Cold-faced Empress

As she spoke, Li trembled slightly: "Yingying, you're right. Better safe than sorry. Your aunt and cousin... we have to be on guard!"

Prime Minister Fu, who was standing to the side, nodded solemnly: "It is an omen of divine intervention."

The whole family smelled strangely, and since they were going to entertain guests later, they had to quickly take a bath and change clothes.

Once the door closed, leaving only Fu Siying and Qingyin inside, Qingyin could no longer hold back, her legs gave way, and she collapsed to the ground.

"You scared me to death..."

Fu Siying chuckled and changed her clothes: "Well done, no mistakes."

Qingyin shook her head: "Miss, you've thought of everything. You even thought of smearing sesame oil on the bottom of the basket to attract mice to gnaw on it. I'm truly, truly amazed!"

Fu Siying disagreed: "Isn't this just the way it should be? Otherwise, how could we let the mice gnaw on the basket?"

"But how did you know that the mouse hole would lead to the small garden?" Haruno asked curiously.

Upon hearing this, Fu Siying laughed out loud: "Do you think I know everything? I didn't know in advance that the mouse hole would lead to the small garden, but it doesn't matter where it leads, it won't affect anything."

Qingyin exclaimed, "You ordered me to place the snake basket next to the mouse hole in the kitchen yard. I thought you were planning to put on a show in the kitchen yard, and I was worried that with so many people coming and going, the snake would be caught before we made any noise."

Fu Siying nodded: "Of course we can't do it in the kitchen, but we have to use the excuse of having the kitchen make snake soup, so we can only use the rat hole to lead the snakes."

After calming down for a while, Qingyin got up and quickly carried hot water for Fu Siying to wash herself.

Fu Siying soaked in the bathtub, squinting at Qingyin who was diligently serving her outside the tub, and suddenly asked, "Weren't you scared when you poured poison into the perfume right under the monk's nose?"

Qingyin paused, looked at Fu Siying, and slowly nodded: "I'm scared. That's a Buddhist item. It will pollute the purification perfume, and I... I'm very afraid."

"Do you regret it?"

"No regrets."

Fu Siying chuckled softly: "You're lying."

Qingyin remained silent for a moment, then murmured, "This servant is not lying. If there is any regret, it is that if you regret it, then this servant will regret it as well."

Fu Siying turned her head and looked at Qingyin, whose expression was solemn. She sighed softly and took Qingyin's hand: "I only hope that I will never say the word 'regret' in my entire life!"

"Then I will have no regrets in my life!"

……

After Fu Siying finished tidying up, her two uncles from her main family had already arrived shortly.

Fu Siying led Yunzhi and Rong Chen to the front hall to greet the guests.

"Greetings, Second Uncle and Third Uncle," Fu Siying said with a smile, "Why didn't I see Second Aunt and Third Aunt come with me?"

She vividly remembered the disdainful look on her second aunt's face when she left her house last time, as if she wished she had nothing to do with her family. At that time, everyone thought the Fu family was in dire straits because they had offended Prince Mu, but now... the Fu family was engaged to Prince Mu. She wondered what her second aunt thought about that.