The Duke's mansion
Tian Tian looked back and forth, after ensuring that there was no one coming closer. She pulled the small bottle of poison out of her sleeve, pulled up the lid and moved it to one of the bowls of soup. Turning the bottle over, she poured all the powdered content of the bottle into the plates and stored the soup gently to mix the poison with the soup.
Once there was no lump showing and everything was properly mixed. She continued forward, the eldest young Mistress Lu Yiling had arrived at some point and was seated opposite Zhu Fengyin. Madam Lu looked up when a shadow came over at the door. A smile broke on her face when she saw the maid come in with the soup, she glanced at her daughter.
"Ling'er, we did not know you would be coming over soon. Your second sister-in-law made a pot of Herbal Tanxilli and egg sweet soup and brought it over".
