Chapter 394
“What is it?” Madam Dowager asked in surprise. She was most concerned about her own matters, so she could not be bothered to question Wei Yuewu.
“Not only your dicine pot, but there is also a problem with Concubine Dong’s dicine pot!” Nanny Dong, who had a dicine pot in her hands, followed behind Nanny Hong and said anxiously.
“What? Mine too?!” Concubine Dong pretended as if she had just heard the news and staggered back in shock. She was about to trip and fall when a maid by the side supported her and grabbed her.
“W-Who did I and Madam Dowager offend? Why did that person want to kill both of us?!” Concubine Dong shrieked in horror and looked at Wei Yuewu with obvious suspicion.
After the dispute just now and hearing Concubine Dong’s words, Madam Dowager also turned and looked at Wei Yuewu, feeling that Wei Yuewu was indeed very suspicious.
However, Wei Yuewu smiled coldly. Sure enough, Concubine Dong had already prepared for the scenario. The original procedure was that Concubine Dong would pour the Five Drums Grass into her own dicine pot and then add it into the ink. For today’s plot, Wei Yuewu poured Concubine Dong’s dicine into Madam Dowager’s pot.
The two dicine pots were placed very close together, and the general kitchen was chaotic, so no one would notice that Shufei had done sothing to these two dicine pots.
Therefore, Concubine Dong would never have thought that soone poured her dicine into Madam Dowager’s dicine pot!
“Did you see anyone do it?” Madam Dowager asked sternly.
“Madam Dowager, the general kitchen has been in a ss recently. Fourth Young Lady keeps sending her maids to order food. Sotis, she doesn’t like the food, so she will ask us to prepare a few more portions and send over the best one to her. Everyone in the general kitchen is so busy that no one actually pays attention to the dicine pots.”
Nanny Hong reported with a wry smile. Originally, the general kitchen was in a very orderly manner. However, since Madam Dowager ordered them to serve Fourth Young Lady and send the best food to her, they had been very busy. From ti to ti, the maids and old maidservants would co to the kitchen to make various requests.
To make matters worse, they were very arrogant and bossy when they ordered the staff in the kitchen around. Because of this, the kitchen staff was in a ss, and no one would notice what was going on in the corridor.
Even the two maids who were in charge of decocting the dicine would sotis be ordered to do so things.
Wei Qiufu? Madam Dowager thought for a while and dismissed Wei Qiufu’s suspicion. Wei Qiufu was selected to enter Crown Prince Mansion. She must rely on the mansion of Marquis Hua Yang in order to stand out in the Crown Prince Mansion. If sothing happened to her, and the third branch was separated from the mansion, it would only do harm to her.
Therefore, Wei Qiufu wouldn’t put herself in such a difficult situation.
“Bring it over and let have a look!” Doctor Ming said to Nanny Dong who was holding the dicine pot. Nanny Dong complied with the order and brought the dicine pot to Doctor Ming, who took the pot, sniffed it, and nodded. “Yes, there is indeed the sll of Five Drums Grass in it. Moreover, the sll is stronger than that of Madam Dowager’s.”
Although Concubine Dong pretended to be wronged, she was secretly smug. Of course, the sll was stronger. Originally, the other dicinal ingredients were used to match the Five Drums Grass. When it was boiled to a certain ti, she would pour it into the ink pot and mix it without anyone noticing. After all, so people thought the sll of the ink was fragrant, but others felt it was slly.
The servants in the kitchen were illiterate, so they couldn’t tell what was wrong with the ink or the stench.
“W-What? My pot has more Five Drums Grass than that of Madam Dowager’s?” Concubine Dong gasped in horror, and tears began to flow down her cheeks. She muffled her mouth with her handkerchief and cried, “Lord Marquis, I have never offended anyone, but why is there soone who hates so much? So much so that they want dead!”
“In the past, everything was fine when I returned to the mansion. But this year, a series of unfortunate events have happened, and soone actually drugged mine and Madam Dowager’s dicine. H-How can soone do such a horrible thing? That person must have hated us to the core!”
Concubine Dong cried as she spoke, but she was obviously directing the criticism toward Wei Yuewu.
Nothing happened in previous years, but sothing happened this year. The only difference between the previous years and this year was Wei Yuewu’s arrival in the capital. Although Wei Luowen did not believe that Wei Yuewu would do such a thing, he couldn’t help but look at Wei Yuewu skeptically.
Madam Dowager glared at Wei Yuewu with her sharp gaze and slamd the table hard, her expression as cold as ice. “Yuewu, what exactly is going on?”
Wei Yuewu was already prepared for Madam Dowager’s rebuke. She calmly raised her head, and her eyes turned slightly. “Grandmother, do you think I have sothing to do with this?”
It was such a blatant question that even the enraged Madam Dowager didn’t know what to say.
“Grandmother, can you please check where the dicine ca from? I don’t think the dicine will appear in the mansion out of thin air, right? Can you please ask the staff in the kitchen if they have slled the scent before? The stench is so strong, I’m sure that soone in the kitchen must have slled it before.”
It dawned upon Wei Luowen. He turned and ordered the lad servant behind him, “You, go to the kitchen and bring so of the staff over.”
The lad servant ran out quickly and soon brought two old maidservants and two maids.
They were all the servants who worked in the kitchen as general staff.
This was out of Concubine Dong’s expectations. She couldn’t help but grip the handkerchief in her hands tightly. The expression on her face was a bit stiff. She originally thought that Wei Yuewu would directly investigate who bought the dicine, and she had already been prepared. It was not her who sent her people to buy the dicine, so she wasn’t worried about the investigation.
When the dicine pot was opened, the stench rushed out.
“I’ve slled it for several days, not just today.”
“She’s right. I also think it has been several days, not only today!”
“It must have been several days, I’m sure. I-It is the sll of the ink.”
“Yes! It is the sll of the ink. It has this particular sll!”
The maids and old maidservants continued one after another, and they explained the entire matter clearly without interrogation.
“Grandmother, I was still in the palace a few days ago, right?” Wei Yuewu muttered indifferently. Her watery eyes looked up and landed on Madam Dowager’s face, and she smiled slightly.
There was no malice in her faint smile. Her only intention was to explain herself after she was scolded. However, Madam Dowager felt a little angry from embarrassnt, and her face inexplicably turned red.
Since it had happened several days ago, of course, it had nothing to do with Wei Yuewu. Moreover, she was in the palace at that ti, and she was not capable enough to drug their dicine in the mansion.
“Ink? What ink?” Madam Dowager did not want to pursue this topic anymore, so she directly changed the topic.
“Madam Dowager, it is the ink that the geomancer uses to draw the talisman,” an old maidservant, who seed to be the maids’ leader, took the initiative to report.
Upon the ntion of the ink, Concubine Dong was secretly anxious. In her opinion, the matter seed strange because they had diverted the topic from the dicine to the ink.
“Go, bring so ink over as well!” Wei Luowen ordered a lad servant behind him with a gloomy face again, but after thinking for a while, he stopped the lad servant and added, “Bring the geomancer over as well.”
The lad servant nodded and quickly ran out.
Upon hearing about the ink and the talisman, Madam Dowager suddenly rembered what the geomancer had told her. Building walls around Qin Xinrui’s courtyard was not enough. They must apply charms and talismans to suppress the evil soul.
However, after she had instructed Concubine Dong to deal with this matter, she had forgotten about it.
“Nonsense! How can there be this stench in the ink? It should be the sll of ink, right?” Concubine Dong was about to speak, but Wei Yuewu interjected.
At this point, there was nothing Concubine Dong could say. She was dismayed, but she felt that it was not a big deal. Nothing would happen as long as the geomancer did not admit to any of it. She didn’t believe that Wei Yuewu would force a confession out of the geomancer’s mouth.
“Sixth Young Lady, the sll of the ink is particularly strong, just like this dicine. At that ti, Concubine Dong’s dicine was decocted on the side. We thought that it slled a little strange because the stench of the ink mixed with the dicine,” the old maidservant answered.
“When was Concubine Dong’s dicine decocted?” Wei Yuewu continued to ask.
“Oh, I know. It was on the sa day as the ink. I rembered that we cleared up two pieces of land in the corridor. The larger piece of land was for the ink, while the smaller one was for Concubine Dong’s dicine. She instructed to put them in the corridor.” A maid tilted her head to think for a mont before answering respectfully.
“Yes! It was also Concubine Dong’s idea to put Madam Dowager’s dicine pot and hers in the corridor!” Another old maidservant added.
“I’m afraid that all the sll of dicine and ink have mixed together!” Despite her panic, Concubine Dong answered calmly. She believed that the geomancer would not sell her out, and this matter would not circle back to her no matter what.
Anyway, her dicine had been drugged by Five Drums Grass, which could prove her innocence.
Therefore, she wasn’t afraid of what Wei Yuewu would do…
Thinking of this, Concubine Dong pretended to be angry and glared at Nanny Dong. “Nanny Dong, you are in charge of my dicine! How can you let sothing like this happen? How can you not even know that soone drugged my dicine?”
Nanny Dong understood her aning and imdiately whined, “Concubine, I did my best to manage the dicine. The sll of the dicine and ink is very strong, so I ordered the maids to move them to the corridor so that no one would be choked by the sll, but I didn’t expect sothing like this would happen.” Indeed, she was in charge of this matter in the first place.
“Nanny Dong, why didn’t you pay more attention to it at that ti?” Concubine Dong looked angry as if she believed it was all Nanny Dong’s carelessness that soone had the opportunity to spike her dicine.
“Concubine, I did take my job seriously, but I have never expected that soone would be so capable and powerful to execute such a perfect plan,” Nanny Dong lanted while diverting people’s attention back to Wei Yuewu. In this mansion, only the Masters could have the capability and power to do such a thing.
From the looks of it, Wei Yuewu was the only one who had the most conflict with Concubine Dong.
At this ti, the door opened, and a few people suddenly ca in…
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