Liu Xianghuan agreed, and Qu Linglong was very happy.
Sure enough, someone brought the food box over after a while, and it was the beads in front of Aunt Ma.
Qu Linglong smiled and took out a jug of wine from under the spring stool: "The kitchen doesn't give us wine, so I prepared this in advance."
"Don't drink too much of this wine, it will be bad if something goes wrong." Liu Xianghuan reminded.
Qu Linglong said nonchalantly: "Although I say that, the wine cannot be missing. If you don't cover your face with wine, how can you untie the knot?"
Then he said: "We don't need to blow out the lights in our house, and we don't need to lock the door. From the outside, it will look like there is someone in the house. If we blow out the lights and lock the door, then there will be no three hundred taels of silver here." .”
Liu Xianghuan was a little worried: "Just leave the light on, is everything going to be okay?"
"What can happen?" Qu Linglong smiled, "Firstly, there is a lampshade covering it. Secondly, let's take the copper basin, put the lamp in it, and put some water in the copper basin. Isn't it safe?"
After doing this, the two of them closed the door and went straight to Xue Hengzhao and Chi Su's residence.
After knocking on the door twice, it was Chi Su who opened the door. When he saw it was the two of them, he couldn't help but be stunned.
"Miss Chi San, we are here to celebrate the New Year. We have brought some wine and food to celebrate the New Year with you." Qu Linglong squeezed in with a smile on her face.
Xue Hengzhao was eating melon seeds in the room. When he saw them coming, he greeted them happily: "Miss Qu is thoughtful, I just think the melon seeds are bland!"
"This is called telepathy!" Qu Linglong put the food box on the table, opened it, and took out the food inside and arranged it.
Chi Su's face was a little unhappy. She was an upright person and really couldn't do things that didn't mean what she said.
Xue Hengzhao tugged on her sleeve and whispered, "Remember to pretend to be drunk for a while."
Chi Su didn't have time to ask any more questions, but she knew that she could just do what Xue Hengzhao said.
Four people sat around the table, and Qu Linglong poured wine into everyone's glasses.
Of course, she drank one drink, and the other three drank another drink.
Because she slept next to Xu Hengzhao that day and didn't cover herself with a quilt for the rest of the night, she caught a cold.
I've been having some nasal congestion for the past few days.
However, when she put the wine in the bottle today, she also smelled the bottle of wood essence, and she could indeed smell the smell of the wine.
She mixed some water into it as Mother Hu said.
Do not add too much water to the wood essence, otherwise the toxicity will be weakened.
These were divided among three persons, that is, two small glasses each.
Qu Linglong planned to let the three of them drink two glasses of wood essence water first, and the rest would drink like her.
I guess they couldn't tell the difference.
Even if someone thinks the taste is bad, they can make up an excuse to excuse it.
After drinking two glasses of wine, Xue Hengzhao said that he was going out to relieve himself and asked Chi Su to accompany the two of them first.
In fact, after she came out, she went straight to the warehouse where Qu Linglong was vigilant.
The door was ajar. After Xue Hengzhao walked in, he changed the candles on the table.
Then he turned back and continued eating and drinking.
Liu Xianghuan's alcoholic drink was very weak. After two drinks, he couldn't tell the difference between north and south.
But she thought about being entrusted by Qu Linglong, she had to work hard to hold on.
Xue Hengzhao was the first to lie down on the table and couldn't push it.
Then Chi Su was too drunk to open her eyes.
Liu Xianghuan saw the two of them lying down and said to Qu Linglong with a big tongue: "Qu...sister..., I can't hold it anymore...at least it's...not humiliating..."
Before he finished speaking, he leaned over and fell on the table.
Qu Linglong originally had a good drinking capacity, but because she had something on her mind, she was a little sneaky when drinking, and she was only half-drunk at this time.
Looking at the three people staggering around, Qu Linglong smiled as brightly as a flower.
"Xue Hengzhao, Naihe Bridge is just ahead. Don't go too hastily. Wait for the two of them to stay together!"
Then she put away her cups and chopsticks, put on another wine jug, and took the rotating jug away with her.
In this way, an uninformed person would see that the three of them were drinking and having fun, but they would not expect there to be a fourth person.
There is a carbon basin in this house, and people would probably think that they died of being poisoned by carbon gas.
After all, not many people know about wood essence.
When Qu Linglong returned to the warehouse, a large portion of the candle on the table had been burned down.
She didn't notice that the candle had been exchanged. After putting the things away, she sneezed, and a faint scent seemed to drift through her nose.
But she didn't care.
On New Year's Eve, incense is burned everywhere in the palace, and it's not surprising at all that it smells fragrant.
She made herself a bowl of tea and happily imagined what benefits she would get.
But after a while she yawned uncontrollably, and her eyelids became heavier and heavier.
It was late at night, she drank again, and it was normal for her to feel sleepy.
She put the two spring stools together and thought better of leaving the candle burning.
She was the only one in the room, which was strangely empty.
The midnight hour has passed, and the people keeping watch on the New Year's Eve can't stand it any longer and fall asleep one after another.
The warehouse door was gently pushed open again.
Xue Hengzhao walked in, and Qu Linglong was already fast asleep.
Xue Hengzhao took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, opened it, and took out a long cotton thread used as a candle wick.
She carefully tied one end of the cotton string to the candle, and then dragged the other end of the cotton string to a pile of silk floss.
This cotton thread was soaked with wood essence, and the bottle of wood essence in Qu Linglong's arms had long been dropped by her.
She knew that the women who worked at the needlework bureau secretly drank at night, and she also knew where they would hide the remaining wine.
Because she was not sure whether Qu Linglong could distinguish between wine and wood essence, she took away Qu Linglong's quilt when she went back, leaving her with a cold and stuffy nose to make a judgment.
In addition to being highly poisonous, wood essence also has the property of being ignited by fire. After a while, the candle will burn downward and the cotton thread will be ignited.
The cotton thread ignited the silk cotton. Next to the silk cotton were pieces of cloth, embroidery thread, bamboo stretchers, etc., all of which were flammable.
It is conceivable that this house will become a sea of fire before long.
Xue Hengzhao looked calm and behaved calmly. Her gaze passed over Qu Linglong without any pause.
I just took one more look at the candle before going out.
She mixed this candle with benzoin, which can help people relax and fall asleep peacefully.
She begged for this spice from someone at the Imperial Hospital, saying that she had been sleeping extremely uneasily and wanted some rest.
Because of Yu Guming, the people at Taiyuan Hospital did not give her any trouble, and besides, this thing was not poison.
When the fire starts burning, the candle will be completely burned and no trace will be left.
Xue Hengzhao ducked out of the door. This warehouse faced north, and the north wind was strong tonight. Once the fire started, it would be impossible to save it.
Someone plans to kill himself quietly, how can he live without a big gift in return?
At the foot of the steps outside the door, Liu Xianghuan fell there, motionless.
Xue Hengzhao smiled, wrapped his cloak tightly and disappeared into the deep night.
