"It's not arsenic, what is it?"
Pan Sheng'an noticed the strangeness of this maid and stepped forward and asked.
"What grudge does Miss Taoye have against you? Do you want to poison her?"
Chu Yi was extremely scared. If her sister hadn't discovered the weirdness of this maid, she would have been dead by now.
"It's not a slave, it's really not the case. She said it was just a medicine that would cause abdominal pain and would not poison anyone!"
The maid had been shouting for a long time and finally got to the point.
"who is he?"
Several figures flashed through Rong Jiu's mind, and his face darkened.
"It's Qingmei, the same Qingmei that was sent here a few days ago!"
Green plum?
When Taoye heard this from behind Rong Jiu, she suddenly remembered the figure she saw in the front yard. No wonder she felt familiar.
She only knew that Qingmei was sent to Zhuangzi by the fifth young master. Could it be this Zhuangzi?
He turned his head and glanced at the face of the narrator. That handsome face was so gloomy that it was chilling.
It seems that Qingmei is indeed here.
"Where are the people?"
Rong Jiu looked at Fan Yuan aside.
"This...should be in the servant's room. This Qingmei came out of the mansion and can't do the work that Zhuangzi did, so I will let her do some light work!"
"As soon as this girl arrived at Zhuangzi, she fell seriously ill. She is recovering well these days. This poisoning thing..."
Fan Yuan knelt on the ground, doubts flashed in his eyes, as if he couldn't believe Qingmei was so courageous.
But some of these words were a bit abrupt, especially the second sentence to excuse Qingmei. Everyone present except Gu Shiyu were all sharp people, and they immediately felt that Fan Yuan's attitude was strange.
"Bring the people here!"
Rong Jiu turned her head and gave instructions behind her.
"Yes, I still need to trouble Manager Fan to lead the way!"
Xingyun walked to the kneeling Fan Yuan.
"Yes, I'll let you go now, little man!"
Fan Yuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, saluted respectfully to Rong Jiu and the others, and led Xingyun out of the pavilion.
Rong Jiu gave Pei Weinan a look.
Pei Weinan understood and casually looked at the young men on the village next to him: "Guiyun, take this girl to the bamboo forest. If you ask questions here, I won't scare the little beauty of your fifth young master!"
Pei Weinan walked to the front, and Gui Yun walked behind, holding the maid whose legs were weak from fear.
"I don't dare to do it anymore, please Fifth Young Master, I don't want to die... wuwu..."
After half an hour, the shouts and whimpering disappeared behind the bamboo forest.
"Are you scared, Ayuan?"
Chu Yizuo walked to his sister and asked warmly.
"Brother, I'm fine!"
It was indeed a thrilling day today. If the maid hadn't been so smart and shallow-minded, she might have actually drank the tea mixed with arsenic.
She also didn't expect that Qingmei hated herself so much.
And the look on Fan Yuan's face when he heard that the poison was caused by Qingmei was too strange.
Taoye was thinking about something and was in a trance. To others, she looked frightened and confused.
"It's okay, I will definitely investigate this matter!"
Before Chu Yizuo could even say his words of comfort, his sister had already fallen into someone else's arms.
"This slave trusts the fifth young master!"
Taoye allowed Rong Jiu to carry her back to the table.
"This Qingmei is not the maid given to Fifth Brother by my aunt, so why is she here?"
Gu Shiyu asked strangely.
"She belongs to the fourth prince, King Yong!"
Rong Jiu spoke coldly.
"Prince Yong? He is so brave that he even reached out to his aunt's Kunfeng Palace?"
Gu Shiyu hated these nagging and vicious intrigues the most.
"This shouldn't be what King Yong meant. This Qingmei should have been abandoned when you kicked her out of the house!"
"Although he acts viciously, he won't bother... on Miss Taoye!"
Pan Sheng settled down for a moment before swallowing the words "insignificant Tongfang".
"Indeed, I also think that the maid did such a cruel thing because she was jealous of her sister!"
Chu Yizuo looked away from Tao Ye, lowered his head and took a sip of the cooled tea to hide the emotions in his eyes.
His sister was still with Young Master Rong Wu, so he couldn't express his dissatisfaction openly.
A quarter of an hour later, Xingyun brought Qingmei to the pavilion.
"Fifth Young Master..."
When Qingmei saw the figure at the table, she bowed softly with a look of surprise on her face. Her body was soft and her voice was sweet, which was a bit better than in the mansion.
But as soon as she raised her head, she saw Tao Ye who was safe and sound beside Rong Jiu, and a look of surprise flashed in her eyes.
Xingyun secretly glanced at his young master, and then motioned to Fan Yuan.
Everyone at the table except Gu Shiyu had a look of surprise on their face, but Fan Yuan was only looking at Qingmei at the moment and didn't notice anything unusual about them. He didn't even notice that the maid serving tea just now was gone. .
It's a pity that he wanted to wink at others, but his Qingmei eyes wanted to stick to Rong Jiu first, and then stared at Tao Ye, so he couldn't care less about him.
"I'm here thinking about you every day. I didn't expect that the fifth young master is also thinking about you. I'm so happy!"
Qingmei didn't see the girl, and her initial suspicion subsided again.
Her complexion was very good, and there was even an alluring charm between her eyebrows.
Taoye's eyes went back and forth between Qingmei and Fan Yuan, and she had a guess in her heart.
Could it be that Fan Yuan reacted so strangely because of this incident.
"Give her that cup of tea!"
Rong Jiu said in a deep voice.
After Xingyun responded, he brought the cup of tea with yellow plum in front of Qingmei.
"My servant thanks the Fifth Young Master for the reward..."
Qingmei's mind was so shallow that she didn't realize anything was wrong at the moment, but when she was about to pick up the cup of tea with a smile on her face, Xingyun said: "This tea was specially brewed by a maid just for Miss Taoye... "
Before Xingyun could finish speaking, Qingmei's hand froze in mid-air, and her mind went blank.
"Hey, everyone is here!"
At this time, Pei Weinan and the other two people also came back. The maid in Guiyun's hand was as white as paper and covered in cold sweat, as if she had been dragged here.
Seeing this man, Qingmei's expression really changed, and of course Fan Yuan's expression wasn't much better either.
"Let's ask clearly. This girl is greedy for money. She agreed to drug someone for a gold hairpin, but she really didn't know it was arsenic!"
Guiyun lifted the maid to Qingmei's side and let go.
I don't know what happened behind the bamboo forest just now. The maid was shaking non-stop. As soon as she was let go, she hugged her arms and shrank to the side. This miserable look made Qingmei fall to the ground in fright.
"Fifth Young Master, this slave is unjustly accused. It was this girl who framed this slave!"
"How can a slave dare to harm someone's life? Fifth Young Master, you know!"
"This maid must be jealous of this slave. Yes, that's it. She wants..."
Qingmei has nothing to say or do.
