Eunuch Liu has already arrested all those who had contact with the pastries.
After a round of interrogation, the Imperial Chef confessed.
Although he has a wife and children outside the palace, he has recently become involved with a palace maid.
This palace maid claims she belongs to the Empress's palace and is named Zhu Er.
When he couldn't return home at night, Zhu Er would secretly come to meet him, and sometimes she would visit the Imperial Kitchen during the day to find him.
Normally, idle people were not allowed into the Imperial Kitchen, but she bribed the soldiers standing guard at the door, who then turned a blind eye and let her in.
This afternoon, while the Imperial Chef was about to prepare pastries for the Seventh Prince, Zhu Er came in to find him again, watching him make pastries and curiously touching and examining things.
Now that we think about it, perhaps something went wrong at that time.
