Chapter 52: Su Tan, you are very unlucky.
After taking their seats, Su Tan and Gu Mingzhu sat at the same table, and nothing special happened during this time.
Just as the banquet was about to end, an unfamiliar palace maid approached Su Tan, her face showing a hint of anxiety. "Princess Jiayi, Princess Zhaoyang has suddenly fallen ill. The imperial physicians are helpless and say she might be possessed by an evil spirit. His Highness Prince Chen is unable to leave at the moment, so I'm sending this servant to fetch you."
Su Tan's gaze paused.
Is Sui Sui sick?
Or maybe it's caused by evil spirits?
This statement is interesting.
However, the person who delivered the message may have overlooked one thing.
Sui Sui was wearing the tiger head pendant she gave her around her neck. If something really happened, she would not have no reaction at all.
Su Tan lowered his eyes. Seeing this, Gu Mingzhu frowned slightly and said, "Since the princess is ill, Ah Tan, I will go with you."
The first rule of palace banquets: Don’t trust everything a palace maid says if you’re unfamiliar with her.
The second rule of the palace banquet: If you can travel together, don't let anyone be left alone easily. If you are left alone, you don't know whether you are facing a human or a ghost.
Su Tan was about to nod.
At this time, the queen's personal maid walked towards Gu Mingzhu with a smile.
He only said that the Queen wanted to talk to Gu Mingzhu.
Gu Mingzhu's face froze for a moment.
She looked at Su Tan worriedly, and warned him with her eyes to be careful.
Faced with the current situation, Gu Mingzhu and Su Tan could not help but guess that there must be something wrong with this trip.
It's just that both of them gave them a reason that they couldn't refuse.
Gu Mingzhu could only be cautious and cautious again.
Su Tan wanted to see what they were up to.
She pretended nothing had happened and said to the unfamiliar palace maid, "Since the princess is ill, please lead the way quickly."
The palace maid breathed a sigh of relief and led Su Tan forward.
After walking for about three quarters of an hour, the noise gradually grew quieter. Su Tan looked at the dark road leading to the palace, frowning slightly. "Miss, are you sure you're not taking the wrong path?"
The palace maid smiled and said, "Is the county lady looking towards the desolate area ahead? To be honest, the county lady just sneaked into this area alone and suddenly developed a high fever."
Su Tan raised his eyebrows and didn't ask any more questions. He just said, "I see."
After walking a few steps forward, the palace maid suddenly felt a heaviness on her shoulders. Her eyes suddenly became cloudy and dull. She stared at Su Tan blankly, as if she were a puppet.
Su Tan held a lantern in his hand and looked at the truth talisman affixed to the maid's shoulder. "Who sent you?"
The maid's face was expressionless, her lips moving in and out as she said, "Your Highness Prince Yu."
Su Tan frowned. It was indeed Prince Yu, but he didn't find it strange. He just asked, "Why did he ask you to come?"
The palace maid looked straight at Su Tan, "His Highness only told me to bring the county lady to the palace, but he didn't tell me what to do."
Su Tan looked at her quietly and asked, "Is there anything strange in the palace?"
The maid was very obedient and told him everything she knew and thought. "This place is remote, and no one else knows what happened. If I shout for help, no one will hear me."
"Oh, there's incense burning in the hall."
That's all she knew.
Su Tan wanted to ask more questions, but he couldn't get anything out of them. He just made a gesture, uncovered the real painting talisman, and quickly disappeared into the alley next to him.
The palace maid opened her eyes in confusion and rubbed her head. She was quite confused to find herself in such a remote place.
"What am I doing here for no reason?"
The palace maid took the lantern, turned around and left.
She still has work to do today, so she can't just wander around the palace road.
Seeing her walking away, Su Tan patted his clothes and looked deeply at the palace road ahead.
The location is remote and there is incense burning inside the palace.
It seems that Prince Yu wants her to die here accidentally!
Su Tan narrowed his eyes slightly, turned around and walked back, intending to run to the table and say that he saw a suspicious person.
But just as she reached the light, a eunuch carrying tea bumped into her without warning, and the tea spilled all over her.
Su Tan raised his eyebrows.
Today's accidents are really one after another.
"This slave deserves death!"
"This slave deserves death!"
"Please forgive me, my lady!"
Su Tan's eyes fell on her face and he just said, "Nothing, just a piece of clothing. I'll go change it later."
The eunuch breathed a sigh of relief and kept his head down, saying thank you to the county lady for her magnanimity and not making a fuss with him.
But Su Tan noticed that his fingers were trembling slightly and rhythmically, as if he was waiting for something.
Su Tan chuckled in his heart, raised his hand to rub his temples, and his steps were a little unsteady, "hiss..."
"I didn't drink any alcohol at the banquet today, so why... why am I so dizzy..."
She uttered these words weakly, and as soon as she finished, she fainted.
The eunuch dragged her, and there was no trace of the cowardice he had just shown. A hint of coldness instantly appeared in his eyes.
Su Tan seemed unconscious and allowed the man to take him to a more remote place.
"What's this Jiayi County Lady? She's just an idiot. She didn't even know there was a drug in the tea."
"I originally thought she would be difficult to deal with, but I didn't expect to meet her here by chance."
"I'm rich, I'm rich!"
"I've really made a fortune today!"
The eunuch grinned, but before his smile faded, he fell straight down.
Lu Zhiheng frowned and supported Su Tan's body with a folding fan. Before he could wake her up, she suddenly opened her eyes with a clear look, without any sign of being unconscious.
Lu Zhiheng raised his eyebrows, opened his fan, and fanned it slowly, looking at Su Tan in surprise, "So you didn't faint."
Su Tan kicked the eunuch at his feet and spread his hands, saying, "Ordinary incense and knockout drugs don't work on me."
She is a member of the Xuanmen sect after all, not to mention being the best in the capital, but if even ordinary aphrodisiacs and knockout drugs can make her lose consciousness, then what is the point of her catching ghosts?
Lu Zhiheng raised the corner of his lips, "It seems that I underestimated you."
Su Tan didn't comment, but just asked, "Why is Your Highness here?"
Lu Zhiheng revealed a look of disdain, fanning himself a little harder, his tone tinged with disdain, "When Fourth Brother was being attentive to you, I always felt that his expression was very familiar, but I've seen him do that to other people before."
"I didn't think about it at the time, but later, when we sat down at the table, I remembered that he had treated Shen Yu in the same way before."
He did not call Shen Yu "Fourth Sister-in-law" because, firstly, Shen Yu and Prince Yu had already divorced.
The second reason is that Prince Yu is naturally unworthy.
"He's good at pretending, especially in front of women, to be gentle and caring. It's not a very clever trick, but it's really effective."
At first, Shen Yu was deceived.
Later he deceived Bai Lingling.
Now he is here to deceive Su Tan again.
Lu Zhiheng paused, slightly turned his eyes away, not looking at Su Tan, and pondered for a moment before saying, "But he doesn't have that much patience to slowly lay out plans for you right now."
"So I planned to take advantage of today's palace banquet to knock you out and make the matter a done deal."
As for whether Su Tan's reputation would be ruined and whether he would be despised by others, that was not something that the scumbag Prince Yu had to consider.
Su Tan's expression suddenly turned cold.
She originally thought that Prince Yu wanted to take advantage of today's palace banquet to kill her.
I never thought that the other party would have such dirty thoughts.
She sneered and kicked the eunuch below. "So it seems that Prince Yu is quite thoughtful. If one plan fails, he will come up with another one."
Originally, she was about to use the truth talisman at this time, but unexpectedly, Lu Zhiheng felt it at this critical moment.
Lu Zhiheng's expression became even colder. "No, this eunuch was not arranged by Prince Yu."
Su Tan looked towards him.
Lu Zhiheng's eyes were filled with even more disgust, but he still had a third of disdain for Su Tan, "If you had been more discerning and not fallen for Song Tingchen, you wouldn't have attracted so many flies."
"This person was sent by Zhao Yu."
"What a coincidence! The locations of the palaces chosen by Zhao Yu and Prince Yu are similar."
"It's just that Prince Yu is waiting for you there by himself, while Zhao Yu has arranged several men with serious illnesses to wait for you."
Fortunately, Su Tan is not a weak woman who can't even tie a chicken.
Plus, those drugs didn't work on her.
Otherwise, today, even if Su Tan didn't die, he would have been skinned alive.
At best, she was kidnapped by Prince Yu's men.
From then on, he became infamous and was forced to be involved in the evil den of Prince Yu's Mansion.
If things go badly, she will be doomed from today on.
Su Tan's face suddenly turned gloomy.
Zhao Yu was supposed to die in the next few days.
I didn't expect that he was in such a hurry to reincarnate.
Su Tan's gaze fell on Lu Zhiheng, and she suddenly asked, "Your Highness, are you willing to do me a favor?"
Lu Zhiheng's eyebrows twitched, and he felt that something was not good, but he still asked: "Who do you want to punish?"
He stared intently, thinking for a moment, and then said to Su Tan, "Could it be that you want me to help you kidnap Liu Qingyin?"
After all, he could see that Su Tan had a complete dislike for Liu Qingyin.
Besides, she had said before that Zhao Yu was a homosexual.
According to the normal logic of palace fighting, it seems that Su Tan wants to put Zhao Yu and Liu Qingyin together.
After all, it is so interesting to watch these two people who love Song Tingchen torture each other.
However—Lu Zhiheng's expression was cold, "Although this king also dislikes Liu Qingyin, this kind of thing. This king will not help you do it."
Now it was Su Tan's turn to raise his eyebrows.
"Who said I was going to put Liu Qingyin and Zhao Yu together?"
Lu Zhiheng paused, "Then what do you want to do?"
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