When the head maid came to inspect, she saw the dress crumpled up and placed next to Xiao Qingyin's wash basin. She stopped and said unhappily, "Why is this dress left aside?"
Xiao Qingyin's eyes flickered uncertainly.
"There were a lot of ants on this piece of clothing. I was afraid of being bitten by them, so I put it aside and planned to wash it after the ants crawled away."
The head maid put this garment in there; she knew its condition perfectly well.
Hearing Xiao Qingyin say this, I immediately concluded:
She must have already ruined the clothes by washing them, and that's why she said that to avoid being discovered.
His face immediately darkened, and he shouted sternly, "Did you ruin the clothes while washing them?!"
Xiao Qingyin waved her hands repeatedly: "No, I haven't even washed it yet, how could it be ruined?"
"Didn't wash it?"
The head maid snorted coldly.
"I think you've ruined it so badly you can't recognize it!"
Xiao Qingyin looked increasingly flustered: "Granny, please believe me, I really haven't washed yet, I'm not lying to you."
The more she denied it, the more convinced the head maid became.
"You won't shed tears until you see the coffin, huh?"
As she spoke, the head maid picked up the clothes, grabbed the collar, and shook them forcefully to unfold them.
"Now what do you have to say?"
She immediately wanted to call someone to punish Xiao Qingyin with a cane.
But when my gaze swept over the clothes, I saw an unbelievable scene.
The clothes are actually... good?
There were indeed a few ants crawling on it.
In her shock, her right hand, which was gripping her collar, suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if she had been bitten by ants, which startled her so much that she immediately let go.
The clothes fell to the ground with a "thud".
She looked at her right hand and saw a tiny, almost invisible hole on her thumb that was burning with pain, and the surrounding skin was bulging up at a visible speed.
Xiao Qingyin exclaimed in surprise, picked up the clothes from the ground and put them in the basin, then quietly put away the silver needles hidden inside.
Then she leaned closer and asked with concern, "Granny, were you bitten by ants? Does it hurt?"
Of course it hurts!
The head maid glared at her fiercely.
Where did the ants on this garment come from?
Xiao Qingyin shook her head: "I don't know either. I noticed ants on it when I soaked it in water just now. They probably climbed up there last night."
"How is this possible!"
The head maid categorically denied it.
When she took out the clothes in the morning, they were still clean, without a single ant.
She suspected that Xiao Qingyin had seen through her scheme and was deliberately catching ants to bite her.
She stared at Xiao Qingyin with a dark expression: "Did you put it there?"
Xiao Qingyin's eyes widened: "How is this possible! I'm terrified of ants, how could I dare to catch them? Granny, you've really wronged me."
The head maid continued to press for answers, but her hand grew increasingly painful, as if on fire, so painful that she could barely stand.
"You just wait!"
She made a harsh statement and rushed off to find someone to treat her.
But before she could even leave the laundry room, she fainted from the pain.
The other palace servants were terrified and quickly summoned the imperial physician.
When the imperial physician learned that she had been bitten by ants, he shook his head and said, "Don't underestimate ants; some ants can be deadly."
He wrote out a prescription and left.
After taking the medicine, the head maid woke up and found that her right palm was swollen like a pig's trotter, and the skin looked like it was about to burst.
"It would be better to just faint!"
She wailed.
However, this time she couldn't faint or fall asleep no matter what she did.
They could only endure the "torture" and hope that things would get better tomorrow.
However, she may be disappointed.
She was pricked by silver needles with medicine prescribed by Xiao Qingyin. Without an antidote, the swelling would not subside for seven days and seven nights.
As she finished work, Xiao Qingyin listened to the wails coming from the courtyard and smiled slightly.
With the example of the head maid, surely no one in the laundry department will cause her any more trouble?
As for the person behind the scenes...
He must be the owner of that jade ruyi.
The young eunuch asked her to see Yelü Shiji, and she vividly recounted what had just happened to him.
—Of course, the fact that he poisoned her was omitted.
Yelü Sui was a smart man, and she immediately realized that someone was targeting her.
"Don't worry, I will seek justice for you."
He said to Xiao Qingyin.
She is now the cure for his madness; anyone who crosses her is crossing his life.
He will never let the person behind the scenes get away with it.
Xiao Qingyin said gratefully, "Thank you, Your Highness."
After she said goodbye and left, Yelü Sui immediately sent someone to find the head maid. When he learned from her that the person who had instructed her was someone close to the Jian family, his face was filled with gloom.
Jane was perfectly fine last night, not minding having another sister, but then she turned around and had someone plot against Ah Man.
Do they think he's a fool for being so outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant?
He dealt with the head maid and the palace servant who had contacted her, and then sent a message to Lady Jian.
"This kind of thing will not happen a second time."
Upon hearing this, Jane was so angry that she trembled all over.
Yelü Sui and Yelü Ang were always her puppets; she could easily stir up their emotions and make them fight tooth and nail for her.
She firmly believed that even if she chose Yelü Sui, Yelü Ang would follow her around like a dog, wagging his tail and begging for food.
But then things suddenly changed.
Yelü Ang actually took the initiative to ask His Majesty for imperial concubines.
She was just a barbarian girl from a small tribe, not even a tenth as beautiful as him, yet somehow she captivated him and made him take the initiative to ask for her.
This was an utter disgrace to her.
She immediately devised the jade bracelet incident, intending to kill that vile woman.
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