Transmigration: From Farmer To Empress-Chapter 2007 - 2015: Spending the Night in the Suburb (Part 1)

The next day early in the morning, I went to Princess Zhao Qing’s courtyard. Everyone was there, including Third Miss. After greetings, Third Miss gently said, "Father, Mother, I have already prepared four types of incense with similar aromas. One is exactly the fragrance Master Mu smelled the other day. The spices are precisely the Pear account fragrance and the Fragrance of Temptation mixed together. As long as Master Mu identifies that fragrance, it proves that I didn’t lie, and Master Mu is innocent as well."

"How is that possible? How could you possibly buy Fragrance of Temptation?"

Dong Qing’er was also there. She seemed ill, with small plasters on each of her cheeks. However, the illness hadn’t diminished her spirit at all; instead, she was more spirited than ever. Upon hearing that Third Miss unexpectedly possessed Fragrance of Temptation, she shouted impulsively.

I laughed coldly, "How does Second Miss know that Third Miss can’t obtain Fragrance of Temptation? Is someone guilty, buying out all the Fragrance of Temptation from Tongzhou Mansion?"

"Qing’er, be quiet!"

Dong Qi shouted, "You stay at home all day. What do you know? Don’t blindly listen to people saying Fragrance of Temptation is hard to buy and assume Third Younger Sister can’t obtain it. Don’t forget what Third Younger Sister’s concubine family used to do. How can it be that the concubine has no stock of such spices?"

This sentence was both an excuse for what Dong Qing’er said and a denial that Tongzhou Mansion’s Fragrance of Temptation was bought out by them. It also conveniently mocked Third Miss’s concubine family’s background, and more maliciously, insinuated that Third Miss’s concubine often used Fragrance of Temptation to seduce men.

Third Miss wasn’t angry and coldly stared at Dong Qi with a sarcastic smile, responding with a calm voice: "More talk is useless. It’s better to ask Master Mu to try the incense. Who frequently uses Fragrance of Temptation, whose home has stocks, the answer should be revealed soon."

Upon hearing these words, Princess Zhao Qing’s expression turned grim, and the family’s expressions didn’t improve either. Yet, since things had come to this point, they could only let Third Miss go and prepare.

Before long, four incense burners were lit, each brought by four maids in front of me. I smelled each of them, finally pointing to a maid wearing a green vest, saying, "This is the incense she’s holding. It’s exactly the same as what I smelled in the study room the other day!"

Third Miss heard this, covered her nose and opened the incense burner’s lid. After just a glance, she laughed. "Father, Mother, this incense is precisely made by combining the Pear account fragrance and Fragrance of Temptation."

"Now that the evidence is irrefutable, I wonder what else does Your Highness the Princess and Prince Consort Dong have to say!" I put on a stern face, looking gloomily at Princess Zhao Qing and her husband.

Upon hearing this, Princess Zhao Qing immediately called for the supervisor in charge of procurement in the mansion to come in and examine the spices in the incense burner. After coming in, the supervisor used a silver ear digger to probe inside for a while, confirming, "Your Highness, these two scents inside are Pear account fragrance and Fragrance of Temptation mixed together; without a doubt." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Well, I never expected such filthy things to be in our mansion. Someone, investigate for me what exactly is happening here?"

Before I could speak, Princess Zhao Qing was already furious. She slapped the table with a ’bang’, eyebrows raised in anger, appearing quite enraged, frightening the servants who hurriedly withdrew their necks to attend to the matter.

Dong Qi looked pained as he said to me, "Chong Wen, I am truly sorry for wronging you. I didn’t anticipate that my mansion truly has such things. But I assure you, it wasn’t my plot against you; there must be a misunderstanding here."

At this point, he continued his act, making me further acknowledge his shamelessness. I said bluntly, "If it’s a misunderstanding, why did all of Tongzhou Mansion’s Fragrance of Temptation get bought out overnight yesterday? Don’t you suspect that someone wanted to prevent Third Miss from making incense and interfere with my investigation?"