"What? A calligraphy and painting done by herself, isn’t this a bit too shabby?"
Consort De, who had been under house arrest for several days and finally got a chance to co out due to the Princess’s birthday celebration, was secretly hating Long Yue and looking for an opportunity to make her uncomfortable!
Upon hearing Long Yue say it was her own work, she imdiately started mocking without a second thought.
Long Yue calmly responded, "Does Consort De have trouble hearing? ’Sincerity brings results,’ can’t you write these four characters? Even if you can’t write them, listening to their literal aning, you should understand what it implies!"
This head-on confrontation made Consort De’s face turn unsightly, wishing she could rush up and tear this little scoundrel’s mouth apart for being so insolent!
Aunt Yin, beside Rong Si, seeing that the two were about to bicker, intervened to prevent ruining Rong Si’s birthday celebration: "Alright, it’s a trivial matter, what’s the fuss? Do you want to ss up the birthday celebration?"
These words made the situation serious, and Consort De quickly clamd up, taking a step back to show she acknowledged her mistake.
However, she still shot a fierce glare at Long Yue.
Long Yue paid no mind to Consort De’s hostility, taking the calligraphy and painting to Rong Si, who accepted it from Yin Li to have a look.
Rong Si opened it to see it was a beautiful painting of mountains and rivers, with four large characters "Longevity as the Southern Mountain" embroidered with hair on the summit.
This was a wonderful embroidered piece, and Rong Si hadn’t expected a birthday present could be this unique?
She gave Long Yue a satisfied smile and put the piece away: "Good, this is quite nice, Ming Fei has put in thought."
Seeing Rong Si’s beaming smile, Consort De was filled with jealousy, unable to speak out of anger.
Based on the Princess’s attitude, wasn’t this a slap in the face? Just before, she was mocking Long Yue’s painting as perfunctory, but now Rong Si liked it...
It was infuriating, even if things weren’t going your way, is this necessary?
With this happening, the other concubines found their gifts hard to present, having all chosen expensive items to bestow.
After all, could their expensive items compare to Ming Fei’s dedication?
Ming Fei wasn’t even inclined to present expensive items, yet they were all self-satisfied—wasn’t this laughable?
Gifts were presented one by one, the concubines saying nothing, handing them over before bowing out.
Seeing the round of gifts nearly concluded, Nianxi signalled with a look.
There was a palace maid serving tea and water; she was actually a Death Soldier, and upon receiving Nianxi’s command, she drew a dagger and charged at the Princess.
The dagger glead with cold light and aid at the fastest strike, shocking everyone present, even Yin Li, who stared in disbelief at the palace maid.
Were they courting death?
Attempting to assassinate the Princess?
With such little martial prowess, how could they hope to kill the Princess?
Sure enough, before the palace maid even reached the Princess, she was intercepted by others.
"Pfft!"
A guard thrust a long blade into the palace maid, and Rong Si coldly commanded, "Keep her alive!"
However, it was too late; the palace maid poisoned herself and died.
"Useless, you are all useless, you never catch them!"
Rong Si naturally referred to capturing those assassins, and last ti at the Beifeng Forest, soone tried to assassinate Li Qingmu, and they all died, leaving no one alive; this ti was the sa.
Could Rong Si not be angry?
Li Qingmu stood beside Rong Si, watching the palace maid pounce forward, his gaze darkened.
This palace maid was absolutely a Death Soldier because her eyes were dull, devoid of life, even showing a sense of relief.
It seed carrying out the order and then dying was a form of liberation.
Such people have incredibly strong willpower; once they complete their task, they end themselves imdiately, unstoppable by anyone.
Because you can never know where they’ve concealed the poison.
They wish to die, and who can prevent it?
But precisely because of this, Li Qingmu felt sothing was off; soone was stirring trouble!
"Search her, see if there’s anything suspicious on her."
Consort De imdiately said, wanting to demonstrate, but Li Qingmu thought she was utterly foolish.
If soone truly intended to kill Rong Si, they would certainly not leave any evidence; if they did, such an assassination would lose its purpose.
Perhaps it was rely a fake assassination!
Just as Li Qingmu made this judgnt, soone exclaid, "Found it, there’s a parchnt scroll on her!"
"A parchnt scroll? Bring it here!"
Yin Li stepped forward to take the parchnt scroll, not even glancing at it, and handed it to Rong Si.
She never peeked at firsthand materials, always giving them to Rong Si.
This displayed her loyalty!
Rong Si took the scroll and closely examined it, her eyebrows slightly furrowed.
"This is a list, a list of adversarial forces infiltrated within our Da Liang Palace, and at the top it is marked with a large red dot? What does this an??"
"It should be a mark, yet what does it signify?"
"The list doesn’t have real nas, only codes, the red dot should be the leader among these people!"
"Princess, should we investigate according to this list?"
In truth, Yin Li knew this list would uncover nothing; after all, who knew whose code was whose.
Unless soone among them betrayed and inford them, but clearly, that’s impossible.
Then, what is the purpose of this list?
A palace maid responsible for assassination, would she really leave such an important item on herself, is that plausible?
Soone is trying to fra her!
After reaching this conclusion, Rong Si’s expression turned even more displeased.
Do they think she’s so foolish, easily manipulated by them?
"Put it away!"
Rong Si casually handed the list back to Yin Li, not planning to address it.
Nianxi, witnessing this, felt a tightening in her heart; if the Princess won’t deal with this, then who will?
She wanted to step forward, but Consort De surprisingly spoke again: "Princess, this assassination matter isn’t child’s play, nor should it be taken lightly, I believe it should be thoroughly investigated! For instance, lately who have been the ones sneaking into the palace with unclear backgrounds!"
Unclear backgrounds?
Ha, seems like she’s referring to Long Yue?
She ant it for her!
Long Yue smiled lightly, dismissing the comnt, but earnestly said, "Consort De is right, Your Majesty should indeed investigate thoroughly; today they failed—who knows when they might attempt to harm the Princess again?"
Rong Si nodded slightly, feeling Long Yue was obedient and understanding.
Consort De, however, sourly added, "Since Ming Fei insists on a thorough check, why not start by checking herself? Her background is always the subject of rumors; if Ming Fei doesn’t clarify her origin today, soone might use it against her in the future, don’t you think, Princess?"
Here it cos, here it cos!
Long Yue knew they were finally beginning to scrutinize her background!
Whether it was Nianxi or Wei Yundai, they both knew about the skin of the living dead, so they probably also guessed?
Ha, it doesn’t matter; she’d foreseen this day, so when it ca, Long Yue wasn’t flustered.
She calmly replied, "Clarify? Isn’t my background already clear enough?"
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