Quick wear: She has turned over the big guys from all walks of life

Chapter 1211 Famine and Natural Disaster 370

Mingyi didn't ask why Zhou Ting didn't come over immediately. She didn't really want to ask about political affairs. However, after coming here, she asked too many questions.

She knew everything, but she was too lazy to take charge of things.

"The tide is rising. Wash your face and hands." Pointing to the basin of hot water beside the table, she sat down at the table.

Zhou Ting smiled and walked to the basin, washing his face and hands and drying them all at once; after washing, he felt better mentally, and he walked to Ming Yi's side and sat down.

"Have a meal."

He first placed a set of bowls and chopsticks in front of her, and then his own; the same was true for the first chopstick of food, which was put into her bowl first.

"Thank you, Shiosheng."

Zhou Ting's smile continued, and the doting in his eyes made the two little girls Chunxi and Chunmei blush.

When they were dining, they rarely needed anyone to serve them, so they bowed and left without saying a word.

Mingyi only took a glance and then started eating with Zhou Ting in silence; the meal was supposed to be silent, but their eyes met from time to time, which made silence more powerful than words.

After filling his stomach, Mingyi put down his bowl and chopsticks, his satisfied mind relaxed.

“Are you full?” Zhou Ting also put down his bowl and chopsticks, and ate together.

"I'm full. The food in the military camp is really good." The military camp was full of men, and the food portions were large. She was full after eating just a little more than one portion.

Zhou Tingjun's face was full of smiles, his eyes were gentle and indulgent, "In the future, ask the palace to serve larger portions of dishes."

"That's not necessary. When eating in the palace, there are many kinds of dishes, so you won't be hungry."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." After the meal, Zhou Ting relaxed and was happy with the big win. He couldn't help but get excited and talked to her endlessly, "Tomorrow there will be a celebration banquet at noon, and there will be a lively party in the evening. There will be a bonfire dance, which is different from the exquisite and beautiful dance in Kyoto. It has a unique style."

"Love?" Mingyi paused, "Will the military camp hire dancers?"

"There will be."

When Zhou Ting mentioned the dancer, he explained, "She is from the Fucheng Dance House."

It was the first time that Mingyi heard of a dance hall in Fucheng. As far as she knew, the dance halls in the Dayi Dynasty were pure places; the girls inside only sold their skills and not their bodies, and they were all excellent at singing and dancing, which she admired very much.

However, some dance halls were turned into brothels. Of course, this was done in private and not openly. After all, with the existence of brothels, it was very rare for dance halls to be turned into obscene places for receiving customers.

"There is actually a dance studio in Fucheng?"

"Of course there are. Although Fucheng is a northwestern border city, it is different from other cities. But precisely because of this difference, when there is no war, Fucheng is the only way for other countries to enter the Dayi Dynasty. It is an important fortress that brings together the singing and dancing characteristics of many countries, as well as the food." He explained the key points one by one.

There are dance halls in Fucheng, and there are dance halls in all the towns along the way to the northwest provincial capital, the only difference is their sizes.

  "Then why haven't I heard of any dance halls in the Northwest Prefecture City?" Isn't the Prefecture City more prosperous than other cities in the Northwest?

Zhou Ting smiled slightly and continued, "It's not that there are no dance studios in Northwest City, but that Northwest City does not allow dance studios."

Mingyi tilted her head to look at him in confusion and asked silently.

Zhou Ting said, "There used to be a dance studio in the city, and then something big happened. In my grandfather's generation, my grandfather had several cousins, who were cousins ​​from two different families, and were not very close. They fell in love with a dancer in the studio. It is said that the dancer was extremely beautiful, like a seductress. I don't know the details, after all, I have never seen her. I only heard people talk about this incident, and at that time, several of my grandfathers were obsessed with her to the point of losing their minds."

"How did you go crazy?" Ancient love-brained? "So crazy that you can abandon your closest relatives and not recognize any relatives."

Mingyi opened her mouth in surprise and couldn't close it for a long time.

It is rare to find such a level of obsession among mortals.

"Unbelievable, right?" He saw her surprise clearly.

Mingyi was full of admiration. No matter whether she was a real beauty or a fake one, it was a skill for her to make two young masters from the royal family obsessed with her to the point of ignoring their relatives.

"Yeah, it's okay."

It's not that it's unacceptable, but that such things are too rare.

Seeing that she had come to her senses, Zhou Ting continued, "The incident was a big deal at the time, and even the capital heard about it. After all, they were relatives of the Zhou Palace, and the collateral branch as well, so it caused a big joke and attracted the ridicule of the princes and nobles. Later, the two cousins ​​insisted on divorcing their wives and marrying the dancer, stepping on the faces of the two cousins, and making a big fuss. They even went to the point where they were willing to marry the dancer to two husbands, which was extremely absurd."

"How was it handled later?" She was really curious.

"My great-grandfather ordered the dancer to be taken into the palace as a concubine, and executed her in front of the two great-grandfathers, threatening them that if they made trouble again, he would make them become a pair of star-crossed lovers, living and dying together." What he didn't say was that my great-grandfather was furious and ordered the dancer to be executed by slow slicing.

Concubines are allowed to buy and sell things. As long as the concubine certificate is signed, it will be difficult for the concubine to have freedom. All her life and property belong to the master, and her life is in the hands of the master.

Mingyi blinked and asked curiously, "Your two great-grandfathers were so obsessed with a woman that they just gave in like that?"

She was really curious, but Zhou Ting was helpless.

"It's better for you not to know. This incident was extremely bloody. For a long time afterwards, people in the palace were terrified when talking about it. That was also the only time that my great-grandfather used extremely bloody means to shock everyone."

He was unwilling to say it, but Mingyi thought more and more about it. The tortures in ancient times were cruel. It must be torture that could scare those two people who were willing to take two husbands for love.

"Could it be the Ten Tortures?"

"How many do you know?" Zhou Ting asked leisurely.

Mingyi listed them one by one: "Divide a body by five horses, lead a man into a jar, cut off the body, bury alive, stake, skinning, piercing with needles, combing and washing, slow slicing, sawing."

"You know a lot." I was a little worried that she might grow up crooked.

"That's right. The teacher has so many books. You will understand it naturally if you read more." Her frankness made him want to hold his forehead with his hand. Would he be led astray by the teacher's books?

Zhou Ting was unsure and asked tentatively: "Then what kind of punishment do you think it is?"

"Lingchi or skinning are the most bloody and the most direct. Other punishments are also cruel, but they are not as torturous as these two." As the saying goes, a blunt knife cuts the flesh, one cut after another, and the person being punished has a clear sense of pain. The pain is excruciating but the person cannot die. Skinning is the same, and the person can even feel where the knife is going.

"I guessed it right and I didn't guess it right." He sighed and touched her little head, "Don't ask anymore. In short, only the extremely cruel one can shock everyone. The two ancestors went crazy on the spot, and the matter was left unresolved. From then on, my great-grandfather ordered that no dance halls were allowed to exist in the northwest city. Anyone who ran a dance hall was implicated and sent to the military camp." As a military prostitute.

Ming Yi snorted, "If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. Anyway, it's one of these two. It's no wonder that it can scare people crazy."

(End of this chapter)