Chapter 202 Don't Drink

"Xing'er, are you still angry with me?" Pei Jingyuan came to Chen Xing's room. As soon as he entered the room, he saw her fiddling with flowers and plants. He walked up to her and apologized seriously.

Chen Xing looked at him in surprise and said innocently, "I'm not angry! What's wrong with you?"

She was indeed not angry. Ever since she rejected Pei Jingyuan that day, she had not taken the matter to heart at all. In addition, she had been busy helping Xu Qingyan and the others clean up things in the bandit village these days. She was really busy.

"Actually, I had a secret that day. There were many things I couldn't say at the time, so I got angry and left after you asked me. However, I thought about it later. Since you are going to marry me in the future, there is naturally nothing that cannot be told between you and me. So I decided to tell you those secrets." Pei Jingyuan looked at Chen Xing seriously and said.

Now, Chen Xing looked at him curiously and said, "What secret do you want to tell me?"

Pei Jingyuan thought about the words he had prepared before, and said with a bitter look on his face: "Xing'er, the reason I asked you for the poisonous insect that day was actually for my mother."

"Your mother? What's wrong with her? What happened?" Chen Xing asked puzzledly.

After hearing what Pei Jingyuan said, Chen Xing couldn't help but become curious, and there was also a faint feeling of sympathy, which made her suddenly feel that Pei Jingyuan might not intend to do anything bad.

"My mother was born in a humble family. When she was young, she was lucky enough to be noticed by the Duke because of her outstanding beauty. But my mother had a friend who was always jealous of her. He often used my mother's past to threaten my mother and asked her to do various things for him. If my mother didn't listen, he would tell others about her unbearable childhood. However, those things in my mother's childhood were not my mother's fault! She had finally escaped from the sea of ​​suffering, but it became a handle for her to be controlled by others. I really couldn't bear it. My mother was threatened by that man, so she asked you to use the poisonous insect to get rid of him. If you kill him directly, I'm afraid it will cause trouble for my mother. I want to kill him in a way that no one else can find out, so that my mother won't be controlled by him anymore." Pei Jingyuan said suppressedly, his expression still revealing a trace of unwillingness and pain.

Chen Xing didn't understand what was going on. Although she didn't know whether Pei Jingyuan's mother had been threatened because of some tragic childhood incident, she could sense that it was definitely not a good thing. It wasn't her fault, but being threatened like this and forced to do something she didn't want to do was indeed very pitiful. Pei Jingyuan asked her for this poisonous Gu, which was also a filial act. Chen Xing was touched by him. After hearing what he said, she came out of the house without hesitation and handed him the black box.

"This is the Ice Nightmare Gu that I made earlier. If you put it in tea, it will become transparent and blend into the tea. Even a silver needle will not be able to detect the poison. Once it enters the human body, it will cause the person to die from a nightmare in their sleep at night. The doctor will only say that it is an acute disease attack and will not find any suspicious points."

Pei Jingyuan was delighted when he heard this. He could not find any suspicious points. Isn't this exactly what he wanted? Anyway, the Duke's wife and the others knew that Pei Jingchuan was ill. If he died in the middle of the night and the doctor said it was an acute illness, no one would doubt it.

So, he suppressed his inner surprise, pretended to be touched and took the black box, saying: "Xing'er, thank you so much, I will take you to see my mother when we return to Beijing."

The Ice Nightmare Gu was naturally known to the secret guards who were secretly monitoring Pei Jingyuan and Chen Xing, and they soon informed Pei Jingchuan and Xu Qingyan. After knowing this, the two strengthened their precautions and did not give Pei Jingyuan any chance to poison them.

On the other hand, Pei Jingyuan naturally understood that Pei Jingchuan did not trust him now. If he invited him to drink tea, he might not drink it, and he could not bribe the servants around him.

So, after thinking for a day or two, Pei Jingyuan came up with a solution. This solution was indeed unexpected to Pei Jingchuan and the others.

On this day, Pei Jingchuan and Xu Qingyan went to the city to visit the people and inspect the disaster relief work in Yuzhou City as usual. Since the governor of Yuzhou was imprisoned, the drought in Yuzhou has not been resolved. They need to completely resolve the drought in Yuzhou. Only after it rains in Yuzhou or enough water is found can they completely solve the lives of the people in Yuzhou and return to Beijing. At the same time, they also have to wait for the court to send a new governor of Yuzhou to take office and preside over the order in Yuzhou.

"Miss Chen, you have worked hard these days!" Xu Qingyan and Pei Jingchuan came to the porridge distribution point together and saw Chen Xing busying around.

Originally, Xu Qingyan and the others thought that after the matter of Li Feng's bandits was resolved, they would thoroughly investigate the bad things Chen Xing had done and convict her. But they didn't expect that before they could investigate, Chen Xing took the initiative to find them and confess. She said that she had made a lot of poisonous insects for Li Feng over the years, so that he could use them to deal with his enemies, and also raised a lot of poisonous insects and monsters for the village to prevent foreign invasion. However, she did not kill anyone directly.

When Xu Qingyan and the others heard this, although they felt that Chen Xing was helping the tyrant, she had not done anything bad herself. If someone helped her get rid of the crime, then according to the current laws of Daxia, she would not have to go to jail. She only needed to pay all her belongings and all the money she had earned from using witchcraft over the years.

Chen Xing was already very regretful, and she agreed without any hesitation. She not only helped to find all of Li Feng's wealth, but also took out all her savings to use for disaster relief. Now, she personally works for the people every day. Xu Qingyan and the others' views on her have also changed a little.

"Young Master, Crown Princess, you are here! These are what I should do. It's not hard for me!" Chen Xing said with a smile on his face.

For her, this was far from enough. She had helped the tyrants in those years, allowing Li Feng and his men to rob a lot of the court's supplies, causing the people to starve. She was guilty of all these. Now, she was just atonement.

Xu Qingyan and Pei Jingchuan smiled and went forward to help. After a while, a dirty little girl came over with a bowl of water.

"Sir, you have worked hard! This is the water I poured for you. Thank you for letting me have enough to eat!" The little girl looked at Pei Jingchuan with bright eyes and said, holding a bowl of clear water in her hand.

Pei Jingchuan saw that the little girl was wearing tattered clothes and knew that she was a disaster victim. He immediately felt a little soft-hearted. Originally, he would not drink the water, but when he saw the little girl's clear eyes, he couldn't bear to refuse her.

"Okay!" Pei Jingchuan took the bowl and was about to drink.

At this moment, Chen Xing's face changed drastically. When Pei Jingchuan was about to drink it, he suddenly rushed over and quickly knocked over the bowl.

"Don't drink!" Chen Xing said hurriedly.