Chapter 24: Shocking
That shocking darkness.
It's like an irrefutable verdict.
The young eunuch was sentenced to death.
The air around the warm pavilion froze instantly.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the blackened silver hairpin.
His face was filled with shock and horror.
The little eunuch who was caught.
The moment I saw the silver hairpin turn black.
His face, which was already pale.
It instantly became ashen.
It was as if all his strength had been drained from him.
The whole person collapsed.
"explain!"
The Queen's voice was like a cold wind from the Netherworld.
"Who ordered you to do that?"
The little eunuch's lips trembled.
His eyes were filled with extreme fear.
He glanced at Ling Zixia who was standing in front of him.
He secretly glanced at the pale-faced Concubine De not far away.
Then.
He gritted his teeth.
A trickle of black blood actually flowed from the corner of his mouth.
He was actually in public.
Biting through the poison sac hidden in the teeth.
He committed suicide.
His body twitched twice.
There was no sound at all.
The dead cannot speak.
All the clues.
Here.
Then it came to an abrupt halt.
Defei's heart was in her throat.
Finally put it back quietly.
Her face showed the same terrified expression as the other concubines at the right time.
As if he was unaware of all this.
A trace of extremely cold anger flashed in the Queen's eyes.
She knows.
The other party is trying to silence the witness.
Behind this little eunuch.
There must be a bigger black hand hiding.
An extremely daring enemy who dared to place assassins in her Fengluan Palace.
"Okay, very good."
The Queen sneered.
"Drag him away and let me investigate!"
"I will thoroughly investigate everyone and everything he has come into contact with since entering the palace!"
"I want to see which bitch dares to touch me!"
Her voice was filled with murderous intent.
It made everyone present silent.
An originally relaxing flower viewing party.
In such a bloody and weird way.
It ended abruptly.
The other concubines were all terrified.
They all found excuses to leave.
For a while.
In the huge warm pavilion.
Only the Queen is left.
And Ling Zixia who was still standing quietly by the side.
And the serious-looking female official.
The Queen's gaze.
It fell on Ling Zixia again.
This time.
In her eyes.
There is no more scrutiny or doubt.
Instead.
It is an extremely complex emotion, a mixture of appreciation, fear and exploration.
"You're fine."
The Queen spoke slowly.
"It's much better than I imagined..."
She looked at the girl who had behaved timidly and humblely from beginning to end.
A chill rose in my heart.
Save the prince.
Recognize poisonous incense.
Check the inner ghost.
This seemingly harmless daughter of a criminal.
From the moment you step into Fengluan Palace.
In a way that is almost miraculous and incredible.
For her, the master of the harem.
Solved two big problems.
This is just a coincidence.
Or say.
On her body.
Is there really some kind of hidden...unknown power that can change the situation?
Ling Zixia seemed not to understand the deeper meaning of the Queen's words.
She just knelt down in fear.
"I...I just happen to know some of the superficial medical knowledge my father left behind."
"I don't deserve your praise."
The Queen looked at her like this.
He smiled noncommittally.
"Whether you did it by chance or you really have the ability."
Her voice regained its former authority.
"Today you saved the Seventh Prince and uncovered the traitor for me. This is a tremendous achievement."
"I have said that meritorious service will be rewarded."
She winked at the lady-in-waiting beside her.
"Go and fetch me the 'South Sea Moonlight' from my storeroom."
A hint of surprise flashed in the female official's eyes.
But she didn't ask any more questions.
He immediately bowed and took the order and left.
Ling Zixia knew.
"The Moon Over the South China Sea" is a rare treasure presented as tribute by foreign countries.
It is a phoenix hairpin carved from a whole piece of finest mutton-fat white jade.
It is priceless.
It is one of the Queen's most beloved ornaments.
Now.
She actually wanted to give this thing to herself.
This grace.
It is indeed a heavy matter.
However.
Ling Zixia didn't feel any joy in her heart.
She knows.
Behind this heavy reward.
It’s a deeper temptation.
It is to win over.
It is also a warning.
Just then.
A soft "meow" sound.
Suddenly it came from the flowers outside the pavilion.
Immediately following.
A snow-white Persian cat without a single stray hair.
Walking with elegant steps.
Came out from the flowers.
The cat's neck.
It also has a gold bell inlaid with sapphires.
It looks extremely valuable.
"Xuetuan'er, come here."
The Queen saw the cat.
The cold expression on his face finally melted a little.
She waved to the cat.
The Persian cat named "Xuetuaner".
Immediately like a flash of white lightning.
Leaped lightly onto the warm pavilion.
Then he lay down obediently at the queen's feet.
With its hairy head.
Rubbing the queen's skirt affectionately.
Ling Zixia's gaze.
It fell on the cat.
Her pupils.
There was a barely perceptible contraction.
On the cat.
It emits an extremely faint, almost imperceptible fishy smell.
That's the smell of "crazy beast grass".
A poisonous weed that can cause animals like cats and dogs to change their temperament drastically and go crazy and attack humans.
The smell of this grass is very light.
It is barely detectable to the human sense of smell.
But it has a fatal attraction to cats.
Who is it?
Who is on this queen's favorite civet cat?
Did you do this?
Is it the little eunuch who committed suicide just now?
Or say.
In this Fengluan Palace.
Is there another... deeper traitor hidden?
Just when Ling Zixia's thoughts were turning rapidly.
The female official who went to collect the reward.
He was already holding a rosewood brocade box.
Walked back quickly.
She presented the brocade box to the queen.
Carefully opened the lid.
An exquisite phoenix hairpin.
Lying quietly on the bright yellow silk.
The phoenix's eyes were inlaid with two tiny rubies.
Lifelike.
It seems like it will spread its wings and fly high at any time.
"Miss Ling, come forward and claim your reward."
The female official said to Ling Zixia.
Ling Zixia took a deep breath.
She slowly stood up from the ground.
She turned in the direction of the Queen.
Kneeled down again.
She stretched out her hands.
Prepare to accept this heavy "gift".
Accident.
Right now.
It happened without warning.
The Persian cat "Xuetuaner" who was originally lying obediently at the queen's feet.
Its body suddenly stiffened.
Those originally gentle, sapphire eyes.
It instantly turned red.
Full of madness and violence.
"Meow--!"
It let out a sharp, shrill roar that was completely unlike a cat's.
Its body is like a fully drawn bow.
Suddenly jumped up from the ground.
Its snow-white, soft and harmless-looking claws.
Ten nails as sharp as knives popped out.
It attacks the target.
Not the Queen who is so close by.
Nor was it the female official who had just returned.
But...
Being held in the arms of the Queen.
The young, defenseless one.
His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince!
It all happened so fast.
So fast that no one had time to react.
The Queen's face was filled with horror.
She subconsciously held the child tighter in her arms.
But he was unable to avoid the fatal blow from the mad civet cat.
The female official was also frightened and turned pale.
The brocade box in her hand fell to the ground.
She screamed.
But there is nothing I can do.
Watch.
Those sharp cat claws.
It was about to grab the delicate cheek of the Seventh Prince.
At this critical moment.
A slender figure.
Like a flash of white lightning.
At an incredibly fast speed that was completely inconsistent with her fragile appearance.
He suddenly pounced from the ground.
She didn't attack the frantic cat.
She also did not try to separate the queen and the prince.
Her hand.
At an extremely tricky angle.
With incredible precision.
Reached out to the stone table in the warm pavilion.
There were still a few pieces of "Red Lotus Jade Dew Cake" left after Concubine De's "reward".
Her fingertips.
On one of the pastries.
Passing by like lightning.
The moment her fingertips touched the pastry.
An invisible force.
They rushed madly into the innocent dessert.
The lotus seed powder and glutinous rice flour that are originally used in pastries are nutritious.
Its nature was completely reversed in a fraction of a second.
They have become an extremely powerful anesthetic that can instantly put all animals into a deep coma.
She did it all.
Then he took out the "anesthetic pastry" that had been transformed.
With a technique so fast that it is hard to see, like an immortal picking up a flower.
With a flick of a finger.
That little pastry.
It turned into a white afterimage.
impartial.
Hit the bull's eye.
Precisely.
It shot into the mouth of the Persian cat, which was opening its bloody mouth and about to bite.
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