Sezhu was kept in Wuli's bedroom, and only Yelü Sui was allowed to enter.
Xiao Qingyin waited outside for a while before Yelü Sui came out with a sandalwood round box.
He walked under the light before opening the box.
It was filled with a whole box of beads.
Xiao Qingyin exclaimed in surprise, "So many?!"
Yelü Sui laughed and said, "All the serpent beads that the temple has collected over the years are here. How could there not be enough?"
"May I take a look?"
Xiao Qingyin suppressed her excitement and asked.
"sure."
Yelü Sui sat down at the table, took out the zither beads from the box, and laid them out on the table.
Xiao Qingyin quickly scanned the area, trying to find the five-eyed dzi bead.
But no.
These dzi beads are mostly one to four eyes, with only a few having six or seven eyes, and none having five eyes.
She was greatly disappointed.
"Why aren't there any five-eyed or eight- or nine-eyed ones? I've heard that nine-eyed ones are the rarest."
Yelü Sui replied, "Originally there was one, but my elder sister took it."
His elder sister was Princess Xilin.
Xiao Qingyin lowered her eyes.
After going around in circles, we still have to go to Princess Xilin's place to look for her.
Which one do you like the most?
Yelü Sui asked.
"I can give you one."
Xiao Qingyin asked in surprise, "This can be given away as a gift?"
“Normally, no.” Yelü Sui’s eyes were full of affection. “But you are my moon. Not to mention Sezhu, even the stars in the sky, I will pluck them for you if you want them.”
Xiao Qingyin: "..."
She shook her head: "No, I'd rather not. If people find out, they'll say I'm overstepping my bounds."
Yelü Sui had an air of domineering power about him.
"Go ahead and choose, no one will gossip."
Xiao Qingyin reluctantly chose one that caught her eye.
Not long after returning to the palace from the temple, Yi Shuihan came over. Seeing the beads on the table, she immediately guessed that Yi Shuihan had seen the beads from the temple.
"Didn't find it?"
Xiao Qingyin nodded: "It's not there, it's probably really with Princess Xilin."
Yi Shuihan replied, "I have placed people in the princess's residence, but they won't be able to get into her room for a while."
"It's too much trouble to look for her; she might not even be hiding in the mansion."
Xiao Qingyin felt it was necessary to change her approach.
"Why don't we try to get her to vomit it up?"
"for example?"
"Can we assassinate her? Inflict a serious injury, force her to come to me for treatment, and then we can negotiate terms."
Yi Shuihan thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but she should be able to guess that it was you who did it, and it will be very troublesome after the transaction is completed."
"It's okay, we'll talk about it later."
"good."
Yi Shuihan then set about making arrangements for this matter.
Xiao Qingyin continued to slack off in the palace. Although Yelü Sui had vowed to make her a concubine, he had yet to deliver on his promise.
"Father insists on waiting for the shaman to wake up and confirm that the other woman I chose agrees to the requirements of the sacrificial ceremony before he will agree."
That day, he explained to Xiao Qingyin.
Xiao Qingyin was very understanding: "Your Highness, don't worry, I'm quite content staying in Chuxiu Palace."
Yelü Sui looked touched and said, "I'm sorry to have troubled you."
Xiao Qingyin: I'm not wronged, really.
After bidding farewell to Yelü, she returned to Chuxiu Palace for dinner.
The usual dinner consists of two dishes and a soup, one meat dish and one vegetable dish, and the soup is a vegetable and tofu soup.
Xiao Qingyin usually drinks soup after eating a meal.
But just as she was about to pick up the soup, she smelled a faint, strange odor.
She calmly held the soup bowl and performed a magic trick that made it look like she drank it, but actually poured the soup into her sleeve.
Then put the soup bowl down, clean up the dishes, and put them in the recycling bin.
The soup contained deadly poison.
After returning to her room, she considered it for a moment. She had already been to the temple, and Princess Xilin lived in the princess's residence. The concubines had no interaction with her, so there was no point in her staying in Chuxiu Palace.
It would be better to take this opportunity to escape death.
She's dead. Yelü Sui will definitely go mad and probably seek revenge on the culprit.
She can take revenge without lifting a finger.
Perfect.
After thinking it over, she asked the little white bird that came to forage to deliver a message to Yi Shuihan.
Yi Shuihan went to the palace to discuss some details with her, and then sent a stand-in over.
Because this poison would cause a person to die unrecognizable, Xiao Qingyin did not put a mask on her. Instead, she gave her a drug that produced the same symptoms as the poison, which made her appear to be dead, and then applied makeup to her.
Yelü Sui was always busy showering her with sweet words whenever he saw her, and didn't pay much attention to her.
And men often assume that makeup is something that grows on a woman's body, so she wasn't worried that he would see through it.
After making all the preparations, she and Yi Shuihan left the palace.
The next morning, Asang knocked on the door next door, "Ah Man, come have breakfast."
There was no response from inside the room.
Asang thought Xiao Qingyin was still asleep, so she stopped knocking.
Anyway, the laundry department doesn't really care about Xiao Qingyin anymore.
Even if she arrives late, she won't be punished.
She eats breakfast alone and goes to work alone.
She realized something was seriously wrong when she didn't see Xiao Qingyin appear until noon.
After asking the new head maid for leave, she rushed back to Chuxiu Palace, only to find that Xiao Qingyin's door was still closed, and no one answered no matter how she knocked.
They hurriedly went to find someone to help.
After working with the palace servants to pry open the door, she rushed in and saw Xiao Qingyin lying on the bed with blood flowing from her seven orifices, her eyes bulging, and her face ashen. She was stunned.
The palace servants who followed her in were also stunned.
A moment later, the two of them screamed in unison, "Help! Someone come quick!"
After the imperial physician arrived, he announced Xiao Qingyin's death.
Asang's face turned deathly pale.
"Aman was perfectly fine yesterday, how could she suddenly die? Someone must have killed her..."
Granny Liao snorted coldly: "She looks down on everyone else now that she's climbed up the social ladder, and she's made herself hated by so many people."
As soon as the words left his lips, a tall figure rushed in like a gust of wind and pounced straight at Xiao Qingyin's bedside.
Just as Granny Liao was about to scold him, she took a closer look and saw that it was her own young master, and immediately shut her mouth.
Yelü Sui stared at the lifeless woman on the bed, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"how so……"
He finally found a way to control his mania.
Ah Man, who was in charge of this method, was poisoned to death.
Who is making trouble for him?
His good-for-nothing brothers, or... the Jane family?
After confirming that Xiao Qingyin was beyond dead and could not be resurrected, his face turned ashen, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "Investigate to the end!"
Asang sensed the ruthlessness in his words and felt a chill run down her spine.
The imperial physician diagnosed Xiao Qingyin with food poisoning, and Yelü followed the clues and found a minor eunuch in the imperial kitchen.
The young eunuch hanged himself before he could be found.
The trail seemed to have gone cold.
But even geese leave their mark, and the palace is only so big; such a significant matter cannot be kept secret.
Yelü Sui still managed to trace it back to the Jian family.
Before Jane could even celebrate the death of her enemy, Yelü and his men came in and forced her to drink a bowl of medicine.
She struggled in terror: "Your Highness, what is this? I don't want to drink it!"
"Something that keeps you in line."
Yelü Sui sneered.
"You won't have to worry about so much anymore."
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