He Yi returned to Frost Cloud Palace dejectedly. "Mother Concubine..."
Concubine Jia was frustrated with her daughter's behavior. "You must be extremely cautious when you're in front of the Queen."
"Why did you have to ruin the relationship between the Fourth Prince and Jin Yu?" She couldn't understand. They weren't even married yet. Why did they need to choose a side concubine for the Prince Yu?
"Jin Yu hasn't even reached the age of coming of age yet. The Prince Yu's Mansion can't be left without someone to manage it!"
Princess He Yi sat on the bed sulkily. Suddenly, she really wanted to write a letter to Song Jin Yu and tell her about this.
However, Concubine Jia wouldn't let her go out now.
What could she do?
"Song Jin Yu, what is this?!"
Yan Fei stared at the ashes on the ground in shock and looked at the busy young girl.
She replied impatiently, "Such a novice... This pile of ashes was a nest of lively rats just an incense stick's time ago."
"Then..."
"Corpse-Dissolving Pill. Have you heard of it?" Song Jin Yu quietly pulled Yan Fei over and whispered mysteriously.
Greatly shocked, Yan Fei covered her mouth. "This is a prohibited poison in the martial world!"
"You're just too..."
Song Jin Yu looked at him indifferently. "Audacious? Reckless? Someone once said the same thing about me." Thinking of Zhongli Ming Ye, her eyes dimmed.
"If Master finds out about this, you'll have to extend your confinement!" Yan Fei helplessly rubbed his forehead. His junior sister was truly a genius in refining poisons. Ordinary disciples in the sect would need a long time to develop a new poison. But Song Jin Yu had quietly refined this strange poison during her confinement.
Thinking of this, Yan Fei couldn't help but praise, "Yu'er, given time, you'll surely become the number one female devil in the martial world."
"..."
Can't he praise people properly? It was just a prohibited poison. Song Jin Yu casually put it away and said sinisterly, "Senior brother, if anyone dares to provoke me in the future, I'll simply dispose of their corpses without a trace!"
This girl...
Thankfully, Master had taught her to be kind. If a heartless person had such talent, the martial world would surely be in turmoil!
"What do you think about the death of the Grand Elder?"
Yan Fei said, "There's a hidden story behind his death. Although Heavenly Gate Mountain has lost an elder, it doesn't really matter to Master."
This was the truth. Even if Heavenly Gate Mountain lost one elder, there were still several others. Moreover, Miao Yunshen's more than a dozen direct disciples were all talented.
"Oh..."
Song Jin Yu looked up and asked Yan Fei, "What was Master sending you out for the other day?"
Hearing her mention this, a look of uneasiness flashed across Yan Fei's eyes. He sighed and just mumbled something, "Just some daily trivial matters!"
"Trivial matters? I saw you come back injured that day. You didn't let anyone check on you and just took the medicine by yourself."
Want to hide it from her? No way!
Yan Fei smiled bitterly. He knew he couldn't hide it from her, but this time, he gritted his teeth and refused to say anything.
In the Song Mansion,
Song Chuyu supported Xiang Shi and walked around. The couple chatted and laughed from time to time. Xiang Shi greatly enjoyed her husband's attentiveness.
As she was approaching childbirth, her body was getting heavier and heavier. The Xiang family had sent a reliable midwife.
Afraid that Xiang Shi would be too busy after giving birth, Xiang Shi's two half-sisters had also asked their father to come to the Song Mansion, saying that they wanted to accompany Xiang Shi.
When Xiang Shi saw her two sisters, she felt a bit unhappy.
Because she had always had a distant relationship with them and didn't interact with them often. But seeing their obedient and well-behaved appearance, she just regarded them as relatives she was hosting.
When Xiang Jingru and Xiang Jinglan walked into Bamboo Elegance Courtyard, they immediately saw the imposing figure. They couldn't help but sigh that their elder sister was really lucky.
When Song Chuyu saw them enter the courtyard, he knew it wasn't appropriate for him to meet his sisters-in-law, so he excused himself and left. Xiang Jinglan's eyes followed him and she was completely infatuated.
In the eyes of Xiang Shi's maid, she just felt disdainful in her heart: How unruly!
"Ah..." Xiang Shi suddenly let out a loud cry.
The midwife and the maids rushed forward. "Madam!" Song Chuyu hadn't gone far. He quickly ran in.
"Wanwan, what's wrong with you?"
Being called by her boudoir name by her husband, Xiang Shi blushed. "It's okay. It's just that this little guy kicked me!"
Suddenly, Song Chuyu suddenly bent down and hugged her.
"He's so naughty. I'll surely teach him a good lesson."
In the eyes of Xiang Shi's sisters, their elder sister's husband was handsome, a young general with a high-ranking official background. They didn't expect that her husband would dote on her so much.
The two young girls were both envious and jealous.
Since they had entered the Prefect's Mansion for the past few days, not to mention the wealth and honor, just the grandeur of the Prefect's Mansion made them yearn for it.
However, Prefect Song only had one son.
But now that their elder sister was about to give birth, she wouldn't be able to serve her husband. This was a good opportunity. Xiang Jinglan thought and thought, and she was lost in thought. She didn't even notice that the maid in Bamboo Elegance Courtyard wanted to see them out.
Since they were guests, the Xiang sisters just wandered around the Prefect's Mansion.
Not long after, they came to the front of Elegant Jade Courtyard. They wanted to go in and find out, but unexpectedly, they were stopped.
"This is the courtyard of our Prefect's Mansion's eldest young lady. No idlers are allowed to enter!"
"Humph..."
What a big deal! The eldest young lady of the Song family? Because the Xiang sisters were concubine-born daughters, they had never met Song Jin Yu.
Xiang Jinglan said aggrievedly, "Sir Guard, I'm the younger sister of the young madam."
The guard still remained unmoved. Xiang Jingru just curled her lips and said, "Second sister, since they won't let us in, then forget it!"
"Looking down on people!"
The two of them left the front of Elegant Jade Courtyard indignantly. The three large characters on the plaque were written in a bold and unrestrained style, which alone showed how much the person in the courtyard was favored.
The only legitimate eldest young lady of the Song family, with a father who was the Prefect of Liuzhou and a brother who was a general in the Tiger Guards Camp. She must be the apple of everyone's eye!
They were also young ladies from good families, but the Xiang sisters not only had to share a courtyard, but also because of their concubine-born status, they couldn't marry into a higher-ranking family than Xiang Zhiwan in the future. The more they thought about it, the more unfair they felt. Although they were concubine-born daughters in the Xiang Mansion, they were deeply loved by Lord Xiang. This had made them develop a reckless and presumptuous personality.