Royal daughter-in-law

Chapter 533 Longevity Peach (4)
Yun Wanqin asked casually: "Hey, isn't this peach a prop peach for acting? What's the matter, is it still for the empress to enjoy?"

The nanny who spoke just now said: "The prince said that the peaches in the birthday show are auspicious peaches. People who listen to the show will usually eat two bites, in order to prolong their lives."

Yun Wanqin glanced at the longevity peach in the hand of the nanny, her mind was inexplicably moved, and she just smiled lightly: "Shoutao is added to Chen Xiang's rescue of the mother, which is much more interesting, and it fits the purpose of the birthday banquet. .”

Several people smiled and nodded again and again, only to hear Qin Wangfei say: "Let me have a look."

The nanny holding the birthday peach in her hand didn't doubt that he was there, she just took her as a novelty and held it with both hands.

Yun Wanqin took it carefully, put it on her lap, scooped up a handful of clean water with both hands, she seemed to be just washing the peaches, but she was looking at every part of the peaches carefully.

The rest of the people saw her cleaning the birthday peaches, so they went about their own business and didn't pay much attention to her.

It should be a variety cultivated in a greenhouse. It is pink and large, and the color is fresh and tender, and there is nothing unusual about it.

Tao Ye pushed it apart, but sensitively noticed that the fingertips were not smooth.

She took the birthday peach close to her and examined it carefully. On the lower edge of the birthday peach, under the cover of the green leaves, there were tiny holes. Count them randomly, and there were more than a dozen of them densely packed, but they were obviously not moth-eaten holes.

Most of the moth-eaten holes are irregular, and it will also affect the discoloration of the surrounding peach flesh. These small holes are transparent and colorless. If you don’t take a closer look, you can’t see them at all. They are all very well-proportioned circles. In this place, the peach flesh is slightly swollen, like——swollen.

Yun Wanqin held her breath, brought those small perforations of Shoutao close to her nose, took a deep sniff, her breathing stopped suddenly, almost out of breath, her whole body stood up as if frozen.

A few nuns and the nun Changqing who helped her noticed that she was strange, and looked over. Seeing that her face was a little pale, a nun wondered: "What's wrong?"

Yun Wanqin let go of her hand, and Shoutao fell to the ground with a "slap", it fell to pieces, and the juice flew around.

Everyone was startled, came over with a clatter, and shouted: "Oh, the birthday peach was broken by the princess!"

The steward who was listening to the movement was also startled, and came over in a hurry, seeing the situation, he was furious: "This is the key prop in the birthday show, it was chosen by the prince himself for the queen, Princess Qin must be too careless !"

Yun Wanqin lowered her head: "My hand slipped——"

"Hand slippery!?" The eunuch in charge snorted, and didn't bother to talk to her, so he went to report to the prince first.

A group of female relatives who were doing things immediately made a noise.

Several nuns from Changqing Temple came up, quite worried, Yun Wanqin didn't say anything, and after a while, the eunuch in charge came back with a pale face: "The prince is here, Princess Qin, please come over!"

Yun Wanqin took a deep breath, followed the eunuch, and left the backyard.

This time it was changed to the quiet study next to Songyuan Hall, the eunuch in charge pushed open the door, still angry, stretched out his hand, and made a gesture of leading the way: "Princess Qin, please!"

Yun Wanqin stepped over the threshold and entered the study.

In the study room, the windows were closed and the curtains were drawn tight.

Approaching the innermost room, the prince turned to her with his hands behind his back.

I met the prince just now, but for some reason, within a few moments of the second meeting, Yun Wanqin felt a cold air rolling from head to toe, lingering.

The slight drunkenness that had been in the Songyuan Hall before had disappeared at this moment. The man's face was expressionless, as if he wasn't angry because the birthday peach was destroyed, but——it was because of this that it made people feel scary.

"My concubine accidentally missed and smashed the prince's longevity peach, please the prince deal with it fairly!" Yun Wanqin bent down.

The man's usually smiling eyes lost their vitality at this moment, his rare silence was like a deep pool, and there was a coolness on his lips: "Didn't Princess Qin smash the longevity peach on purpose?"

There is no private intimate address anymore, some are just cautious, vigilant, and wary.

The air in the room circulated extremely slowly.

No way, he obviously already knew.

Having made up her mind, Yun Wanqin raised her head: "I smashed the birthday peach myself, just to prevent the crown prince from making an irreversible mistake."

Seeing her confession, the prince laughed, and while laughing, he slowly walked out of the desk and approached the woman, but there was no lack of regret in his smile: "Qin'er, I only praised you for your honesty a few moments ago, why are you lying now? Why are you doing it for loneliness, the birthday banquet is organized by King Qin, so you are doing it for King Qin not to be implicated!"

Yun Wanqin felt that a pair of golden boots on the red woven carpet was in front of her eyes, and when she raised her head, she felt a wind in her sleeves, and a palm came towards her, clamping her neck with such great force that her feet were almost suspended in the air on the ground.

The sound of bones rubbing against each other came from the throat.The air seemed to be cut off, and she couldn't breathe in. Yun Wanqin opened her eyes wide and stared at the man in front of her.

He had already restrained his smile, his eyes were bloodshot, no longer elegant, full of violence before bloodthirsty, his eyelashes were trembling, his handsome eyebrows were full of struggle, and he stared at himself.

He is the lord of the East Palace, and this is his territory, even if he kills people to silence her, he will have thousands of legitimate reasons to explain her death to outsiders afterwards.

Finally, as soon as her knuckles relaxed, she felt fresh air flow in, and she fell to the ground.

The whole person was limp on the ground, and she took a few breaths.

He waved his wide sleeves, and his voice returned to his composure: "Let's go."

When he grabbed her throat, he knew he couldn't do it.

Yun Wanqin coughed a few times, stood up, and brushed off the nun's robe: "The crown prince just let me go, so I'm not afraid of endless troubles? If I go out now, it will be said that the crown prince used a hollowed-out bamboo in the birthday peach. Even if I inject a poison and give it to the birthday star at the birthday banquet, my punishment may be completely offset, and the prince will be doomed!"

She once read in the medical notes that when Western doctors practiced medicine in Daxuan, they would use bamboo to cut into very thin strips, then hollow out the inner core, make holes at both ends, pour medicinal liquid, and then use tools to introduce In the patient's body, it is called acupuncture medicine.

The small holes on the longevity peach just now were all traces of injection of medicinal liquid. Because the pinholes were too small, one injection was afraid that it would not be effective, so I punched it in more than a dozen places. When I took a closer look, it did have a slight smell of venom.

In the birthday scene, a scene of borrowing a peach to present his mother was specially added, and Queen Jiang was allowed to enjoy the poisonous birthday peach... Unexpectedly, the crown prince's hatred for Queen Jiang really came to this point.

Either you die or I die.

When she learned that she was holding a poisonous peach just now, the coldness in Yun Wanqin's body was not only when she learned that the prince was going to kill her adoptive mother at the birthday banquet, but also because she suddenly remembered the decree that the prince was abolished in the previous life.

"Unruly and dissolute, arrogant and unruly, not filial to mother, not respecting father, rebellious son".

If the incident of poisoning the queen came to light, it would definitely qualify as a felony described in this imperial decree.

(End of this chapter)