"Well, go call Kexin."

"Master, I have already informed Kexin. She is currently cleaning up Su Gege and will be here soon."

Qingying nodded slightly and said, "In that case, let's go to the small kitchen first and bring everyone in. Once we finish the questioning, we can go back early."

"Yes."

In just a short while, four or five people were already kneeling on the ground.

Ke Xin hurried over, glanced at everyone, and her eyes were a little red.

Then she knelt before Qingying and said, "If it weren't for Concubine Qing being here today, my princess would have been persecuted by the thieves. Now that princess is unable to get up, I have asked this servant to kneel on her behalf to thank Concubine Qing for sparing her life."

After he finished speaking, he kowtowed several times, and when he knelt up again, his forehead was already red.

Qingying was calm.

Su Lujun is a person with a very narrow vision and is not very good at hiding her thoughts.

She came every day before she got pregnant, but disappeared immediately after she got pregnant.

There is really no need to make close friends with such a fickle person.

If she wasn't the only one here today, and if something happened it would always be troublesome, Qingying would never bother to care about her life or death.

So he just waved his hand and said, "Forget it, the wife is not feeling well and can't come. I just accepted the order in times of crisis and it just happened to be the right time."

"The most important thing now is to find out who is behind this. You are Su Gege's first-class maid. I remember you were the one who took the recipe to the small kitchen earlier. Do you remember what happened in between?"

Ke Xin's eyes slanted as she fiercely glared at the kneeling Ji Fen. "To answer Madam Qing, I dare not be away from my master for too long while he is giving birth. After getting the prescription from the doctor in the Zhang residence, I asked Bai Lian from the kitchen to get the medicine."

"The tea that the princess usually drinks is made by Bai Lian and Hong Lian. They were the ones who boiled the medicine today, and they must have put the red flowers there!"

Qingying supported her head with her hands and glanced in the direction Kexin pointed.

What caught my eye were two young girls who looked somewhat similar.

Qingying didn't even need to ask, as the two of them were already crying out in injustice, "Madam Qing, this servant doesn't know what safflower is. I simply followed the recipe and made the medicine for the princess. I absolutely didn't do anything tampering with it. Please understand, Madam Qing!"

"We have to investigate whether there was any manipulation. How can you just say one word and get away with it?"

Qingying sneered and turned to look at the first can of medicine residue that Xiuxia took from the small kitchen.

Without any hesitation, he reached out and pinched out a red object about half the length of his little finger.

"You were the ones who took this medicine and personally supervised its preparation. Since you said you didn't know about safflower, why don't you explain where it came from?"

Bai Lian kowtowed repeatedly, "Mrs. Qing, I really don't know anything about pharmacology. I just boiled the medicine and used whatever the pharmacy gave me. I really didn't know this thing was safflower."

Honglian, who was standing beside her, frowned tightly and then said, "Please forgive me, Madam Qing. After I got the white lotus, I personally put it into the medicine pot and added water. I remember clearly that ordinary medicinal materials are either gray or white. Before they were put into the pot, there was no reddish thing like this."

"According to you, this substance was added after the decoction?"

"I dare not speak rashly, but I am certain that there was no such thing in the pot when the medicine was first boiled."

"So, you were distracted while boiling the medicine, and that's why you weren't watching constantly, giving them the opportunity to take advantage of you?"

Qingying said another word, and Honglian's originally determined expression also changed.

But it is better to be lazy than to deliberately murder your master.

After a brief hesitation, she lowered her head and said, "It is my fault for being negligent. Please punish me, Madam Qing."

"I've punished you, but I haven't caught the perpetrator. Are you going to let your master suffer this persecution in vain and remain indifferent?"

Qingying sat up straighter and continued, "There are only a few of you in the small kitchen. I'm only asking this once. Did anyone see this happen? Who did it? Or is there anyone sneaking around?"

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