When Lu Zheng and Bai Yi arrived at the inn, He Gang and his group had just arrived with Lu Ni not long before.
In the reception room outside Princess Nanlin's room, Lu Ni stood in the middle of the hall, looking at Gu Xin, who was identifying medicinal herbs with Zheng Qiu, with resentment in her eyes. She felt ignored and was very angry.
When Lu Zheng and Bai Yi arrived, Gu Xin had just finished identifying the medicinal herbs.
There was nothing wrong with these medicinal herbs; they were indeed prescribed by the imperial physician, and there was no poison mixed in with the dregs.
When Gu Xin saw Lu Zheng and Bai Yi and the others, she simply nodded and greeted them.
She returned to the hall, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, looked at Lu Ni, and asked, "Miss Lu, did you come to the South City Inn last night?"
Lu Ni answered without hesitation, "No."
Gu Xin smiled slightly: "Really? But Prince Tian Tian has already admitted that he was the one who had you brought in last night. If you don't cooperate, I'll have someone take you to the dungeon."
Lu Ni subconsciously looked towards Prince Tian Tian.
Prince Tian tried to give her a signal, but Gu Xin didn't give him the chance: "Look, Prince Tian is useless. Someone saw you come in that day, otherwise, why would I have sent someone to call you? I would never do something without evidence."
Prince Tian Tian sighed, "He's trying to trick me again."
Forget it, let him say it. Anyway, it has nothing to do with him. He just brought Lu Ni here to discuss the plan with Long Zhu'er. Lu Ni did indeed come to deliver medicinal herbs.
The plan has been exposed. He is the prince of Dongzhe Kingdom, and even Da Zhou cannot do anything to him. As for how Lu Ni, that fool, will be dealt with, what does that have to do with him?
Therefore, Prince Tiantian stopped trying to wink at Lu Ni.
Lu Ni looked at Gu Xin angrily: "Yes, it was me. I came to see Princess Longzhu'er and to deliver her medicine."
Gu Xin raised an eyebrow: "Oh? Is that so? You and Princess Longzhu'er are on good terms? Delivering medicine to your door in the middle of the night."
Lu Ni raised her chin and said arrogantly, "Of course, Princess Long Zhu'er and I hit it off immediately. The reason I delivered the medicine in the middle of the night was not because the competition ended a little late yesterday, and it took me some time to go home and find the medicine, but also because we are so close that I couldn't wait until the next day."
Gu Xin nodded knowingly: "If that's the case, then where did you first meet? I remember that Princess Longzhu often chatted and went shopping with those princesses from the West, right? I've never heard of her hanging out with any noble ladies from the capital."
Lu Ni paused, then glared at Gu Xin and said, "What? Princess Xin Xin, are you now all-powerful? Is everything that happens in the capital under your control? Do I, a young lady from a humble family, have to report to you who I meet? Can't we just bump into each other at a teahouse or a jade shop? Does it have to be that I tell you everything?"
Lu Ni's tone was somewhat harsh. Gu Xin knew that the Lin family mother and son definitely didn't like her, but she didn't expect that their dislike would be to this extent.
She calmly said, "Why are you so agitated, Miss Lu? I was just asking where you met. But since you hit it off so well, why are you wearing a cloak in the middle of the night? Is it because Princess Longzhu'er makes you feel ashamed, or are you insecure and feel that your status is not worthy of playing with a princess?"
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