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The journey from the capital to Prince Ming's fiefdom is not fast; it's about a thousand li (approximately 500 kilometers). Traveling sixty li (approximately 30 kilometers) a day without stopping would take almost twenty days. If something happens to delay the journey, it would take at least a month.

When Du Mingxian couldn't sit still in the carriage, she would go out for a horse ride.

Ling Silang was bored in the carriage by himself. Besides, now that he was healthy, it wouldn't do if he didn't learn to ride a horse. So he took this opportunity to learn to ride a horse on the road.

As a result, the carriage was empty, and the two of them rode horses outside. However, Du Mingxian was dressed in men's clothing, which made things more convenient.

The group had been traveling for over ten days without incident, but it rained twice along the way, making the road difficult to travel, so they had only covered about a third of the distance.

It started raining again that day, and the carriage had to stop halfway because the rain was too heavy to continue. In the end, they had no choice but to enter a small town to find a place to stay. The town was small, with only two inns, and they didn't bother to choose one; they went straight into the one closest to them.

After they went inside, the waiter greeted them very warmly. Xiangyang went up and asked for several guest rooms, and also asked the waiter to bring hot water upstairs.

Because it was inconvenient for Du Mingxian and Ling Silang to take a bath on the road, they always took a bath in their space. However, when Xiangyang asked the waiter to bring hot water up, they did not refuse, as it would be abnormal not to take a bath.

Once the water was delivered and the door was closed, the two went directly into the space. Ling Silang went to collect the vegetables and tidy up the space, while Du Mingxian went to take a shower first.

After the two finished bathing, Ling Silang grabbed a handful of soil from his spatial storage and put it into the water outside. He then called someone over to pour out the water. They had been doing this for days, and everyone was already used to it.

Someone came in and carried out buckets of water, while Xiangyang was already arranging lunch for them.

Upon arriving at the inn, Du Mingxian had just taken a bath and changed back into women's clothing.

"Madam, the town is simple and there's not much good food. This is some food I made in their kitchen."

"Okay, thank you for your thoughtfulness. You can go and eat now."

"Yes."

Du Mingxian trained her maids in cooking, but unfortunately, none of them were very good. The other two were absolutely terrible. Only Xiangyang could barely cook some dishes, at least she could cook them properly. The other two were hopeless; they were the kind of food that could kill you.

Two bowls of noodles, with eggs and vegetables in them, looked quite appetizing.

"I'm actually a little hungry," Du Mingxian said, picking up some food with her chopsticks, but Ling Silang sniffed and stopped her. "Don't eat yet."

"What's wrong?" Du Mingxian asked, puzzled, but she still put down her chopsticks.

Ling Silang's expression was somewhat solemn. "There's medicine powder in this noodle."

"What medicine?"

Ling Silang picked up a noodle with his chopsticks, smelled it, and said with certainty, "It's a sleeping potion."

Du Mingxian was at a loss for words. "Xiangyang made these noodles. She definitely wouldn't have added anything. I'll ask her to come over and ask her."

"Okay, I've got it."

Du Mingxian got up to find Xiangyang. Xiangyang and the others were eating in their room. Since they were all servants, the three maids shared one room, and the others shared another.

"Xiangyang, come here for a moment."

Xiangyang rushed out, "What's wrong with Madam?"

Du Mingxian led the person to her room before asking, "When you were making these noodles, did you notice anything suspicious about anyone? Or, besides you, did anyone else have contact with the noodles?"

"No, they were all people around Madam. When I was cooking, Chunfeng came over and asked if we could eat together, so I made a few extra bowls. Xia Yu brought the food over; no one else went into the kitchen."

"Have the waiters and such never been to the kitchen before?"

"No, because there weren't many customers in their shop today, just our group, so they didn't need to use the kitchen. When I went in to cook, the waiter just told me where some things were, but he didn't say anything else, and he didn't stay in the kitchen before leaving."

Chunfeng and Xiayu were people given to her by the Crown Prince, and she believed that there was nothing wrong with them. However, when Xiangyang was cooking, Xiao Er did not go in, nor did anyone else. So who put the medicine in?

After Xiangyang finished speaking, she kept staring at Du Mingxian's expression. Noticing something was wrong with her, she hurriedly asked, "Madam, is there something wrong with the food?"

"No, I just wanted to ask you." Du Mingxian suddenly remembered that they had eaten the same food as she and Ling Silang. "Did you eat the same food that my husband and I ate?"

"Yes, it was all cooked in one pot. I thought it would be simple and convenient to cook in one pot because they wanted to eat it. After the food was cooked, they came in and took a bite. That's all."

Du Mingxian became more and more confused as she listened, and suddenly didn't know what to say. If there was a problem with the noodles, the people around her would probably all collapse.

"Do other people eat the noodles you make?"

"Yes, they said the food at this inn looks bad, so they want to eat my cooking."

Well, they've basically been wiped out.

"lady."

"Okay, you go back."

Xiangyang originally thought something had happened, which was why the madam was so anxious to call her out. But after asking a lot of questions, the madam didn't say anything in the end and told her to go back. Why was that?

This puzzled her greatly, but she didn't say anything and just told the person to go back.

After Xiang Yang left, Du Mingxian and Ling Silang exchanged a glance, closed the door, and then poured half of the noodles into their spatial dimension, leaving the other half on the table, making it seem as if they had already eaten half of it.

Once the illusion was set up, Du Mingxian and Ling Silang lay face down on the table. Just then, Xiang Yang's urgent voice came from outside, "Madam, there's a sleeping potion! There's a sleeping potion! Don't take it! Don't take it!"

Du Mingxian was lying face down on the table, afraid of giving herself away, and didn't show the slightest change in expression.

As Xiangyang's voice grew closer, she could even hear him fall. For a moment, she didn't know whether to get up to help him or continue pretending.

After a few breaths, the sound of two people talking could be heard outside.

"It held on for quite a while before it finally collapsed, which scared me so much that I thought the medicine had lost its effectiveness."

"Don't worry, come on, just tie them up, sell the woman, and kill the man."

Good heavens, this is murder and robbery!

Du Mingxian could hear them moving around outside and recognized their voices as those of the innkeeper and waiter.

She looked up from inside the room and saw Ling Silang looking at her. She asked him a question with her eyes, and Ling Silang nodded slightly. Du Mingxian got up and left.

The shopkeeper and the waiter were working hard to tie up Xiangyang.

Because Xiangyang was called away by Du Mingxian halfway through taking the medicine, her effects were the least pronounced. When she realized something was wrong with her companion, and remembering Du Mingxian's earlier question, she immediately ran outside, but she still couldn't resist the effects of the medicine.