If we talk about other people." A figure flashed through Xiangyu's mind: "It was Aunt Zhao from the eldest room!"
Aunt Zhao?
"What is she doing in your young lady's room?" Shang Ruoyi asked in a deep voice with a frown on her face.
When talking about this, Xiangyu's face turned slightly red.
"Aunt Zhao said she had something to ask the young lady. I was listening nearby and it seemed to be about an heir." Xiangyu said, "Aunt Zhao asked the young lady if she had a secret recipe for giving birth to a son."
"You bastard!" Lin said angrily, "How dare you say such dirty words to the main wife? You have lived in vain at such an old age." She said to the servant at the door, "Bring Aunt Zhao here."
The news that Cong almost had a miscarriage due to poisoning soon reached the old princess's ears.
She had always liked Aunt Zhao, and when she heard that this matter might be related to her, she gathered everyone in the main hall.
Before Shang Ruoyi left, she asked Ah Cheng to secretly guard Cong's courtyard to prevent anyone from having any bad intentions.
Aunt Zhao was brought to the main hall. Seeing the scene in the hall, she felt a little guilty.
She bowed slightly: "Old lady."
The old princess slammed the table fiercely and said, "You evil creature! Tell me! Was it you who poisoned Fang Zhi?"
Poisoning?
She quickly said, "It's unfair! I didn't poison her!"
"You were the only one who entered Fangzhi's room that day and knew where her purse was. Who else could it be?" Lin said angrily, "Tell me! Why did you poison her? Fangzhi has never met you since she joined the He family! What hatred could there be between you two?"
Aunt Zhao's face flushed with anger and she shouted, "What evidence do you have to prove that I poisoned her? As you said, I have never met her before, so why would you harm her?"
"Did you put the tan grass in the purse?" Shang Ruoyi said coldly.
"What is Tancao? I understand!" Aunt Zhao looked like she didn't do it and you are just wronging me. She knelt on the ground with tears in her eyes, "I know that I am the only concubine in the He family now, and my status is naturally the lowest, but you can't just wrong me like this!"
I have to admit that Aunt Zhao is very beautiful. Her tearful look really makes me feel pity for her.
But all the people present were women, so no one bought into her look.
"Aunt Zhao, you don't have to use your status as a legitimate or illegitimate child to make trouble. When you were still in the palace, others didn't know it, but I knew that Dad always gave everything to Aunt's courtyard first. Every time he came back from the battle, if there was only one new thing, it would definitely go to your courtyard. Mother and I have never seen it. If mother really took your status so seriously, you would have been sent to the palace when you were still in the palace." He Yunyi pouted and said, "I have never seen Aunt so confused about right and wrong."
Aunt Zhao wiped her tears and whispered, "But I have never done anything poisonous. Are you trying to force me to confess by torturing me?"
Shang Ruoyi sneered: "Aunt Zhao, do you know what Tancao is?"
Aunt Zhao shook her head.
She really did know.
"Tan grass is a poisonous grass that grows in extremely cold places. It is extremely toxic. Not to mention eating it, even smelling it will poison you. This poisonous grass itself has a strange fragrance, which comes from the powder on it. It is difficult to get rid of it once it is contaminated. Because of this, the people who served in Fang Zhi's room were more or less contaminated with this smell."
Xiangyu and the others smelled themselves and it seemed that they did have a faint fragrance as the young lady said. Perhaps because they smelled it, they found it very obvious.
At this moment in the main hall, the smell is much more obvious.
Shang Ruoyi looked at Aunt Zhao and saw a trace of panic in her eyes. Shang Ruoyi knew that her guess was correct.
"What do you mean by this? What does it have to do with me?"
"How can there be no connection? You are obviously familiar with Fang Zhi, or even the entire Third House, so why do you smell like Tancao?"
"I went to her room a few days ago and asked her if she had any secret recipe for getting pregnant. Maybe I got infected at that time.
"Hehe." Shang Ruoyi smiled faintly and gave her an unfathomable look: "Really? Then why does Aunt Zhao smell even stronger than Xiangyu and the other maids who serve in the room all day?"
What?
"How is that possible?" Aunt Zhao interrupted her quickly: "I clearly washed it!"
When she finished speaking, she confessed.
Aunt Zhao knew she had said the wrong thing and shut her mouth angrily.
"It's really you!" Lin stood up, walked up to her, and slapped her twice on the face: "We, the Third House, have no grudge against you, why are you so cruel?"
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