Chapter 207 Life hangs on a thread

The main house was vacated for the third prince, and Huipin stayed in the side room for one night.

She woke up from her sleep late at night. Perhaps she caught a cold from going into the water to rescue someone today. Her throat was slightly itchy, so she got up and went downstairs to find some water to drink.

Unexpectedly, the teacup on the table was empty. She opened the door and called for help, and the palace maid quickly brought a pot of water.

Seeing the newcomer, Huipin frowned: "Aren't you looking after the Third Prince? Why are you out?"

She had an impression of this palace maid.

The maid said truthfully, "Madam Lu came to visit the Third Prince. She wanted to stay with him for a while. Seeing that she missed her son so much, I left."

Princess Lu misses her son so much?

Recalling the other party's crazy appearance of biting like a mad dog in the afternoon, Huipin's heart skipped a beat and she felt something was wrong.

She poured herself a glass of water and drank it, but she was still worried, so she casually put on a coat and went out.

The side house is not far from the main house. You can go out, pass through two corridors, and then turn the corner to reach it.

The door to the main room was slightly ajar, letting in the candlelight from inside.

Huipin was about to step forward with her skirt lifted when a sneaky figure suddenly appeared in her peripheral vision.

She was wearing a palace maid's uniform, with a petite figure and a hunched back, and she tiptoed towards the window frame of the main house.

Huipin watched helplessly as the other party lifted the window frame a crack, took out a thin bamboo tube from his sleeve and was about to remove the stopper to put the things inside in, but suddenly stopped.

He opened his eyes wide, as if he had seen something extraordinary.

Before she could even take out the contents of the bamboo tube, she hurriedly packed them up and disappeared into the night.

Out of curiosity, Huipin followed and saw the scene in the room through the crack in the door. She was immediately furious and shouted:

"What are you doing?!"

A thin scarf covered his little face, and the third prince, who was sleeping soundly, was unaware that death was approaching.

Lu Fei raised her hand to cover his mouth and nose, tightening her fingers little by little.

Feeling the burning temperature and slight struggle through the handkerchief, she felt heartbroken yet calm.

"Hui'er, don't blame mother..."

She had raised him for many years with great kindness. Even if she hadn't given him life, she had at least raised him. She had done so much for him, and it was time for her to repay him.

"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for not living up to your expectations. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being an ungrateful person. If you want to blame someone, blame that mother and son..."

As she muttered, hatred flashed in her eyes, her hands tightened, and the smile on her lips deepened.

Until a loud shout was heard at the door, Lu Fei's body trembled, and then a huge force pulled her away and threw her to the ground.

Huipin didn't expect to witness such a scene on a whim. Concubine Lu actually wanted to suffocate her son to death!

At this moment, infinite strength burst out of her body. She rushed forward to pull Concubine Lu away, then came to the bed, lifted the scarf on the third prince's face, and checked his breathing.

The third prince, whose face was red due to suffocation, was able to breathe and his complexion gradually recovered.

Seeing this, Huipin breathed a sigh of relief and immediately shouted outside: "Someone come! Someone come quickly!"

"Someone wants to kill the Third Prince!"

The sound cut through the long night, waking up countless people, and before the storm had subsided, another storm arose.

.......

When Yun Wan and Emperor Jingxuan learned about this, they immediately rushed over from Penglai Pavilion.

"Poisonous woman!"

Emperor Jingxuan had a stern expression as he stared at Concubine Lu, who was being controlled by the palace servants, with a cold and disgusted look in his eyes.

Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but this woman was so crazy that she attacked the child she raised.

Lu Fei sat slumped on the ground with a dull look in her eyes, like a walking corpse.

Yun Wan looked at the Third Prince in the inner room, and after making sure that his life was safe, he came out, quickly stepped forward and slapped Concubine Lu.

“Bang!”

A crisp slap was heard, and Lu Fei's head was knocked crooked, with five finger marks instantly appearing on her face.

She was stunned for a moment, then glared at Yun Wan fiercely, "You hit me? What gives you the right to hit me?"

The palace maid pressed down hard on her shoulders, forcing Concubine Lu to be unable to move or hurt anyone.

"Chenghui is your child, and you have the heart to do that to him!"

This was the first time Yun Wan hit someone. Her anger made her use all her strength to attack. At this moment, she leaned her back against Emperor Jingxuan, shaking with anger.

"Child?" Concubine Lu raised her head, a mocking look on her embarrassed face.

"He didn't crawl out of my belly, so how can he be considered my child? I raised him for many years, but just because I'm not his biological mother, he developed a rift with me and became increasingly cold and distant to me."

"Why would I keep such an ungrateful person?"

Her eyes wandered as she glared at Yun Wan fiercely: "And all of this is thanks to you!"

"Ever since you and your son entered the palace, I have been losing my power and status step by step. Even Chenghui has become close to you and your son!"

"I'd like to ask what kind of drug did you and your son give him? Even His Majesty is obsessed with you! What's so good about you?"

Emperor Jingxuan supported Yun Wan with one hand and said in a cold voice, "Of course my queen is perfect. How can you have such a say in her?"

Yun Wan scoffed at her accusations, saying that the perpetrator never felt remorseful and only found faults in the victim.

"Is Chenghui really distant from you because you are not his biological mother? Ask yourself, do you truly treat him as your own child?"

Children are the most sensitive to adults' emotions. They know very well whether adults are good to them or not, and whether they are sincere or not.

She stared at Concubine Lu expressionlessly and said mercilessly, "You just used him as a tool to fight for power and profit. You knew that he was innocent by nature, not very competitive, and didn't like to compete with others, but you insisted on making him compete with the Crown Prince to satisfy your vanity and cause trouble for the Li family."

"Ask yourself if you have any sincerity towards him?"

The next moment she said firmly: "You didn't."

Otherwise, he would not have attacked the child who had called him mother for many years, just to frame her and satisfy his own selfish desires.

The darkest side of her heart was exposed by the person she hated the most. Lu Fei's face turned ugly and her lips were tightly closed.

At this time Jiang Fusheng brought people in,

"Your Majesty, according to Concubine Hui's description, we have captured this sneaky palace maid."

The guard behind him pushed the person he was holding forward, revealing his face to everyone.

Huipin exclaimed: "Little Zhuzi?"

"It's you."

Yun Wan wasn't surprised at all: "What are you trying to do by wandering outside the Third Prince's house disguised as a palace maid?"

Xiao Zhuzi lowered his head and said nothing.

Xiao Dezi kicked him and pulled out a thumb-sized bamboo tube from his sleeve. He explained to his master, "I found this on him. There's a bug inside."

The doctor's expression changed after examining him. "This is a colorful insect. Its mouthparts are poisonous and it likes to suck human blood. A bite from it is not fatal to a healthy adult, but it can be very harmful to..."

Emperor Jingxuan said in a deep voice: "What is it?"

Imperial Physician: "For a child who is already weak, a bite would inevitably cause a fever, and the condition would be severe. Death would almost certainly occur within an hour or two."

And without careful investigation, most people would not think much about it and simply attribute it to a cold and high fever.

It goes without saying who the colorful insects on Xiaozhuzi want to attack.

"Who sent you?"

Seeing that the truth had been revealed and there was no room for maneuver, Xiao Zhuzi's face turned pale and he confessed the truth:

"...It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."