Rescuing the Villainous Boss with a Little Dirty Master

Meanwhile, in the main courtyard of the Marquis of Zhongyong's residence, Jiang Lihai gently instructed Jiang Shi while packing her belongings, "Cimian, you and Xiaobao will be going to Dongli in a few days. Take good care of yourself on the way. Xiaobao is a naughty boy, so keep an eye on him. Once I've finished my business here, I'll go to Dongli to reunite with you."

Jiang looked at the man with his back to her. The last time they parted was six or seven years ago. In the past, she was the one who packed his bags and watched him leave. Now that their roles were reversed, she didn't feel much better.

"Be careful in the capital. Xiao Bao and I are waiting for you."

The next morning, Jiang Lihai sent someone to take Jiang Shi to the temple, with Lu Qian accompanying her, along with more than ten others providing covert protection. Now they were just waiting for the Dongli forces to set off.

Meanwhile, on Dongling Yu's side, all the personnel responsible for guarding the luggage had been imprisoned. They were locked up in a side room at the post station, their inexplicable imprisonment leaving them bewildered.

"Lord Li, what have we done wrong?"

Someone mustered the courage to ask, only to be met with a cold stare from Li Lian.

"Your Highness, everyone is here."

Just as everyone's unease grew, Dongling Yu pushed open the door and walked in, followed by a guard carrying a box. As he walked, the sound of porcelain clinking could be heard from the box.

Looking at the box, some people in the crowd exchanged glances discreetly, then shrank back, feigning ignorance.

Dongling Yu glanced at the person tied up in the room, picked up a chair and sat down casually, patting the box in the guard's hand, "Go."

The guard obeyed, drew his dagger, and made a cut on the arm of everyone who was tied up. He then casually took out a few small jars of ointment from the box and applied them to them.

“These ointments have been tampered with. Think carefully, who is the most suspicious?”

Dongling Yu paused, as if just remembering something, "I don't know how toxic it is. Whoever provides a useful clue first, I will have the physician detoxify him first."

A commotion erupted inside, and soon five people were pushed out. They all knelt on the ground, shouting that they were innocent.

"Too noisy," Dongling Yu muttered softly. For a moment, the room fell silent, except for occasional cries of pain from those suffering from the effects of the poison.

"Li Lian, the rest is up to you. Don't mess things up, or we'll have to take it back to Dongli and return it to its owner."

In fact, Dongling Yu had already roughly determined that this was Dong Jingming's doing, but everything requires evidence to bring someone to justice. It was also time to find something to do for his third brother, who was far away in Dongli.

The remaining two days passed peacefully, and the banquet was being arranged in full swing, scheduled for tonight. Tomorrow, the Dongli delegation will depart.

"May the relationship between our two countries last forever."

At the banquet, Emperor Qilan raised his glass to the Dongli group at the head of the table, and Dongling Yu rose on behalf of everyone to return the toast, saying, "May this prosperous era continue forever."

The banquet officially began. Jiang Heng stood behind Dong Tinglan, her eyes lowered, dutifully playing the role of a lowly eunuch serving food to her master. Only when bending down did she swiftly inspect each dish. After confirming it was free of poison, she secretly tapped three times on Dong Tinglan's back. This was their pre-arranged signal.

As Jiang Heng served him food again, Dong Tinglan quietly asked him, "Are you tired? Why don't you go back to Chunhua Palace later?"

This banquet will last at least an hour, and he couldn't bear to make the young prince stand for so long.

"I'm not tired. I need to keep an eye on things to feel at ease."

Before getting up, Jiang Heng took the opportunity to squeeze his fingertips to reassure him.

Tonight's banquet is destined to be anything but peaceful.

“Brother, you’ve found a good servant. Unlike the ones behind me, they only move when the master calls.” Dongling Yu leaned against the table, swirling the wine cup in his hand, staring intently at Jiang Heng.

Jiang Heng ignored that gaze and stood obediently to the side. Dong Tinglan glanced at her, knowing she would never speak. He turned his gaze to the dancer in the center, whose movements were now radiating outwards from the center. Her flowing sleeves rippled outwards like waves, some reaching right up to the guests. A subtle fragrance wafted through the air, intoxicating even without wine.

Jiang Heng's eyes sharpened, and she casually picked a grape and handed it to him along with a pill, saying, "There's something wrong with this incense. Take the antidote first."

Because his flowing sleeves obscured his movements, the crowd couldn't see him clearly and assumed he was simply serving food. As he stood up, he glanced in Dongling Yu's direction and saw that Ma Shang was pulling a dancer's sleeve to his nose and smelling it, his smile so radiant that it made the dancer blush.

"Sleazy".

Jiang Heng spat and refocused her attention on the scene. Fortunately, these people were only targeting Dong Tinglan and Dong Lingyu, otherwise she would have had to find a way to give her father the antidote.

As expected, the lewd ones are the first to enjoy the effects of the drug. In no time, Dongling Yu slumped in his seat, barely able to speak.

"Your Highness is already drunk?"

Emperor Qilan glanced down casually from the head of the table, made a surprised remark to the head eunuch beside him, and then looked away.

The servants behind Dongling Yu seemed oblivious to his unusual behavior, standing as still as wooden stakes, not even blinking.

In a short time, Dongling Yu was shocked. What went wrong? Why was he the only one affected? And why was it targeting him? But apart from feeling weak all over, he had no other discomfort and was at a loss as to what the other party's purpose was.

When the dancer returned to the guests, she was momentarily puzzled upon seeing Dongling Yu's appearance. He had already collapsed? All show and no substance.

Nothing else went wrong until the banquet ended. Only Dongling Yu was carried back to Chunhua Palace. When they realized something was wrong with him, the palace servants immediately summoned a physician.

"Your Highness, this is... this is because you inhaled too much of the aphrodisiac. It's nothing serious, I'll go prepare the medicine right away."

The physician was somewhat embarrassed. Normal people feel weak and tingly upon smelling the alluring fragrance; it's a way to stimulate desire. He wondered what His Highness had done at the banquet to ingest so much.

Dongling Yu was increasingly confused. Was he overthinking things? But he dared not let his guard down until the effects of the drug wore off, since anyone could take his life now.

He tried his best to speak, asking people to surround him, hoping to recall the events of the banquet. However, due to the drug, his mind was not clear, so he had to close his eyes and wait for the antidote.

Inside the main hall, after listening to 886's report, Jiang Heng adopted a look of anticipation, knowing that the Bone-Corroding Powder and the Enchanting Incense were two completely different things. Although both would make one's body weak, their effects were vastly different. Dongling Yu was in for a rough time.

"Tonight went by so easily?"

Jiang Heng lay on the table, dangling a piece of Dong Tinglan's sleeve in her hand, utterly bored.

"Tonight's objective has been achieved."

Dong Tinglan let him tug at his sleeve until it was crumpled, but the words he uttered brought Jiang Heng back to her senses.

"Was it your doing that Dongling Yu became like that?" Jiang Heng moved closer and asked in a low voice.

"Mo Wu is working on the outside. The Bone-Corroding Powder will initially only make people weak all over, but if it is not detoxified in time, the poisoned person will start to have weakness in the lower limbs after a period of time. By the time they realize it, it is too late to save them and they can only become a cripple."

With one poisoning after another, Dongling Yu will only become paranoid. Given his personality, it wouldn't be surprising if he did something crazy.