After a while, the smoke pillar slowly lowered his head behind Ju Xiang, I took a sip of tea, glanced at him, and said, "I just want to ask you a few words, why are you so sluggish, as if someone is going to eat you." ”

Seeing this, the smoke pillar had to take a few quick steps and kneel in front of me, with a vulgar look on his face, I forcibly suppressed my full of scorn and annoyance, and said with a smile: "I just want to ask you a few words, you can say it well, and I can let you go," his eyes slanted at him, "but if you don't want to say it well, what kind of means I am, you should have heard of it in the past few years." ”

Yan Zhu glanced up at me, then lowered his head and said, "Although the second young lady asks, the slave will answer only if he knows." There were three points of provocation in the tone, and seven points of clinging.

I said to Yan Yuese: "Speaking of which, there is nothing important about it, but two days ago, Ju Xiang asked you to buy a new medicine jar for me," I looked at Ju Xiang, and said with a smile, "She said that you have done a good job, and I feel very good after drinking the medicine in the past few days, and I am very happy, and I am thinking about what to reward you, and others may be more diligent in doing things." ”

The smoke pillar raised his face with a red face, and said, "Second Miss Xie reward, this is also what a slave should do." ”

Seeing the irrepressible joy on his face, I paused and said, "Your errand is indeed good, and you have been trained by your father anyway," I showed a little hesitation, "but it seems that I heard that your popularity in the house is not very good, so I really don't get along with you?" ”

He smiled slightly and said: "The slave is stupid, everyone dislikes it, but fortunately, the prince is still willing to give some face to the old love, so as not to let the slave sleep on the street." "His complexion has not changed.

I looked at the pillar of smoke with a smile, slowly walked to his side, and said in a cold tone: "You slave really didn't smack the meaning of my words, or are you talking about him left and right?" Do you know the consequences of not telling the truth with me? ”

The smoke pillar lay on the ground and replied, "The slave really doesn't understand what the second lady is talking about. There was some fear in his words, but he was still trying to hide it.

I touched the edge of my fingernails, and my voice became colder, "I don't want to talk nonsense with you, what's going on with my medicine jar?" ”

The smoke pillar shook a spirit, looked up at me, his eyes were full of surprise, and then lowered his head, not daring to move, "The slave doesn't know anything, the second miss don't blame the slave, and I hope the second miss will see it." ”

I pointed at him and said, "Who told you to buy that jar of medicine for me?" I stared at him, "Say it!" ”

He was suddenly frightened, and trembled: "The slave really doesn't know, I really don't know." ”

I snorted, "Good loyal minion," I cleared my throat, "even if I was wrong." ”

When the smoke pillar heard this, he let out a big sigh, and his whole body relaxed. I looked at him and smiled, and said to Juxiang: "Go and remove all the ice urns in the corner of the wall for me, and then go to the kitchen to scoop a pot of boiling hot oil, the one that will crackle and boil, the oil will not be easy to cool down on this hot day." ”

Ju Xiangxuan frowned and strode out.

I hooked the corners of my mouth and said, "I want to see how far you can go to hide this." ”

Smoke Pillar closed his eyes, "The slave really doesn't know anything, so the second lady will let the slave go." ”

I chuckled, "You came to me, you want to leave without saying a word," and shook my head, "You may be underestimating me." ”

When I saw that he did not speak, I said, "Whatever you sow, you will reap, and when you were harming me, did you ever think of letting me go?" ”

The sweat on the cigarette pillar's head ran down his sideburns to his cheeks, and the lines on his eyebrows were tightly frowned. I looked outside, called Juxiang and said, "Bring the pot to the small stove." ”

Ju Xiang wrapped it in a cotton cloth and put the copper pot on the ground, I sneered at the cigarette column: "Don't you want to tell me to let you go, then good, I will give you this opportunity, as long as you dare to put your hands into this pot for a long time, I immediately believe that you are innocent, and in the future, I will definitely find you a good errand." ”

Yan Zhu looked at the hot oil boiling in the copper pot in front of him, his whole body was trembling, his face was pale, and he froze there like an ice sculpture, Ju Xiang looked at him in disgust, kicked him and said, "Don't hurry up yet!" ”

In the evening, the red light in the room was soft, and the hot oil in the copper pot was boiling and bouncing, smoking smoke, I picked up the hot tea that I had not finished drinking, and poured half of it into the copper pot faintly, only to hear the "crackling" sound, the hot oil was fried, splashing the oil stars on the face of the smoke column, he shook suddenly, moved back a few inches, and subconsciously raised the cloth sleeve to block in front of him.

The shadows of the trees reflected on him as the sun set, not a little lifeless. I stared at him with a quiet smile, the pillar of smoke trembling and slumping on the ground, and little by little towards the copper pot, only a few inches away, as if he had exhausted all the courage of his life to get closer. Ju Xiang and I were silent, our eyes fixed on him.

I knew that Smoke Pillar must have something to do with it, but I also knew that he was just a slave who obeyed orders, but I could only look for clues from him at the moment. I sighed slowly, "Don't you dare? It seems that you can't grasp this opportunity? ”

Smoke Pillar looked at me timidly, his eyes bloodshot, he must have been terrified, and every muscle on his face stiffened from excessive contraction. He breathed heavily, as if that would embolden him, and he slowly stretched out his wide, rough hands curled up in his sleeves, and hesitantly touched the edge of the copper pot.

A drop of his sweat fell on the hot copper pot, and with a "bang" sound, the beads of sweat were instantly pierced and jumped, so frightened that he immediately retracted his palm, and his face was no longer able to distinguish whether it was tears or sweat.

Finally, the smoke column stretched out two fingers again, closed his eyes tightly and groped for the oil surface, and his fingertips trembled. When his fingers touched the surface of the oil, he paused for a moment before he screamed, and quickly withdrew his hand, and the oil he brought was splashed far away, splashing the oil stars all over the ground.

However, for a moment, the fingers of the smoke column looked yellow, yellow and white, and there was no layer of skin on the surface, exuding a rich smell of burnt flesh and skin. He paused with his mouth pursed, and suddenly burst into tears at me, came up and grabbed the hem of my skirt, and howled and cried, "Second Miss, spare your life." Ju Xiang hurriedly came up and pulled him away.

I smiled and said, "I thought you had a lot of courage!" Just a frying pan won't work? Knife Mountain hasn't let you go up yet! ”

Yanzhu cried: "Second Miss spare her life." ”

I said in a deep voice: "Then bring what you know to the truth, if you dare to lie to me, don't think about walking out of my room today, you know, I have someone to support you, and you are notorious, even if you do something, everyone will only think that I am just killing others, maybe they will all play the crown and celebrate, no one will pay attention to you." ”

Yan Zhu's eyes widened and said: "The slave took Sister Juxiang's words that day and wanted to buy a medicine jar for the second lady, thinking that he could also go out for a walk, lazy for a while, just returned to the house, and wanted to send the medicine jar to Sister Juxiang, and met Hongxiang on the way, she asked the slave to change the medicine jar, saying that the slave bought this is too vulgar, and the second lady will definitely not like it, the slave saw the one in her hand, and thought about it, since it was good, why didn't the slave use this to ask the second lady for a good idea, and then he changed it and sent it over. After saying that, he knocked his head seven or eight times.

My tone was cold: "You know that? Nothing else? ”

The smoke pillar "banged" and kowtowed: "There is nothing else, the slave really doesn't know the inside story, he really wants to ask for credit, and he smashed into the trap." ”

I frowned and said, "Then why didn't you say anything when I asked you just now?" ”

He cried: "The slave doesn't dare, just look at the second lady's face and know that things are not good, how can the slave dare to admit it?" As soon as he admits it, isn't the sin of the slave completely confirmed? ”

I said disdainfully: "You did the accident yourself, but you are afraid of it, you know today, why bother in the first place." ”

I thought about it with a wooden face, and asked Ju Xiang: "Hongxiang, I once seemed to have heard someone change, but the people in my room?" ”

Ju Xiang replied in a low voice: "Yes, it's the new batch of people from a month ago." ”

I asked, "What does she do on a daily basis?" ”

Ju Xiang said: "On weekdays, she just sweeps the yard or something, and many things are not handled by newcomers like them." ”

I frowned and thought of the mud pit that people couldn't figure out, and hurriedly said to Ju Xiang: "Pull her to me too, I also have something to ask her." ”