Jin Wang Dotes on His Concubine

Chapter110，Part1: Jin Wang Dotes on His Concubine Ch 110 Pt. 1

Translated by gingercat

Edited by gingercat

Shen Tai’s eyes were bloodshot, full of anticipation.

He stared at Xiaobao and the tabby cat. A bloodthirsty impulse rose in his heart. He stepped forward to pinch these two creatures, who didn’t put him in their eyes, to death.

The tabby cat seemed to sense the threat. With its hair raised and back arched, it made a threatening howl from its throat.

“Stupid cat!” Shen Tai cursed.

He lowered his head to look at the tea in the teacup and saw some powder floating on the surface of the water. A hint of panic arose and he dipped his finger into the cup to stir it around. He smiled nervously at Xiaobao who was watching him and said, “You little devil. Can you understand what I’m doing? Do you want to take a sip? This tea is delicious.”

Xiaobao blinked and couldn’t help wondering if this person had gone insane.

However, he understood that it wasn’t good to provoke a madman at will, especially now that he was on his own here. Instead, he showed a broad grin to Shen Tai as if he didn’t understand anything then turned around to play with the nearby table.

Shen Tai snorted then sat down proudly.

He seemed to be too excited and kept fidgeting around in his chair. After he was finally calmer, he resumed looking down at the book as he did before.

Warm sunlight came in through the window, dazzling the room.

A baby was sitting on the couch by the window, a cat lying on the window sill, and a handsome boy engrossed in a book.

This scene was such a sight to behold that people couldn’t help but be in a trance. Duke Ningguo walked in from the outside with a smile on his old face.

He patted the boy’s thin shoulder. “Have you thought of anything else from reading that paragraph?”

Shen Tai hesitated. Duke Ningguo smiled then said, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand. Grandfather can explain to you.”

Duke Ningguo sat down then started to explain this passage according to his own understanding. Most of his thoughts were based on his decades of experience from commanding soldiers. Listening to his teachings would be a rare opportunity for many people. Even if they wanted to listen, they may not be fortunate enough to.

“Grandfather is wise, grandson has learned a lot.”

Duke Ningguo was very satisfied with Shen Tai’s attitude. This was how a motivated young man should be. It doesn’t matter if you couldn’t understand as long as you were humble enough to ask for help. It was also fine if you were dumb but what was not fine was being dumb but thinking of yourself as smart.

As he nodded and stroked his beard, he held up the teacup beside him, about to take a sip. He didn’t notice the seemingly respectful young man in front of him, who was looking at him from the corner of his eye.

Xiaobao was also watching Duke Ningguo. Seeing him raise the teacup, he swept his small hand towards the porcelain plate covered with pastries on the small table.

The porcelain plate dropped to the ground and broke with a crisp crack.

Duke Ningguo’s hand holding the teacup paused as he looked over.

At the same time, with a loud meow, a shadow pounced at Duke Ningguo at an incredible speed and knocked over the teacup in his hand.

The teacup fell onto the desk and the tea inside all spilled out. The empty teacup then rolled over, fell onto the ground, and broke into smithereens.

Everyone was stunned, including Xiaobao.

Before anyone could return to their senses, the tabby cat, which had landed on the desk, suddenly leaped towards Shen Tai’s face.

“Li Hua!” Duke Ningguo shouted.

With a horrifying screech, Shen Tai fell to the ground, touching his face with one hand and waving the other in the air desperately.

The tabby cat then jumped back onto the couch, licked its paw, and laid down lazily.

All of this made Xiaobao think of a single sentence-

To cover up its involvement after performing a meritorious deed!

Did this cat gain awareness? Or did it also experience rebirth?

The sounds coming from the study alerted the people guarding outside the door. Duke Ningguo frowned and ordered people to help Shen Tai up.

But before they could, Shen Tai who was lying on the ground suddenly let out a miserable cry. He started struggling and convulsing on the ground in pain. Yet before ten breaths of time were up, blood started to gush out of all seven of his orifices then all was still.

Seeing such a shocking scene, the servants who were called to help him up were frozen and didn’t dare to make a move.

“Grandpa…”

Duke Ningguo stepped forward and squatted down to feel the pulse at Shen Tai’s neck. “Hurry up and call a doctor! Actually, go ask His Highness Jin Wang to borrow Doctor Liu.”

The room was in complete chaos. With people constantly moving in and out, Second Master Shen soon received the news.

“Father, what happened?”

Then he found Shen Tai lying on the ground in an extremely miserable state, dead. Second Master Shen pointed at the corpse in disbelief and said, “This is Tai Ge’er? How, why… “

Duke Ningguo recounted the ins and outs of the matter, then the father and the son looked towards Xiaobao in unison.

Xiaobao wanted to blink his eyes innocently, but then thinking of how Shen Tai had conspired to kill his great grandfather in secret, he said, “Paper bag, tea…”

His chubby little finger pointed at Shen Tai, who was on the ground, then pointed at the tabby cat. “Huahua, don’t drink…”

Actually, he could explain what had happened more thoroughly but since the matter was over, to avoid arousing suspicion, he had to keep a low profile. And this was how he usually talked to Duke Ningguo, so he should be able to understand.

Sure enough, Duke Ningguo understood. He personally approached the corpse to flip through all of Shen Tai’s sleeves, pockets and other places that could hide things. Sure enough, he found a crumpled ball of paper.

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Thinking of what Xiaobao had said, he didn’t dare to move it at all. He only frowned and looked at it.

“Xiaobao’s saying that he put the stuff inside the paper bag into the tea and that the tea can’t be drunk, right?”

Xiaobao scrunched up his face as if he found it very difficult to understand what he was saying before he said, “Finger, tea…” Then he made a stirring action. This amount of time was enough for him to guess the cause of Shen Tai’s death.

Shen Tai probably didn’t expect the poison to be so potent. After soaking his finger in the poisoned tea, he then touched the bleeding wound on his face which was caused by the tabby cat. This was enough to kill him.

To steal the chicken only to lose the rice, this was the perfect example.

He then thought of the paw that the tabby cat had used to scratch Shen Tai’s face, and hurriedly said, “Huahua, paws, wash…”

This old tabby cat was one of Duke Ningguo’s greatest annoyances but since it was his old woman’s beloved pet, he could only endure. From time to time, it would sneak onto his own bed to sleep and steal his own food to eat. Sometimes, there would even be stuff broken in his room that seemed to have happened out of nowhere.

Now seeing how this old cat had saved his life, Duke Ningguo was in a particularly complicated mood.

Hearing Xiaobao’s words, he seemed to think of something, and he couldn’t help but shiver. He immediately ordered people to bring some water so he could wash his hands. Not only were his hands washed, but the tabby cat was also washed. After going through a few pots of water, he also took off his clothes that had been splashed by the tea, before deeming that he had done enough.

But the tea splashed onto the desk was left alone.

By this time, Duke Ningguo had already understood how his grandson died, but it still needed to be verified.

Doctor Liu soon arrived. He extracted some powder from the ball of crumpled paper, then inspected Shen Tai’s corpse and the wounds on his face, before reaching the same conclusion as Duke Ningguo.