flstandardbreds Chapter 429 A plan within a plan
Chapter 429 A plan within a plan
Ye Yanran was under the control of Imperial Noble Consort Dehui. She was now the most powerful woman in the Tianqin Kingdom. She was just a mere Crown Princess and was completely unable to compete with her.
The more she thought about it, the more frustrated she felt.
When she was in the Marquis' Mansion before, she lived a miserable life even though she was the legitimate daughter. She finally made it to the position of Crown Princess, but in the end, she still couldn't live freely.
"Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust."
"Su Shu, go get the medicine box."
Su Shu has been with Ye Yanran for many years, so he is naturally very familiar with her personality.
Just by hearing the voice, she knew that she wanted to kill Consort Dehui.
"Your Highness, please think twice. Your Highness has just been appointed Crown Prince not long ago. He does not have much power and is counting on Imperial Noble Consort Dehui to help him. If something happens to Imperial Noble Consort Dehui at this time, things may change."
What Su Shu said about things changing was that someone wanted to usurp the throne.
Ye Yanran was naturally clear about this.
"I don't want to kill Imperial Noble Consort Dehui. I just want to give her some slow-acting poison so that she will be constantly tortured by illness and have no time to take care of the affairs of the Crown Prince's Mansion."
"This medicine takes a long time to take effect. It will take at least one or two years for it to kill a person. By that time, Your Highness will have ascended the throne as emperor."
As she spoke, Ye Yanran opened the medicine box and took out ten small pills from a black box.
"This medicine is colorless and tasteless, and can be simply placed in any soup or water. It cannot be detected by a silver needle, so it is extremely convenient to administer the medicine."
"Su Shu, tell the people in the palace who administered the drugs to be brave and not to get scared by such a small amount of drugs and expose their identities."
Su Shu took the wooden box from Ye Yanran with trembling hands, her heart filled with sadness.
Any one of the things she has done recently is enough to destroy her entire family.
She just hoped that Ye Yanran’s affair would never be exposed.
The poison Ye Yanran gave was called the Soul-Separation Pill. After taking it, not only was there no sign of poisoning, it could even make people feel better.
But this medicine has a drawback, it cannot be taken with tonic medicine.
If taken together, it will promote the efficacy of the medicine. Originally, someone could still live for a year, but after taking the tonic medicine, his life would be shortened to half a year.
However, Imperial Noble Consort Dehui has been overworked in the past two years and is not in good health.
Ever since Shi Xueyun came to serve her, she has been taking tonics.
One day, Shi Xueyun boiled some blood ginseng soup for Imperial Noble Consort Dehui. When she took the soup, she vaguely smelled that something was wrong.
She was careful and secretly kept the soup residue. Before going to bed at night, she put the soup residue on the table and carefully checked it bit by bit.
"Why are you messing with the soup dregs so late at night? It smells like it's gone bad."
A voice suddenly appeared in the room, scaring Shi Xueyun.
"Meet Mr. Zhou."
Shi Xueyun quickly stood up and bowed to Zhou Wuwei.
"Well, what's going on with these soup residues?"
"Your Excellency, when I was delivering the blood ginseng soup to Imperial Noble Consort Dehui today, I felt that the soup tasted a little off, but I couldn't tell if it was poisonous using a silver needle, so I brought it back to have a closer look."
"Oh, then keep watching."
Zhou Wuwei just sat on the stool opposite Shi Xueyun, acting as if all this had nothing to do with him.
Shi Xueyun's ears turned slightly red as she was being stared at. She sat down again and looked down at the soup residue on the table.
At first she couldn't concentrate at all. It took her a while to calm down her overly excited heart and start looking at the soup residue again.
Since the Lihun Pills use a lot of relatively hard medicinal materials, the pills cannot dissolve instantly when in contact with water without leaving any traces.
Not long after, Shi Xueyun found a fragment of medicinal ingredient that did not belong to the Blood Ginseng Soup in the soup residue.
"Mr. Zhou, someone must have tampered with the ginseng soup. I just don't know what kind of herbs are in it, and what their uses are."
"Well, you hang all these soup residues out to dry, and I'll let others take a look."
"Yes."
"This is for you. You did a great job with Mo Shuang."
Zhou Wuwei put a small black bag on the table.
"Thank you, Master Zhou."
Shi Xueyun couldn't wait to open the small bag, inside of which were two gold ingots, a health-preserving pill, and a jade-looking pill.
"You deserve this. As long as you do your job well, I'll have plenty of these pills for you in the future."
"Yes, I will not let Master Zhou down."
"Ah."
Zhou Wuwei responded, and without saying anything more to Shi Xueyun, he quickly disappeared into the night.
Looking at the open door, Shi Xueyun's heart was pounding.
As the most favored female official beside Imperial Noble Consort Dehui, Shi Xueyun lived in a courtyard separated from Imperial Noble Consort Dehui by only a wall.
The surrounding area is heavily guarded, but for Zhou Wuwei, coming and going freely is as easy as entering an uninhabited area.
It can be seen that his kung fu has improved a lot compared to before.
The next day, Shi Xueyun secretly gave the dried soup residue to Zhou Wuwei. He stuffed some into a bamboo tube and sent it to Ye Jintang by a carrier pigeon.
Now only she has the ability to tell what other medicine is put in the soup residue.
Zhou Wuwei had always followed Ye Jintang's deployment, not only placing spies in various places in the capital, but also in the palace.
Shi Xueyun was a complete accident. She was the girl he rescued when he was fighting bandits. By some coincidence, she became a favored female official beside Imperial Noble Consort Dehui, and also a chess piece for Zhou Wuwei to obtain information from the palace.
Ye Jintang, who just came out of confinement after giving birth, has been spending her daily time eating, sleeping, and playing with her child.
Almost all political affairs, whether in the city or in the palace, were taken over by Xiao Mo.
He would rather be busy himself than let her worry about him while Ye Jintang was recuperating.
"My lady, it's Wuwei's carrier pigeon."
Luzhu had sharp eyes and immediately spotted the carrier pigeon circling above the yard. From its size she knew it came from the capital.
"Hurry up and send the pigeon down, or the prince will intercept us again."
The jealous Xiao Mo hates the carrier pigeons from Zhou Wuwei the most. Whenever his carrier pigeons appear, nothing good will happen.
Especially during the month when Ye Jintang was in confinement, he wished he could send a carrier pigeon to him every day. It was so annoying.
"What a big bamboo tube! It's really hard for you, little pigeon, to carry such a big bamboo tube and fly such a long distance."
"Lüzhu, quickly bring the best pigeon food. The little fellow has been flying for several days and looks thinner."
"coming."
Lu Zhu handed the bamboo tube to Ye Jintang and went to the yard with the carrier pigeon to feed it water and food.
In the room, Ye Jintang swiftly opened the bamboo tube and took out the letter paper on top.
She quickly read the message on the letter.
"Who is so bold as to attack Imperial Noble Consort Dehui? If this is discovered, all nine generations of the family will be exterminated."
Ye Jintang carefully poured the soup residue onto a piece of snow-white rice paper. She took out a silver hairpin and gently fiddled with the dried soup residue.
If others looked at these tiny pieces of soup residue, they would probably be overwhelmed and would not be able to tell what medicinal ingredients were in them.
But Ye Jintang is different. She has been taking space spring water all year round, and her five senses are much stronger than ordinary people. The medicinal herbs that seem tiny to others are not difficult for her to distinguish.
She picked out small fragments one by one, and soon there were six rows of medicinal fragments on the rice paper.