"Where is Liu? Hasn't she returned yet?" Zhu Ziqian asked Changgui as he dressed.

"Reporting to your master, it has been three days since the Lady of Ning'an went to Zhennan Pass, and I have not been able to find out when she will return."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Ziqian's face darkened, and he muttered in dissatisfaction, "She's just a woman, running around in a military camp full of men all day long. What kind of reputation will this have if word gets out!"

“What the master says is true, but she is now a noblewoman of the court, and no one can control her…” Chang Gui muttered softly.

Actually, he originally wanted to say, "Master, have you forgotten why Lady Liu was granted the title of Lady of the County? It was because she helped the Zhennan Army solve the problem of food supplies."

To put it bluntly, Liu Yingying's current move to the military camp is supported by the current emperor.

Even the emperor didn't say anything, so why is Zhu Ziqian so opposed to this?

Although Zhu Ziqian was very dissatisfied, he didn't say anything more.

Today is the third day, and if nothing unexpected happens, Liu's symptoms should have appeared.

That's good too. If she had an accident in Zhennanguan, he won't be implicated if someone investigates afterward.

After all, he wasn't by Liu Yingying's side when she got into trouble!

Zhu Ziqian couldn't help but smile. Soon, the trouble with the Liu family would be easily resolved!

With nothing else to do, he began preparing to return to Beijing.

After Liu Yingying died, he took his three children to live in the capital.

In fact, Zhu Ziqian was just a minor official of the seventh rank, and he had no intention of taking his three children to the capital in his original plan. On the contrary, Lin Jiaorui sent several letters in a row, asking him to take the children with him.

Don't give people something to say, that she, as a stepmother, is whispering in the pillow's ear, leaving the child without a mother or father to care for him.

Zhu Ziqian originally didn't plan to take the three children to live in the capital because he was afraid that Lin Jiaorui wouldn't like them.

Now that Lin Jiaorui has said so, he is naturally happy to see it happen.

Six or seven days passed, and still no news came back about Liu Ying. Zhu Ziqian was getting anxious.

In the morning, while having breakfast with Zhu Youcai and his wife, he suddenly flew into a rage and overturned the table.

When he got back to his own home, he kicked the front door down.

Then he would sit in the house, sometimes laughing, sometimes furious and smashing things.

Why hasn't Lady Liu returned yet?

"Is she having an affair with that young master Huo? Otherwise, why would he help her?"

"That bitch, I'll kill her when she gets back!"

Changgui was so frightened by his appearance that he knelt down with a thud and cried out, "Master, my master, what's wrong with you?"

"You can't say these things carelessly, it will cause you trouble if it gets out."

He just couldn't understand it. The old master used to be extremely cautious in his words and deeds. No matter what shady things he did in the interior, he always appeared to be a gentleman in public.

Where before, people would so easily become enraged, throwing things around and spewing hurtful words...

Suddenly, something occurred to him, but he dared not speak of it…

"Hahahaha! Once that bitch is dead, I'll ride the coattails of the Marquis's mansion and rise to power! Hahahaha!"

Zhu Ziqian was acting crazy, pounding his knees with his hands as he spoke, laughing so hard that snot and tears streamed down his face.

At this moment, Changgui saw all of his behavior and instantly made up his mind!

"Master, don't you think your current state is very similar to that of someone who has been poisoned by the Three-Day Forgetfulness Powder?"

"Haha—" Zhu Ziqian's smile froze instantly, his eyes widened slowly, and he pointed at Chang Gui with a trembling finger.

"What...what did you say?"

Changgui trembled with fear and kowtowed repeatedly; "Master, shall I go and fetch a doctor for you?"

"Quickly! Go quickly! Bring the best doctor from Ningzhou Prefecture!"

At this moment, Zhu Ziqian was already filled with fear.

He was certain that the changes he had experienced these past few days must be due to poisoning.

Moreover, the poison was none other than the Three-Day Forgetfulness Powder, but he clearly saw Liu Yinyin drink the tea that day with his own eyes.

But why was it myself who got poisoned?

Liu Yingying stayed at Yujiachang for ten days, and even Huo Huaizhi noticed something fishy.

In the morning, after the two finished fertilizing the vegetable garden, Huo Huaizhi looked at her suspiciously and asked a question.

"I have a feeling you deliberately hid here."

"Heh...hehe...then you must have misjudged the situation!" Liu Yingying stubbornly insisted.

Huo Huaizhi stared at her for a long time, and the more he looked at her face, the more suspicious he found it. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Wang Dabing walking towards them from afar.

"Sis, something terrible has happened! Sis, something's wrong!"

Seeing Wang Dabing panting heavily, Liu Yingying asked, "What happened? Why are you so flustered? Did something terrible happen?"

"No...no!" Wang Dabing gasped for breath. "Just now, a younger member of our family came to deliver a message saying that Zhao Di's father is sick and that you need to go back quickly, sister, because they want to discuss a divorce with you!"

Upon hearing the words "divorce," Huo Huaizhi's heart skipped a beat.

"Oh, is that all..." Liu Yingying's smile was even more difficult to suppress than AK's.

That day, she took advantage of Zhu Ziqian's inattention and secretly switched their tea.

It seems the poison has taken effect...

He then bid farewell to Huo Huaizhi and immediately returned to Taoyuan Village.

Zhu Ziqian's condition was quite bad; Liu Yingying saw him at the village entrance when she returned.

He was already lying in the carriage heading back to the capital.

Changgui stepped forward and relayed a message to Liu Yingying on his behalf: "Madam, the master wants you to enter the carriage alone. He has something to say to you."

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