"Your Highness, please have some tea and try this Four Happiness Meatball. I specially asked the imperial chefs in the palace to make this dish for you." Prince Qin placed a meatball in Wei Yinshuang's bowl.
Wei Yinshuang took a small bite, and suddenly a painful expression appeared on her face.
The chopsticks fell from her hand, and she slipped, knocking over a whole table of dishes.
Wei Yingshuang, lying on the ground, clutched her stomach and looked at Prince Qin, crying out in pain, "Your Highness, my stomach hurts! Your Highness, please...please save me!"
The Prince Qin, who had been observing everything with a cold eye, finally stood up, squatted down next to Wei Yinshuang, grabbed her chin, and looked directly into her eyes.
"Wei Yingshuang, who allowed you to report my affairs in Beili back to Da Chu?"
"Your Highness, I...I didn't...I didn't." Wei Yingshuang's body began to tremble with pain.
"If you don't have it, then how could the Great Chu have explosives?"
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, I... Your Highness, please spare my life." Wei Yingshuang finally understood that the King suspected her of tipping off the Great Chu and wanted her dead.
But she was truly innocent; she had no idea what explosives were.
“Wei Yingshuang, your father and brothers promised to send sulfur to Beili, but so much time has passed and why has the goods not arrived yet?”
If you want me to spare your life, I'll have your father and brothers send sulfur to Beili quickly. One hundred jun (a unit of weight) will be your life in exchange.
I'm already being exceptionally lenient by giving you twenty days.
Twenty days later, if there's still no sulfur, you know the consequences. I'm also curious whether Princess Fengxi's life is worth a hundred jun of sulfur.
Qin Wang took out a pill and put it into Wei Yingshuang's mouth, and only then did Wei Yingshuang feel relief from her abdominal pain.
She knew perfectly well that what Qin Wang had given her wasn't wine, but poison. She wanted nothing more than to kill Qin Wang, but she dared not show it on her face. She could only timidly say, "Your Majesty, I thank you. I will write to my father and brothers right away."
"Yes, Your Highness, the antidote I gave you will only provide relief for ten days. After ten days, I will give you another dose. Whether there will be any more antidotes after that depends on how much Your Highness's father and brothers love you."
After saying this, he turned and left.
Wei Yinshuang shakily got up, sat on the table, and began to write a letter. Because of her nervousness, the characters she wrote were crooked and distorted.
Now she can only place all her hopes on her father and brothers.
Wanyan Da did indeed want Qin Wang to kill Wei Yinshuang to vent his anger.
But Qinwang calmly advised him that Wei Yingshuang should not be killed for the time being. Instead, he suggested that she be spared to force the Duke of Dingguo's mansion to send sulfur. Wanyan Dacai then agreed.
Lin Wanqing later told Wanyan Da that if he waited another fifteen days, she would definitely give him another miracle and kill the Great Chu, oh no, she would kill the entire Nine Provinces by surprise.
Wanyan Da naturally knew what Lin Wanqing had been doing recently; a thousand people had been sent to Gao Hongyuan, their fates unknown.
He didn't care about a mere thousand people, as long as the result was good.
Wanyan Da smiled and said to Lin Wanqing, "I have always known that the Queen is capable. This time, the Queen must not disappoint me again. You should know that my patience is limited."
Although Wanyan Da said it with a smile, Lin Wanqing felt a chill run through her body.
She knew Wanyan Da wasn't joking; if she failed again this time, she would be in dire straits.
On the surface, Bei Li seemed to have everything under her control, but Lin Wanqing knew very well that Wanyan Da was not as simple as he appeared.
He is now the king of Bei Li.
To save her life, Wei Yinshuang sent the letter out without delay after finishing it.
Upon receiving his sister's letter, Wei Xuelin immediately contacted his father.
He had difficulty collecting even thirty jin before, let alone one hundred jin.
"Father, what should we do?" Wei Xuelin knew Qin Wang's character very well. If they didn't send him over, he really would kill his sister.
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