Chapter 433

He drank the safe wine.

It did not seem particularly abrupt.

Even so, by the time the banquet ended, Su Qiao still felt a bit dizzy.

Lu Hong rose smoothly, having a maid help support Su Qiao to rest.

"Brother Su, it is late; stay the night here. I have specially arranged a room, and the place is quiet; no one dares disturb you. Please, go rest."

Lu Hong wore a smile on his face, as if a big gray wolf coaxing a little white rabbit.

At least Su Qiao was clear in his heart that this fellow had no good intentions.

Moreover, he was truly a bit muddled now, and heat gradually rose in his lower abdomen.

It seemed to be the effect of the wine laced with medicine he had drunk earlier.

Although Su Qiao very much wanted to turn on them immediately, Lu Hong had not yet completely torn off the mask; before he knew the specific plans and schemes of Lu Hong and these people,

he needed to endure temporarily.

From the young girl supporting his body beside him came a faint, subtle fragrance, drilling straight into his nostrils.

He felt the heat rising from his lower abdomen become even more obvious.

At this moment, he was somewhat relieved, relieved that he had discovered it early beforehand, spat out most of the wine, and subsequently avoided it as much as possible.

Otherwise, with just this medicinal effect, he might have already lost his senses and gone mad here.

Tsk!

There is no guarantee that Lu Hong's family does not have exactly this plan!

A layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared on Su Qiao's back.

Now this old fox was right beside him, and Sun Yaoqing, the head of the Sun family, that fat man, was no harmless lamp either.

Su Qiao did not want to reveal any flaw; he could only temporarily nod and agree.

Afterwards, Su Qiao and the others were truly arranged into a small courtyard.

As for Sun Youxu and the other Embroidered Uniform Guard, since they were to protect Su Qiao closely, they were also arranged beside the small courtyard.

Upon entering the courtyard, Su Qiao originally expected Liurushi to appear.

After all, she had come with him.

But where was Liurushi now?

He was now dizzy and blurred; under the effect of the medicine, he was still somewhat heated and urgently needed to relieve the fire.

He certainly could not grab the maid beside him and go wild, could he?

Upon entering the courtyard, Su Qiao did not wait for Liurushi; instead, he waited for another figure.

Two young girls supported Su Qiao to sit on the bed inside the room, helping to take off his boots.

Then they pulled a quilt over his upper body and lit incense in the room.

Only then did they leave leisurely.

As the incense burned, Su Qiao felt even more dizzy; after the maids left, he immediately struggled to rise, stumbled quickly to the table, picked up the teapot on the table, and gulped down mouthful after mouthful directly from the spout.

It must be said, the ice-cold tea pouring into his stomach did indeed make him much more alert.

Not only that, the heat originally at his lower abdomen was suppressed quite a bit.

Just then, Su Qiao suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside.

The sound sounded very soft.

He quickly lay back down again and began to pretend to sleep.

At this moment, the voice of the Embroidered Uniform Guard came from the doorway, "Who goes there?!"

A soft, sweet, and cloying voice came softly at the doorway:

"Oh, I am here to add tea for my lord; two lords, you may check."

"Good... it is fine, you may enter."

Damn!

They actually let her in?!

Su Qiao actually very much wanted to go out right now and slap those two guarding guards twice.

However, shortly after the door was pushed open, Su Qiao narrowed his eyes into a slit and roughly understood why the Embroidered Uniform Guard had not stopped the person.

The one who entered was indeed a charming woman, and she was exactly as her voice suggested.

The woman carried the scent of rouge; from more than ten paces away, Su Qiao lying on the bed could smell it.

Moreover, this young married woman wore thin gauze, half-covering and half-revealing; she slowly placed the tea she was holding on the table, then tentatively called out to Su Qiao.

"My lord Su, my lord Su, this slave has brought you water..."

The voice was soft, sticky, and numbing, simply making one involuntarily fall into temptation.

Su Qiao even felt something stirring again beneath the quilt.

Seeing that Su Qiao did not react, a trace of joy flashed in the young married woman's eyes.

Her delicate face was as tempting as a blooming rose; she took off the thin gauze and slowly approached Su Qiao's bed.

Su Qiao originally thought this young married woman intended for Lu Hong to test whether he was asleep.

Call out a couple of times and then leave.

Who knew, good heavens, she actually did not leave!

Instead, the fragrance at her nose tip became increasingly strong; this woman had already started to push her luck and approach.

Pfft, actually craving this Young Master's body!

Especially when this woman's fragrant, fiery breath blew onto his face, Su Qiao could no longer pretend.

He suddenly opened his eyes wide, his cold gaze piercing straight at the woman before him.

The woman had just thought Su Qiao was truly asleep.

She did not expect him to suddenly open his eyes, and was instantly startled.

"Ah!"

"Shut up!"

Su Qiao snorted coldly and said.

The woman, frightened, retreated several steps; her delicate body, lacking strength, immediately collapsed onto the ground.

Su Qiao rose and stood up from the bed.

"Speak. Who sent you? What is really going on? You should know my lord's identity. If your story does not match, then you may as well await death!"

The delicate young woman's face was now deathly pale; frightened further by Su Qiao, she immediately teetered on the verge of collapse.

She knew Su Qiao's identity; had she not been threatened, she would not have been willing to come.

Su Qiao was an imperial envoy dispatched by the court, one who could speak directly to the heavens; yet she had come to plot the frame-up of a court imperial envoy, and had been caught; the outcome was obvious.

Beheading would be the lightest punishment; exterminating three generations would be more fitting!

At this moment, she was truly terrified.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard at the door had originally intended to enter, but then heard Su Qiao's voice.

They immediately ceased their restless movements.

"M-my lord, it is truly not that I wished to deal with you; the Lu family... the Lu family found me... and asked me to spend the night here with you; as long as I could wait until midnight... the rest would be considered completed..."

The young woman trembled, seemingly terrified, and her words were jumbled and incoherent.

But Su Qiao roughly understood what was happening.

It matched his earlier guess.

It was precisely the kind of scheme the Lu Hong and others had concocted.

As for the purpose, naturally, it was to deal with Su Qiao!

In fact, the plan was simple: Su Qiao himself was an imperial envoy, bearing the aura of an imperial minister, so ordinary people dared not move against him.

However, the Lu family, the Sun family, and the other two families were different; they were remnants of the Bai Lianjiao.

Their goal was to capture Su Qiao.

Capturing him, if they fought with all their strength, still carried a chance of victory.

But it was merely a chance.

Previously, Xu Chunming had twice set up ambushes; both were traps created by Xu Chunming's utmost efforts to deal with Su Qiao.

Yet they still failed!

288, this woman does not seem like a good person!