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Chapter 522 Poisonous Smoke

Yang Lan found the greenhouse, but she did not find the oleander plants that Madam Tong mentioned.

"Oleander? What oleander, we have never grown oleander here." The woman from Chihua looked unhappy and looked at the girl in front of her with a cautious look.

Yang Lan glared at her, pushed away the flower-like woman, and strode down the stairs.

Half the greenhouse is underground and half on the ground. In order to allow the sun to shine in, the greenhouse is also inlaid with more than a dozen expensive Western glass.

Yang Lan looked around, and there were flowers and plants, and there were a wide range of flowers and plants competing for beauty.

Yang Lan then remembered that she didn't know what oleander looked like.

At this time, two stout mothers rushed over and together with the flower fairy, she pushed Yang Lan outward: "What are you doing? Go out, do you think this is a vegetable garden? Is this where you can come?"

But Yang Lan, who didn't look tall, did not move at all, and her feet seemed to have roots.

"Get out of here!"

Yang Lan raised her arms and the three old women were thrown to the ground.

Before they could get up, Yang Lan's feet stepped on the back of the flower fairy. With a little force, the flower fairy was so painful that she burst into tears, crying for her father and mother.

"I am from Shuntian Mansion. Your family has a life. I honestly tell you where those pots of oleander are hidden. If you don't tell me, I will destroy you and hand it over to Shuntian Mansion."

As she said that, she exerted force again on her feet, and the woman Shihua was hoarse and begging for mercy: "Good Queen, please spare me, all the oleander are dead and have been thrown away."

"Diet? How did you die?" Yang Lan asked.

"I don't know. I was fine, but later I was out of energy. I withered and died in less than two days." said the woman from Shihua.

Yang Lan asked, "When did this happen?"

"What happened two days ago, the day before yesterday, yes, was thrown away the day before yesterday, and the flower pots were still there, just the few empty pots placed on the corner of the wall." said the flower woman.

Yang Lan took her feet away from the woman's back, bent down and pulled the woman up, and said, "You are a witness, follow me!"

The woman Shihua refused, and the other two women were thrown to death and did not dare to come forward to tear them. They could only watch the female bandit dragged the woman Shihua out of the warm room.

Not far from the greenhouse, there was a locust tree. Yang Lan had been practicing martial arts since she was a child and her eyes were sharp. She saw a maid looking at this side. When she saw her pulling the woman in the flower, the maid turned around and ran away. Her grass-green skirt disappeared at the end of the maid.

According to Hua Jingyao's instructions, Yang Lan took the fairy tale into Li Bu'er and the others' small yard, and Captain Yin was already waiting there.

Captain Yin was originally waiting for the physical evidence of the pots of oleander, but unexpectedly, Yang Lan did not bring back the oleander, but brought back a living woman.

"Captain Yin, this woman said that all the pots of flowers were dead. Please help her think about what happened at that time." Yang Lan said.

She was most annoyed by these quarrel old wives. The young lady must be more at ease by handing such a thing to Captain Yin.

Yang Lan grabbed a grass and held it in her mouth, held it with her arms around the door.

As soon as her teeth touched the grass stick, she suddenly remembered something, and spit out the grass roots.

Duke Yongguo said that all the oleander from leaves to roots are poisonous. The grass stick you pinched out of your hand might be the same as the oleander. No matter how good her martial arts skills are, she can still be knocked down without realizing it.

As a result, Yang Lan's mind became clear.

She remembered the green-skirt maid she had just seen, and told the eldest lady to go quickly.

Yang Lan left the hospital before her feet, and Captain Yin finished the trial.

It has been a long time since he met such an honest prisoner. He just threatened him for a few words, and the woman scraped her stomach and told her what she knew, and what she guessed, and all the beans poured on the bamboo tube. Captain Yin was so moved that he almost cried.

"Girl, I saw a maid staring at my sternly."

As soon as Yang Lan finished speaking, Captain Yin walked into Liu Laogong's yard in a hurry.

"Miss, it's been reviewed."

Captain Yin said the confession of the woman Shihua.

Four days ago, Su'e, the eldest maid next to Mrs. Liu, came to the greenhouse. Su'e has always been arrogant and relied on her own mother as Mrs. Liu's dowry maid, and never takes them seriously.

That day, Su'e was abnormal. She not only brought the snacks she had given to Mrs. Liu, but also helped her water the flowers.

The flower-drawn woman was flattered and guessed many possibilities in her heart, such as the wife loved flowers and houses and wanted to promote her son; for example, the wife gave the flowers she planted to a certain empress dowager, and the empress dowager rewarded gold and silver. When the wife was happy, she was ready to leak some silver from her fingers to reward her.

After Su'e left, the flower-drawing woman was immersed in her reverie. After a while, she remembered to see the flowers Su'e watered.

Before some flowers were time to water, she was afraid that Su'e would be unhappy, so she forced herself to say nothing. She might be too late to rescue her immediately.

Based on experience, the flower god quickly discovered that the pots of oleander were inappropriate.

Although oleander was from India, it is easy to feed and is not too picky about the soil and fertilizer.

But now, the pots of several oleander have a faint smell.

This smell is not obvious, only by careful smelling it.

If it was a while later, the smell would dissipate, and the fairy lady would not smell it.

"The woman said that it was alkaline water. She would never pour alkaline water into the pot of oleander. The woman said that it was done by Su'e, but she dared not say that she wanted to remedy it, but then she thought that she and Su'e had no grudges in the past and had no grudges recently. Su'e would not harm her properly. Then she found that all the pots of oleander were missing leaves. The leaves had just been picked and the traces were still fresh. This flower-drawing woman was experienced and had many generations of her ancestors who served flowers and plants for wealthy families. She knew that oleander was poisonous. She was cautious when serving, for fear of being poisoned. Now she found that there were few leaves. Su'e wanted to kill these pots of flowers. She suspected that Su'e wanted to use oleander to harm people. She was afraid that she would implicate herself, so she took off the pot of flowers and mixed them into the dead branches and leaves and threw them away."

Hearing this, Shen Xiao's thick eyebrows were locked and said, "Please ask someone to come to the house for cleaning. The dead branches and leaves are mostly burned and buried in the soil. The poisonous smoke emitted after burning the branches of oleander can also be poisoned."

The yamen runner sent back soon. Sure enough, an old servant in the Liu family vomited and felt ache. He was still lying on the bed. His son was also working in the mansion and said that his father was almost out of reach.

The father and son are responsible for transporting garbage. Shuntian Mansion is the capital and have very strict garbage management. Xihua Hutong is separated from the prince's mansion, and the yamen runners of Shuntian Mansion often come to check it. As Shen Xiao said, dead branches and leaves will be placed in large braziers by servants from each family to burn them, and then the ash is buried in the ground.
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