Chapter XXIV

After everyone left, the wing room fell silent, Tong Qingyan put on her clothes and glanced at Cuixiang, who was tied up with five flowers.

Cui Xiang was highly nervous at the moment, she didn't know what this weak little girl wanted to do when she pulled herself back from the ghost gate, and it was right to keep silent and let her low posture come out.

"How long have you been by Chen Peiwen's side?"

"The slave has been serving the young lady since she was a child, and she has ......"

"Miss? You are no longer a descendant of the Chen family, and the young lady in your mouth has no nostalgia for you. ”

After being interrupted by Tong Qingyan's taunts, Cuixiang had to shut up and bow her head to return to her original state.

"Do you know how to drain water?"

"Yes."

"Pearl, throw her into the river for me."

"Okay!"

Although Pearl was surprised by her own young lady's orders, but Miss is always right, listening to Miss must be right, she has always demanded her own pearls with such high standards, or she carried the emerald fragrance and went out.

Cuixiang was stunned by the state at the moment, and her head, which was hanging upside down on her shoulders by Pearl, suddenly exploded after a short blank space, desperately struggling and begging for mercy.

"Miss spare her life, the slave doesn't dare anymore, Miss spare her life, Miss ......"

"Pearl put her down."

"Okay."

Cui Xiang, who was laid down like an upside-down onion, lay on her side on the ground and gasped for breath, and before she could completely recover, she heard the urging voice sound above her head.

"Spare your life? Why do you want me to spare your life when you do so much to me? ”

"No ......"

"You're trying to say that it wasn't your intention to harm me, and that you're acting on orders, right?"

"Yes."

"I know, but you also saw it, she made you a substitute for the dead, and I can't catch her, since you are guilty of it, then my breath can only come out of you, what do you say?"

Cuixiang listened to Tong Qingyan's words, and the glimmer of hope that rose was completely destroyed, and she closed her eyes with a dead face, no longer silent or resisting.

"Pearl, untie her."

"Well... Yes? ”

"Don't you understand? I said loose-tie-"

"Oh."

Pearl neatly untied Cuixiang, Cuixiang looked at Tong Qingyan inexplicably, suddenly shrunk in pain by Song's body, and immediately got up and knelt down.

"From the moment your master abandons you, you are dead. Now that you are in my hands, it is up to me to decide when and how you die, so you remember, let you go today, it's not that I can't kill you, but I don't want to kill you. ”

"The slave understands."

"I'm about to enter Beijing soon, it's a new start for you and me, I don't want to make a mistake, it's useful to keep you, as long as you are honest, I won't treat you badly."

"The slave and maid thank Miss for her great kindness, and she will be loyal in the future, and she will not hesitate to go to the soup for Miss."

Cui Xiang kowtowed three times, her body trembled slightly, she was so excited, she really let herself go, it's good to be alive, it's more important than anything else to live!

"Changchun Mansion has been peaceful for many years under my father's governance, so you shouldn't have much of an impression of floods at your age. The floods were rampant, and the carcasses of livestock and people were soaked in the water, soaking many times, and the fish that usually ate shrimp and rice were burrowing around in the carcasses, and eating all the meat. ”

Tong Qingyan said word by word, and every time she said one more word, the faces of the three pearls turned whiter, especially the frightened Cuixiang, whose face was even more pale.

"In the future, if there are some signs of something wrong, I will definitely let you make a big meat dish in a certain ditch." Tong Qingyan glanced at the cuixiang that couldn't help but spit out, and squinted her eyes, "If you want to spit it out, Pearl will arrange a place for you to live, and what you want to do when you get to the capital, just obey the order." ”

"Yes, the slave and maid are gone."

Cui Xiang endured the desire to vomit, hurriedly saluted and retreated, and after Pearl followed out, Shuangxi looked at Tong Qingyan with a white face.

"Miss...... It's not easy for you to get better, and you're not afraid to vomit again in the dark. ”

Tong Qingyan poured a glass of honey water and handed it over, smiling softly.

"Probably because I'm a little more sick this time, but now I don't want to vomit much."

"So Miss wants to pull the slaves and maids together to make it uncomfortable?"

While Tong Qingyan and Cuixiang were trading, Wen Lan and Tong Huaiyuan were reprimanding Wen Qi and Shi in the study.

Wen Qi and Shishi, who had uncovered their disguise masks, knelt for a while, and they didn't see Tong Huaiyuan and Wen Lan screaming, so naturally they didn't dare to say anything.

Wen Lan didn't have Tong Huaiyuan to hold her breath, slammed the teacup on the table, looked at the two who shrank for a while, and opened her mouth angrily.

"The wings are stiff, don't you, you dare to run away from home?"

"Auntie, I was wrong."

"What's wrong?!"

"I shouldn't have left home and gone north without saying a word."

"And what?!"

"I shouldn't be mixed up in the crowd of the Tong Mansion."

"What else?"

"And... And ......"

Looking at Wen Qi, whose face was flushed, Tong Huaiyuan touched his nose, this appearance was very familiar, and he wanted to laugh a little.

"Ahem...... Tong Huaiyuan coughed twice, which was considered to be a relief, and looked at Wen Qi and the stone like quails, "Get up, it's been long enough to kneel." ”

"Uncle Xie."

"Master Xie Tong."

Wen Qi and Shi didn't dare to look up when they stood still, it was really Wen Lan's aura that was too strong, and Wen Qi was really curious about how he was discovered.

"Don't you still understand where you're exposed?"

Wen Lan glanced at Wen Qi and opened her mouth coolly.

"My nephew is really curious, and I hope my aunt will teach me."

"You, how old are you to think about going out and breaking into the world, even if you still have a little brains to get a human skin mask, but what's the use of you just covering your appearance, why don't you remember the birthmark behind your ear and cover it up?"

Wen Qi's face suddenly realized, he actually forgot about this stubble, it was really that crescent-shaped birthmark was not conspicuous, he usually didn't pay much attention, where would he remember to cover it up.

Tong Huaiyuan thought about it for a while, it's all here, it's not practical to send someone to send Wen Qi and the stone back, it's better to write a letter and let people send them back to Wen Mansion.

Tong Huaiyuan's decision, Wen Qi and Shi are happy, since they have already come out, of course they don't want to go back like this, they have already had the intention of making contributions, and they still have to find a way to persuade their families to let them stay in the capital.

In the study of the palace

Song Zhan listened to Su Yu's reply and shook his head disapprovingly.

"A woman's kindness."

"The prince thinks that Cuixiang can't stay?"

Putting down the book casually, Song Zhan stood up and pushed open the closed window, and the cold wind poured in, and the fire was hidden.

"Whether she keeps it or not, it has nothing to do with the palace, and now that the person has been handed over to her, if she wants to keep it, then keep it, so that she can't let a slave turn the sky upside down."

"Then after entering Beijing, do you still need to arrange for your subordinates to keep an eye on them?"

"No, it won't be long before the three show girls of the Tong family enter the palace, and they can't show their traces in the palace."

"Yes."

"Let's go to the kitchen and pass the food, I'm hungry after tossing for so long."

"Yes."

As soon as Su Yu answered, there was a knock on the door of the study.

As soon as the door opened, he saw Mingyue leading a group of maids to stand in a row respectfully with several trays, Su Yu looked sideways at Song Zhan, waiting for Song Zhan to show down.

Song Zhan nodded, motioned to Su Yu to take Mingyue and the others to the dining room, and looked at the dishes that were laid out, Song Zhan's stomach grunted cooperatively.

Mingyue laid out the dishes and chopsticks, but did not retreat with the maids, took off the cotton handkerchief from the shelf behind her and waited for Song Zhan to clean her hands, and then picked up the chopsticks and prepared to serve Song Zhan for dinner.

"The slave has seen His Royal Highness."

Shuangxi glanced at the room with the door open, Song Zhan was next to Mingyue, a table of steaming food, and some wanted to leave, but after looking at Su Yu with burning eyes by the door, he had to stop and say goodbye.

Song Zhan glanced at Shuangxi, a little stunned, this maid seems to be next to the little girl, what is she doing?

Mingyue also wondered what the maid of the Tongfu was doing when she came to find Shizi, and she was displeased to be disturbed, but she could only hold back for the time being, but she did not retreat to the side, but still stood beside Song Zhan with chopsticks.

"Come in." Song Zhan looked at the people from Tongfu who came in with Double Happiness, and the things in the tray they were carrying, and a trace of joy crossed his eyes, "What is this?" ”

"If you go back to Your Highness, my young lady said that it is suitable to eat hot pots when it is cold, so I ordered the house to prepare some dishes for you."

Double Happiness was ready, once Song Zhan opened his mouth to refuse, he immediately turned around and left with the cooked pot and dishes, so many dishes to bring back to eat with Miss.

"Put it down, thank you Miss Tong San here."

Well? No, why is it different from what you think?

Shuangxi was stunned, and the corners of Song Zhan's originally raised mouth fell, and he glanced at the stunned Shuangxi unhappily.

The level of the little girl's picking is not very good, and none of the maids around her are clever, otherwise they would not be so miserable.

"This ......"

Shuangxi looked at the table full of dishes and was a little embarrassed, and there was no place to put the copper stove and dishes he brought.

"You can take all these dishes down, and I'll reward you."

Song Zhan commanded Mingyue beside him, but he didn't raise his eyes to see Mingyue's reaction at all, but Shuangxi teased his eyelids and looked at Mingyue, whose face was green.

After Mingyue called the people of the palace to remove all the dishes, Shuangxi asked the people of the Tongfu to put the hot copper stove and dishes one by one, and watched Song Zhan raise the chopsticks and put them down again.

"Anything else?"

Under Song Zhan's cold gaze, Shuangxi didn't say a word, he dared to raise an embarrassing smile, and swept Mingyue and Su Yu, who had not yet left, at the end of his eyes, Song Zhan understood.

"You all go down, this world doesn't need to be served for dinner."

"Yes."

Su Yu was the last to walk out, and stood at the door after closing the door, Mingyue had the heart to stay and listen to the corner, and looked at Su Yu, who was like a god in the door, and finally could only pull the handkerchief, throw off his sleeves and leave.

There was only double happiness left in the room, and Song Zhan leisurely picked up a piece of pink meat sliced into thin slices, raised it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it.

"This is my lady's unique secret meat slices, fresh pork chopped into minced meat, mixed with starch and spices, stored in a jar, when you want to eat, take it out and cut it into thin slices, easy to store and not perishable."

Song Zhan put the meat slices into the boiling soup, watched the meat slices rise and fall a few times, and then picked them up under the signal of Shuangxi's eyes, and after chewing a few times, his eyes shone brightly.

The taste of this kind of powdered meat slice is not inferior to that of fresh meat slices, and it is easy to store and not perishable, which is convenient for the border soldiers.

The words of being courteous and being a thief rolled past the tip of his tongue, and in the end, the words he said were still a little more subtle, after all, the mouth of eating people is soft.

"What does your young lady have to explain?"

"I can't explain, my young lady said that she wants to make a deal with His Royal Highness."

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

"This road has been turbulent, and my young lady expects that her life will not be too harmonious after entering Beijing, so I would like to ask His Royal Highness the Prince to take care of Tongfu in the future, and ....... My young lady was selfishly invited, hoping to exchange the recipe for the secret meat slice with His Royal Highness the Prince for two people. ”

"Who?"

"Two maids who know how to do kung fu."

"After the Tong Mansion enters Beijing, it is necessary to buy a house and buy servants, and some handmaidens who know kung fu, your young lady can mention it to the elders in the family, why bother this son."

Song Zhan was leisurely scalding meat and vegetables to eat, while playing Tai Chi with Shuangxi, Shuangxi endured the hunger in his belly and rolled his eyes wildly, and the eight or nine guessed by the young lady were not far from ten, this son of the world is a scoundrel.

"My young lady said that I don't know the root of what I bought from Renyazi, and I don't feel at ease when I use it, but the people of His Royal Highness the Prince are trustworthy, and my young lady said it, you will definitely agree."

Song Zhan finally raised his head from the rice bowl, touched the dipping sauce at the corner of his mouth, and looked at the confident double happiness with an interesting face.

"Why does your young lady think that this son will definitely agree?"

"My young lady said that His Royal Highness the Prince is generous and kind."

Kindness? I never knew what these two words would have to do with me, Song Zhan just wanted to laugh twice, but the words that Shuangxi said immediately made Song Zhan feel the urge to flip the table.

"My young lady also said that if you don't agree, after she enters Beijing, she will go around publicizing that the prince of Huai Wang ate her meat but turned his face and didn't recognize people."

Song Zhan glanced at the empty plate of meat, as well as the remaining table of dishes, and resisted the urge to flip the table.

It's just that good men don't fight women......