The next morning, Ah Sheng was still fast asleep.

Cao Cao woke up early, and quietly sat up from the couch, seeing the woman next to him still sleeping happily, he couldn't help but bend down to tease her.

Her eyelashes are very long, trembling under the ups and downs of her breath, like pitch-black crow feathers, swaying his heartstrings.

He couldn't help stretching out his hand to touch her eyelashes, but he didn't dare to wake her up. Seeing her unconsciously "snapping" his hand away, he couldn't help laughing.But at this moment, he heard hurried footsteps coming from outside the door, and then a maid Su Yu knelt down on the ground and told him: "Lord Sikong, Xun Lingjun and Guo Jijiu are already waiting, and I have something important to discuss with Sikong. .”

"I already know." He nodded and said in a low voice, "Be quiet, don't disturb Madam's sleep."

Su Yu didn't dare to talk too much, she only dared to nod submissively.Seeing that the master wanted to get up and change clothes, she quickly stood up and wanted to serve, but he held out his hand and refused, motioning her to leave the bedroom quickly.

After he finished dressing quickly and lightly, he hurried to the study.Seeing that Sikong had arrived, Xun Yu and Guo Jia saluted one after another, but they were stopped by him immediately.

"There are only three of us here, why bother to see outsiders."

Because he didn't have time to wipe off his forehead, there was still the purple-red mark of yesterday's mulberry, the mark that A Sheng vowed to leave that belonged to her alone.At this moment, not only did it not fade in the slightest, it became more and more obvious under the bright morning light penetrating into the study, both Xun Yu and Guo Jia could see it clearly.

Xun Yu was always steady, but Guo Jia couldn't help being curious, he didn't even bother to talk about the business first, so he asked, "Why is there a purple mark on Sikong's forehead?"

Hearing this, Cao Cao couldn't help but slow down the movement of flipping through the rolls of paper in his hand, and gently stroked his forehead, "Is this it?"

Immediately, he seemed to reply casually: "Yesterday, my wife, Mrs. Bian, insisted on being rude to the king. She ate some mulberries and left a mark and forgot to wipe it off."

He has always been not shy about making harmless jokes in front of his subordinates, so Guo Jia felt that Sikong was quite interesting when he heard it, and although he only smiled in agreement on his face, a malicious smile had already appeared in his heart.

After Cao Cao finished speaking, he pretended to be casual and glanced at Xun Yu's expression.

"Your Majesty thinks," he deliberately moved the slips and slips to Xun Yu, so as to spy on his reaction after hearing what he said just now, "how should this Yuan Shu matter be resolved?"

Xun Yu's eyelashes trembled slightly, as if he didn't make any waves to Cao Cao's words just now.With a calm expression, he took the bamboo slips in the opponent's hand and began to flip through them. After a long time, he said softly: "It is precisely because of this that I have come to seek counsel from Sikong."

"Then how do you feel about Ling Jun and Feng Xiao?"

Guo Jia regained his composure, and said: "Since Yuan Shu is tyrannical and plunders the people in the territory for no reason, and even Jiangdong Sun Ce is willing to join hands with the lord to crusade, then the lord should fight quickly, so as to win the hearts of the people."

Xun Yu put down the bamboo slips, and approval appeared on his gentle face: "Yu also thinks the same way, Si Kongyi wrote a letter to meet Liu Bei and Sun Ce, marching in three directions, and will surely win Yuan Shu's army who has long lost the hearts of the people in one fell swoop."

"But I'm afraid that Yuan Shao will end up caring about his brother Yuan Shu's relationship and obstruct it."

"My lord, don't worry, Yuan Shao is a man who likes to benevolent. He just needs to be promised as a general, and he will just sit back and ignore him." Guo Jia gently shook the folding fan, shaking it gently to dispel the boredom of the heat. There is a youthful and confident look in it.

**

Ah Sheng was sitting on the rocking chair taking advantage of the shade under the eaves to enjoy the shade. The green plum tree in front was growing vigorously, and a large piece of fruit had grown in the past few days.

"Hongxue, pick some greengages for me." Seeing Hongxue sitting on the threshold picking her nails bored, she called out to her.

Hongxue gave her a white look: "You've been eating a few bowls at a time, be careful of diarrhea. Besides, I don't have that much time to spare. Just now you asked me to make a bowl of green plum juice and send it to Sikong. Now I'm tired." Said Then he continued to pluck his eyebrows in front of the bronze mirror, while still caring about his own self-indulgence.

Since she looked unwilling to work for her, Ah Sheng could only go to battle in person.

Muttering in her heart, "I won't let you pick a plum", she struggled to stand up from the rocking chair while stroking her big belly, and tiptoed hard to reach the slightly higher branch. , but heard a few panicked shouts outside:

"Hurry up, find the doctor quickly, let's kill someone!"

A group of maidservants ran and shouted in a hurry, which made Ah Sheng's heart tense. Hongxue, who was impatient, immediately grabbed a little maid's sleeve and asked her, "What's going on? What happened?"

The little maid was out of breath, took a few breaths to avoid incoherent speech, and rubbed her sleeves nervously and panickedly with her fingers: "Miss' nurse, Wang Ma, drank a glass of plum juice that someone made, and suddenly He was foaming and passed out, and I don't know if he can be saved or not."

"Could it be your green plum juice?!" Ah Sheng heard the little maid's panic-stricken explanation, before thinking too much about it, she spit out her heart to Hongxue.

Hongxue immediately rolled her eyes at her with disdain: "I poisoned your husband's green plum juice? Is it because I don't have enough brains or something?"

The eldest daughter is Cao Jie, the eldest daughter of Cao Cao, who is just one year old this year, but who is so vicious that she even wants to murder a daughter's nurse?

Asheng dared to swear with his own head that Hongxue would not do such a thing. Although this person always looked contemptuous and reluctant, his heart was ultimately pure and kind.

"Come on, let's go and see."

She was struggling to walk, Hongxue came over to support her when she saw this, although she was still complaining: "You are pregnant with a child, what are you doing in that dead place?"

But at the end of the day, she wanted to find out after all, so she was patiently holding Ah Sheng's arm in case she accidentally fell, and walked slowly together.

Cao Jie's house was already crowded with a group of people, Mrs. Yin, Mrs. Du and others even looked saddened, shaking their hands and covering their eyes, unable to bear to see the suffering of the deceased.

Xiao Cao Jie was surrounded to play outside the house, not knowing what was going on inside.She lost her mother when she was born, and she has always been taken care of by her wet nurse.Now the wet nurse is lying powerlessly in the middle of the room, with only the whites of her eyes turned upside down, and her mouth open in a daze, she has lost her breath.

Everyone was afraid that it would be bad for Cao Jie to see the dead person, so they hurriedly carried her out to the side room, coaxed her to sleep and rest quickly, and lied to her: "Your nurse just fainted, young lady, please go to bed first. "

Cao Jie's young heart didn't know what happened. She was tired from playing, and fell asleep under the half-bait of everyone. She didn't know that the nurse who had been with her day and night had left her forever.

A Sheng sighed and looked at Xiao Cao Jie who was sleeping soundly. Suddenly, a group of people walked in from outside. The leader was a lady in a beautiful dress with a begonia, jade tassel and tassel flower hairpin on her head. There was no sound.

"Greetings to Mrs. Ding." They hurriedly saluted Ding Xi.

The latter didn't answer, but frowned and glanced at the corpse lying flat on the ground, his phoenix eyes narrowed slightly: "Why is she like this?"

"Mrs. Ding, Madam Wang went to the dining room and drank a bowl of green plum soup to relieve the heat due to fatigue at noon. She died suddenly for some reason when she came back. She was talking to her servants when she suddenly foamed at the mouth and passed out. " A little maid also wanted to show off her cleverness in front of Ding Xi, so she replied respectfully.

Ding Xi glanced at her and told her: "Bring that bowl of green plum soup."

The little girl listened to her master's order, and hurriedly ran to bring a porcelain bowl with half a bowl of soup left, and held it in the palm of her hand for Ding Xi to inspect.

A Sheng took a closer look, and saw that the bowl was plainly painted with a pattern of peach blossoms, the crimson color spreading piece by piece, but it was strangely familiar, as if he had seen the exact same style somewhere.This kind of bowl is rarely produced in the official kiln, and it is extremely precious, so there must be very few people in the mansion who own this bowl.

While observing like this, the hands supporting her suddenly trembled without warning, and even she was terrified.

A Sheng hurriedly turned his head to look at Hong Xue who was beside him, "What's wrong?"

Hong Xue's eyes released a moment of bewilderment and fear, shaking A Sheng's arm, saying incoherently: "This, this is our bowl."

Ding Xi inspected the porcelain bowl carefully, and raised his eyebrows to look around at the crowd: "Since there is evidence, the owner of it only needs to find out who this bowl belongs to, and whoever killed Wang Ma will have an additional testimony. "

A Sheng whispered in Hong Xue's ear, and whispered: "Don't panic. As long as you didn't make it, even if they find out that the porcelain bowl is ours, we can stand upright and stand upright. We are justified and not afraid of being framed. "

"I didn't panic." Hongxue also immediately became confident, and immediately restored the original blunt and contemptuous expression, "Why should I be afraid of things I haven't done?"

"That's right." A Sheng patted Hongxue's shoulder, but at this moment, he saw that the cooks in the dining room were all brought over by the servants, with aggrieved expressions on their faces.

When they saw Ding Xi, they all knelt down in unison, sighed and swore to the sky: "God knows, we have nothing to do with Wang Ma's death. I hope Madam will find out!"

Seeing this, Ding Xi waved his hands impatiently: "Who said you harmed her? I called you here because I want to know if you have any impression of the bowl Wang Ma drank at noon?"

The cooks all looked at each other, knelt on the ground and didn't dare to get up, they were relatively speechless in silence, but for some reason they all dared not speak.

The atmosphere was extremely awkward for a while, and the sound of sparrows flapping their wings could almost be heard in the silence.

"What's the matter?" Seeing how quiet it was, Ding Xi couldn't help asking.

Seeing that those five-year-old cooks still didn't say a word, she glared and said, "You guys are so courageous! Madam Ben interrogates you, how dare you neglect her?"

One of the cooks was too frightened to look up, and shyly looked at her almost devouring eyes, and said submissively: "Madam, I saw the day before yesterday that Miss Meier served it in a bowl exactly like this one." Steamed bream in lotus leaves just out of the pot in the dining room."

As soon as these words came out, all the people present turned pale with shock, and all looked at Ding Xi in unison.Mrs. Yin, Mrs. Du and the others looked at her who was still full of anger meaningfully.

Meier is Ding Xi's personal maid.

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