Initially, Madame Wang did not know what the lovely woman was muttering.
But as soon as the number slipped out, she felt a wave of dizziness and disorientation.
"How, how can this be?"
She had already taken the antidote to the narcotic.
It shouldn’t be the case.
Madame Wang felt disbelieving.
Yan Lingzhen curved her brows and eyes, smiling merrily as she watched Madame Wang collapse face-first onto the table, unconscious.
Who said this was your narcotic?
This is her narcotic!
Just as the maid was brewing tea, she had already slipped the narcotic into it, foreseeing that Wang Dahua, to dispel any suspicion between the two sisters, would drink the tea first.
The maids were stunned, pushing Madame Wang twice, but she did not move at all.
"You’ve knocked the lady unconscious!" one maid exclaimed in disbelief.
"Exactly the effect I wanted," Yan Lingzhen said as she stood up and stretched, "I told you earlier to bring Wang Quan here, but you had to make it so complicated."
She was indeed a bit tired and couldn’t help but yawn, "Now, I’m young and still need to grow, I can’t afford to stay up late. I’ll give you one last chance, if you can’t find Wang Quan this time, both of you and Wang Dahua will leave together."
"...Leave?" Maid One felt that wasn’t a good word, "Is it the kind of leaving I am thinking of?"
Yan Lingzhen looked at her, eyes clear yet foolish, and nodded vigorously, emphasizing her words, "Yes, meant as none of you will see tomorrow’s sun."
This explanation evidently terrified the two maids.
No longer were they as arrogant and domineering as when facing Li Chengxiang, instantly they knelt before Yan Lingzhen like little lambs.
"Young miss, please, have mercy, we just work for them, please have a heart and spare us sisters."
Yan Lingzhen looked at them and said word by word, "I’ve been killing fish at Da Run Fa for ten years, my heart has long been very hard and cold."
"Ah?" The maids were stunned.
"Meaning, pleading with me is useless, hurry up and bring that old scoundrel Wang Quan here," Yan Lingzhen said dryly, reaching out for the tea on the table and drank it, then tranquilly declared as the maids watched in shock, "I’m immune to all poisons, something you can’t envy."
The maid duo finally went out to find Wang Quan.
Yan Lingzhen returned to the soft couch to nap.
The body of a child, overwhelmed by sleepiness, could not control it—the kind that hits you fast and indiscriminate.
Seeing her genuinely exhausted, Yan Wanqing touched her forehead to make sure she wasn’t sweating, then sat down beside her.
Li Chengxiang had quietly removed the fan from Madame Wang’s waist at some point.
"Let this girl fan Miss Yan the Sixth; the room is still a bit warm."
Seeing her eyes were bloodshot, Yan Wanqing said, "No need, you’re tired too."
But Li Chengxiang stubbornly shook her head, "It’s necessary, children can’t tolerate heat well, she hasn’t sweated now, but she will wake up sweating all over, uncomfortable."
She spoke while gently waving the fan.
Sure enough, Yan Lingzhen found a more comfortable position and deeply fell asleep.
"What do you plan to do about this matter?" Yan Wanqing abruptly asked.
Li Chengxiang, still fanning steadily, replied normally, "To pay back in the same coin, even if he’s my father, he can’t trample over my life."
The grace of upbringing, she had always been repaying it.
Working from dawn till dusk running the shop, earning money to support the whole family, yet nobody remembered her efforts.
When she could make money, she was a treasure; when she couldn’t, she was trash.
Her biological father could even stoop lower than her lowest act.
It truly chilled her heart to the core.
Yan Wanqing nodded, "Since you have made up your mind, then proceed as you wish. I was worried before coming here that you might be too soft-hearted, it seems I was worried over nothing."
"In this world, probably only the Commandery Princess would treat a little girl like me so selflessly," Li Chengxiang said as her eyes began to well up slightly.
Yan Wanqing chuckled softly as she stepped forward to wipe the tears from the corner of her eyes and teased, "What, are you thinking of offering yourself to me?"
"If the Commandery Princess were a man, I would pursue you even without my face," Li Chengxiang said with a smile.
Thanks to Madam Wang’s narcotic, Wang Quan had finally surfaced.
However, his late arrival was bound to be associated with a significant move.
And it wasn’t just Wang Quan who had come.
He had brought all the thugs from the courtyard.
"Who wants to see me!" Wang Quan stood outside the courtyard and shouted inside.
Hearing the voice, Li Chengxiang grew a bit tense.
Yan Wanqing patted her shoulder, "Just stay inside the house."
She got up and walked towards the door with a lazy stride.
There were many thugs, each robust, clearly all trained fighters.
Upon seeing Yan Wanqing, Wang Quan’s eyes lit up instantly.
"Ah, truly a heavenly beauty!"
He looked somewhat reproachfully at Maid One, "Had you said she was a beauty, I would have come earlier."
Such beauty, truly captivating.
Seeing this, Yan Wanqing scoffed, her red lips curling in derision, "So you are Wang Quan?"
"Indeed, it is I." Although Wang Quan coveted Yan Wanqing’s beauty, he was also fearful of death; he would absolutely not expose himself to danger without knowing all her details.
Yan Wanqing looked disdainfully at the short, chubby figure hiding behind the crowd.
"This little courtyard of yours operating here in the Capital City surely has a significant backing, do you want to tell me yourself, or shall I force it out of you?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Quan remarked sarcastically, "Well well, what a big tone you have, little girl. Do you know the sort of noble officials who frequent this courtyard of mine? Any one of them could crush you with a single finger."
"Crush me?" Yan Wanqing felt intrigued, "I’d really like to know who these people are, who can crush me with just a finger."
Her eyes were shadowy, her smile not reaching them.
Wang Quan’s eyes rolled around, realizing he shouldn’t fall for the trap too easily, "You should announce who you are upon entering my courtyard."
"You old codger, you really are troublesome," Yan Wanqing lost much of her patience; "If you won’t tell, then it’s all the same. I’ll send your wife down first, then you next, achieving the same result of eliminating a menace for the people."
Hearing this, Wang Quan’s face darkened immediately.
"I humor you with sweet words, bearing with you because of your beautiful looks, and you really think you are a princess," he snapped his fingers, and the robust thugs advanced imposingly.
Wang Quan sneered, "Take her down for me, tonight I shall have a taste first!"
Thinking about this beautiful woman made his whole body tremble.
At these words, the thugs looked at Yan Wanqing with odd smirks.
Yan Wanqing instinctively flicked her little canine tooth with her tongue, the rough feeling making her entire nerves excited.
"Then let’s see if you have what it takes."
She struck first without using Inner Strength.
She went straight to a thug’s face with a punch, instantly caving it in, blood gushing from his nose in an instant. The thug had no chance to react, and pain was all he felt throughout his body.
"Hiss—" His hand just touched his nose when his bottom endured a fierce kick, almost blacking out from the pain.
This girl really threw fierce punches!
The other few thugs saw this and felt pain in certain parts of their bodies.
Seeing Yan Wanqing again, their gaze carried caution.
"Come on," Yan Wanqing arrogantly waved her finger at them.
The pent-up anger from being oppressed and belittled in the palace over the past few days had accumulated in her heart for a long time; now with such an excellent opportunity to vent, she was determined to cherish it.
She intended to fight without using Inner Strength, aiming to draw blood with every punch!