Among the people from fifteen countries, those with strong social skills came over with a smile to congratulate An Xin on winning the first place.
The third place from another venue also came out.
When it comes to ruthlessness and cruelty, the Dongli Ye Yanci team is no match for the Beiming group. As expected, the Beiming team won third place.
After An Xin exchanged greetings with everyone, he waited to see what the King of Nanyu and Concubine Huarui would come up with to trick them as prizes.
Sure enough, when they were summoned before the King of Nanyu by the eunuchs, Bei Ming, who came in third, received a green jade box. When he opened it, he found a translucent jelly-like substance inside.
Xiao Wenrou, who came in second, also received a jade box personally awarded by the King of Nanyu, which contained a fiery red Ganoderma lucidum.
An Xin looked at what the two teams received and couldn't help but admire the good acting skills of the two leaders of Nanyu. It was obvious that what they gave out were fake elixirs.
But he remained calm and congratulated them with a smile on their winning the award.
If she hadn't seen what the real thing looked like, she might have been fooled by them.
After all, it is such a rare thing that few people have ever seen it.
I don't know what kind of fruit they will take out, saying it is the Tiankui fruit that will take fifty years to bloom and bear fruit.
After An Xin leaned forward to salute, he took a white jade box from the King of Nanyu, opened it and saw a milky white fruit.
An Xin firmly believed that this was real, because she had never seen a fake one, and the real one had long been made into pills by Concubine Huarui and fed to her son.
The Cuju game was also over.
After An Xin and the others attended the palace banquet, Nanyu was about to say goodbye and leave to return to their own country.
In order to show her respect for An Xin and other envoys, Concubine Huarui personally selected and prepared everything from wine to food for the palace banquet.
After An Xin heard this, he thought that since she was so enthusiastic, he would not dare to eat or drink the wine or dishes in her house.
The night before the palace banquet, An Xin was taken by Liu Boxing and Chen Qibao to meet a young man from the Nanyu Kingdom.
At the age of seventeen or eighteen, his facial features are delicate and three-dimensional, his expression is warm, and he gives people a feeling of determination and elegance.
The young man saw that An Xin was not aloof, but took the initiative to put her hand on her chest and performed a standard Nanyu etiquette for her.
An Xin smiled and bowed to him.
An Xin left soon and no one knew what they talked about.
The young man looked at An Xin's leaving back, with a smile on his face and tears in his eyes.
He had waited too long for this day.
An Xin also found out that Concubine Huarui's son had turned into a living dead man who could not decay or wake up over the years.
It was not the curse of the late Queen Nanyu who was killed by them, but poisoning.
Because the poisoning lasted too long and corpse spots had already appeared, Concubine Huarui had to seek medical treatment in desperation.
He wanted to use the witch clan's secret techniques to save his son.
Ordinary human lives are not enough; hundreds of people with precious destinies must be sacrificed.
Nanyu is too small and there are only a few noble families.
Besides, unless the King of Nanyu and Concubine Huarui both wanted to stop staying in Nanyu, and if they angered all the nobles of Nanyu, it would not be long before their rule was overthrown.
This is how it happened. Taking advantage of the inland emperors' desire to live longer, they lured a group of noble children from various countries' capitals to come.
Ye Yanci and Xi Munan from Dongli Kingdom and Nanzhao Kingdom came to visit An Xin. After they returned, they called the leaders of the guards brought by their own countries.
Afterwards, all teams friendly to their country were also secretly reminded.
Sitting in the Nanyu Palace again, An Xin, who was attending the palace banquet, looked at the golden-footed cup and amber wine in front of him. The food was like a painting, and the wine was like spring. The sound of the guqin was clear and lingering.
From the beginning of the meal, she drank one cup after another. Whenever someone came to congratulate the football team she led for winning first place, she would laugh wildly and drink with others.
Before the banquet was halfway through, she was already drunk and passed out, slumped over the table.
"Shameful." Xiao Wenrou glanced at An Xin with disdain and said in a low voice.
She just couldn't understand why the emperor of the Daqian Dynasty, with such poor eyesight, appointed this woman as an official.
Obviously, she is well-known for her talent in the capital, so it is not suitable for her to enter the court and be the center of attention.
Ye Yanci and Xi Munan smiled bitterly. They had originally wanted to do the same.
But it was obvious that this road had already been taken by Envoy An, leaving them with no way out.
The two of them looked at the wine and food on the table in front of them, raised their heads and stared at each other from a distance, helplessness in their eyes.
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Smart people know that there is no problem with the drinks and food at the beginning.
After all, if you want to knock everyone out at the same time, everyone has to drink the alcohol at the same time. Otherwise, some people will be knocked out by the alcohol, and the rest will be alert and fight back desperately.
At this time, the King of Nanyu and the Royal Concubine raised their wine glasses and toasted everyone below. Now no one could refuse.
Not only did the faces of the people brought by An Xin change, but even the people from Dongli and Nanzhao knew they were coming.
Everyone picked up their wine glasses, looked up to drink under the cover of their long sleeves, and swallowed a pill at the same time.
And it's not just them. Everyone who was reminded has prepared an antidote for the drug this time.
Ye Yanci and Xi Munan looked at each other enviously. An Xin, who was pretending to be drunk and lying on the table, curled his lips and fainted as agreed beforehand.
When the others saw the two of them like this, they also pretended to close their eyes and fall down.
"Stop pretending. Do you think all the servants who serve you in my Nanyu Inn are dead?"
Concubine Huarui's eerie voice echoed throughout the hall, "And that female messenger who pretended to be drunk, so what if you were smart enough not to drink the drugged wine.
Now you are alone, what kind of waves can you make? "
"What the imperial concubine said is true," An Xin, who had been pretending to be drunk, slowly sat up straight and said calmly, "I'm afraid that these people put more than just drugs in their wine.
I wonder what better things the imperial concubine has gifted them for them to taste."
"I know you have extraordinary strength, so I put a whole bag of cartilage powder in your food and drinks. Do you still have the energy to care about others now?"
Concubine Huarui's bright red lips curled up into a mocking smile: "Too clever is too clever, and it has cost you your life."
An Xin smiled and said nothing. He looked up and saw that in addition to the team that was not warned and was knocked unconscious, some Nanyu officials who came to attend the palace banquet were also knocked unconscious.
The others who had taken the antidote to the drug were still conscious, but had not yet fainted.
They were leaning limply against the table, and it was obvious that they had been poisoned by the cartilage powder. Now it was difficult for them to even pick up a glass of wine.
The King of Nanyu looked down coldly and said to Concubine Huarui: "What do you want to do? Do it quickly."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will have someone drag them to the altar right away."