019 The price of meeting
When the woman saw Jin Chai kneeling on the ground, she immediately grabbed her and began to cry and curse, "You damn little hoof, what have you done to make me, a mother, suffer with you every day. //. 78 None Pop-up windows update quickly // ~”
Jin Chai pushed the woman away with his shoulder in disgust, "I don't have a mother like you."
The woman wanted to cry again, but the Queen became impatient and snorted loudly, "Do it."
The guard stepped forward and held the woman down. He stripped her completely clean, tied her hands and feet, and stuffed her mouth with the bellyband he had stripped off her body. steamer.
Jin Chai was so frightened that he couldn't even speak and could only tremble.
Looking at the blazing fire, Eleven turned pale and secretly looked at Xiao Qi.
Xiao Qi whispered in her ear in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "That is Jin Chai's stepmother. After Jin Chai's father passed away, she was dissatisfied with Jin Chai and her younger brother and sister Yin Chai. To make it difficult for her to remarry, she first threw her two-year-old brother into the mountains and left him to fend for himself. Then he sold the two sisters into a training camp for dead soldiers, used the money as a dowry, and married a shoemaker. Silver During the review, Chai was spotted by the Snake Emperor who was hanging out. It is said that in front of her, he gave..."
When he said this, he saw the queen looking this way, clenching her fists, putting them to her mouth and coughing lightly, and said no more.
Eleven frowned, there was such a cruel and heartless woman in the world.
Hearing this, he already understood that Jin Chai hated the Snake King by then, so he used this method to lure the Snake King here and make the Snake King fight with the crocodile, hoping to kill the Snake King to avenge his sister. , but I didn’t expect that I thought I was doing it perfectly, but the Queen saw through it at a glance.
A dead slave named Hamcao
, knelt down with a plop, and said with a pale face: "Your Majesty the Queen, I saw Jin Chai wrapping a spice bag with this towel. I wonder what this towel has to do with Lord Snake King..."
Jin Chai's face turned ashen immediately, and he refused to give up. He also knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, don't listen to her nonsense. She has always been at odds with this slave and took the opportunity to take revenge."
The queen's eyes became even colder, she glanced at Jin Chai briefly and said, "What kind of spice bag?"
Hancao was afraid that this matter would implicate him, so he hurriedly said: "It's spices sold by a wandering Taoist priest. Last time I went out to do a mission, Jin Chai and I were in a group. I saw her buying it. The wandering Taoist priest was still with her at that time. What was said in her ear, the slave couldn't hear. He only saw her wrapping the spice bag with this handkerchief. [叶*][*]" She saw the queen smelling the handkerchief and guessed that it had something to do with the smell on it.
"You are so slanderous." The hatred in Jin Chai's eyes almost killed Hancao, "Your Majesty, don't listen to this bitch's nonsense. She is framing this slave."
Hancao was afraid that the Queen would listen to Jin Chai's words, so he rushed to say: "I will never dare to deceive Your Majesty. I saw it with my own eyes. She wrapped the spice package wrapped in yellow paper in a towel and put it in her arms. Next The slave also asked her what it was, and she said it was to ward off snakes and insects in the forest. We were training in the back mountains, and we did often encounter snakes and insects. The slave asked her to share some, but she refused and asked the slave to I went to buy it myself. When I went back to buy it, the Taoist priest was gone."
When the queen arrived, she glanced coldly at Jin Chai and ordered her guards to go down to the pool to salvage and search.
After a while, I saw the guard fish out a piece of oil paper soaked in blood from the pool.
The queen's beautiful eyes were as cold as ice. She looked at Jin Chai with a look so sinister that she seemed to want to swallow her alive, "Who is that Taoist priest?"
Shiyi looked at Jin Chai who was shaking into a ball and knew that she would not survive. Now that things were going on, it was better to find a way to end it on her own without suffering.
Jin Chai trembled her lips and remained silent.
After finding the thread, the queen was no longer anxious and rewarded Hancao with a golden bead.
Hancao not only saved his life, but also got a golden bead. He was overjoyed, kowtowed to the queen, and stepped away.
The Queen looked at Jin Chai coldly, "What else do you have to say?"
Jin Chai, who had been holding on for so long, finally collapsed, knelt down and took two steps forward, crying: "I don't know who the Taoist is. I just heard in the tea garden that a wandering Taoist came recently, and he has the skills to deal with snakes and insects." A good medicine, so I tried to find a Taoist to buy this medicine..."
In addition to Hancao, there were two other dead slaves who went out with Jin Chai on the mission. The other two people proved that the scene in the tea garden was indeed as Jin Chai said. ~”
This line was broken. The Queen snorted coldly, slammed the tea cup in her hand to the ground, glared at Jin Chai, "Steam this girl together."
Jin Chai, whose face was ashen, was also stripped of his clothes and stuffed into a steamer.
The flesh that had been steamed to death and burned by Jin Chai's back was so frightened that he fainted immediately.
People were coming and going by the Crocodile Pond. People from the Yue Kingdom who were proficient in spices and medicinal materials were anxiously analyzing the ingredients of the spices that were sprinkled into the Crocodile Pond, but no one came to a conclusion.
The Queen was so angry that Jin Niang stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, there is a person in Yue who is proficient in the art of incense. A person who is proficient in incense must be proficient in the preparation of spices."
"Why didn't I think of her?" The queen's beautiful eyes lit up, "Go and bring Wu."
Eleven pale little faces turned pale for an instant.
The hands hanging by her sides were clenched into fists. If looks could kill, Jinniang would have died under the cold blade of her eyes.
At this time, the guard opened the steamer cover and asked the Queen to observe, "Your Majesty, can you see it?"
The originally snow-white breasts of the mother and daughter turned red and swollen, and their skin trembled as if they were about to burst at any time. The queen glanced at the steamer indifferently and nodded.
He glanced around and said, "If anyone dares to do something rebellious again, they will be role models."
The aroma of steamed meat wafted up, and everyone vomited. Even Xiao Qi, who was not afraid of the sky or the earth, looked miserable and suppressed nausea.
Eleven looked at his mother who came in from the second door with the guards in trembling fear. His head felt dizzy, and there was only one thought in his mind... He must take his mother out of this devil's place.
Yueniang saw the two people in the huge steamer, her feet weakened, and was dragged by the guards to prevent her from falling. Then she saw her daughter staring at her, tears welling up in her beautiful eyes.
She did not dare to look at her daughter, so she quickly lowered her head and followed the guards to the Queen. Only then did she see the injured Snake King next to her, whose face suddenly turned into a dead look.
The Queen seemed to dislike the smell of fresh meat, so she motioned to remove the huge steamer, looked at the trembling woman kneeling in front of her, and held the towel in front of her, "I want you to identify the spices in this. "
Yueniang shook her hands, took the scarf, put it to her nose, smelled it, and bravely said: "The person who prepared this spice is a master of spices. With this square handkerchief, the woman cannot identify it."
Many masters of spice preparation in Vietnam failed to come to a conclusion, and the Queen did not expect Yueniang to draw any conclusion just by smelling it, but she still couldn't help being disappointed and was about to wave her away.
But I heard Yueniang say again: "Excuse me, Your Majesty, where is this spice used? If we can get some residue, we might be able to tell."
The maid next to the Queen said: "All the spices were sprinkled into the crocodile pond."
Yueniang held back her nausea, scooped up some blood, smelled it, and looked at the light again, "Although I can't completely tell the composition of this spice, I may be able to tell a few things. But..."
These days, Yue Niang prepares the fragrant soup for the Snake Emperor. The Snake Emperor loves the fragrant soup prepared by Yue Niang very much. Sometimes the Queen cannot help but be curious and goes to see her prepare spices. It is magical and magical that she has never seen before. Listen to her Saying this, another glimmer of hope arises.
"But what?"
"However, I need help."
Yueniang's tone was affirmative.
Only by identifying the ingredients of spices can we find out who the Taoist who gave Jin Chai the spices is, and also find out the cause of the Snake King's disorder and prevent this from happening again.
The Queen pointed at the perfumers waiting beside her, "What's the problem? These people are all at your disposal."
Yueniang glanced at those people and shook her head, "The woman only needs my daughter to help."
The Queen glanced at Eleven and hesitated.
Yueniang looked at the face and said: "The preparation of this spice is very complicated. Although the woman has only learned a few things about the spice preparation and differentiation passed down from her ancestors, she will never dare to violate the ancestral teachings and reveal it. "She said firmly, as if if you don't agree, you won't obey even if you kill her.
The Queen has always been aloof. No one except Snake Marquis dared to negotiate conditions with her. She was a little unhappy, but weighed the importance and nodded, "That's fine, I'll give you a stick of incense."
Shiyi and Yueniang breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. They finally had a chance to meet and some issues could be clarified by taking this opportunity.
Yueniang's face showed no expression, and she asked for some more utensils, and asked Shiyi to fill two large jars of pond water.
Since the Snake King's injury was not serious and difficult to move, he packed up a large room in the second door and moved in gauze curtains and brocade mats as quickly as possible to decorate it temporarily for the Snake King to recover from his injuries.
Having such a frightening thing living in the second door, even if it is temporary, makes people tremble with fear. Even Jin Niang can't change her expression.
But everyone knows the status of this big snake, and no one dares to raise objections.
The Moon Mother has to prepare fragrant soup for the Snake King every three days and bathe it. She knows that although this big snake is obscene, it rarely leaves the house, so she is not very afraid. She only secretly orders Eleven that every day when the Snake King is here, Don't go near the big house.
In order to figure out the ingredients of the spices, the Queen gave Yueniang a good space. While Yueniang and her daughter were tinkering with the two jars of water containing residual powder of spices, they only had people watching from a distance.
Yueniang smelled the towel and could roughly distinguish the ingredients of the spices. However, in addition to the spices, it also contained one or two unidentified spicy flavors. All she had to do was to understand the spicy taste. What is the thing.
Even if she can't figure out what those two spicy things are, she can still pass the test by filling in the other ingredients.
So she was not in a hurry and was trying to be mysterious, but she had something very important to tell her daughter.
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Note: 'Steaming punishment' is one of the ten major criminal laws in ancient times.
