12dz Chapter 345 Is It Really Not You?
Chapter 345 Is It Really Not You?
Shen Wantang looked at Huayi coldly. She kept saying that she didn't think Chundie had stolen the lychees. On the surface, she was speaking for Chundie, but in fact, she was implying that Chundie had stolen the lychees.
Even Xia Chan understood what Hua Yi meant. She cried and knelt down in front of Shen Wantang, "Please ask the Crown Prince to look carefully. Although Chundie is not smart enough and she is clumsy, her character is absolutely fine. She is not the kind of person who would steal the master's things! Without the master's permission, she never dared to touch the master's brocade box!"
Qin Xin directly exposed Huayi's hint: "Huayi, you are such a green tea. On the one hand, you praised Chundie for being honest, and on the other hand, you said that she saw you put the lychees into the brocade box. What are you pretending for? Don't you just want to say that Chundie stole the lychees? Do you have any evidence? By framing Chundie like this, do you think that she is already dead and there is no evidence?"
Huayi shook her head with a face full of grievance: "Sister Qinxin misunderstood me. I didn't say that Chundie stole the lychees. I said that I also think it wasn't Chundie who stole the lychees. Maybe it was eaten by mice."
"In short, I think Chundie's death has nothing to do with Litchi. She might have had diarrhea all night because she ate something unclean."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Qingyuan immediately said, "Yes! That's right, Chundie's death has nothing to do with Lizhi!"
"Shen Wantang, didn't you buy lychees too? Didn't you eat them too? And you were fine too? Why do you insist that Chundie died because she ate the lychees I brought back? Not to mention that she didn't eat the lychees at all. Even if she did, she couldn't have died!"
"I think you just want to blame Chundie's death on me. Only Huayi has sharp eyes and can see through your conspiracy!"
Shen Wantang said in a cold voice: "The lychees I bought are all fresh, so there will be nothing wrong with eating them. Are the lychees of the prince fresh?"
Xiao Qingyuan choked for a moment, then said weakly: "How can it not be fresh? Of course it is fresh, it was given to me by Yuan Zheng. If you don't believe me, I will call Yuan Zheng here to testify in person!"
Shen Wantang looked at him calmly: "I didn't expect that the prince and Mr. Yuan would reconcile again. Didn't you become enemies because of Aunt Chu's matter? Why did he send you lychees again?"
"None of your business is what happens between me and Yuan Zheng! He just sent me lychees, believe it or not!"
"I believe it, of course I believe it. After all, the prince has no money. If it weren't for Master Yuan giving you lychees, you wouldn't be able to afford them."
"You!! You are mocking me again!"
"I just don't understand. Young Master Yuan is very wealthy, but why did he only give the prince one lychee? Is he such a stingy person?"
"Of course Yuan Zheng is not stingy! He gave me one because it was the last one left in Qingyun Building!"
"I've obviously bought all the lychees from Qingyun Building. Where did the last one come from?"
"Who do you think you are? You can buy them all just by saying you can? Qingyunlou just left one for me. So, you don't accept it?"
Shen Wantang looked at him sarcastically, "It's impossible that Qingyunlou would leave one for you, because when I went to buy it, they didn't even know that the prince was going to buy one too. The most likely possibility is that they picked out a half-good, half-bad lychee from the rest of the lychees I picked and gave it to you."
Xiao Qingyuan was stunned. She guessed it exactly right!
How could this be? How could she be so smart?
He suddenly remembered that when it came to the Xin family case, Shen Mingxuan once told him that the case was actually solved by Shen Wantang, but she gave the credit to Gu Qianhan.
At that time, he didn't believe that Shen Wantang could solve the case at all and thought that Shen Mingxuan was deliberately lying to him.
But today, after seeing Shen Wantang reasoning and solving the case with his own eyes and experiencing her sharpness and insight firsthand, he suddenly felt that what Shen Mingxuan said might be true!
He thought so in his heart and couldn't help asking, "Shen Wantang, did you solve the Xin family's case? You have to tell the truth!"
His question was very abrupt. Shen Wantang was a little surprised, but her expression remained calm: "If it weren't for me, if I had such a great ability to solve cases, wouldn't I have caught the murderer who killed Chundie by now? Is it necessary to mobilize so many people?"
"It's really not you?"
Xiao Qingyuan felt relieved when he got this answer: "I also think it can't be you."
As they were talking, Princess Ning came with her people.
Shen Wantang stood up and stepped forward to hold Princess Ning's arm: "Mother is here, but did she hear the noise over here?"
Princess Ning looked solemn: "I heard that the maid in Qingyuan Courtyard died?"
"Yes."
"How could a maid suddenly die when the New Year is almost here? Have you found out the cause of death?"
"Preliminary judgment is that he must have eaten something bad and died of severe diarrhea."
"Have you informed her family?"
"Someone has been sent to inform them. They should be here in a while."
Seeing that she handled the situation appropriately and did not lose her composure because of the sudden death of her maid, Princess Ning could not help but nod secretly. The daughter-in-law she chose really had the bearing of a mistress of the house.
It was this kind of scene that really made a big fuss.
She waved her hand and said to everyone, "Okay, go out and do what you need to do. Don't stand here and get in the way."
When Xiao Qingyuan heard this, he pulled Huayi up, turned around and left, as if he didn't want to stay in Shen Wantang's yard for even a moment.
After everyone had left, Princess Ning said, "Tang'er, a maid died in Qingyuan's courtyard. This is not a glorious thing. It should not be publicized, otherwise Qingyuan's reputation will be even worse. He has already been talked about by people outside, and he can no longer withstand more rumors. Do you understand?"
Shen Wantang lowered his head slightly: "Mother is right, don't worry, I will handle this matter properly and will not implicate the prince."
Princess Ning nodded in satisfaction: "I like your intelligence and understanding. Okay, I don't have anything else to tell you. Go ahead and get busy. I'll be back soon."
"Mom, walk slowly."
Shen Wantang sent her to the door and then turned back.
She sat in the chair at the top, without moving or speaking for a long time.
You could hear a pin drop in the room. She looked at the small ball of litchi shells on the handkerchief for a long time. Then she asked softly, "Mammy, have you seen the litchi core?"
Madam Chai replied, "No, only lychee shells."
"Have you searched carefully?"
"I led people to search the entire Xinghe Courtyard, but couldn't find the litchi kernel."
Shen Wantang was stunned: "It should be... in Chundie's stomach. She has never eaten lychees before, and she doesn't know that the core should be spit out. The lychee was rotten and tasted terrible, so she swallowed it whole."