Chapter 818 The young master invited Miss Pei into the study.
Gu Qianning picked up the white porcelain bottle: "Can it dispel illusion powder and bone-dissolving pills?"
Shen Wantang smiled and said, "No."
"Huh?! What if I accidentally get poisoned by the Illusionary Dream Powder and the Bone-Melting Pill?"
"The antidotes for these two poisons are separate; ordinary antidotes are useless. So, I've prepared the antidotes for you, just in case."
As Shen Wantang spoke, she took out two more medicine bottles from her personal pouch and handed them to Gu Qianning.
The medicine bottles are red and black, corresponding to the Illusionary Dream Powder and the Bone-Melting Pill, but they are much smaller than the medicine bottles containing poison in the box.
Gu Qianning happily accepted them: "These things are much more useful than swords and knives. They're perfect for plotting against Xiao Qingxuan!"
"I'm giving these to you mainly for self-defense. Unless absolutely necessary, try not to use them in the palace, lest you get discovered and get yourself into trouble."
"Okay, okay, I understand, don't worry!"
After putting away the medicine, Gu Qianning turned to Shen Wantang and talked about Pei Yingzhu's affairs in the palace.
“Pei Yingzhu’s visit to the palace this time seems to have been a deliberate attempt to get close to Xiao Qingxuan. She even deliberately told me that she almost fell and that Xiao Qingxuan helped her up.”
"I originally thought she came to the capital because of my elder brother, but I didn't expect her to be so ambitious and even want to get close to the Crown Prince!"
"He's really courting death! Xiao Qingxuan is no good; he's ruthless! He killed me without hesitation after all these years of friendship!"
"My father was his maternal uncle, yet he still wiped out our entire family, didn't he?"
As Gu Qianning spoke, her eyes reddened. If she hadn't gone through all of this, she would have found it hard to believe that the Crown Prince, who treated her like a precious gem, would be so ruthless as to wipe out the entire Gu family.
While she disliked Pei Yingzhu, she still harbored good intentions and didn't want Pei Yingzhu to be deceived by the Crown Prince.
"Pei Yingzhu looks smart, but she's not smart at all. She doesn't even know what kind of person Xiao Qingxuan is, yet she's always hanging around him. I think she's just trying to kill herself!"
Since Shen Wantang had already heard about Pei Yingzhu's mother's deeds from Gu Qianhan, she was not too surprised by Pei Yingzhu's ambition.
She said softly, "I originally thought she was after my eldest brother. She even showed us how much the Prince doted on her. I thought she wanted to tell Mother that the Prince was backing her up in her relationship with my eldest brother. I never expected that she would turn around and go to the palace to get close to the Crown Prince. I can't understand her anymore."
"What's so hard to understand? She's just greedy for wealth and status, just like her mother. When she sees a man in a high position, she immediately tries to climb up to him. Who knows, Pei Yingzhu might want to become the Crown Princess!"
Shen Wantang shook her head slightly, a hint of confusion in her eyes: "It shouldn't be. Now the whole capital knows that you are the future Crown Princess, the Empress is your aunt, the Duke's Mansion is behind you, and you and the Crown Prince grew up together as childhood sweethearts. Your relationship is different."
"What does Pei Yingzhu have to compete with you? She doesn't even have the surname Pei. She's just the stepdaughter of the Prince, the future Empress of Dafeng. How could it be her? What does she have to rely on?"
"But if she wasn't trying to steal the crown prince, then why was she getting close to him? Was she just testing the waters to see if she could catch his eye? That doesn't seem right!"
Gu Qianning was also puzzled: "Yes, she was also married to another man and then divorced. It's not that I look down on divorced women. Nowadays, social customs are much more open, and divorce and remarriage are not a big deal. But in the royal family, this is unprecedented. All the empresses in history have come from noble families and have a clean background."
If she were just an ordinary concubine, being divorced might be possible, but if she wanted to be empress, Pei Yingzhu didn't meet any of the criteria.
Given Pei Yingzhu's ambition, she would never be a concubine; if she were to be one, she would definitely become the empress.
After all, the Prince wanted to take her mother as a concubine back then, but her mother refused. It wasn't until the Prince's wife passed away that her mother accepted the Prince's proposal.
As the two were talking, Qin Xin's voice came from outside the door: "Young Madam, this servant has something important to report."
"Come in!"
Qin Xin pushed open the door and entered: "Young Madam, this servant greets the Eldest Miss."
Gu Qianning nodded to her. Knowing that Shen Wantang's maid was quite shrewd, she asked with interest, "What's wrong? Have you heard any interesting gossip?"
Shen Wantang shook her head helplessly: "A Ning, why have you started to like listening to gossip too?"
"Who doesn't like gossip? I just need a maid like Qin Xin by my side, otherwise, I would definitely enjoy listening to it every day!"
Shen Wantang chuckled: "Alright, Qin Xin, tell me, what did you find out?"
Qin Xin couldn't manage a smile: "Young Madam, it's about the young master..."
"What happened to the young master?"
"Young Master... he let Miss Pei into his study, and it's been half an hour already, and Miss Pei still hasn't come out! I heard from Fuze that Miss Pei also brought... brought bird's nest soup for Young Master."
After saying this, Qin Xin hurriedly added, "However, Master, don't worry, Young Master didn't eat Miss Pei's bird's nest soup! He gave it directly to Fu Ze, who ate it and said it was just so-so!"
Shen Wantang didn't react much to these words, but Gu Qianning slammed her hand on the table and stood up abruptly.
She was furious: "You, Pei Yingzhu! Not content with seducing my eldest brother, you went on to seduce the Crown Prince, and after that, you even started seducing my second brother!!"
"It's infuriating! No wonder my mother hates those two so much. She's just like her mother, flirting with every man she sees!"
"And my second brother is an idiot too! I thought he was the smartest one in the Gu family, but it turns out he's just as brainless. He actually let that vixen Pei Yingzhu into his study? He won't even let us in!"
Seeing that her puffed-up face looked just like an angry little pufferfish, Shen Wantang burst out laughing.
Gu Qianning looked at her in shock: "A-Tang, you're still laughing? Aren't you angry? Shouldn't you be rushing into the study in the front yard right now and giving those two scoundrels a good scolding and a beating?"
Shen Wantang quickly pressed her back into the chair, and said with some amusement, "Only you would dare to curse your second brother like that, calling him a dog and a woman."
"Did I say something wrong? No, I did!"
"Don't rush, wait and see. Maybe things aren't what you think. Your second brother probably doesn't have any other feelings for Pei Yingzhu."
"That's hard to say! Ah Tang, you don't understand at all. Pei Yingzhu and her mother have a certain kind of evil about them! They can easily make men fall in love with them and obey their every word! My uncle is a living example!"
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