Chapter 127 The Wine is Poisonous
The queen understood what he meant and looked at the personal maid beside her. The maid nodded and left.
Su Qianqian was relieved. The Queen could reach this position, so even if she was kind, she must be resourceful. If someone took the opportunity to kill three birds with one stone, the Queen would certainly not sit idly by and wait for death.
Su Qianqian had already dealt with the water that Lu Zhiqing drank. She fainted out of fright and is fine now.
In order not to alarm the people attending the palace banquet, Su Qianqian and Lu Zhiqing left Kunhe Palace and returned to the Imperial Garden.
Prime Minister Xue walked in front with Lu Zhiqing with a calm expression. Lu Zhiqing walked cautiously because she had just been frightened.
Qin Hanzhang and Su Qianqian walked behind. Although Qin Hanzhang still looked cold and distant, he would turn his head from time to time to check Su Qianqian's expression.
"Why does the Marquis keep looking at me?" Su Qianqian was puzzled.
"When... did you learn to swim?" Qin Hanzhang asked in a low voice after a moment of silence.
Su Qianqian was stunned for a moment: [Damn it, I forgot about this. 】
Qin Hanzhang quietly clenched his fists in his sleeves.
He always couldn't help but fight with himself, hoping that this was still the little girl who saved him, but also not hoping that this was the Su Qianqian who had changed beyond recognition.
He didn't hope that it was Su Qianqian who was rescued from the water by him, who was timid and uneasy in her words and actions, and whose attitude always changed with the expressions of others, who was willing to say hurtful words to her widowed sister-in-law when instigated by others, and who believed strangers more than herself.
But that little girl had been his benefactor whom he had thought of for many years...
At this moment, Su Qianqian's inner thoughts only confirmed his previous guess: this was another soul occupying Su Qianqian's body, but he had unknowingly become attached to such a Su Qianqian...
"Ah, Lord, since I fell into the water that time, in order to prevent another accident, I secretly learned how to swim. I have been studying and practicing hard for the past five years, and I can at least hold my own in the water for a while."
Su Qianqian quickly lied to get away with it.
Qin Hanzhang nodded and asked no more questions.
Back in the pavilion of the Imperial Garden, Madam Qin and several other ladies looked serious when they saw Qin Hanzhang accompanying Su Qianqian back and Su Qianqian had changed her clothes.
It was not convenient to say more at this time. Soon, the sisters Wang and Qin Yuzhuo came back, and there were palace maids carrying the gem. Qin Yuzhuo asked them to send it to the carriage of Wuning Marquis Mansion, and then proudly learned how to win this treasure.
"We can't have this treasure." Su Qianqian suddenly called the palace maids and asked them to send the gem to Kunhe Palace, and asked Wang to go there personally, saying that the princess' reward was too valuable, and Wuning Marquis' Mansion asked the queen to take it back and deal with it.
Qin Yuzhuo was a little confused. Why didn't he want the one he won with his own ability?
"Qianqian is right, daughter-in-law Hanyue, just follow your third sister-in-law's instructions."
Madam Qin nodded, and Wang immediately took the order and went to Kunhe Palace with the palace maids.
The last time Su Qianqian was at Prime Minister Xue’s residence, Princess Zhaoyang was a guest, not a host, so the jewelry she won was not that eye-catching.
This time it was in the palace, and Princess Zhaoyang was the owner. The gem was bestowed upon Princess Zhaoyang by the emperor, and it was extremely valuable and famous. Marquis Wuning took it back openly. If someone with ulterior motives saw it, I don't know how they would describe this matter.
It was almost time and the palace banquet was coming to an end. They returned to the Qing'an Palace. Soon the emperor, empress and concubines returned to their seats. Prince Jing changed his robe. This time, there was no eagle, not even a bird.
The last item of the palace banquet was that the royal children stood up on behalf of the emperor and toasted all the ministers and envoys from Liang State. Su Qianqian also picked up the wine glass in front of her. Suddenly, the poison detection talisman in the storage room issued a "beeping" alarm sound.
【poisonous! 】Su Qianqian was shocked.
Everyone who could hear Su Qianqian's thoughts paused.
The prince was giving a toast on behalf of the emperor when he suddenly paused before continuing.
Su Qianqian hurriedly called up the control panel, only to see the poison test talisman indicating: non-acute lethal poison, high level. After taking it, the patient will gradually become unable to speak, and will die of exhaustion in two to three months depending on his physical condition.
She quickly checked the wine of other members of the Qin family, and found nothing wrong with it, except her glass, which was poisonous. She thought of Lu Zhiqing, wondering if there was something wrong with her glass as well?
[It turns out that everyone else's poison was not poisonous, only Lu Zhiqing and I were called out. Now if both of us are poisoned, we can still push the blame on the Queen in the future. This is following closely! 】
Su Qianqian was unable to verify whether Lu Zhiqing's wine was also poisonous, and she felt a little anxious.
At this time, Madam Xiao reached out her hand and accidentally bumped into Lu Zhiqing, causing more than half of the wine to spill. Lu Zhiqing was so scared that she quickly covered it with her sleeves: If you are disrespectful in front of the king, you will be punished.
Mrs. Xiao quietly handed Lu Zhiqing the wine glass.
[Thank goodness!] Mrs. Xiao is such a lucky person, she can always make mistakes at the right time! 】
Su Qianqian felt relieved and didn't notice that Zhu Min next to her was shaking so much that he couldn't hold the cup.
The rest of the operation was easy. Su Qianqian covered her mouth with her sleeves and pretended to drink, but actually poured all the wine into a small bag inside her sleeves: This poisoned wine must be taken back for investigation to see where it came from.
The palace maid who poured wine for their table saw Su Qianqian drink it, and then slowly left.
The Queen still had a decent smile on her face as she sat on the seat. Amidst everyone's respectful farewells, she walked out of the Qing'an Hall hand in hand with the Emperor. When she passed in front of Su Qianqian, she glanced sideways at her and nodded slightly.
Everyone left the hall and the palace in an orderly manner, each returning home with their own thoughts.
In the carriage, Su Qianqian took out the small bag of poisoned wine and handed it to Qin Hanzhang:
"I have learned to identify herbs and read medical books with my mother since I was young, and I have also learned some methods to identify poisons. There is poison in my wine just now. This is a slow-acting poison. After taking it, people will soon become unable to speak, and it can kill people in two or three months. I hope that the Marquis can find out where this poison came from and where it went."
Qin Hanzhang took the lambskin bag and looked at it for a while, then looked up and asked Su Qianqian: "You knew it was poisonous, so why weren't you afraid and didn't say it?"
"How can I not be afraid? I am afraid, but if I am afraid, I have to work hard to get out of the predicament. Screaming is not the solution.
As for not saying it explicitly, it was because I didn't want to alert the enemy, and not everyone can recognize this poison. If I were to be accused of framing the emperor, I would have enough heads to chop off, and the Marquis' Mansion would also be implicated. ”
Su Qianqian explained calmly.
"You are indeed different from before. If you had been so calm that time you fell into the water, you wouldn't have been choked by the water and passed out. In fact, the lake was very shallow. When you stood up, the water was just above your chest..."
When Qin Hanzhang said this, his eyes inadvertently glanced at Su Qianqian's chest, and immediately his ears felt hot and he stopped talking.
Su Qianqian: It’s okay if you just say I fainted from fright!
After returning to the mansion, Madam Qin asked Su Qianqian to go back and change her clothes and have a good rest, and to talk about anything tomorrow. She ordered the personal nanny to bring ginger soup to Su Qianqian, so that she could drink it to drive away the cold and have a good sleep.
Su Qianqian drank the ginger soup and went to sleep peacefully, but she didn't know that two places had exploded because of her.
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