"Elder sister, after all, we're sisters with blood ties. Please give me an antidote," Feng Yao said, playing the family - card in a bid to save her own skin.
Feng Yuqin opened the door and scoffed. "Oh? So now you remember we're sisters with blood ties? When you joined hands with Mo Linglong from the Dongyuan Kingdom in the Trial Grounds to kill me, did you ever once think that we were kin?"
Feng Yao was left speechless.
Not to mention back then, since she could remember, she had never regarded Feng Yuqin as a blood - related relative.
In her mind, she was the noble and beloved daughter of the family, a celestial beauty doted on by her parents.
On the other hand, Feng Yuqin was just the muck in a muddy pit.
She was simply not in the same league as her.
Yet, it was this person she had always looked down upon that she now had to plead with for an antidote.
Feng Yao was seething with hatred but helpless.
"Elder sister, third sister is still young and naive. I hope you can be magnanimous and forgive her just this once," Feng Chi said, his attitude extremely humble.
After all, in truth, his bond with Feng Yao was stronger than his bond with the second madam.
So when he saw Feng Yao poisoned, he was the first to plead for her antidote.
"Even if she's naive, the fact that she's cruel - hearted can't be denied, right?" Feng Yuqin looked at Feng Chi and said, "To be precise, it should be you two, shouldn't it? The toxins were in your hands. If you hadn't taken them out, would so many people have been poisoned? Or should I also give your mother and sister the same kind of toxin? After all, you're a family. Families should be together."
Hearing this, Feng Chi's face turned pale. "Elder sister, don't poison me."
The second madam stared at Feng Yuqin. When she spoke again, all her airs and temper were gone. "Aqin, tell us. What do you want us to do before you'll give us the antidote?"
For the sake of survival, for the sake of her daughter's life, the second madam no longer cared about dignity.
"The Prime Minister's Mansion is surrounded by so many people. What do you think you can do now to get the antidote from me?" Feng Yuqin countered calmly.
The second madam and the others weren't stupid. They quickly understood Feng Yuqin's intention.
"Aqin, we can't do anything about those people outside," the second madam said, looking troubled.
Now the second madam regretted having given those people toxins without an antidote.
Feng Yao also looked completely hopeless. "There are so many people. We only have the antidote for a few. Even if you ask us to detoxify them, we don't have the ability."
"You indeed don't have the ability, but just because you don't doesn't mean others don't," Feng Yuqin said calmly.
"What do you mean?" The second madam and the other two looked at Feng Yuqin, puzzled.
"The antidote for the people outside is in the Dark Night Pavilion," Feng Yuqin's words left the second madam and the others stunned.
Feng Yao immediately shrieked, "Impossible. How could the Dark Night Pavilion have the antidote? Those toxins were all brought out by me from the Trial Grounds."
She didn't believe there was an antidote.
To be precise, Feng Yao was unwilling to believe that the Dark Night Pavilion had the antidote for the poisons she had painstakingly obtained.
"Do you think I'd lie to you?" Feng Yuqin narrowed her eyes slightly and said in a cold voice.
"Even if what you said is true and the Dark Night Pavilion has the antidote, there are so many people outside. The Dark Night Pavilion can't possibly have enough antidotes for them all," Feng Chi said. Although he didn't know what was going on, he knew that the number of people poisoned by his mother this time was quite large, at least several hundred. How could the Dark Night Pavilion have enough antidotes for so many people?
"That's not your concern," Feng Yuqin said calmly. "What you need to worry about now is what bargaining chips you have to get the antidote from me. If you don't have chips that satisfy me, do you think I'll give you the antidote?"
To convince them, Feng Yuqin took out the antidote and showed it in her palm.
Seeing this, Feng Yao and the second madam stared blankly.
Sure enough, there was an antidote.
It was Feng Chi who had told them that Feng Yuqin must still have the antidote.
The second madam and Feng Yao had complete faith in Feng Chi's words. So after they knew this, they had rushed over immediately.
"Just tell us what you want," Feng Yao said impatiently, looking at the antidote in Feng Yuqin's hand.
Especially when she thought that the Dark Night Pavilion had the antidote and those people outside didn't have to die, while she herself was poisoned, it made her furious.
What Feng Yao didn't expect was that there was something that would make her even angrier.
"The mess outside was caused by you. Of course, it's up to you to solve it. Do you still expect me to go and tell those people that I didn't poison them?" Feng Yuqin thought this person might be addled by the poison. Did she really need to spell it out?
"There are so many people outside. We simply can't solve it," Feng Yao instinctively refused Feng Yuqin's suggestion.
The second madam also looked troubled. "Aqin, the news has already spread. There's nothing we can do now."
"So? You don't need the antidote either?" Feng Yuqin raised her eyebrows and said mockingly.
It was easy to solve this matter, at least for her.
For ordinary people, it might not be so easy to control the second madam and Feng Yao.
She was also glad that she was quite good at dealing with toxins. Using toxins was a quicker strategy than using other schemes.
So she should study more about toxins in the future.
"No, no, no. Of course we need it," the second madam said urgently. "But our current physical condition may seem fine on the outside, but our bodies are aging internally. Can you give us the antidote first?"
Feng Yuqin laughed. "Second madam, are you so stupid that you think everyone else is stupid too?"
The second madam turned pale at Feng Yuqin's sarcasm.
"If you don't give us the antidote, we simply don't have the energy to deal with the matter outside," Feng Yao also desperately wanted to get the antidote.
Feng Yuqin glanced at Feng Yao calmly. "I don't know where you got the confidence to think that once you get the antidote, you'll be safe. Aren't you afraid that I'll poison you again? I don't want to go through the trouble of poisoning you again. So if you want the antidote quickly, solve the matter outside first. If you don't, then don't even dream of getting the antidote. I won't give it to you before you solve the matter properly."
Seeing that Feng Yuqin was immovable, the second madam understood that Feng Yuqin wouldn't give them the antidote until she saw a satisfactory result.
So this time, they had come in vain.
"I'll give you half an hour. If the matter outside isn't solved after half an hour, you'll never get the antidote from me," Feng Yuqin issued an ultimatum. "Remember, you must tell everyone where the toxins came from and who poisoned them. None of you three can evade this. You must all be on - site."
Hearing this, the second madam, Feng Yao, and Feng Chi were so angry that they wished they could kill Feng Yuqin, but they were helpless against her.
Not to mention anything else, just the fact that no one in the entire Xisong Kingdom could possibly refine such an antidote made them not dare to act rashly.
They never expected that they had confidently plotted against Feng Yuqin, thinking that this time she would surely never recover.
But in the end, they had only ended up trapping themselves.