Chapter 224 Seduction and Control
"Yes! Li Ji can't even get any news out of the backyard. She is dirty and smelly every day and can't see the Duke at all. If the prince hadn't sent me to check on the situation, I probably wouldn't even know that she is living like this every day. Now the Duke absolutely listens to the Duke's wife. Without the Duke's wife's permission, he dare not keep other women around him. Now he is served by servants, not maids." Xu Qingyue said to Prince Shuo.
"That won't do! We must let Li Ji get close to the Duke. Otherwise, how can we control the Duke of Ying's Mansion?" Prince Shuo said solemnly.
Now, the key to dealing with the King of Qin is the Duke of Ying's Mansion. As long as something happens to the Duke of Ying's Mansion, the King of Qin will have no one to rely on. If the King of Qin falls, there will only be a useless prince left. Then he will kill the Prince of Yu and the Sixth Prince. When the Emperor is critically ill, he will jump out to take charge of the situation.
Then, his people will support him, and he will ascend to the supreme position. He lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and seemed to have thought of something. He asked someone to bring some things to Xu Qingyue and told her, "Think of a way to send the perfume powder to Li Ji and ask her to get close to the Duke of Ying. Otherwise, she will not be able to come back with her life."
Xu Qingyue took the scented powder. Without asking, she could probably guess what it was. Anyway, she hated everyone in the Duke of Yingguo's mansion equally. As long as she could make the Duke of Yingguo's mansion suffer, she would do her best. So, she took the scented powder, returned to the Duke of Yingguo's mansion, and quietly went to see Li Ji and handed the things to her.
On this day, Li Ji pretended to be sick with the help of Xu Qingyue and got a chance to rest for a day. She washed herself, dressed up nicely, and brought the perfume powder given by Prince Shuo. She followed the map of the Duke's Mansion given by Xu Qingyue and prepared to go to the Duke's courtyard to play a trick on him.
Since the backyard where the servants worked was far from the Duke's courtyard, Li Ji had walked a long way but still hadn't reached it. She was a little tired and wanted to find a place to rest after passing this door, but she didn't expect that she bumped into someone as soon as she turned the corner.
"Ouch!" Li Ji was hurt and couldn't help but groan.
"I'm sorry! Miss..." Doctor Xuan was about to apologize when he suddenly smelled a strange odor. He looked at Li Ji warily.
Seeing that the other person was an old man, and that he was looking at her with strange eyes, Li Ji thought that he was coveting her beauty. For a moment, she couldn't help but yell at Doctor Xuan: "What are you looking at, you old man? You are so shameless!"
"Girl, I think you are..." Doctor Xuan was about to say that she was shameless for putting this aphrodisiac powder on her body, but halfway through his words, he suddenly remembered something.
So, he swallowed the rest of his words and just said, "Are you the daughter or the wife of the Duke's Mansion? How dare you scold me? There is no one like you in the Duke's Mansion!"
He wanted to find out who this woman was! Who was she trying to harm by doing this? Or was she the concubine of the Duke's Mansion? Was she carrying this kind of thing to seduce her master?
Originally, Li Ji wanted to humiliate the old man, but when she heard that he was questioning her identity, she panicked a little. So, she rolled her eyes at Doctor Xuan and said, "Why should I tell you?"
After saying that, Li Ji left. Doctor Xuan looked at the woman's panicked back and realized something was wrong, so he hurried to find Xu Qingyan and the others.
"Husband, I think the woman the miracle doctor mentioned is most likely the woman my father brought back that day." After hearing what the miracle doctor Xuan said, Xu Qingyan immediately thought of Li Ji. She looked at Pei Jingchuan and expressed her opinion.
Pei Jingchuan's idea coincided with hers. After thinking quickly, he said, "Before, the reason why we didn't drive her away was that we were waiting for her to show her hand. Let's catch her now and force her to confess Prince Shuo. We will take her to Prince Shuo's mansion and ask Prince Shuo what he wants to do by planting someone in my Duke Ying's mansion and push him to the forefront."
"This is a good idea! Husband, let's go now!" Xu Qingyan said with a smile.
This Prince Shuo had been making moves behind the scenes. If they could get evidence this time and force Prince Shuo to come to light, it would be like catching a poisonous snake. So, the two of them quickly headed towards the Duke's courtyard.
At the same time, Li Ji searched for a long time and finally found the yard of the Duke of England. At this time, the Duke of England was reading a military book in the study and was about to come out of the study to take a walk in the yard.
As soon as I reached the entrance of the courtyard, I ran into Li Ji. She was crying and looked at the Duke of England and said, "Duke!"
"Why are you here? Didn't Madam arrange for you to do some work in the backyard?" The Duke of England frowned, feeling very unhappy and alert at the same time.
He remembered that his daughter-in-law complained that this person was a spy, and he didn't want to get too close to her. The reason why he didn't drive her out of the house was that Jingchuan and the others told him that he had to play the long game to catch the big fish. If he drove away this one, there would definitely be another one. He had to find out the person behind it.
"Duke, please save me! Li'er really doesn't want to be a night lover anymore. People in the backyard bully me because I'm a weak woman. I am so grateful to you, Duke. I just want to be a little maid by your side and serve you. Please, Duke, accept me!" Li Ji knelt on the ground, crying and saying.
After hearing this, the Duke of England frowned tightly. Seeing the other person crying like this, if he hadn't heard Xu Qingyan's inner voice, he would have been soft-hearted. But now, knowing that the woman in front of him was not a good person, even if she was so beautiful and cried so hard, he couldn't feel any sympathy, and just thought she was trying to seduce him.
"Madam has already told you to leave. If you can't do it, then leave! I will not keep you by my side." The Duke of England said ruthlessly. After he finished speaking, he wanted to lift his legs and leave, but Li Ji came forward and hugged his thighs.
"My Lord!" Li Ji called coquettishly.
The Duke of England felt goose bumps all over his body. He wanted to pull away, but he felt something was wrong with his body. He looked at Li Ji. For some reason, the woman in front of him had an inexplicable attraction that made him want to get closer. However, his reason told him that this was not okay, so he began to struggle in his heart.
"Duke..." Li Ji noticed the struggle on Duke Ying's face and the confusion in his eyes. She knew that the perfumed powder was taking effect.
So, her hand slowly climbed up the Duke of England's neck, and as soft as a water snake, she hooked onto the Duke of England's body.
The Duke of England only felt that his brain was becoming more and more confused, and slowly the woman in front of him turned into the Duke's wife.
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