"I have good news to announce today. My nephew has reached marriageable age."
After hearing the first half of the Queen Mother's words, the unmarried girls from the major families all began to feel nervous.
Xu Yurou clutched her handkerchief even tighter when she heard the Queen Mother mention that the marriage was to the Anyuan Marquis family.
I couldn't wait to show a big smile.
"The daughter of Marquis Anyuan is virtuous, generous, gentle, kind, and has outstanding character and appearance. I like her very much."
"Crown Prince Liu Jingshi has reached the age of marriage. He has chosen a virtuous woman to marry him. To complete the beauty of this beautiful woman, I have specially betrothed Xu Nianhuan, the daughter of Marquis Anyuan, to be his consort. A date will be chosen for the wedding."
Xu Yurou's face froze and became extremely ugly.
Seeing her father happily bringing Xu Nianhuan forward to express gratitude, Xu Yurou looked at her mother angrily.
"Impossible! The Queen Mother must have made a mistake. The Duke's wife clearly promised it. She must have gotten the wrong person."
Regardless of the fact that so many people were watching, Mrs. Xu actually knelt down in public and said that she had the wrong person.
"The Duke's wife and I have already verbally arranged a marriage for our daughter Xu Yurou."
The Duke's wife quickly explained, "It is true, but I was referring to the second young lady of the Xu family. I didn't expect the Marquis' wife to misunderstand me."
The Queen Mother sat at the head of the table and said, "Since it's just a misunderstanding, let's just talk it out."
Staring at the sneering looks coming from all around, Xu Yurou felt extremely ashamed and angry.
I began to feel resentful towards Mrs. Xu.
She even mistook the person the Duke's Mansion wanted, causing her to be so embarrassed at the banquet.
Lord Xu was very happy. The marriage between the Xu family and the Duke's family was a great thing.
No matter which daughter it is, as long as she can bring glory to the Xu family, she is a good daughter.
Looking at this unruly second daughter, I instantly felt more pleasing to her.
At this banquet, Xu Yurou became the object of everyone's ridicule, and Xu Nianhuan became the person that everyone envied.
For a time, gossip about the Marquis's Mansion spread throughout the alleys of the capital.
The news of Xu Jinyi's pregnancy also made the old ministers in the court very happy, and they said that there would be a successor to the country.
The banquet officially began and everyone raised their glasses to congratulate the Queen Mother.
Wanpin walked up to Xu Jinyi with a wine glass in hand and said, "Congratulations to the Emperor and the Imperial Noble Consort. Today is a triple celebration. But you should have a drink. The Imperial Noble Consort is not suitable for drinking, so I poured a cup of tea."
"Yiyi, don't drink it. There's something wrong with this tea. It contains drugs that can disfigure people." Xiaoqi spoke up in time.
Xu Jinyi smiled, but the smile did not reach her eyes. Before she could open her mouth to push, the queen also came over.
"Yes, the Imperial Concubine is a blessed person. We are not capable of giving birth to children for the Emperor, but fortunately we have a younger sister."
"I'll have a drink too."
In this case, Xu Jinyi had no choice but to drink this cup of tea.
Staring at Wanpin's expression, Xu Jinyi knew that Wanpin might be a little clever and scheming.
But she definitely didn't give the medicine. She wasn't so stupid as to give the medicine herself and serve it to the empress dowager at her birthday party.
Even if she wanted to do it, she should use someone else to do it.
Just like when he was in Yuxiu Palace and borrowed Concubine He's hand.
Glancing at the Queen, Xu Jinyi understood that it must have been the Queen who was behind this.
What a big drama of the year! If she drinks this tea, the queen will achieve her goal of killing two birds with one stone.
Concubine Su has always been unknown. In the harem, there are only the queen herself and Concubine Su.
The ones with the highest positions are her and Concubine Wan.
It's not bad to get rid of two big enemies at one banquet.
Xu Jinyi took the cup as if nothing had happened, but in his mind, he asked Xiaoqi to spend 100 points to exchange for a time pauser.
Of course, this thing is not expensive, and every second that time is stopped is ten points.
Ten seconds means one hundred points.
After pressing the pause button, Xu Jinyi took three seconds to exchange the tea in the queen's hand with the tea in his hand.
Seeing Xu Jinyi drink the cup of tea, the queen smiled brightly, and then drank the tea in her hand.
Xu Jinyi smiled and counted silently in his heart, three, two, one
"ah……"
The queen covered her burning, numb and itchy face with her hands, her pupils widened in shock, and she was terrified to the extreme.
The queen screamed uncontrollably, and all eyes in the palace were focused on her.
Looking at Xu Jinyi who looked normal, the Queen went crazy: "No, no, no, no, my face, my face..."
The empress dowager frowned as she watched the queen waving her arms wildly, and the emperor hurriedly protected Xu Jinyi behind him, fearing that Xu Jinyi would be hurt.
At this time, the queen probably already knew that she had drunk the poison prepared for Xu Jinyi.
The medicine was extremely powerful and she would react within a short while after drinking it. At this moment, she tried hard to cover her face so that others would not see her current appearance.
"Mammy, Mammy, please help me back to the palace, quickly..." the queen screamed.
Everyone also saw clearly her red face with bulging veins and densely packed red spots.
Everyone screamed in shock. No one had expected that someone would dare to poison the Empress Dowager at her birthday banquet.
Rong Mama reacted quickly and helped the queen back to the palace.
Rong Mama was actually very panicked, because she was the one who put the medicine into the Imperial Concubine's tea herself.
She had no idea what went wrong and why the queen drank the problematic tea.
The most important thing now is to return to the palace. There is an antidote in the Queen's palace.
"Quick, the doctor is here."
"No, no, no, I want to go back to the palace, I want to go back to the palace?"
The emperor narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice: "Hurry up and check for the queen to see what's going on."
The queen's reaction was obviously wrong. She should have seen the imperial physician at this time, but she was anxious to return to the palace. The meaning behind this is very intriguing.
Thinking of the Queen's actions just now, the Emperor's face turned completely cold. Looking at Xu Jinyi who was fine beside him, he felt a pang of fear in his heart.
The queen was going crazy. She felt the pain on her face like needles pricking her. She collapsed and screamed, "Mammy, Mammy, please save me."
The imperial physician now understood what was going on: "Your Majesty, the Empress has been poisoned!"
"This poison is called Jueyan Powder. The victim's face will be burning unbearably, veins will bulge, and red spots will appear."
"In severe cases, the spots may rupture, leaking pus-laced blood and forming an ulcerated appearance."
At this time, the nanny had already brought back the antidote: "Madam, the antidote, take it quickly."
Seeing the queen take the antidote, Rong Mama suddenly knelt down in front of the emperor.
He took all the blame.
"Ever since Xu entered the palace, His Majesty has neglected the Empress. I have watched her grow up since she was a child and treat her like her own daughter."
"I couldn't bear to see the Empress weeping every day, so I came up with this idea."
"As long as Xu loses her beauty, the Emperor's heart will naturally return to the Empress."
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