"Aunt, the emperor has already given a banquet. Let's go to the banquet hall together now," suggested the queen.

Everyone stood up and walked towards the banquet hall, with Ouyang Miaoling walking at the end of the group of nobles.

They all had their own hidden agenda, making it hard for her to guard against them. Suddenly, Ouyang Miaoling smelled a strange fragrance. She quickly covered her mouth and nose and held her breath, because this fragrance was very familiar to her.

She used her sleeves to cover herself, took out an antidote pill from the space, put it into her mouth, then put her sleeves down and followed the others to the banquet venue.

The strange fragrance just now was actually a hallucinogenic drug. Once the powder is contaminated, the drug effect will not take effect immediately, but another special fragrance is needed to stimulate its toxicity.

At this moment, Ouyang Miaoling needs to carefully observe everyone's expressions and movements to determine who is behind the scenes.

She also had to pay attention to whether there were spices burning in the banquet hall that could trigger the poison. Only in this way could she be sure whether it was the emperor's concubines or these nobles who wanted to harm her.

Ouyang Miaoling observed everyone carefully. She didn't know whether it was because they were too good at disguising themselves, or because the person who wanted to hurt her was not among them. Why did everyone seem abnormal in her eyes?

Just when she was doubtful, another strange fragrance wafted over, and it smelled really good.

It seemed as if she was the only one who could smell this fragrance and no one else could.

What she can be sure of now is that the person who wants to harm her today is among these people. Even if she makes a big fuss today, she will find this person and make them suffer the consequences.

So she pretended to feel a little unwell and went downstairs to rest.

She stood up and said to the Queen, "Your Majesty... Please allow me to leave the table for a while. I have a headache. I'm going out to get some fresh air."

When the queen saw that Ouyang Miaoling had fallen into the trap, she went with the flow and agreed to her request.

Ouyang Miaoling had no personal maid and no acquaintances in the palace, so she walked out of the palace gate and wanted to find a reliable eunuch to pass on the message to Nangong Mingxuan. However, she got lost as soon as she came out.

As she is born with a poor sense of direction, it seems difficult for her to find the way back.

Just when she was confused, she faintly heard the voice of a young eunuch.

"The Queen Mother ordered us to go out and find the Regent Princess and bring her to the Emperor, so that she can be humiliated in front of all the civil and military officials in the court. But as soon as she came out, we followed her out, and in the blink of an eye, she disappeared." Listening to the conversation between the two people, she could tell that the Queen was going to take action against her.

"Queen... since it is you who wants to harm me, don't blame me for being rude." A hint of ruthlessness flashed in Ouyang Miaoling's eyes.

She decided to turn around and go back to the banquet, but she couldn't find the way back. At this moment, she saw a group of palace maids holding plates that looked like food.

She walked over and asked, and found out that they were going to the banquet.

"My dear...please come with us, we will take you back to the banquet hall," the leading palace maid said enthusiastically.

"Okay...thank you then." Ouyang Miaoling thanked.

"You're welcome. We just happened to be there, it's on our way."

So Ouyang Miaoling followed the food delivery team and returned to the banquet again.

When the Queen saw Ouyang Miaoling returned safely, she couldn't help but wonder if her subordinates had not done their job well, but she still pretended nothing had happened and greeted Ouyang Miaoling.

"Aunt Imperial... why have you been out for so long? I have already sent the eunuchs around me to look for you. Has Aunt Imperial seen you?" the Queen asked with concern.

"No." Ouyang Miaoling replied indifferently. She really didn't want to say a word to such a two-faced person, and she felt that it was a waste to talk to her.

"That's because the people below didn't do their job carefully. The Queen's aunt is here just in time. Let's start the feast." The Queen said with a smile, a hint of subtle cunning flashing in her eyes. With her order, the feast officially began.

The queen looked in Ouyang Miaoling's direction from time to time, but did not find anything unusual. This made her very confused, and she couldn't help but wonder in her heart: "Such a large dose of poison was given, how could it be okay?"

Ouyang Miaoling remained calm and alert. Although she did not look directly at the queen, she kept an eye on her every move.

She snorted in her heart and thought to herself: "You didn't even ask clearly before you acted. You don't know what your ancestors did. You think you can defeat me with just this little poison? How ridiculous!"

The welcome banquet was being held in the midst of everyone's own ulterior motives. Suddenly, the Queen shouted loudly, and everyone looked in her direction.

The queen held her stomach in pain. Her face turned pale and her body began to tremble because of the pain.

"Empress, what's wrong with you?" the palace maid beside her asked in horror.

The Queen clutched her chest tightly, breathing hard, her eyes filled with fear and pain.

"It hurts...my stomach hurts..." She uttered these words with difficulty.

Everyone was suddenly panicked and the palace banquet was in chaos.

The queen's face became paler and paler, her lips turned purple, her eyes were blurred, and finally she fainted from the pain.

"Quick...quickly call the imperial physician." The nanny beside the queen was so panicked that she only then remembered to look for the imperial physician.

Ouyang Miaoling just sat there without getting up. She thought to herself, "Not good... She really underestimated this queen."

Soon the emperor, who had received the news, also arrived. She picked up the queen and walked towards the queen's palace. The rest of the people had no intention of sitting at the banquet, so they stood up and followed the emperor to the queen's palace and waited in the yard.

Of course Ouyang Miaoling also came along. She wanted to see what the Queen was up to.

The Queen's palace was in chaos, with imperial physicians, palace maids and maids coming in and out, and the atmosphere was extremely tense.

Ouyang Miaoling stood in the yard with her hands behind her back, watching them rushing in and out like clowns.

Because she had already guessed the Queen's plan, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, "When women become ruthless, they are really ruthless. They can even kill themselves."

Finally, after a flurry of activity by the imperial physician, news came out.

The imperial physician has determined that the queen has been poisoned and is still in a coma.

"You quacks, you don't even know what poison the queen was poisoned with, what use are you?"

Everyone outside could hear the emperor's rage and anger.

The imperial physician inside had already fallen to his knees out of fear, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

After a while, a big eunuch came out and bowed to Ouyang Miaoling.

After bowing respectfully, the eunuch said, "Princess... the Emperor invites you." He made a gesture of invitation with his hand.

Ouyang Miaoling thought about it for a while, and in order to find out whether what the queen did was what she guessed, she decided to go in and find out.

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