Chapter 345 - The Fifth Princess Plot (1/2)

The Fifth Princess’ wedding was being held officially.

Because it was a marriage between the two countries, the ceremony was not completed until the Fifth Princess returned to the Yan Kingdom from the Qin Kingdom.

The Fifth Princess wore the wedding dress and covered the red bridal veil. Then, she was supported to the sedan obediently, which was quite rare. The Empress stood in the high and looked in tears at the sedan going far away

“Princess, all the Empress’ servants have returned to the palace.” Inside the large and beautiful wedding sedan, a palace maid lowered down the unveiled curtain and said softly to the Fifth Princess in the red bridal veil.

The red bridal veil was ripped down, revealing the Fifth Princess’ venomous and crazy face. In the red bridal dress, her face looked distorted and atrocious.

“Have you brought the things all?” She looked outside and asked sharply in a low voice.

“Ye… ye… Yes.” The palace maid s.h.i.+vered and took a dagger and a bottle of medicine out of her arms. She begged nervously, “Your Highness, could you please not do this? It will incur something terrible. I… I…”

“Shut up. If you dare to say more, I will kill you!” The Fifth Princess snarled and took a cold glance at the palace maid. Then, the Fifth Princess took the dagger and opened the porcelain bottle. A faint fragrance floated out of it and blended into the pollen. It was impossible to smell something unusual.

She drew out of the dagger adroitly, poured down the medicine from the small porcelain bottle on the tip of the dagger, and then said to the palace maid coldly, “Wipe it evenly!”

“Yes… yes!” The palace maid quivered and reached out her hand to wipe the liquid medicine at the tip of the dagger.

“You, hurry up!” The Fifth Princess ordered impatiently, as she curved her red-painted lips coldly. Seeing the palace maid acting so cautiously and lightly, the Fifth Princess got angry and demanded. “With more strength. It is not painful!”

It was not painful, but lethal!

As long as the skin was excoriated, and stained with the medicine, it would take away anyone’s life. The palace maid had seen it a few times, so how could she not know about it? But she did not dare to disobey the Fifth Princess’ urgent order and had to move her fingers a bit faster in tears and terror. However, the sharp dagger accidentally struck her finger.

Blood gushed instantly.

“Your… Your Highness!” The palace maid screamed in horror as she looked at the gus.h.i.+ng blood on her fingertips turning black.

“Why are you screaming?” The Fifth Princess’ attention was completely not on her palace maid. Looking at the black blood coming out, the Fifth Princess felt relieved and thought that the medicine seemed to work well, though it had been out of use for a long time.

“Your Highness…” The palace maid fell beside with her hands and feet twitching and her eyes turning black. She just looked imploringly at the Fifth Princess’ face with beautiful makeup, but the palace maid’s lips became black and she was unable to speak.

The Fifth Princess did not pay any attention to the palace maid. Instead, she drew the dagger wiped with the flower liquid into the sheath, put it back into her new sleeve and tied it carefully to the bottom of the sleeve. When she finished, the palace maid had lain on the ground motionlessly with a dark face.

The Fifth Princess kicked the palace maid’s body, reached out her hand to feel the maid’s breath, and then showed a complacent smile.

She took out a cup from the shelf on the side, poured the remaining medicine in the medicine bottle into the cup, and shook it. Then, the water inside was as clear as before.

She grabbed the palace maid’s hair to raise her head and poured the water from the cup into her slightly-opened mouth. Although most of it fell to the ground, a small part still flowed into the palace maid’s mouth. Then, the Fifth Princess pushed the palace maid away, threw the cup in her hand heavily and let out a scream.

The woman’s sharp scream and the sound of broken things startled the wedding procession.

Before anyone could react, a screech rang out of the sedan, “Hurry up! Come on! Help… help!”

The woman’s frightened voice came out with a slight trembling sound of panic.

Bai Yichen was the first to react, and he quickly jumped from the horse to the carriage where the sedan was on. He pulled the red curtain in front of him, but unexpectedly, the oncoming was a s.h.i.+ny dagger…

The wedding procession of the Yan Kingdom left the Qin Kingdom. Another princess married to the Yan Kingdom far away from her home.

There had been no war between the Qin Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom for several decades, so common people did not pay too much attention to the marriage. It seemed to be an unquestionable moral truth that the princess married the prince. Especially, two decades ago, there was once a case. Therefore, the grand ceremony today did not create much of a stir. But the wedding ceremony of two decades ago could create waves of emotions.

At that time, the friction between the Qin Kingdom and the Yan Kingdom was so apparent that several small-scaled wars were taken on the borders from time to time. Therefore, Princess Royal Yunruo’s imperial marriage had a different meaning.

But it seemed to have little to do with Mo Xuetong now.

She was now taking Mo Ye and He Xia to select the embroidery in the Xiuning Workshop. A few days later, it was the date for her marriage. So she should not have come out personally at this time, but the sudden message sent by He Xia made Mo Xuetong disguise herself as a common lady and take out Mo Ye who was good at martial arts and He Xia who had clues.

The three did not go to see the shopkeeper. Instead, they walked into the Xiuning Workshop slowly with their faces veiled up.

There were still a lot of customers in the shop, and most of them were women and some from the official families. Among them, some wore veils as Mo Xuetong did while others did not.