Originally, the servants and maids in the palaces like Aunt Li were not qualified to eat the dishes cooked by the assistant master. Their meals are made from cauldrons by the cooks in the Imperial Dining Room.

However, after Cai Xiu had a friendly conversation with a certain assistant chef with a friendly smile, Aunt Li's meal was taken care of by Cai Xiu.

Not only that, Cai Xiu also found a little eunuch who recognized a certain person in charge of the imperial pharmacy as his godfather. After a cordial meeting, Cai Xiu easily got the few medicinal herbs he wanted.

At this time, Aunt Li did not know that a terrible conspiracy was sweeping towards her.

The herbs Cai Xiu asked for were nothing special, they all seemed to treat headaches and brain fever, but these harmless herbs could produce a toxin when mixed with spices in certain meals.

The toxin is not deadly, but it strikes without warning and its residue is imperceptible.

When the poison occurs, large areas of pimples will appear all over the body of the poisoned person, and after a day, the pimples will flow pus and deteriorate into pustules, and then rupture, forming hideous and terrifying scabs.

This symptom is the same as that of smallpox, the deadliest infectious disease of the Celestial Dynasty.

Cai Xiu knows that sometimes toxins are not fatal, but rumors do. And what she did was to take people's lives by taking advantage of people's fears.

Everything went well, and before anyone noticing, Aunt Li suddenly fell ill and was quickly isolated as "smallpox".

And is all this really unnoticed?

No, as early as when Cai Xiu began to prepare for all this, the system told Dill about the situation.

And Dill responded with only one sentence: "What does it have to do with me." ”

Dill is not the original owner, she will not bother to do her best for her people, she can only see two kinds of people in her eyes, the people she cares about and her enemies.

The former is something she is willing to spend time and effort to protect, while the latter is what she is destined to destroy.

Aunt Li, for Dill, neither belongs to the former nor to the latter, and she, like thousands of other people in the small world, can't make the slightest wave in Dill's eyes.

After suffering from "smallpox", Aunt Li deeply experienced the cold state of the world and the indifference of human feelings.

Since she entered the palace at the age of thirteen, she has been serving by the side of the concubine Niangniang, and now she has been serving for ten years. She thinks that she has done her best in the past ten years, saddle up the horse for the concubine, even if there is no merit, there is hard work. She thought that the concubine had some friendship with her.

However, as soon as she was diagnosed with "smallpox", the concubine did not hesitate to abandon her and let her be taken to a cold palace overgrown with grass and isolated.

Before she fell ill, how many people rushed to please her and add to her the icing on the cake. However, after falling ill, no one helped her, and even had no meals.

She could feel that she was not smallpox as others had said, for she did not feel the slightest discomfort except for the pimples on her appearance, and even the pimples on her body were fake, without pain or itching.

At first, she would cry out for help, saying that she was not smallpox and that she was not sick. However, after not receiving a response for a long time, she gradually stopped thinking about it. He began to wait for death like a real smallpox patient.

Aunt Li eventually died of hunger and thirst.