Empress Dowager Xuanyuan led Shen Qingyin into the palace, asked someone to serve tea, and then continued to hold her hand, sighing with distressed eyes, "Alas, it's a pity that you just got married not long ago, and something like this happened... Is the Madam okay?"

Shen Qingyin lowered his eyelids, opened his mouth with a sad face, but did not speak.

Seeing this, the Queen Mother murmured to herself, "I understand. Madam Tai has lost another young man. I'm afraid that no matter how strong she is, she can hardly bear it... You must persuade her when you go back and tell her to think more positively. The death of the general is a loss for our entire Beixin Dynasty. The people of Beixin Dynasty will not forget the contributions of several generations of the Mu family..."

Shen Qingyin nodded slightly, then lowered his head even more, seeming to be even sadder.

The Queen Mother waved her hand and called the palace maid over, "Go and bring over the things I prepared."

The palace maid agreed and went down, quickly bringing over an exquisite brocade box. She opened the lid and took out a dark brown bracelet from inside.

The Queen Mother took it personally, took Shen Qingyin's hand and put it on her: "This is made of top-grade agarwood, it can calm the mind, soothe the nerves and help you sleep. I hope it can be of help to you."

"Thank you, Queen Mother, for your consideration." Shen Qingyin thanked her quietly, and then instructed Yun Wei to take the brocade box from the palace maid.

She knows the value of this stuff. Judging from the color and wood quality, it is indeed rare. It is a real good thing and worth a lot of money.

"Also, I have something else for Madam Tai, and I ask you to take it back."

The Queen Mother waved again, and another palace maid came over with a box.

This box is much more exquisite than the previous one.

After Shen Qingyin expressed her gratitude on behalf of the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother asked a palace maid to hand the box to her.

"This is a night-shining pearl that I got not long ago. It is said to ward off disasters and evil spirits and protect peace. I am giving it to Madam Tai now, hoping that it can protect Madam Tai from health and pain."

The Queen Mother spoke sincerely. Shen Qingyin carefully took the box, held it in his hands, and thanked her again.

"Your Majesty, I would like to thank you on behalf of my grandmother."

The Queen Mother gently patted Shen Qingyin's hand and said, "You should also take good care of yourself. You will have to take care of the general's affairs after his death... Madam Tai is getting older, and the general's mansion will eventually rely on you to support it. If you need any help, just ask me."

"Your Majesty is right. I thank you for your concern."

After Shen Qingyin kowtowed to express his gratitude, he left Ci'an Palace with a sad face.

After meeting up with Mu Beiyan and others at the palace gate, they got on the carriage and went back to the general's mansion.

However, just as I entered the backyard, someone came to the gate.

"Madam, the Queen sent someone to deliver something."

Shen Qing was surprised and ordered the visitors to go to the backyard, but he saw several palace servants coming in with food boxes.

A palace maid stepped forward and said, "Madam General, the Empress is extremely concerned about your and Madam's health, and she has specially ordered the imperial kitchen in the palace to prepare some delicious food and have asked us to bring it over."

As she spoke, the palace maid handed one of the food boxes to the maid beside Shen Qingyin.

He pointed to another food box and said that it was specially prepared by the Queen Mother for the Lady Dowager.

Shen Qingyin thanked the Queen for her kindness on behalf of the Madam Dowager and told the maid to take it and "deliver it to the Madam Dowager."

After sending away the visitors from the mansion, he hurriedly called Mu Beiyan to go to the lady's room.

I saw that the lady had already sat down at the table and the maid was taking out the food from the lunch box.

"and many more."

Shen Qingyin called out, walked quickly to the side of the Madam, leaned over and whispered in her ear: "Madam, I'm afraid we still have to be careful..."

The lady was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood what Shen Qingyin meant.

"You mean, there might be something wrong with the food?" Mu Beiyan, who had been following behind, finally understood what Shen Qingyin meant, and asked in surprise.

After a slight hesitation, Shen Qingyin told the story of how he was ambushed by several waves of men in black when he went to Taoyuan County.

The secret guards also discovered that outside the general's mansion there were not only spies from Prince An's mansion, Prince Kang's mansion and the Prime Minister's mansion, but also another group of unidentified people who came from the palace.

Mu Beiyan's face darkened after hearing this. "So, they not only attacked me, but they also attacked you... What on earth are they going to do?"

He immediately ordered someone to go to Bixiyuan to invite Feng Yunmo over.

He was not surprised that there were spies from Prince An's Mansion, Prince Kang's Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion outside the palace gate, but he had never thought that there were spies from the palace. Of course, he had to be more cautious about anything coming from the palace.

Soon, a guard invited Feng Yunmo from Bixiyuan on the pretext that the lady was unwell.

After Feng Yunmo carefully checked the food in the Madam's food box, he confirmed, "These foods are all normal, there is nothing wrong."

Mu Beiyan asked someone to bring Shen Qingyin's share.

This meal was the same as the one for the lady, with two dishes and a soup, all vegetarian, but a little different.

The lady's portion was soft and easy to chew, while Shen Qingyin's portion was more suitable for young people's taste.

It seems that the person who prepared the meal was very attentive.

Feng Yunmo took the silver needle and began to check one by one. There was nothing wrong with the two dishes. But when he checked the last bowl of soup, his face suddenly darkened.

"Someone has poisoned this bowl of soup. It's a colorless, odorless, and difficult to detect chronic poison." Feng Yunmo said in a deep voice.

Then, he took the silver needle out of the soup bowl, and saw that the part of the silver needle that was immersed in the soup turned black in an instant.

"Once the poison enters your body, it will take about two to three days for it to take effect. Once it takes effect, there is no cure."

Everyone looked shocked.

"Could it be that the one who wants to kill me is the Queen?" Although Shen Qingyin had long suspected that the spies outside the palace were the Queen's or the Queen Mother's men, he still found it hard to believe.

"How dare she? How dare she!" Mrs. Mu was so angry that she was shaking all over.

Although the Queen is the Queen, the General's Mansion has always been like the pillar of the Beixin Dynasty. The entire royal family is well aware of this.

The queen was really bold enough to deliver poisoned food openly...

"She thinks that Bei Yan is dead, and there are only an old lonely woman like me and my grandson's wife left in the general's mansion. Do you think they are easy to bully? I will go to the palace to ask His Majesty for help and get to the bottom of it." The lady's voice was hoarse, she was really angry.

Mu Beiyan persuaded her, "Grandmother, please don't be anxious. If the Queen dared to do it, she must have made preparations. The palace servants just said that the Queen ordered the imperial kitchen to prepare the food. If we go to question them, the only ones who will suffer will be the people who do the work in the palace. I'm afraid it will be difficult to have anything to do with the Queen."

"No, are we just going to let it go like this?" The lady covered her chest with one hand, her chest heaving violently, unable to calm down.

Shen Qingyin went over to support her and let her sit down on the chair first.

But the moment he stretched out his hand, Feng Yunmo saw the agarwood beads in his hand.

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