Chapter 41: Luring the Enemy into the Trap

Qi Sicheng met Pan Yueqing's gaze. The look that had originally made him uneasy suddenly disappeared without a trace. Those very beautiful eyes were instantly filled with a cold emotion.

"Miss, have we met somewhere before?" Qi Sicheng examined Pan Yueqing's face and felt that she looked somewhat familiar.

"No. Sir, you're blocking my way," Pan Yueqing said indifferently.

After saying that, regardless of Qi Sicheng's reaction, she directly bypassed him and walked towards Yang Lin's residence.

Yang Lin looked at Pan Yueqing, who was sitting on the armchair and watching the star beads on the compass turn round and round. He brewed a pot of dried rose flowers. Her two maids were still unconscious. Yang Lin handed her a glass of flower tea and scratched his head. "I'm used to being casual. You..."

Before Yang Lin could finish speaking, Pan Yueqing picked up the glass and drank it all in one gulp. She quickly said, "Do you have any treasure for detoxification? It's best to be colorless and odorless."

Yang Lin was slightly taken aback. Pan Yueqing frowned tightly. Since she saw Qi Sicheng, it had been very difficult for her to completely calm down. When she came to Yang Lin's place today, someone had drugged her with a sleeping potion. If it hadn't been for Qi Sian's timely arrival, she didn't even know where she would be now, whether she was alive or dead.

"The Detoxification and Heat-clearing Pill. Put it under your tongue, and it will protect you from all common poisons! You won't be invaded by them!" Yang Lin took out a small jar and smiled like a cunning merchant. "It's only fifteen taels of silver. You won't suffer a loss, and you won't be deceived!"

Pan Yueqing rested her chin in her hand and stared at Yang Lin. "Common poisons? If it's an uncommon one, I'll be reduced to ashes."

"Then there's the enhanced version. Wait a moment," Yang Lin stood up and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets. Finally, he found a jar of greenish stuff among a pile of centipedes. "The Version B Detoxification and Heat-clearing Pill!"

"Why is it still the Detoxification and Heat-clearing Pill?" Pan Yueqing stared at Yang Lin with a suspicious look.

"The previous one was Version A!" Yang Lin glanced at Pan Yueqing. He thought to himself that he shouldn't get angry with an outsider and patiently explained, "Except for poisons that can cause death within a short time, basically, if you can hold on until you come to me, if it's something like a sleeping potion, it can be solved immediately. But I still think that except for the people from the inner sect of the Tang Sect in Mount Shu, you basically won't need this enhanced version."

"Okay," Pan Yueqing left fifteen taels of silver, put away the bottle, and raised her hand to point at Luo Shui and Xia Yang, who were still sleeping. "You can wake them up now."

"Don't you trust these two at all?" Yang Lin unhurriedly took out that bottle of medicine with a strong smell. Before he could put it under Luo Shui's nose, he heard Pan Yueqing say leisurely, "Trust has to be earned."

After a while, Xia Yang woke up first. The moment she saw Pan Yueqing, she hugged Pan Yueqing's leg. Her eyebrows furrowed. "Miss, save me. Just now, there were people..." Before she could finish, Pan Yueqing raised her hand and gently stroked her head, comforting her softly. "It's all right now. Don't be afraid."

When Luo Shui woke up, she rolled over and stood up, looking at Yang Lin with a vigilant gaze. Pan Yueqing saw that she was about to punch Yang Lin in the next second. She helplessly stopped Luo Shui. "It was Mr. Yang who saved us."

Although Luo Shui stopped, the vigilance in her eyes didn't disappear with Pan Yueqing's words.

Pan Yueqing raised her eyes. "Mr. Yang, do you still have that Boruo Incense you mentioned last time?"

Yang Lin's face remained normal. He took a package that was tightly wrapped in prescription paper from a cabinet and handed it to Pan Yueqing, and said, "I still advise the Miss to use it less. This thing has some side effects on yourself."

Pan Yueqing smiled and took the Boruo Incense. "It doesn't matter." Then she politely took her leave from Yang Lin.

In the carriage, Xia Yang stayed by Pan Yueqing's side. She was originally a bit younger than Pan Yueqing and was extremely obedient to her. Seeing her like this, Pan Yueqing also became interested and casually asked some questions about Xia Yang's background. The atmosphere in the carriage became lively.

"Miss, what is the Boruo Incense?" Xia Yang picked up a box of preserved fruits and served them in front of Pan Yueqing. She asked naively.

Pan Yueqing raised her eyes slightly and glanced at Xia Yang. The corners of her mouth curved into an enigmatic smile. She averted her gaze and said slowly, "The Boruo Incense originally came from Tianzhu. It was originally an incense offered in front of the Buddha. After it was brought to the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was named Boruo Incense."

After that... This incense was transformed by some people with ulterior motives into a very strong hallucinogenic incense. If used, it's very easy to make people do some strange things.

Seeing that Pan Yueqing didn't seem to want to continue talking, Xia Yang raised a simple-minded smile and nodded. "Miss, these plums are pickled with green tea paste. They're the most sour, sweet, and refreshing. Try them quickly!"

Pan Yueqing had a smile on her lips. She reached out and picked up a plum and put it in her mouth, closing her eyes and feigning sleep. After a while, the carriage slowly stopped. Luo Shui, who was driving the carriage, lifted the curtain and reached out to help Pan Yueqing get off the carriage. "Miss, we're here."

Pan Yueqing pretended not to see and held Xia Yang's hand. Her expression was calm. "Hmm, let's go back."

Xia Yang was overjoyed and held Pan Yueqing's hand. Before getting off the carriage, she looked at Luo Shui triumphantly. Although Luo Shui was now a first-class maid, the Miss liked her. It seemed that it wouldn't be long before she would also become a first-class maid.

Luo Shui's expression didn't change at all. She silently retracted her hand and followed Pan Yueqing back to the Dongfeng Pavilion in a proper manner.

In Pan Yueqing's bedroom, Gu Pan, who couldn't stay idle, was still taking care of things. Pan Yueqing saw that Gu Pan was sitting upright on a chair, carefully checking an account book that she didn't know where she had found it. She shook her head helplessly. "Can't you just have a good rest?" After saying that, she told Luo Shui to go to the small kitchen and steam a bowl of egg custard for Gu Pan.

Gu Pan looked at Xia Yang, then raised her eyes and smiled kindly at Pan Yueqing. "Miss, today I asked the Master and found the account book of the Madam's dowry back then. Since I had nothing else to do, I thought I'd take a look."

"You injured your eyes. Don't strain them too much," Pan Yueqing sat on the stool, turned around, and told Xia Yang to go and rest. With Gu Pan taking care of things in the room, it would be fine. After Xia Yang left, Pan Yueqing coughed softly and took out the real jadeite splendor from the package where she had hidden her men's clothes. Meeting Gu Pan's puzzled expression, she said, "The thing under my bed has been replaced by that old hag, Nanny Mei."

Gu Pan was so shocked that she stood up. She quickly took out the somewhat crudely imitated jadeite splendor under Pan Yueqing's bed and trembled with anger. "That old venomous woman! If the Miss had really presented this thing to the Princess of Anbei... wouldn't she have been extremely embarrassed!"

"She doesn't have that ability," Pan Yueqing opened the box and replaced the fake one with the real one, and hid the fake one in the cabinet. "This is just a scheme of using someone else's hand to kill me. She wants to make me lose face in the capital through the Princess of Anbei."

Pan Yueqing carefully wrapped the gift box inside and out and then hid it on her bed. She sneered. "But now that the genuine one is in my hand, let those who want to watch the Good show wait and see!"