Chapter 57 Dressing
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"Back to the eldest lady, today I am a slave." The little girl knelt on the ground, looking a little scared.
"This anti-fetal medicine was prepared by you all the time? Did you deliver it personally?" Jiang Ruohua's eyes narrowed slightly and he continued to ask, "Is there anyone else involved in this?"
The little girl didn't know what was going on, but she shook her head after listening to Jiang Ruohua's words, and said: "This slave took the medicine package according to the time today and started to boil the medicine. She didn't leave the stove for half a step, and she brought it over after boiling.
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"Miss, this person has been serving Aunt Yuan's anti-fetal medicine." The maid next to Aunt Yuan said.
Aunt Yuan seemed a little suspicious. She rushed down from the bed with a big belly and pretended to attack the girl: "Did you change my medicine? Are you going to harm my child?"
She stretched out her hand and pinched the girl's ears, her expression became a bit hysterical. The little girl was young and had never seen such a scene before, so she screamed loudly in horror on the spot!
"What are you doing in a daze? Help Aunt Yuan sit down!" Jiang Ruohua frowned slightly. She didn't know if it was Aunt Yuan who was pretending or if it was true. She was scared to death, so she immediately ordered the girl to pull her away, "This
If they hurt the brothers in my aunt’s belly, I’ll slap them all and sell them out!”
Only then did the servants realize the seriousness, and hurriedly took Aunt Yuan away, while pressing the little girl to the ground. Aunt Yuan seemed to hate the girl, her eyes were red, Jiang Ruohua said: "Aunt,
She prepared the medicine, but she was not the one who prepared it. It’s unclear whether someone had done anything to her before. Don’t be impatient. If it affects your little brother in your belly, wouldn’t it be really easy for those who don’t want you to have a baby?
The one who gave birth to the child?”
Aunt Yuan murmured in her mouth, holding back her tears: "I also ask the eldest lady to find out the truth for this concubine and seek justice."
"Don't worry, since my aunt has entrusted my aunt to me, I will never let such a wolf-hearted person who harms the heirs of the Jiang family live in my house."
But looking at Aunt Yuan again, she seems to have calmed down a little too quickly. Could it be...
Turning his eyes, Jiang Ruohua no longer looked at Aunt Yuan, but a moment later the doctor from the government hurried over with a medicine box. He showed Aunt Yuan first and said she was a little frightened but nothing serious. Then he looked at the anti-fetal medicine.
The good medicine and the dregs of the medicine were brought to the doctor. After identifying them, the doctor's white eyebrows could not help but frown.
"But is there anything wrong with this anti-fetal medicine?" Jiang Ruohua raised her eyes slightly, and seeing that the doctor seemed to have made a decision, she asked.
The doctor put down the dregs of the medicine and said, "Back to Miss, there is nothing wrong with this medicine, but... it is not Aunt Yuan's anti-fetal medicine."
"It's not an anti-fetal medicine?" Aunt Yuan clenched her fingers, she was so nervous that her voice became shrill, "What is that? Will it harm the child?"
"This medicine is a tonic prescribed by the villain to the eldest young master." The doctor said, "There is nothing extra added, but after all, the eldest young master's tonic and Aunt Yuan's anti-fetal medicine are both prescriptions based on the body's constitution. If you take the wrong medicine,
I might hurt my body due to the different properties of the medicine."
Aunt Yuan fell down, but fortunately there was a maid taking care of her, so she would not be hurt. Jiang Ruohua nodded and signaled to the doctor to go down first.
The little girl who was boiling the medicine was so frightened that her face was full of tears. She cried and said at Jiang Ruohua's feet: "Miss, I don't dare! I don't dare! I just honestly took my aunt's anti-fetal medicine and boiled it.
There is no medicine for Auntie Bao and the young master!"
"Let me ask you." Jiang Ruohua looked at her and said, "Besides you, is anyone else exposed to this anti-fetal medicine?"
The little girl nodded sharply: "There is another person serving my aunt's anti-fetal medicine together with the slave. She is not on duty today. The slave and she come in rotation. As for the tonic for the eldest young master, there are other people serving it.
The medicines are all collected and stored there, and no one else can easily touch them except the slaves."
"When you were boiling the medicine today, you didn't feel that the medicine smelled wrong?" Having basically identified who did it, Jiang Ruohua lowered his head and asked, "You have been serving Aunt Yuan's anti-fetal medicine for a long time, right?"
After saying that, the girl looked a little flustered: "Something was wrong today, but Aunt Yuan was in the house to urge the medicine. I was afraid that I would be punished, so I sent it directly..."
Jiang Ruohua signaled that she didn't need to say anything. Such things were not uncommon, especially in wealthy households. Girls and servants were afraid of being betrayed and beaten, so many times they would try their best to hide or ignore what they had done wrong:
"Bring the other girl also."
After saying this, Jiang Ruohua hooked her hand towards Yinqiu and whispered to her. Yinqiu nodded, gave a salute and left in a hurry. Everyone was confused and listened to Jiang Ruohua's instructions: "Aunt Yuan is pregnant with
This is the young master of the Duke's Mansion. I will not tolerate the change of medicine. The medicine was delivered here well yesterday, but something went wrong today. During this period, if anyone sees anyone approaching the kitchen where the medicine is brewed, please report the information.
If you are rewarded with half a month's money, anyone who knows and fails to report will be sold off. The Duke's government does not need such disloyal and unjust slaves!"
She played with the bracelet on her hand and spread the news. There were rewards and punishments, both kindness and power. She really needed an opportunity to improve her image. Jiang Ruohua already knew who did this, but the right and left sides were against each other.
If it's in her own interest, it doesn't matter who did it. She doesn't care and doesn't intend to get to the bottom of it.
Not long after, someone came in and knelt down and said that he saw someone last night.
"It's Xiaoju. The servant even said a few words to her. She said that she seemed to have forgotten to get the medicine yesterday. She was afraid that Xiaoxiang would not find it, so she got up in the middle of the night to prepare it."
For half a month's monthly payment, even the lowest-ranking servant can get fifty coppers, which is not a small sum of money for a servant. As the rewards continue, there will be more people immediately, and they all say
I saw it myself.
But Jiang Ruohua is not a fool. When he asked for details and couldn't explain anything, they were all just false accusations. He just slapped them a few times to scare the monkeys. After such screening, only two people really saw it, and the rest were still there.
Several of them testified for these two people.
Xiaoxiang was the maid who prepared the medicine today, and she did not deny that the other maid, Xiaoju, did stay up last night, but she just thought she was going to the latrine, so she was so confused that she didn't care.
The servants were very nimble, and soon they caught Xiaoju. It is said that when they found her, she was about to slip away from the dog hole with a bag on her back.
When the incident was revealed, Xiaoju knelt in the room with a pale face. Jiang Ruohua slowly put down the tea cup in his hand and said, "Xiaoju, you plotted to kill your master and escaped from the house privately. Do you know what the consequences will be?"
Chapter completed!