Coming out of the gate of Luoxia Courtyard, Ji Danqing turned around and cupped his hands.
"I'm already familiar with the roads in the mansion, so I don't dare to bother Second Master and Second Grandma to see them off. The two of you drove all night, so you should go back and rest."
Gu Xiran smiled: "Doctor Ji come with us to Shengmei Pavilion for a short sit down, there is still something to ask for advice, if you are tired, you can go back and rest in the east chamber before going back."
Ji Danqing looked at him, smiled helplessly, and nodded in agreement.
All the way back, Shu Huan didn't make a sound. When they arrived at Shengmei Pavilion, Liangchen and Qiaoyun came out to welcome them. Gu Xiran ordered them to close the courtyard door tightly, and then ordered the maids to go back to their own rooms. come out.
This posture made Liangchen and Qiaoyun panic, not knowing what happened again, but they didn't dare to ask, so they had to follow orders. Gu Xihe was playing with Shengmei Pavilion at the moment, seeing such behavior, he was also puzzled, so he rushed out and said, "Second brother, what happened?"
Gu Xiran didn't answer, but only said: "Leave the tea here and pour tea."
After finishing the words, she hurried to the main hall, waiting for Xinxin to pour tea, and asked her to close the hall door and stay outside, and then she opened her left hand that had been tightly clenched, revealing a handful of sugar in her hand.
"What is this?" Gu Xihe reached out curiously, picked up a piece of candy and was about to peel off the candy wrapper, and said with a smile: "Second brother, did you go back after living longer, and came back with a handful of candy, and closed the door to steal it?" If you want me to say that my eldest brother has passed away, we can't drink and watch the theater, but it's okay to eat a piece of candy... "
He felt that what he said was funny, and someone should laugh and agree with him, but as he spoke, he felt that the atmosphere around him was low and strange. Looking around, he saw that Shu Huan and Ji Danqing were all serious, and Gu Xiran was even more serious. Unpredictable, he couldn't help curtailing the conversation, and carefully put the piece of candy back into Gu Xiran's hands.
Gu Xiran put the handful of candy on the table: "Doctor Ji, please take a look."
Ji Danqing reached out to take a piece, peeled off the candy wrapper, looked at it repeatedly for a long time, then asked Shu Huan for a knife, cut a small piece, put it in his mouth and tasted it.
When he was doing these actions, Shu Huan felt his heart was hanging in his throat——
She remembered that she wanted to eat candy earlier, but was interrupted by Gu Xuan's appearance. Gu Xuan usually called people with a very low and soft voice. She gave Gu Xuan some sugar, but Gu Xuan didn't eat it either, she just focused on talking.
She didn't feel that there was anything wrong with these tiny details at the time, but when she saw Gu Xiran taking advantage of others and sneaking out a candy bar, she broke out in a cold sweat when she looked back and thought about it. Seeing Ji Danqing try at the entrance, she was naturally nervous , for fear that he might find something wrong.
Ji Danqing squinted his eyes slightly, discerning the taste of sugar in his mouth, shook his head for a while and said: "A little almond powder is mixed in the malt sugar."
"Sounds normal." Shu Huan breathed a sigh of relief: "Even if it's poisonous bitter almonds, such a small amount is fine, right?"
Ji Danqing nodded, looked down at the piece of candy in his hand, and said nothing.
"Could it be that we are too paranoid and all trees are soldiers?" Shu Huan rubbed his temples with a headache.
Gu Xihe didn't know what they were talking about, so he frowned depressedly and said, "Why can't I understand?"
No one paid any attention to him, Ji Danqing grabbed the knife again and cut the candy from the middle, but the candy was solid and there was still no problem, at this time Gu Xiran handed over another piece of candy: "Look at this."
Ji Danqing looked up at him, saw him nodding, and his attitude was very firm, so he didn't ask any questions. After taking it, he cut open the candy directly, only to find a small black pill as big as the tip of his tail sandwiched in the middle, and his expression changed immediately. up.
"What is this?" Gu Xihe came over curiously.
Ji Danqing picked out the little black pill with the tip of a knife, put it under his nose and sniffed it lightly, then his brows furrowed: "There are too many medicines mixed in here, I can't be sure what flavor it is at the moment."
Gu Xiran tapped on the table and pondered for a while: "Little Four."
"what?"
"Can I get a horse?"
"No way." No matter how stupid Gu Xihe was, no matter how ignorant he was, he could see the clues from their weird behavior, and suddenly turned pale and said, "Is there something else wrong with the death of big brother?"
Gu Xiran only said: "I'll know after trying it."
Gu Xihe scratched his head: "Then let the person in charge bring a horse over."
"Not good." Ji Danqing shook his head and said, "I haven't figured out the matter yet, so it's better not to alarm people. Why don't the second master and the fourth master follow me back to Danqingju, where I still have a horse."
This matter was really shocking, Gu Xiran didn't care about evasion, nodded and told Shu Huan: "Don't go, stay at home and rest first, and these candies..."
As he spoke, he handed all the remaining candies to Shu Huan: "Take it away properly first, the ones with tiny marks on the candies are poisonous."
Shu Huan agreed in a low voice, looked at the candies, felt worried about putting them anywhere, so he stuffed them all into his purse, and when he watched them go out, he felt a little complicated.
There is really something strange in the sugar, so Gu Xuan...
Could such a weak little girl be the murderer of Gu Xi's vicious hands
Shu Huan calmed down, and decided to take a nap to refresh her mind before Gu Xiran came back, and stop thinking about it, but when she lay down in bed for a while, she couldn't sleep again, so she picked out a few pieces of candy to compare, and found that four or four A square piece of candy, wrapped in mulberry paper dyed red, but the dyeing technique is not very good, if you rub it a little harder, your fingertips will be stained with a faint blush.
After repeated comparisons, she saw the subtle mark Gu Xiran mentioned, which was a small crimson dot as big as a needle tip on the seal, which could only be detected by looking carefully.
After meditating for a while, Shu Huan found that there were still two doubts that had not been resolved. He couldn't lie down anymore, so he got up and called Mei Jing to ask her: "Have you paid attention to the matter of the third girl? Is there anything unusual? Tell me Come and listen."
"Miss San?" Meimei shook her head in a daze: "She is very quiet at home, and I have never heard of anything happening to her."
Shu Huan raised his eyebrows slightly: "Call Qiao Yun for me."
After a while, Qiaoyun came in: "What is Second Mistress looking for from me?"
Shu Huan took the tea bowl, and after a while, he wondered, "The third girl's mother died very early, didn't she?"
When asked about gossip, Qiaoyun immediately beamed with joy: "Yes, Aunt Chen passed away when the third girl was six years old. I heard that the third girl was so sad that she lost her voice and refused to speak for half a year. She didn't know what to do afterwards. , but has been taciturn and doesn’t speak much.”
Shu Huan asked again: "Then how did Aunt Chen die?"
Qiao Yun lowered her head and thought for a while, and finally shook her head for the first time: "I didn't enter the mansion that year, I only vaguely heard that I died of illness, and I was lingering in the hospital for three months."
died of illness
Shu Huan rubbed his sore eyes with a headache.
I'm sorry, if Gu Xuan's mother died of illness, she would have no reason to hold grudges against Gu Xitian. Killing people needs a motive, so you can't just want to kill for no reason. Gu Xuan doesn't look like an impulsive person, let alone kill The murderer was his own brother, so unless there is something hidden about Aunt Chen's illness, the murderer should not be Gu Xuan.
Or, was there something else that happened that no one knew about