Chapter 819 Cloud-patterned Jade Annuluses
“That’s a great idea. Miss, you’re the boss.” So sensible palace maids among them tried to fawn on Lin ngya.
In fact, the only reason why they had been standing here since early morning was to make their existence known to Miss Helan and thus to earn bright futures.
Lin ngya was well aware of this, as were these palace maids.
“In that case, you may follow this lady there. I’ll teach you so new morning exercises every once in a while. As long as you persist in doing morning exercises, you’ll definitely benefit from that. I have sothing to do, so I can’t join you,” Lin ngya said.
She waved her hand with a mild and gentle smile and the high prestige of an in-charge palace maid.
However, at the sight of Lin ngya’s affable smile, Baisu felt a little strange, as Lin ngya had rarely revealed such a fake smile.
Lin ngya smiled as she watched the crowd of palace maids leave, and did not stop smiling until the last palace maid disappeared from her sight.
Then she said, “Make a thorough investigation of today’s newcors, and make a detailed record of them no matter which palaces they co from, as well as the palaces from which none of them co.”
Baisu nodded. She would properly do everything Lin ngya asked her to do.
Unexpectedly, the imperial concubines took action so quickly that they had divided into several groups with clear boundaries within only a few days.
Lin ngya had led the palace maids to do morning exercises since she ca to the imperial palace, but there had never been as many palace maids gathering as today.
In fact, they all intended to play up to the new mistress of the harem.
But Lin ngya knew clearly that many of them ca to sound out Mada Jingrou’s actual situation.
Of course, she should draw those trustworthy people over to their side and watch out for those untrustworthy people.
After breakfast, Lin ngya had a stroll before returning to the side chamber of the Fengyu Court.
By this ti, Baisu had put down the record she made on Lin ngya’s desk.
Lin ngya picked it up and leafed it through carefully while frowning.
Nevertheless, after finishing reading the list, she smoothed her knitted brows. It seed to have little influence on her.
“Baisu, who is Mada Ping? How co I haven’t heard of her before?” She asked as she tapped the list which clearly said that Mada Ping from the Jinglan Court had yet to send anyone to join them.
Moreover, the sdas on good terms with Mada Ping had sent their palace maids to join them.
It seed that they deliberately tried to isolate Mada Ping, or perhaps the palace maids they sent could convey information to Mada Ping, so she didn’t have to send her palace maids to gossip with other palace maids.
“It’s said that she cos from the Ping Family, a family of witch doctors for generations, and she’s one of the four sdas the Emperor married after he ascended the throne. Nevertheless, Mada Ping is usually very cautious and does not easily pick on others. Her son, the Fourth Prince, is not outstanding, said to have been occupied with dical knowledge in recent years and paid little attention to political affairs. Mada Ping is not on friendly terms with Mada Jingrou, but their relationship is not bad. I have t her several tis when I stayed by Young Master’s side. She is quiet and virtuous,” Baisu said.
Was Mada Ping neutral? Lin ngya leafed through the list. Ningqiu had said that, apart from the Empress, there were three sdas with real power in the imperial palace.
Since the downfall of the Empress, the three of them had long dispersed and each of them had gone her own way.
It seed that Mada Ping was not as indifferent to power as she looked!
“Shall I make an investigation of Mada Ping?” Baisu asked.
The list was made by Baisu according to ranks after a secret investigation.
However, Lin ngya asked about neither the three sdas nor the Shaoshi and Beauties of lower rank.
She only asked about Mada Ping, which demonstrated the point.
“No. You said she cos from a family of witch doctors. Did she give any present to Mada or Xiaoyu?” Lin ngya asked.
The reason why Mada Ping attracted her attention was that the other imperial concubines, who had children and ca from aristocratic families, basically had sent their palace maids here.
Lin ngya was keenly aware that it was reasonable for them to send their palace maids to sound out the situation for the sake of their sons.
However, Mada Ping, whose relationship with Mada Jingrou was not bad, did not send anyone here, while the sdas on good terms with Mada Ping had sent their palace maids here.
Lin ngya would never believe there was nothing fishy about this.
“I have no idea what she gave Mada, but when Young Master just ca back, she sent a pair of jade annuluses for congratulations. Miss, if you want to have a look, I’ll go and fetch it right away,” Baisu answered
Because Wanyan Yu gave preferential treatnt to Lin ngya and was eager to give all his good stuff to Lin ngya, Xiaoyu’s stuff was placed in the side yard next to the Fengyu Court.
It didn’t take long for Baisu to fetch the pair of jade annuluses made of superb material.
One of them was bluish-green, and the other was milky-white.
Moreover, they blended into one integral whole naturally like twins.
Baisu said, “They are known as cloud-patterned lucky annuluses and said to be the heirloom of Mada Ping’s family. This pair of jade annuluses were carved from the sa piece of jade, but one is blue and the other white, which is very rare. A few days ago, Young Master wanted to have them made into so jewelry for you, but he didn’t have ti to do it yet.”
Hearing Baisu’s words, Lin ngya couldn’t help rolling her eyes.
That would be a reckless waste of God’s good gifts to make such rare treasures into jewelry.
She put the jade annuluses in her palm and toyed with them. The warm touch gave her the illusion that they could breathe.
However, she had a different feeling when holding them in her hand and was unwilling to let them out of her hand.
“Eh? What is this?” Baisu asked.
All of a sudden, she noticed that Lin ngya’s hand turned light purple.
If she hadn’t been careful, she wouldn’t have noticed it at all.
“This is the secret of the pair of jade annuluses. I see. It’s a miracle to put it in, but it’s probably even more difficult to get it out,” Lin ngya said.
Hearing this, Baisu was confused.
What on earth did Lin ngya an?
Lin ngya let go of the jade annuluses and put them back into the box. Then she fetched a towel beside her and carefully wiped the light purple part of her hand.
The Shen Nung system in her brain kept alerting her since the mont Baisu brought them in, reporting they contained a powerful hallucinogen.
She held the jade annuluses in her hand, which was equivalent to giving them a detailed examination.
The result showed that all the hallucinogen the jade annuluses contained was centred around the innermost part of the small hole in the middle of each of them.
Although jade felt warm and smooth on the surface, it was actually very solid.
To put it bluntly, it was a kind of good-looking stone.
In order to make the hallucinogen absorbed by the jade, one could either soak the jade in the hallucinogen and stew the jade repeatedly or make the jade annuluses hollow.
The appearance of the jade would be spoiled in these two ways.
However, this pair of jade annuluses, warm and of soft color, was definitely of high quality, which indicated the jade annuluses were not poisoned in these two ways.
But even so, it was still difficult to hurt soone with them in secret.
Jade was naturally solid, so so dicines must be stored in bottles made of jade so as not to lose their efficacy.
Lin ngya put one of the jade annuluses in front of her eyes and used the Shen Nung system’s ultrastructural scanning system to give it an X-ray detection.
After magnifying it countless tis, Lin ngya finally solved the mystery.
Nevertheless, the ingenious design made her gasp.
The surface of the jade annulus was extrely smooth, without the slightest blemish.
However, there were countless holes even finer than hair in the jade annulus, especially around the middle layer.
Such holes could only be seen clearly under special instrunts.
Moreover, there was sothing else in the holes.
With her current capabilities, she still couldn’t tell what it was.
She just discovered that the substance filling the holes was very strange.
According to Lin ngya’s analysis and experintal result, on being heated, the substance in the holes would lt and then stick to the inner walls of the holes.
In this way, the poison at the innermost parts of the holes would quietly co out and have a direct influence on the human body.
But once the temperature dropped, the poison would return to harmless fillings of the holes so that people could not tell the secret of the jade annulus.
What a clever and ingenious trick to poison the jade annuluses! Lin ngya was amazed at it.
At the sa ti, Lin ngya was sure that Mada Ping harbored evil intentions toward Xiaoyu.
“Go and get a basin of hot water, or warm water would also be fine. I want a big basin of water,” she said.
Although she could not tell what was in the holes of the jade annulus, the poison had nowhere to hide.
Although the hallucinogen was powerful, it could not be exposed to water.
Once it was exposed to water, it would lose its efficacy and beco useless.
Soon, Baisu brought the thing she needed. Without any hesitation, Lin ngya soaked the pair of jade annuluses into the water.
Under Baisu’s astonished gaze, the water gradually turned light purple and gave off a pungent sll.
Nevertheless, the jade annuluses did not change at all and remained gorgeous.
“Miss, what exactly is this?” Baisu asked.
She had seen the jade annuluses before but saw nothing purple on them.
Why did they beco like this after in Lin ngya’s hands?
“This is the Purple Haze Grass, a powerful hallucinogen native to the hottest area in the southernmost part of the Lieyun Empire. More importantly, it can put people in a conscious but trendously irritable state, so it’s also known as the Devil Grass. Nowadays, it’s rarely seen,” Lin ngya said.
With the music score for the green stringed instrunt, she naturally knew about it in detail.
Nevertheless, the Devil Grass was so rare. Could it be given to Mada Ping by her family?
Co to think of it, she found it could be possible. After all, it was reasonable for the Ping Family, a family of witch doctors for generations, to have the Devil Grass.
However, why did Mada Ping put such a precious poison in the pair of jade annuluses?
It should be noted that Xiaoyu had no interest in this stuff, neither would he bring them with him!
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