Chapter 18 Night Attack

“…Yes, I do! What can you do?” Jiang Min asked fiercely through clenched teeth. Ye didn’t look back. She still stared forward but smiled, “Then let’s see if Yun can make it tonight.”

“My Lady, you scared me today.”

After returning to Qingshui House, Chui Xue heaved a long sigh and felt lucky as if they had escaped from death, “But for the princess’s lady-in-waiting helped, I’m really afraid Madam Song would have slapped you.”

“How could it happen?”

Gu Qiang took the tea from Chui Xue and said casually, “The ladies-in-waiting of Princess Changning were all secret guards before. How could Jiang Min have the chance to slap me?”

“They were secret guards?”

Chui Xue shouted in surprise, “My Lady, you even know it!”

It was not strange that she knew it.

Among the imperial household, including princesses, princes and dukes, who didn’t have secret guards?

Thinking of it, Gu Qiang’s smile became more meaningful. Then the door curtain was lifted. Ting Feng rushed back from outside. As soon as seeing Gu Qiang, she was going to salute, but Gu Qiang raised her hand and stopped her, “Don’t bother. Tell me. How is it going?”

What Ting Feng had found sent a chill down her spine. In the presence of her Lady and Chui Xue, she said through clenched teeth, “Yes. My Lady, you asked me to investigate the recent food in Felicity Hall. With pretended curiosity, I went to the big kitchen and took some remaining ingredients. Just as you expected…”

Knowing it’s serious, Ting Feng lowered her voice, “…In the dishes of Old Lady, there was indeed one named globefish braised with Chinese yam. I heard that Old Lady liked it very much and had eaten it consecutively for several days…”

Ting Feng didn’t dare to tell Gu Qiang what else she knew. She was not born in Gu Family. When she was young, she lived with her family by the sea and thus knew slightly more than others.

The globefish tasted good, while its internal organs were poisonous. So long as it was cooked properly, its toxin could be removed. However, Chinese yam was very sticky. If it was cooked with the globefish, the toxin inside the latter couldn’t be removed completely. Though only a small amount of toxin was left in the dish, the consequence might be too dreadful to contemplate if Old Lady often ate it. After all, she was aged.

The more Ting Feng thought, the more scared she felt. Though she didn’t like the overbearing manner of Old Lady, she had never thought madam would dare to poison Old Lady in this way.

But what her Lady’s instructed her to do also made her frightened. She pinched the box in her hands with hesitation and gave it to Gu Qiang carefully at last. But she was still worried, “This is globefish cream made from the globefish left in the kitchen as you instructed…It’s poisonous. Please be careful.”

“Got it. I know.”

The globefish cream was highly poisonous. A small amount of it could kill a person. Gu Qiang nodded and took it. But when looking at the worried expression of Ting Feng and Chui Xue, she sighed, patted their shoulders lightly and comforted them, “I’ll be careful. We…just prepare for the worst.”

“My Lady, will you tell Old Madam?…Or tell Mr. Gu directly when he comes back?” Ting Feng asked.

Gu Qiang shook her head, stroked the globefish cream box and said with a faint smile, “Ye put me in a tough spot during the spring feast today. Did anyone of Felicity Hall come to speak for me? Now that she doesn’t regard me as her granddaughter, I don’t need to shoulder my filial duty.”

Gu Qiang didn’t share with them everything on her mind. Old Lady Gu didn’t like her and hated her biological mother even more.

According to Gu Qiang’s investigation result, even the early death of her mother was related to Old Lady Gu. Now that her daughter-in-law wanted to kill her, Gu Qiang would like to give a hand.

“My Lady, you mean…Ouch!”

While Ting Feng was speaking, the candlelight in the room flickered and went out suddenly. The principal room in Qingshui House became pitch dark instantly. The three people were surprised inside it. Then Ting Feng rose to light the candle again. When she just groped a few steps forward, she heard Gu Qiang order suddenly, “Ting Feng! Come back!”

Strange. It was very strange!

The candlelight wouldn’t have gone out without reason. Gu Qiang thought something was wrong by instinct. However, after giving the order, she didn’t receive Ting Feng’s response. Instead after a while, she heard a muffled sound as if something heavy fell on the ground.

“Ting Feng?”

Gu Qiang shouted in surprise. At this time, she smelt a fragrance that was faint in the beginning and then became strong. It smelt strange. Gu Qiang frowned and then immediately realized what it was. She warned them hurriedly, “Don’t smell it! It’s knockout smoke!”