There is always a rival who wants to attack me 2

In the evening, Lu Hou came back from outside the residence exhausted.There are too many things going on at home recently, and Mrs. Ji Hou is in a prison because of his heartache, unable to take charge of the affairs of the backyard.

Although an elder from the clan came to preside over it, he was an outsider after all, and most matters involving money had to be handled by him personally.

Therefore, it was only three or five days, and it made him feel exhausted.

It was the same at this meeting, because he wanted to look at the wood for repairing the ancestral hall, several shopkeepers brought samples over, and he tossed him all afternoon selecting samples and materials, and he didn't even have time to drink saliva.

Sighing, Lu Hou quickened his pace and prepared to go back to his room to rest for a while.

But at this moment, a maidservant in a pink spring shirt approached from a distance, holding a basket carefully in her hand.

It's just that expression, cautiously nervous and weird, looking around while walking, no matter from which angle you look at it, people can't help but feel suspicious.

Lu Hou frowned, and planned to order the attendant to go up and ask, but before he could speak, the maid met his eyes, and then ran away in a panic in the opposite direction.

"Master Hou, shall I catch up and take a look?" Seeing that something was wrong, the attendant took the initiative to ask for orders.

"Well, if you find something is wrong, don't worry about it. Lock it up quietly first, and then try it later. Now that there are many people in the family, don't make any incidents." Lu Hou nodded, thinking about the special situation of the Hou Mansion, and not only gave more instructions said a word.

"Yes." The attendant responded.

As for Hou Lu who stayed where he was, the doubts in his heart became more and more profound.He had a vague impression of that girl, she seemed to be in charge of sweeping and sweeping in Mrs. Jihou's courtyard.As for the basket in that girl's hand, he also had a deep memory.

The logo on the basket is special, and it belongs to a shop selling special medicinal materials in the suburbs of Beijing.

The shop is located in a remote place, but due to the abundance of medicinal materials, the business is very prosperous.However, the more important point is that the pharmacy has a mysterious background, and it has the permission of the current emperor to freely sell poisons such as arsenic.Just register to buy.

The Hou Mansion has a large store of medicines. Although it is not as good as the Tai Hospital, it has everything.

The snow lotus on the top of Tianshan Mountain, the century-old Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng are all properly kept in the warehouse, and the quantity is not very rare.Therefore, if Mrs. Jihou needs medicinal materials, she can go directly to get them, and there is no need to leave the house at all.Unless, she bought something harmful.

It's just that she doesn't know who she plans to use this thing on, whether it's Lu Yunxi who is blocking her way, or it's himself.

The guess with the danger signal made Lu Hou's heart skip a beat, and Shuran immediately dismissed the idea.After all, as a husband and wife, Mrs. Jihou is usually so gentle and careless, how could she be so cruel and want to harm him?But in the end there is still doubt that can't fade away.

After all, once something happens to him and Lu Yunxi, this Hou's mansion will belong to Mrs. Hou.Inexplicably thinking of the sudden death of Mrs. Hou's husband, Lu Hou's heart became more and more chilled.

At this time, the little girl who aroused Lu Hou's suspicion also returned to the Huanlang Courtyard along the path.

"It's all done?" Mrs. Jihou leaned against the dressing table and looked at her through the bronze mirror.The lazy appearance is extraordinarily careless, but the movement of Danko painted on the hands is very delicate.

"Don't worry, ma'am, I did as you said."

"That's good." Putting down the things in her hand, Mrs. Jihou picked up the purse and threw it into the hand of the maid: "It's just a small thing, use it to be mischievous."

"Mrs. Xie." The servant girl knelt down to pick it up, padded the weight, and greed flashed across her eyes.Then he flattered his face and exited the room.

After she left, the man in black reappeared.While watching Mrs. Jihou's meticulous dressing, he said in a tone of disapproval: "If Marquis Lu doesn't react as you planned, what should you do? Is it really possible to get your life?"

"How is it possible?" Madam Jihou curled the corners of her lips in disdain: "The kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, cares most about the life that allows him to enjoy the glory and wealth. What's more..."

She paused, then stood up, took off her coat as if no one else was there, walked behind the screen, stepped on the wooden steps into the prepared bathtub, and continued in a leisurely manner: "How can you catch a tiger if you don't enter the tiger's den? If you want to turn things around, you have to have the courage to break the boat. I don't need you to serve me, hurry up and get ready."

"But as you wish, if you fail, I will take Weiyao away immediately."

"I won't let you have such an opportunity." Fiddling the petals in the water, Madam Ji Hou's eyes became more vicious: "Because Yao'er is destined to get all the property and power of the Hou Mansion."

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On the other side, the servant following the maid also arrived at Huanlang Courtyard.

Sure enough, the maid who acted strangely had disappeared, but the basket she was holding before happened to be placed on the table in the side hall.Only the contents of the basket are gone.

The attendant picked up the basket and inspected it carefully, and happened to find that some white powder was still left between the gaps in the rattan of the basket.

The attendant dabbed some of it with his hand to distinguish it carefully, and then his face turned pale immediately.

It turned out to be a potent poison that can seal the throat at the sight of blood!

The big thing is not good, Mrs. Ji Hou is suspected of murdering Lu Hou.

Such thoughts made the attendant's face even uglier.And then, the conversation with the maid outside the door confirmed his guess even more.

They seemed to have just returned from the warehouse, holding an extremely exquisite wooden box in their hands.Through the hollow carvings, a small silver pot can be vaguely seen inside.

Among them, a maidservant in purple clothes asked the other one puzzledly: "Sister, tell me, what is the madam asking us to do with this mess? She also reminded us not to take it by mistake. Isn't it just an ordinary silver pot?" , there is no need to be so cautious."

"Shh! You dare to think about the matter of the master, don't you want to die!" Another servant girl reprimanded in a low voice: "You don't know, this is not an ordinary pot, but a yin and yang pot. One pot can hold two kinds of wine. , there is something in the belly of the pot to separate the two kinds of wine, and you can change it at will as long as you move the spout. There are only two in the whole Dazhou, and one is in the palace. The one we used. The other one is at our house. I remember, it was my wife’s birthday the year before last, and someone imitated it for her to play with. Put it in the warehouse and hide it."

"That's it, then we really need to be careful..." the maid in purple shirt said in surprise, and lowered her volume involuntarily.

After that, the voice gradually lowered as the two walked away.But the information leaked earlier was enough for the attendants to guess the unfinished meaning of the words.

Seeing the poison that seals the throat with blood, and the flagon with ever-changing mechanisms, if you say that Mrs. Jihou has no malicious intentions, even a fool can't convince you, and you must reply to Lord Hou immediately.

The attendant hurriedly put the basket back where it was, quietly left from Mrs. Jihou's courtyard, and quickly returned to Lu's room.

As everyone knows, his every move is completely in the eyes of the man in black who obeys Mrs. Jihou...

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Hanzhang Pavilion

The treacherous situation in Mrs. Jihou's courtyard did not affect Li Xi at all. At this moment, he was standing in front of the desk and painting with great interest.

In fact, during the day, someone from the door reported that Mrs. Ji Hou sent a maid out of the mansion, and it took a long time to come back with a basket from the pharmacy, which felt very suspicious.

But Li Xi didn't plan to ignore it.

Unlike Lu Hou's suspicion, when Li Xi heard the words "out of the mansion" and "pharmaceutical shop", he immediately understood Mrs. Jihou's plan.

Kill Lu Hou?Then 562 is a fantasy.

Regardless of the difficulties in implementing it, the aftermath of Lu Hou's death alone is extremely troublesome.

After all, Marquis Lu was a Marquis, and he received a salary from the imperial court.Such an unexplained death at home, according to the current style of the Holy Majesty, will inevitably cause the truth to come to light.At the time of the introduction, Mrs. Ji Hou will be arrested and brought to justice immediately, without even a chance to shirk.

This is not the trivial gap where the women in the back house are fighting for the wind and jealousy. No one will control how to close the door.If it involves the court, it is a major matter of the family and the country, and no omissions should be allowed.

Although Mrs. Jihou is ambitious, she is not stupid, and naturally she will not take such a self-destructive move.Therefore, Li Xi guessed that she was probably planning to put her death on the line for a later life, so as to regain her favor and regain her fortune.

After all, those methods of competing for favor in the back house, to sum up, are nothing more than crying, making trouble and hanging themselves.The only difference is that a smart woman will make a man feel bad, but a stupid woman can only cause boredom.

And Mrs. Jihou is exactly the kind who can calculate people's hearts.

Unfortunately, he didn't intend to give her this chance.Putting down the paintbrush in his hand, Li Xi beckoned the attendant to come in, and whispered something in his ear: "The person who told Huanlang Courtyard to be careful, if Marquis Lu goes, just wait for half an hour, and then..."

"!" As if shocked by Li Xi's order, the attendant opened his eyes slightly, and then he was slightly puzzled because of the time limit of "half an hour", and tilted his head to look at Li Xi.

Shuang'er was originally a delicate-looking girl, but this appearance has a different kind of childishness and cuteness.

"Pfft." Li Xi couldn't help being amused by him, and pinched his cheek affectionately, but didn't explain much: "If you don't understand, just do what I want, the Lord has his own reason."

"Yes." The attendant responded.

But Li Xi who stayed alone in the study was sensitively aware of the sudden cold aura in the room.Glancing at the hourglass on the corner of the table, he couldn't help but curl his lips.It was time to change the dressing, and it seemed that someone who had to hide in the dark to supervise every day would show up on time.

So, now it's because I'm too close to the attendant, so I'm jealous?

If this is the case, it seems that I really have to coax him.Li Xi couldn't help lowering her head, hiding the sly smile on her lips.

It's just that I just don't know if that person can really bear it...