After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 248
Chapter 248
Ming Zhu very quickly learned which people Zhao Zhi had invited to the residence to listen to the opera with her. Basically all of them were ladies from noble families in the capital, and each of them were of high status.
The attitude of these girls towards her was very different from before, completely different.
Not only were they polite, their mouth were also full of compliments.
They praised her like she was a goddess up in the sky, exhausting all of the good words they knew.
The other young ladies of the Ming family, who had shamelessly also come, were standing awkwardly on the side without saying anything.
Ming Ru had been forced to come by her mother-in-law, who wanted her to have a good relationship with Ming Zhu, wanting to make use of this relationship to pave the way for her young son who didn’t have any talent.
Seeing Ming Zhu being in the center like the moon among the stars, Ming Ru hated it so much, she was gnashing her teeth.
Ming Zhu suddenly realized why everyone wanted to climb up the social ladder. When one was in a high place, everyone who saw you had to be polite, compliant, and courteous, and treat you like an ancestor.
When Ming Yuan saw her today, she even consented to smile at her and call her little sister, bearing the humiliation in silence.
Hearing this insincere “little sister”, she just felt it was funny.
She didn’t recognize all the ladies of these noble families, but she did recognize the lady from the Gu family that she hadn’t seen for a long time.
In the past, Ming Zhu was not sure whether or not Zhao Zhi back then had a sincere heart for Miss Gu, who was talented and good-looking. But, when she heard the girl beside her say that Miss Gu had gotten married the year before to her childhood sweetheart, whose status was equal to hers, Ming Zhu immediately realized.
It turned out that Zhao Zhi also had a sense of right and wrong, and had a sincere heart.
For the person he treasured with a sincere heart, he couldn’t bear to be ruthless and rob them of their love.
Soon after the troupe began to sing, Zhao Zhi returned from the palace.
He didn’t go to the stage on the pavilion, not wanting to disturb them while they were listening to the opera, and just went straight to the study, where the little maid who was serving Ming Zhu closely ran up to him in a panic, taking out a black bottle from her sleeve.
The little maid’s face looked uneasy as she reported truthfully, “Your Highness, this is the medicine bottle that this servant unintentionally found when cleaning the room today.”
Zhao Zhi didn’t know that this was the poison that Hong Ling had given to Ming Zhu.
When the man opened the medicine bottle and smelled it, he immediately frowned. He didn’t even have to think about it to know that it was clearly not something good.
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The smell of this medicine was very unpleasant, and Zhao Zhi didn’t even know where Ming Zhu had gotten it from.
The man spoke in a cold voice: “Ask a doctor to come here.”
“Yes.”
Since the day Zhao Zhi brought Ming Zhu back from Yangzhou, he had always been on guard. He ordered her room to be always cleaned from the inside out, and all sharp objects had to be put away. Every single thing was registered, and there was no way to make any mistake.
Although on the surface Zhao Zhi was not as authoritarian and strict as before, he still set up quite a few spies around her.
The doctor very quickly arrived at the crown prince’s residence. He took the bottle of medicine in the crown prince’s hand, sniffed it, and when he looked at the color of the potion, he was instantly startled, and asked, “Your Highness, where did you get this medicine from?”
Zhao Zhi pondered for a moment, and asked in perplexity, “What’s wrong?”
The doctor, who had been practicing medicine for many years, had never seen such a vicious and poisonous medicine before. He considered his words, and after hesitating, said, “This medicine is extremely poisonous, and if it is consumed by mistake, even the celestial gods can’t do anything about it.”
Hearing this, Zhao Zhi was not surprised, he had guessed it.
The man’s face turned cold, “You go out.”
For a moment, he couldn’t figure out who Ming Zhu was planning to feed the medicine to.
She herself? He didn’t believe that she would still want to die after having her daughter.
Thinking about it, most likely this bottle of medicine had been prepared for him. If that was the case, Zhao Zhi’s heart felt a little better, he would rather have her hurt him than see her hurting herself.
Zhao Zhi returned the bottle of medicine to the little maid, and indifferently instructed her, “Put it back, don’t let her find out that someone has touched it.”
The little maid was stunned, but she didn’t dare to disobey the crown prince’s order, “Yes.”
Ming Zhu enjoyed listening to the opera, and watched the actors on the stage with great interest, thinking that their costumes looked good and their voices sounded good.
But other than her, the rest of the people in front of the stage didn’t have great interest in the opera.
They had heard the play “Cowherd and Weaving Maiden” many times before, so they were really unable to find it interesting, but no one in this group of ladies dared to show it.
They dared not look down on Ming Zhu now, they only hoped that she would forget the past and not hold a grudge. People with some eyesight could all see that the crown prince valued her very much in his heart, and in the future if they had something to beg of him, they would have to go through the crown princess.
So each one of them sat firmly on their chair, patiently listening to the play.
Translator : Laura
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