The queen hesitated and made no decision.
Xiao Zhao paced back and forth anxiously.
"Mother, if you hesitate any longer, you will miss this golden opportunity!"
"Hai Lu and Fu Gui have failed time and again. What if..."
The queen inexplicably felt a little uneasy, as if things would become a mess after confronting Qu Li recently.
"Don't worry, mother. I will take care of everything this time and I guarantee that we won't be implicated in the end."
"Zhao'er, be careful."
Xiao Zhao relaxed his brows, and said with complacent confidence: "Don't worry, mother!"
…
Nanny Gong took out some midnight snacks from the small kitchen and went straight to the side hall.
"Lord Chen, this is the midnight snack prepared by the kitchen. Please take it over!"
Xiao Xian took the food box and went to Laiyi Hall.
The secret guards guarding Lai Yi Hall had received orders from Emperor Kang in the morning, so they did not stop him when they saw him.
Xiao Xian walked in and saw Qu Li studying a chess game. He coughed awkwardly.
"I don't know what you like to eat, so I asked the kitchen to make something."
"Thanks."
"Why are you being so polite to me?" He put the food box aside and walked forward. "Although mother is the daughter of a county magistrate, she is extremely talented. The Empress Dowager said that if mother had lived in the capital since she was a child, her reputation as a talented woman would probably not even reach my aunt."
Qu Li nodded, "Found it!"
This small wooden house is fully equipped with music, chess, calligraphy and painting.
The most ingenious part is this game of chess. It looks simple, and it seems that the game can be easily broken with just a few random pieces, but it is full of traps.
"It is said that before my mother gave birth, she set up this chess game for my father, and said that after she gave birth, she hoped that my father would be able to successfully break the game."
Xiao Xian looked at the portrait on the wall, and there was a hint of loneliness between his brows.
"It's a pity that after so many years, my father hasn't broken the deadlock." Xiao Xian withdrew his gaze from the painting and fell on the chessboard.
Qu Lisu picked up a white piece with her hand and gently placed it down.
Because of this white piece, the white piece, which was originally suppressed by the black piece and had no power to defend itself, was like a divine weapon descending, and the situation was reversed in an instant.
Xiao Xian was a man of both civil and military talents, proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Seeing this, he also picked up a black piece and started playing chess with Qu Li.
The palace maid came in, lit the candle wick, lit the incense, and then left quietly.
The two of them played chess back and forth, and the chessboard was filled with black and white pieces.
Beads of sweat broke out on Xiao Xian's forehead, and his face was abnormally red.
"Li'er!"
He held her hand across the table.
The heat in her palm made her heart tremble violently.
Qu Li also noticed something was wrong. His gaze fell on the incense burner beside him from which smoke was rising, and a hint of coldness flashed across his eyes.
Just as she was about to extinguish the incense, a strong arm wrapped around her slender waist, which could be held in one hand, and held her in his arms.
"Xiao Xian, calm down!"
Driven by drugs, everything Xiao Xian did was out of physical instinct.
The hot breath sprayed all over her swan neck, as if burning her heart.
She bent her elbow and hit Xiao Xian's eyes.
“Hmm—”
After a muffled groan, Qu Li pinched the silver needle in his hand and accurately inserted it into his sleeping point.
After finishing all this, her back was already soaked with sweat.
Without even bothering to adjust her breathing, she extinguished the incense as quickly as possible.
He took out another detoxification pill from the space.
Glancing at the still unconscious bastard, she muttered, "Don't waste the detoxification pills. He won't die anyway!"
She opened the window to let some air circulate, then opened the lunch box, a smile appearing between her brows.
While rescuing the wounded on the battlefield, she often did not have enough to eat, so she never had any high requirements for food.
But once she has time off, she studies various medicinal dishes.
These dishes were delicious and made her mouth water.
She picked up the chopsticks, took only one bite, frowned, and spat out the beef ball.
He took a silver needle, inserted it into the beef ball, and then took it out.
Watching the silver needle slowly turn black, Qu Li's pair of starry eyes, which were clearly black and white, were filled with murderous intent.
Oh!
Playing with poison in front of the Poison Ancestor?!
After squinting his eyes and pondering for a moment, Qu Li let out a breath of foul air in annoyance, took out the detoxification pill, and walked to the bed.
He unkindly pried open Xiao Xian's mouth and stuffed the detoxification pill in.
The scumbag was too wary. After the detoxification pill was stuffed into his mouth, he simply refused to swallow it.
"Xiao Xian, you'd better swallow it obediently, otherwise I won't be polite!"
However, her threats were of no use to Xiao Xian, who was in a coma.
His eyes turned cold, and he stuffed the detoxification pill into his mouth again, and pierced the silver needle into his throat again.
“Gudong——”
Xiao Xian swallowed subconsciously, and the detoxification pill got stuck in his throat, and he almost suffocated.
Qu Li pricked another acupoint on him, and he slowly opened his eyes after falling into a coma.
"hiss!"
His eye sockets hurt so much, and there was a bitter taste of medicine in his throat. Xiao Xian sat up, rubbing his eye sockets while his eyes were coldly fixed on the woman opposite him who was gazing at him with her arms folded.
"What did you feed me?"
"poison!"
"you--"
Xiao Xian was about to spit it out when he heard Qu Li sneer, "Remember what I said before, if you truly love each other, you will trust each other unconditionally. Even if the sky falls and the earth breaks, you will stand by each other without blinking an eye."
"My mind is just not clear! No matter what you feed me, I will eat it happily."
"Heh!" Qu Li snorted sarcastically, pointing at the incense burner. "They added aphrodisiac incense to the incense. I just checked it, and it's colorless and odorless. No wonder you got caught!"
Xiao Xian's face darkened and he was about to grab her hand, but she quickly dodged him.
He looked at his fingers that had only touched her sleeve with a lonely look, feeling as if he had lost something in his heart.
"This incense is quite technical! As for this food box..."
Xiao Xianxiu frowned, "What's wrong with this midnight snack?"
She kept staring at him and didn't notice anything unusual on his face, so she guessed that he really didn't know.
"It's poisonous, but it's not a hard-to-find poison. You won't die immediately after taking it, but you'll have unbearable abdominal pain after seven days. After half a month, your whole body will be ulcerated and there's no cure!"
A gloomy haze spread over Xiao Xian's carved face.
Nanny Gong is loyal to the Empress Dowager and would never do anything to poison her.
What's more, if it were exposed, Nanny Gong would be the first person to be suspected.
"Do you already have someone you suspect?" Xiao Xian asked.
In fact, Qu Li was indeed a little hungry now. She was struggling over whether to take out a bowl of snail noodles from the space.
"Qu Li?!"
Qu Li came back to his senses, "Look at me, there are only a few people who dislike you."
The aura around him became cold and bloodthirsty. He was about to speak when he saw a bowl of snail noodles in front of Qu Li.
"What is this?" He picked up the snail noodles, his eyes full of inquiry.
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