Sick King and Concubine

Chapter 3 Poisoning
Jiang Li's eyes flashed, and then stepped in.

The little second who came here was stunned when he saw Jiang Li. The girl in front of her was wearing a blue pleated skirt with scattered flowers, and a green lotus-colored waist. She was holding her hands tightly. Her face was covered by a white veiled hat, and only her hair was exposed at the bottom. Satin-like hair, graceful as a lotus.

Qing Ge beside him saw this man staring blankly at her girl with a pair of eyes, and couldn't help but angrily said: "What are you looking at!"

The little girl turned her head in embarrassment, and hastily lowered her head and said, "You little one has no vision! I don't know what the girl wants?"

Li Ying next to him immediately said: "Go and prepare some food and bring it up, pick up the good ones."

"Yes, yes, yes." The little girl said and ran to the back hall immediately.

Jiang Li sat down and saw that the table was covered with a soft tablecloth, her eyes flashed, and she slightly pulled it away to have a look.

And at this time, Xiao Er also put things up, and the food was exquisite.

She put down the tablecloth and asked Qing Ge next to her, "Qing Ge, I heard that His Majesty took the vehicle first this time for the sake of convenience, and didn't bring any valuables?"

Qing Ge didn't know why her daughter said this in public, but she could only answer honestly: "That's what you said, but Your Majesty invited Master Mingyuan to consecrate a Jade Guanyin and sent it here. It is said that It's priceless."

The marriage between the two countries is obviously a major event, but the emperor of the Southern Kingdom is so stingy, it seems that he didn't take this matter to heart at all, or rather, he didn't take Jiang Li and that Chu Yu to heart, an unfavored prince The concubine's daughter, a sick and weak prince, who would bet on them.

Jiang Li turned to Li Ying and said, "Guard Li, how about showing me the Jade Guanyin?"

Li Ying was silent for a while, but looking at those calm eyes, she couldn't say no to refuse, so she said: "Princess, my subordinates will get it right away."

After a while, Li Ying brought over the box containing Jade Guanyin.

Jiang Li reached out to take it, and then opened it.

Suddenly, like the moonlight, the small inn was illuminated with brilliance, and the knife work was excellent, lifelike, and the treasure was solemn.

Qing Ge's eyes were brighter than the stars, exclaimed: "Oh my god..."

She said she stretched out her hand and wanted to touch it, but before she could react, she saw her girl let go of her hand, and then, that peerless treasure fell to the ground with a "snap" and fell to pieces!

"Girl!" Qing Ge exclaimed, almost crying!

She must have been dazzled just now to see that it was her own girl who let go of her hand on purpose and smashed the Jade Guanyin!
Li Ying also rushed up, and said with a stiff face: "Princess! Why are you so careless! We only have this little thing, how do we explain this?"

Jiang Li was also at a loss: "Li Siwei, I, I don't know either."

The shattered pieces of jade scattered on the ground, and everyone on the field stared blankly at the fragments on the ground. This is the only valuable thing. Who dares to bear the crime?

Seeing Jiang Li stay there, his heart couldn't help but soften, and then said: "Come on, take this piece away."

Immediately, a maid came forward and put away the Jade Guanyin fragment.

After this accident, Jiang Li couldn't eat anymore, Li Shiwei asked someone to pack the pastries, and then started to move forward.

And along the way, there were cautious weeping sounds from inside the carriage. Li Ying's heart turned a thousand times, but she didn't know how to persuade her. No matter what, she was just a weak girl.

Halfway on the way, the convoy stopped to rest. Li Ying saw Jiang Li standing beside him wearing a veiled hat, with his head lowered as if worried and sad, so he walked up and said, "Princess, there is no need to be sad. If you want to blame , and the subordinates are not well protected."

"Guard Li." Jiang Li's voice was elegant and unwavering.

Li Ying raised her head, and saw that the girl lifted her veil, and the face under the white gauze was in full bloom like a lotus flower, how could there be any sadness?

"Princess!" Li Ying said in surprise.

Jiang Li smiled slightly, and then stretched out his hand to take out his brocade handkerchief. Li Ying glanced at it, and saw a grass gnat embroidered on the white as snow brocade handkerchief. An indescribably pleasant aroma rushed into his nose.His heart couldn't help being slightly strange, he hurriedly lowered his head, and then a faint blush appeared.

Jiang Li said: "Li Shiwei, what do you think this is?"

When Li Ying heard this, she hurriedly raised her gaze, and saw two delicate pastries wrapped in the unfolded Jinpa.

He frowned slightly and said, "Isn't this the pastry in the inn just now?"

Jiang Li nodded and said: "This is indeed the pastry in that inn, but it is poisonous."

"Toxic?" Li Ying raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you try it with silver needles?"

Jiang Li said shallowly: "Accurately speaking, this is not poisonous. The person who made this pastry is a master poison maker. This sweet-scented osmanthus cake is filled with daphne flowers, and this peanut cake is filled with licorice. Alone they are not poisonous, but together they are highly poisonous."

"This..." Li Ying's expression changed.

Jiang Li continued: "I smelled it as soon as I smelled it, so I didn't eat those things."

"Why didn't the Princess just say that? Let's just kill them." Li Ying said.

Jiang Li shook his head and said, "I can't kill it. If we kill it, we might not be able to escape when we reach Wenjun Mountain."

"how do I say this?"

Jiang Li said, "Actually, I smashed that piece of jade on purpose."

"Why did you do that?"

Jiang Li said: "Because those people are just stepping on the spot among those thieves. First of all, why did they build such an elegant inn in the barren mountains? There are not many people coming and going on this road. How do they make ends meet? So, these People's money is the problem."

"Secondly, at that time, Qing Ge said a word by accident. This place makes people want to go in and sit down. Indeed, people who walk this road are all tired, so they must want to rest when they see such a place. You said that no matter how well the visitors hide their belongings, they will be quickly found by thieves. Therefore, I suspect that these people must have made inquiries long ago, so when is it easier to inquire than in an inn? ?”

"Thirdly, when I was sitting on the table, I pulled the tablecloth away to look at it. There were faint knife marks on the top-quality table. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't know it. Therefore, there must have been a fight in this inn. It stands to reason that those No matter how many thieves there are, they will not wipe out Prime Minister Lin's team of hundreds of people. So it is very likely that they started poisoning in the inn."

After Jiang Yan finished speaking, he looked at Li Ying and said, "So, I smashed the jade in front of them, and I explained through Qing Ge's mouth that this valuable thing is the only thing in our team, so I can only take a gamble, Bet those guys don't want to go to the trouble of robbing a poor convoy."

(End of this chapter)