12dz Chapter 114 Devouring China
Chapter 114 Devouring China
When Qing Yuan saw Sang Luo coming, she bowed to Lu Xuan and stepped aside.
The maidservant was doing the job in exchange for bribes. When she saw Qing Yuan and Sang Luo's skills, and Fei Xing and Xuan Ge beside Jiang Xing had not yet used their strength, her heart sank anxiously.
Her teeth knocked her lips until they bled, but thinking of saving her life, she hurriedly and tremblingly said, "Your servant, I only accepted the silver and was told to replace the hairpin. I didn't know it was poisoned, Princess!"
Jiang Xing looked down at her and asked, "Who bribed you with money?"
Her voice was trembling. "Yes, it was a servant from the Marquis's Mansion. He said he just wanted one of the princess's jewelry as a keepsake, and this one was even better than the princess's original one, so no one could tell..."
Cold sweat dripped down her forehead, and her voice was filled with tears. "I didn't want to accept it, but that person said that if I didn't change it, he would kill my mother. I was afraid, so I had to accept the money. Princess, please forgive me, Your Majesty, please forgive me. I will never dare to do that again!"
Hearing that it was the servant from the Marquis' Mansion, Jiang Xing's face became even gloomier: "I still have to keep a thought in mind. That person must be Qing Mo who was beside Ji Bozhou!"
Lu Xuan shook his head: "No, it should be the one next to Ji Cheng, Mustard Seed!"
Jiang Xing glanced at the maidservant kneeling on the ground with her head bruised, as if she were an ant: "Kill her and throw the body into the mass grave!"
what? !
The maidservant was struck by lightning and stared at Jiang Xing in disbelief. Her pale face turned pale in an instant and her body went limp as she collapsed to the ground.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, I didn't do it on purpose! I was just deceived, Your Highness..."
"Wait!" Lu Xuan raised her hand to stop him: "Your Highness, please let me handle this."
Jiang Xing glanced at her and nodded lightly: "Okay!"
But fearing she might be kind, he added, "You are not allowed to appear next to you again!"
Lu Xuan nodded: "Sang Luo, give her mother one hundred taels of silver! Send her back with her body intact!"
The maid on the ground flashed with surprise. She had originally thought that the princess would let her go...
But it is much better than the previous treatment.
The fear in her eyes turned into an even stronger regret. When she heard that she had left money for her mother, she kowtowed repeatedly on the ground in great sorrow: "Thank you, Princess, for taking care of my mother! Your kindness is so great, I will repay you in my next life..."
As they were talking, Sang Luo and several other servants had already dragged the man out like a dead dog.
After Lu Xuan saw the man leave, he asked Jiang Xing, "Even Xiao Kui didn't notice anything unusual, so how did you know the hairpin was poisonous?"
Jiang Xing spread out the gold hairpin in his palm. "The most striking feature of this butterfly-wing hairpin, Princess, is the wings. Originally, the wings were inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which gave them a brilliant, butterfly-like brilliance. But over time, even though the color and brightness of the mother-of-pearl have faded, it still retains some luster."
"But the one on the ground is perfect. The wings are even more lifelike than the original one. They're just too lifelike. They even have real butterfly powder on them!"
Lu Xuan frowned: "A real butterfly fan?!"
Jiang Xing looked at the golden hairpin on the ground: "Yes, the butterfly powder on it comes from the body of a real butterfly! But the butterfly with those colors and butterfly powder that can be preserved is not an ordinary butterfly, but a poisonous butterfly called the Phantom Purple Butterfly!"
"People in the Western Regions often use the powder from this butterfly's wings to make poison. The resulting toxin is called Huashi! This poison penetrates through hair, skin, and any accessible part of the body, penetrating deep into the head, and then causing the person to enter a dream of vibrant blossoms!"
His eyes flashed with fierceness. "But at the same time, within a day, the poisoned person's brain will be eaten away by this invisible poison. Within twelve hours, they will die!"
Xiao Kui was horrified: "How sinister! I must go wash my hands!"
What a risk!
Just now, when she took the head of the golden hairpin, it almost touched the princess' hair!
Lu Xuan was so shocked that it took him a long time to come back to his senses. It was obvious that Ji Cheng had been doing these things for years, and even used poison in such a tricky way!
Then she curled her lips: "I didn't expect that the prince knew so much!"
This must be the advantage of being a dandy prince, right? He even knows about the most subtle poison!
Jiang Xing hadn't expected her praise to come from such matters. He looked at her deeply and said, "That's why I demanded that the maidservant be killed just now! Because the Hua Devouring Poison had been in her body for so long, she was going to die today too! It's just that we didn't have enough time, so it hadn't taken effect yet!"
Lu Xuan sighed, "I've already had the necessary good intentions and made the necessary efforts. The rest, whether she lives or dies, is up to her own karma."
She looked down at the Guimi ice yogurt on the table. "I was distracted by this bowl of ice yogurt earlier. There's a strange smell in this ice yogurt. Your Highness, please take a look. Someone must have poisoned the food!"
Jiang Xing immediately picked up the bowl and sniffed it.
His expression froze: "Princess, this bowl is indeed different from mine!"
He paused for a long time, his expression changing several times before he finally looked at Lu Xuan in disbelief: "The princess's was added with Ren Zhong Huang!"
Lu Xuan frowned: "Ren philtrum yellow?"
Jiang Xing looked a little embarrassed.
We agreed to find a good cook to make ice cream, but you just keep making things difficult for him!
He coughed. "Ren Zhong Huang is a medicine made by putting licorice powder into a bamboo tube and soaking it in a cesspool for a certain period of time. It has the effects of clearing heat and cooling the blood, purging fire and detoxifying! It's harmless to the princess..."
Lu Xuan glanced at the bowl of iced yogurt, but Jiang Xing could see disgust in that glance.
Jiang Xing sneered, "This bowl of iced yogurt is just a cover-up for the poison in the golden hairpin. I'm sure the other maid who brought the iced yogurt to the princess just now is also responsible! There's no need for the cook to give the princess the poison while leaving the prince's poison alone!"
Lu Xuan agreed with him and turned to Xiao Kui, "Take someone to find the other maid who served the ice cream. She's guilty of the same crime as the one who poisoned her earlier!"
Xiao Kui was furious: "I'll go right away!"
After getting Jiang Xing's answer about ice cream, Lu Xuan's mind was no longer on these things.
She thought seriously about the entire Marquisate.
Jiang Xing saw through her thoughts immediately, and his expression turned serious: "Jiezi has already started to act, which means that Queen Ji has already told Ji Cheng or Lord Ji Hou about it!"
Lu Xuan nodded. "I just didn't expect that they would choose to kill me without hesitation! It seems that the Ji family doesn't care about either the daughter of General Shenwu or Princess Jin!"
She looked at Jiang Xing: "Have you found evidence of Ji Cheng's crime?"
Jiang Xing hummed, "He sold official positions and titles to accumulate most of the Marquis's wealth. I found out they have a villa at the foot of Qingxiu Mountain, and servants often come and go!"
Lu Xuan's eyes fixed, and suddenly something occurred to him: "Have you found out what the Ji family is doing in that other village?"
Jiang Xing shook his head: "We're still investigating! Even Chief Steward Ji frequently comes in and out, but we haven't found any members of the Ji family living there. Isn't that strange?"
"I know!" Lu Xuan said bluntly, "The Ji family built a basement beneath the villa, and it's filled with gold! There's also a pit in the northeast corner outside the villa, with at least ten bodies buried in it. They're all people they killed and didn't know how to deal with the aftermath!"
Jiang Xing was so shocked by this huge and shocking news that he was unable to react.
He looked at her in shock: "How did the princess know this news?"
Lu Xuan spoke without thinking: "I also have a villa at the foot of Qingxiu Mountain. I stayed there for a few days before and secretly took a look around!"
Of course she couldn't say that she knew it in her previous life!
But now, if we wait for Jiang Xing to investigate slowly, I don’t know how long it will take!
The Ji family is extremely difficult to deal with, so she must hurry.
Of course Jiang Xing knew it, how could it be possible to find such a rare clue after just living there for a few days? The people in the Ji family are not fools!
But thinking that Lu Xuan had some mysterious knowledge, which might have been deduced or learned from somewhere else, he did not expose her.
"Now that the princess has found such crucial information, the only thing we still lack is evidence! As long as we find the evidence, we can always fight again!"
Lu Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s good to be an ally with Jiang Xing. She just gave a general idea and he already knew the whole picture and the next plan. Now their cooperation is becoming more and more tacit!