Hunting system, and I ended up becoming the empress!

Xiao Zhixing changed into casual clothes and went to the study to wait. Bai Mei led a slender figure in.

The person took off his hood, revealing a face as pretty as a lotus. She was actually a graceful and elegant young girl, but she looked sick.

She looked at the face and it looked familiar.

"Xiao Xuanying has met Prince Yuansheng."

"Hmm?...And Lady Ning?" Xiao Zhixing immediately matched the person with the name. He was the one who messed up her marriage last time.

"It's Hening." Xiao Xuanying smiled, and the curve of her lips was somewhat similar to that of Xiao Zhixing.

Xiao Zhixing was confused. Xiao Xin's daughter came to see him? Why?

Xiao Xuanying let her look at him, and bowed again, "Excuse me for disturbing Your Highness, but He Ning has no other options left, so I want to make a deal with Your Highness."

Xiao Zhixing's mind raced as he recalled the situation at Pinghou Mansion.

Xiao Xin had two wives. His ex-wife died early, leaving behind Xiao Xuanying as her child. His current wife is his second wife, who gave birth to a son and a daughter. Naturally, she is deeply loved by him.

The life of this original legitimate daughter in the mansion was neither good nor bad, except for the things in the backyard.

She thought again of Xiao Xin's fear of her, and suddenly felt more at ease.

"Please take a seat. The county lady came here late at night and asked for a deal right away. This really puzzled me. What can I trade with you?"

Xiao Xuanying sat down gently, his eyes flickering in the candlelight, "I have clues about how he murdered the late queen."

Xiao Zhixing restrained his lazy posture, and his eyes were like knives, sweeping across her face, "Him? Xiao Xin?"

Xiao Xuanying's face turned pale, and she held on to her pressure. "Yes, is this information enough to trade with you?"

Xiao Zhixing retracted his authority and said, "You are his daughter. You are selling out your father. I dare not trade with you."

Xiao Xuanying breathed a sigh of relief, not caring about her sarcasm at all, with a frank expression:

"I can't even survive anymore. I promised my mother that I would live quietly like a strong grass, but someone won't let me live, and won't even leave me a dark corner..."

There is deep hatred and resentment hidden in the calm words.

Xiao Zhixing did not sympathize. Everyone's fate was miserable and it was impossible for her to sympathize with everyone.

People always have to rely on themselves.

Considering that she still had some courage, she tapped the table and said, "Tell me if your clue is worth a deal with you."

Xiao Xuanying coughed twice, "Back then, he accidentally obtained a secret medicine called Huanyan, which is colorless and tasteless. It can make a woman's face radiant, but it will quickly deteriorate from the inside. If there is no detection and no antidote in just half a year, she will definitely die."

Xiao Zhixing listened quietly without interrupting her.

Xiao Xuanying smiled bitterly, "My mother and the late queen were close friends, and she often went to the palace to accompany the late queen. The poison was transmitted through the pearl cream that my mother gave to the late queen..."

"That was made by mother herself. The late queen liked it very much, so mother naturally did not dare to let others make it. However, she never suspected that it contained poison."

She smiled sadly, "The pearls, spring water, and utensils are all non-toxic. The only difference is that every time he accompanies his mother to make cream, he personally picks out the pearls and hands them to his mother."

"His hands were filled with poison and blood."

Xiao Xuanying coughed violently twice. "The previous queen had an accident, and my mother was restless day and night. When I was five years old, she accidentally noticed that he was abnormal, so my mother went to check..."

"Later, I watched him feed my mother poison with my own eyes. She stared at me with eyes wide open to stop me from saying anything."

"I curled up in the low cupboard, watching him grinning hideously through the crack in the door and listening to him talking to himself crazily. Only the dead can hide secrets."

"Cough, cough, cough..." Xiao Xuanying covered her mouth and coughed quickly. "I endured it for more than ten years, and finally found some clues last year. How ridiculous. Because of your appearance, he got scared and fell ill. He kept repeating Huanyan Huanyan and talking nonsense in a high fever. Others didn't understand, but I knew what he was saying."

"That poison is not his. I guess he got it from somewhere else. I'm sorry I can't do anything about it. You have to check it yourself, Your Highness."

Xiao Zhixing thought for a moment, "Okay, tell me your conditions."

Xiao Xuanying looked at his thin palms with blue veins, "I want to leave Pinghou Mansion, leave Shengjing, go to a place where no one knows, live a few days of peace, and spend the last days of my life well."

Xiao Zhixing knew at a glance that she had been poisoned by a chronic poison. Her fingertips were slightly gray, which meant that she often dealt with herbs.

He thought to himself, "I can help you fake your death and escape to achieve your wish. I can also help you detoxify. Please help me do something too."

This girl has a strong desire to survive. It just so happens that she has something she wants to arrange someone to keep an eye on, but she hasn't decided who to send. Isn't Xiao Xuanying the right person?

Xiao Xuanying's eyes lit up slightly, "Okay, Your Majesty, please give your instructions."

"Go to a place and hide your identity. Live a good life. You don't need to do anything else. Just record what you see and hear there. I will send people to pick it up from time to time."

"Where?"

"Southwest, Xiaoyan Village."

After seeing Xiao Xuanying off, Xiao Zhixing called Yang Jueming at night and asked him if he had heard of Huanyan.

As for how Xiao Yan later detoxified herself, it is unknown, but it is still possible to check where the poison came from.

Xiao Yuanshan was naturally alarmed by Yang Jueming's arrival, and the two of them came together.

“Huan Yan!?” Yang Jueming frowned, “Wait, wait, I think I’ve heard of this somewhere before.”

He searched his memory as hard as he could, "Huan Yan, Huan Yan, ah, I remember it now."

Yang Jueming slapped his thigh, "Originally this thing was not poisonous, it was a moisturizing spice. Later, it was improved by the owner and its efficacy became better, but it is poisonous. Hiss, what is it called, Chen, yes, it is the secret recipe of the Chen family, a former Dongzhou spice family."

"Huanyan was sought after by many concubines in the Qing Dynasty before Yin. Even though they knew it was poisonous, they were still attracted to it because as long as they took the antidote once every three months, it would only benefit women's appearance, except for harming their offspring."

"It is said that the Qing Dynasty gradually weakened because the concubines gave birth to bad offspring. Therefore, in the early years of the Yin Dynasty, Huanyan was banned. The Chen family almost died because of this. The secret recipe of Huanyan was destroyed on the spot by the head of the family."

But there are always people hiding, they just don't show up in a big way.

"Chen? Dongzhou?" Xiao Zhixing thought of someone.

"Yes, after the blow, the Chen family retreated to their hometown in Dongzhou and only operated an incense shop in Dongzhou. Later, they gradually declined. I wonder if their descendants can be found now."

Xiao Yuanshan began to recall, "Xiao Xin's deceased wife was surnamed Qu, and her grandmother was from the Zhang family. Zhang Rengui had to call her aunt."

"Your mother has been in a high position since she was young. In order to entertain her, Empress Zhang summoned many girls from her relatives to the palace to accompany her. At that time, Concubine Zhang, Lady Qu, and your mother were the best three."

As a result, one of them directly stole her husband, and the other was used by her husband to poison her.

Xiao Zhixing suddenly felt some sympathy for Xiao Yan.

After sending the two away, she called Ying Yi and said, "Go and find Qian Fen's wife Chen immediately."

She revealed at the time that her family was a spice family, and if she was a descendant of the Chen family, she was worried that something unexpected would happen to her and her daughter.

Because the person who gave Xiao Xin Huanyan might pay attention to her.

Hope it's not too late.