It was a very surprising thing for the lady to drink cold wine. Although she is a slave in the luxurious Lady of the Kingdom of Qiu, she is not as comfortable as the outside world imagines. Mrs. Yu Guo is indeed very rich and rich, but the squandering is only for herself, and the subordinates do not do much good. And the lady is moody, and on weekdays, she scolds and punishes when she is slightly unhappy, and it often happens that she initiates a ruthless attack to kill her subordinates, and the means are very cruel.

Over the years, Mrs. has ordered to kill no less than a dozen servants who drowned or starved to death, except for a dozen servants who were close to Mrs. Qiuguo, the rest of the servants didn't even dare to make a sound on weekdays, for fear of offending Mrs., even if they offended Cuitong next to Mrs. They didn't dare.

To put it bluntly, these people are no more beneficial than being slaves in anyone's house, eating coarse tea and light food, and doing the same dirty and tiring work, there is no difference. The only thing that is a little different is that I have seen a lot of people in the world in the Lady of the Kingdom's mansion, and I have seen a lot of princes and nobles who have come and gone here, and I have seen a lot of extravagant things, delicacies and strange and perverted insider scandals.

For example, the wine from the Western Regions is a rarity, and everyone is very curious about this red wine, but unfortunately they have never had the opportunity to taste it, let alone ice it. On weekdays, there is compassion on the New Year's festival to have some turbid wine enjoyable, this wine is not to think about it, it is said to be a rare thing to pay tribute to the Western Regions.

It's not that no one has drunk it, Mrs. Liu, who planted flowers in the back garden, once took advantage of the opportunity of Mrs. to set up a banquet in the back garden and secretly drank a cup, but everyone didn't have time to ask her what it tasted like, because she was then pressed into the lotus pond with a wooden fork and drowned alive.

And today, Mrs. wants to enjoy the cold wine to drink, this is an unprecedented thing, all the mother-in-law and the people gathered in the courtyard of the back house full of suspicion, forty or fifty pairs of dull eyes looked at Mrs. Qiu Guo and a group of fox maids standing at the big table at the bottom of the stairs, and they were a little at a loss.

Amidst the shouting, several sturdy servants came over with the whole jar of wine that had just been taken out of the ice cellar, and there was still frost ballast on the outside of the shiny black jar. After pat the seal, they are lined up on the table. A cool and sweet smell suddenly permeated the courtyard, making the hot air around it suddenly much colder.

"Everyone, listen, today's lady is happy, and you will be blessed to drink the wine that you have paid tribute to the Western Regions. You must know that this tribute wine is very valuable, and Your Majesty gave ten altars to Madame, and Madame took out three jars for you to enjoy at once, which is a blessing that you have cultivated in your previous life. This wine can't be drunk by ordinary people, and the big officials in the court can't drink it, so we can drink this wine with the light of our wife, don't we all kowtow to our lady to thank you? Cui Tong stood in front of everyone and shouted.

All the servants fell to their knees and kowtowed, "Thank you, madam, thank you, madam." ”

Some well-behaved thanks, Mrs. Qiu Guo did not forget to add: "Thank you, Miss Cuitong......"

Mrs. Qiu Guo giggled and waved her hand.

Cui Tong shouted: "Everyone, get up, remember the grace of Madame, and serve by Madame's side, and Madame and our subordinates will be blessed and shared." The wine can't be drunk by the court officials, but we can drink it, and everyone can go out to brag and show off. ”

Everyone got up one after another, several maidservants distributed small bowls to everyone, lined up one by one and stood up, Mrs. Qiu Guo rolled up her sleeves, holding a wine spoon in her hand, everyone walked past Mrs. Qiu Guo one after another with bowls, and Mrs. Qiu Guo personally scooped wine into their wine bowls, one spoon per person, exactly one bowl.

"Cuitong, you all have a bowl." Mrs. Qiu Guo said.

Cui Tong waved his hand and said: "Madam, we don't need it, we have also tasted Madame's grace on weekdays, just give it to these people." ”

Mrs. Yu Guo said with a heavy face: "Come and drink, no one can be missing." ”

Cuitong was a little puzzled, and reluctantly beckoned more than a dozen of the personal maids around the lady to also play with it and scoop up the wine.

Mrs. Yu Guo smiled and said: "Let's raise a glass together, let's do it together, don't spill it, don't spit it, whoever spills it spit it, Mrs. Ben wants her to look good." ”

Everyone felt strange, but they didn't dare to say much, and with the order of Mrs. Qiuguo, dozens of people carefully held bowls and drank wine, not daring to spill half a drop. When everyone had dried up, Mrs. Qiu Guo laughed with satisfaction.

"This wine...... Why is it sour? An old woman smashed her mouth and frowned: "Didn't you say that the wine is sweet and delicious?" ”

"Don't say it, it's really sour." Someone whispered in agreement.

Not only them, but Cui Tong and others, who had drunk wine, just took the first sip of the wine bowl and realized that the wine tasted wrong. Cuitong wanted to spit out the first bite, but Mrs. said that she was not allowed to spit or sprinkle first, otherwise she would be punished, although Cuitong was a close maid, but she would never dare to disobey Mrs.'s order, so she had to pinch her nose and pour it down.

While everyone was talking about the unpleasant drink, Tsui sensed something was wrong, as she felt a little dizzy. Even if you drink three or five bowls of this kind of wine, it's fine, but you will get dizzy after one bowl. When he was about to ask another maid named Biyu next to him if she was dizzy, she saw Biyu holding her forehead and falling to the ground with her body crooked.

Immediately after the sound of moaning, the people who had drunk in the courtyard fell to the ground as if they had been enchanted, Cui Tong shook his head and looked at Mrs. Yu Guo who was standing on the steps, but saw Mrs. Qiu Guo looking at the people who fell in front of her with a smile, and seemed to be very happy. At the last moment of fainting, Tsui Tong suddenly realized that the incident was probably related to Madame, but she didn't have time to think about it, because she also fell to the ground and fell unconscious like everyone else.

Mrs. Yu Guo smiled and watched everyone fall to the ground, slowly walked down the steps and said with a smile: "No one is in the way with Mrs. Ben now, Mrs. Ben of the province will still avoid you going out, and when you wake up, Mrs. Ben has already returned, and she doesn't know it." ”

As he spoke, he walked to the side of several mothers-in-law who were guarding the back garden, bent down and stretched out his hand to grope around the waist of a mother-in-law. Mrs. Qiu Guo took the key in her arms and turned to leave, and heard each other's mother-in-law cry out: "Madam, madam." ”

Mrs. Yu Guo was startled, and turned to see the woman looking at her half-squinted. Hurriedly took a step back, frowned and turned around to check, and suddenly saw the empty wine jar on the table, so he went over and reported that he came over and smashed the woman's head. The woman let out a hoarse scream, blood gushed out of her bun, and her head tilted and fainted, not knowing whether she was dead or alive.

Mrs. Yu Guo gasped and scolded: "You deserve to be unlucky, you don't sleep after drinking, and you still hold on, and it's useless to be stoned to death." ”

took out a cloth towel and wiped his hands, spat at the mouth, and found that a strand of hair was scattered on his forehead, and he was immediately annoyed, and raised his foot to kick the woman a few times and scolded: "The falling horse bun I just combed is scattered again, a cheap thing." ”

After scolding, he stepped on the gap in the bodies of the people who fell horizontally and vertically, returned to the house, arranged his hair in front of the mirror, and got it properly for a long time, and heard the drum beat twice outside, and it was the second watch. Mrs. Yu Guo hurriedly stopped, went out of the house and trotted to the back garden, entered the garden and ran all the way to the small gate on the east side, came to the door, escaped from the key in her arms, opened the two locks of the small door, and quietly poked her head out.

To the east of Mrs. Qiu's Mansion is a vacant land, and Mrs. Qiu's Mansion is southeast of the Fang, because of its domineering, the surrounding people's houses have been forcibly bought and forced to move away. Theoretically, it is surrounded by the territory of the Lady of the Kingdom of Qiu. The open space of these bulldozed houses was planted with many large trees, which were lush during the day, and at the moment the shadows of the trees were swayed in the moonlight, and the moonlight sprinkled through the gaps, as if a layer of frost and snow had fallen on the ground.

Mrs. Yu Guo leaned out half of her body and frowned and looked around, but she didn't see anyone, let alone Wang Yuan, who should be waiting here, she couldn't help but be a little angry in her heart, and scolded softly: "Dog, dare to deceive Mrs. Ben, turn around and ask him to look good." ”

After looking at it for a while, I couldn't help but worry about whether Wang Yuan could enter the workshop at night, after all, the guards in the workshop at night were very strict. Just when I didn't know how to choose, I suddenly heard a flute sound in the shadow of the tree dozens of steps away, whimpering softly, very beautiful. Mrs. Yu Guo was overjoyed, and stepped out of the small gate of the back garden and walked towards the shadow of the tree, the flute seemed to be very close, and the flute disappeared when it was close.

When Mrs. Qiu Guo was looking around in surprise, she heard the sound of the flute coming from the east again, and Mrs. Qiu Guo showed a smile on her face, and scolded: "Cheap things can play, this is teasing Mrs. Ben, wait, after catching you, ask you to lick your toes for Mrs. Ben." ”

So he took his skirt and went away with the sound of the flute, the flute was indeed a seduction, and after a few intermittent times, Mrs. Qiu Guo finally saw Wang Yuan's figure. Under the moonlight, a pool of lake water flashed with Linlin's silver light, and in the small pavilion on the lake surface stretched out by the lake, Wang Yuan sat in the pavilion in white clothes, and was blowing the flute against the lake with his back to his back. This is the only lake in this square called Qinghu, it is a place with excellent scenery, Wang Yuan chose to meet under the moon here, and the place was chosen to be good, and it seemed that it took some thought.

Mrs. Yu Guo stepped along the path step by step on the wooden corridor on the water connecting the pavilion, came to the back of Wang Yuan, who was playing the flute, and reprimanded: "You dog, is it enough for Mrs. Ben to play?" Mrs. Ben almost fell on her heels, and you must serve Mrs. Ben well in a while, otherwise, you will be good-looking. ”

The sound of the flute stopped, Wang Yuan slowly stood up and turned his head, the light was like day in the moonlight, Mrs. Qiu Guo saw the person's face clearly, and suddenly took a few steps back in surprise and said, "Who are you?" How did you bring me here? What about Wang Yuan? Where is he? ”