Ning Wanyin hesitated for a moment, "Send Xiao Xiazi over here—"
Lian Rui obeyed the order.
At dusk, the emperor and his ministers returned, and the autumn hunting banquet began.
The guests and hosts took their seats, string music played pleasantly, and palace maids served dishes one by one.
It is said that during this autumn hunting, the emperor and Princess Qizhu shot the same deer, and the emperor also praised Princess Qizhu for her superb archery skills.
Cai Ya was even more determined to get rid of Qi Zhu. The emperor seemed to have chosen the person at random, but he was currently very satisfied with the candidate for the marriage and would not change the candidate at will.
Cai Ya drank two glasses of wine and found an excuse to go out to sober up.
Deliberately stopped on the way where the palace maids were delivering the dishes.
She planned to find an opportunity and send her followers to attack him when he was least prepared...
But after leaving the banquet hall, Cai Ya discovered that these palace maids were actually grouped in four, and there was no chance for her to take action at all.
Moreover, she discovered...
There were actually four imperial doctors guarding the entrance to the banquet hall.
Every dish served was inspected by the imperial physician before being served at the banquet.
In other words, even if she really put the drugs on the way, it would be discovered before it was delivered to the door.
No idea where to start.
Caiya felt like she was wandering in a maze. Wherever she went, there was a wall blocking her way.
Cai Ya returned to the banquet table dejectedly.
Now that things have come to this, she can only do it herself, which is a risky move...
The palace servants brought drinks that no one had ever seen before.
"What is this?" Meng Er, the Northern Desert envoy, asked curiously. He had never seen such a rare thing at the palace banquet when he was on a diplomatic mission to Dayan last time.
Helian Qi smiled faintly and said, "This is a new drink made by my concubine Ying Zhaoyi, it is called Taro Ball Milk Tea."
"Dayan is indeed full of talented people. Even your Majesty's harem is full of talented women." Meng Er immediately flattered.
I haven’t tasted it yet, so I don’t know how it tastes, so I’ll just praise it first.
Because he was good at flattering, the Khan of Northern Desert sent him as an envoy to Dayan twice.
All the clan members and court officials saw this palace drink for the first time and tried it out.
The palace maid brought three bowls of taro balls and milk tea to the table of the three princesses of Beimo. The seats were the same as when they met the emperor, with Qizhu in the middle, and Caiya and Lan'er on her left and right.
"Wow, it smells sweet! Let me try it!" Lan'er picked up the bowl, took a sip, and her eyes widened instantly:
"It's delicious! Sister Qizhu, Sister Caiya, please try it, it's so sweet!"
Qizhu smiled faintly, picked up the spoon and scooped a small mouthful, "It's really good."
But he secretly remembered Ying Zhaoyi in his heart.
Ying Zhaoyi's cooking skills were so superb that the emperor even brought her out and included her drinks in the palace banquets. This was enough to show that Ying Zhaoyi must have a very important position in the emperor's heart.
"This drink is really ingenious." Cai Ya gave it high praise after tasting it.
She was even more yearning for Dayan.
Even a small drink has many features she has never seen before. She must stay in the prosperous Dayan!
The sound of stringed instruments rang out, and dancers appeared on the stage and began to dance gracefully.
Dayan's dance style was very different from Beimo's. Lan'er watched it with great interest. Qizhu's eyes were also on the performance, but out of the corner of her eye, she was looking at the concubines who were accompanying her. It was unknown what she was thinking.
Cai Ya took advantage of the two people's unpreparedness and looked around quietly.
At this time, the palace maid who served the dishes had just left, and the guests nearby were enjoying themselves, and no one paid attention to her.
Cai Ya seemed to accidentally...
When he picked up the spoon in the milk tea, a soybean-sized pill in his hand fell into the milk tea and dissolved immediately when it came into contact with water.
Caiya reached out to take the fruit on the table again...
While raising his hand, he threw another pill into Qizhu's milk tea bowl.
She poisoned her and Qizhu's milk tea.
By then...
Qizhu drank milk tea and was poisoned. The same poison was also found in her milk tea bowl, but she was busy eating fruit snacks and did not drink the milk tea, so she survived.
Two princesses, one died and the other almost died...
Only Princess Lan'er's bowl was free of poison.
It was obvious that she was the one who benefited. Even though Lan'er could not be convicted due to insufficient evidence, the emperor would definitely not choose the suspected Lan'er if he chose another princess from Beimo to fill the vacancy.
I can replace Qizhu and enter the palace!
There was a hint of ruthlessness in Caiya's eyes. She pretended to watch the dance and music as if nothing had happened, but she was actually paying attention to when Qizhu next to her drank her milk tea.
Princess Qizhu was thinking about something else and didn't pay much attention to the milk tea in front of her. She picked up the spoon and tried to taste it...
At this moment, a figure suddenly jumped out from behind a half-human-high three-legged incense burner behind the seat and shouted:
"stop!"
Princess Qizhu was startled, and the spoonful of milk tea she had just scooped out spilled all over the table.
The originally peaceful banquet was interrupted by this loud shout.
When Helian Qi saw that the person who jumped out was Xiao Xiazi, he knew that something had happened and asked:
"Xia Zi, what happened?"
"Your Majesty, the Imperial Concubine asked me to hide behind the incense burner and keep an eye on Princess Cai Ya. I saw with my own eyes that Princess Cai Ya threw a small pill into her and Princess Qi Zhu's milk tea bowls." Xiao Xia Zi reported.
After receiving the report from the piano and chess players, Ning Wanyin made careful arrangements for the banquet table.
An incense burner was placed near Caiya's seat so that Xiao Xiazi could hide behind it.
Except for Xiao Xiazi nearby...
There were two other people following her in the distance.
He stared at Caiya from all directions, front, back, up and down.
At the same time, from two tall buildings near the banquet stage, people came back with books, paintings and a thousand-mile colored glass mirror to report:
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