Chapter 2697 Wrong Quantity
Gu Xin called the housekeeper of the palace.
"Housekeeper, do you know what kind of spices the old lady, the lady, the young mistress and the maids in the palace use?" Gu Xin asked directly after the people came.
"Replying to the princess, the spices in the palace are all purchased in a unified way, all from the Gu sisters' store. Since the middle of last year, we have been using the incense from the Gu sisters." After the housekeeper answered, he looked at Gu Xin cautiously.
"Then the people in the palace didn't bring their own incense to Hongyuan Temple this time!" Gu Xin was stunned for a moment, then said.
Although she hadn't managed the sisters' property for several years, she knew all the new products that the Gu sisters had released in recent years, and she had smelled them all. She had a good memory and could still smell the products produced by her family.
After she said that, the housekeeper didn't dare to be sure. After all, the people who came this time were dead. Although he was a housekeeper, it was impossible for him to ask the master what spices he wanted to bring one by one.
The housekeeper was unsure, so Gu Xin had to ask the abbot to ask him. Soon, a young monk was brought in trembling.
"Little master, what incense did you give to the deceased? Who did you give it to?" Gu Xin asked.
"To the princess, yesterday afternoon, the maid Ping'er in the palace asked me for insect repellent incense, and I gave her the incense that is usually used in the temple. It is homemade in the temple and is used by my fellow monks." The young monk answered in a low voice.
"Is it only insect repellent incense?" Gu Xin asked again.
"Yes, I gave Ping'er several incense. If each room uses it, light it once in the afternoon and once before going to bed at night, and it can be used until dawn today." The young monk replied.
"He Gang, bring all the things of the three maids." Gu Xin asked He Gang to get the things.
After a while, He Gang brought the things.
Gu Xin found the incense from it and asked the young monk to identify it. This is easy to identify. Without the young monk, others can recognize it.
The little monk scratched his head, looking puzzled.
"What's wrong? But the number is wrong?" Gu Xin asked.
"Yes, yes. Princess, I gave Ping'er a total of ten incense sticks, but this, this is only eight. It shouldn't be! If they used them in the afternoon and didn't have time to use them in the evening, there should be five left." The little monk said.
"Only three rooms lit incense. In the room where Ping'er lived, someone happened to want to light it, but it burned out before it was lit. Are you sure you only gave ten insect repellent incense sticks? No other incense sticks?" Gu Xin asked.
The young monk looked at Gu Xin blankly, then nodded and shook his head: "I only gave you insect repellent incense. In addition to insect repellent incense, there is also incense for calming the spirit, and then there is the incense that is usually lit in the main hall. There is no other incense."
Gu Xin asked again: "Who of you had contact with the Wang family yesterday? No matter what you did, as long as you talked to them, it counts. It counts as meeting them."
The young monk said: "I only talked to the donor Ping'er after the noon class. I didn't meet the donors of the Wang family at other times. I saw them from a distance when they just arrived."
Gu Xin nodded and said: "Master Xu, I have to trouble you to ask the abbot to pass on the message. All the monks in the temple who talked to the Wang family yesterday and had contact with them, let them all come over. I have to ask more."