Ji Lingxue sneered, "You saw it with your own eyes. Are you sure you saw me kill someone with your own eyes? What was the weapon used to commit the crime? How did I kill someone? If I kill someone, do you think I will stay here and be punished by you if I don't leave the crime scene?"
Yiyun's maid shivered at Ji Lingxue's sharp gaze, but she still insisted on her statement, "I saw you standing beside Miss Jasmine's bed... I couldn't see the princess's movements from my angle, but judging from Miss Jasmine's appearance, she must have been poisoned. You still want to erase the evidence of your crime..."
Ji Yuqing interrupted, "What on earth is going on? The more I listen, the more confused I get. Sister, you and Miss Jasmine have no grudges against each other, why did you kill her?"
Ji Lingxue clapped her hands and said, "Sister, you are right. Why would I kill someone I don't even know and who has no grudge against me? Since I can't prove my innocence, let Miss Jasmine speak for herself."
"What? How can a dead person speak? How is she going to explain your innocence? Princess, are you kidding me?"
"Yes, yes, Miss Jasmine is already dead, how can she speak? Princess, please don't speak so scary, are you going to invite Miss Jasmine's ghost to come out?"
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became weird, and many people felt a chill on the back of their necks.
While everyone was talking, Xiao Yichen walked to the bedside and checked Jasmine's nose, then shook his head helplessly. He turned to look at Ji Lingxue, not understanding where Ji Lingxue's confidence came from.
Xiao Yichen's doubts were shared by everyone present. Jasmine's lips were purple and there was blood at the corners of her mouth. It was obvious that she had died of poisoning. Once the poison had penetrated her heart, even a god could not save her. Besides, Jasmine was lying in bed and no one knew when the poison had taken effect.
Ji Lingxue said: "When I walked into the screen just now, I saw Jasmine spitting out blood, so I directly used a silver needle to seal her heart meridian." At this time, Ji Lingxue had to thank Mo Xiang, because she was originally poisoned. Mo Xiang had read a lot of books on detoxification, and through what he read and saw, he learned how to detoxify other poisons without any instruction.
Everyone looked at each other. Ji Yuqing and Chu Xin looked at each other. Yiyun was delighted. "That's great. I didn't expect that Princess you could detoxify. Go and see what poison Jasmine was poisoned with."
Yiyun's maid looked at Ji Lingxue suspiciously, as if considering the truth of her words...
Ji Lingxue said, "Everyone, please go out." She didn't like so many eyes staring at her in the room.
Yiyun immediately asked everyone to leave, leaving only Ji Lingxue and Xiao Yichen in the room.
Xiao Yichen would naturally not go out. He found a stool and sat down, pretending to be a bystander.
Ji Lingxue was so upset that she thought it would be better to go out and wait instead of staying to help. It would be an eyesore.
Xiao Yichen couldn't hear Ji Lingxue's inner complaints, so he asked, "When did the princess learn medical skills? I don't know anything about it. It seems that I don't know the princess very well."
Ji Lingxue rolled her eyes and waited for Yiyun to come back and tell her the detoxification tools she needed. Then she went back to the bed, unbuttoned Jasmine's collar to check her carotid artery, and then picked up Jasmine's fingernails to take a look.
Yiyun acted quickly and prepared the things that Ji Lingxue needed and sent them over in a moment. The noble ladies were all waiting outside the yard, to laugh at Ji Lingxue's joke or to see a miracle happen.
Time passed, the people outside were waiting anxiously, but the house was quiet. Ji Lingxue picked up a dagger and cut a cut on Jasmine's wrist to let the black poisonous blood flow out, and finally fed her a black pill.
Yiyun looked horrified, staring at the not-too-deep wound on Jasmine's wrist and asked, "Why cut the wrist? Wouldn't it be the same to just feed her the detoxification pills?"
Ji Lingxue shook her head and said, "Of course it's different. The detoxification pill only removes the poison on the surface of the skin, but Miss Jasmine's poison has already entered the heart. I used silver needles to block the heart meridian acupoints to prevent the poison from spreading, and at the same time I had to force the poison out of the heart meridian."
Yiyun nodded, and looked at Ji Lingxue with no more suspicion and jealousy. After waiting for a while, the blood on Jasmine's wrist gradually turned red, and Ji Lingxue applied ointment and bandaged the wound with gauze.
Jasmine, who was lying on the bed, moved her body and vomited blood. Yiyun was surprised and happy, and shouted a few times, but Jasmine still had her eyes closed.
Yiyun asked worriedly: "When will Jasmine wake up?"
Ji Lingxue shook her head and said, "It depends on the individual's physical condition. Some people have better recovery abilities and wake up faster."
Xiao Yichen stood up and patted Ji Lingxue on the shoulder, "Thank you for your hard work, Princess..."
Ji Lingxue smiled and shook her head, saying it was not hard.
Xiao Yichen handed a red date to Ji Lingxue who had just washed her hands.
Ji Lingxue picked up the red dates and looked at them. Just as she was about to eat them, a weak voice suddenly came from the bed, "Don't eat them. Red dates... Red dates are poisonous."
This one sentence caused a huge uproar. Xiao Yichen's face changed. He snatched the red dates from Ji Lingxue and threw them away. He glanced at Yiyun with cold eyes and asked her for an explanation. How could the food in the mansion be poisonous
Yiyun's face turned pale, secretly cursing her subordinates for not doing things properly. Originally, she only invited Ji Lingxue to come, and planned to poison the fruit. Only the fruit from Ji Lingxue's place was poisonous. When the poison took effect halfway, no one would suspect her.
But she had never expected that Xiao Yichen would come with Ji Lingxue. She had to rush to the kitchen to tell them to clean up all the poisoned dates. However, there were still mistakes. No wonder Jasmine was poisoned.
Yiyun’s face turned pale, “I… don’t know why this happened…” Her innocent expression made Xiao Yichen believe that she would not be so vicious.
Xiao Yichen turned his head to look at the fruit plate on the table, frowned and pursed his lips.
Ji Lingxue walked over and took a silver needle to test the poison, and it turned out that only the red dates were poisonous.
Jasmine coughed weakly, "Just now... cough, who saved me?"
Yiyun held Jasmine's hand and looked at Ji Lingxue with tears of gratitude, "Jasmine, it was the princess who saved you. That's great. If anything happens to you, I will be to blame."
Jasmine looked at Ji Lingxue gratefully, "Thank you, Princess Chen, for saving me. If the princess needs me in the future, Jasmine will go through fire and water to repay her kindness."
Ji Lingxue smiled, "Fortunately I found you in time, otherwise I wouldn't be sure I could save you. You are lucky."
Yiyun knelt down in front of Ji Lingxue, "My Lord and Princess, it was my negligence that caused such an accident in the mansion. I almost let the princess suffer the same fate. Yiyun deserves to die. When Yiyun finds out who poisoned her, I will give an explanation to my Lord and Princess."
Ji Lingxue said: "I'm fine. The one who's in trouble is Miss Jasmine. If you need to give an explanation, it should be to her."
Yiyun breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Jasmine was fine today, otherwise she would have to live in regret for the rest of her life. Thinking of this, she looked at Ji Lingxue with gratitude.
Ji Lingxue opened the door and left, leaving Yiyun with a graceful back.
Xiao Yichen looked very unhappy, and he was very angry when he thought that he almost handed the poisoned dates to Ji Lingxue.
Ji Lingxue turned her head to look at Xiao Yichen and said with a smile: "Your Highness, are you blaming yourself?"
Xiao Yichen held Ji Lingxue's hand tightly, showing with his actions that he cared about her very much.
Ji Lingxue smiled. She had lived in conspiracy since she was a child. Food was often poisoned in various ways. She had long been accustomed to it. She just didn't expect that Yiyun had such a deep prejudice against her and wanted to kill her. Unfortunately, Jasmine became the scapegoat.
This was the last time she let Yiyun go. If there was a next time, she would definitely repay him in the same way.
The two of them left the house directly. Just like when they came, the carriage was very quiet. When the carriage passed through the street, Ji Lingxue lifted the curtain and looked out.
Xiao Yichen said: "The date of the cooking competition has been set. It will be on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month after the New Year."
Ji Lingxue's eyes sparkled. The day after the New Year was really worth looking forward to.
The days became peaceful again. Ji Lingxue heard from Mo Xiang that Xiao Yichen sent Zisu away because Zisu did not serve Xiao Yichen properly and broke Xiao Yichen's favorite inkstone.
Ji Lingxue was a little surprised to hear the news. Zi Su was originally a maid, and one could imagine how meticulous she was. How could she possibly break the inkstone? It was just an excuse.
Perhaps Ji Yuqing couldn't tolerate Zi Su, so Xiao Yichen took the opportunity to drive Zi Su away.
On the day Zi Su left, Ji Lingxue asked Mo Xiang to send some small change and dry food to see her off. After Zi Su received the dry food, he bowed to the courtyard where Ji Lingxue was, and then got on the carriage and left.
The palace was still peaceful. Ji Yuqing had come to Ji Lingxue's place every morning and evening in recent days to pay her respects and occasionally chat about family matters. Ji Yuqing had no complaints about Zi Su's departure, but only sighed that this girl was lucky, as she had been a slave for half her life and finally had her freedom.
Half a month passed in a blink of an eye. Ji Yuqing could no longer wait for the mysterious man to contact her, so she took the initiative to contact him. That night, Ji Yuqing released a carrier pigeon.
Ji Yuqing would never have dreamed that the pigeon she had released and watched fly away was now in Xiao Yichen's study. After seeing it, Xiao Yichen put it back and tied it to the pigeon's leg, and ordered people to follow it along the way.
Ji Lingxue has been bored recently. She heard from Xiao Si that a casino opened in the western suburbs at night, so she thought of going out to take a look. Since she has no martial arts skills, she has to trouble Comrade An Ge to do anything she wants.
An Ge felt very pressured about carrying Ji Lingxue out of the mansion. The prince's secret guards had been paying attention to their movements. If they knew that he was carrying the princess on his back, he would be skinned alive.
After thinking it over, An Ge went to confront Xiao Yichen, who nodded. At night, Ji Lingxue changed into men's clothes and asked An Ge to come out. A figure flashed in front of her, and it turned out to be Xiao Yichen, who was also in disguise.
Ji Lingxue blinked, "My Lord, are you trying out the life of a secret guard?"
Xiao Yichen rolled his eyes. Of course his wife would carry herself on her back, so there was no way he would let An Ge take advantage of her.
Not bothering to answer Ji Lingxue's words, Xiao Yichen simply picked up Ji Lingxue and carried her sideways. After a moment, he went up to the roof and disappeared into the night.
The night was dark and the winter wind was particularly cold. Ji Lingxue hugged Xiao Yichen's neck tightly and buried her face in his arms.
Xiao Yichen was speeding across the rooftop in a particularly good mood. If he had known that this would please Ji Lingxue and give him some advantage, he would not have gone to the trouble of giving her the lawn.
Xiao Yichen asked: "Princess
How good are your gambling skills? "Otherwise, why would you go to the gambling house
(End of this chapter)