Without waiting for him to finish, Shen Xihe walked away, leaving Xiao Huayong smiling with his fist to his lips. Watching from afar, others thought that the Crown Prince's old illness had relapsed.
Since the Spring Banquet was held for the royal family, in order to test the character of the girls, and since it was also necessary to show their talents, the Queen Mother and several palace concubines took out some rare pearl hairpins as prizes, and set up a competition of painting, dancing, and poetry.
Shen Xihe watched from the side, observing Princess Anling's every move. Princess Anling was particularly quiet today, even distracted from time to time. When Princess Pingling approached her to talk, she responded incoherently, so Princess Pingling stopped bothering her.
Half a month had passed since she last went to His Majesty to tell him that someone might do something bad to Princess Anling, but no action had been taken yet. This person was really patient. Perhaps he guessed that this move was very risky, or perhaps he felt that the timing was not right.
Shen Xihe was ready to add fuel to the fire today. She came to the Spring Banquet just for Princess Anling.
Since she lacked a legitimate reason to attack Princess Anling, she gave one to this person and refused to believe that he would not seize the opportunity.
When the banquet was almost over, Shen Xihe suddenly fainted, attracting everyone's attention. They were all horrified because Shen Xihe's face was pale and his lips were purple.
Xiao Huayong was also frightened and his face changed. He forgot to pretend and rushed to Shen Xihe. He was so concerned that he thought Shen Xihe was really being ambushed. Zhenzhu checked Shen Xihe's pulse and said, "The princess has been poisoned. Go and call Ah Xi to come."
Zi Yu immediately went to look for Ah Xi. At this time the imperial physician also arrived and checked Shen Xihe's pulse. It did show signs of poisoning, but there was something strange about it. He didn't have time to carefully identify what was strange. The people gathered outside, under the push of Xue Jinqiao, who had already received Shen Xihe's hint, pushed Princess Anling to the ground.
Princess Anling's personal maid stepped on the bed to protect the princess, and a medicine bottle rolled off her body.
"Is the princess hurt?" Xue Jinqiao ran forward, as if he didn't see the medicine bottle, kicked it, ran to Princess Anling and helped her up.
Princess Anling didn't know that it was Xue Jinqiao who caused her to fall, so she smiled at her in gratitude. However, when she thought that she was the fiancée of the Prince of Northwest, she couldn't help but think of Shen Xihe, and her smile faded.
"Princess, this thing fell from this palace maid." At this time, Yu Sangning picked up the medicine bottle that was kicked away by Xue Jinqiao, walked forward and handed it to Princess Anling.
Princess Anling's maid looked at the medicine bottle and immediately said, "Miss, you are mistaken. This is not my thing."
This thing was definitely not hers, and she didn't see it fall from her.
After hearing this, the Queen Mother looked at Shen Xihe, who was being carried to the palace by Xiao Huayong, and said, "Go get the medicine bottle."
The female historian beside the Queen Mother came over to take the medicine bottle and let the imperial physician examine it. The result of the imperial physician's examination made him sweat on his forehead: "Queen Mother, this is poison. The symptoms of being poisoned are somewhat similar to those of the princess."
Originally, the imperial physician was still trying to figure out what kind of poison Shen Xihe had been poisoned by, but when this thing appeared, he immediately realized what was happening.
"Queen Dowager, Anling has absolutely no intention of harming Zhaoning!" Upon hearing this, Princess Anling immediately knelt before the Queen Dowager.