"Yay~ That's great!" Huanhuan jumped up happily. "Then I don't have to be afraid of drowning anymore. I'm going to tell Tuantuan."
Huanhuan skipped and ran out.
Ziwu looked at Murun and said, "Huanhuan saved the princess's life... no, it should be said that she saved two lives."
There is another life inside Mu Run's belly.
Mu Run stared at the empty jade bowl, his eyes sharp. "Someone come here."
Hongmi rushed over upon hearing the news, just in time to hear Murun calling out, "Sister-in-law."
Mu Run said, "Capture a palace maid."
At this moment, Lady Qiao returned, her face extremely pale. "Your Highness, we have found that palace maid."
"...Dead?" Mu Run guessed, looking at her face.
Madam Qiao nodded, "He is indeed dead."
"Investigate!" Mu Run said to Hong Mi, "This person is definitely still in the palace, we must find out!"
"Yes, I'll take care of it right away." Hongmi accepted the order and left.
Fu Yunchen came over after hearing the news. His face was cold and frosty, and everyone who saw him couldn't help but keep their distance, for fear of offending him.
"How are you?" she asked Mu Run anxiously, after all, Mu Run was pregnant with another baby.
Mu Run shook her head. "I'm fine. I hadn't even had a chance to drink it when Huanhuan came over. She drank it all in one go and then her stomach started to hurt."
“Huanhuan has been infected with the Poison King Gu, she should be fine,” Fu Yunchen said.
Mu Run looked at him in surprise, "How do you know that the two of them have been infected with the Poison King Gu?"
"Long Qian acted first and informed me later. I was afraid you would worry and overthink, so I didn't tell you." Fu Yunchen took Mu Run's pulse and, finding no problems, released her hand. The coldness on his face also subsided a bit.
"Thanks to the Poison King Gu, otherwise Huanhuan..." It's unimaginable.
Fu Yunchen replied, "The Poison King Gu will accompany them for life, but it won't cause any harm. It's just that having an extra worm in their body might make them feel uncomfortable."
He, for example, disliked the Poison King Gu in his body intensely, but there was no need to remove it, and besides, it wasn't entirely useless.
Mu Run said, "That's alright. If something can save a life, you should keep it, even if you hate it, let alone find it annoying."
Fu Yunchen hugged her and said, "From now on, whenever you put something in your mouth, test it for poison first. Only eat it after you've confirmed it's safe."
"..."
After Huanhuan left Murun's palace gates, she skipped and hopped away. Suddenly, she stopped and looked back at the corner of the wall.
Following her, Zi asked, "What do you see?"
"It looked like someone was watching me from there, but when I looked, they were gone," Huanhuan said, pointing to the corner of the wall.
Ziwu paused for a moment, then walked over.
The air was filled with a strong scent of cosmetics. However, mixed in with it was a faint, almost imperceptible, unpleasant odor.
That's the stench of a corpse!
Zi Wu squinted his eyes.
Huanhuan came over and asked Ziwu, "Am I seeing things?"
"What do you think?" Ziwu asked in return.
Huanhuan looked around, especially at the moss on the ground, which looked like it had been trampled on. Pointing to the fresh marks, she said with certainty, "There must have been someone."
Ziwu nodded. "That's right, there was someone just now. Until we catch that person, Huanhuan and your little brother need to stay with me, okay?"
"Okay." Huanhuan immediately ran off to find Tuantuan.
Zi Wu looked down at the mossy footprints, small and delicate, which should belong to a female corpse. Add to that the stench of death in the air... and that bowl of fruit drink laced with poison!
It either has a grudge against Mu Run, or it's acting under someone's orders, and someone of a high rank at that.
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