The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

Chapter 435: Intestinal Poison

Xie Ci'an and Xie Qingzhi nodded in agreement at the Queen's cursing words.

Zhou Xiang knelt down again and saluted, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I already know what I am doing and I know how to serve you."

Prince Dongli ignored Zhou Xiang and sat back down at the table, supporting his head with one hand, waiting for the guard to bring him a change of clothes.

Zhou Xiang walked to the round table opposite, picked up the teapot on the stove, and returned to the side of Prince Dongli. He refilled the teacup that had just been unfilled, and said, "Your Highness, please have some tea."

After doing all this, Zhou Xiang consciously retreated to a place about ten feet away from King Dongli, but her eyes kept looking in the direction of King Dongli from time to time.

Considering that guests would come to rest or change clothes, a ground steamer and a charcoal basin were lit in the side hall.

Compared with the main hall, the side hall was relatively small. With the help of the charcoal basin and the floor cage, the room became warm in a short while. In addition, the ministers had forced him to drink a lot of wine in the front hall, so King Dongli was now thirsty.

Without thinking, he picked up the teacup beside him.

When seeing this scene, Zhou Xiang's eyes lit up instantly.

She stared at the teacup in King Dongli's hand with a sharp gaze.

Just as King Dongli was about to bring the tea to his lips, a hand suddenly appeared and knocked the teacup out of his hand.

The sudden force startled him and caused the cup to slip from his grip, falling to the ground and breaking into pieces instantly. The unfolded tea leaves and the tea spilled all over the floor.

Faced with such impolite things, King Dongli was about to explode when he met Xie Qingrou's cold eyes and chilly face. The deer in his arms began to jump wildly and out of rhythm. His fingers were shaking because of nervousness. He quickly retracted his fingers and hid them in his sleeves to prevent Xie Qingrou from seeing him in such an embarrassed state.

A few months later, he met Xie Qingrou again.

When he was assigned by his royal brother to inspect the border, she was still the high-spirited queen. He didn't expect so many things to happen in just a few months. He had just seen her from a distance, but now that he was in close contact, he could feel more intuitively that Xie Qingrou had really lost weight. She was so thin that he could clearly see the bones on her face. She was so thin that she was almost unrecognizable. The clothes that fit her perfectly before now looked a little loose.

Before meeting Xie Qingrou, he clearly had a lot of things he wanted to say to her, but after actually meeting her, those words seemed to be stuck in his throat and he couldn't say them at all.

Instead, Xie Qingrou's cold voice echoed in the hall, scolding him, "As a king, you have no sense of vigilance at all. You dare to eat and use anything handed to you casually, and you are not afraid that the other party is giving you intestinal poison."

Xie Qingrou had been resting with her eyes closed on the chaise longue behind the screen in the hall. She was not sleepy or uncomfortable at all, but just didn't want to listen to their conversation in the messy hall, so she found an excuse to hide in the back hall.

She found two random excuses to send Qiutou and the others out. She originally wanted to stay quietly for a while, but she didn't expect that another tactless person would break into this side hall. She originally wanted to drive the person out, but before she could get up, she heard the voice of King Dongli and shrank back.

She didn't want to meet King Dongli face to face, and didn't know what to say, so she simply hid herself behind the screen, didn't go out, and didn't say anything. She thought King Dongli just came here to rest for a while and would leave soon.

But unexpectedly, through the gap, he saw the little maid put medicine into King Dongli's cup.

She did not stand up to stop it, as a King of Dongli would be cautious.

She hid behind the screen and watched quietly. King Dongli did not drink the glass of water. But the little maid, seeing that King Dongli did not drink the water, had other ideas and took the initiative to pounce on King Dongli.

She has seen many such tricks.

She had seen it both in her father's harem and in the harem of her nominal husband.

There are always little maids who are smart enough to use this method to get to the top, but for her nominal husband, this kind of clever method can really succeed. As long as the little maid is pretty enough, her body is soft enough, and she leans lightly on him, he can't help it. Even if he doesn't make her a concubine, he will favor her and keep her by his side as a beauty to serve. Although she can see through this method at a glance, she is too lazy to care. She and her cheap husband are just political cooperation, and there is no need to tear each other apart. What's more, her cheap husband is such a person. She can deal with him once or twice, and she can deal with him for a lifetime. There will always be people who find ways to take advantage of loopholes, not to mention that he himself is a big loophole.

Instead of wasting your life in the inner house, you might as well help the people and do something meaningful instead of wasting your time here.

She originally thought that her brother-in-law would not be able to resist the temptation, so she ignored him and did not stop him. She just thought of herself as a thief who had seen something she shouldn't have seen.

She never expected that the maid's methods were of no use at all to her brother-in-law. Not only that, the brother-in-law did not fight back and even dodged directly, causing the girl to fall to the ground.

This made Xie Qingrou look at him with new eyes.

I didn't expect that my brother-in-law, who has the same blood as me, is different from my nominal husband.

It was precisely because of her brother-in-law's hiding that when the maid drugged him for the second time and he almost drank it, she resolutely chose to show up.

Otherwise, this brother-in-law would be entangled by such a person without knowing it, which would be really disgusting.

It makes me sick to keep such a scheming girl by my side to serve her. If I don't keep her, I will inevitably be gossiped about.

Although Prince Dongli was immersed in the joy of meeting Xie Qingrou, his rationality instantly reacted to Xie Qingrou's words. His cold eyes immediately fell on the little maid in front of him who had always pretended to be weak. "What on earth is going on, my wife?"

"I was resting in the inner hall for a while when I heard a noisy sound that made me feel upset. I looked up and saw this little maid putting medicine in the water you were drinking. Although I didn't know what it was, I did see a pill put into the cup." Xie Qingrou walked lazily to the couch table and sat down, and her slightly questioning eyes swept over the little maid.

Although Prince Dongli is only a concubine's son, he has been immersed in the royal family since childhood and has the dignity that a royal family should have.

As he looked over, Zhou Xiang slumped to her knees. "Your Highness, Princess Rou, please understand. I have never drugged Your Highness. I saw that Your Highness drank a lot at the banquet, so I put a sobering pill in your tea. Even if I had the guts to do so, I wouldn't dare drug Your Highness."

Xie Qingrou naturally didn't believe what Zhou Xiang said, "The person who did the bad thing would admit that he did it, unless he is mentally ill."