Chapter 220 A Glass of Wine

Fang Dan finished speaking ambiguously, and before Yun Qin could respond, Huo Jinchi looked over at her first.

The chill made Fang Danying's shoulders shrink slightly.

Yun Qin glanced at the two of them and smiled faintly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I won't make things difficult for you."

This made Fang Danying look up at her, thinking that she was finally leaving, but he didn't expect her to say:

"I'll ask them to move faster, or the food won't get cold."

How could Yunqin not know Fang Danying's plan? He wanted her to cause trouble with the emperor so that she could take advantage of it. It was simply a dream.

After she finished speaking, she said to Xiao Shunzi, "Why don't you go now!"

Xiao Shunzi responded and left with his people.

Yun Qin looked at the two of them again, "What are you standing there for? Why don't you pick up your chopsticks?" Her eyes fell on the wine glass in front of Huo Jinchi's table, "Why isn't the emperor drinking?"

Without waiting for Huo Jinchi to stop her, she picked up the glass, tilted her head back and drank the wine in the glass.

The wine tasted a bit sweet. Yun Qin choked on it and coughed lightly with her hands covering her lips. Only then did she realize that there was something subtle in the way Huo Jinchi looked at her.

Yun Qin raised her eyebrows slightly, "Is it distressing that I drank your wine?"

Huo Jinchi did not respond, but glanced at Fang Danying with a cold look.

Fang Danying immediately lowered her head feeling guilty. Her handkerchief had been torn, so she could only wrinkle the hem of her clothes.

Yun Qin, however, was a little confused by their exchange of glances. She had come here just to annoy the two of them, so she didn't care about their reactions.

"I will just pour another glass of wine for His Majesty."

Just as she grabbed the wine bottle, she was held down by Hawking Chi.

Yun Qin raised her eyes to look at him, and finally noticed something wrong from his slightly deep eyes. She lowered her gaze, back to the wine bottle in her hand, and her eyes widened a little.

She swallowed, her fingertips trembling slightly, and looked at Fang Dan with some disbelief.

She's really stupid, really.

A concubine intercepted the emperor in the middle of the night and prepared wine. How could she not add some aphrodisiac in the wine in order to keep the emperor?

The only thing she can blame is that she thought these people were too innocent!

Yun Qin couldn't vomit out the wine she drank, so she could only blame herself for the bad luck.

She glanced at Huo Jinchi. She had never expected that she would become a part of someone else's play and ruin two people's fun. She was really annoying.

Seeing her cold eyes, Huo Jinchi knew what she was thinking and said bluntly, "I didn't intend to drink her wine. She said that she had just visited the Queen Mother and she had something to tell me, so I stayed to listen to her."

With just two sentences, Fang Dongying's true colors were exposed.

Fang Danying, who was sitting on a stool, looked at the emperor and felt both unbelievable and embarrassed.

Huo Jinchi didn't care about her at all. He just looked at Yunqin and asked concernedly, "Are you okay?"

Yun Qin's body didn't react yet, but her face was still a little red. She shook off Huo Jinchi's hand, looked at Fang Danying, and said angrily: "Fang Danying is so brave!"

Fang Danying was not a fool. Judging from the emperor's reaction just now, he clearly knew that she had tampered with the wine. No wonder he refused to drink even though she kept urging him to drink.

Since that was the case, it was meaningless for her to argue at this time, so she hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, this medicine is not harmful to the body, but it can nourish the kidneys and replenish qi. Concubine Xi will be fine after drinking it."

"You, you still think you're right." Yun Qin was shocked by her shamelessness.

Fang Danying's mouth pursed instantly, and tears as big as beans fell down. "Your Majesty, this is not my original intention. It was the Empress Dowager who asked me to do this. The Empress Dowager also had a lot of painstaking efforts. How can I refuse?"

Seeing her tearful look, Yun Qin suddenly felt furious, "You are... talking nonsense, how could the Queen Mother order you to do such a thing!" As she spoke, she unconsciously fanned her face with a handkerchief.

However, Hawking Chi saw it clearly, his eyes narrowed slightly and his expression darkened.

"Your Majesty, please understand. How dare I use the Queen Mother to lie? It was the Queen Mother who gave me this medicine." Fang Danying looked aggrieved, but she pushed all the blame onto the Queen Mother. She almost said directly that it was the Queen Mother who forced her to do so.

Regardless of whether it was true or not, she was now the Queen Mother's person. If she went to the Queen Mother to verify it, the Queen Mother would probably admit it with a pinch of her nose.

Hawking Chi knew this, but he was too lazy to argue with her.

He reached out and picked up the wine bottle, poured a full glass into the cup in front of Fang Danying, and said coldly: "Drink it."

Fang Danying looked at the wine on the table with disbelief in his eyes.

The emperor knew clearly that there was something in the wine, but he refused to drink it, which meant that he had no intention of favoring her at all.

In that case, if he still lets her drink, wouldn't that just embarrass her?

Fang Danying was a little upset, "Your Majesty, that glass of wine was chosen by Concubine Xi herself. What does it have to do with me? You can't embarrass me just to vent her anger!"

Hawking Chi said nothing, but just looked at her coldly, as if to say: Why not?

"Your Majesty!" Fang Danying cried out.

Huo Jinchi was not moved at all. "Even if there was no Xipin, you have schemed against me like this. Do you think I will let you off so easily?"

"But, but this is all because of the Queen Mother..."

"You brought this wine to me!" Huo Jinchi's eyes were filled with impatience. "Didn't you say that this wine was harmless? Why don't you dare drink it? Do you want to drink it yourself, or do you want me to let someone feed you?"

Yun Qin was watching from the side and felt a little sympathetic when Fang agreed. She knew that the emperor had a vengeful temper and his mouth was very poisonous.

Perhaps, Fang Danying's innocence was not all acted out?

As she thought about it, she fanned her face with her hands and suddenly had the urge to loosen her collar.

Fang Danying knew he couldn't escape, so he could only shake his hands, hold the wine glass, and drink all the wine in the glass.

Huo Jinchi didn't look at her again, but took Yun Qin's hand, stood up and was about to leave.

Just after taking two steps, her clothes were suddenly pulled. Fang Danying said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, are you really going to abandon me like this?"

Huo Jinchi looked at her, somewhat puzzled. What had given them the illusion that he was a kind and easy-going person?

Don't they know that entering the palace is an exchange of interests? Do they still expect him to have much friendship with them?

You think he is too cheap to be able to give you anything!

Huo Jinchi impatiently pulled back his clothes without even looking at her. He just coldly ordered Xu An, "Get her a doctor!"

After saying that, he pulled Yun Qin away!

Yun Qin looked back at Fang Danying who was sitting paralyzed on the ground, then looked at Huo Jinchi who was walking in front of her, and raised her eyebrows slightly.

Before she even opened her mouth, Huo Jinchi said calmly, "If you dare to persuade me, I will not let you go!"

Yun Qin chuckled, "Your Majesty, what are you thinking about? I just want to say that the food must be cold after all the hard work. If Your Majesty is not hungry, I will ask the kitchen to make it again."

Xiao Shunzi had just brought some people over with lunch boxes, but Huo Jinchi was angry, so they didn't dare to say anything.

Huo Jinchi turned his head and looked at Yun Qin's bright eyes in the night, and his heart suddenly calmed down.

He slowed down his pace, glanced at Xiao Shunzi and the others, and suddenly reached out to pull her to him, lowered his head and whispered in her ear: "There is really no hurry, I have to feed someone first."

Yun Qin almost jumped three feet high, quickly distanced herself from him, and fanned her face with her hand again, "Oh, there are so many stars tonight."

Hawking looked up, but saw only a full moon, the moonlight was bright and clear.