Chapter 71

  Li Fei stared at Xiao Wu for a long time, not saying a word, just looking at him with an odd expression that wasn't fierce. After a long while, she suddenly burst out laughing, laughing so happily and unreservedly.

  "Xiao Wu, you truly are my lovely slave girl! Good, good, it's really too wonderful! It's so interesting, this is what they call 'reaping what one has sown'. How did you think of this plan? I'm simply too impressed. Don't worry, no one will suspect that you're the one who did it. In this palace, besides me, there's no one else who can recognize that poison. Even Hong Yu might only be able to suffer in silence, haha! As for Sima Qiang, I'm afraid he won't have an antidote either, unless he goes to Wumeng country to get it. But as long as I notify Father Emperor beforehand, he won't be able to obtain the medicine. You, Xiao Wu, are truly a good slave girl of mine! I like you, and from now on, follow me well, and I'll make sure you have a bright future!"

  Xiao Wu looked at Li Fei in confusion, thinking: This Li Fei is so strange. She herself was angry with Hong Yu for killing Miss, so she wanted to deal with Hong Yu. At first, she didn't know that the Second Prince's Consort was the one who poisoned her, but the Fourth Prince specifically instructed her that if she found out who the poisoner was, she should use their own body to punish them. She didn't understand what the Fourth Prince meant, so he said: "It means you remember how others harmed Yuelou, and then you 'harm' this person in the same way."

  So she applied some of the poison from Miss's wound to her ring, ready to deal with Miss's enemy at any time. Unexpectedly, on the first day she entered the palace, she encountered Miss's enemy!

  The fourth prince once said, "This medicine is very strange. As long as it doesn't come into contact with a wound, nothing will happen. It only takes effect when there's a wound and blood." So she scratched the back of Hongyu's hand, but because she was too nervous, the scratch was very shallow. However, judging from Empress Lian's reaction, this little wound should also work!

  "Get up, I must tell Sima Rui about this, you're so amusing. If Hongyu knew, her nose would be crooked with anger." Lihui smiled happily, "Come on, get up, let me apply some medicine. The medicine from my country is amazing, as long as you apply it, you'll be fine in no time. Liyuan doesn't have anything to do either, apply the medicine and take a rest."

  "Thank you, Miss," Little Wu said in a low voice. In fact, she was still terrified and uneasy in her heart, and had acted impulsively for the moment. Now that she thought about it, she felt truly frightened, but it was worth it for Miss's sake!

  A loud voice outside shouted: "The Second Prince and the Second Princess have arrived."

  Lihui burst out laughing and said in a crisp voice: "Let them come in, I'm just idle anyway."

  Simajiang really hated the decision at that time. If he had married this Yaligong princess, would she have been able to humiliate him like this? Looking at her sitting high above, himself and Hongyu paying respects, although the courtesy was not too great, thinking about it was also infuriating.

  Lihui smiled, with the warmest smile on her face, but her expression was stiff and resentful. "Simaqiang, Hongyu, I didn't think this day would come so soon! I'm truly overjoyed! Since you persuaded my father to make me a hostage of the Great Xing Dynasty, I've been waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a chance to humiliate you. Now that it's here, I'm thrilled! You still want to return to Bianzhou? I'm afraid not, I'll make you endure my humiliation forever!"

  "Consort Li, please be more careful with your words," Sima said coldly. "Whether or not I go to the border is not for you to decide. Even if you are the emperor's Consort Li, you can only humiliate me and Hongyu in such trivial matters."

  "Self-respect?!" Princess Ya Li burst out laughing, "If I had self-respect, I would have smashed my head to death already. But since I didn't die, wouldn't that be letting you off easy? How could I possibly let you get away with the humiliation I suffered without making you pay?! I'm not stupid like that. Don't be too confident, I'll make you understand bit by bit. Bringing me from Wumeng Country as a hostage is the biggest mistake of your life, Sima Qiang!"

  Simaqiang's face sank, and he was just about to speak.

  "Didn't you say I couldn't stop you from going to the border?" Yu Fei laughed and continued, "You've forgotten that in this palace there's still your mother, Liu Fei. As long as she's here, I can make sure you won't be able to go to the border with a clear conscience. Moreover, even if no one else knows, do you think I, Yu Li, don't know? The people at the border actually trust Wu Meng more than they trust you! You're just a guy with some tricks up your sleeve."

  Liu Fei soon found out that Li Fei had asked Sima Qiang and Hong Yu to personally go to Li Yuan to apologize, and for the sake of Sima Qiang, she had beaten a small maid given by the Empress Dowager to Li Fei.

  As soon as she heard the news, she almost fainted. One Murong Xue was already enough to make her anxious, and these days the Emperor seemed to have been possessed by an evil spirit, spending every day in the Snow Garden, leaving Zhao Gang with no chance at all. She managed to inform Sima Qiang and Consort Li about the matter of going to the Beautiful Garden to pay their respects. She naturally couldn't swallow this insult, and if she didn't teach a lesson to this arrogant Princess Yalü, who knows what kind of uncontrollable situation would arise in the palace.

  As for Liu Fei's arrival, Li Fei wasn't surprised at all. Just now, Sima Qiang and Hong Yu came to apologize, she knew that Liu Fei would not let it go easily. Now the two concubines living in Nuan Yu Pavilion are both young and beautiful 'fox spirits', how could they make Liu Fei, who has always been one of the top three palaces in the palace, swallow her grievances? She was bound to show up sooner or later.

  Liu Fei stormed into the Luyuan, where Li Fei was reclining on a soft couch, elegantly eating fruit with an air of leisure. Her hair cascaded down her shoulders, her eyes sparkled with allure, her lips were bright red, and her thin clothes barely concealed her slender curves.

  This Warming Jade Pavilion is warm as spring all year round, it's the best place in the palace to avoid the cold. Normally at this time, the Empress and Consorts Wu and Liu would have already arrived here. But now because two new consorts are living here, and the Warming Jade Pavilion has been divided into two parts to become their residences, so they can't come here anymore.

  Every time she thought of this, Liu Fei felt a sense of resentment. At that time, the three of them almost monopolized the emperor because of the weather, and the emperor would no longer go to other concubines, only staying with them, enjoying themselves carefree.

  Liu Fei snorted coldly in her nose, looking at Li Fei. She hadn't seen anyone like herself in the palace before, and she wasn't afraid of her. Wasn't she just a naive little girl who still smelled of milk? Could she really turn Liu Fei's world upside down?

  "Ah, Liu Fei sister has arrived. I'm so sorry, I'm not feeling well today, just had a bout of indigestion and my heart is feeling stuffy. How nice that you're here, let's chat."

  "You! ——" Liu Fei was truly so angry that she couldn't say a word, she wasn't always young, she had been young too, and she knew that youth was capital. "I heard you summoned Qiang Er and Hong Yu to scold them, what's the reason?!"