An Eight-year-old Princess

Hearing this, Yun Shang's eyes widened. She turned to Emperor Ning and said, "Father, there is no need to kill them if these packets are harmless."

Emperor Ning looked at his young daughter. He contemplated for a while before asking, "Who prescribed these herbs to you? Go check the records at the Imperial Medical College."

The maid kowtowed and said, "Oh it was physician Shang who prescribed these herbs. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you so much, Your Highness."

Realizing Qing Xin would no longer be treated as a suspect, Yan'er, the maid who went to retrieve the cushion cried out, "It wasn't me! I don't even know what those herbs are or where they came from! Were it not for Qin Yi asking me to fetch the cushion for the Princess today, I wouldn't even have had the chance to enter the Princess's chamber. Please trust me, Your Majesty!"

"You are in charge of cleaning the Princess's Palace. So even without Qin Yi asking you to fetch the cushion, you could have still found a way to tamper with the medicine." Lord Cui snapped, "Besides, those herbs have already been given to an Imperial Physician. We will soon find out whether they are poisonous."

"Oh I am innocent! I truly do not know how those herbs came to be under my pillow!" Yan'er paused as she thought of something. Then her eyes filled with resentment. "It has to be Jing Rong. She lives in the same room as me, and we have always been incompatible with each other. It must be Jing Rong who put those herbs under my pillow."

Qin Meng frowned, she bowed towards Yun Shang and Emperor Ning, and said, "Jing Rong is a maid in the kitchen. She was ill today and stayed indoors. How did she get the chance to poison the Princess?"

Yan'er collapsed on the ground, "I didn't do it. I'm innocent..."

While she was claiming her innocence, an Imperial bodyguard hurried in. "Your majesty, I have the result of the herb tests. Qing Xin's package contains licorice powder indeed, but Yan'er's herb package contains poison."

Emperor Ning frowned,

a long while. The only sound that disturbed the silence was the faint screams of Yan'er as she was carried away by the guards. Yun Shang closed her eyes, and murmured "Amitabha Buddha." (*TN: Amitabha Buddha, single-minded recitation of Amitabha's name,

Palace and get some rest." Yun Shang sighed, stood

walked to the door, lifted the curtain, and peeked outside. "They are

the poison in the medicine bowl. I didn't expect someone else to be scheming

frowned and said, "We still don't know who sent Yan'er to us. It couldn't be the Queen, otherwise Qin Meng wouldn't stab

only see a part of the conspiracy. In my opinion, the herb package might not have been hers at all. It doesn't matter who sent Yan'er. She wouldn't be stupid enough to put

her pillow to avoid suspicion. As for Qing Xin, I don't understand

world that seem harmless on their own, but they are actually quite dangerous. Licorice is a common herb indeed, but few people know that if consumed with carp, licorice can

the intelligent people around the Master, you would be an easy victim. Besides, food poison is hard to trace. Even if someone realizes poison was being used, their first suspicion would not be the food that

speaking, something came up her mind. She smiled, "There are people from all forces hiding in Qinxin Hall, after this event, suspicion will surely

was about to respond, when Yun Shang stopped her. Yun Shang opened her mouth and whispered. "Someone

it wouldn't be easy to settle here, but you didn't listen and insisted on returning. Now look at what happened! There was

peaceful surroundings. Moving back here seems inappropriate to me now. Never mind. I came back only because I miss Lord Father too much. Now that he's getting better, I'm also relieved. I'll just go back

while after Yun Shang finished her sentences, Qin Meng's voice came from outside