mesbooks Chapter 143 Did she drink it?
Chapter 143 Did she drink it?
She got up and went to Cheng Pei-pei's room to massage her acupoints, helping her relax her tired body.
Zheng Peipei was quite comfortable, half-lying down. Her adopted daughter's filial piety was unmatched by either her own children; even her massage skills were superior to those of the maids and servants who had served her for a long time.
If she didn't truly care for her as her mother, how could she be so thoughtful and considerate?
Seeing that Cheng Pei-pei was in a good mood, Yu Wan-ran casually brought up her concerns.
"Madam, when you're traveling, you're in an unfamiliar place. If the young master and the county princess stroll around so ostentatiously, they might attract the covetous eyes of unscrupulous people..."
As a duke with a fiefdom, Xiao Wang was always cautious and careful in his words and deeds, never daring to show off in public. Therefore, when they were out and about without revealing their identities, Xiao Yao and Xiao Baichen's ostentatious behavior made them easy targets for bandits.
The most terrifying thing is that someone with ulterior motives wanted to target the Duke's mansion, so they impersonated bandits to rob and kill them, and it wouldn't be easy to find any clues afterward.
Yu Wanran did not believe that the Duchess of the State was unaware of these principles.
Mentioning her two children gave Cheng Pei-pei a headache again. How could she not manage them?
She had exhausted herself trying to make Xiao Yao happy, even spending a considerable amount of her own savings. That's why Xiao Yao was able to go shopping happily today.
If she has to call someone back halfway through, she won't get any peace and quiet.
As for Xiao Baichen, even this rebellious son insisted on taking two concubines with him when he went out, and neither she nor the Duke could control him. How could they restrain him from running away like a wild horse?
Their most successful parenting seems to be Ranran... but unfortunately, this one isn't even their biological child.
Slightly opening her eyes, Zheng Peipei sighed irritably.
"Let them be! Ranran, why don't you tell the security company and their men to increase their vigilance?"
Having no other option, Yu Wanran went out to find Wu Jian and Zhu Boda to warn them. The two, equally helpless against the esteemed heir of a duke and a county princess, exchanged wry smiles.
Xiao Yao, Wei Baifeng, and their group didn't return until dusk. Xiao Baichen didn't see them until the moon was high in the sky.
As expected, they set off half a day later on the fourth day. The things the brother and sister bought added three more carriages to the group. These three carriages were hired locally.
Yu Wanran was uneasy and wanted to thoroughly investigate the backgrounds of the three drivers, but Xiao Yao rudely blocked her. Xiao Yao insisted that Yu Wanran was deliberately targeting her and complained to Zheng Peipei, causing another scene.
Zheng Peipei was extremely annoyed and told Yu Wanran to stop interfering in the county princess's affairs. With so many guards and bodyguards from the Duke's mansion, there wouldn't be any problems. She only needed to do her job as a bodyguard!
This caused Yu Wanran's heart, which had just begun to warm up, to turn completely cold again.
She finally understood that in the eyes of the Duke and Duchess, she was merely a useful person, slightly more respected than a servant. Once their biological children were involved, she, as their adopted daughter, was nothing.
If she were to harbor any disloyalty, this profit-driven couple would abandon her without hesitation. The emotions she had once felt would seem like a joke.
Yu Wanran stopped actively approaching Zheng Peipei and tried her best to avoid Xiao Yao. She just silently stared at "Granny Fan," wondering what other tricks she would play.
The female assassin avoided her the whole way, fearing she might suddenly have a big bowel movement.
After nearly half a month, they finally entered the border area between Tongcheng and Hezhou. Remembering the last time they were attacked in this desolate area, Yu Wanran and Wu Jian, along with the other bodyguards, were on high alert.
The journey was fraught with delays, forcing the group to once again camp out in the wilderness. Yu Wanran desperately wanted to beat Xiao Yao up. As for Xiao Baichen, she wanted to give him some kind of drug to make him impotent. Throughout the journey, he made moaning and groaning noises in his car.
Others were speechless and embarrassed, but this absurd prince took shamelessness for granted!
She suspected that Xiao Baichen was not intentionally putting on a ridiculous act in front of others, but rather that he was simply that kind of person, using the pretense of clearing up the court's doubts and Xiao Wang's tolerance as a cover.
Fortunately, once tonight is over, we will be able to enter the bustling area, and the rest of the journey will be relatively easy.
Yu Wanran decided that she would not accept any further summons from the Duke's mansion. This act of protecting her was enough to respond to Xiao Wang's probing.
Driven to desperation, she moved her family to the capital, seeking protection from the Yan family. Knowing so many secrets of the Duke's mansion, she figured they might as well fight to the death!
Along the way, all the remaining affection I had for the Duke's Mansion has vanished!
Despite her exhaustion, Yu Wanran made one last round of inspections of the camp before preparing to go to sleep.
Not long after she lay down, a maid in green came gracefully with a bowl in her hand and said with a smile, "Miss Yu, this is a bowl of white fungus soup that Madam said you had worked hard. Please drink it while it's hot!"
Yu Wanran emerged from the tent, her brow slightly furrowed as she took the bowl. She felt not joy, but rather confusion.
The group guarding the Duke's mansion had been traveling for half a month, and Zheng Peipei had never thought of cooking her a bowl of white fungus soup at night. Why did she remember this time?
Years of caution had instilled in her the habit of never eating anything of unknown origin, especially if the other party came from the Duke's mansion.
She calmly took the bowl, pretended to touch it to her lips, and said to the maid, "Please thank the Duchess for her concern! Put the bowl here for now, I'll drink slowly, it's a little hot."
The maid in green nodded and smiled, "Then I'll come and collect the bowls in a bit."
After saying that, he left.
As soon as she left, Yu Wanran immediately used her sword to dig a small hole in the ground inside the tent, poured out a bowl of white fungus soup, and covered it with soil. Then she lay down and placed the empty bowl outside the tent.
After a while, the maid in green returned. She called softly "Miss Yu" twice outside the tent, but received no response. She then bent down, picked up the empty bowl, and went back inside.
Inside the tent, Yu Wanran secretly peeked through a crack in the edge. She saw the green-clad maidservant not returning to the main tent, but instead heading towards a small group of tents where the maids and matrons rested. Yu Wanran raised an eyebrow slightly.
"She drank it?"
Granny Fan lowered her voice and hid in a tent, asking the green-clad maid who had returned.
"He drank it all! As soon as he heard that it was a gift from the Duchess, he drank it down without saying a word."
The maid in green nodded, suppressing her excitement.
"Pah! Being kicked out of the Duke's mansion, she probably hasn't tasted such good food in a long time, has she? Serves her right for having diarrhea; it'd be best if everyone knew about it..."
However, she was also a little worried.
"Granny Fan, are you sure this medicine you gave me will only cause diarrhea and won't kill you?"
Even if she dies, with the county princess protecting her, she will still be in great danger if the duchess investigates.
Granny Fan forced a stiff smile, which looked particularly eerie in the darkness: "How could someone die? The county princess only wanted to teach her a small lesson! Don't you also want to avenge your good sister Tinghe?"
Upon hearing this, the maid in green said nothing more.
Granny Fan beckoned to her.
"Come on, let's share a tent tonight. It's late, so don't go back to the master's place and disturb him."
The maid in green poured some water from her water pouch and washed the bowls. She stuffed the bowls into the luggage in the carriage before returning and crawling into the low, narrow tent.
As soon as she leaned in, her mouth was tightly covered by a hand like an iron clamp, and then a cold, sharp pain shot through her back!