Chapter 76: It’s all nonsense told by slaves
Everyone lowered their heads and saw Yan'er taking out a handkerchief from her sleeve.
She slowly opened the four corners, and in the middle was a gold-plated and silver-plated butterfly hairpin.
Yan'er lowered her head: "Master, Fujin, originally this was something Li Gege wore. Master gave it to Gege during the Mid-Autumn Festival two years ago."
Lu Pheasant glanced at Brother Si.
Yinzhen nodded without any trace.
Confirm items are correct.
Yan Zi then continued: "That day, Li Gege wore this hairpin to the banquet, and then placed it in the Huxin Pavilion. On the day of Gege's accident, the slave girl found it under the bed."
Aunt Er: "Since it was an object found at the scene, why didn't you hand it over immediately that day?"
Yanzi leaned down and said, "I know this is against the rules, but there is something wrong with this hairpin. After some consideration, I decided to put it away for now. Sure enough, Qingqing, she really came to the master to report me first."
Aunt Er: "What's wrong with this hairpin?"
Yan Zi: "The belly of this hairpin is tied with velvet flowers, and there is a mystery hidden in it. It is easy to be stained with the smell of spices and persists. It used to be Li Gege's lily and benzoin, but now it has the smell of orchids. This smell , the slave has only smelled it on Qingqing.
Mammy, everyone in the house knows that Qingqing comes from the Western Regions. This is the scent of spices she has worn on her body since she was a child. No one else can get it. "
Lu Fei glanced at the quiet girl Qingqing and signaled to her.
Grandma Er carefully took the veil wrapping the hairpin and handed it over to Doctor Liu and Doctor Bai who had already come to standby.
The strong woman found another green sachet from Qingqing's body and handed it to the two doctors.
After the two smelled it one after another, they nodded to each other and said to the two masters: "It is indeed as Yanzi said, it is orchid seed. This thing has a peculiar taste and long-lasting fragrance, but it is not loved by nobles, even in the capital. Common, not easy to find.”
The hairpin came to the master and was placed on the square table between them.
Lu Pheasant took one look at it and asked, "Your name is Qingqing? What Yanzi said, what do you have to argue with?"
Qingqing lowered her head and exposed her clean neck and said: "Fu Jin, the Lanjuezi sachet does belong to the slave. But the hairpin has nothing to do with the slave. A while ago, the sachet was lost, and then I found it again. Maybe it was that At that time, someone used it to frame the slaves. Please master, please look into it."
Lu Pheasant: "Lost? Then tell me, why is it that in this huge mansion, you are the only one framed?"
Qingqing: "Fujin just heard it. Yanzi saw that the slave did not treat Li Gege well, and she was very angry with her master. She even hid the hairpin specially. Who knows what kind of tricks she would do to it. Fujin, I was so excited at the time that I shouldn’t have listened and helped Li Gege. I sincerely change my ways and ask Fujin to give me a chance and my master to forgive me.”
"If you come here today and tell the truth, we will consider it." Lu Pheasant turned to Yan Zi, "You said you noticed something was wrong with Chai Zi that day. Apart from the smell above, is there any reason?"
Li Gege, who had been hiding behind the curtain, heard what happened, slowly moved over, and spoke at this moment: "Fu Jin, isn't this an obvious thing? How did my hairpin fall into the hands of a cheap servant? She must have become interested in the wealth and robbed it, so she became tainted with the taste of a lowly servant. This was my previous reward, and she dared to even think about it."
Yanzi tugged at the hem of Li Gege's skirt, but she kicked him away.
Lu Pheasant smiled: "Li Gege, don't point at my nose now. Are you afraid of me?"
Li Gege sneered: "Forgive me, Fujin. I was in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, panicking day and night, and lost my mind. Now, I have returned to my residence and regained a lot of clarity. I was thinking about going to Fujin's yard early tomorrow morning to apologize, but I didn't want to It's because of your cheap maid that Fujin came here first."
Lu Pheasant glanced at the fourth elder brother and let the matter go gently: "According to Li Gege, it was Qingqing who first insulted his master in the Huxin Pavilion, and then fell in love with the hairpin he rewarded, and he suddenly became interested. , we have to fight for it. So where are you at this time, Li Gege? You also said that it was my reward. You let a servant take it away so easily? "
Li Gege hesitated for a few times, then covered his head and said: "I, I don't remember very clearly. Maybe, maybe Qingqing, a cheap maid, stole it while I was sleeping. Later, something happened to me and she came back. She accidentally dropped it again when she was traveling, and was picked up by a swallow, revealing her evil deeds."
Doctor Liu and Doctor Bai were discussing in the background: "Or, could it be that Qingqing was snatching the hairpin, and Li Gege happened to wake up at this time and fight for it. Inadvertently, someone took the hairpin. The hairpin hit Li Gege's wrist, causing blood to flow all over the scene. Qingqing never wanted to make things worse, so she dropped the hairpin in panic.
Later, someone found her again, threatened Qingqing with this incident, and helped clean up the fake blood. Afterwards, Qingqing came to report. "
Imperial Physician Liu denied: "No! The patient's hand was injured by wood, not a gold-plated or silver-plated hairpin."
Doctor Bai: "So I either missed a paragraph, or there was something else that happened in the middle that some people are still unwilling to tell."
Brother Si coughed slightly, glanced in Li Gege's direction, and said: "Time is limited, and our patience is also limited. What happened that day? If you don't want to call us from the ground up, now that we have gathered people, someone will naturally help." Tell the truth."
Qingqing trembled at this moment and said tremblingly: "Slave, tell the truth. I deserve death. I really thought about snatching Li Gege's hairpin, and I did it. Li Gege happened to wake up at that time. , during our dispute, the slave accidentally hurt Li Gege and lost the hairpin in panic.
Now that Li Gege has been rescued, the servant is afraid that when she wakes up, she will turn over and give her away. After the slave ran away that day, he came back and took a peek. He happened to see Yanzi leaving with a bucket of blood, so he thought that he would take the opportunity to sue her first, and maybe nothing would happen. This slave just wants to survive...this slave's sachet has not been lost either..."
After hearing this, Lu Pheasant said to Brother Si: "It seems that I made this up based on the speculations of the two doctors."
Qingqing kowtows: "Fujin Mingcha, what I said this time is the truth."
"What about my nephew?"
Qingqing continued to kowtow: "It's all nonsense from the slave. Yan Zi is just a maid. No matter how capable Li Gege is, she can't even get out of the mansion, so how can she make arrangements for the nephew of the slave. The slave is just too scared and wants to strike first. A random excuse made up."
Lu Pheasant shook his head: "It's still wrong. If so, who inserted the wooden chopsticks into the wound again. Is it you, Li Gege, or... Yanzi?"
