Queen's Development

Chapter 88 Viper
Yuzhi followed on tiptoe.

When she arrived at the door of Dongan's bedroom, she opened a gap in the gauze curtain and leaned over to look inside.

I saw Mi Tao stood in the bedroom looking around, then took out something from her sleeve pocket, went straight to the bed, squatted down, and threw the thing in her hand to the bottom of the bed.

Yu Zhi held her breath, seeing Mi Tao was about to turn around, she hurriedly ran back to the west dark room which was used as the inner study on tiptoe.

Fortunately, she was wearing the pair of light green black soft-soled embroidered shoes today, except for the slight friction between the soles and the floor, there was no other sound.

Just as Yuzhi opened the curtain and entered the west dark room, Mi Tao came out of the east dark room.She looked around for a while, then ran out in a hurry.

After the Ming Room door was closed, Yu Zhi waited for a while, then got up and took the bamboo pole supporting the rear window, and went to the East Dark Room bedroom.

Looking at the light purple sachet drawn out from the bottom of the bed with a bamboo pole, Yuzhi thought for a moment, got up and took a piece of oiled paper, wrapped the sachet, and put it on the window sill.

She stood by the window and began to think about countermeasures.

Mitao was the one inserted by Princess Li. She threw the sachet under Lin Jia's bed, not to bless Lin Jia with a long life, but to frame Lin Jia...

After Mi Tao threw the sachet under the second young master's bed, her heart was pounding and she always felt guilty.

She is not a three-year-old child, so she can naturally guess that the sachet that Su's mother asked her to throw under the second son's bed must be to harm the second son.

But her parents, brother and sister-in-law are all in the hands of Princess Li. For the sake of her family, she naturally has to listen to the words of Princess Wang and Mother Su.

As for Lin Jia, anyway, Lin Jia treated her very coldly, it would be bad luck for him to die!

Thinking of this, Mi Tao didn't feel guilty at all, she pinched a light pink rose, sniffed it on her nose, and went back humming a song.

As soon as she entered the west wing, she heard footsteps coming from outside, and then she heard Yuzhi's voice: "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, and it's time to prepare the items for the Dragon Boat Festival. Go pick some peach leaves, Willow leaves, sunflowers, thin leaves, and Buddhist ai, hang on the door for the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow!"

Mi Tao just did something bad, she was a little timid in her heart, she immediately looked at Xiliu.

Xiliu didn't want to offend Yuzhi, so she said softly immediately: "Let's go out!"

The two of them left the bedroom in the north, only to realize that Shui An had also come out.

It's not that Shui An is afraid of Yuzhi, it's just that she has slept too much in the past few days, her body is sore from sleeping, and she just wants to go out for a walk.

Yuzhi smiled and handed the flower basket to Xiliu, and watched Xiliu, water dragonfly and peach go out.

After the three of Xiliu left the courtyard, Yuzhi quickly ran into the west wing room, opened the curtain and entered the north dark bedroom, and went straight to the innermost bed—she remembered that Mitao slept on the bed and Xiliu slept on the bed. On the brocade couch in front of the window.

After throwing the purple sachet under Mi Tao's bed, Yu Zhi curled up the oiled paper and went out happily.

She went to the small kitchen, stuffed the oiled paper into the stove and burned it.

Watching the oiled paper turn into ashes, Yuzhi smiled and looked up at Mrs. Zhu who was helping the cook: "Mother Zhu, what are you cooking for lunch?"

Yuzhi didn't smile or speak, Granny Zhu always liked her, so she smiled and said: "I feel tired of eating noodles, let's make noodles at noon today!"

Yuzhi nodded, helped Mrs. Zhu wash the dishes, and then returned to Cuiweiju.

As soon as she reached Cuiweiju, Shui An, Mi Tao and Xi Liu came back with baskets.

Yuzhi took a look and saw that the peach leaves, willow leaves, sunflowers, thin leaves and Buddhist ai were all ready, so she and the three of them took scissors and ribbons, trimmed the flowers and leaves, tied them with ribbons, Take it and hang it on the door.

After lunch, Yuzhi sat reading with a book on the couch in front of the window in the inner study, when she suddenly heard footsteps, she glanced out of the window and found Mi Tao coming from the corridor.

Yuzhi put down her book and went out to greet her: "Mi Tao, what's the matter?"

The afternoon sun was a bit hot, and there was a thin layer of sweat on Mi Tao's delicate and round cheeks. She looked more and more white and rosy, and her complexion was very good. She held a neatly folded oiled paper bag in her hand, and said with a smile "Sister Yuzhi, this is the candied fruit I asked someone to buy outside. It's sour and sweet. It's quite delicious. I'll give you some to try!"

Yuzhi smiled and caught it, and took another box of rouge to Mi Tao as a thank you gift.

Hu Yingzhi gave her a thank you gift last time, which contained a lot of rouge and gouache, and she couldn't use it all up, so she gave Mi Tao a box.

Mi Tao opened it and saw that it was the best rouge washed with roses. She was overjoyed and talked with Yu Zhi for a while before leaving.

Yuzhi opened the bag of candied fruit for a look, then wrapped it up again, and planned to show it to Dr. Liu at Qinglong Guanzhai tomorrow.

Mi Tao just did something bad under Lin Jia's bed, how dare she eat what Mi Tao sent her!
Lin Jia and Zhizhou Xia Zhiqing went to Qi County, which is the closest to Qingzhou, not far away, so they rushed back at night.

When he came back, Yuzhi was making multicolored silk thread under the open lamp.

According to the customs of the Zhou Dynasty, blue, red, white, black, and yellow silk threads are twisted together for the Dragon Boat Festival and tied around the neck, wrists, and ankles. It is said that it can ward off evil spirits and seek good health.

Seeing Lin Jia coming in, Yu Zhi was overjoyed and got up to greet her.

Lin Jia was wearing a wet oilcloth cloak, and while taking off the cloak, he said, "It started to rain just after entering the city, but it wasn't too rainy!"

Yuzhi took the oilcloth cloak and looked outside, only to realize that it was raining.

The rain was not heavy, and the green brick floor in the courtyard was already soaked.

After Lin Jia settled down, Yu Zhi went to the small kitchen to fetch dinner and waited on Lin Jia.

When Lin Jia came out of the shower, Yuzhi took five-color silk threads to tie him. Lin Jia was really embarrassed to tie them, and backed away under Yuzhi's pressing step by step.

In the end, he still couldn't hold back Yuzhi, so he had to sit there and let Yuzhi tie his wrists and ankles with colorful silk threads.

Seeing Lin Jia's unlovely expression, Yu Zhi couldn't help but laugh.

Lin Jia laughed too.

Seeing that Lin Jia seemed to have forgotten what happened last night, Yuzhi breathed a sigh of relief.

It was late at night, the rain outside was pattering, and the surroundings were extremely quiet.

Lin Jia was sitting on the huanghuali wood babu bed leaning on the brocade pillow, reading "Agronomy Essentials" in her hand.

It has been raining continuously for the past few days, and everywhere is wet, Yuzhi specially took his brocade quilt and brocade mattress to the smoker for half a day, and now it is warm and fragrant, very comfortable.

On the brocade couch in front of the window, Yuzhi was sitting comfortably under the blanket, reading a book facing the chandelier on one side.

Neither of the two opened their mouths to speak, but there seemed to be a transparent hood covering them together, and they became a small world of their own, and no one could blend into their world.

At this moment, Yuzhi suddenly heard a shrill scream from outside.

She hurriedly sat up straight, always feeling as if she was hallucinating just now.

Lin Jia also looked at Yuzhi.

Just as Yu Zhi was about to speak, she heard another scream, which seemed to be Mi Tao's voice.

Lin Jia quickly got out of bed, took the moon white gauze robe and put it on, before going out.

Yuzhi hurriedly put on her coat, and followed her out.

As soon as Lin Jia went out, she saw someone rushing towards him screaming in the corridor: "Second Young Master, snakes! So many snakes! So many snakes!"

Yuzhi recognized Xiliu, and hurriedly said, "What happened?"

Xiliu's face was full of tears, and she was trembling all over: "Honey... peach bed... under the bed is full of... snakes..."

Hearing this, Yu Zhi understood a little bit in her heart—the sachet that Mi Tao threw under Lin Jia's bed should be filled with medicine to lure snakes!
At this time, A Cheng and A Lan, who were on duty in the second office outside the second door, also came over, and Lin Jia took them to the west wing.

Yuzhi also supported Xiliu and followed.

The door of the West Wing was closed tightly, and Shui Ning was holding on to the latch tightly, trembling all over. Seeing Lin Jia approaching, her teeth chattered and she was speechless.

Lin Jia narrowed her eyes slightly: "Is anyone in the room?"

Shui Xing nodded again and again, her teeth chattering: "There...someone! The peach is inside!"

Lin Jia said, "What happened inside?"

Xiliu was helped by Yuzhi, she tremblingly said: "There are many snakes on the peach bed..."

Lin Jia told Alan and Acheng: "Go to Mama Yang and get a jar of realgar wine, and bring two torches here!"

Alan and Acheng agreed, and quickly ran over with a jar of realgar wine and a few torches.

Lin Jia lit the torches, A Lan took two torches, and A Cheng held the realgar wine. After getting ready, he looked at A Lan and nodded.

Ah Lan understood, kicked open the door, and entered the west wing with a torch.

Yu Zhi followed behind and saw a lot of snakes with different thicknesses, thin eyes, eyes and colors on the floor of the house. These snakes were crawling and wriggling on the ground, she was so disgusted that she almost vomited.

A Cheng splashed realgar wine to lead the way, and A Lan followed in, and soon entered the bedroom in the north dark room.

Because of the realgar wine splashed by Ah Cheng, the snakes began to swim around quickly. Many snakes swam out of the bedroom.

At this moment, Ah Cheng came out with a peach in his arms.

Seeing Mi Tao not moving, Lin Jia asked in a deep voice, "How is she?"

Ah Cheng walked out of the west wing, bent down and gently placed the peach on the ground in the corridor, and said softly: "She is already dead."

At this moment, Mi Tao was lying face up on the ground, and Yuzhi could clearly see Mi Tao's blue face and the purple blood dripping from the corner of her mouth.

Yuzhi's face was pale, and she thought: Such a poisonous snake, it seems that the mastermind behind Mitao wants to put Lin Jia to death...

Seeing Yuzhi's pale face, Lin Jia thought she didn't dare to see the dead, so she left Alan and Acheng to clean up the mess, and she took Yuzhi's hand and walked towards Mingjian.

Back in Mingjian, Lin Jia asked Yuzhi to sit down on the armchair, stood there to comfort Yuzhi and said, "Alan and Acheng will take care of it, don't worry!"

Yuzhi lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then raised her eyes to look at Lin Jia: "I should have brought these snakes here..."

Lin Jia was taken aback.

Yuzhi then told about the peaches that had been placed under his bed today in the sachet.

After hearing this, Lin Jia stretched out her hand to hold Yuzhi's hand, staring at Yuzhi with dark eyes: "Yuzhi, thank you!"

Thank you for saving my life again!

Yuzhi took a deep breath, and said: "If Mi Tao is still alive, she can press the mastermind behind her, but now..."

Lin Jia's handsome face had a cruel smile: "Dead people can talk too."

He got up and walked to the door, and told Ah Qing who had just rushed over to protect him: "Go and ask the prince to come over!"

(End of this chapter)