"It was Feng Ling, everything was Feng Ling's scheme."
Granny Cui took a deep breath before slowly exhaling, gritting her teeth as she said, "Feng Ling is a spy planted by the Empress by the Venerable Master's side! This old servant was blind and didn't see it for so many years."
It was all her fault for misjudging people!
She thought that Feng Ling, having been by the Venerable Master's side for so many years, was at least loyal to the Venerable Master.
Who would have thought that years ago, Empress Nangong Shuya had already been setting up this plan!
She never expected that the Empress was the mastermind behind the medicinal soldier corps!
This point, she suspected, even Feng Qihe didn't know.
"Back then, the Venerable Master cast a่ on the Prince..."
Seeing Chu Qianli's eyes darken and her expression clearly unpleasant, Granny Cui sighed helplessly, knowing that Chu Qianli would be very angry about this.
But she still had to brace herself and continue: "It was Feng Ling who offered the plan! I also thought that the Venerable Master's recent irritability and impatience was because she herself had changed."
"The former Venerable Master was calm, composed, wise, and graceful, but these days, the Venerable Master gets angry very easily, and often acts impulsively."
"At first, I really didn't know why, until half a month ago, when the Venerable Master was taken away by Feng Qihe in the Southern Ming Imperial Palace..."
Chu Qianli remained silent.
Fulong's palms slowly tightened.
Granny Cui lowered her eyelids, her eyes filled with hatred.
"It was Feng Ling! So, for such a long time, Feng Ling has been slowly poisoning the Venerable Master! How intelligent the Venerable Master was before, Feng Ling had no opportunity."
"But... but back then, to make Prince Xuan feel more guilty, the Venerable Master was momentarily bewitched and actually listened to Feng Ling's words, starting to take poison slowly."
No one expected that once the Venerable Master took the poison, she couldn't stop. At first, it was just to appear fragile in front of Prince Xuan, but later, she was truly harmed by the toxins.
"Feng Ling used this poison to gradually hypnotize the Venerable Master."
Granny Cui looked up at Chu Qianli, her face admitting it.
"Miss, I know you might not believe this now, but with my understanding of the Venerable Master over the years, I know that from the moment the Venerable Master agreed to Feng Ling's suggestion and cast the่ on the Prince, a part of the Venerable Master's consciousness must have been controlled by Feng Ling!"
"That night, when the Venerable Master left in anger, wanting to find Prince Xuan, I felt that it was truly not the Venerable Master's way of doing things."
"Later, I chased after her, but I couldn't find any trace of the Venerable Master outside the Southern Ming Emperor's sleeping quarters. After that, I also couldn't find Feng Ling. Feng Ling and the Venerable Master disappeared together."
"When we informed Prince Xuan of the news, on the way back with the Prince, the scouts only found out that Feng Ling had already gone to Feng Qihe's team. We also guessed that the Venerable Master must have been taken away by Feng Qihe."
Granny Cui had every reason to believe that it was Feng Ling's hypnosis that controlled the Venerable Master, which allowed Feng Qihe to take her away so easily.
Otherwise, with the Venerable Master's martial arts, how could Feng Qihe have taken her away without a sound?
One must know that it was the Southern Ming Emperor's imperial palace, filled with patrolling guards everywhere.
As long as there was the slightest sound of fighting, it would alert the imperial guards?
But that night, no guards knew what had happened, which showed that the Venerable Master and Feng Qihe had never fought.
The Venerable Master was taken away by Feng Qihe while under the control of Feng Ling's hypnosis!
Granny Cui knelt two more steps forward and said hoarsely, "Miss, I have no other options now. Miss, you are our only hope!"