Contract Prince

Luomei said solemnly: "The imperial cooks who make dim sum for the queen are all trustworthy, and this servant thinks that someone has tampered with it."

Xiao Zhan asked: "Why can you be sure that there is something wrong with the dim sum delivered by the Imperial Dining Room?"

Luomei replied: "Your Majesty's appetite has not been very good these days, and she didn't eat the staple food sent by the imperial dining room. Three meals a day were white fungus porridge cooked by the servants. Although she didn't eat the staple food made by the imperial dining room, she ate it every afternoon. dessert."

"The porridge is boiled by the servant himself. During this process, I didn't leave half a step. So it can only be that there is something wrong with the dim sum."

Xiao Zhan was furious: "Who is so bold to murder the queen? If this king finds out, he will definitely punish the murderer! Luo Mei, go and call me all the cooks from the imperial dining room to the Hall of Mental Cultivation!"

Luo Mei resigned, and soon summoned all the people in the imperial dining room to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The imperial cooks knelt in front of Xiao Zhan, trembling, their legs trembling, and the cold sweat dripping from their foreheads along their cheeks, dripping down the skirts of their clothes.Especially the chef Shen Yun, who made dim sum for the queen, trembled so badly that he was almost scared out of his wits.

Xiao Zhan looked coldly at these people kneeling on the ground, and frowned deeply: "The empress is unconscious because she ate the snacks from the imperial dining room. Come and tell me, what's going on?"

The gentle and refined His Royal Highness Wang An exudes a heavy murderous aura at this moment. Hearing Luo Mei's words and his own analysis, Xiao Zhan knows that this matter should not be done by the imperial chefs.

However, their negligence cannot be covered up. The imperial dining room is responsible for making snacks for the royal family. This is a most important place and should be guarded by important personnel inside and outside.But now someone broke into the imperial dining room easily, and tampered with the food inside, murdering the mother of a country.

In any case, Xiao Zhan would never forgive the royal chefs.

Looking at Wang An's icy face, the royal chefs felt even more horrified and frightened, and they didn't even dare to take a breath.

There was no sound in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and the atmosphere was terrifyingly silent.

Xiao Zhan looked at them condescendingly: "Speaking, everyone is dumb, right? Tell me about the strange things that happened in the imperial dining room recently! Shen Yun, tell me!"

Shen Yun didn't dare to raise his head and said in a low voice: "My lord, nothing unusual has happened in the imperial dining room recently, and everything remains the same. As usual, the servants deliver food and snacks to the palace at fixed times every day. The servants are in charge of the queen's snacks. It has been years, and I have never made a mistake. I really don’t know how this happened? I am wronged, and I hope His Royal Highness King An will understand Qiuhao!"

"Injustice?" Xiao Zhan shook his eyebrows angrily, "How dare you complain to me? Even if you didn't do this, you are still guilty of ineffective supervision! Shouldn't every food sent to the palace be wronged?" Has it been checked carefully?"

The imperial chefs headed by Shen Yun kept kowtow on the ground: "His Royal Highness, we have checked carefully, but we didn't find anything unusual."

Xiao Zhan looked at Luomei, "Have you ever tested poison with silver needles? How much do you have left in that plate of dim sum?"

"I tried the poison, but there is nothing abnormal." Luomei sighed solemnly, "The dessert is just a small plate, and the empress ate it all."

Xiao Zhan originally wanted to investigate from the remaining snacks, but now he found that it was impossible.He muttered to himself: "I checked carefully in the imperial dining room, and you also tested the poison with silver needles before the mother tasted it, but nothing was found. This is really strange! Is there really a poison in the world that cannot be detected?" ?"

"Which court lady brought the dim sum from the imperial dining room?" Xiao Zhan wanted to find out whether it was something wrong with the maid on the way to deliver it, or the dim sum was tampered with in the imperial dining room.

"The maid who brings snacks to the empress every day is called Xiao'e. This servant will go to Zhengyang Palace and call her here."

After Luomei finished speaking, she quickly walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation and rushed to Zhengyang Palace.Xiao'e was kneeling on the ground sobbing, after listening to Luo Mei's words, she hurriedly wiped her tears and followed Luo Mei step by step.

The little girl is seventeen years old and has been in the palace for a year. She originally worked in the clothing bureau and was bullied by the older ladies.A few months ago, the queen went to the clothing bureau to pick out clothes, and she ran into the scene where Xiao'e was being bullied.

The empress was kind, and immediately scolded the older maids and asked about Xiao'e's life experience. She felt that the girl was very pitiful, so she transferred her to work beside her.

Xiao'e had never experienced any big scenes, and she was already frightened to the point of trembling.She tugged at the corner of Luomei's clothes, her eyes were filled with fear, and she choked up and said, "Sister Luomei, His Highness King An is going to execute me, right? I can't die, my parents and brothers are still waiting for my monthly salary Survive. Sister Luomei, I beg you to help me..."

Seeing her miserable appearance, Luo Mei comforted her in a low voice: "Don't panic, His Highness Wang An is by no means a cruel and rude person. As long as you have nothing to do with the murder of the queen, His Highness Wang An will definitely not involve you. Whatever your Highness asks later, what you answer will be."

"En." Xiao'e responded softly.

Bypassing the fountains, rockery, pavilions and corridors, she was led by Luomei to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.After meeting Xiao Zhan, the little girl behaved like those imperial chefs, her legs trembled and her face was pale.

Xiao Zhan originally scolded the imperial cooks loudly, but when she looked up and saw this thin girl with a young face, she no longer wanted to blame her too much.After a pause, he asked: "You don't have to panic and be afraid, just answer the king's words truthfully. As long as you tell the truth, the king will never make things difficult for you."

"Yes, servant girl obeys!" Xiao'e replied respectfully and sincerely.

"My lord asks you, you brought the queen's snacks from the imperial dining room, didn't you? Did you have any delays on the way to deliver the snacks?"

Xiao'e thought about it seriously for a while, then shook her head and said, "No, this servant did not delay for a moment."

Wang An refused to let go of every detail, and asked again: "Did you encounter any strange things on the way? For example, accidentally bumped into someone?"

The little maid still shook her head, with an innocent look on her face: "Not at all."

Xiao Zhan asked again: "Are you telling the truth?"

Hearing the skepticism in His Highness King An's words, Xiao'e hurriedly said: "Everything I said is true. The queen empress has shown kindness to my servant, and she suddenly fell into a coma. This servant is very sad. As long as it is helpful to solve the case If there are any useful clues, I wish I could tell His Highness all of them, so why would I dare to hide anything?"

Xiao Zhan stared at Xiao'e's eyes all the time, and found that the other party's eyes were calm, and he didn't seem to be lying.