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Nguyen House.

It was originally a lively and happy event, but now it ended in a mess and bleakness.Ruan Shuyue, the eldest lady of the Ruan Mansion, was wearing a daytime bright red wedding dress and sat on the grand teacher's chair on the right side of the main hall, with a group of family servants kneeling below them, each with their heads lowered, wishing they could get into the cracks in the ground.

"Whose hand did the wine handed to the military guard pass?" Her voice was flat and neither angry nor aggressive, which was quite different from her usual flamboyant appearance. Even so, it still frightened the people below even more.

"Back, back to what Missy said, the wedding banquet and the wine at the banquet were all pretended by me." After a while, someone from below answered in a trembling voice, but after finishing speaking, he hurriedly continued: "Missy clearly! Those who put something in it, okay, how could it be! How dare you!"

"You look up."

Ruan Shuyue interrupted him, and the man obediently looked up.Seeing who the person below was, she continued to ask: "Ruan Gui, did anyone approach you while you were filling the wine? Or were you told to leave?"

The servant named Ruan Gui thought for a while, and then said: "As for Miss, I served the wine on the stone table in the courtyard of the back kitchen. He came to my side, but... I remember that when the cook was halfway through, the cook’s assistant came out to find someone to help him remove the lamb bones, so I gave him a hand and left for a while.”

"Cook's mate? Which cook? What mate?"

The big maid who was standing by the side replied: "Miss, this is the guy brought by Chef Yu of Huanxi Inn who is here to take charge of the wedding banquet."

After hearing this, Ruan Shuyue winked at the servant girl, who understood, and ordered the servant beside her: "Bring that cook Yu's assistant here."

At that time, the brothers and sisters of the Yu family, Mrs. Guo, and a few servants who delivered food and cleaned the house were staying in the servant's room in the backyard. They were going to rest after today's dinner was ready, but several servants rushed in and took them directly. They were taken away without explaining the reason, so they were sent here to be locked up. Later, a small worker who passed by the front yard said that it seemed that the food and drinks in the front were not clean, and the bridegroom was spoiled by eating.After hearing this, Yu Lingchu and Guo Chef were horrified, and their hearts were even more panicked. After several hours of suffering, there was no movement outside, but the visitor left without saying a word and arrested Yu Han. Yu Lingchu couldn't resist looking at his younger brother. Being taken away made me even more anxious.

Speaking of Yu Han, when he was brought to the front hall to kneel in the hall, his heart became more and more angry. He was a little uneasy at first, but when he saw these people being so rude and rude, his temper came up, and the half-blooded man naturally spoke impulsively.

"Even if we are workers, we are decent citizens, why are you so unreasonable!"

"Bold! You have poisoned people in the food and drink, and now you are so rude to our eldest lady, what crime should you deserve!"

Ruan Shuyue, who was at the top, waved her hand to stop the maidservant from talking, and when she turned to look at Yu Han, seeing the young man staring with anger on his face, she began to think a little bit, but if she should ask, she still had to ask: "Are you a helper from Huanxi Inn?" buddy?"

Yu Hanshi was startled when he heard that the food was poisoned. Looking at the girl in red in front of him, he quickly kowtowed and said, "The young one is Yu Hanshi, the guy from Huanxi Inn. My sister and I came here to cook, but we never poisoned him." man."

Ruan Shuyue: "Let me ask you, when Ruan Gui was filling the wine, did you ask him to break the sheep bones?"

"Me, my sister, Chef Guo, and Chef Zhao were all busy at the time, and tearing apart sheep bones was a laborious job, so I thought of going out and calling a random guy. I don't know who Ruan Gui is."

Ruan Shuyue looked behind after hearing the words, Ruan Gui looked at her expression and hurried forward to kneel and said: "Miss, I was the only man who went in and out of the backyard at that time, and I also saw that there was no one to help him."

Ruan Shuyue ignored his words, took a sip of tea and said, "Did you see any suspicious people entering and leaving the backyard or kitchen when you were tearing apart the sheep bones?"

The two of them knelt in the hall and thought for a moment, Yu Han said first: "There are a few girls who come and go dressed up as women, but I don't know them, and I just think they are here to pass the dishes."

Ruan Shuyue was speechless, and turned her gaze to Ruan Gui, who thought for a long time before saying: "Miss, I really can't remember, I just remember seeing a few familiar girls, they seem to be from the backyard kitchen."

After hearing this, Ruan Shuyue was silent, thinking in her heart, Ruan Gui was born in a family, since she was a child, she was honest and never got close to any girl. He said that he couldn't remember, maybe he really couldn't remember, and Yu Hanshi who was next to him looked very straightforward. It doesn't look like a young boy who is capable of doing such a vicious thing and is full of righteous indignation and bites back.Who will poison the groom on her wedding day?Is this matter aimed at the father or her, or the military guard?Just when she was worrying, the clever servant girl beside her mother ran in from the outer hall, and whispered in her ear when she saw her: "Miss, the new young master is not well, madam told you to go and have a look."

Ruan Shuyue frowned upon hearing this, stood up and said, "Take them down first." Then she left the hall quickly.

Yu Hanshi was taken back to the original room with a sigh of relief.Yu Lingchu was flustered and worried, and when she saw her younger brother coming back, she rushed forward, "Brother Shi, are you okay? Why are they looking for you? Did they bully you?"

Yu Hanshi covered his heart and sat on the edge of the kang, and said after a while, "Sister, something really happened this time."

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The next morning, before dawn, Lu Tang woke up, not because she was worried, but...

"Brother Qi, you've been sighing for half a night, aren't you tired?"

Sitting in front of the square table, Wang Qi propped his head, and breathed deeply again: "Sister Yu and Han Shi are both locked up, how can I sleep."

"Alas." Lu Tang simply dressed and got up after hearing this. Hong Xi'er had already told her roughly what happened last night. The case did not sound complicated. Poisoning is most likely caused by emotional disputes. It can be solved in minutes by comparing fingerprints to search and monitor in modern times, but it can be solved in minutes, but in ancient times without technology blessing, it can only be simple Rely on the human brain to find a solution.

"Go, come with me to find the shopkeeper."

Hong Xi'er also couldn't sleep peacefully that night, thinking about the wedding banquet all the time.When Lu Tangyi and Wang Qi came to look for her, she had already got up, and Lu Tangyi asked them to recall what happened yesterday carefully, and think about whether there were any special young men or women around the new couple.Hong Xi'er thought for a while before saying: "Miss Ruan is the only daughter of County Magistrate Ruan. There is only one elder brother and no other biological brothers and sisters. As for the groom, I only know that she is a military general who has engaged Miss Ruan to marry her." , came back from Saibei, the two families are family friends and he is the only son in the family, and now he is a military guard in Anyuan Town."

After hearing this, Lu Tang suddenly thought of a question. She was curious about this question yesterday, "Shopkeeper, shouldn't all marriages between men and women be handled at the man's house? Could it be that the groom is married?"

Hong Xi'er shook her head when she heard the words and said: "How could it be possible for the groom to marry? The groom is an official. I just heard that his family is not well-off. His father did not save much money when he went to war in the early years. After the war, only his orphans and widows are left. It was only after he inherited his father's military rank in the past two years that he gradually got better. County magistrate Ruan's family is rich, and with such a daughter, it's okay to pay for the wedding. Besides, the groom has only just arrived, and the distance between the two towns is not considered. It's too far away, it's reasonable to have a wedding at my father-in-law's place."

"Then have you ever heard of any romantic affairs about this Miss Ruan or that military guard?"

Hong Xi'er gave her a suspicious look, and then said: "Ms. Ruan is the only jewel in the hands of County Magistrate Ruan. She is precious like something, and she is engaged to someone. Where did the love affair come from? As for the military guard, I don't know."

Lu Tangyi continued to ask: "At the wedding banquet, were there no young men or girls sitting on the table near the new couple's house?"

Although Hong Xi'er didn't understand why she kept asking about this matter, she still carefully recalled: "It seems that some young generals came here, they should be colleagues of the military guards. There were a lot of people at that time. Having fun with the people, we invited several shopkeepers in together, but we sat far away from the main seat..."

"Yes." Hong Xi'er was still remembering, and Wang Qi suddenly interjected: "I went in with the shopkeeper, she was chatting with several shopkeepers, I was curious about the appearance of the bride, so I kept looking at the main table It’s there, but I can’t see it clearly from a distance, I only vaguely remember scanning it, and there’s a girl in white on the vice seat.”

"The girl in white?"

"Yes, I couldn't help but take a second look because I looked extremely white in white, after all, who would wear white to attend someone else's wedding banquet? It's unlucky."

After hearing this, Lu Tang thought for a moment, and said to Hong Xi'er, "Shopkeeper, Sister Yu and Han Shi must be innocently implicated in this matter, but now if you want to catch the real murderer, you have to go to the scene of the crime to investigate carefully. It’s better to check the people on the scene one by one, but you and I definitely can’t do it, I don’t know if this county magistrate Ruan is a wise and upright official?”

"Magistrate Ruan is fairly honest. I've never heard of him accepting bribes or extorting gifts. It's just that he is a wise man... Huanxi Town has always been peaceful. Three generations of my family have settled here. It is rare for such a big incident to happen. matter."

"That's it..." Lu Tang thought to himself when he heard the words, it seems that this Ruan County guy is not bad, but he doesn't know if he is a mediocre person.Huanxi Town has seldom had such a big case in a hundred years, and he ran into it all at once, and the victim was his son-in-law. Thinking about it, he would definitely not let it go, and the next one would rather kill by mistake than let it go, wouldn't it be the Yu family siblings? Dangerous.

Seeing Lu Tang frowning and thinking, Hong Xier didn't know what she was thinking, but based on the question she asked just now and the feeling of speaking, Hong Xier's intuition seemed to believe that she could come up with a solution.

"A Tang, if you can think of any idea, you can tell us. Let's discuss it together. If you need help, I can ask someone."

Wang Qi was listening, and said anxiously: "Yes, if Sister Yu is wronged, at worst, go to the county government to beat drums to complain, and she must be rescued first."

Lu Tang took a look at the two of them and thought about it before saying, "It's not necessary to beat the drums to appeal for grievances. Although this is involved in a human life lawsuit, it is still the county magistrate's family matter. It's better not to make too much trouble. Shopkeeper, if possible, I will I want to go to the wedding banquet to see, it's best to meet the military guard and Miss Ruan."