Shen Qingxu rested for a while at noon, had lunch with Mu Yunzhou in the dining hall of the horse farm, and continued to learn horse riding. However, he felt very sleepy after only half an hour.

Mu Yunzhou was having fun, and seeing Shen Qingxu not in high spirits, he wondered, "Shen Qingxu, did you go steal chickens last night? Why are you always sleepy?"

"I don't know. I always feel sleepy and never seem to get enough sleep every day."

"Have you seen the imperial physician?"

"The doctor checked it out and said that it was because he was growing taller and would get sleepy easily."

"Then you should go and have a rest, or you won't grow any taller. We'll play together after school in the next few days."

Shen Qingxu yawned and followed Qingfang back home.

Class B of the Yellow Level is not a top class. It just has classes in the morning and afternoon in the first year of enrollment. Starting from the second year, there are generally only morning classes.

The next day, Mu Yunzhou came to see Shen Qingxu specifically after Shen Qingxu had her lunch break.

For several days, Shen Qingxu went to the library to attend morning classes in the morning, practiced martial arts in the afternoon if he had martial arts classes, and went to the stable to practice horse riding if he had no classes.

Now Shen Qingxu can basically trot freely on the horse, but he is not very skilled in riding the horse yet. The master at the stable asked Shen Qingxu to practice more.

Seeing that Mu Yunzhou had almost finished playing, he dragged him to Fengyi Palace.

"Come on, today, I'll take you to Fengyi Palace to eat delicious food!"

Mu Yunzhou followed behind Shen Qingxu, just like a little follower.

Yuan Bao was holding Mu Yunzhou's belongings, pouting in the back. His young master was acting like a nobody, and the princess just needed to coax him. These past few days, he had been making a fuss about not having enough fun during the day, and was determined to blackmail the princess. It looked like he had forgotten all about it.

At this time, Shen Qiuchi was usually dealing with memorials.

But when they entered Fengyi Palace, they did not see Shen Qiuchi, so they took Mu Yunzhou to find Mei Qing, wanting to ask where Shen Qiuchi had gone.

"Princess, the Queen and the Emperor are still discussing matters in the study. You can wait in the palace for a while. I will bring you some snacks."

The two of them wandered around Fengyi Palace, then washed up and went to see the cute little princess.

The boy and the girl played with the little princess Xiao Yuchu for a long time.

It was getting dark and Shen Qiuchi had not returned yet. Shen Qingxu planned to take Mu Yunzhou to have dinner first.

But as soon as I walked out of the side hall, I heard the voice of the palace servant: "Greetings to the Queen Mother"

When Shen Qingxu heard that it was Shen Qiuchi who returned, she went to the main hall to find her sister.

Shen Qiuchi saw that Shen Qingxu was so cute and loved her look. He pinched her little face and asked, "Have you been waiting for a long time? Why didn't you let someone come to inform us? You must be starving. Come and have a meal."

"My sister is busy, so we just played in the palace for a while when we got here, and Mu Yunzhou also played with me. We just went to see my little niece. She was so funny and smiled as soon as she saw me. We were not bored at all." Shen Qingxu hugged Shen Qiuchi's arm and said coquettishly.

"Greetings to Her Majesty the Queen." Mu Yunzhou bowed on the side.

Shen Qiuchi knew that Mu Yunzhou had also come, so he ordered the imperial kitchen to add a few dishes. Mu Yunzhou ate very happily and did not notice the sympathy in Shen Qiuchi's eyes at all.

This silly child doesn't know what he will face next.

The next day, after the jailer delivered the meal to the prison, Prime Minister's wife Lin Mengping complained that the meal was not tasty. However, the meal in the prison was the same every day, so why was today's meal not tasty?

"I really don't like the taste of today's food."

Seeing that no one paid attention to her, Lin Mengping curled her lips and gave the meat dish to Xu Xingyi.

Then she took out the dried meat that Mu Yunzhou brought for her and started to eat it.

As soon as Xu Xingyi took the first bite, he knew why the Prime Minister's wife didn't like today's food. The taste of today's food was nothing unusual, but people who didn't like drinking didn't like the taste.

The taste of the dishes was also different from usual. Xu Xingyi suspected that someone was trying to secretly poison Prime Minister Mu.

He poured the meat that Mrs. Mu handed to him into his bowl.

Afterwards, he found an opportunity to remind Prime Minister Mu that the food might have been poisoned, and asked Prime Minister Mu to pretend to have a stomachache and ask the imperial physician to treat him.

The jailer saw Prime Minister Mu rolling on the bed in pain and was afraid that he had lost his life.

After inviting the imperial physician, Prime Minister Mu again acted as if his time was up.

The imperial physician felt Prime Minister Mu's pulse and gave him a few injections, then hurried back to the palace to report to Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi then summoned the director of the Imperial Hospital to treat Prime Minister Mu.

After the head of the Imperial Medical Bureau arrived, Prime Minister Mu gave him the meat and vegetables left over from lunch.

"This is a highly toxic chronic poison." The head of the Imperial Hospital said in a deep voice.

"You have already used this medicine for several days. The person who poisoned you today added a catalytic poison to trigger the previous poison. Within three days, even if a great immortal came, he would be powerless to save you."

"That person probably wants you to be poisoned as soon as possible." said the head of the Imperial Hospital.

Prime Minister Mu said, "Please trouble the imperial physician to report this matter to His Majesty."

"Of course. Since Prime Minister Mu is free now, I will take my leave first." The head of the courtyard said and walked out.

After the head of the court left, Prime Minister Mu read the letter that the head of the court had brought with him and had an idea in his mind.

He pretended to chat with Xu Xingyi as usual.

Prime Minister Mu whispered, "These people are eager to kill me now. The emperor asked us to fake our own death. I hope my nephew Xu will cooperate."

Xu Xingyi nodded. His purpose in entering the prison was to protect Prime Minister Mu and his wife because Shen Qiuchi was worried that the person behind the scenes would take the opportunity to assassinate the two of them in the prison. However, no one came to assassinate them. The person actually put a chronic poison in the food.

Prime Minister Mu said: "The person who poisoned me is eager to kill me, so it seems that he should take action now."

Royal study room.

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Mu has been given a slow-acting poison. The scent of the poison is similar to the spices Princess Yuehua used in the past. People who have been poisoned cannot drink alcohol. The drug that catalyzes the poison in Prime Minister Mu's meal today includes alcohol..."

Xiao Qi said that he understood, waved his hand and asked the dean to leave.

"Qiu Chi, what do you think?"

"Last time Qingxu was injured, the chief physician of the hospital examined her pulse and said that she might have been poisoned. However, the entire Imperial Hospital staff checked Shen Qingxu's food, clothing and belongings and found nothing abnormal."

"Isn't it such a coincidence that we discovered someone was trying to poison the prime minister this time?" Xiao Qi also felt strange.

"I always feel that the people behind the scenes are targeting the people around us!" Shen Qiuchi pondered for a moment, "The person who poisoned Prime Minister Mu is definitely related to the cockfighting arena. There is an unknown fragrance on Qingxu's clothes. Qingfang said that the fragrance is related to the owner of the cockfighting arena..."

"The cockfighting arena may be a breakthrough point. This person must be planning something big. The Yue Kingdom has long been destroyed, and the border of Daliang is unstable. It seems that he is inextricably linked to Zu Qiang."

"If that's the case, he must be an enemy, not a friend." Shen Qiuchi had a rough guess about the person behind the scenes, but he didn't expect that this person would be so bold as to seek the skin of a tiger in order to achieve his goal.

Xiao Qi sighed slightly, then looked at Shen Qiuchi: "Then let's proceed as planned."

He completely gave up on the Xiao family.

Xiao Qi ordered the Shenlong Guards to go to the prison to inform Prime Minister Mu.

The secret guard found Prime Minister Mu and told him how to cooperate next. Prime Minister Mu said that everything would be arranged by the emperor.

The secret guard immediately went back to report, and all the plans began to be implemented at this time.

Lin Shuping asked worriedly, "Husband, if you and I leave, the eldest, second, and third brothers all have families and can be taken care of, but Yun Zhou is left alone outside. I, I am not too sure."

"What are you worried about? Mu Yunzhou is a tough kid who can take a beating. Besides, he just muddles along and doesn't want to make progress. It's time for him to grow up. Otherwise, what will happen to him when we are old?" Prime Minister Mu comforted his wife.

"he……"

"The Emperor wants us to find an opportunity to fake our own death as soon as possible. He is about to cast his net..."

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