The maid's road to success

Prince Consort Bai was listening to the servants' words in the room and fell into deep thought. Not only was the Grand Princess spying on him, he also bribed the maidservants serving the Grand Princess. He could also find out if there was anything important going on with the Grand Princess.

Ever since Bai Shoude was injured, he has been trying to find out the murderer. After all, he is his eldest son, and in his heart he is more important than all his other children.

Although he is different from the eldest princess, Qiumei has other children, but for men, the eldest son always has a different status.

He stayed by his son's side every day, and seeing his son's painful and decadent appearance, his heart felt like it was being cut by a knife.

"Since the Grand Princess already knows that it was the Fourth Prince's plot, what measures will she take?"

The reason why Prince Consort Bai was able to attract the only powerful princess of the dynasty was not just because of his looks, he was also very smart.

It's just that the court has a rule that the prince consort cannot hold an official position with real power, so he is forced to serve under the Grand Princess and be an idle person.

But he is not really a waste nor is he really doing nothing.

"No, the Grand Princess seems to have been sending people to keep an eye on the Fourth Prince. It seems that she is not in a hurry to find the Fourth Prince to fight back."

Prince Consort Bai gritted his teeth and forced an extremely ugly smile on his face.

"By the way, the eldest princess is a person who values ​​interests very much. As long as she is not endangered, she will rarely reveal her true trump card and kill the opponent. Moreover, now that the Sixth Prince has returned and Duke Cheng'en is more active, she will naturally not choose to make enemies with the Fourth Prince at this time."

The servant felt a little afraid when he saw Prince Consort Bai's appearance. It was said that Prince Consort Bai was as gentle as jade, a very gentle and refined man. Even now that he was old, he was still an elegant gentleman.

But the servant had been following Prince Bai for six or seven years, and he had long understood that Prince Bai was a modest gentleman on the surface, but a complete lunatic in private.

For the sake of past affection, a prince consort kept a mistress outside and was able to hide it from the Grand Princess.

In order to vent his pent-up anger and resentment, he went to the brothel masked and abused Hua Niang.

In order to bribe the people around the Grand Princess, he actually seduced a housekeeper who was five years older than Prince Bai and had a very ordinary appearance.

Prince Consort Bai's secret compartment was filled with articles insulting the Grand Princess and several people in power.

All the servants who bullied the White Prince Consort would end up with a miserable end.

"What should I do?"

The servant knew very well how much Prince Consort Bai valued Bai Shoude, and he would not allow the Fourth Prince to harm the eldest master and still get away with it.

"Go and invite Yan Ling, and tell him that I have made some great paintings and invite him to come and appreciate them. Don't let the Grand Princess know too soon."

Prince Consort Bai naturally knew that he couldn't hide it from the Grand Princess, but it was not so easy for him to protect the Fourth Prince and his men.

When it was getting a little dark, Yan Ling arrived late, bringing some gifts and greeting Prince Consort Bai.

"Brother Yan arrived too late. I almost went to the palace to invite you."

Yan Ling felt relieved when he saw that Prince Consort Bai was still gentle and anxious.

He has been cautious since Bai Shoude got into trouble. After all, he had also had contact with Bai Yao, and what if he was discovered?

But Prince Consort Bai still hurriedly dragged him to appreciate the painting as he did before, and he guessed that they might not suspect him.

But even though Bai Shoude was in such a serious situation, Prince Consort Bai still had the mood to paint. He is truly a selfish and cruel person.

"My dear Prince Consort, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. The palace has been busy lately. The Sixth Prince will be back soon. The Fourth Prince is extremely anxious and is looking for us to discuss matters every day."

Prince Consort Bai seemed to not want to listen to Yan Ling talking about so much official business, so he pulled him to his desk and asked him to help look at the paintings.

Yan Ling looked carefully at the tiger in the painting. The uneven spots on its body made him feel uncomfortable. After getting the consent of Prince Consort Bai, he picked up the finest tracing brush, moistened it with the tip of his tongue, dipped it in blue ink and added a few strokes to the painting.

The patterns on the tiger were symmetrical, and after drawing its eyes, he put down his pen with satisfaction.

After exchanging pleasantries with Prince Consort Bai for less than half an hour, Yan Ling said goodbye and left. Prince Consort Bai watched him walk out of the Moon Gate and immediately frowned.

He returned to the study, his eyes fixed on the pen that Yan Ling had just used, and gave instructions to the servant.

"Clean up the stuff and don't let anyone notice it."

The servant rolled up the painting, packed up the pen and ink used by Yan Ling, and took them to the backyard to burn them.

When Prince Consort Bai was about to pack up to go see Bai Shoude, the Grand Princess had already arrived.

"You called Yan Ling today?"

Prince Consort Bai pretended to be confused and asked her.

"Yeah, what's the matter? I made an appointment with Yan Ling before, but Shoude suddenly got into trouble and I wasn't in the mood to chat too much, so we exchanged pleasantries for a while and then left."

The eldest princess looked at the white prince consort, staring into his eyes, trying to read some emotions on his face.

"He came here just to meet you and appreciate those poems and ancient paintings?"

Prince Consort Bai nodded and poured a cup of warm tea from the teapot on the table for the Grand Princess to drink.

"Well, but what's wrong? Did something happen at court?"

The eldest princess shook her head, indicating that nothing had happened.

Prince Consort Bai lowered his head and drank his tea. This woman's heart was getting more and more cruel. Her own child was harmed by someone, and as a parent, not only did she drag the criminal out and cut him into pieces, she even had to prevent him from attacking the Fourth Prince.

The eldest princess glanced at Prince Consort Bai from time to time, wanting to see how much he knew about the matter and how he reacted, for fear that he would ruin her plan.

The two people sat together, each with their own thoughts. Finally, a maid came to report that Bai Shoude was making a lot of noise, so the two of them went to visit and comfort Bai Shoude.

However, it was unknown how much effect could be achieved by just appeasing him. It was only after the Grand Princess promised to avenge him that Bai Shoude took the medicine and rested.

Perhaps she was really exhausted, the eldest princess did not return to her own courtyard but stayed with the white prince consort. The two of them lay side by side on the bed. The eldest princess looked particularly weak in the dark, and she lay on the white prince consort's body and cried silently.

However, Prince Consort Bai felt that he extremely disliked the current Grand Princess. They had their sweet times before, but they had lost all that time over the years. The Grand Princess was too strong and was not a normal woman at all. Later, she and the Fourth Prince manipulated the court affairs, which made him feel even more depressed.

But at least he was able to clearly see his own status and treat the Grand Princess with respect. The more he knew in the past year or two, the colder he became towards the Grand Princess.

The Fourth Prince has done so many evil things, and now his own child can be so cruel. How good can his husband be in the future?

The two of them lay there until dawn. The eldest princess went to do her business again, and Prince Consort Bai called a servant to go find Yan Ling.

After a night he should have reacted.

"Yan Ling, how was your night last night?"

Yan Ling felt inexplicably painful and itchy all over the night, and his body was scratched to pieces. He went to the Fourth Prince's office that night to ask for help, but the doctor he saw could not diagnose anything.

He kept thinking about what had happened to him during the day or recently, trying to see if he had been harmed by someone or had contracted a strange disease.

Last night at midnight he began to feel inexplicably itchy all over his body. The ointment he used was of no help at all. After taking a bath his bones began to ache. It was the first time he felt that kind of pain. He tossed and turned and was in pain for two hours. By the time the doctor came he had already gotten better and nothing was found during the examination.

At this moment, he was still leaning on the bed with a pale face. The servant said that the White Prince Consort was coming. The Fourth Prince had instructed that the White Prince Consort should be flattered to lower his guard so as to win over the people in the Princess's Mansion.

He didn't dare to stop the person outside. He wanted to deal with him and send him away properly. But who knew that he would say these words. He immediately thought of Prince Consort Bai's invitation to him yesterday.

"You poisoned me?"

But he didn't eat or drink anything in the princess's mansion yesterday, nor did he come into contact with anything strange, so how could he be poisoned?

"If you weren't really talented in writing, I really doubt how you became an aide. You are too obsessed with balance, and you feel uncomfortable when you find something asymmetrical."

Yan Ling's face suddenly changed. No wonder, the pattern on the tiger's body was deliberately drawn a little asymmetrically by Prince Consort Bai yesterday. He knew very well that if he saw the complete asymmetry, he would not care, so he deliberately revealed a little flaw.

No wonder Prince Consort Bai was still in the mood to appreciate paintings with me at this time.

"What did you do with the pen?"

Prince Consort Bai nodded and sat opposite him. Looking at Yan Ling's expression, he knew that he must have had a very uncomfortable night.

"Well, you habitually lick the pen before dipping it in ink, how does it taste?"

Yan Ling slammed the table and questioned him.

"Why do you treat me like this? Aren't we close friends? Why do you do this?"

Prince Consort Bai approached Yan Ling, looking down at him with hatred in his eyes.

"Then why did you attack my son?"

Yan Ling didn't expect that he actually knew about it? How could it be possible? The Fourth Prince and Bai Yao had been very careful in their previous interactions. He had only written a simple letter to Bai Yao while he was arguing with Bai Fu Ma and when Bai Fu Ma was meeting the steward, and had told her to destroy it. Bai Yao had also told him that she had already burned it.

Did Bai Yao tell on the secret? How is that possible? Bai Yao was ordered to be killed by the Fourth Prince. If she dared to tell on the secret, she would not have come to the Fourth Prince's mansion alive.

Could it be that the Grand Princess deliberately planned for Bai Yao to come and tell on someone, just to see who Bai Yao would go to? No, Bai Yao was not such a smart person. If she had that ability, she would not have been rejected by Bai Shoude and suffered so much.

"Your Majesty, you should still provide evidence when speaking. We are also very sad about what happened to Mr. Bai, but you cannot slander me at will."

Prince Consort Bai sneered and stared into Yan Ling's eyes until Yan Ling felt a little guilty before speaking.

"I know your painting habits, and naturally I also know your writing habits. Bai Yao didn't destroy the letter you left for her. She thought it was written by the Fourth Prince himself and kept it. And she is still alive."

Yan Ling was stunned as if in a trance. He didn't expect Bai Yao to have the guts to lie to him. She didn't even burn the letter. Moreover, Bai Yao was carried out and thrown into a mass grave that day. Why didn't anyone check to see if she was really dead?

Now that Prince Consort Bai has come, does that mean Bai Yao is in their hands?

"What does the Prince Consort want?"

Prince Consort Bai took out a porcelain bottle from his arms.

"It doesn't matter. No matter what happens to my son, the Fourth Prince will have to endure the same pain."

Yan Ling understood what was in the porcelain bottle at that time. Bai Shoude's status was much lower than that of the Fourth Prince. Castrating a royal relative and a prince were two different things. Therefore, Prince Consort Bai would not be stupid enough to let himself assassinate the Fourth Prince, so using medicine was the most appropriate.

"I'm just an aide, how can I get the Fourth Prince to take this medicine?"

Yan Ling is a person who values ​​his life very much, so he chose to get close to the weakest Prince Consort. Now it seems that he chose the gentlest one, who turns out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing.

"Yan Ling, don't play tricks on me. You have forgotten your own body. I am telling you, I am not afraid that you will find someone else. This medicine, no one can cure it except me. I will give you three days to think it over. If you don't get the result I want after three days, you will be tortured for the rest of your life. In the first four days, it will only last for two hours, and then four hours, six hours, until you die of pain."

With every word Yan Ling heard, his heart sank a little. After being together for so long, he never noticed that Prince Consort Bai was so vicious and actually attacked him.

Yan Ling sat at home thinking for most of the night. At midnight, the poison started to attack again. After enduring for two hours, Yan Ling was already covered in cold sweats. The places that were scratched yesterday had not healed yet and new wounds appeared.

In order to relieve the pain, he even broke his nails. Yan Ling looked at the porcelain bottle on the table and made up his mind that he would rather make others suffer than himself.

Yan Ling recovered enough to be able to walk, so he packed up and went to the Fourth Prince's Palace.

"Yan Ling is here. I heard that he has been feeling unwell lately. Would you like to ask a good doctor to take a look?"

Yan Ling pretended to be embarrassed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I'd rather not have it. I don't know why I feel itchy every night. The doctor in our mansion said that I just need to take care of myself."

The Fourth Prince stared at him, and nodded when he saw that there was nothing unusual. He knew it when Yan Ling asked the doctor to come over in the middle of the night that day. He has always been cautious, and the people around him will not let their guard down easily.

Especially since the recent incident with Bai Shoude has not been resolved yet, and Yan Ling is the person responsible for getting close to Prince Consort Bai, so naturally he attracts more attention.

Fortunately, the doctor couldn't find anything, so the Fourth Prince felt relieved.

"It's okay."

Yan Ling took out a top-grade jade embryo from his arms. It was not big, but it was very transparent.

"My Lord asked me to find some good stuff. I went to the ghost market yesterday and found this good stuff. It would be best to give it to the Grand Princess on her birthday."

Yan Ling held the jade embryo and presented it to the Fourth Prince. The Fourth Prince was amazed by the quality of the jade embryo at just one glance. It was top-quality jadeite, very transparent, like a clear spring with excellent water content.

The Fourth Prince played with it in his hands, obviously liking it very much.

Yan Ling knew that the matter was accomplished when he saw the Fourth Prince's expression. The Fourth Prince was a person who paid great attention to his own behavior and seldom let others see his likes and dislikes. However, people around him knew that the Fourth Prince liked good jade the most, and he cared more about water content than color.

He had collected this jade two years ago. Now, in order to protect himself, he gave it to the Fourth Prince. It was worth it.

"Good stuff, go find the steward to take you to withdraw the silver, you found this thing well."

The Fourth Prince didn't even bother to raise his head before asking Yan Ling and others to go and get the money.

Yan Ling looked at the Fourth Prince's expression and knew that he would not be willing to give this thing to the Grand Princess, but would keep it for himself.

He took a brush and brushed the medicine in the porcelain bottle onto the jade again and again. As long as the Fourth Prince played with it for a few days in a row, the effect of the medicine would affect him.

Originally, the men of the Gong family had all lost their bodies in palace fighting, and most of them had few children. He didn't need to give him too much medicine to make the Fourth Prince impotent in the future.

But it's a good thing that Prince Consort Bai sent this kind of medicine. If the medicine really wanted to kill the Fourth Prince, Yan Ling would not kill the Fourth Prince even if he had to endure the effects of the medicine. After all, if something happened to the Fourth Prince, he would die right after.