Duke Jing's younger sister

Since I have never smelled it before, it is not a common flower in Jiangdu City.

After entering the palace today, she has been lingering among the peony flowers. Why is she not scented by the peony flowers, but instead inexplicably smells this fragrance?

Shen Li was in deep thought, and some scenes from the palace banquet flashed through her mind. She thought about them carefully, trying to find anything unusual in them.

Han Yunning drank a little too much and her steps were unsteady. When she toasted, her body tilted and a full cup of grape wine spilled on her moon-white dress.

Han Yunning took out a handkerchief embroidered with twin lotus flowers and used it to wipe the stains on her skirt...

Oh, that handkerchief!

She felt it was strange at the time. As the daughter of the prime minister, Han Yunning's clothes, hairpins and jewelry were all of the highest quality, but why was the handkerchief in her hand made of such shabby plain brocade?

You know, even the daughter of a minor official would mostly use soft brocade, while she and Shen Zhiyan often used medium to high-quality cloud gauze.

And Han Yunning, the daughter of the prime minister, wore a handkerchief made of the lowest quality brocade to attend the queen's flower-viewing banquet?

This is indeed somewhat contrary to common sense and inevitably makes people feel abrupt and weird.

"Han Yunning..." Shen Li murmured, and sat back on the couch thinking.

"Could this fragrance be poisonous?" Xingping asked.

Zi Yuan sighed softly, "If the scent was poisonous, we both smelled it just now, wouldn't we both be dead?"

"If there is no poison, why are you so sad?"

Shen Li looked up at Xing Ping, perhaps she could change her thinking. The fragrance was non-toxic, but it could attract poisonous things.

After Concubine Zhao was attacked by the obsidian snake tonight, Emperor Hongyang sent a large number of imperial guards with torches to turn the entire imperial garden upside down. Even the Empress' favorite peony flowers were trampled.

She was also standing in the courtyard of Zhaoyang Palace when the bearded and burly commander Zhang Qian reported to the emperor.

There were ten rat snakes in total, and no other poisonous obsidian snakes were found except for the two that had been cut off.

In other words, there were only two poisonous obsidian snakes, one attacked her and was cut off by Shen Beiqi, and the other died under the sword of the Royal Guards.

If it was said that Shen Li was attacked by the snake by accident, after all, she was standing relatively close when the snake bag dispersed.

Then the place where Concubine Zhao was killed was not close to where Shen Li was at the time, and there was still a long distance between them.

The Imperial Garden is so big and there are so many people, why didn't the Obsidian Snake attack others and only go for Concubine Zhao?

unless……

She and Concubine Zhao share a common fragrance, and this fragrance can attract obsidian snakes.

Could it be that this tragedy tonight is related to Han Yunning?

Did Han Yunning want to deal with Concubine Zhao, or did he want to get rid of her? Or maybe both!

This speculation suddenly startled Shen Li.

Even though she had her doubts in her heart, she was not sure. There was really no way to prove anything based on this inexplicable fragrance alone.

She just felt dizzy, raised her hand and pinched her eyebrows, forcing herself to empty her mind and stop thinking about anything.

Ziyuan fetched some hot water, Xingping made the bed, and Shen Li dragged her tired body to wash and changed into a clean, snow-white undergarment.

Everything was quiet, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, and the soft moonlight filtered through the lattice window and sprinkled all over the ground.

In the gauze curtain, she raised her hand, and the redness and swelling on the palm of her hand were vaguely visible.

He seemed to have changed, yet he seemed to have not changed.

When he applied the medicine for her with his handsome eyebrows lowered, he was still as gentle and soft as before, like a spring breeze, making her feel at ease and peaceful no matter where she was.