Chapter 171 Familiar Taste
"Your Majesty, this needs to be used for a long time." The official's wife reminded, "With time, the effect will naturally come out."
The Queen nodded with a smile, "Then this palace is really blessed by the Fourth Lady."
"How could it be! It is obviously Bao'er who is blessed by the Queen, otherwise where would such a big jade ruyi come from!"
Lin Bao'er's mouth was as sweet as honey, making the Queen laugh repeatedly.
The eyes of the people present when looking at Shen Xuelan and Lin Bao'er also changed subtly.
This kind of private banquet, apart from the officials' wives talking about personal matters, there was nothing else. After presenting the gifts, Shen Xuelan took Lin Bao'er back to her seat.
No one was taking care of a child, so Lin Bao'er quietly walked to Song Qingqing.
"Sister Princess."
Song Qingqing saw her, waved at her, and then handed her the pumpkin dragon on the table, "I heard from Mr. Lin San that you seem to like eating this very much."
Seeing the pumpkin dragon, Lin Baoer's eyes lit up, and she nodded vigorously after taking it.
"This is delicious!"
Seeing that her saliva was about to flow out, Song Qingqing couldn't help but laugh.
"Slow down, if you don't have enough, you can ask the kitchen to make more."
Unconsciously, Song Qingqing's attitude towards Lin Baoer also took on doting.
After eating three dragons in succession, Lin Baoer finally burped with a full burp.
[It's so comfortable. ]
She leaned against Song Qingqing with a sigh, and touched her belly in comfort.
Song Qingqing supported his chin and looked at her with a smile, feeling very good.
In fact, she had not wanted to attend this private banquet, as she felt it was extremely boring, but she had no choice but to come as the queen had repeatedly invited her.
It was only after she arrived that she realized that Lin Baoer was also coming, which made her feel a little better.
It seemed that there was always more joy where Lin Baoer was, and many people liked her, including her.
As soon as she arrived, she saw Lin Baoer trying to please the queen with a cute face, which made her smile. She
is really a little devil.
But as they were chatting, an uninvited guest suddenly came to Deshan Hall.
"Oh, it seems that I have come at the wrong time."
Shen Ruyu, dressed in red makeup, came in gracefully. Although she said so, she did not look embarrassed.
The smile on the Queen's face faded, she raised her eyes, with a fake smile, "So it's my sister who is here, why did you come to visit suddenly?"
Shen Ruyu glanced around, lowered her eyebrows and smiled, her red lips opened and closed, "It's because I was ill and couldn't pay my respects to my sister this morning. I felt something was wrong, so I hurried over after I felt a little better."
"But I didn't expect that my sister was entertaining guests."
As she said this, she coughed twice in a formal manner, looking weak.
"Since my sister is not feeling well, it's okay to skip the greetings. Go back and rest quickly, so that His Majesty won't feel sorry for you." The Queen's smile was not as bright as her eyes. While the situation was tense
here, Lin Baoer was stunned and frowned on the other side.
Did she hear it right? Why does that smell feel... so familiar?
Song Qingqing's original banquet location was closer to the queen, but because she didn't want to get involved in the conversation of these people, she spontaneously went to the other side, which also caused Shen Ruyu to pass by them when she came in.
At the moment she passed by, Lin Baoer smelled a familiar smell on her.
It was fleeting.
She thought she smelled it wrong.
[Where did you smell this smell? ]
Lin Baoer crossed her arms and thought, not noticing that Shen Ruyu's eyes fell on her.
"I guess this is the fourth Miss Lin? I didn't expect her to be so beautiful. Come on, bring me my jade bracelet. How can I meet her for the first time without a gift?" Shen Ruyu praised, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth. Seeing that
she had become the host, the queen was also in a bad mood.
"Since you are alright, go back and have a rest. His Majesty is most concerned about your health. Seeing that you have caught a cold, he rushed over without even approving the memorial." "
If His Majesty finds out that you come to pay your respects to me despite being ill, it will be my fault."
Her words were full of sarcasm. Other officials and their wives who understood her words did not dare to say a word, and silently reduced their presence to avoid being angered.
"It seems that my sister doesn't welcome me anymore, so forget it." Shen Ruyu pretended to be sad, walked to Lin Baoer's side, and handed her the jade bracelet.
"In that case, I will take my leave first."
Looking at the jade bracelet in her hand, Lin Baoer didn't know whether to take it or not, and just froze in place.
How could she not have heard that Shen Ruyu and the Queen were not getting along? She had just tried to please the Queen. If she accepted Shen Ruyu's things now, wouldn't it be a slap in the Queen's face?
Fortunately, the Queen also saw the difficulty on Shen Xuelan's face and did not make trouble for her. She only said: "Fourth Miss, please accept it. This is also my sister's good intention."
She almost said the last four words with gritted teeth.
Hearing this, Lin Baoer had no choice
but to accept it. During this period, because Shen Ruyu took the initiative to approach, Lin Baoer was able to distinguish why the smell was so familiar.
It was clearly the smell of incense in the box she picked up near the Wende Hall before!
Pungent, hallucinogenic, and poisonous!
Lin Baoer silently clenched the bracelet and stared at Shen Ruyu's leaving figure.
So the person who poisoned was Shen Ruyu, then who was she poisoning?
Why was she also tainted with this smell?
Unable to guess the answer herself, Lin Baoer simply asked Song Qingqing beside her.
"Sister Princess, did you smell the smell of Concubine Li just now?"
"Smell?" Song Qingqing was puzzled, and nodded after thinking, "Are you talking about the smell of the sachet on her body? Yes, a little."
Lin Baoer looked forward to it, "Then do you know who else can smell that smell?"
Thinking that she liked the smell of the spices on Concubine Li, Song Qingqing said considerately: "If you want it, Baoer, I will get the formula for you later."
Lin Baoer was touched by Song Qingqing's generosity, but still shook her head, "I don't want the formula, I just want to know who else has the same smell as her, or in other words, is there anyone else in the palace using the same spices?"
Although she didn't know why she asked this, Song Qingqing still answered wholeheartedly, "The sachets on every concubine in the palace are distributed by the Spice Department, but generally the concubines don't like to have the same smell as others, so most of them will pick their own spices and mix them themselves."
"The smell on her doesn't seem to be the one distributed by the Spice Department, so she must have mixed it herself."
"So apart from her and the palace maids in her palace, the only one who would be infected with this smell should be the emperor's uncle."
The emperor?
Lin Baoer widened her eyes.
She felt like she had discovered an amazing secret!
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