Peach Blossom.

"Murder?" Tao Ye was suddenly shocked. Coming from an era of rule of law and peace, how could she kill someone?

Chen Ji's eyes were grim: "As long as you help me accomplish this, I will promise you the conditions and I will never break my promise."

Tao Ye remembered the conditions they had discussed in Jingshui Tower. As long as she did the second thing well, Chen Ji would eat as much of the food she sent as possible.

In this way, she could complete the Ghost King's mission, return to her own time, and take the box of gold, silver and jewelry with her, and live a rich and normal life from then on...

"But...but I...I won't kill anyone...I have never..." Tao Ye was extremely embarrassed.

"You don't even know how to poison?" Chen Ji smiled.

Tao Ye was really afraid of this moody prince consort, who sometimes smiled and sometimes had a cold look, sometimes made people feel pity and sometimes made people hate him.

"Who was poisoned?" Tao Ye asked weakly, as if she already had the answer in her mind.

Who else could it be except the prince who cuckolded the prince consort and threatened his position?

"Get on board!" Chen Ji turned his back and walked onto the boat.

The guard Ma Da then boarded the boat and took up the oars.

Tao Ye had no choice but to follow and sit opposite Chen Ji.

The motor paddled the boat and it slowly left the island.

Chen Ji just admired the scenery on both sides of the Qinhuai River and didn't say much.

Tao Ye watched the small boat gradually move to the center of the wide river, and guessed in her heart that the prince consort must be worried. Even in Ghost Mountain, there might be spies hidden. And the boat would be truly safe only if it drifted alone in the middle of the water and there were no places where people could hide nearby.

As expected, when they reached the middle of the river, Chen Ji stopped admiring the scenery and said, "His name is Chen Xi, and he is my elder brother."

This was obviously an answer to the question Tao Ye had just asked.

Tao Ye was shocked. The person the prince consort wanted to harm was not his love rival, Prince Wang, but a close relative: "You want me to... poison your brother?"

Chen Ji nodded: "He is a womanizer by nature, but he is unlucky with his wife. He has killed three wives one after another, so he dares not marry again. He only keeps some singing and dancing girls for entertainment. With your appearance, you are more beautiful than the others in his house. It should not be difficult to lure him to death."

Tao Ye's heart was pounding when she heard this: "How could you...how could you let someone kill your own brother?"

Chen Ji looked into the distance and said coldly, "He deserves to die!"

Tao Ye guessed: "He...he abused you before?"

Chen Ji's gaze gradually turned back to the boat: "No."

Tao Ye was even more confused.

Ma Da had stopped rowing and stood at the bow to answer Tao Ye's doubts: "The old general guarded a place and was a hereditary duke. He was ordered by the late emperor to go to war. Before leaving, he left a will, saying that if he died in battle, the title would be passed on to the second son. The eldest son held a grudge and burned the will. He bribed the soldiers and deliberately led the old general into an enemy ambush. The late emperor thought that the old general died for the country and had no will, so he ordered the eldest son to inherit the title of duke. The second son was young at the time, and although he had doubts, he could do nothing. When he was older, he found out the truth, but the eldest son had already firmly established the title and was deeply rooted."

Tao Ye was stunned by what she heard. The matter was a bit complicated. She only understood one thing: the brother of the prince consort dared to kill his father in order to grab the title. He was really not a good person!

Chen Ji smiled, as if talking to himself: "He even pretended to be kind and asked for the princess to marry me, fearing that I would be obsessed with the title. But how can such a marriage be as reliable as the title? On the contrary, he was appointed Grand Marshal by virtue of his marriage relationship."

In the era when Tao Ye lived, the divorce rate was high. She certainly believed that marriage was extremely unreliable and was not comparable to an official position at all!

After listening to the conversation between the master and servant, she seemed to have guessed what Chen Ji was thinking, and asked carelessly: "Is it... that if he dies, the title will be passed on to the younger brother, and even if you divorce the princess, you will still have someone to rely on?"

"You are quite smart!" Chen Ji smiled at Tao Ye again.

This smile made Tao Ye feel chilly again.

Chen Ji held a small bottle in his palm and held it in front of Tao Ye: "This medicine will dissolve in wine and taste like wine. He drinks frequently, so you will have a chance to take action."

Tao Ye was terrified when she heard this: "He was an official appointed by the imperial court. If he died, wouldn't anyone hold me accountable for murder?"

"The man surnamed Wang has been on good terms with Chen Xi recently, often visiting and drinking together. You... must take advantage of this opportunity to escape punishment, understand?" Chen Ji lowered his voice and his gaze became deeper.

This means that she wants to poison Prince Wang when he visits and then put the blame on him?

Tao Ye took the poison bottle from Chen Ji, still sighing in her heart: "You are killing two birds with one stone!"

"If you say so, it's not wrong." Chen Ji smiled faintly, continuing to appreciate the scenery on both sides of the river, and waved his hand to signal the motor to continue paddling forward.

They came to the vicinity of Chen Xi's mansion. Chen Ji pointed out the location of Chen's mansion to Tao Ye, and told her a strategy to approach Chen Xi. He also hired two beggars who were strangers to Tao Ye to assist her.

Tao Ye and the two beggars changed their clothes and began to act according to Chen Ji's plan.

Just on the street in front of the Chen Mansion, the carriage of the Prince Consort's brother Chen Xi returned from outside and stopped in front of the mansion.

As soon as Chen Xi stepped out of the car, he heard a cry for help not far away.

He looked up and saw Tao Ye, dressed in plain clothes, running in a panic, followed by two sturdy men, both shouting, "Don't run!"

Tao Ye is now very confident. Although she originally had an ordinary appearance, she is definitely outstanding in this backward ancient times. With a little dressing up, she can attract anyone's attention in the crowd.

Sure enough, Chen Xi looked at Tao Ye's face and forgot to return home.

Tao Ye yelled "Help!" and ran to Chen Xi. She fell down like a willow in the wind and grabbed Chen Xi's skirt as if she was grabbing a life-saving straw: "Sir, save me!"

In a blink of an eye, the two strong men who were chasing them appeared in front of them.

In this area, Chen Xi was a kind-hearted man praised by people far and wide. He would never stand by and watch someone in need without helping, let alone the fact that the woman in front of him was a pitiful beauty?

Chen Xi then took care of the matter, helped Tao Ye up, and questioned the two strong men: "Why are two grown men bullying a weak woman?"

The strong man said: "She is my sister-in-law, so she should go back to my house!"

Chen Xi asked Tao Ye again: "Is it really so?"

Tao Ye recited the lines she had prepared in advance: "Sir, please allow me to report this. His eldest brother is a sickly woman. He bought me to bring good luck, but I died three days after I entered the family. Now they are forcing me to follow their husband, and I beg you to save my life!"

After hearing this, Chen Xi turned to criticize the two strong men: "Even if you are from a wealthy family, there is no reason to force people to be buried alive. How dare you take human lives so lightly?"

The strong man added: "My mother paid a high price to buy her in just to keep my eldest brother company!"

Chen Xi casually took out a silver ingot, handed it to the strong man, and asked, "How about selling it to me?"

The two strong men took the silver and left.

Tao Ye pretended to thank him profusely, and then cried, "Although I have been saved by you, sir, I was abducted and sold here, and I have nowhere to go..."

"If you don't mind, there are a few empty rooms in my house that can be used as a temporary place for you to stay. I will slowly help you find relatives later." Chen Xi's response was exactly what Chen Xi wanted.

Tao Ye thought, this Chen Xi is too easy to fool! All his actions and responses today were all planned by the Prince Consort.

Success came too easily, Tao Ye entered the Chen Mansion very proudly.

She had no idea that the two hired beggars were assassinated by Mada at the first corner after taking Chen Xi's silver ingots.

Tao Ye had never learned any talents before, and didn't have much to show off, but luckily her singing was not too bad, so she sang a few modern pop songs for Chen Xi.

Chen Xi had never heard such songs before, so of course he found them very fresh. Whenever he drank, he would ask Tao Ye to sing to entertain him, and they would also chat after singing.

In this way, Tao Ye easily replaced all the Kabuki in the Chen Mansion.

In just a few days, she and Chen Xi had become quite familiar with each other, but Chen Xi always only asked about Tao Ye's family affairs and never revealed his own.

As Chen Ji said, Chen Xi and Master Wang had a good relationship. There were several pieces of Master Wang's calligraphy in Chen Xi's study. The handwriting was truly like a phoenix dancing in a cave or a dragon leaping in a clear spring. What was even more rare was that each piece was written in one stroke, with no breaks from beginning to end.

Everyone in the Chen Mansion knew Prince Wang, and everyone praised him as a rare genius in the world.

On the fifth day after Tao Ye arrived at the Chen Mansion, she finally met Prince Wang, who was rumored to be a rare talent among men.

His name is Wang Jing.

That day, Tao Ye was flipping through books in her room out of boredom, but due to the difference in times, there were too many words in the books that she could not understand.

Just when I was having a headache, a servant came to tell me, "The master has invited Prince Wang to be his guest and is drinking in the garden. He also invited Miss Taoye to sing to entertain him."

As soon as Tao Ye heard that it was Master Wang who was the guest, she already thought that her chance to commit a crime and frame someone had come.

She took out the medicine bottle that she had hidden for a few days, thinking that it might be inconvenient to carry the bottle with her, so she opened it and saw only a small pill inside. She put the pill into her purse and went to the garden outside Chen Xi's study.

As soon as she entered the garden, she saw Prince Wang sitting opposite Chen Xi.

Prince Wang's appearance was far from what Tao Ye had imagined.

Tao Ye thought that a male mistress who tried to curry favor with the princess must have a fawning face. Since he could win the princess's favor, he must be a pretty boy younger than the princess's husband.

But the Wang Jing I met today, although handsome and elegant, had a sense of maturity beyond his years.

When Chen Xi saw Tao Ye coming, he introduced her to Wang Jing: "This is Miss Tao Ye. Her singing voice is like the sound of nature. I love her very much. Please enjoy her singing today!"

Wang Jinglue nodded and smiled, without saying much.

Chen Xi then instructed Tao Ye: "Quickly sing a song for Prince Wang to help him get drunk."

Tao Ye also imitated Wang Jing's posture, nodded slightly, smiled, put his hands together in front of his collar, and bowed to the two of them.

Tao Ye had never learned to play a musical instrument, and no one in that era could match the music she sang, so she could only sing a cappella.

Since it was a cappella performance, she had to at least sing some decent words to avoid being laughed at.

She thought about it, and then sang a modern song called "Bodhisattva Man" which used ancient poetry as lyrics. The tune was the same as the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

The word says:

Hill overlaps gold flickering

The clouds on the temples desire the fragrant snow on the cheeks

Too lazy to draw eyebrows

Late to put on makeup and wash up

front and rear mirror

Flowers complement each other

New post embroidered Luo Ru

Double Golden Partridge

After the song was over, Chen Xi clapped his hands and Wang Jing nodded silently in approval.

Chen Xi asked: "Did Miss Tao Ye write this poem herself?"

Tao Ye thought, these two people are well-read, but have never heard of such poems, so it must be that the creation time of "Bodhisattva Man·Small Hills Overlapping with Gold Flickering" must be after this era.

Therefore, Tao Ye, who knew nothing about history, shamelessly pretended to be the original creator of the song, and even said hypocritically: "I'm sorry to make you laugh."

"Miss Taoye is both talented and beautiful, but it's a pity..." Chen Xi only said half of the sentence, smiled and shook his head, then picked up the wine glass again.

When Tao Ye saw Chen Xi drinking, she suddenly remembered that she was not here to show off her poetic talent.

At this moment, she unconsciously touched the purse around her waist, and the small pill was still in it.

She thought that in order to poison Chen Xi and put the blame on Wang Jing, the poison naturally could not be put into the wine jug that the two of them shared, but could only be put into the wine glass that Chen Xi used.

Chen Xi was about to bring the wine glass to his lips when he suddenly glanced at the wine in the glass and called out to the attendant nearby: "There are bugs in this wine. Go and change it for me."

The servant hurriedly took a new wine glass and walked towards Chen Xi.

Tao Ye felt that the opportunity had come, so she hurried over, took the new wine glass from the servant, and said, "Let me pour wine for you, sir!"

The servant left, and when Tao Ye turned back to Chen Xi, she had quietly pinched a small pill with two fingers and put it into the cup.

She held the cup in her left hand and the wine pot in her right hand, filled a cup, and offered it to Chen Xi: "Please, sir!"

Chen Xi took the wine glass with a smile and pulled Tao Ye to sit down together.

At this time, Tao Ye sat between Chen Xi and Wang Jing.

Wang Jing moved slightly further away and drank by himself.

Chen Xi was about to bring the glass to his lips when he suddenly remembered something and pushed the glass to Tao Ye again: "Miss, you just sang a song, so you should moisten your throat! This glass, please first!"