Chapter 427 Poisoning Yue Haoyun
Zhu Ling's eyes flashed with coldness, and she said fiercely: "Okay!"
"Then I will make Yue Haoyun unable to see the sun tomorrow morning."
After that, Zhu Ling called her personal maid over, handed a packet of medicine powder to the maid, and whispered: "Tell Min that tonight's matter can only succeed. No failure!"
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In the palace of the Grand Prince.
Princess Min went to the palace banquet with the Grand Prince today.
Because the Queen Mother kept the Grand Prince to talk at the end of the palace banquet, Min came back first.
Min came back from the palace banquet, exhausted. She simply told the housekeeper to take care of the Great Xia envoy, and then returned to Wutong Courtyard.
Because they were a couple who looked like a perfect match but were actually far from each other, the prince usually lived in his own Bishui Courtyard, while the princess lived in Wutong Courtyard.
Min sat in front of the dressing table, and the maid Cui'er helped her take off her hairpin.
"Princess, aren't you waiting for the prince to come back?" Cui'er asked.
Min rolled her eyes in disdain, "These past few days, I've been serving as an envoy from Daxia and investigating the prince's secrets. I'm really exhausted. I have to get a good night's sleep tonight."
"I don't know when the prince will be back, so never mind."
At this moment, there was a "dong dong dong" sound from the back window.
Min and the maid Cui'er were both startled, and their hands froze instantly.
Min gave Cui'er a look, and Cui'er immediately walked quickly to the back window and opened the latch.
With a "bang", a black shadow jumped in.
The man was wearing night clothes and had his face covered. He said in a cold voice: "We will do it tonight. The queen has ordered that we must succeed and not fail!"
Then he took out a paper bag from his arms: "Use this. If you eat even a little bit, you will die within an incense stick of time."
Min respectfully stretched out her hands to take the paper bag: "Please tell the queen mother to wait for good news!"
The black-clothed man's eyes flashed, turned around and jumped out of the back window.
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The back kitchen of the palace.
The princess changed into a casual dress and walked into the kitchen with the maid Cui'er.
The eldest prince and the princess did not have the habit of eating supper, so on weekdays, when it was time to light the lights, the kitchen would turn off the fire, and the cooks and chefs would go off duty.
Only one person was left in the kitchen to watch the night.
Because today was a night banquet in the palace, the master and guests in the mansion would come back very late and would drink. So three cooks and the housekeeper Xiao Zilan (Qiao Yu Niang) were left in the kitchen to prepare sobering soup.
The four of them were sitting on the bench chatting leisurely, waiting for a message from above to let them cook sobering soup.
Suddenly, they saw the princess come in, and they were all surprised. Xiao Zilan bowed respectfully and said, "Good night, princess. It's so late. If you need anything, just let us know. Why did you come in person?"
Min waved her hand at them and said, "Today, I will personally cook sobering soup for the prince. You can go down first."
The four of them were very surprised when they heard it and looked at each other.
Xiao Zilan said, "Then let the three of them leave first. I will stay and add firewood to the fire."
Min thought that her maid Cui'er didn't do rough work and really couldn't do the job of lighting a fire, so she said, "Okay!"
The three cooks left happily.
Min and Cui'er prepared the ingredients for cooking soup in a formal manner, while Xiao Zilan went to the firewood room next door to get some dry firewood, squatted on the ground and lit the stove.
Then, Cui'er started to cook a pot of sobering soup and poured it into the soup cup.
Xiao Zilan was still squatting in front of the stove, watching the fire.
Min glanced at Xiao Zilan and said coldly, "Yuniang, go and see if there are any almonds in the storeroom. I suddenly want to drink almond milk."
Xiao Zilan responded and walked out. When she had just walked five or six steps, she suddenly remembered that she had used up all the sweet almonds when making almond milk last time, and the person in charge of purchasing had not bought new ones yet, so she turned around and walked back.
When she walked outside the kitchen door, she heard the princess and Cui'er whispering.
Tweet's voice asked: "Do you need to put all the packet in?"
The princess said solemnly: "Put them all in, I'm afraid the taste of the soup will change. Just one third is enough."
Xiao Zilan felt a chill running down her spine. She took two steps back tiptoeing and looked in through the kitchen window, only to see Tweety holding a packet of medicinal powder and sprinkling it into the soup.
Cui'er asked: "Will it be poisonous enough to kill you?"
The princess stretched out her hand and twisted Cui'er's arm, and scolded fiercely: "Stupid thing! Stop asking random questions, just do as I say."
When Xiao Zilan heard the words "poisoned to death", her heart beat like thunder. She seemed to know what the princess was going to do, but she was not sure.
At this time, Cui Er had cleaned up the powder that spilled outside the soup bowl and put the lid on.
Xiao Zilan pinched her palm with her fingernails, letting the pain keep her calm.
She took a deep breath, tiptoed back seven or eight steps, then rubbed her face, put on a natural expression, and strode towards the kitchen.
Arriving at the door of the kitchen, Xiao Zilan stopped, lowered her eyes and said: "Your Highness, the almonds in the warehouse have been used up, and we haven't had time to buy new ones."
Min said in a light tone: "Then don't drink it."
"That's right, Yu Niang, you can take this bowl of sobering soup to the prince's room."
"Tell the prince that this soup was made by the princess herself, and make sure he drinks it."
When Xiao Zilan heard this order, her heart started beating wildly again.
When she just heard that the princess had poisoned the prince, she was still thinking about how to remind the prince not to drink this sobering soup.
But she never thought that the princess would ask her to deliver the soup.
In an instant, her brain was working rapidly.
Great, this way, she can just remind the prince that the soup is poisonous and cannot be drunk. This way, the prince's life could be saved.
But then, she was terrified again. The princess deliberately asked her to deliver the soup. She wanted to pin the poisoning on her.
Ahhhh, what should I do?
If she reminded the prince that the soup was poisonous, and the princess framed her for poisoning him, wouldn't she be unable to defend herself?
If she didn't remind the prince, he would have been poisoned to death.
She couldn't let the prince die! She absolutely couldn't!
Thinking of this, Xiao Zilan stepped forward, took the tray from Cui'er, and said softly, "I've made a note of this."
After that, she turned and left.
When Xiao Zilan's figure disappeared in the kitchen yard, Cui'er asked in confusion: "Princess, why did you choose Qiao Yu Niang as a scapegoat?"
Min smiled evilly and said softly: "By the way, find a lovely person for our prince to be buried with him!"
"In this way, the prince will not be lonely on his way to the underworld. I have done my best."
Cui'er looked at Min in confusion: "A lovely person? Do you mean that the prince likes Qiao Yu Niang?"
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