Hua Yuanzhao was sleeping soundly. He turned over unconsciously, his arms draped over his side, and he kicked the quilt.

This kick seemed to hit something soft.

"Poria cocos?" Hua Yuanzhao opened his eyes drowsily, and his sleepiness disappeared immediately after he smelled the fragrance beside the pillow.

"Princess Lin'an!"

She looked around subconsciously and was surprised to find that she seemed to be sleeping in an unfamiliar room, with the sleepy Princess Lin'an lying beside her.

Princess Lin'an turned over, held Hua Yuanzhao's hand, and smiled at her flatteringly: "Sister Hua."

At that moment, Hua Yuanzhao heard the sound of the string called reason breaking in his mind.

She silently moved towards the bed, ready to escape at any moment.

Princess Lin'an suddenly hugged her arms tightly, her face changed instantly, tears welled up in her eyes: "Sister Hua, please don't leave... I'm scared..."

Hua Yuanzhao listened to the sad cries and felt very worried. What on earth does this person want to do?

…

It was late at night. Rong Xiu returned from investigating a case. He frowned when he heard faint crying sounds coming from the yard.

Why does this voice sound so much like Lin'an?

Would his sister, who was spoiled and lawless, also cry secretly in the middle of the night?

"What happened in Lin'an?" Rong Xiu asked in a low voice.

Before, his mother said that she didn’t care about his sister, but he didn’t care at all. Now he felt guilty when he heard her crying.

"What else could it be?" Shi Hu muttered softly, "You were so focused on the eldest daughter of the Hua family that you probably forgot that the princess was also poisoned this time."

"Hasn't the poison been cured?" Rong Xiu was puzzled. What was there to cry about?

Shihu rolled his eyes and said, "My little ancestor, no matter how arrogant and domineering the princess is, she is just a child. Of course she would be scared when she suddenly encountered something like this!"

He stole a glance at Rong Xiu, shook his head and said, "The princess is also pitiful. She has been living with her brother in the capital since she was a child, but her brother is obsessed with other women and has ignored her and neglected to discipline her."

"My dear, I have something to say." Shi Hu touched his nose, looked at Rong Xiu's face and said, "You are also to blame for the princess's lawless behavior."

Rong Xiu raised his hand and slapped Shihu on the back of his head, saying unhappily, "Stop hanging around my mother! How can you think of such things?"

Shihu grinned guiltily and followed Rongxiu into the courtyard of Princess Lin'an.

Hongying, who was sitting in front of the door, was dozing off. Suddenly, she felt someone coming and shivered in fright.

"Sir?" Hongying said stutteringly, and quickly stood up and stood in front of the door.

She deliberately raised her voice and shouted, "Sir, why are you here? The princess has already gone to bed!"

Princess Lin'an in the room stopped crying and rushed over to cover Hua Yuanzhao's mouth.

"Sister Hua, please don't say anything! If my brother knew that I sent someone to kidnap you, he would definitely be angry with me!" Princess Lin'an said in a whisper.

Outside, Rong Xiu looked at Hongying in confusion and leaned his head towards the house: "I just heard her crying."

"You heard wrong." Hongying stretched out her hand to stop him.

Rong Xiu simply walked around her and knocked on the door: "Lin'an? I'm coming in!"

Princess Lin'an was so anxious that her eyes turned red. She simply gritted her teeth and pulled the quilt over the two men's heads.

Rong Xiu pushed the door open and walked in, lighting the candle in the room, and said awkwardly, "Are you still scared?"

"Well, brother will chat with you for a while?" Rong Xiu said stiffly, walking around the screen and to the bed.

He looked at the **'s "silkworm chrysalis" and felt half sad and half amused.

Maybe he really neglected his sister a lot? He didn't even know how scared she was.

"Aren't you afraid of suffocating yourself by hiding under the quilt?" Rong Xiu stretched out his hand to pull the corner of the quilt. The moment the quilt was pulled open, Rong Xiu's face turned completely pale.

Princess Lin'an was pressing on Hua Yuanzhao, locking her hands with one hand and covering her mouth and nose tightly with the other.

The quilt was suddenly lifted, and Princess Lin'an shuddered with fear, smiling at Rong Xiu guiltily.

"What are you doing!" Rong Xiu waved his hand to push Lin'an away, and pulled Hua Yuanzhao, who was almost suffocating, into his arms.

Princess Lin'an was pushed and fell, and just as she got up, she grabbed half of Hua Yuanzhao's arm and held it in her arms.

"Sister Hua, please don't abandon me!"

Hua Yuanzhao took a breath and looked at Princess Lin'an who was hugging his arms with lingering fear.

This girl looks petite, but how come her hands are so strong?

"Are you hurt?" Rong Xiu ignored her and asked Hua Yuanzhao in his arms.

Hua Yuanzhao rubbed his aching wrist, looked up inadvertently, and saw Princess Lin'an crying, his heart softened.

"It's okay." Hua Yuanzhao said coldly, "It's just that Princess Lin'an kidnapped me here. What exactly do you want to do? You might as well tell me directly!"

Princess Lin'an looked at the two people with icy faces, hugged Hua Yuanzhao guiltily, and whispered: "I, I'm scared, only Sister Hua can save me! Sister Hua stay with me!"

"So you asked someone to tie her up?" The veins on Rong Xiu's forehead were throbbing and he almost cursed out loud.

Princess Lin'an nodded awkwardly and asked, "Is it not possible?"

She has already lowered her attitude so much, what's wrong with Hua Yuanzhao staying to accompany her?

Rong Xiu didn't want to pay any attention to her at all. He just said to Hua Yuanzhao: "It's almost dawn. I'll take you back first. If the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion find out that you are not here, they will definitely punish you."

He glanced at Princess Lin'an and continued, "If you really want to get close to her, then you should pay her a proper visit through the main gate after daybreak!"

Hua Yuanzhao was filled with rage, and glared at Rong Xiu unhappily when he heard that.

If it weren't for the fact that this girl had helped her many times, she would have taught this selfish girl a lesson long ago!

Rong Xiu felt guilty after being glared at by her, and apologized again and again after leaving the house.

"Forget it." Hua Yuanzhao waved his hand and only asked about what he cared about: "How are those crazy people who are making trouble?"

"Not bad." Rong Xiu said carefully, organizing his words as he led her out.

"The antidote arrived in time, and no one died. Only a few unlucky people were injured." Rong Xiu said: "I sent people to investigate these people. They have different identities. They are all ordinary people."

"You mean, the person behind the scenes randomly poisoned people?" Hua Yuanzhao murmured, "But what is the purpose of doing this?"

"Confusing the public." Rong Xiu was rarely serious and explained to her, "The previous rumors of ghosts were only directed at Princess Qionghui. Now that there is such a rumor, the water is muddied."

"If you have nothing to do during this period, stay away from the streets to avoid being affected." Rong Xiu continued.

"Then I will prepare more antidotes tomorrow, and think of a preventive prescription." Hua Yuanzhao gritted her teeth dangerously. She wanted to see who was pushing her to take the blame.

"There is one more thing." Rong Xiu pondered for a moment before saying, "The Fourteenth Prince was confined to his house for killing the jailer."

"Is the jailer's body still there?" Hua Yuanzhao asked, "I want to perform an autopsy."

The death of the jailer who died suddenly before was very similar to that of the palace maid who died in the imperial study.

If she could find the same silver needle in the corpse...

Hua Yuanzhao took a deep breath, and everything connected in his mind.

Since the incident, it was Gu Ci who rescued her from the water dungeon and suggested that she first develop hallucinogenic drugs and then work backwards to find the antidote.

The medicinal herbs used to develop the hallucinogenic drugs were found for her by Gu Ci. The hallucinogenic drugs she made using those herbs were extremely similar to the Nanzhao Huangliang.

After she was imprisoned, Gu Ci suddenly appeared with his men and killed the jailer to silence him.

If Rong Xiu hadn't suddenly appeared and falsely conveyed the imperial decree, she might have listened to Gu Ci and used hallucinogenic drugs to escape.

Gu Ci helped her all the way and kept persuading her to escape, but he led her down the path that was most likely to make her take the blame.

If the jailer who wanted to humiliate Fuling in prison that day had not died of shock but was assassinated by someone else...

The person most likely to take action is the one who wanted her to take the blame, and also Gu Ci who had been trying to persuade her to escape all the way!

This idea was too absurd, even Hua Yuanzhao would secretly curse himself for being mean-spirited.

Gu Ci helped her all the way, but she assumed maliciously about him, which was really wrong.

But I couldn't help wanting to find clues.

"Tomorrow night." Rong Xiu said. Seeing her frown, he thought she was worried about Gu Ci.

The two walked along the way in silence, each with their own thoughts, and stopped in front of an outer wall of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Rong Xiu put his arms around Hua Yuanzhao's waist, and stepped on the ground with his toes, moving like a flying swallow.

Hua Yuanzhao just felt the sense of weightlessness, and the next moment his feet were already on the ground of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

In an instant, the courtyard was brightly lit, and servants holding torches surrounded the two men.