Quick Transmigration: Kitten's Healing Handbook - Chapter 51
Chapter 51: Raccoon Dog! To Combat! 6
Zhou Qingyan bowed his head and performed a bow, maintaining the bowing posture for a long time. He mocked himself inwardly, his Father Emperor and Mother Empress truly had not a shred of affection for this son…
The Emperor originally wanted to take back his military power, but unexpectedly, his second eldest son used a strategy of retreat to advance to resolve this. Forcibly reclaiming military power wasn’t impossible, but over these years Zhou Qingyan had achieved brilliant military merits and committed no wrongs. Now wasn’t the time to push him to a dead end. Even a rabbit bites when cornered, let alone this wolf cub with clearly hidden ambition.
The Emperor gave him a sufficient warning before speaking, “Then do it according to your mother’s wishes. I will have the Ministry of Rites arrange the marriage. After you return to your fiefdom, as per custom, you may not return to the capital except for the Lunar New Year without summons. ”
“Your Son thanks Father Emperor and Mother Empress for their grace. ”
“Get up. If you have nothing else to report, then return. ”
During the past half month, Liuli knew that Zhou Qingyan’s journey back to the city was not dangerous, so she simply stayed in the Prince’s Mansion, eating, drinking, and sleeping well every day. She even gained quite a bit of weight. Li’er’s prepared cat bed was simply much more comfortable than sleeping on rooftops and tree forks outside.
When Liuli wasn’t paying attention to the Book of Fate, Tuánzi would take extra care to check it, fearing any omissions. After all, except for the first world, this was the least attentive Liuli had ever been…
Tuánzi looked at Zhou Qingyan’s upcoming destiny’s trajectory shown on the Book of Fate, anxiously circling it.
Before this, Tuánzi wasn’t worried about Liuli’s state. After all, Liuli had controlled reincarnation. In theory, they should know very clearly that the Jianbing Lord was actually a different person each time. But this time, seeing Liuli’s lack of enthusiasm for the mission, Tuánzi wasn’t so sure.
Perhaps when theory and emotion clashed, Liuli was actually more emotional. If so, should they take action first and then report…
These thoughts were too complex for it, which had only recently gained sentience!
Ultimately, Tuánzi still felt that they should follow Liuli’s own thoughts. After all, what right did a newly born being have to interfere with others’ choices? This certainly wasn’t the Saintess’s original intention in creating it: “Master, aren’t you going to look at the Book of Fate? ”
Liuli turned over in her cat bed, covering her eyes with her paw: “Didn’t it not glow red? What’s there to see? ”
“Master, Zhou Qingyan is getting married! ”
“So? ” Liuli was somewhat drowsy and didn’t understand what Tuánzi was trying to convey.
“Master, the Book of Fate shows that Zhou Qingyan is going to marry Minister Mu’s eldest daughter, Mu Wanyin. Should Tuánzi let you possess Mu Wanyin? ”
Liuli looked incredulous: “Tuánzi, how did you come up with this method? It’s the Star Lord of Fate’s melodramatic Book of Fate. Mu Wanyin could be a good person? I wasn’t very attentive this time, but I did skim through the Book of Fate, okay?
Mu Wanyin is one of the people who want to kill Zhou Qingyan. You want me to possess Mu Wanyin and directly solve the problem from the root cause? That’s cheating! To take a step back, having me possess someone who’s not dead is also cheating. ”
Zhou Qingyan had his heart set on that position; he had to win over the high-ranking officials of the Imperial Court. If he didn’t even have the courage to try, then it was better not to even think about it.
Minister Mu was a staunch member of the Crown Prince’s faction. His eldest daughter shouldn’t have been someone Zhou Qingyan could aspire to. Since Mu Wanyin hadn’t become the Crown Princess, Minister Mu didn’t intend to let his eldest daughter marry into the royal family again.
Could Zhou Qingyan not have been aware of this? Now that he was marrying Mu Wanyin, he must have made the worst possible preparations.
However, Zhou Qingyan clearly didn’t expect Minister Mu to show his loyalty with such blatant and brutal means, directly having Mu Wanyin poison him starting from their wedding night.
Tuánzi was stunned for a moment. It really hadn’t considered that; the main reason was that its concerns were completely different from Liuli’s!
It only noticed that Zhou Qingyan was getting married, but ignored that Mu Wanyin only pretended to cooperate with Zhou Qingyan. Even if a noble young lady had ambitions, the authority of the Chancellor as the head of the family was stronger than the flowery words of a man she might have only met once.
At this time, Tuánzi could only follow Liuli’s words and ask: “Mu Wanyin is going to poison Zhou Qingyan with slow-acting poison in the wedding wine on their wedding night. How is Master going to stop it…? ”
Liuli was also unable to sleep after being disturbed by Tuánzi. Tuánzi’s question indeed stumped her. She was just a raccoon dog now. Before, catching birds and playing around could be said to be a cat’s nature, but how was she supposed to deal with the slow-acting poison? Should she take the medicine packet from the bride’s wedding dress? Could a cat do that?
Not to mention whether a cat could distinguish poison, could a raccoon dog run into the wedding hall or even the bridal chamber to rummage through the bride’s wedding dress without being killed on the spot…?
In this case, if she continued to participate as a cat, she really couldn’t help at all.
If Zhou Qingyan was poisoned with the slow-acting poison, his health would deteriorate. Within half a year at most, he would only be able to stay in bed. Let alone leading a rebellion, he wouldn’t even be able to save his life.
If this first poisoning was temporarily ignored and the medicine packet was taken away after they went to bed, and Zhou Qingyan discovered it the next day, the physicians in the mansion wouldn’t necessarily tell the truth. They could just lie that it was a medicine to enhance excitement and get away with it.
After all, according to the Book of Fate, Zhou Qingyan was weak in his fiefdom for so many years, and the physicians in the mansion couldn’t find anything. They were clearly not loyal to Zhou Qingyan.
Liuli had a flash of inspiration and decided to deal with it from the root cause! Swap the medicine at the moment Mu Wanyin receives the medicine packet!
Minister Mu wouldn’t wait until his daughter was about to get on the palanquin to give the medicine to Mu Wanyin. There would definitely be a time difference. Mu Wanyin wouldn’t necessarily carry the medicine with her at all times after receiving it, so she would have a chance to make the switch.
Now the problem is, what medicine should she switch it with…?
Liuli, lacking inspiration, decided to squat in the pharmacy for a few days. There was still time; Mu Wanyin and Zhou Qingyan hadn’t even met yet, no rush.
After devising a plan, Liuli simply turned over, hugged her paws, curled up into a ball, and continued to sleep.
Liuli spent two days squatting on the roof of the pharmacy, watching the patients and physicians who came and went and the prescriptions they wrote. Her small brain whirred like a top during these two days, and she finally found the most suitable replacement—Mafeisan.
Zhou Qingyan, who had been fighting wars for many years, should be familiar with this thing. If it was mixed into the wedding wine on the wedding night, he would certainly notice the anomaly. How things would develop after that would have nothing to do with her, a mere kitten.
After determining her goal, Liuli stealthily slipped into the pharmacy. When a physician prescribed Mafeisan to a patient with an external injury, she took advantage of the apprentice’s inattention to snatch a packet and threw it into her Spiritual Sense Space through Tuánzi.
Then, Liuli hurriedly went to Minister Mu’s mansion to stake out Mu Wanyin’s room.
Most wealthy and powerful families kept raccoon dogs to prevent rodent infestations. However, just like when she hid in Zhou Qingmu’s mansion to eavesdrop, she chose a location that wasn’t in the kitchen area. It wasn’t the original inhabitants’ territory, so she didn’t have to worry about conflict with them and being discovered.
Minister Mu, as a high-ranking official, had his own sources of information. Knowing that the Empress was going to hold a Flower Appreciation Banquet to select a legal wife for Zhou Qingyan, he called Mu Wanyin to his study.