Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 217

The best way, of course, was that the youth could take advantage of this time to assassinate Emperor Longqing again.

However, the young man said, “I can’t get close to him.”

After encountering an assassination attempt, the defense of the people around Emperor Longqing became more strict. And after arriving on the mountain, the house where Emperor Longqing lived was at the highest point on the mountain, and there was a height difference from where other people were.

Even in the dark, torches were lit around his house, and the dark guards were guarding high places, so that anyone who approached would have an unobstructed view.

And although Gu Yin could make the Emperor’s food, everything the Emperor used was kept by a special person. He would deliver it to Gu Yin’s hands before cooking for him, and there were also people who tested for poison.

Not to mention Old Master Wen, among the three, he was the most convenient to approach Emperor Longqing, but with his old age, and the fact that he was not skilled in martial arts, the Emperor did not need even to dispatch guards, as any palace servant could hold him down.

“Then use poison to bring down the dark guards.” Old Master Wen was an important official of the three dynasties, and naturally knew the existence of those dark guards who were skilled in martial arts and ruthless. And the last trace of kindness to the old dynasty in his heart was also wiped out when Emperor Longqing was about to slaughter the town.

After he finished speaking, he also sighed sadly. There were checkpoints in and out of the mountain, so how could it be possible to bring poison in? And although the dark guards ate and drank with the guards, and were not as delicate as Emperor Longqing, they also had to go through a check for poison with silver needles. It was impossible to add highly toxic as it would be found when tested, so it was only possible to use less toxic ones, such as croton powder, laxatives, and the like.

But that kind of thing wouldn’t work if it was diluted. If they wanted to achieve the effect of bringing down a large group of people… Not to mention from Hanshan Town, they may not be able to collect such things that were usually invisible from the entire county.

There were also hunting dogs in the army, and had long been trained to distinguish the common poison.

The old man and the young man were at a loss. Seeing that the meeting time was almost over, Gu Yin said, “Actually, poison can be created in daily food.”

There was moldy rice and beans in the cellar in the Gu House.

“Moldy rice can be washed and dried to remove its taste, and the same is true for beans, and the taste is even more indistinguishable after oil extraction. In addition, fungus can also produce toxins after soaking for a long time… But it is not guaranteed that everyone will experience acute symptoms of poisoning. So if there is a better way…”

They knew that moldy rice and beans should not be eaten, and fungus should not be soaked for too long. But the old man and the young man had never heard that this kind of thing could poison people. But Gu Yin would not talk nonsense casually, and neither of them doubted her statement.

“We can hold them back for a day or two with this method, which is also an opportunity,” the young man said.

After a few more careful discussions, the young man and Gu Yin left. Gu Yin returned to the kitchen, and the young man limped out to fetch water.

When it was time to buy food, the guards brought Second Master Wen and ordered Manager Zhou to accompany him.

The group went down the mountain to Hanshan Town and went straight to the various rice stores.

There were two large rice stores in the town, one was Daxing Rice store, and the other was just closed.

The Emperor ordered the guards not to rob, and they had to show courtesy to the people. So they had to leave when they didn’t see anyone for a long time.

Then the group went to Daxing Rice store, which was the Wen family’s own shop. At that time, there were other customers in the store. Second Master Wen directly asked Wen Peifeng to invite all the guests away.

“My family’s rice is the best, the old man is not deceived!” Second Master Wen’s essence of profiteer was brought into full play, and he wished to praise his rice to heaven.

How did the guards know how rice was? Seeing that the rice in the store was indeed as white as snow, and that the store was owned by the Wen family, they loaded it into the carriage after a little inspection.

Coincidentally, there was a sack of rice that was not tightly packed, and some fell out of it. A guard went up to tie the bag tightly, smelled something wrong and said, “Why does this rice have a strange smell?”

Second Master Wen smiled and said, “Little lord, you don’t understand, the weather is so wet, how can rice be able to withstand it? It would change its taste when it gets soaked in water.”

After speaking, he looked at the commander of the guards again and said softly, “The price of damp rice is low, this is the difference, hehe.”

They all knew that Second Master Wen was very unworthy, but it was precisely because he was unworthy that when they evacuated at that time, Emperor Longqing specially did not let Eldest Master Wen follow the old man whose attitude was not clear, and only let people take the second master.

“Let’s split the account five to five, what do you think?”

That little money, when they were in the capital, naturally was worthless to them. But time had changed, and their money was still in the capital, so they were short of money.