After hearing what Concubine Yu said, the jailer laughed in his heart, thinking that Concubine Yu was a coward. It seemed that Duke Qin had chosen the wrong partner to ally with.
After the jailer opened the door for Concubine Yu, she walked in with Xiaolan and Ying'er. As soon as she entered, Concubine Yu smelled the foul smell coming from Qin Ranran, and subconsciously took out a handkerchief to cover her nose. The disgust in her action was not concealed at all.
Qin Ranran had been imprisoned in this prison for so long, and it was naturally impossible for the jailer to carry water in every day for a dying person to bathe her. Therefore, Qin Ranran had never taken a bath since she was taken from the Prince Xiang's Mansion to this prison, and the things on her body were naturally unbearable to her nose.
Qin Ranran heaved a sigh of relief after she saw who was coming with the help of the torch. She thought it was someone sent by Yu Wenran or Gu Yanyue, intending to behead her prematurely. She knelt on the ground and gave a full salute to Concubine Yu. "Greetings, Madam Yu. I wonder why you have come to this filthy place at night?"
Concubine Yu gave Qin Ranran a slight lift, not removing the handkerchief covering her nose as she spoke to her. "Miss Qin, you've really suffered in this prison."
"What are you talking about, Concubine Yu? This is all my own fault..." Qin Ranran gritted her teeth as she finished, "If I hadn't been so careless, I wouldn't have ended up like this."
Concubine Yu looked at Qin Ranran with approval. Qin Ranran was indeed a wonderful person. Even at this point, she still felt that it was because of her carelessness that she ended up in this situation.
Her eyelids were twitching faster and faster. She didn't continue to beat around the bush with Qin Ranran and directly stated her purpose. "Miss Qin, please exchange clothes with the maid behind me. Then I will take Miss Qin out, and the maid behind me will take Miss Qin's place at the execution ground in a few days."
Concubine Yu asked Ying'er to come forward and quickly exchange clothes with Qin Ranran. Ying'er looked up at the several strong men guarding the cell. If she chose to escape, the strong men at the door would definitely catch her back. So no matter what, she couldn't escape this disaster, and the expression on her face darkened.
But on the contrary, hope appeared on Qin Ranran's face. She thought that Prince Xiang and Duke Qin had chosen to give up on her, but she didn't expect that someone would come to rescue her. She couldn't help but feel ecstatic, "My Queen! It's my father, right? It's my father! He asked you to rescue me, right?"
Concubine Yu nodded and looked at the door. She saw no one else besides the strong man she had brought with her and the jailer, but she felt more and more uneasy. "Yes, it was Duke Qin who asked me to rescue you. It's not easy to say more right now. Miss Qin, please change your clothes quickly. It's not too late to explain in detail after we get out of this prison."
Just as Qin Ranran was about to change clothes with Ying'er, a burst of applause suddenly came from the cell door. "Good! Good! Good! Duke Qin and Miss Qin are indeed a father-daughter couple. Even when I confined them to Duke Qin's mansion, they still had to find someone to come to this cell to rescue Miss Qin."
Yu Wenran walked into the cell first, and Gu Yanyue and Qin Ruoruo followed him into the cell.
Concubine Yu could never have imagined that Yuwen Ran would suddenly appear in this cell in the middle of the night. The moment her eyes met his, she completely forgot to salute him and just stood there staring at him, "Your Majesty..."
"Didn't Concubine Yu go back to the Yu Mansion to stay today? Why is she here in the cell in the middle of the night? When did the Yu Mansion move to this prison?"
Yuwen Ran looked at Concubine Yu with a cold gaze. Concubine Yu's knees softened and she knelt down. She walked a few steps to Yuwen Ran and grabbed the corner of his clothes tightly: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please listen to my explanation! I can explain everything!"
Yuwen Ran silently pulled the corner of his clothes out of Concubine Yu's hand, then took a few steps back, completely widening the distance between them. Only then did he speak again: "Oh? Then Concubine Yu, tell me, what exactly is your reason?"
"Your Majesty... Duke Qin forced me to do this..." Concubine Yu suddenly had an idea in her mind. To make Yuwen Ran believe it more, she repeated it again, "That's right! Duke Qin used my parents' lives to force me to help his Second Miss Qin! Your Majesty, you must believe me. I was forced!"
"But Concubine Yu's explanation differs from Duke Qin's," Yu Wenran raised an eyebrow and said with a half-smile, "Duke Qin said that Concubine Yu, you voluntarily cooperated with him, and he will even give you a huge benefit after the success."
Concubine Yu was stunned. She hadn't expected Duke Qin to push her out first. Since he was already unkind, she shouldn't be blamed for being disloyal. "Duke Qin said that if this succeeded, he would promise my father the position of Imperial Censor, but if it failed, he would have someone kill my parents. Your Majesty, I was really forced into this!"
Yuwen Ran didn't expect that his casual remark would actually reveal some information that he had asked others to fail to find out. Now that there were witnesses and evidence, Duke Qin could not escape.
Yu Wenran leaned over and softly asked the kneeling Yu Fei: "So, Yu Fei, you were coerced by Duke Qin into doing this, and it wasn't your own will, right?"
"Yes..." Concubine Yu was so frightened by Yuwen Ran's action that she was shaking. She was most afraid of Yuwen Ran asking people with a fake smile like this. Yuwen Ran like this was even scarier than the usual Yuwen Ran with no expression on his face.
"That's easy." Yu Wenran snapped his fingers and called the jailer over. "Take your men to the Duke of Qin's mansion and the Yu mansion and take Duke Qin and Yu Chongran and his wife to this prison. Duke Qin will be executed soon, but Yu Chongran and his wife will be locked up for now."
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I didn't volunteer to help Duke Qin! So please, Your Majesty, spare my parents just this once!" Concubine Yu said, kowtowed to the ground several times. When she raised her head again, her forehead was already red and swollen. "Your Majesty, please consider that my brother died because of the Empress, and spare my parents just this once! They are old and really can't stand the damp environment of this cell!"
Qin Ranran had been standing in the corner without saying a word since Yuwen Ran came in. She only reacted after hearing Yuwen Ran's order to behead Duke Qin.
She rushed towards Gu Yanyue like a madman, shouting: "Gu Yanyue, I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you! If it weren't for me, I wouldn't have ended up like this! My father wouldn't have been ordered to be beheaded by His Majesty! I'm going to kill you!"
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