Hua Shenyue had just finished taking a shower, changed her clothes, and was about to take a medical book to read, when someone suddenly knocked on the door.

"Who?" Hua Shenyue was a little puzzled, she didn't know who would come to her at such a late hour.

"Shen Yue, it's me, Mei Xiang." The man outside the house replied.

"Mei Xiang, why are you here?" Hua Shenyue opened the door, invited Mei Xiang in, and asked.

"I went out today to buy some pastries, thinking that you must not have eaten them, so I will send some for you to try." Mei Xiang smiled and handed the plate in her hand to Hua Shenyue.

"Thank you, Mei Xiang." Hua Shenyue took it in surprise and looked at Mei Xiang gratefully.

"You're welcome, everyone is a sister in the palace, you eat slowly, I'll go back first!" After Mei Xiang finished speaking, she pushed the door and left, not giving Hua Shenyue a chance to speak at all.

Hua Shenyue felt a little strange, but she didn't think much about it, but watched Mei Xiang's back gradually disappear into the night, and closed the door.

Hua Shenyue put the plate containing pastries on the table, picked up the medical book on the table, opened it and read it. She took a piece of pastry and sent it to her mouth, just as she wanted to put her mouth down, Hua Shenyue smelled a strange smell.

It's so late, who will it be?

Hua Shenyue immediately became vigilant, she put down the medical book in her hand, picked up the plate of pastries, put it under her nose and smelled it. If she had only smelled a slight smell of a piece of pastry just now, this time, she was sure that the pastry had been drugged.

Hua Shenyue approached the pastry and sniffed it carefully, yes, the pastry was drugged, and it was still a broken intestine grass that killed people.

Hua Shenyue was shocked and immediately put down the pastry in her hand. If she hadn't been proficient in medical skills, she would not have known that someone had been drugged in this pastry.

Who wants her life, Mei Xiang, or the person behind Mei Xiang?

Hua Shenyue only felt afraid for a while, but fortunately she didn't pick up the pastry when she was engrossed, otherwise, her attention was attracted by the medical book, and she couldn't find that the pastry was poisoned.

Hua Shenyue looked at the pastries on the table in a daze, she didn't know what to do, and she didn't know whether to take the pastries to Fu Qinglian.

Mei Xiang immediately went back to her room after delivering the pastries to Hua Shenyue, and in the room, there was a person sitting at the table waiting for her.

"How's it going?" Cuihua asked.

"Everything is going well, Hua Shenyue has already accepted the pastry, presumably it won't be long before she eats the pastry, and then dies of poison." Mei Xiang replied.

"Good, did anyone see you along the way?" Cuihua asked.

"No, I hid in the shadows and observed that no one around me dared to continue walking." Mei Xiang shook her head.

"That's good, after the deed is done, the princess will be rewarded. As long as you are loyal to the princess with peace of mind, the princess will definitely not treat you badly. Cuihua said, standing up.

"Miss Cuihua, rest assured, since the slave maid has chosen the princess, she will naturally be loyal to the end." Mei Xiang's tone was firm.

"Since that's the case, then I'll rest assured, rest early, tomorrow, I'm afraid this Jingwang Mansion won't live in peace." After Cuihua finished speaking, she pushed the door and left Mei Xiang's room.

Hua Shenyue thought about it again and again, and finally took out a handkerchief to wrap the pastries on the table, and went out to Fu Qinglian's room. The candle in Fu Qingqing's room had not yet been extinguished, and Hua Shenyue raised her hand and knocked on Fu Qinglian's door.

"Who?" Fu Qinglian asked. It's so late, who would suddenly come looking for him.

"Ah Qing, it's me." Hua Shenyue replied.

As soon as the words fell, Fu Qinglian opened the door.

"It's so late, what's going on?" Fu Qinglian looked at Hua Shenyue and asked with some doubts. Hua Shenyue has been by Fu Qinglian's side for so long, Fu Qinglian naturally understands Hua Shenyue, if there is nothing to do, Hua Shenyue will not come to disturb him so late.

"Can you go in and talk?" Hua Shenyue looked at Fu Qinglian's eyes and asked.

Fu Qinglian didn't speak, he nodded, turned sideways, and let Hua Shenyue in, and after Hua Shenyue went in, he immediately closed the door.

"What's wrong? The expression is so solemn. Fu Qinglian sat down and asked.

Hua Shenyue didn't speak, she took out the pastry wrapped in a handkerchief in her arms, opened the handkerchief, and put it on the table. Fu Qinglian glanced at the pastries on the table, and then at Hua Shenyue, a little puzzled.

Fu Qinglian didn't think it was so late, Hua Shenyue even came over to bring him pastries.

"In this pastry, it is poisonous and broken." Hua Shenyue explained.

"What?" Fu Qinglian was stunned for a moment, and looked at Hua Shenyue in disbelief. Hua Shenyue took out the cloth bag from her arms, took out a silver needle from the cloth bag, and stabbed it into the pastry. When the silver needle is pulled out, the part inserted into the pastry has completely blackened.

Fu Qinglian looked at the blackened silver needle and gasped, someone in his palace actually poisoned him, and he still used such a fierce poison as the Broken Intestine Grass, Fu Qinglian was very angry in his heart.

"Where did this pastry come from?" Fu Qinglian asked with a serious face.

"Mei Xiang sent it to me." Hua Shenyue told the truth.

"Who is Mei Xiang?" Fu Qinglian asked.

"A maid in the house." Hua Shenyue replied.

"Have you offended her?" Fu Qinglian thought for a moment and continued to ask.

Hua Shenyue shook her head.

"Then do you know whose maid she is? Or rather, where is she on an errand? ”

Hua Shenyue shook her head again. She and Mei Xiang haven't known each other for a long time, and they don't know anything about Mei Xiang, so they don't know who wants to harm her, so they came to Fu Qinglian.

"Don't make a noise about this matter, pretend not to know, I will send someone to secretly follow Mei Xiang and investigate Mei Xiang's details, during this time, you should be vigilant, if someone else sends you food, you must first use a silver needle to test whether it is poisonous." Fu Qinglian advised.

"Okay." Hua Shenyue nodded.

If you want to find out the person behind Mei Xiang, Fu Qinglian's method is the only and best way. If she didn't succeed tonight, the people behind Mei Xiang would definitely let her find another chance to do it, so it would be easy to find out who wanted to spend Shenyue's life.

It's just that Hua Shenyue has to be wronged for a period of time, and during this time, Hua Shenyue has to be on guard everywhere, so as not to accidentally fall into Mei Xiang's way.

"It's getting late, you go back and rest first, don't worry, I will definitely find out who wants to harm you, and I will wronged you first during this time." Fu Qinglian said to Hua Shenyue.

"Okay, I believe you, A-Qing." Hua Shenyue smiled at Fu Qinglian. Hua Shenyue naturally believes in Fu Qinglian unconditionally, besides, she is not aggrieved at all, as long as she can find out who is behind the scenes, she is willing to do anything.

"Then I'll go back to the room first, Aqing, you also rest early, and you have to go around investigating tomorrow." Hua Shenyue said.

"yes, I see." Fu Qinglian nodded.

Fu Qinglian only felt that Hua Shenyue was big-hearted, obviously he had just been poisoned, but he was still thinking about tomorrow's task, Fu Qinglian shook his head helplessly.

Yu Guang saw the pastries on the table that Hua Shenyue didn't take away, Fu Qinglian turned his head to take a look, feeling a little familiar, but he didn't know why.

That's it, so it's okay to keep dangerous things, Fu Qinglian wrapped up the things, opened the window and threw them out.

The next day, Mei Xiang knocked on Hua Shenyue's door early in the morning, however, no one came to open the door, Mei Xiang was overjoyed, thinking that the plan had succeeded.

Mei Xiang was full of smiles and was about to leave, but she ran into Fang Fang, who lived in the same courtyard as Hua Shenyue.

"Are you looking for Shen Yue? Shen Yue went out early in the morning, as if she was going to run errands with the prince. Fangfang ran into Hua Shenyue early in the morning, and asked where Hua Shenyue went, and knew that Mei Xiang would definitely not find Hua Shenyue, so she kindly explained to her.

Mei Xiang was stunned, Hua Shenyue went out? That is to say, Hua Shenyue did not die, and the plan failed? Oh no, was it discovered by Hua Shenyue?

"What's wrong with you? Is there something uncomfortable? Fangfang saw that Mei Xiang was stunned in place, and her face became ugly, and asked with concern.

"Oh, it's okay, I just thought of something suddenly, and I said why no one is here, it turns out that Shen Yue is out." Mei Xiang came back to her senses and pulled out a smile.

"That's right, Shen Yue has been very busy these days, go out early and return late, if you have something to find her, come back in the evening." Fangfang said to Mei Xiang with a smile, and then left.

Mei Xiang was weak, she wanted to leave, but she couldn't lift her legs. I thought the plan was successful, but I didn't think it would fail, I don't know what was going on, could it be that Hua Shenyue found out that she poisoned the pastry?

No, no, how can the broken intestine grass be so easy to find. Mei Xiang comforted herself. She took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down, so she had the strength to lift her leg and leave.

Since she's not dead, let's come back at night to find out the news. Mei Xiang thought as she walked to her room.

On the outskirts of the capital, Hua Shenyue followed Fu Qinglian and Chen Shi on horseback early in the morning. Yesterday they searched the eastern suburbs for a whole day, but they did not find anything, and today, the three of them changed directions and came to the southern suburbs.

When they reached the outskirts, the three dismounted, tied the reins to the tree, and searched around on foot. If you are riding a horse, it will be too noisy and easy to be noticed. Just in case, the trio decided to go on foot to search.

Fu Qinglian and the three of them set their sights on a mountain on the west side, which was very high and surrounded by many small hills, and maybe there would be a harvest there.

The three of them walked to the foot of the mountain, where there was a small wooden house, and in the yard, an old man was enjoying the shade.

"I didn't expect that there are still people living here." Hua Shenyue said with emotion.

Fu Qinglian felt a little strange, this place is located at the foot of the mountain, although it is relatively flat compared to the mountain, but the terrain is still relatively undulating, so there is no field around.

Although there is a small plot of land in the courtyard of the cabin, it can only be used to grow some vegetables, how can this old man survive living here?

Maybe he had a son bring him rice, or maybe he had a horse to go to the city to buy rice. Fu Qinglian thought to himself.

In order not to make the old man suspicious, Fu Qinglian and the others did not go up the mountain directly, but pretended to pass by here, and then went around to the right side of the mountain, and then walked up the mountain.