Chapter 61 This wine is too precious.

Chapter 61 This wine is too precious.

The jade cup swayed slightly in my hand, reflecting an amber luster.

"Your Highness, please."

The palace maid serving the wine urged them again, this time with a hint of impatience and pressure in her voice.

On the high platform, the Empress Dowager's narrow phoenix eyes flashed with a poisonous cold light, as if silently exerting pressure: Drink it! Make me drink it!

All the officials and civil servants, hundreds of eyes were fixed on Tang Li.

This drink is already a done deal; it has to be served.

Tang Li took a deep breath.

I definitely can't drink, but I have to play my part perfectly.

She held the wine glass in both hands as if it were some rare treasure.

Her face, which had been trying to maintain a cold and aloof demeanor, instantly switched to an expression of utter indifference and overwhelming gratitude.

"Your Majesty the Empress Dowager..."

Tang Li's voice trembled, her eyes instantly reddened, and she forced out two hot tears:

"This wine...it's so fragrant! And so precious!"

She lowered her head, took a deep breath of the sweet, cloying aroma of alcohol (then held her breath to avoid inhaling too much), and when she looked up, her face was filled with the apprehension and emotion of a country bumpkin:

"I grew up on this estate, and the best wine I've ever drunk is the rice wine we drink during the New Year. As for this kind of... this kind of nectar brewed from a hundred flowers, I've never even smelled it, let alone drunk it!"

"I...I really can't bear to drink it!"

Tang Li hugged the wine cup to her chest, as if to say, "I'm going to take this home and enshrine it," and looked at the Empress Dowager with teary eyes:

"Your Majesty, could... could I take this back and savor it slowly? If I don't taste the flavor after just one sip, wouldn't that be a waste of your good intentions?"

"..."

The Empress Dowager's kind smile froze.

The people below also looked constipated.

Is this the Regent's wife?

Why are you acting like a beggar who's never seen the world?

It's just a glass of wine, is it really that big of a deal?

The Empress Dowager cursed inwardly, "You worthless thing," but on the surface, she still had to maintain a dignified and generous image.

"Silly child."

The Empress Dowager covered her mouth with a handkerchief, trying to hide the fleeting contempt in her eyes.

"It's just a cup of wine, what's there to be reluctant about? If you like it, I'll have someone send you two jars later."

Her gaze turned cold, and her tone became more forceful, carrying an undeniable air of authority:

"Drink it quickly. If the wine gets cold, it won't have a good meaning."

Meaning?

Screw your meaning!

Tang Li cursed inwardly, preparing to find another excuse to delay the time and look for the perfect opportunity to "splash wine".

Just then.

The air pressure around me suddenly dropped to freezing.

"Crack".

A very faint sound, like bones dislocating, was heard.

Tang Li's heart skipped a beat, and she subconsciously turned her head to the side.

Pei Yunjing was staring intently at the glass of wine, his once cold phoenix eyes now surging with a chilling ferocity and murderous intent.

He smelled it.

The cloying, aphrodisiac scent, to his overloaded sense of smell, was like the stench of rotting flesh, giving him a splitting headache and making him feel nauseous.

What enraged him even more was that this old hag dared to give his woman such a vile drug right in front of him!

Do you want to embarrass her in public?

Do you want to ruin her reputation?

court death!

Pei Yunjing's palm was already pressed on the edge of the table, his veins bulging.

He only wants to do one thing right now—

Slap the palace maid who was serving the wine to death, then pour the poisoned wine onto the Empress Dowager's hypocritical old face, and then turn the Imperial Garden upside down!

The Tyrannosaurus Rex was about to go out of control.

"hiss!"

Pei Yunjing suddenly froze.

Under the table, a warm little hand reached out quickly and ruthlessly, pinching the soft flesh on the inside of his thigh!

And then, I twisted it all the way around!

Pei Yunjing: "?!!"

He turned his head sharply and looked at the woman beside him in disbelief.

Is this woman crazy? She dared to strangle him?

Tang Li maintained her expression of gratitude towards the Empress Dowager, but when she turned her face to face Pei Yunjing, her large, watery eyes were filled with warning.

She winked at him quickly, her eyes sparkling and mischievous:

Don't move!

Leave it to me! Don't ruin my big show!

Looking at her confident, even slightly mischievous, expression, Pei Yunjing felt the murderous aura about to erupt within him inexplicably freeze.

Does she... have a solution?

Pei Yunjing took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the murderous intent in his heart.

He grabbed the small hand that was still causing trouble on his thigh and squeezed her fingertips hard, as punishment and as a response.

good.

I'd like to see what kind of show this little fox can put on.