Poison Genius Consort

136-140

Chapter 136: Look quickly, something's happened Original and most updated translations are from volare. If read elsewhere, this chapter has been stolen. Please stop supporting theft.

No poison! The results of the scan showed no poison!

Han Yunxi sucked in a cold breath, staring in dismay at the tea leaves. Cold sweat broke out on her back.

No poison! There actually wasn't any poison!

How...

Nobody present had any idea what she just did. All they saw was her staring at the tea leaves with a rather ghastly expression. Madame Li was the first to cause difficulties.

"Esteemed wangfei, are you going to test for poison now?"

Han Yunxi raised her eyes to see Madame Li's eyes flicker with a sneer. She'd done it on purpose just so she could see Han Yunxi's reaction. Madame Li had to be the real culprit, but these tea leaves...

"Esteemed wangfei, hurry and test them!" Han Ruoxue urged.

Mu Liuyue wasn't so patient and said coldly, "Han Yunxi, speak! Why aren't you saying anything? What, all those nice words and you're withering up when it's time to test for poison? You're just scaring people! Or else, making fools of them? Let me tell you, you might be Qin Wangfei, but if you don't get any results today, this young Miss will go straight to the empress dowager and accuse you of framing others!"

Hearing the words 'empress dowager' instantly put Grand Concubine Yi in a bad mood. She angrily demanded, "Han Yunxi, what's wrong with you? Are you testing them or not?"

Han Yunxi looked at them all with knitted eyebrows. By her side, Mu Qingwu and Chu Xifeng were as anxious as ants on a hot pan. Although neither of them understood what esteemed wangfei had done, they could tell by her expression that maybe...maybe she knew the tea leaves had no poison.

Aiya, they'd told her long beforehand, but why didn't she believe them? Now what should they do? She who rides a tiger finds it difficult to dismount!

Suddenly, someone cried out from the crowd. "Esteemed wangfei, please test for poison to prevent maligning a good person!" Soon afterwards, many more echoed his words in unison.

Esteemed wangfei, please test for poison to prevent maligning a good person!

Undoubtedly, Han Yunxi had become a target of public criticism. She gritted her teeth. Everyone thought that she was out of options, but it wasn't a second before she coolly gave out an order. "Someone, bring hot water to steep these tea leaves! This wangfei will test for poisons now for everyone to see!"

Perhaps her scanners didn't pick up any poisons because there was none there. But another possibility was that Madame Li's techniques were too wily for the detox system to untangle. She faintly recalled reading in an ancient text a certain method for testing for Ten-Thousand Snake Poison. No matter how little of the poison there was, it would still reveal the poison.

Ten-Thousand Snake Poison didn't exist in the present, so she'd never had a chance to try out the method. Even now, she wasn't sure whether it'd work, but she didn't have time to worry about all that. This was her only choice now that she had no others, so she could only brace herself and go forward.

Since she was putting her all into the fight, she might as well fight to the end!

From an outsider's perspective, steeping the tea was simply a pretense to find a person to drink it. This was a simple way to test for poison, because the results would reveal the toxin. Everyone grew nervous at the thought. Meanwhile, Madame Li hid a cold smile in her heart. Of course she knew that Han Yunxi wouldn't be so stupid to try such a simple method. Han Yunxi was the one who saved Mu Qingwu; she should understand that Ten-Thousand Snake Poison wouldn't break out in the body until years afterwards. She figured that Han Yunxi had some sort of secret weapon, perhaps a formidable poison testing needle or poison stone, to test the tea for poison.