Lady of the Lord From the East - Chapter 178

When he heard that there was a problem in the soup, the first reaction of the general manager was impossible.

Queen Mirabelle cooked this bowl of corn soup with a lot of ingredients, including carrots, onions, mushrooms, ham, shrimp, eggs and corn. The corn is tender corn that has not yet fully grown this year. It was harvested after a period of time, but the king’s family likes the good taste of tender corn, and many acres of corn have been planted in the Wang family’s private plot this year, so after the corn enters the grain filling period, a small amount of tender corn will be washed every day. It was sent to the palace for the king’s family to eat.

It is worth mentioning that because the capital is colder than that of Sardinia, the maturity of corn has been delayed a bit. So now it has been more than six months. But still have to wait a while.

And these materials were all handled by the people in the kitchen. Except for the queen who put them into the pot and boiled them in different time and order, there was no change. These managers also watched.

“I’m pretty sure that she didn’t add anything special to it, and she didn’t even touch the ingredients. How could this bowl of soup be poisoned?” Are there any accomplices among the people?”

This is not impossible. After all, there are so many people in the kitchen, and the general manager used to be worried about them. Therefore, only a few people touched the food after the king fell ill, and the food and soup he ate after he woke up were changed. The food was prepared in secret from other places. The food sent to the king from the kitchen was directly supplied to Wei Wei. This is why Wei Wei’s daily diet was abundant enough to share with all the maids, and no one in the kitchen found that the palace was in the palace. One more distinguished guest.

After all, even if the king didn’t eat the food himself, it would also be distributed to the servants beside him. When he returned to the kitchen, there would always be only empty plates.

Off topic, get back to the point.

The general manager thinks that there may be helpers, but since he is watching the whole process, it is impossible for the queen to do it, and it should not be possible for others.

But the ingredients are cleaned before they are put into the pot. Even if someone poisoned it before, it should have been cleaned up long ago. Even if there are residues, there should be only a small amount.

But the fact is that the amount of medicine in the corn chowder is not low. For someone with a sensitive taste like her, she can taste the medicinal taste hidden by the taste of the chowder in almost one bite.

The steward was still thinking, “Is the poison hidden in the seasoning?” In this case, should I also take the seasonings used today and ask the Countess to check it?

“Your Majesty, for your safety, why don’t we ask the Countess to check all the ingredients and seasonings in the kitchen?” At this time, he didn’t care about being exposed or not, and the steward only put the king’s comfort first.

The king pondered, the poisoner had already taken action. At this time, all the people who handled it were arrested and interrogated, and they should be able to find out who it was, as long as they found the remaining medicine.

So it was a good idea to ask Wei Wei to search together.

Wei Wei said, “It may not be necessary.”

She put her fingers in the warm and slightly hot soup and stirred it, then lifted it up and smelled it for a while, then put it into the water glass she used to rinse her mouth, and then sniffed again.

“I have to state again that this drug, while debilitating, is not actually a poison.”

Chinese people all know that medicine is a three-part poison, but in the eyes of Westerners in this period, poison is poison, and medicine is medicine. In their impression, poison is that even if you eat a little, it will kill you immediately. There is no concept, let alone drugs that are not poisonous but more poisonous.

She held up that finger and continued: “This medicine will not cause any side effects if it touches the skin for a short time, so the person who prescribes the medicine can apply the medicine directly to the hands and put it in when touching the ingredients. .”

“So Mr. Manager, among all the people who handled this bowl of thick soup, who touched the ingredients without washing their hands before they were put into the pot, and then washed their hands after putting them in the pot?”

The reason why she was sure that the other party should wash her hands after the pot was put in the pot was because she felt that although the drug had no effect on the skin after a short period of contact, the poisoner himself should be very worried that he accidentally ingested it.

When she said this, the steward immediately had a goal: “Queen, only the queen does this!”

He still remembered that Queen Mirabelle came to the kitchen after she went back to change her clothes, so she probably went back to the medicine in the middle, and all the ingredients were cleaned by servants, and the chef was responsible for cutting vegetables, but They also washed their hands. After all, they were eaten for the king. No one dared not to clean up.

The cleaned and processed ingredients have different time to cook, so after they are processed, they are put aside and the queen chooses to cook at the right time. In this process, there is no other than her. People have touched those ingredients again.

After all the ingredients were put in the pot, the queen did wash her hands, but this behavior is actually normal, so the manager has no doubts at all.

In fact, if he knew the properties of this secret medicine, he might have paid special attention to it at first, but because he was not clear, no one had ever discovered that the queen might have done something in the king’s food.

“If you go to the queen now, you may find something.” Wei Wei said slowly: “This medicine seems to have some special fragrance, and there may be some residual smell on the queen’s hands – of course, provided that She didn’t use hand cream or the like after she went back, but don’t worry, she should still have stock of this medicine on hand.”

Wei Wei felt that this special secret medicine should not be easy to obtain. Before the king falls completely, the queen will definitely keep some spares, and besides the king, she may have other people to deal with.

Hearing the words, the king immediately ordered: “Now, let’s control the queen and send someone to search her residence, including her body, don’t let it go.”

After he ordered the general manager, he looked at Wei Wei again: “Madam, I want to trouble you to go with them.”

This is to ask her to help with the search.

Wei Wei bowed: “Okay, Your Majesty.”

The speed of the general manager was very fast. He directly found the guards of the palace, took the hand letter signed by the king, and surrounded the queen’s bedroom.

The queen, who had just returned, had no idea that the guards would suddenly come to her door. When the guards entered her bedroom as ordered, Mirabelle had no idea what happened.

She didn’t even want to pick up the thing at hand and threw it over: “What are you doing! This is my bedroom, who allowed you to come in without saying hello!”

The guards headed swiftly avoided the concealed perfume bottle, the colored glass bottle shattered with a bang on the wool carpet, and the rich fragrance wafted out instantly.

Realizing that she was throwing the latest perfume, the queen was very distressed, and became more and more angry at the guards: “Guards, arrest me all these unreasonable guys!”

She must punish them severely to make up for her loss.

Unfortunately, no one obeyed her orders.

A group of guards stood silently on either side of the door, watching her.

In the room, the queen’s maids had already sensed something was wrong, and they huddled in the corner carefully, reducing their sense of presence. Only the queen was annoyed to find that no one listened to her orders, so she got angry and reached out to smash things.

“Your Highness, don’t smash it any more. A bottle of such a precious thing is several hundred gold coins.”

The steward walked in slowly from the door, staring at the other bottle of perfume in the Queen’s hands that she almost smashed, squinting her eyes.

The cosmetics produced by Sardinson are easy to use, but they are also really expensive, especially perfume. A bottle smaller than the palm of your hand costs hundreds of gold coins, and the new mixed fragrance fragrance launched this year, The single price is two hundred and ninety-nine gold coins. Although you can get a 20% discount for the whole set, even the nobles cannot afford this.

And as far as the general manager knows, the queen should also belong to the kind that can’t afford it.

As I said before, Mirabelle’s money is not very rich. She was born as a princess, and she also brought a lot of dowry when bidding, but she is a woman who likes extravagance, and she always uses the most expensive thing. The money is like flowing water. In the past, her ex-husband paid for her. When her ex-husband died, she did not inherit the property of the duke’s family. She only married the king with her own dowry.

But the king does not love Mirabell like his ex-husband. When their relationship was sweet, the king was willing to spend money for her, but when the queen was not favored, the king would still keep her, but those extravagant needs, he I don’t want to pay.

Mirabelle is not someone who doesn’t buy her if her family doesn’t pay her. On the contrary, as a queen, in order to compare with other noble ladies, she spends more and more money on costume jewelry and cosmetics. When Wei Wei came to the capital for the first time, she was almost sitting on the mountain.

Later, it was because she regained the king’s favor that she received a lot of rewards from the king, and she did not fall to the point of secretly selling her jewelry, but the good times did not last long. Last year, she showed signs of falling out of favor again. When the king is ill, he has no time to pay attention to her, so it stands to reason that even if the queen can grit her teeth and buy a new perfume, at most one bottle can be bought.

But now, take a look at the queen’s dresser, a complete set of six bottles of new perfumes, in addition to men’s, can be seen on her dresser, and there are other new Sardinson cosmetics on it, because this year Sardines All Dinson’s products have changed their packaging, so the manager can see at a glance that those glass bottles with unique characteristics are all new this year, and none of them are cheap.

In the past, the steward would buy these things for the king to give to his mistresses, and this year was no exception, so he knew the price.

But although there are queens in the list of gifts the king gave this year, there are not so many, and she should have no money to buy it herself, so where did the things come from.

The queen had a lover other than the king, as the steward realized at once.

He was even a little remorseful. If he had come to the queen’s bedroom earlier to take a look, he might have discovered the problem long ago.

Although it is normal for noble couples to play separately, and it is not a big deal for the queen to have a lover, the king fell ill at this time, perhaps because of this reason.

The steward had begun to wonder who the queen’s lover would be.

Will it be Duke Romanov, or someone else?

When the queen saw him appearing, she didn’t notice anything wrong. Instead, she said, “You came just in time. These guards are too unruly. Lock them up for me! You must punish them properly!”

“I’m afraid that won’t work, Her Royal Highness.” The steward said with a gloomy face, no longer being polite to her before: “They were sent by Your Majesty, and no one can order them except Your Majesty.”

Seeing his cold face and the unusual behavior of the other guards, the queen realized that something was wrong: “What do you mean?”

The manager didn’t follow her old circle: “Your Highness still remember the bowl of soup that you made for Your Majesty. The doctor checked the ingredients of the poison in it. The king ordered a search of His Highness’s bedroom. Please cooperate with us now.”

Mirabelle’s heart jumped, and her face changed: “Poison? How is it possible! I didn’t poison it, you are slandering!”

“Isn’t it, we won’t know when we’re done searching.”

After speaking, no matter what the queen’s reaction was, with a wave of his hand, the guards started rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find them.

The maids were so frightened by this sudden situation that their faces turned pale, especially when they saw the guards coming over to search them, all of them huddled in the corner like chickens facing eagles. I cried, struggled and resisted, and did not want to accept such an examination.

It’s not good for the guards to shoot directly at the queen, but no one cares about these maids, or in other words, they are eager to have such a rare opportunity.

Fortunately, the general manager didn’t like this kind of behavior, especially since his wife was behind him, so before the guards started, he stopped angrily: “What! Let you search the room and not let you touch those maids, They have someone else in charge!”

The guard who wanted to do it at first took back his hand embarrassedly, but unfortunately, he saw the maid who was born from a little nobleman and had a temperament and a good-looking maid.

After the maids had been frightened before, when the manager called other maids to take them to the next room for a body search, there was no resistance.

The queen didn’t want to cooperate at all, but the steward had a handwritten letter signed by the king, and the maids didn’t give her a chance to resist, so they forcibly took the people to the next door.

Before she left, she didn’t even find out who was the person who had been following behind the chief manager, wearing a black hood and not showing from head to toe.

After the queen left, the guards dug out all the suspicious items in the room, and the chief manager asked Wei Wei to help check.

With so many things in the room, it would take a lot of time to check them one by one.

Wei Wei checked the things she found in various hidden corners, and said, “The maids I just called away, let them come over after the body search, I have something to ask.”

Soon, the maid who had been searched was brought back.

Wei Wei asked them, “What did the queen do when she went back to the room before preparing to cook soup for the king.”

The maids replied tremblingly, “Only, I just changed my clothes and washed my hands.”

“What about this? Did you wipe after washing your hands?” Wei Wei had checked the bottles and jars on the table and found nothing special in them.

“I put some perfume on.” The maid looked at the dressing table, pointed to one of the pottery rouge boxes and said, “It’s in this one.”

Wei Wei followed it and found that she had already checked it. She didn’t find any problems before, but she still took it over and looked at it again.

This is a very fragrant ointment, but it is not a product of Sardinson. Wei Wei smells a very special fragrance, but it is still different from the medicine in the king.

“Not this.” She shook her head at the manager and continued to ask them, “Is there anything else?”

The maids were completely overwhelmed and couldn’t think of anything else.

Seeing this, the general manager said maliciously: “Think carefully and be careful of your own lives.”

The maids were trembling with fright. They also knew that if the queen really poisoned them, they would also be punished, and none of them would be able to escape.

Immediately, one by one began to cry again, and couldn’t help begging the chief for help.

The general manager hit them with a stick and gave them a sweet date: “If this has nothing to do with you, we will not arrest people casually.”

Wei Wei continued to study the box of balm, and looked at several other skin care products on the table that did not belong to Sardinson, and suddenly asked, “Does the queen usually use this to wipe her hands?”

“No, Wang, the queen has been using the hand cream produced by Sardinson for the past two years.” A maid stepped forward, first took out the hand cream, and then took another larger jar: ” But occasionally she uses it.”

“Where did these come from?”

Three different skin care products, except for the one that Sardinson said was sent by the king, and the other two were unknown.

The maids also shook their heads, indicating that they did not buy it.

The maid who pointed out those hand creams before said, “It’s like those expensive skin care products, and suddenly there are.” She glanced at the manager carefully, gritted her teeth and said, “We are all guessing in private that we should It was given by the queen’s lover, and occasionally she would suddenly say that she would go out for a walk at night, and she would not let anyone follow.”

Wei Wei was already fiddling with the two balms. She carefully took some balms from the two containers, mixed them and rubbed them on the back of her hands. After applying them, she smelled them again.

Seeing her action, the maid immediately widened her eyes: “I remembered that when Her Royal Highness intervened today, she first took a little of the one she usually uses, and then she didn’t seem to like it, so she used another one. “

Wei Wei already smelled the familiar smell on the back of her hand, and tasted it a little: “It’s really interesting, it’s still a drug that needs to be mixed before use, which is really rare.”

She thought that such a method of drug administration should only be used by Huaxia.

The manager heard the words and immediately asked the maid, “Did the queen do this before, almost a month ago.”

Of course, the maid couldn’t remember the trivial incident a month ago, but it didn’t prevent her from seizing the opportunity to save her life and nodded in response: “It seems like this too!”

The other maids also followed suit. In fact, whether they remembered or not, only they knew.

The manager stepped forward, bent over and asked Wei Wei, “Are you sure that’s it?”

“It should be right, although the proportion used is not clear for the time being, but this fragrance can’t be wrong.”

The two different balms were mixed together, and the taste naturally changed a little, which was very similar to what Wei Wei smelled in the thick soup.

Now that the thing has been found, Wei Wei does not need to intervene in the subsequent interrogation, especially since it also involves the queen’s lover, which is regarded as a royal scandal, Wei Wei consciously withdrew from the follow-up matters.

She taught the chief steward: “Please bring this to me after you use it up. It should help your majesty and the crown prince’s illness. Of course, it would be great if you could know the formula from the queen’s mouth.”

“OK.”

“Then I’ll go back first.”

Everyone caught it, and Wei Wei didn’t have to hide anything, just untied the sultry cloak and revealed her face.

The maids obviously remembered her, and when they saw her face, they were all surprised.

Smiling at them, Wei Wei declined the kindness of the manager who sent her to send her, and Shi Shiran walked out.

When she came out, Mirabelle next door also finished the body search, because nothing was found on her body, and the maid who searched for her was a little panic, and Mirabelle probably thought that she could not be found. The son was also fearless, and walked out of the room with a look of anger, as if he was planning to settle the account with the general manager.

Two beauties of different styles met unexpectedly at the door.

Mirabelle didn’t expect to see Wei Wei here, her eyes widened in surprise: “It’s you!”

Wei Wei bowed to her: “Good afternoon, Her Royal Highness.”

Mirabelle was not in the mood to chat with her, she asked, “Why are you here?”

Wei Wei didn’t hide it, and replied generously: “I was asked by Your Majesty to treat him.”

“Cure? You can cure? How is that possible?” Mirabelle looked incredulous: “So it was you who was in that bitch’s room that day!”

Hearing her words, the maid next to him glanced at Wei Wei, apparently treating Wei Wei as the king’s new favorite.

Unexpectedly, when His Majesty was ill, he did not forget to be happy.

“Yes.” Wei Wei smiled and nodded, looking embarrassed: “Because Your Majesty said that the treatment should be done in secret, Felix and I sneaked into the palace. I’m really sorry for not visiting you.” Give them a chance to talk nonsense.

“Earl Williams is also here?” Mirabelle was even more surprised, but she was not in the mood to care about this for the time being: “What are you doing here to treat your majesty?”

“Of course, I came to find the poison you gave to His Majesty the King.” Wei Wei casually tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and in the sudden change of the queen’s pupils, she put the hand that had not been washed off her nose. Shaking before.

“Is this scent familiar? Her Royal Highness.” She smiled sweetly: “Does it smell exactly the same as the poison you put down?”

Yeah, exactly the same.

The queen couldn’t control her expression anymore, realizing that her secret might have been discovered, the blood faded from her face, and a cold sweat broke out from her temples.

She said sternly: “I don’t know what you are talking about, I didn’t poison the king!”

Wei Wei doesn’t care whether she recognizes it or not: “Your Highness doesn’t need to explain anything to me, the fine-seed balm that you found has been handed over to the general manager, you should go and explain to your majesty.”

“By the way, tell Your Majesty why His Highness the Crown Prince is also poisoned by this kind of poison.”

She hit the other party with another bad news, and before she could recover, Wei Wei turned around and left.

The author has something to say: Wei Wei: Come on, hurt each other, who is afraid of who, hee hee.