"Stupid!" Su Minglang quickly stepped forward and gave her a slap on the face. "When did I ever ask you to go into danger for something like this? Couldn't you just come back and discuss it with me first?"

"But, but since I entered your palace, I have never been anywhere with you, but they knew right away that I was from your palace. Doesn't this mean that they have spies in your palace?"

"So, so I will..."

Su Minglang gave her a deep look without saying anything. After a long while, he sighed and said, "Nanxing, you don't have to prove yourself like this."

"My lady, I really want to repay your kindness and live up to your trust in me."

"Forget it," Su Minglang shook her head and stopped arguing. She even said that no matter what she said, Nanxing would not change his opinion.

"Tell me, what did they ask you to do?"

"Look." Nanxing opened the paper package that Mudan gave her, took out a plate of incense from it and handed it to her, "Madam, they want me to replace this plate of incense. I'm afraid there are bad things in it."

"Incense?" Su Minglang looked at the incense stick in his hand, and an idea flashed through his mind.

"I have had a severe headache these past few days, so no incense has been burned in the palace. My headache has indeed gotten better over the past few days, but I don't know if it's because the doctor's prescription is effective, or if..."

"Someone has already done something to replace the original in my palace, and neither you nor I noticed."

"Ha!" Su Minglang sneered with an ambiguous tone, "Nanxing, light this incense tomorrow. I want to see what they are going to do!"

"My lady, this is inappropriate! What if there is something wrong with the incense tray? Your body..."

"It's okay," Su Minglang smiled and put the incense tray on the table. "They are not so stupid as to believe your words."

"Rather than saying that she handed you the incense tray to harm me, it's more likely that she was testing you."

"You mean..." Nan Xing looked at Su Minglang in disbelief, "You mean that I have done so much to inflict pain, but in the end it was all in vain? They still refuse to trust me?"

"Oh! Idiot!" Su Minglang glared at her, "There are so many things you can do with just this small plate of incense."

"If you are truly willing to serve her, this is your proof. If you are pretending to serve her, this is your death warrant."

"Think about it, Nanxing. If you come to me with a plate of incense that is not poisonous and file a complaint, I will definitely ask His Majesty to make the decision. When the imperial physician examines the plate and finds that it is not poisonous, you will probably be punished by being caned in court for instigating slander."

"And I," Su Minglang's eyes darkened, the hostility in his eyes gradually gathered, "I will also bear the sin of being incompetent in governing my subordinates."

“What a great method!”

"This..." Nan Xing panicked, "This servant, this servant really didn't think that much."

"But Madam, are you just going to let it go like this?"

"Of course not!" Su Minglang yawned. She was really sleepy after not sleeping in the middle of the night. "It's not time yet. We just need to wait for the opportunity."

"You will burn this incense tray tomorrow. If they send you other incense trays, just take them. Oh, and take some incense trays that have not been used up before and store them. I will have good uses for them."

After seeing Nanxing off, Su Minglang threw herself hard on the bed. It was a rare free moment when she didn't have to serve the emperor in bed, and she just wanted to have a good sleep.

Early the next morning, Xiao Ye came to help Su Minglang get up. When he saw the dark circles under his master's eyes, Xiao Ye was puzzled: "Master clearly went to bed early last night, why does he still look sleepy?"

"Ye Zi, yawn..." Su Minglang yawned loudly just as he was about to speak, and rubbed his sleepy eyes, "What time is it? When did the queen want me to go?"

"It's still early, you can have breakfast first." Xiao Ye answered while serving her food, "You should eat something, but don't make a fool of yourself when you get to the Queen."

"I know, I know." Su Minglang nodded hurriedly. This girl is not very old, how come she has the talent to be a nanny?

Seeing that she finally picked up the bowl of porridge, Xiao Ye stopped paying attention to her and turned around to prepare the clothes she would wear when she met the Queen. "The Queen has not been in good health and doesn't like to go out on weekdays. You should wear something simple so as not to appear presumptuous. What do you think, Master?"

"Yeah!" Su Minglang nodded vaguely while chewing something, "You decide."

She has always trusted Ye Zi's choices regarding these etiquette rules. After all, she was specially trained by the Su family to stay by her side as a maid.

It's just that this girl is really naive. Perhaps the Su family dared to hand her over to Su Minglang because of this. But they didn't expect that they would be making wedding dresses for others for nothing.

"Alas!" Xiao Ye shook her head helplessly, "If you really took my words to heart, you wouldn't have stayed up late last night without telling me."

"Please don't tell me that you are not feeling well and can't sleep. I waited until you fell asleep before I left yesterday."

"Uh..." Su Minglang had a mouthful of vegetable stalk stuck in his neck and he swallowed it several times before finally swallowing it.

"I, I'm done eating, you should go eat something too."

"I have already eaten. I saw that you were sleeping soundly and knew that you would not be happy to get up this morning, so I ate in advance while you were lying in bed."

“Uh…” Su Minglang once again had a mouthful of water stuck in his throat and couldn’t swallow it, “Cough, cough, cough!”

"Stop talking, hurry up, send the clothes over."

"Ah..." Xiao Ye shook his head helplessly, wiped the water stains from the corners of her mouth first, and then helped her put on her clothes. "Although this dress is not very luxurious, the material is excellent."

"Dressing like this doesn't make you look overbearing, nor does it make you look contemptuous. You..."

"Very good, very good!" Su Minglang nodded hurriedly and put on his clothes quickly. "Let's go, let's go, don't waste time and keep the queen waiting for a long time."

Xiao Ye nodded and tidied her hair. "The sedan chair is waiting at the door. If you think everything is OK, you can go."

"let's go!"

Su Minglang turned and walked out, brushing past Nanxing and nodded at her calmly.

Nanxing put away her gloomy expression and replaced it with a panicked look, walking towards the figure waiting for her in the distance.

"Sister Jasmine, I, I'm ready. When are we going to start?"

"Don't worry, as long as you are careful you won't be discovered." Jasmine said a few words to comfort her and smiled at her with an unclear expression.

"It will be over soon, Haitang, your good days will come soon."

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