Chapter 428 Counterattack

Min chuckled and said, "You are really an inexperienced little girl, you can't even see this."

"The prince looks at her with a strange look on his face, he must be interested in her."

"I thought the prince would take her into his room as a concubine, but he never mentioned it."

Although the prince did not have a concubine in Yue Haoyun's mansion, he had quite a few concubines, more than ten in total.

Cui Er rolled her eyes in disdain: "She is worthy? She is just an old widow."

Min said seriously: "Don't look down on married women. Some women are more charming even when they are older. Some men just like this."

"But it's a pity that these two can only be a pair of lovebirds in the underworld."

...

Bishui Courtyard where the prince lived.

At this time, the prince had returned.

He was very tired because he drank a lot of wine and dealt with the Queen Mother nervously.

He wiped his face, changed into clean clothes, and was about to quietly go to the second prince's courtyard to discuss with them what to do next.

At this time, Xiao Zilan walked into Bishui Courtyard with a tray.

The maid came in and reported: "Your Highness, the kitchen has sent the sobering soup."

Yue Haoyun was immediately cheered up when he heard that it was the kitchen that sent the soup, and asked: "Is it Qiao, the head of the kitchen, who sent it?"

The maid replied: "It was Qiao, the head of the kitchen, who sent it herself."

Yue Haoyun's eyes flashed with surprise, and he said loudly: "Let her bring it in!"

Qiao Yu Niang slowly came in with the sobering soup, her face was calm, but her heart was already beating wildly.

"Your Highness, this is the sobering soup that the princess made for you personally. She asked me to bring it to you as soon as it was made." Qiao Yu Niang deliberately emphasized the word princess.

At this moment, she hoped that the prince would choose not to drink it when he heard that it was made by the princess herself.

The princess and the prince are not in harmony with each other, and their relationship is not good. This is known to everyone in the palace.

Although Xiao Zilan is not clear about the reason for the discord between the prince and the princess, she at least knows that the prince should dislike the princess.

So, she deliberately said that it was the princess who did it.

She hoped that the prince would just let her send the soup back. In this way, she can pour the soup. She can protect herself and the prince.

Unexpectedly, the prince did not say the words she imagined, but said to her in a gentle voice: "Pour a bowl of soup and hand it to me."

Xiao Zilan raised her eyes and glanced at Yue Haoyun, only to feel something stuck in her throat.

At this time, there was still a maid in the room. She didn't know whether the maid was the princess's servant. If she told the prince that the soup was poisoned, what if the maid went to inform the princess?

At that time, would they bite back?

While Xiao Zilan was thinking anxiously, she had already prepared a bowl of soup.

She held the bowl of soup and looked at the prince who was sitting on the bed, and found that the prince had stretched out his hand to take it.

She subconsciously handed the bowl of soup to the prince, but when Yue Haoyun went to take it, she retracted the bowl.

Yue Haoyun was stunned and confused.

Xiao Zilan made up her mind and didn't care about that anymore. Whatever happened, she couldn't just watch the prince being poisoned.

Suddenly, her hand loosened and the bowl fell to the ground.

In an instant, the soup spilled all over the floor, and the moment the soup touched the carpet, it made a sizzling sound.

"Ah!" Yue Haoyun shouted in shock.

"It's poisonous!" The maid in the room screamed, and then turned around and ran out.

Yue Haoyun jumped up from the bed and chopped the maid unconscious with a knife. Xifeng

, who was guarding the door, heard the noise and rushed in, and asked anxiously: "Prince, what's wrong?"

He looked at the soup bowl and the sizzling soup on the ground, the maid who fell to the ground, and Xiao Zilan who was standing by at a loss, and understood instantly.

He walked quickly to Xiao Zilan's side, grabbed her shoulders fiercely, grasped her wrists, and shouted in a low voice: "How dare you, you servant, poison the prince? You don't want to live anymore!"

Xiao Zilan was frightened by Xifeng's behavior and her face changed drastically. She hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty is wise, I am innocent!"

Yue Haoyun glanced at Xifeng and said, "Let go first and let her speak."

Xifeng reluctantly let go of her hand, but his eyes were still fixed on Xiao Zilan, as if he was afraid that she would run away.

Xiao Zilan tried his best to control his emotions and continued, "Your Highness, two quarters of an hour ago, the princess and her personal maid Cui'er suddenly came to the kitchen."

"The princess said that she wanted to make sobering soup for you personally."

"She sent away the three cooks on duty and left me alone to light the fire."

"After the princess and Cui'er cooked the sobering soup, they asked me to go to the warehouse to find almonds. But I had just walked a few steps when I suddenly remembered that the almonds were used up. So I went to the kitchen to report." "

It was at this moment that I saw that the princess and Cui'er had poisoned the sobering soup."

"In order to protect myself, I didn't say anything and pretended not to know. Then, the princess ordered me to deliver the soup..."

Xiao Zilan didn't say anything more after saying this.

She really didn't know how to explain her behavior just now, and was afraid that the prince would suspect that she and the princess were in cahoots.

Unexpectedly, Yue Haoyun asked gently, "So, you didn't want me to drink the poison soup just now?"

Xiao Zilan lowered her eyes and said, "That's right!"

Xifeng frowned, "My lord, you can't believe the lies of this bitch, she must be the princess's accomplice!"

Xiao Zilan knelt on the ground with a thump when she heard Xifeng say this, and shook her head repeatedly, "I didn't do it, I was wronged!"

Yue Haoyun stood up, helped Xiao Zilan up, and said in a gentle tone, "Don't worry, I believe you!"

Xifeng was dumbfounded on the spot, "My lord!"

Yue Haoyun stared at the remaining sobering soup in the soup cup in a trance. After thinking for a moment, he ordered Xifeng in a cold voice, "Find a maid to send a message to the princess, saying that my lord suddenly felt very uncomfortable just now!"

Xifeng put away his emotions and left as ordered.

Afterwards, Yue Haoyun asked Xiao Zilan to hide behind the bed and told her not to make any sound. Then he called two of his trusted followers and asked them to hide on the beams. After

everything was arranged, Yue Haoyun lay on the bed, hunched over, pretending to be in pain.

Before long, chaotic footsteps were heard, getting closer and closer to the bedroom.

Min's voice also rang out: "Prince, what's wrong with you? Why are you sick just after returning from the palace?"

As they spoke, Min and Cui'er had already walked into the prince's bedroom.

At this moment, the two followers swooped down from the beams, tied up Min and Cui'er and gagged them before they could react.

Min and Cui'er stared at Yue Haoyun with their eyes wide open in horror, making a howling sound, as if they wanted to explain.

But at this point, Yue Haoyun didn't want to listen to their explanations.

"Lock them both in the dark room first!"

Yue Haoyun gave an order, and the two followers immediately turned the mechanism on the wall.

With a creaking sound, a door appeared on the wall, and the followers threw Min and the other two in.