An Eight-year-old Princess

Hearing this, Yun Shang's eyes widened. She turned to Emperor Ning and said, "Father, there is no need to kill them if these packets are harmless."

Emperor Ning looked at his young daughter. He contemplated for a while before asking, "Who prescribed these herbs to you? Go check the records at the Imperial Medical College."

The maid kowtowed and said, "Oh it was physician Shang who prescribed these herbs. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you so much, Your Highness."

Realizing Qing Xin would no longer be treated as a suspect, Yan'er, the maid who went to retrieve the cushion cried out, "It wasn't me! I don't even know what those herbs are or where they came from! Were it not for Qin Yi asking me to fetch the cushion for the Princess today, I wouldn't even have had the chance to enter the Princess's chamber. Please trust me, Your Majesty!"

"You are in charge of cleaning the Princess's Palace. So even without Qin Yi asking you to fetch the cushion, you could have still found a way to tamper with the medicine." Lord Cui snapped, "Besides, those herbs have already been given to an Imperial Physician. We will soon find out whether they are poisonous."

"Oh I am innocent! I truly do not know how those herbs came to be under my pillow!" Yan'er paused as she thought of something. Then her eyes filled with resentment. "It has to be Jing Rong. She lives in the same room as me, and we have always been incompatible with each other. It must be Jing Rong who put those herbs under my pillow."

Qin Meng frowned, she bowed towards Yun Shang and Emperor Ning, and said, "Jing Rong is a maid in the kitchen. She was ill today and stayed indoors. How did she get the chance to poison the Princess?"

Yan'er collapsed on the ground, "I didn't do it. I'm innocent..."

While she was claiming her innocence, an Imperial bodyguard hurried in. "Your majesty, I have the result of the herb tests. Qing Xin's package contains licorice powder indeed, but Yan'er's herb package contains poison."

Emperor Ning frowned, and

Yan'er as she was carried away by the guards. Yun Shang closed her eyes, and murmured "Amitabha

I will take your leave and return to my Palace and get some rest." Yun Shang sighed, stood up, and bowed towards Emperor Ning. Then with Qin Yi's help, she left for the

Palace fell silent. Qin Yi walked to the

smiled, "What a scene! I put the poison in the medicine bowl. I didn't

Yan'er to us. It couldn't be the Queen, otherwise Qin Meng wouldn't stab the maid like

doesn't matter who sent Yan'er. She wouldn't be stupid enough to put the package in such a conspicuous place. As for Jing Rong, it cannot be a coincidence that she happened to be

Jing Rong. Like Yan'er said, it is possible that Jing Rong deliberately put the herb package under her pillow

on their own, but they are actually quite dangerous. Licorice is a common herb indeed, but few people know

you were served fish, you will certainly eat it. I didn't know these bastards could be this evil! Had you not learned so much from the intelligent people around the Master, you would be an easy victim. Besides, food poison is hard to trace. Even if someone realizes poison was being used, their first suspicion would not be the food that you consumed." Still frightened, Qin Yi suggested, "How about we pretend to take a walk outside tomorrow and

to examine the Palace..." While speaking, something came up her mind. She smiled, "There are people from all forces hiding in Qinxin Hall, after this event,

stopped her. Yun Shang opened her mouth and whispered.

easy to settle here, but you didn't listen and insisted on returning. Now look at what happened!

Shang sighed, "After all these years of living in the temple, I'm used to it's peaceful surroundings. Moving back here seems inappropriate to me now. Never mind. I came back only because I miss Lord Father too much. Now that he's getting better, I'm also relieved. I'll just go back to Ning'guo Temple after my Coming-of-age Ceremony. I'm too weak and staying here would

finished her sentences, Qin Meng's voice came from outside the door, "Your highness,