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Chapter 54

When we got to the kiosk, I asked Pearl to sit down and rest for a while.

Pearl is young, and she has been standing with me for a long time today, I am worried that she will be a little bit unbearable.

There is tea and tea sets in the kiosk. I originally asked my servants to prepare it for the guests to enjoy when they play, but the guests are all in the plum garden at this time, and now they are going to be enjoyed by me instead.

I picked up the teapot, poured two cups of tea, and pushed one of them in front of Pearl.

Pearl smiled and said, "Thank you miss."

I smiled in response.

However, when I picked up the cup of tea in front of me and was about to drink it, Pearl exclaimed, "Wait a minute."

The movement of me holding the teacup freezes in the air.

"What's wrong?" I looked at Pearl strangely.

She picked up the cup of tea I poured for her, sniffed it on her nose, and said, "There is medicine in this tea."

I followed suit, put the teacup up to my nose and sniffed, but no matter how I sniffed, I could only smell a fragrant tea.

Pearl said: "Miss can't smell it, it's normal. The smell of the seven blessings is originally weak, and it is covered by the smell of tea. But my sense of smell has been super sensitive since I was a child. I can hide this matter from others, but I can't hide it from me." ."

I put the teacup on the table and said, "Seven Lucky Grass?"

But in my heart, I have already believed seven or eight percent of Pearl's words.

Pearl has no motive to lie to me, and, for so many days, her medical skills have successfully subdued me.

Pearl said: "When my master performs operations on others, he often gives the patients Mafeisan beforehand, so that the patients will fall asleep and feel no pain during the operation. These seven blessings are used to make Mafeisan. One of the main medicinal materials."

I nodded, lost in thought.

What the pearl means is that these seven blessings can be regarded as drugs. Someone put drugs in the tea in the kiosk. Is this aimed at me, or is it to deal with another person who will come to the kiosk? Just hit me?

"Miss……"

"Um?"

Pearl winked at me, and I followed her gaze, and Zhao Lingrong's graceful figure was walking towards me, and she was still holding a mahogany food box in her hand.

She came at this time? Is it a coincidence, or is it related to the medicine in the tea?

Not long after, Zhao Lingrong walked up the stone steps to the small pavilion where Pearl and I were.

Zhao Lingrong is used to laughing, and she looks good when she smiles. Among Chen Luo's concubines, I think she is the most pleasing to the eye.

At this time, she was also smiling naively, and she gave me a salute and said: "Ma'am, Ling Rong heard from Cui Qiaoer that you have worked hard all day and now you are resting in the kiosk, and you happened to make crystal cake today, so I thought Sending some to the lady, thinking she might like some snacks."

What she said was perfect, I nodded and asked her to sit down.

Zhao Lingrong followed good example, and then she opened the food box, and carefully took out a snow-white porcelain plate from the food box. On the plate were six crystal cakes that were only slightly bigger than pigeon eggs. Although the snacks were small, they were quite well made Each one is made into different shapes, rabbits, birds, kittens... It looks different and lifelike, which makes people feel unbearable to eat.

Zhao Lingrong pushed the porcelain plate in front of my eyes, smiled very kindly and said: "Madam, how about trying it?"

I glanced at the pearl, and hesitated for a while whether to eat it or not.

Pearl directly twisted a piece of rabbit-shaped crystal cake from the plate and put it in her mouth. Zhao Lingrong looked at Pearl strangely. She might think that Pearl's behavior was a little rude, but she didn't say anything when she saw that I didn't speak.

Pearl had eaten the crystal cake, and commented with crooked smiles: "It's delicious, and Aunt Zhao's craftsmanship really lives up to its reputation."

I put down my snacks for a while, but I heard Pearl say again: "However, my young lady has a bad appetite today, so it's not suitable to eat such sweet and greasy food."

"Ah? Yes, is it?" Zhao Lingrong looked at me suspiciously.

I nodded: "Yeah."

Of course I don't really have a bad appetite, but since Pearl said so, there might be something wrong with this crystal cake, so I followed Pearl's words.

My heart sank, tea, crystal cake.If I had some doubts just now, I am completely sure now that this game was set up for me, and even the person who set up the game prepared at least two moves. If it weren't for the pearls with me, I'm afraid I have already fallen into the trap .

"Well, then it seems that Lingrong came at the wrong time." Zhao Lingrong looked a little regretful.

I smiled and comforted her and said, "It's fine as long as it's on your mind."

Although judging from the current evidence, Zhao Lingrong is very suspicious, and she even personally brought me a plate of questionable dim sum, but I don't think she has anything to do with this matter.

Zhao Lingrong's role in this incident was most likely a scapegoat.If something happened to me, this plate of dim sum clearly bearing Zhao Lingrong's personal seal would become evidence. Even if she had a bit of dignity in the Chen family because of her biological mother, she would not be able to withstand the murder of the mistress. charge...

The question is, what is the person behind the scene planning to do to me by setting up this game? If they want to kill me, why don't they simply use poison?

Could it be that he wanted to stun me with drugs and kidnap me out of the mansion to blackmail me? I quickly vetoed this idea and robbed the owner's wife from the manor. Was the nursing home of the water villa just for display?

"Ma'am, Lingrong is a little thirsty after walking all the way, I wonder if Madam can give Lingrong a sip of tea?"

I was still thinking about something, and when I heard what Zhao Lingrong said, I nodded reflexively.

"Miss, this tea..." Pearl whispered beside me.

I just remembered that the tea was drugged and I couldn't drink it.

"Wait, don't drink." I said hastily.

Zhao Lingrong had already brought the teacup full of tea to her lips at this time, she stopped when she heard what I said, and looked at me suspiciously: "Ma'am, what's wrong?"

"This tea is not well brewed. I just wanted Pearl to make it again. You'd better not drink it." I improvised an excuse.

Zhao Lingrong said: "No, my concubine smells pretty good, and Lingrong is not from a noble background, so she doesn't pay so much attention." After she finished speaking, before I could stop her, she poured down the cup of tea in one go down.

She drank a cup of tea with added ingredients. She put the teacup back on the table, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve to wipe it, and then smiled at me.

I:"……"

This girl is really careless.

"Ying Rong, how are you feeling now?"

Zhao Lingrong: "Feeling? Madame, what do you think of this tea? Maybe it's because of Lingrong's humble background, she didn't taste anything bad, and thought it was quite good."

Me: "I'm asking about your body, do you feel... a little dizzy? Or, any other discomfort?"

Zhao Lingrong shook her head.

I thought it was weird.But maybe the effect of the medicine hasn't happened yet.

While she was still awake, I also wanted to ask her something: "Lingrong, did you want to send this crystal cake yourself, or did someone remind you?"

Zhao Lingrong blinked: "Of course Lingrong wanted to give the lady some snacks."

I suddenly realized that I can't ask this question, even if someone picked her up, but from Zhao Lingrong's point of view, how could she admit that she did so after being reminded to show her courtesy to the mistress?

I asked in another way: "Then besides you, has this snack ever been in the hands of other people?"

Zhao Lingrong thought for a while, and then said: "Cui Qiaoer? After I finished, Cui Qiaoer helped me bring it from the kitchen..." Zhao Lingrong shook her head, and I noticed that her originally clear eyes began to become blurred When she got up, she murmured: "Is it my hallucination? Why, there are two wives..."