Chapter 48 The Kindness of the Consort Dowager of Commandery Prince Lis Manor (2/2)

Madam Dowager took the pot, poured the medicine into the bowl, and was going to drink.

Aunt Xiang who stood next to Honored Consort Ya suddenly changed her look, looked up slightly, and looked at the bowl in Madam Dowager's hands. She shouted, ”Stop! There's something wrong with the medicine!”

This word stunned everyone. And they all looked at the bowl in Madam Dowager's hands.

Ning Yuling first shouted and rebuked, ”Nonsense. This medicine is made by grandmother's servants in her yard. How could there's something wrong with it?”

If there was something wrong with the medicine in the manor, Madam Ling was the first to be suspected. Ning Yuling was particularly clear-headed this time.

When Ning Yuling reproached Aunt Xiang, Honored Consort Ya frowned and looked at Ning Yuling with unhappiness. Aunt Xiang was Honored Consort Ya's henchman, and even she herself also respected Aunt Xiang. How dare Ning Yuling reproached Aunt Xiang in front of her?

”Aunt Xiang, what's the matter?” Honored Consort Ya ignored Ning Yuling and asked Aunt Xiang gently.

Madam Dowager knew Aunt Xiang. At this time, she didn't dare to take the medicine in her hands. She put it on the table, looked at Aunt Xiang with confusion, and listened to her.

”Your Highness, there's another kind of medicine material in it. Long-term use will make people sleepy. Weak people like Madam Dowager will lose her life if they take it. Originally, this medicine is used for people who are in good health. But it's harmful to weak people!”

Aunt Xiang said with a faint expression. Then she came over, smelled it and said, ”The smell of that kind of medicine is very light and couldn't be smelled when it's mixed with other medicines. Only when the pot is opened, one could smell the faint scent that is different from the smell of general medicine. Madam Dowager, if you don't believe it, you can smell it now. Otherwise, it'll dissipate after a while.”

It was almost colorless and tasteless, but could kill people! How poisonous this medicine was. No one would pay attention to the tiny difference in the medicine. Usually, it had been cool when it was sent to Madam Dowager. But this time, Madam Dowager poured it into the bowl in person in order to take it when it was still hot.

The looks of everyone changed.

”Bullshit! How could someone poison grandmother!” Ning Yuling subconsciously felt bad and refuted.

”Second Young Lady, I don't know how to say if you insist on not believing. You can invite other doctors to have a look. Are the dregs of the decoction still here?” Aunt Xiang indifferently said. She looked at Ning Yuling, stepped back, and stood behind Honored Consort Ya, as if she just casually discovered something and spoke out it.

What would happen next had nothing to do with her!

What would happen next had nothing to do with Aunt Xiang. But how could it have nothing to do with Madam Dowager. Madam Dowager was extremely angry when she thought that there was poison in her medicine. She pointed at the older female servant and shouted, ”Go, pour the medicine dregs out.”

The older female servant was so frightened. She had wanted to be rewarded for bringing the medicine to Madam Dowager. Unexpectedly, it might bring a great disaster to her. She didn't dare to be slow, quickly pouring out the dregs into another bowl sent by a palace maid.

Honored Consort Ya also brought an imperial physician with her when she came to the Cold Mountain Temple. Aunt Xiang was her henchmen. If she invited her own imperial physician to check the dregs, others would suspect the result. So Honored Consort Ya didn't invite her imperial physician. Instead, she let people tell the Forth Prince that she wanted to borrow his imperial physician.

Since such a thing happened, the palace maid ran away quickly to invite the Forth Prince's imperial physician.

When things got to this point, Ning Yuling was shocked at first, and then looked back at the servant standing behind her. This was the person Madam Ling sent to her and was Madam Ling's henchmen. When Ning Yuling looked at her, she shook her head, indicating that there was no problem with the medicine and the First Madam didn't poison.

Although the interaction between them was not attention-getting, it still fell into Madam Dowager's eyes, and her gaze suddenly turned cold.

This servant's behavior relaxed Ning Yuling. She came over and said to Madam Dowager with a smile, ”Grandma, don't worry, there can be nothing wrong. It must be this female officer's mistake. Your medicine materials are the best medicine materials selected by my mother, and the doctor in the manor has also checked. How can there be problems? Is there something wrong with this bowl?”

She just wanted to say that Madam Ling was filial to Madam Dowager, not to speak ill of Honored Consort Ya. But this bowl was taken out by Honored Consort Ya's maids from Honored Consort Ya's room. It seemed that Ning Yuling targeted at Honored Consort Ya. The meaning was that the Honored Consort Ya deliberately made troubles.

Ning Xueyan smiled slightly and thought Ning Yuling was the most stupid one she had seen. Didn't she see Honored Consort Ya's and Madam Dowager's cold and unhappy faces? Originally, Ning Xueyan had wanted to irritate Ning Yuling so that she would say something foolish. Unexpectedly, she didn't need to do that. Ning Yuling had already taken the initiative to say something wrong. So Ning Xueyan simply sat aside and quietly saw what would happen.

”Ning Yuling, just boast. You'd better say how virtuous and filial Madam Ling is. Later, you'll regret what you have said.” Ning Xueyan thought in mind.

Madam Dowager didn't show a smiling face because of Ning Yuling's explanation. Instead, she looked at Ning Yuling coldly and gave a gloomy smile, ignoring her.