The polished white silver spoon suddenly turned black, which was obvious.
“Miss, don’t drink it, it’s poisonous…” The little maid Baozi saw that when her mistress scooped up the sweet soup, the silver spoon had turned black, and her voice trembled with fear.
Li Shu didn't seem to notice the change in the spoon. She rolled her eyes at the little maid Baozi and said coquettishly, "What nonsense are you talking about. This is the sweet soup that my sixth sister carefully prepared for me."
After Li Shu finished speaking, she was about to put the sweet soup into her cherry lips.
"Miss, I'm not kidding, it's true. Look, the silver spoon has turned black. It turns black because it's poisonous."
The little maid Baozi let out a cry and rushed over. She grabbed her young lady's delicate hand with her chubby hands. Baozi's face turned pale with fright, fearing that her young lady had drunk the sweet soup.
Finally, at the reminder of the maid Baozi, Li Shuzhen turned her head slightly and her eyes fell on the spoon in her hand. Then, as if she had seen something incredible, her watery eyes sparkled and she let out an "ah" with her rosy lips slightly opened.
Bang
The sweet soup was placed heavily on the table, and Li Shu turned her watery eyes to the girl who brought the sweet soup.
Then, in the eyes of the girl who brought the sweet soup, the whole world changed.
The Fifth Miss, who was originally as beautiful as a peach in spring and smiled gently, now looked at him with eyes as cold as if they came from the bitter winter.
"Hehe... Don't be afraid. Come on, tell me what happened." Li Shu played with the blackened silver spoon with her delicate hands, looked at the girl and asked with a smile, "Why did my dear sister send me a bowl of poisonous soup?"
It’s okay if you don’t smile, it’s even colder when you smile.
"It's not sent by the young lady." The girl who delivered the sweet soup shook her head repeatedly, her voice trembling a little.
"Oh, hehe... So this sweet soup grew legs and ran to me?" Li Shu sneered as she glanced at the girl who brought the sweet soup.
"No, no. That's not what I meant." The girl who brought the sweet soup shook her head again.
"Oh, what do you mean?" Li Shudan asked with a smile, slightly opening her lips.
"What I mean is that my young lady did not poison anything." The maid who brought the sweet soup shook her head and explained.
"Oh. Your young lady didn't poison her." Li Shu nodded.
The girl who brought the sweet soup nodded repeatedly and breathed a sigh of relief, but she was scared to death the next second.
"You brought the sweet soup. Your young lady didn't poison it, but the sweet soup was poisonous. Does that mean you were the one who poisoned it?" Li Shu suddenly stood up, sneered, and looked at the girl who brought the sweet soup. She asked loudly.
"Okay, so it was you who poisoned her. Why did you want to poison my young lady?" The little maidservant Baozi widened her eyes in anger, wishing she could bite the girl a few times.
"No, no... it wasn't me." The girl who brought the sweet soup turned pale with fright, and kept denying it.
"What a joke! You were the one who brought the sweet soup. Your young lady didn't poison it, and neither did you. So that means I poisoned it myself?" Li Shu asked with a sneer.
The girl below first nodded, then shook her head, and finally she was confused.
"Okay. You little bitch, you're still stubborn. Since you don't like toasts, then you can have a taste of the punishment wine. If I don't do anything after being bullied, I'll be bullied to death." Li Shu's face changed as she spoke, and she ordered coldly, "Come here, tie up this bitch who intends to murder the master."
"Go and tell my dear sixth sister that I want to ask her in person to see if there is any misunderstanding."
"Please ask my aunt to make the decision for me. I have come all the way from the south. Fortunately, the elders in the mansion took care of me, so I didn't have to live a lonely and helpless life. Shu'er feels warm in her heart, but today, Shu'er just wanted to eat a bowl of sweet soup, but she was almost poisoned to death. If my aunt can't make the decision for me, Shu'er dare not live in the mansion."
"Go and ask the second, third, and fourth sisters to come over. Go quickly. I heard that Sister Liu wants to give each of us sisters a portion of sweet soup. I am lucky, but if the three sisters meet with misfortune, I don't want to live anymore."
The maids and old women in Li Shu's courtyard were ready to go. After Li Shu finished giving her instructions, they carried out her instructions in an orderly manner in order to perform well in front of Li Shu.
The girl who delivered the sweet soup had her arms twisted by two old maids, tied up behind her back, dragged into the yard, and tied to a tree.
Soon, the wife of Marquis Linhuai came to Li Shu's yard accompanied by several maids and nannies. Then the second lady, the third lady, the fourth lady and others also came to Li Shu's yard accompanied by their respective maids and nannies.
"Aunt, you have to make a decision for Shu'er. Shu'er almost didn't get to see you just now... Shu'er asked Sixth Sister for a bowl of sweet soup because she was greedy, but, but I don't know who poisoned the soup..."
As soon as Lady Linhuai Marquis arrived, Li Shu ran to her side with a frightened look on her face, and hugged her arm weakly and pitifully. Her watery eyes were misty, as if tears were about to flow out of her eyes in the next second.
Just as Li Shu was about to continue speaking, the Sixth Miss of the Marquis' Mansion, with a look of indignation and grievance on her face, came to Li Shu's yard accompanied by her maid and the old nanny.
As soon as the Sixth Miss arrived, she interrupted Li Shu's complaint and angrily asked her:
"Fifth sister, I gave you the sweet soup out of kindness, why did you falsely accuse me of poisoning you?"
As soon as the Sixth Miss said this, everyone turned their eyes to Li Shu, as if to see how Li Shu would answer.
"Why do you say that, sister? When did you ever say that you were the one who poisoned me?"
Li Shu looked at the Sixth Miss in surprise, looking very puzzled, as if she didn't understand why the Sixth Miss asked this question. Then she looked at the Lady of Linhuai Marquis and the others with moist eyes and asked:
"I never said that my sister poisoned me. Aunt, sister, did you hear Shu'er say that just now?"
Under Li Shu's gaze, Lady Linhuai Hou and the others all shook their heads. Li Shu had just stated the facts, saying that she had asked the Sixth Miss for a sweet soup, but it was poisoned. She did not say who poisoned it.
Seeing that Madam Linhuai and the others shook their heads, Li Shu curled her lips slightly, bowed to Madam Linhuai, and walked lightly to the side of Miss Six. Her dark eyes stared at Miss Six and asked, "Sister, you also saw it. Aunt and the sisters all testified for you. It was nothing just now, but now that I think about what you said, I want to ask you, why did you say that you framed me for poisoning? Could it be that you know something..."
"Sister... Sister, why do you say that to me? I feel wronged..." The Sixth Miss of the Marquis's Mansion looked at Li Shu with a hurt expression. Her round and cute little face was full of weakness and pity.
"What did I say? I was just asking my sister. Can't I even ask my sister a question when I was almost poisoned to death?" Li Shu said, with the mist in her watery eyes becoming thicker.
"You!" Miss Six was speechless.
"Shu'er, Zhu'er, stop arguing. Speak slowly, one by one. Shu'er, you speak first." Lady Linhuai Hou stopped the quarrel between the two.
Li Shu first asked the maid Baozi to take out the sweet soup and spoon from the room, showed them to everyone, then brought the sweet soup to the tied girl and asked four questions.
Did you bring this sweet soup
After you brought the sweet soup, has it ever left your sight
Did I notice that the spoon turned black when I was using it to scoop food in front of you
Did you poison him
For the first three of these four questions, the girl who brought the sweet soup nodded vigorously, but as for the fourth question, she shook her head vigorously.
"Aunt, Shu'er is fine now. Please make the decision for Shu'er." After Li Shu asked these four questions, she looked at the wife of Linhuai Marquis and said nothing. (To be continued.)>