"Vanilla, how are you? Are you okay?" Lu Wushuang ran to Vanilla, first pulled off the handkerchief she stuffed in her mouth, then went around behind her, and asked with concern while helping Vanilla untie the rope that bound her hands.
"I'm fine." Vanilla shook her head. After seeing Lu Wushuang, she had been frightened all afternoon and shed even more tears.
"It's okay. Don't cry. It's all my fault. If I hadn't brought you to Qilixiang for dinner, we wouldn't have gotten into other people's ways and caused you to be tied to a chair for so long."
After untying the rope, Lu Wushuang raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of Vanilla's eyes while comforting her.
At this time, the coachman walked into the plum room, looked at Lu Wushuang and said respectfully and politely: "Miss Lu, the prince is sitting in the lobby below. He has asked the shopkeeper to invite all the waiters in Qilixiang, and let you go down and meet them."
"I'll get down right away." Lu Wushuang nodded to the coachman, then turned to look at Vanilla, stretched out his hand to support her, and asked Vanilla in a soft voice, "Can you go?"
"I haven't moved for so long, and my legs are a little numb. How about my sister go down first," Vanilla said.
"There's not even a light here. It's so dark. I wouldn't worry if you were left here alone." After Lu Wushuang finished speaking, he knelt down and held Vanilla's feet.
"Sister, this is impossible." Vanilla quickly pushed Lu Wushuang's hand away. Although she and Lu Wushuang were sworn sisters, she was still a servant after all. How could she let her, as the master, pinch her feet.
"You are my sister, there is nothing I can do to you." Lu Wu's words did not stop before his hands moved, and Vanilla was moved to tears.
The coachman on the side was also moved when he saw Lu Wushuang treating his maid like this.
"Miss Lu, why don't you let me carry Miss Vanilla down there?" the coachman said.
Lu Wushuang was a little hesitant. After all, men and women are not intimate. But Vanilla beside her was more cheerful.
"Sister, let this big brother carry me down. I want to quickly identify the guy who drugged us and punish him properly." When speaking, Vanilla, who has always been simple and kind, appeared in her dark eyes.
Unprecedented hatred and anger.
"It's up to you." Lu Wushuang nodded towards the driver.
The coachman bent down and stood in front of Vanilla in a half-crouched position. With the help of Lu Wushuang, Vanilla reluctantly stood up and lay on the coachman's back. The three of them walked towards the stairs in the faint moonlight.
The lobby downstairs is brightly lit and the room is solemn.
Bei Tangye sat on the armchair. The shopkeeper of Qilixiang stood behind him, with cold sweat on his head, but he did not dare to raise his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his forehead. The other waiters and cooks were arranged in two rows, standing a distance away from Bei Tangye.
Tang Ye was nine feet away.
Some of these waiters and cooks had sleepy eyes and expressions of confusion and ignorance. Some of them were trembling in the face of Bei Tangye's powerful aura. Some of them were trying to stay calm, but the fear in their eyes was leaking out.
It made him feel guilty.
"Shopkeeper Xu, are all the waiters and cooks in Qilixiang here?" Beitang Ye's stern cold eyes swept across the people standing in front of him, and his cold and temperatureless voice was even more frightening in the silent night.
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"Go back to Prince Qi, everyone who works in Qilixiang is here." Shopkeeper Xu took courage, his voice trembled slightly, and asked tentatively: "I don't know why Prince Qi came to our store in the middle of the night and called everyone together?"
I'm a little confused. Prince Qi is definitely not among the guests who have been standing at the counter today.
Beitang Ye turned his head and glanced at Shopkeeper Xu coldly, but did not answer his question.
At the right time, the coachman carried Vanilla and Lu Wushuang downstairs and walked to Beitang Ye. Seeing Vanilla's haggard face and red and swollen hands, Shopkeeper Xu trembled. It seemed that something happened to Qilixiang under his nose.
Things he doesn't know.
It's over, it's over, I've offended Prince Qi, now Qilixiang is really going to die.
Among the standing guys, when one of them saw Lu Wushuang appear, he suddenly felt a black cloud coming over his head. His eyes showed extreme fear, and his legs trembled involuntarily. If he had known that these two girls and
Today's Prince Qi has a lot of connections, so he is not greedy for the ten taels of silver. Now it's better, but he may not even be able to save his life.
"Shuang girls, how is Vanilla?"
When Lu Wushuang walked to the lobby, Bei Tangye stood up and saw that Xianghua couldn't even walk and needed someone to carry her down. He thought that Xianghua must have been seriously injured, so he asked with concern.
"She's fine. She just has some numbness in her legs. She'll be fine after a while." Lu Wushuang's face was gloomy. After answering, her sharp eyes glanced at the dozen waiters and cooks. When she
When her eyes glanced at the waiter who delivered soup to them during the day, her eyes flashed with a chill that was astonishingly cold.
Lu Wushuang walked towards the waiter step by step.
As her footsteps approached, the waiter who had done the bad thing was shaking even more violently.
"You, come out."
Lu Wushuang stood in front of the group of waiters. She raised her finger and pointed at the shivering waiter. Her cold voice was like the biting cold wind blowing on the top of the snow-capped mountains, making people shiver with cold.
"I was obsessed for a moment and took the money from the other two girls, allowing them to drug the mandarin fish soup you ordered. I begged the girls to spare my life. I am willing to hand over all the ten taels of silver I received.
Come out." The waiter walked up to Lu Wushuang with trembling legs. Before Lu Wushuang could press him, his legs softened and he knelt on the ground. After taking the initiative to confess, he took the twelve taels of silver hidden on his body with both hands.
The top of his head was presented in front of Lu Wushuang. Although he was reluctant to part with it, his life was more important.
"The other two girls, who are they? Do you recognize them?" Lu Wushuang's gloomy face seemed to be covered with a layer of dark clouds. His icy eyes as deep as a cold pool shot condescendingly at the man kneeling in front of him, his voice was cold.
Like snow.
"Back to the girl, I don't know those two girls. I only remember that one of them was a gorgeously dressed woman with a thin face and not a very good complexion. She looked like she was just recovering from a serious illness. I don't know if she was just sick.
Because they are vegetarians, the two girls ordered a table full of meat dishes in the private room opposite the plum room." The waiter lowered his head to recall, and told everything he remembered without daring to say anything.
hide.
Hearing what the clerk said, Lu Wushuang vaguely knew who had harmed her?
Looking at the entire Tiaocheng, apart from men, she could not think of anyone other than Lu Wanqing to be the woman who had a grudge against her.
"I need paper and ink."
After spitting out a few words coldly, shopkeeper Xu cleverly ran to the counter and personally picked up a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and sent it to Lu Wushuang.
Lu Wushuang did not answer, but walked to a table in the lobby and sat down gracefully. Shopkeeper Xu followed behind him carrying pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and placed the Four Treasures of the Study on the table.
I saw Lu Wu holding a wolf hair with both hands, applying thick ink on the rice paper, and using a few hasty strokes, he sketched the outline of a woman's face on the rice paper. He then carefully sketched out the eyebrows, eyes, lips, nose, ears, etc.
It took no more than two cups of tea before and after, before a woman's face appeared on the paper.
"Is it this woman?" Lu Wushuang walked up to the waiter who was still kneeling on the ground with the still-dry ink painting and asked him to confirm.
The waiter raised his head and looked at it carefully. He sometimes nodded and sometimes shook his head, "We are indeed very similar, but the girl who gave me the money today has a thinner face and darker eyes."
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Lu Wushuang drew what Lu Wanqing looked like half a month ago. As for Lu Wanqing, who had lost her appearance after having diarrhea for half a month, she had never seen Lu Wanqing even though they lived under the same roof.
So, Lu Wushuang walked back to the table, imagining Lu Wanqing's appearance after slimming down, and drew a new portrait of her. She took the portrait and walked up to the waiter again and spread the portrait on his face.
In front of me, "Please double check for me, is this woman drugging my fish soup?"
"Yes, yes, that's her, that's her." The waiter nodded repeatedly.
"Damn Lu Wanqing, I've made you sick for half a month, and you still haven't remembered the lesson, and you still try to pick on me. It seems that this time I have to be a little more ruthless to make you remember that I, Lu Wushuang, am not
Anyone who can pick a side is qualified to pick a side." Lu Wushuang's dark eyes shone with a cold light. She threw away the painting in her hand, exuding a strong and terrifying murderous aura, and strode towards Qilixiang.
Walk outside.
"Shuang girls, where are you going?" Bei Tangye chased out quickly, stopped the murderous Lu Wushuang, and asked.
"Where else can we go? Of course we can settle the score with that reckless woman." Lu Wushuang's black eyes were as cold as a cold pool, and his icy voice was like the cold wind blowing through the silent night.
"Shuang girls, don't be impulsive. Listen to me, this time has passed. Even if you want revenge, you have to wait until tomorrow. Besides, you have to think about Vanilla. She was tied to a chair and sat unable to move.
After such a long time, I must be tired, hungry and sleepy now, so I have to let Vanilla take a rest first." Knowing that Lu Wushuang felt sorry for Vanilla, Bei Tangye cleverly mentioned Vanilla when persuading Lu Wushuang.
Bei Tangye's words really worked. Lu Wushuang stopped and looked back at Vanilla. He hadn't seen her for just half a day. Her little face looked tired and she seemed to have lost weight. Her eyes were as wet as two big walnuts from crying.
The dexterous hands were red and swollen, so they had to apply ointment quickly.
"You're right, Vanilla really needs a good rest. I may have to disturb you all night tonight." It was so late at night, and the medicine shops were closed. Lu Wushuang believed that there would be a doctor in Prince Qi's palace.
"What's the matter of disturbing you? You're not talking about being outside like this. If you are willing to stay at Prince Qi's Mansion for one night, I won't be happy enough." The corners of Beitang Ye's lips were slightly raised, and he smiled like a winter jasmine blooming in the sun, bright and bright.