She had already walked in front of this summer, with her back to Yan Shifan, her eyes as big as a deer showed unhindered and panic. Looking at this maid this summer, I realized that any secret I saw through her might become the reason for her to be punished heavily.
Under the half-covered sleeves, this summer, I saw a few shallow marks on her white wrist, including the inner side of her wrist, where her hands were tied separately. If she can take off her clothes, I believe there are more traces to be found on her body this summer, and it can be seen what torture she has suffered.
But right now, just by looking into her eyes, I couldn't bear to ask her anything this summer, let alone make any demands. I just held up her hand, touched her palm and fingers carefully, and held it up again. sniffed.
"How? What did you see?" Yan Shifan asked.
Taking a deep breath this summer, she had already made up her mind and said, "This girl is good at tea ceremony, but she has done a little less work on embroidery and tailoring. I'm afraid she has missed something recently, maybe she turned over the stove, maybe she smashed precious treasures. Her teacup has been punished. Also, the window of the cabin where she lives is probably on the right side of the dresser..." Or maybe her right hand was injured, which she didn't say this summer, including the punishment she was given. Also deliberately wrong.
After Yan Shifan listened, he asked the maid to retreat, and then asked with great interest, "Tell me, how did you see it."
"The shape of the hand varies depending on what you do, especially the position of the calluses on the palm and the calluses on the fingers." This summer truthfully said, "Xiu Niang often uses needles, and there will be a needle on the pulp of their thumb and index finger. There are layers of calluses, which is the same as the calluses on the hands of martial arts practitioners. This girl has no calluses on her thumb and index finger, so I can tell that she does not use needles and threads for a long time.”
"Good at tea ceremony?"
"Her sleeves are stained with a little water, which can be judged from the color of tea; the back of her hand is scalded and slightly red, of course, it may also have been burned when she was helping in the kitchen, so I carefully I smelled her hand, and there was a faint scent of tea on her hand, not the miscellaneous smell of oily shallots and garlic in the stove."
Yan Shifan's expression seemed quite satisfied, he nodded and said, "Don't ask about being punished, it must be because of the scar on her wrist."
The maid swallowed nervously in her throat when Yan Shifan mentioned the "scar on the wrist". This summer, she was sure that under her thin spring shirt, every hair was standing upright in panic.
"Your lord is wise." This summer respectfully said.
"Finally, how do you know the window is on the right side of the dressing table?" Yan Shifan handed the tea bowl to the side, and the maid hurriedly took it.
"This girl's hair on the right side of the temple is neat and neat, and it is more neat than the left side. This season, this kind of thing often happens when you use the sunlight outside the window to dress up."
Yan Shifan looked at her, his eyes almost approving: "Because they use sunlight to dress up, I have neglected this point."
Lu Yi has been listening quietly by the side, his eyes only occasionally fall on this summer, as if he is not very interested.
"Yan Yuan, it must be very interesting to have this little girl by my side this time with the Six Doors." Yan Shifan turned to Lu Yi and smiled.
Lu Yi smiled slightly: "It's good, but sometimes it's very troublesome."
"Women, they should be troublesome. If you don't trouble yourself, you won't be called a woman." Yan Shifan laughed and waved his hand to indicate that he could go back and sit down this summer. When he laughed, the laughter made his chest vibrate, and the voice was muffled, making people feel that there was something hidden in his heart beyond the laughter.
"I'm not used to drinking snow wine in Yangzhou. I brought several jars from the capital. Yan Yuan, you usually drink it..." Before Lu Yi could answer, Yan Shifan tapped his finger on the armrest a few times, and then said, "Qiu Lubai, Right?"
"Adults have a good memory."
Although there was a smile in Lu Yi's tone, this summer he heard that it was very different from his usual jokes, so he couldn't help turning his head to look at him.
"Where's the little girl?" Yan Shifan's eyes fell on Jin Xia again, "Yang Chengwan is a rigid person, probably you are not allowed to drink outside, right?"
He even recognized the boss, and this summer, his heart was slightly cold, and he said: "I am not good at drinking, please forgive me."
Yan Shifan laughed again: "Not long ago, on the second floor of Qifen Pavilion near the water, little girl, you and the young master of Wu'an Gang drank almost two jars of snow wine."
Qifen Pavilion, Linshui... This summer, remembering the "Love Farewell" I saw that night, my face changed, and I didn't know how to answer his words.
However, Yan Shifan turned to Lu Yi and said with a smile: "You have to get used to their little tricks. At first, you always said that you are not good at drinking, and then you have to use two whole jars to get her drunk."
Lu Yi smiled and said, "It's still the adults who are aware of it."
Following Yan Shifan's casual orders, more items were brought up by the maids, but after a while, the originally empty room with only curtains became full. The candlesticks and the curtains are all top-grade. Needless to say, the small table in front of Lu Yi this summer is actually made of ivory, and there is a jade wine vessel on top. It is crystal clear and has a warm luster...
Beauty is beautiful, but it is too extravagant. This summer, he sighed secretly, and turned his head to see the copper Han pot on the side, with large branches of peach blossoms inside, and the petals were delicate, apparently freshly plucked.
Pieces of peach petals were pink and lovely, she looked into her eyes, but she thought of the women who had been abandoned in the Peach Blossom Forest.
The maid brought up the fruit. The celadon of Xuande kiln was full of cherries produced by Linggu Temple, all full and bright red.
Yan Shifan held the handle of the cherry and put the cherry into his mouth. Before the cherry could be chewed and swallowed, he took a sip of the wine. The sweet and sour of the cherry was mixed with the pungency of the wine. Wandering, fine tasting, and slowly swallowing after a long while.
"The case of Jiangnan Xiuhe money, is there anything in sight?" He dropped the cherry pit and seemed to ask casually.
I don't know if he asked whether it was himself or Lu Yi, but he didn't speak rashly this summer.
"Does your lord want to help?" Lu Yi didn't answer directly, but asked with a smile.
How could Yan Shifan help? ! This Xia glanced at Lu Yi in surprise, and saw that he was also holding a wine glass in his hand, leaning slightly leaning against him, his demeanor was rather lazy, but it was extremely unfamiliar.
Yan Shifan said with a smile: "Speaking of which, when Zhou Xian was already in the capital when he was in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he scolded me a lot. I ignored him, and he continued to scold; I still ignored him, and he scolds; Later, I couldn't hold back, so I simply recommended him to be the Minister of the Ministry of Works."
Hearing this, this summer, I wondered if I had heard it wrong, that Yan Shifan would actually recommend a speaker who tirelessly scolds him, and he was also a well-oiled errand of the Ministry of Industry.
Lu Yi was not surprised, and smiled lightly: "If Beizhi is not wrong, it is also the meaning of adults to let him be in charge of repairing the river."
Hearing this, Yan Shifan's face burst into a smile, like a child remembering his favorite game, and with a little excitement, he said to Lu Yi: "Do you know what he said to me, he said, to repair the river with this money A lot of money is spent on repairing the river, hahaha…”
Thinking about Zhou Xianji's rotten corpse this summer, she saw Lu Yi was also laughing, but she couldn't laugh, she didn't know what was funny about this sentence.
"For fear that the money will be deducted layer by layer, he took the money directly in the capital, and paid for the 100,000 taels of river repair money to be transported to Yangzhou." Yan Shifan recalled with a smile on his face, "On the boat. I arranged someone and wanted to invite him to gamble, but he still has some determination, and I still admire him. But when I came to Yangzhou and saw the beauty, he really couldn't walk, what a pity, what a pity... "
It turns out that Zhou Xian has been involved in Yan Shifan's design step by step. This summer, he thought to himself: Wu'an Gang is responsible for escorting the river repair funds. In this way, the person who wants to attract Zhou Xian to gamble on the boat is likely to be A Rui.
Lu Yi shook his head and said, "It's not a pity. People like Zhou Xianyi usually think that they have a clean sleeve and look at others as dirty. When it's his turn, he can't control himself, which is the most annoying. "
"That's right! If he really holds on to it, I respect him as a character." Yan Shifan sighed, "Unfortunately, he can't hold on just by using the beauty trick, and I haven't used any other tricks in the future. , it's a pity."
There are still a lot of ways to do it later - this summer, I shudder to hear it, thinking about it, Zhou Xian has not been tempted by Zhai Lanye, and in the future, Yan Shifan does not know how to deal with him.
For Yan Shifan, Zhou Xian was like a bird in a cage. He was allowed to tease him at will until he died in the cage.
"Is there a way?" Lu Yi seemed interested.
"The eight sufferings of Buddhism, birth, old age, illness, death, parting from love, reunion with hatred, not being able to seek..." Yan Shifan regretfully fiddled with the pair of cherries in his hand, "It's fun enough to have to take turns, but it's a pity, He couldn't stand it when he was separated from love."
Love parting, love parting... This summer suddenly realized that he deliberately let her see love parting several times, in fact, he was reminding her.
Why remind her? Is it because it's fun
Or, in his eyes, he is the same as Zhou Xianji, and he is also a game doll for him to spend his days chatting with his arms
"Little girl..." Yan Shifan called to her.
This summer, from a trance, he woke up suddenly, looked at him and said respectfully, "What is your order?"
Yan Shifan tilted his head slightly, his immobile eyes fixed on her, and asked faintly, "Why didn't you tell the truth?"
"I, no, how dare I deceive the adults." For his sudden attack, he didn't know what he meant this summer.
"Just now you said that her hair on the left side is not neatly combed on the right side, because the window is on the right. In fact, there is another reason, you didn't say it... Her right hand is injured."
Saying that, Yan Shifan stretched out his hand and gently pulled over the maid. With a little force, the maid's entire right sleeve fell off her shoulders, and two ferocious scarlet whip marks were clearly visible on her snow-white shoulder.
The back of the finger lightly brushed the delicate skin, and a small pimple formed under the shudder. This summer, he gritted his teeth, and he didn't need to look at the maid's expression to know the humiliation she suffered.
"Although you are a girl, as a six-door catcher, you don't know about the joy in this room, right?" Yan Shifan's tone rose, his eyes were quite teasing, he picked up the maid's hand and placed it on his wrist. Gently caressed the scar.
"This... lowly and ignorant, please forgive me."
This Xia clearly knew what his so-called joy in the room was, but he had to suppress his nausea and answer respectfully.
Lu Yi didn't interrupt, he raised his neck and drank the glass of wine, and the maid next to him hurriedly stepped forward to fill it for him.
"It's okay, you're still a little girl... In fact, it's not too small," Yan Shifan laughed, turned to Lu Yi and said, "You can train it well."
This summer, I heard Lu Yi smile, but didn't answer.
This feast, from the day it was sinking to the middle of the moon, had no sign of ending. It was not until today that this summer did I see the rumored amount of alcohol Yan Shifan had. With such a jar of wine accumulated, he drank at least six or seven jars of wine, which was like a wine jar. Lu Yi didn't drink as much as he did, but he probably drank two or three jars of wine as well, watching Kabuki singing and dancing in front of him, with a relaxed expression.
As he drank more and more, although his words were still organized, his demeanor became more and more sloppy, and the maid was dragged into his arms wanton and frivolous.
This summer, I was sitting on pins and needles during the banquet, knowing that this person must not be offended, but still couldn't help getting up and saying: "I still have official duties in my humble position. I will leave first, please forgive me."
"Come here!" Yan Shifan ordered drunk, "Take the little girl to the cabin to rest."
"My lord, my humble position..."
Before he could speak this summer, he was interrupted by Yan Shifan: "You only have a six-door gate, how much can you have as the left servant of the Ministry of Work? Xio talks about official business in front of me. Tonight, the two of you will rest on the boat. If you want to go tomorrow morning, Xio has swept my interest."
"… "
She looked at Lu Yi, who said with a leisurely smile, "Lord Yan is kind, don't be ignorant of your praise."
Even he said the same, this summer his teeth were tense, and although he was reluctant, he still respectfully said: "Thank you, my lord, I will retire from my position."