"Your Majesty, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you!" Su Minglang swallowed the shrimp in his mouth and smiled embarrassedly at the queen.
The shrimps are silky and springy with a sweet taste. It is indeed a rare delicacy. No wonder Su Minglang is so addicted to it.
Although the Queen is the master of the Central Palace, she is ultimately an unfavored concubine. Apart from the cautious palace maids and eunuchs, few people can chat with her on weekdays, especially someone as heartless as Su Minglang.
If Su Minglang knew that the Queen had classified her as heartless, she would definitely bring someone to show her. Su Minglang is not an easygoing person.
After lunch, the Queen Mother began to look sleepy and was the first to see the guests off.
Su Minglang bowed and said, "If your majesty feels bored in the future, you can send someone to Linglong Palace to find me. I will entertain you."
The queen smiled kindly, told the palace maids beside her to see the guest off, and then she could not resist dozing off and fell asleep on the couch in her bedroom.
Su Minglang bid farewell to the queen and returned with a group of palace maids and eunuchs.
To be honest, Su Minglang really disdained these cumbersome etiquettes, but there was nothing he could do. The palace was a place with strict rules and there was no way he could disobey them.
As soon as I returned to the dormitory, I saw Nanxing sitting at the desk, doing something furtively, and there was a palace maid beside him who was staring at him.
Su Minglang understood what they were doing at a glance. Seeing that they were unaware of his arrival, he shook his head and sighed. He pulled Xiaoye to wait outside the door for a while, and deliberately made some noise. When he saw that they had calmed down, the two of them walked in.
"Yeah," Su Minglang responded softly, and glanced at the incense burner calmly. Green smoke was curling up from it, but he didn't know that you might be facing a life-threatening rune at this moment.
As soon as she entered the house, Nanxing's eyes were filled with worry that could not be concealed, while Jasmine's eyes were shining with golden light.
But a quarter of an hour passed, and then another quarter of an hour passed, and Su Minglang still seemed like nothing had happened, with his head down, fiddling with something.
Nan Xing saw that she didn't look like she had some evil spirit planted in her body. "Sister Jasmine, is this incense tray really okay?"
“I don’t know either.” As time was getting closer, Jasmine’s calmness began to break. “Logically, the effect of the medicine should have worn off after such a long time.”
Jasmine was obviously unaware of what was happening, but she couldn't check whether the incense was intentional at the moment. The two of them could only wait slowly for the moment when Su Minglang's poison would take effect.
Jasmine's dream of becoming a first-class maid beside Concubine Li was almost realized, but until the sun set, Su Minglang still had to eat and drink. This time, Jasmine's expression was completely chapped. She leaned over to Nanxing and whispered, "Haitang, you stay here, I'll be back soon."
Nan Xing watched her back as she left cautiously, and was certain in his heart that she was going to Concubine Li for help.
Seeing that there was no one around, Nan Xing finally breathed a sigh of relief. It was really uncomfortable to have someone staring at her all the time, but she couldn't care less at the moment. She eagerly approached Su Minglang and asked, "My queen, how do you feel?"
“This fragrance…”
"I don't feel anything," Su Minglang shook his head. "This should just be an ordinary plate of incense. It's okay."
Nanxing nodded. It was obvious that Su Minglang's current condition was much different from what Jasmine had expected. Could this prove that Su Minglang was fine?
Even after the lights in Linglong Palace were turned off, Jasmine still hadn't returned. However, Nanxing was anxious to know the result, so he simply waited in an inconspicuous corner at the door. It was not until the moon was high in the sky that a dark shadow quickly approached the palace gate.
Nanxing called her, but found that the person coming was not Jasmine, but Peony beside Concubine Li.
"Aunt Mudan?" Nanxing asked in confusion, "Why are you here? Where's Sister Moli?"
"Moli will be back later. I'm here to see you." Mudan made her purpose clear and took out a wooden box from her arms.
"You did a great job this time. The Queen is very happy."
Nan Xing rubbed her hands and asked carefully, "But, but Su Minglang doesn't have any symptoms. Did the Queen make a mistake?"
Mudan smiled and shook her head, "No, that incense is not poisonous. The Queen is just testing you. Congratulations, Haitang, you have successfully passed the test."
"what?"
Before Nanxing could speak, Mudan handed the black wooden box to her and said, "Now, it's time to get serious."
"Don't worry, the master won't treat you unfairly."
"Aunt, I, let's just forget it." Nan Xing hesitated and refused to take it. She said with an unspeakable look on her face: "Aunt Mudan, I, I still feel a little bad. Su Zhaoyi, she also..."
"Haitang!" Mudan's eyes suddenly became sharp, and she looked straight at her with a pair of sharp eyes, "Or should I call you Nanxing?"
"Why, just because Su Minglang gave you a name, do you really think you belong to her Linglong Palace?"
"Do you think any master would treat a palace maid like you who has committed a crime sincerely? The queen is giving you a chance, so don't give up!"
"What's more," Mudan suddenly laughed, "Haitang, don't forget that your parents are still waiting for you at home."
"Let me think about it. I remember you were born in Haiti, right?"
"I have both parents, a sister and two brothers. The youngest brother should be seven years old this year, right?"
"Haitang," Mudan said with a gentle smile, but it gave Nanxing goosebumps. "You don't want anything to happen to your parents and siblings, do you?"
"You!" Nan Xing's face changed instantly, looking at the person in front of him in disbelief. This person was talking to you like a sister one second ago, and could threaten you without changing her expression the next second. Nan Xing felt that he was far inferior to her.
"My parents are both good people. Even if it's Concubine Li, you can't harm good people at will!"
"Good people?" Mudan seemed to have heard something ridiculous. "They are just a few common people. Wouldn't it be easy for the queen to crush them to death?"
"After all, he is a farmer who makes a living on the land. He can die honorably even if he is attacked by wild beasts or rocks. But you, Haitang, should think more about yourself."
"At this point, you can no longer give up just because you want to! You must think it over carefully!"
"You don't want that day to come, and an inconspicuous well in the palace will become your final resting place, right?"
Mudan smiled softly after saying this, obviously she was very confident.
Nan Xing clenched his fists tightly, staring at the ground angrily, "I, I will do it!"
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