The legitimate daughter returns, and the princess goes crazy

The servant replied tremblingly, "I am a servant in the eldest young master's courtyard. The eldest young master ran out of incense in his room, so he asked me to go to the storehouse to get some. I was in a hurry and bumped into the eldest young lady."

Mu Yan picked up the bag of perfume powder on the ground and found some white powder in it. She picked it up and smelled it carefully. Sure enough, this was the culprit that caused Mu Zhao to be poisoned.

She was also wondering how Mu Zhao had been poisoned for a long time. If it was food, the Mu family had a rule of using silver needles to test for poison when eating, so they would know if it was poisoned.

But if it is put into the scented powder, it will not be easily discovered. It really takes a lot of effort.

If they had not studied it carefully, few people would know that the toxic effect of the centipede venom when inhaled and eaten is the same. The person who poisoned the centipede is really meticulous and could think of such a method.

Mu Yan lowered her eyes to hide the expression in her eyes, and returned the powder to the servant calmly on the surface. However, when she handed it to him, she deliberately knocked over the powder in her hand.

"Oh, my hand slipped and I couldn't hold it firmly. I'll have to trouble you to go to the warehouse to get it again."

After the servant walked away, she whispered something into Ling Yu's ear...

Then she and Shi Ying entered Ri Zhao Tang as if nothing had happened.

Mu Zhao sat at the table, looking at the mountain of food in the bowl. Suddenly, his stomach felt bloated and his eyes widened.

"Little brother, eat more of this."

"And this is delicious too, eat more."

"And the fish. The fish is cooked well today. You should eat more to replenish your nutrition. Look at how thin you are now. You are as thin as a poor little kid."

Mu Yan enthusiastically kept putting food into Mu Zhao's bowl, as if she was afraid that he wouldn't be full.

Mu Zhao touched his round face and pouted: "Sister, did you encounter any happy things?"

Mu Yan ignored him and continued to add more food to his bowl until his stomach could no longer hold any more, and then Mu Yan was willing to let him go.

After finishing this meal, Mu Zhao felt traumatized. He secretly swore in his heart that he would never eat with his elder sister easily in the future. After all, his elder sister's concern was really a heavy burden.

Now that Mu Zhao's problem was solved, Mu Yan could put her mind at ease. As long as the toxins in Mu Zhao's body were not eliminated, she would not be at peace. Fortunately, she had time to save her brother in this life.

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As soon as Mu Yan stepped into Qiyun Pavilion, Ling Yu came in hurriedly and gave Shi Ying a look, and Shi Ying sent all the maids away.

After everyone left, Ling Yu whispered, "Miss, that person went to Qin Yi Pavilion."

"Qin Yige?"

Qin Yi Pavilion is the courtyard of Mu Jun's concubine Qin Xiaoniang. She was a maid who came with his mother's dowry. When her mother was pregnant with Mu Zhao, she thought that Qin Xiaoniang was loyal and honest, so she made Qin Xiaoniang a concubine. This person is low-key and not very favored. She is a transparent existence in the Mu family.

He has a concubine's son, Muran, but he is only three years old this year. With Mu Zhao, the eldest legitimate son, in front of him, he doesn't get much attention on weekdays.

"Yes, according to your instructions, young lady, I followed the servant and saw him quietly enter Qin Yi Pavilion. When he came out, the servant had an extra portion of perfume powder in his hand."

"I have quietly replaced the perfume powder. I guarantee that no one will find out."

"well done!"

It turned out that Mu Yan deliberately knocked over the perfume powder today. If the servant was an insider, he would definitely go to the person behind the scenes to get another portion of perfume powder, and then he would be able to follow the clues to find out the real mastermind behind the scenes.

However, she guessed wrong, the mastermind behind the scenes was not Liu Wenmei.

Qin Xiaoniang grew up in the Han family. Her grandmother and mother both knew medical skills, so it is not surprising that Qin Xiaoniang also learned some medical skills from them. No wonder she thought of putting the Chiyan poison in the perfume powder so that it would not be easily discovered.

If you think about it carefully, her purpose is not difficult to guess. As long as Mu Zhao dies, her son will be the only son of the Mu family's eldest wife.

In her previous life, she had heard people say that her son was adopted by Liu Wenmei. Liu Wenmei had been promoted from a concubine to a legitimate wife at that time, so her son was the legitimate son and the only heir of the Mu family.

I originally thought that Qin Xiaoniang was an honest person, but I didn't expect that she would have such thoughts. My mother treated her well when she was alive, but I didn't expect that she would repay kindness with hatred and almost caused her brother to lose his life.

So was this something she planned all by herself, or did she conspire with Liu Wenmei?

Thinking of this, Mu Yan felt a fire burning in her chest and she angrily smashed the teacup in her hand to the ground.

"Dong dong dong."

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door.

When Shi Ying heard the noise, she immediately opened the door to check, only to see a little maid just outside the door.

"Why are you running? What's the matter? Are you in such a hurry? Do you have any manners?"

The little maid reported breathlessly, "Sister Shi Ying, the old lady came back early and has already arrived at Ning'an Hall. Just now, the old lady sent someone to tell the young lady to go to Ning'an Hall."

After hearing this, Mu Yan tapped the table slowly with her fingers and said calmly, "Tell the visitor to wait for a moment. I will go to greet my grandmother as soon as I change my clothes."

"Yes." The little maid went to report to the person who came immediately after receiving the order.

Madam Mu is a Buddhist. Every year at this time, she goes to Tianxuan Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha for a month. Calculating the time, it has only been twenty days. She probably came back early because she received the news from the Liu family.

Liu Wenmei is Madam Mu's niece and the daughter-in-law she has always had her eye on. She had wanted to arrange a marriage for the two of them after Mu Jun passed the exam, but she did not expect that Mu Jun fell in love with Han Yunyan at first sight.

Madam Mu had no choice but to ask Mu Jun to take Liu Wenmei as a concubine, but Mu Jun only treated Liu Wenmei as a sister and was considerate of his new wife, so he declined.

But Old Madam Mu thought that it was Han Yunyan who did not allow Mu Jun to take a concubine. She always said intentionally or unintentionally that she was jealous and never treated her well.

Later, when Han Yunyan was pregnant with Mu Yan, Madam Mu used Han Yunyan's poor health as an excuse to ask Liu Wenmei to take care of Mu Jun's food and daily life. She also took the opportunity to let Liu Wenmei put drugs in the food so that she and Mu Jun could have a night of pleasure.

Liu Wenmei was lucky. A month later, she was diagnosed to be pregnant. Old Madam Mu was very happy. On the grounds that she could not let the descendants of the Mu family be without a legitimate status, she personally decided to make Liu Wenmei a concubine. Mu Jun was helpless, but thinking of the kindness Liu Wenmei had shown him and seeing that she was pregnant now, he could only accept it.

Han Yunyan was depressed because of this incident, and she had a miscarriage, which damaged her vitality and made her body weak. Later, she became pregnant with Mu Zhao, and she was completely exhausted and passed away.

Therefore, Han Yunyan’s death is more or less related to these two people.

But Liu Wenmei often said in front of her that she was innocent and was just following the old lady's orders, so Mu Yan blamed the old lady for her mother's death, which led to the estrangement between the two of them and gave Mu Wan, the concubine's daughter, an opportunity to take advantage of it.

But Mu Yan doesn't want to please her now.