royal husband

the other side.

Zhou Yunting knelt down on one knee, cupped his hands and said, "My lord, just now, my subordinates found out that there was a change in the second young master's side, and Aunt Zhou's people who were ambushing in the lord's courtyard have also begun to feel restless."

Li Jin asked meaningfully, "Did you see what he did?"

"He secretly put this thing in Shizi's room." After Zhou Yunting finished speaking, he took out a cloth bag the size of a palm, and then slowly opened it.

I see.

The contents of that cloth bag were exactly the same as the herbal belladonna that Li Jin asked him to find from Li Yanshen.

"It seems...she is ready to act." Li Jin smiled lightly, and then calmly ordered, "Yun Ting, you will divide this thing into two parts later, and hide one part in..."

"Yes, son."

Zhou Yunting took the order and immediately left quietly.

dong dong.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Not long after, the voice of peace sounded outside, "My lord, the Seventh Prince ordered someone to send you a cup of soup, do you want to taste it?"

"Well, come in."

When Li Jin heard that Ying Yuan sent someone to deliver something, he subconsciously responded.

crunch.

With Li Jin's permission, Ping An immediately opened the door, and walked in carefully holding the soup, "Your Majesty, when the Seventh Prince ordered someone to bring it, he also told you to drink it while it's hot. It won't be good if it's cold."

"It's... cold melon."

After opening the lid, Li Jin recognized at a glance that what Li Jin contained was cold melon stew.

An inexplicable feeling quietly spread to the bottom of Li Jin's heart along with the taste of cold melon stew.

Li Jin's favorite thing to eat is cold melon.

Li Jin likes the bitterness of cold melon, it makes him feel like he is still alive.

But as far as this life is concerned, Li Jin only ate it once in front of Ying Yuan. Unexpectedly, Ying Yuan not only remembered this, but also knew how to use cold melon to make soup.

"It turns out that this thing is called pickled melon."

Ping An seemed to have never seen Lianggua before, so he was very interested in the two words Li Jin said.

"Ah."

Li Jin sat down and drank the cold melon stew slowly.

The cold melon stew is not a valuable thing, and it is made with some cold melon, minced pork/meat/, and sliced ​​mushrooms, together with some coriander heads and garlic.

But Li Jin just thought it was delicious.

Do not know why.

Looking at the irregularly cut mushrooms in the cup, as well as sliced ​​cold melons, some sliced ​​thick and some thin, an idea came to Li Jin's mind, this cold melon stew soup Most likely Ying Yuan did it himself.

Otherwise, with the craftsmanship of the imperial chef, it would never be cut like this.

Li Jin didn't know.

Ying Yuan originally wanted to send the cold melon stew over by himself, but Ying Yuan's status as a prince is here, and it is impossible to leave the palace at will, so Ying Yuan has no choice but to let someone forward it on his behalf.

Ping An, who stood aside, thought for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking, "My lord, is it not good that you punished the young master and the others immediately after you came back? I'm afraid people outside will talk about you behind your back."

to be honest.

The Ping An Association asked this question because they were worried that people outside would say something bad and damage Li Jin's reputation.

"Ping An, do you think I still have a reputation?"

Li Jin didn't answer the question instead.

"Uh……"

Ping An choked.

Because what Li Jin said really hit the mark, even though Li Jin hasn't been in the capital for the past three years, but Wei Shiwan is here, how could she not do something to discredit Li Jin?

Li Jin knew that Ping An had listened to it, and immediately smiled, "Ping An, you are still young, when you grow up, you will understand what I mean."

"Sir..."

Hearing Li Jin say that she was young, Ping An was aggrieved.

No matter what.

The person who said this was Li Jin, Ping An's most respected person. If there was a second person, Ping An might turn his back on him immediately, so why would he hold back honestly.

"Ping An, when the Seventh Prince's person comes next time, you pass the message for me and say that the soup is delicious."

"..."

……

Yin Shi.

The news of Li Yanshen's inexplicable death spread throughout the entire Dingbei Palace at an astonishing speed.

Wei Shiwan rushed over in a hurry, seeing Li Yanshen who was out of breath for the first time, her whole body collapsed, "Shen'er...Shen'er, wake up...Don't sleep...Shen'er..."

Among Wei Shiwan's three children, Li Yanshen was undoubtedly the one Wei Shiwan spent the most effort on, and was also the one Wei Shiwan liked the most. Therefore, upon learning of his death, how could Wei Shiwan remain calm.

"Check, find out for the old man, who did it?"

Wei Rong knocked heavily on his crutches, not believing that Li Yanshen would die like this.

After all, Wei Rong was the most senior person in the palace, and Li Yanshen's affairs needed to be presided over, so Li Jin asked the guards guarding Wei Rong to retreat.

Wei Shiwan looked at Wei Rong with tears in her eyes, "Ma'am, Shen'er's health is not good, but there is no major problem, how can I just say that it's gone, it's gone? Someone must have told Shen'er behind his back. Let's do it."

"Shiwan, don't cry, I will definitely decide this matter for you."

"Mrs. Xie."

Wei Shiwan got Wei Rong's permission, and she was blessed immediately.

With Li Jin making an example during the day, Wei Shiwan also changed her address, and she didn't dare to call her mother like before.

Soon.

A maid came in hurriedly with a medicine jar, "Mrs. Tai, side concubine, this servant found this, maybe the Second Young Master's accident has something to do with it."

Wei Shiwan's pupils shrank suddenly, "You mean that there is something wrong with the medicine boiled for Shen'er? No, you are just a maid, how can you know how to read medicinal materials? Are you in the same group as the one who hurt Shen'er?"

The servant girl was frightened by Wei Shiwan's fierce eyes, and immediately knelt down, "Side concubine, I have been wronged, I understand this because my grandfather is a medical practitioner, and I have told my servant about some important medicinal materials, so I can see it." .”

Cailian said at the right time, "Side concubine, from her appearance, she should be telling the truth."

Wei Shiwan listened, thought for a while, and then said, "Then tell me, what important medicinal materials are there?"

"That's it." The maid took out a medicinal plant from the medicine jar and said, "This medicinal plant is called belladonna, and the whole plant is poisonous, but because it is not common, not many people know about it."

"Belladonna..."

Wei Shiwan snatched the belladonna from the maid's hand, and squeezed it hard, as if she wanted to crush it into pieces.

"Side concubine, generally as long as five belladonna fruits are added, the poisoned person will die. And here are four more, and the most poisonous / root / is also in it. It seems that the person who poisoned the second young master clearly I just want the second young master's life."

"Okay, okay..." Wei Rong gritted her teeth and said several good words one after another, "If I find out who did such insidious things in the palace, I will die without a place to die."

Suddenly, a servant suddenly shouted, "Mrs. Tai, I seem to have seen this thing in the son's room."

what?

Hearing that Li Jin was related to this matter, Wei Rong's anger towards Li Jin also reached its peak.

Wei Shiwan knelt down recklessly, "Mrs. Tai, please make the decision for Shen'er."

"Shiwan, don't worry, if the matter is really that evil/animal/doing, I will not let him go first." Wei Rong clenched his fists and said word by word, "Bring Li Jin here, and give me Carefully search the yard where Li Jin lives, and make sure to find out that harmful thing."

"Yes, Madam."

After the guards in Wei Rong's courtyard got the order, they immediately walked quickly towards Li Jin's courtyard.

Wei Rong has been operating in the Dingbei Palace for many years, so naturally there is no shortage of manpower. Besides, this incident involves the murder of the heirs of the Dingbei Palace, and those guards who helped Li Jin must not dare to act rashly.

As soon as Li Jin's captor left, Li Yanchen came over on his hind legs, "Grandmother, how is your second brother?"

After hearing the news of Li Yanshen's death, Li Yanchen didn't care about anything else, and came here in his underwear.

Wei Rong frowned and said, "Chen'er, you have only applied medicine to your wound, why did you come here? What if the wound gets worse?"

Wei Shiwan also suppressed the emotions that were about to lose control, and said softly, "Mrs. Tai is right, this matter of Chen'er has nothing to do with you, you should go back and rest first."

Li Yanchen shook his head and said, "My second brother and I are both father's sons, how could this matter have nothing to do with me? Grandmother, side concubine, please let me stay here too."

"Okay, it's good for you to stay, so that Li Jin won't attack us after that evil/animal/ incident is defeated." Wei Rong agreed to let Li Yanchen stay, "Come here, what do you do? Is the young master dressed lightly?"

"Yes, Madam."

After hearing this, the maids hurriedly went to get a cloak and put it on Li Yanchen tremblingly.

As for Li Ruoyan, she was terrified by Li Jin's punishment. After being released from the Buddhist hall, she scrambled back to Prince An's Mansion, so she didn't know about Li Yanshen's poisoning.

After Li Yanchen put on the cloak, he immediately saluted Wei Rong, "Grandson thanks grandma."

"Ah."

Wei Rong was very grateful for Li Yanchen's polite behavior.

……

Ping An looked at Li Jin who was still sitting here drinking tea calmly, and couldn't help asking, "My lord, something happened to the second young master, we really don't want to go and have a look?"

"No need." Li Jin shook his head and said calmly, "It shouldn't be long before someone will come to us."

Pingan became even more confused, "Uh...my son, I don't understand."

It's too late, it's too soon.

After Ping'an's words fell, the people sent by Wei Rong had already arrived. The people came in two groups, one wave came to 'invite' Li Jin, and the other wave began to search Li Jin's yard wantonly.

boom.

The visitor seemed to regard Li Jin as a prisoner, and opened the door without even knocking, "Your Majesty, the old lady invites you."

"This is Shizi's place, why did you suddenly barge in." Ping An was enraged by the intruder, and Dang was even more angry later, "What do you guys do? Why search Shizi's yard."

"Someone correct me, the son is the one who killed the second young master, but we got the orders from Mrs. Tai to come and search."