Chapter 75 Being Cruel to Myself
Seeing Xiao Mi's reaction, Shen Qingtang reacted quickly.
"Xiao Mi, is this meat inedible?"
"Meow!" Xiao Mi nodded her head. Yes, it can't be eaten!
"Is there poison in this meat?" Shen Qingtang pointed to the other dishes. "Xiao Mi, go and see if those dishes are poisonous?"
Xiao Mi sniffed the dish of green vegetables next to it.
"Meow!" Poisonous!
It sniffed the big bowl of meat soup again.
"Meow!" Poisonous!
Xiao Mi sniffed all the remaining dishes.
"Meow meow meow meow meow......!!!" None of them can be eaten!
"Meow!" Master, someone wants to harm you!
Lu Jiuan's eyes widened, his palms sweating slightly, and he felt a little scared in his heart. He was so careless that he didn't realize that the dish was poisonous in advance.
"Fourth Miss, I will have someone take these dishes away."
He was going to investigate the situation to see who was trying to harm the Fourth Princess!
"Wait." Shen Qingtang raised her hand to stop Lu Jiuan. She stared at the dishes with a slight gleam in her eyes.
[These dishes were served in my room. The person who poisoned them didn't know that I would let Lu Jiuan dine with me, so they were specifically targeting me.]
[And every dish is poisonous. It seems that person wants to kill me.]
Shen Qingtang put down her chopsticks and waved to Xiao Mi. Xiao Mi took the initiative to come over and dive into Shen Qingtang's arms.
[I have been away from the palace for more than a month and have never encountered such a situation.]
Shen Qingtang raised her eyes and glanced at Lu Jiuan.
[This happened after I met them today. ]
[But Lu Jiuan will definitely not poison me. ]
For some reason, Shen Qingtang has an inexplicable trust in Lu Jiuan.
Hearing this, Lu Jiuan felt sweet in his heart. He didn't expect that the fourth princess would trust him so much.
But the fourth princess' analysis makes sense. Could it be that someone around him did it?
[There are five guards who came with Lu Jiuan today. The person who poisoned is most likely among them. ]
[How many are there? ]
"Who worked for the other five guards before?"
Lu Jiuan answered truthfully: "They are all people around the old man."
Shen Qingtang raised his eyebrows.
[Someone around my father? Although that old man is biased and stupid, he shouldn't kill me. 】
【If he wanted to kill me, there was no need to bring me into the palace in the first place. He could have just killed me outside. Besides, I had quarreled with him so many times in the palace. Except for that time when he slapped me in anger, he didn't kill me at other times. 】
【So the possibility that my father sent someone to find me all the way just to get rid of me is very low. It can only be that someone among the guards is still working for someone else. 】
【The only people who can have access to my father's guards are my mother, my eldest brother, my second brother, and Shen Muxin. No matter in the past or now, no matter how disobedient I am, those stupid family members have never thought of killing me. The only person who can do such a thing as poisoning me is Shen Muxin. 】
【I know, Shen Muxin doesn't want me to return to the palace, she hopes that I will die outside the palace, but I didn't expect that she actually pulled the people around my father. 】
【Dead green tea, you only know how to harm me! Wait until I get back to teach you a lesson! 】
"This is the first time we come to this county city. We are unfamiliar with the place. It is impossible for someone to attack me for no reason, so I suspect that the person who poisoned me is among the five of them."
Lu Jiuan nodded and agreed with Shen Qingtang's words.
Lu Jiuan secretly clenched his fists, suppressing his anger in his heart. Even if those guards were people around the emperor, he would not allow those people to do anything to hurt the fourth princess.
"Fourth Miss, why don't we take advantage of the situation and lure out the murderer? He didn't succeed this time, and he will definitely continue to attack in the future."
"That's what I was thinking." Shen Qingtang smiled.
Shen Qingtang took out a poison from the storage ring. The poison is not lethal, but it will make people very weak.
"Fourth Miss, what is this?" Lu Jiuan felt a little worried.
"Poison." Shen Qingtang said lightly.
Lu Jiuan looked at her in shock.
What? This is poison? !
Seeing Shen Qingtang was about to eat it, Lu Jiuan panicked and quickly stopped her, "Fourth Miss, no."
"We just need to pretend, there's no need to really eat it."
Even if the poison doesn't kill people, it will harm the body.
Shen Qingtang's lips curled slightly, and that smile revealed a disturbing madness.
"I must be really sick so that the murderer will believe that I'm poisoned." There was a strange light in her eyes, "Otherwise, how could the murderer show up so easily?"
"But..." Lu Jiuan suddenly felt distressed. The Fourth Princess was too cruel to herself. Was it necessary to pay such a high price?
"If we fail this time, it won't be so easy to catch the murderer next time. I don't want to have someone who wants to harm me around me all the time."
Shen Qingtang tilted his head to look at Lu Jiuan, blinked at him, and said sweetly: "Even if all of them are added together, they are not your opponent. You will protect me, right?"
"I will be responsible for luring the murderer out, and you will be responsible for catching the murderer. How about it, can you do it?"
Lu Jiuan also understood this truth. The more real it is, the more likely the murderer will reveal his flaws.
But he didn't want to see the fourth princess get sick. Lu Jiuan changed his mind. If the fourth princess pretended to be sick and was discovered by the murderer, which led to their failure to catch the murderer,
the murderer might make other more dangerous moves in the future.
"Okay, I'll listen to you, Miss Fourth." Lu Jiuan nodded with difficulty.
He looked at Shen Qingtang seriously and assured her, "Don't worry, Miss Fourth, I will definitely protect you."
"Well, I believe you."
Shen Qingtang opened her mouth and swallowed the poison without hesitation.
After a while, Shen Qingtang's body began to tremble, fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, her face gradually turned pale, and her beautiful eyebrows wrinkled because of the pain.
She raised her arms slightly and said weakly: "Help me to the bed."
"Okay."
Lu Jiuan immediately got up and supported Shen Qingtang's arm to help her to the bed, and gently covered her with a quilt.
Seeing Shen Qingtang's weak appearance at this moment, Lu Jiuan's heart was pulled up, and his eyes were full of heartache.
Lu Jiuan secretly swore in his heart that he must get rid of the murderer!
Lu Jiuan couldn't bear to see Shen Qingtang in pain, so he immediately ran to the other rooms and called the five guards over.
"Just now, the fourth lady took a small bite of the food here, and her body began to feel uncomfortable. I suspect someone poisoned the food."
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