The controlled Concubine Ning could only obey and agree in front of Xiao Lu, but she was secretly calling Xiao Lu a "fool" in her heart.
Concubine Ning is the biological mother of the third prince, but she is also the illegitimate granddaughter of the fifth degree cousin of Fan Ting, the head of the Fan family.
Although she has a very distant relationship with the Fan family, her father and brothers on her mother's side are affiliated with the Lu family.
The Lu family originally instructed the queen to keep her during the selection and give her the opportunity to get pregnant and have children, just for the sake of using her relationship with the Fan family to attack the Fan family at this moment.
However, when it came to choosing the emperor, little Lu and her father Lu Tong did not prefer the same prince.
Little Lu, who was eager to become the empress dowager, took it for granted that the second prince, whose name was registered under her name, would succeed to the throne. However, she did not know that her father Lu Tong did not want the emperor, who already had his own opinions, to take the throne.
He needed a baby who knew nothing. Only in this way could he truly take control of the government and let this baby, who had grown up a little, abdicate to him in a few years.
Little Lu didn't know that Lu Tong's preferred heir to the throne was Ning Bin's son, the Third Prince. Ning Bin didn't know that all the wealth and glory that Lu Tong promised her were just illusions.
She was looking forward to the day when the emperor would die and she and Xiao Lu would become empress dowagers together. By then, with her status as the emperor's biological mother, she would be able to, if not surpass Xiao Lu, at least be on par with her.
Ning Fei, who was very dreamy, took the poison handed to her by the Queen's maid with a handkerchief as a cushion, fearing that she would get even a little bit of it on her.
After coming out of the Queen's Palace, she couldn't wait to go to the imperial kitchen.
According to the script designed by the Queen Mother Lu, who was not very smart, Concubine Ning had to sprinkle the precious poison powder that Lu Tong had obtained with great difficulty into the soup specially cooked for the emperor in the imperial kitchen under the pretext of making snacks for the third prince.
After completing this step, Concubine Ning can retire and return to her own palace. After that, the person sent by the imperial kitchen to deliver the soup will try to watch the emperor drink the poisonous soup.
Concubine Ning liked this arrangement very much. She felt that this way she could clear herself of suspicion and not be involved in the emperor's sudden death.
What she didn't know was that the reason why Xiao Lu didn't let her deliver soup to the emperor was because Xiao Lu not only wanted to kill the emperor, she also wanted to kill Xiao Yuanjin, who had been an eyesore to her for many years.
As Concubine Ning, she had to rack her brains to get in touch with the emperor who was not interested in women, let alone get close to Xiao Yuanjin.
Little Lu didn't want to wait until she killed the emperor, but Yu Zizhen, Fang Huaiying and others suddenly appeared and supported the eldest prince to ascend the throne by relying on the military power of their family.
This Da Qi must belong completely to her, Xiao Lu, and she must nip all hidden dangers in the bud.
The complacent little Lu was thinking about what to do next while she said to her trusted palace maid:
"The old woman is finally going to die. When she dies, remember to dispose of those poisonous spices yourself. As for Aunt Wei, let her be buried with the old woman."
"It's the same with the emperor. Doesn't he love that cripple? When the time comes, he'll let that cripple be buried with him."
Neither of them noticed that on the other side of the flower wall that separated them from each other, there was a person who was hunching his head and looking timid, listening to the noise here with a look of fear on his face.
This person was none other than the Second Prince, who had lived under the shadow of Madam Lu since childhood. Although he had moved to the front, he still had to come back to pay his respects to Madam Lu every once in a while.
Xiao Lu was a person with unstable moods. If he came too often, Xiao Lu would find him annoying. If he came less often, Xiao Lu would feel that he was disrespectful to her.
The Second Prince actually wanted her to set some rules for him, stipulating how often he should come.
However, it was obvious that little Lu was not so easy to talk to, so the second prince had to passively endure little Lu's mood swings.
But even so, the second prince is still very content with his current life.
As he grew up, he saw Xiao Lu less often and was almost never beaten. Most importantly, he gained the love of his father and brother.
He had heard about the many changes in the capital and the palace in recent times, but he never imagined that the person who caused the Empress Dowager Da Lu to be "seriously ill" was actually Da Lu's niece.
And from what she said, she actually planned to kill his father and brother at the same time.
The second prince didn't dare to make a sound until little Lu, who was out for a walk, walked further and further away. Only then did the second prince suppress the fear in his heart and return to his own bedroom in a daze.
As the Second Prince walked back from the harem, all sorts of thoughts raced through his mind, but in the end, at the fork in the road leading to his and the First Prince's bedrooms, he resolutely chose to report the news to the First Prince and the Emperor.
He was in a panic. After rushing in, he grabbed the eldest prince's collar and told him everything he had heard the queen say. He didn't even notice Yu Zizhen who was climbing a ladder behind one of the bookshelves to look for a book.
Yu Zizhen was speechless. The Second Prince had almost no scheming or independent thinking. If he really became the emperor, the court officials would probably take advantage of him.
She was complaining in her heart when a slight movement outside the house suddenly attracted all her attention.
After asking the baby voice system, Yu Zizhen discovered that the person eavesdropping was actually a young eunuch loyal to the Queen Mother. Thinking of the young eunuch's usual stubbornness, she decided to take a gamble to see whether he would go to the elder Lu or cling to the younger Lu.
As far as she knew, Big Lu already knew that Little Lu and Lu Tong wanted to kill her. What she lacked now was only supporting evidence from other people.
Yu Zizhen decided to take a gamble and let this little eunuch fill in the last link of the chain of evidence for her.
Facts have proved that this young eunuch was indeed stubborn. Even though he heard Xiao Madam Lu say that Da Madam Lu was about to die, he still went to inform Da Madam Lu.
After hearing the little eunuch in the corner tiptoeing away, Yu Zizhen quickly learned through the God's perspective of the baby voice system that he had contacted the most trusted eunuch of the elder Lu, and angrily relayed the words of the younger Lu to the other party.
Very good, it seems that this young eunuch is still very grateful and will not betray his "godfather" who has done him a favor just because the Queen Mother's side is in a weak position.
Having achieved his goal, Yu Zizhen got down the ladder in a good mood, ready to go out and scare the second prince.
The Second Prince was indeed frightened by her. He was already panicking to the point of having his face flushed and sweat all over his body. The moment he saw Yu Zizhen, he took two steps back as if he had seen a ghost.
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