"Are you sure this is okay?" Tang Ping asked Gou Shaoqun.
Gou Shaoqun nodded confidently: "This kind of person's greed for money is basic. If you give him such an expensive wallet and there is no way to get rid of it in Nanzhao Kingdom, then he must carry it with him."
There was a bug and location in the wallet. Tang Ping and the others could know who the cook had spoken to and where he had gone.
Three more days passed like this, but I found that the cook had never been anywhere except the imperial kitchen and his home, and he had never seen anyone in particular.
"Is this the cook who poisoned the king?" Gou Shaoqun didn't believe it.
"There must be someone behind you!" Tang Ping said: "Because he has no motive to do this, and he can't do it even with ."
The biggest suspect now is Zheng Luofeng, but Tang Ping and the others don't have any evidence.
This matter was too big, and he had to make sure to cut off the source without risk.
"If you ask me, just arrest Zheng Luofeng and torture him, simply and roughly, to see if he can do anything." Gou Shaoqun said angrily.
The person behind the scenes was hiding very well, and the amount of medicine given to the cook was not large, so it might not be possible to wait for them to contact him in a short time.
"You're right!" Tang Ping's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Huh?" Gou Shaoqun said this casually, but he didn't think the idea was useful.
"Are you really planning to arrest Zheng Luofeng? But what if you arrest the wrong person?"
"We are thinking too complicatedly. Why should we arrest Zheng Luofeng?" Tang Ping pointed to the signal on the tablet that showed the cook's location: "We can just arrest him."
"Whether he is recruited or not, although he is the key figure in poisoning, in the imperial kitchen, he is just a dispensable cook!"
Gou Shaoqun immediately understood what Tang Ping meant, pointed at Tang Ping and said, "You mean, under normal circumstances, no one would care too much if he disappeared, but because he is now the key person in poisoning, So if he disappears, the people behind him will definitely be anxious, and then they will definitely take action!”
"Yes, if he disappears suddenly, the people behind him will definitely be eager to find him.
Tang Ping nodded and said.
"And maybe he got scared and just recruited the people behind him?"
It was too easy to catch the cook. Lao Cui and the others got him out as soon as he fell asleep at night.
When he opened his eyes, he was already in front of Tang Ping.
"You... who are you?" The cook had never seen Tang Ping before and said with some horror: "What do you want? Do you want money? I have a wallet with a reward from the Duke of Ping of the Tang Dynasty here. It is said that I can sell it in Chang'an. I’ll give you five pieces of money, just let me go!”
"We don't want money." Lao Cui put a fierce face in front of him, glared at him and said: "You just need to tell me who asked you to drug your Majesty. Not only will we let you go, but we will also give you money." How about your money?"
"What did you say?" The cook's eyes were a little dodgey: "I don't understand. I have worked in the imperial kitchen for twelve years. How could I poison His Majesty?"
"Hey!" Lao Cui grabbed his collar and said, "I just said poisoning, but I didn't say poisoning! So it was really you who poisoned His Majesty, right? Do you know that this is a major crime against the nine tribes? You are a very brave cook!"
"I didn't...I didn't!" The cook shook his head and denied, "I didn't, it wasn't me who poisoned you!"
"It's not you?" Lao Cui pushed him back and said: "Do you think we just arrested people? If it wasn't you, then what do you add to the flower cake every day?"
Hearing Lao Cui talk about the flower cake, the cook was completely panicked and said with tears: "I really don't know, one day His Majesty suddenly fell ill, and then I was arrested. The person said that I was the one who gave it to Your Majesty." There's something wrong with what you made, and that's why Your Majesty is sick."
"If I don't do what he says, he will report me and kill my nine clans!"
The cook grabbed Lao Cui's hand: "Believe me, I really didn't want to poison your Majesty! Later he said that your Majesty was poisoned and that he needed a kind of flower to cure it. I didn't believe it at first. But he took me I went to see him once, and His Majesty seemed very uncomfortable at first, but after eating the flower cake I made, he recovered quickly."
"So I made flower cakes for His Majesty every day. I was not poisoning him, I was curing him!"
"Hmph!" Lao Cui snorted coldly: "If you want to cure a disease, why not do it openly?"
"That man... that man said that Your Majesty was assassinated. If I were exposed, the person who harmed Your Majesty would not let me go." The cook said tremblingly: "I believed it at first, but... but then I It seems that His Majesty's illness is getting worse and worse, I'm afraid it's because of eating my flower cake."
"I...I...I tried to eat some myself. I felt very comfortable at first, and my whole body felt very comfortable and ecstatic." The cook seemed to have seen something terrifying and said in horror: "But later After a while, I found that I felt very uncomfortable and wanted to eat again. Only if I eat again will I feel better, otherwise I will feel so uncomfortable that I will die. Just like His Majesty before eating my flower cake!"
“ButI didn’t dare, because if I continued to eat, it wouldn’t be enough for Your Majesty, so I held it back with great difficulty, and it took almost three days for me to feel better. He grabbed Lao Cui as if grabbing the last straw: "Believe me, I really didn't want to poison His Majesty."
"I believe you can. Can you tell me who the person you are connecting with is?"
The cook made a sad face: "I...I really don't know. I've never seen him, but he seems to have great power. He can take me around the palace! He will be here in about half a month. Find me once and give me some medicinal powder and ask me to put it in the flower powder according to the amount."
"Believe me, I really don't know who he is." Seeing that Lao Cui remained silent, the cook hugged Lao Cui's thigh and begged: "I really don't know, I am also afraid, very afraid, so every day my door I didn’t dare to go out, and I secretly sold out all my belongings, just to plan to leave Nanzhao if something happened.”
When Lao Cui thought about it, when he started to catch him, he actually looked like he was almost naked, so he was somewhat convinced.
Trapped his hands and feet: "Now that you have been arrested, do you think those people will let you go after knowing that you have been in contact with us? What will they do to you if they think you have revealed something?"
The cook was shocked when he heard this, and felt a chill from head to toe.
If the person who drugged him knew, he probably would not be able to escape death.
"So you'd better be obedient and don't think about escaping. This is the safest place for you now."
