Food, Color, Medicine and Fragrance: Ugly Girl Turns Over

Chapter 232 Birthday Banquet One
Lin Xiaorou got up and breathed a sigh of relief, and took Cailan to the study, halfway through, Cailan looked at Lin Xiaoju embarrassedly and said: "Princess, you cover your face like this..."

Lin Xiaorou smiled, and said: "Covering my face is a sense of mystery, and now my face is in a mess, if the prince sees it, wouldn't he be disgusted with me?"

Cai Lan thought about it, and when she came to the door of the study, Lin Xiaorou walked in alone.

Lord Jing sat on a chair with his back facing her.

"looking for me."

"close the door."

Lin Xiaorou closed the study door, blocking all the hustle and bustle outside.

"My Princess Jing, should you tell me where you went after you disappeared all night?"

"Does this have something to do with you?" Lin Xiaorou asked back, she hated this questioning tone very much.

Lord Jing turned around slowly, and sat lazily, his eyes were cold and tired.

"I don't care about my business, but as soon as you came back to the mansion, someone died. I have to suspect that it has something to do with you."

Lin Xiaorou was speechless, because it was indeed related to her.

"You guessed it right, I was attacked in the middle of the night last night! If I hadn't hid under the bed, I guess you should set up a mourning hall for me now!"

"Who is going to kill you?" Prince Jing didn't show the slightest bit of fear or worry, as if he didn't care about Lin Xiaorou's life or death.

"If I know, do I still need to sit here and wait for death? When I came back with Cailan yesterday morning, I witnessed an old man being killed. The old man shouted Princess Shengjing, but he was attacked at night. After all, I It's just being a scapegoat, and the one they want to kill is the real Princess Jing!"

Lord Jing stood up, Lin Xiaorou instinctively took a few steps back and looked at him vigilantly.

"Am I a man-eating tiger?" Prince Jing frowned helplessly.

Lin Xiaorou didn't answer.

"What are you doing with such a ghostly face? You have no face to see people?"

Veins popped up on Lin Xiaorou's forehead, and she said angrily, "Whatever I do has nothing to do with you. This is not the point we want to talk about. The point is who is that old man who died in vain, and why the people behind the scenes wanted to kill me so quickly."

Prince Jing glanced at her, and said after a while: "It's the minister of the court, who was found assassinated yesterday."

Court minister?Then the person who can kill the court ministers and arrange to assassinate them in the palace must be someone who knows them all.

"Is it the emperor?"

After Lin Xiaorou finished speaking, she regretted it, and immediately shut up. Lord Jing gave her a hard look, then returned to his seat and turned around.

"Keep your mouth shut and don't go out these two days."

Lin Xiaorou was kicked out just like that, and not long after she returned to her room, there were no weak maids waiting at her door, but a few servants with big arms and thick waists.

When she went out, several men followed her like tails, Cai Lan thought it was nothing, she was safer after all, but Lin Xiaorou hated it very much, she always felt that these two men were Prince Jing's eyeliner, and he would immediately know what she did and ate.

Sitting bored, one hand kept fiddling with the sachet on the waist. The fragrance of the sachet has faded a little these days, but it still smells good. Every time I smell it, my whole body feels comfortable. It’s really a good thing .

"Cailan, bring a pair of scissors!"

"Princess, what do you want scissors for!"

Lin Xiaorou glared at Cai Lan, and said, "Could it be that I still can't think about it? Quickly bring it to me to see what's in the sachet and why it smells so fragrant. If it's simple petals, we can make a few more."

Cai Lan brought scissors, Lin Xiaorou carefully cut a small hole in the sachet, shook it lightly, and poured out some of the contents.

As expected, there are some dried petals, including roses, jasmine, osmanthus, and an unknown flower.

Lin Xiaorou twirled her fingers lightly, and suddenly a strange thing entered her line of sight.It was a very fine particle, white, and it was hard to detect unless you looked closely. When you sniffed it closely, the smell was very strong and even overwhelmed the scent of flowers, and the scent of the sachet she smelled was exactly the same as this one.

"Cailan, do you see what this is?"

Cailan put the granules in her hand and looked at them carefully, and finally shook her head blankly: "I don't know, I've never seen such a thing before, why don't I ask the gardener."

A gardener is a person who is responsible for the flowers and plants in the palace. There are two gardeners in the palace, and each is responsible for half of it. However, the other gardener took a long vacation, and now there is only one left.

Soon Cailan came back with her things, her expression was very bad, and the gardener followed her.

"The slave pays his respects to the princess."

"Get up quickly."

The gardener didn't dare to look up at Lin Xiaorou, but got up and stood stiffly, and said seriously: "Back to the princess, do you still have a lot of things that Miss Cailan brought to see?"

Lin Xiaorou gave the sachet to Cai Lan and handed it to the gardener: "It's all here, you can see."

"Yes." The gardener took the sachet and looked at it seriously, and finally his face changed drastically, and he said with trembling hands: "Princess Hui, this is a poison. It is made from the flower seeds of manjusawa. It has been smelled for a long time. It will make people dependent and hallucinating, the princess must never touch it again!"

Lin Xiaorou was shocked, she couldn't believe that the sachet that she had been carrying for so many days was actually poisonous, and she really relied on this sachet, and she often wanted to smell it from time to time.

She remembered the incident that caused Zhang Qing'er to hallucinate and finally died in Jiangcheng, and she couldn't help trembling all over. Suddenly, she thought of the Manjushahua she saw at night, and asked hurriedly, "Is there a manjushahua in this palace?"

The gardener shook his head and said: "Princess, manjusawa is poisonous and it is absolutely impossible to plant it in the palace, and there is no trace of manjusawa in my jurisdiction!"

Lin Xiaorou's heart went cold, she sat blankly for a long time without saying a word, damn it, she was tricked again.

Prince Jing went to Yingtian Mansion on purpose today because of the murder of a maidservant, and it was too early to leave.

Ying Tian Mansion is far away from Wang Mansion, so the carriage took some time to arrive.

Master Li of Yingtian Mansion was reading the case files, when he heard that Prince Jing was coming, he immediately bowed out to greet him.

The two exchanged pleasantries, and then sat down to talk. Not long after, Mr. Li knelt down facing King Jing, and apologized: "Please also ask King Jing to punish the little official. The small official failed to transfer all the money in time. come out."

King Jing raised his hand to signal him to get up, then smiled and said: "Don't be so alarmed, I'm here today for other reasons!"

"King King, please tell me."

"Master Zhang was assassinated and died, did you guess the murderer?"

"To tell you the truth, Prince Jing, I did guess it, but I dare not say it."

"Why don't you talk about it and see if we think the same."

Mr. Li hesitated, looked up at Lord Jing, and after getting affirmation, he said in a low voice: "I guess it was the emperor's instruction. After all, these old ministers have a lot of opinions on the emperor. The emperor has long thought about it." Bad luck."

This answer was not affirmed by Prince Jing.

Prince Jing drank a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then said slowly: "I think this is the work of Concubine Jing. The emperor has tolerated the old officials for so many years and doesn't care about this time, and as the emperor who sets an example for the world, don't be a last resort. I will not kill these veterans."

"Unexpectedly, Concubine Jing is such a cruel and merciless person. I have heard of her harming other concubines in the harem before, and now it seems that it is not a lie."

"Concubine Jing is not scary, what is scary is the child in her belly!"

Master Li was stunned for a moment, a little puzzled, and said: "Dare to ask the prince, what do you say?"

"The emperor is getting old, and recently he wants to make Concubine Jing a queen. If he gives birth to a boy in the future, it is very likely that he will be crowned prince. If the emperor dies, according to Concubine Jing's method, he will definitely support the prince to ascend the throne. If she secretly regents together, then the entire court will be controlled by her, and it will be misfortune for us and the whole world."

Lord Jing knew everything, and spoke with all his heart, and Master Li was deeply terrified.

"What does the prince want to do?"

"It's very simple. Find a way to let the other senior ministers know that if Nan Gongjing becomes the queen, the country will not be the country, and the ministers will not be ministers."

Master Li has always been a member of King Jing, and almost no one knows about it except the close guards.

On the way back from Ying Tianfu, Prince Jing deliberately asked people to go around a few more times to make sure no one was following him before going back.

A day passed quickly, but it was extremely tormenting for Lin Xiaorou.

Because she threw away the sachet, it didn't take long before she felt uncomfortable all over her body, just like a smoker who is addicted to cigarettes. It was very difficult, and her head was dizzy and unspeakable.

He could only grit his teeth and bear it, scolding his opponent ten thousand times in his heart.

After thinking about it, the most suspicious person was Huan'er. That day she specially invited herself to the temple fair, and she also held a similar sachet in her hand.

Maybe when she secretly put it in her carriage, she sealed the gardener's mouth and let Cai Lan make a fake sachet to hang on her body.

Two days passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was already the emperor's birthday banquet.

Lin Xiaorou asked Cailan to find a beautiful silk scarf to cover most of her face, only revealing a pair of eyes and a white forehead.

She was also dressed in a light blue gauze skirt, which was extremely graceful.

Today is the emperor's birthday banquet, and all the relatives of the emperor will enter the palace early to celebrate the birthday banquet.

The emperor's birthday banquet is a major event in the whole country, so the whole palace is immersed in joy.

Prince Jing took Lin Xiaorou to the palace early in the morning, and the dancing maids arrived last.

Lin Xiaorou covered most of her face and was supposed to go through interrogation, but when the guards saw her tightly holding Lord Jing's arm, their eyes were indifferent and they didn't suspect anything else.

There are two royal gardens in the imperial palace, a banquet was held in the garden today, and the male and female distinguished guests were separated.

Lin Xiaorou was naturally taken by the maid to the garden where the female relatives were, and when she walked in, countless Yingyingyanyans sat together in small groups or chatted or tasted tea.

This garden is very large, with rockery, flowing water, pavilions and pavilions, like a fairy island.

Because the garden is relatively large, people are scattered, but the most crowded place is in an octagonal gazebo.

(End of this chapter)