There are no windows in the dark corridor. Candles were lit on the walls on both sides, giving off a faint light.
"Need not."
Mrs. Honghua's face looks even more beautiful and charming under such lighting, just like a poppy flower, attracting people.
A cold smile appeared on her face like a hundred flowers blooming:
"The restaurant is here, let's go in together."
Only ten meters away from Huanxiao and the others, they saw a door engraved with gorgeous ancient patterns.
This must be the restaurant of the manor.
Huan Xiao was a little confused about this. Why did the person who built this manor want to build the restaurant in such a remote place? If someone hadn't led the way, she might not have guessed that the restaurant was in this corner.
Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the mural moving on the wall. Huan Xiao turned around and saw the red flowers in the corridor swaying their branches exaggeratedly, automatically in the absence of wind.
At this moment, Mrs. Honghua’s smile seemed to be a special instruction.
Huanxiao discovered that there were actually red flowers planted in the corridor!
Before, these inconspicuous red flowers were like wall decorations. Some of them looked like the red skirt of the mural girl, some looked like a red hat, and some looked like a river of blood, perfectly integrated into the painting.
It's easy to miss if you don't look carefully.
"Hiss...it's so itchy. Why is it so itchy? Come on, come and give me a scratch! It's killing me!"
The middle-aged man shouted exaggeratedly.
I don’t know what happened to him, but he suddenly fell to the ground and rubbed against the wall, like a fish jumping into a frying pan, tossing hard.
When Mrs. Honghua saw this scene, her smile became even worse:
"Look how much my guest is looking forward to the meal. He is rolling on the floor with excitement. Butler, take him to the dining room. None of my guests can be absent tonight."
"Okay, ma'am."
The butler's eyes fell on the two bloody sections on the middle-aged man's shoulders for a moment. The anger in her eyes subsided, she pulled the middle-aged man's collar in disgust, and dragged him to the restaurant...
The servants who heard the footsteps opened the door of the dining room and greeted Mrs. Honghua on both sides.
"Ey"
As the heavy door opens, dazzling lights and fragrant food come into view.
Mrs. Honghua walked straight to the main seat and complained to Huan Xiao:
"The guests who came with you walked so slowly. I hate waiting for others."
Then, before Huan Xiao could speak, she ordered the servant at the door:
"When those guests arrive, lock them in the corridor for ten minutes."
The servants at the door bowed humbly to show that they understood.
Huan Xiao noticed that the servants' eyes were tightly closed, and their eyelids were not rounded, but shrunken. There seemed to be no eyeballs in their eye sockets...
After she sat down, she heard Mrs. Honghua suddenly ask:
"May I have your name?"
Looking back, Huan Xiao realized that the other person was asking about herself.
The housekeeper saw that Huan Xiao did not answer the question immediately, so he urged from the side:
"Madam is talking to you, answer quickly!"
She had a very bad attitude towards Huan Xiao, but she turned around and looked at Mrs. Honghua with a flattering and admiring expression, like a tamed vicious dog.
But Huanxiao didn't care and replied:
"My name is Xiaohuan, where is my wife?"
However, her question made the butler's expression change, and he immediately scolded Huan Xiao.
However, Mrs. Honghua waved her hand to ask the housekeeper not to interrupt, and then said to Huan Xiao:
"My name is Yin Honghua, you can also call me Mrs. Honghua."
"Although I don't know why you appeared among the guests this time, since you are here, you are my guest. If you want to stay with me for a few days, I am also willing to act as a landlord... I just hope you don't have a finger in the pie."
The last sentence is the key.
Huan Xiao didn't care about this and said:
"Of course, after all, this is Madam's place, and I won't cause trouble without permission."
As soon as she finished speaking, she heard the door being slammed shut.
The heavy door had poor sound insulation, and Huanxiao could clearly hear the sounds in the corridor outside.
"Bang bang bang!" The sound of banging on the door was accompanied by the sound of people shouting.
It’s those five players who are here!
"Hey! Open the door quickly. We are guests here to have dinner with Mrs. Honghua. Please open the door quickly!"
Listening to the voice, it's the man in diamond-shaped clothes talking.
Then, there were voices from other players one after another.
Girl in school uniform: "Why did they close the door when they saw us? Did we go to the wrong place?"
Unfamiliar voice: "This is the restaurant."
Man in swimsuit: "Then why don't they let us in? Are you sure it's this place? You're not taking us the wrong way, right?"
Unfamiliar voice: "Nothing went wrong, this is it."
It seems that this voice that Huanxiao has never heard before is a servant who leads the players.
Man in rhombus-shaped clothes: "It must have been the instigation of the housekeeper, who ordered us to be locked out so as to give us a slap in the face and warn us not to have any inappropriate thoughts about Mrs. Honghua."
His voice was full of anger, like a dog barking when it encounters an animal that is competing for food.
After him, there was the voice of the woman in the red dress.
"I think it's what Mrs. Honghua means. The housekeeper shouldn't dare to let Mrs. Honghua wait for us. The only person who can make the decision is the owner of the manor, Mrs. Honghua."
Man with glasses: "I agree."
Man in rhombus-shaped clothes: "Huh? What's the use of her doing this? She also engages in corporal punishment. Do you have to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire just to see her? This is too expensive."
The servant leading the way had dissatisfaction in his voice:
"The master has his own reasons for doing this. You just need to wait outside for the door to open. Don't question the master's decision."
The man in diamond-shaped clothes was dissatisfied and said: "You are foolishly loyal. No wonder you can't win over Mrs. Honghua. Who would like a man who has no independent opinions?"
"Okay, let's not discuss other things first."
The woman in the red dress stopped the quarrel between the man in the rhombus and the servants, and asked a key question: "...Have you noticed that we have fewer people?"
The girl in school uniform suddenly realized: "It's that good-looking girl, she didn't come downstairs!!"
Hearing this, Huan Xiao thought to herself, did these players realize that she was not there after walking for so long? How negligent.
"Uh, should we go back and bring her over?" The man in swimming trunks said with obvious reluctance in his voice.
The girl in the red dress said: "Go and bring her here again, maybe it's because not everyone is here -"
At this time, several rustling sounds came from the corridor, causing the girl in the red dress to immediately silence herself.
Those sounds sounded like branches and leaves crawling on the ground.
Don’t blame Huanxiao for thinking of branches and leaves first, because there are really plants in the corridor!
Suddenly, Mrs. Honghua said:
"How many of them do you think can come in alive and have dinner with me?"
She was asking Huan Xiao.
Hearing this, Huan Xiao said vaguely: "How many of them survive depends on their luck."
Her eyes swept over the middle-aged man sitting closest to the main seat on the right side of Madam Honghua.
The middle-aged man hasn't said a word since entering the restaurant. He stopped struggling and closed his eyes. He didn't know if he was dead.
