Chapter 134 Underground Prison
As Yu Wushuang and Zi Xuan were talking, a maid came running in from outside.
"Miss Yuzhen, Concubine Liu is here."
Zi Xuan glanced at Yu Wushuang opposite her and said, "Looks like she's here."
"You should find a place to hide first."
Yu Wushuang nodded, stood up from the chair, and went behind the screen in the side room.
Zi Xuan then said to the maid outside the door: "Let Concubine Liu come in."
"yes."
After a while, the maid brought Liu Jinshu into the side room.
After Liu Jinshu entered the room, he hurried to Zixuan's side.
"Sister Yuzhen."
Zixuan sat on the chair, looking at Liu Jinshu with a terrified face.
He asked, "What's wrong with Concubine Liu? Why does she look like that? Why is there so much sweat on her forehead?"
Liu Jinshu said with horror: "I went to Jinling Pavilion. There were a lot of snakes there, and there was even a snake pit."
Zixuan got up from the chair, walked to Liu Jinshu, and helped him sit down.
"So, Concubine Liu, there are some things you can't say."
"If the King of Qi heard this, he would definitely have you thrown into a snake pit."
Liu Jinshu bit her lip and slowly sat down on the chair, her face full of worry.
"But now I've told Sister Yuzhen and Master Yu, and I've also told Grandma. What should I do?"
"Besides, I'm pregnant now, and I'm just a concubine. If I make a mistake, Princess Qi will definitely push me into a snake pit."
Zixuan poured her a cup of tea and comforted her: "Don't be afraid for now."
"Now that you know the King of Qi's secret, you are a bargaining chip."
"Chips?" Liu Jinshu frowned.
Zi Xuan continued, "Concubine Liu, why don't you think about this? Who in the entire Great Yan can control His Highness?"
Liu Jinshu thought for a moment: "Of course it's Your Majesty."
Zi Xuan said: "Now that you have a secret, you naturally have leverage."
Zixuan sighed.
"Actually, I'm a woman just like you. I know your current difficulties and want to help you."
"The King of Qi brought me to the Qi Palace in order to get my brother to find him a job. On the surface, he was raising me there, but in reality, he was using me to blackmail my brother into finding him a job."
"I am just like Concubine Liu, we are both born worse than ourselves."
Liu Jinshu frowned slightly and looked at Zixuan.
"Miss Yuzhen doesn't want to leave?"
Zi Xuan shook her head: "My indenture is still in Prince Qi's mansion, how can I leave?"
"But you are different. You don't have a bond to sell yourself, so you can leave."
Liu Jinshu pursed his lips: "Of course I have to leave."
"But, is there really an underground secret passage leading to the outside of the Prince Qi's Mansion on the south side?"
Zi Xuan shook her head: "I don't know about this, my brother is just guessing."
"However, we often see guards and some maids coming out from there, so it must be a secret passage."
"If Concubine Liu wants to leave Prince Qi's Mansion, you can go and check it out."
"I understand." Liu Jinshu stood up.
"Thank you, Miss Yu, for your advice. I'm going to go take a look tonight. I don't want to stay in Prince Qi's mansion anymore."
"Um."
After Liu Jinshu left, Yu Wushuang came out from behind the screen.
"Do you think she will go?"
Zi Xuan curled her lips and said, "She will definitely go, because the baby in her belly is not the King of Qi's child."
"And His Majesty said at the beginning that her child would be born to be tested with the Prince of Qi through a blood test. If the child's identity is exposed, she will have no choice but to die."
"In order to protect herself, she will find a way to leave Prince Qi's Mansion."
"As soon as she leaves Prince Qi's Mansion, we will send a message to the princess."
Night.
Liu Jinshu tossed and turned on the couch, unable to fall asleep.
My mind is full of the scenes I saw in Jinling Pavilion today.
She got up from the couch, packed her luggage, and found the maid's clothes to put on herself.
She waited until midnight, when the guards of the Prince of Qi's Mansion changed shifts, and then she took her luggage and secretly went to the south of the Prince of Qi's Mansion.
To the south of the Prince of Qi's Palace is the Weishui Pavilion.
It was silent here, with only a few scattered lights illuminating the place.
After Liu Jinshu arrived at the Weishui Pavilion, he hid in the weeds and watched the movements on the rockery opposite.
After a while, a man in black came to the back of the rockery with a torch, turned the switch made of black iron to the right, and the rockery opened.
What came into view was a pitch-black corridor.
Liu Jinshu frowned. Could this be the secret passage leading out of the mansion that Young Master Yu mentioned?
After the man in black went in, the rockery closed.
Seeing the gloomy atmosphere all around, Liu Jinshu became nervous.
She looked around and saw that there was no one around. She tiptoed to the rockery in the dark and turned the switch hard, and the door of the rockery opened.
A dark corridor appeared before my eyes, with a faint cool breeze blowing through it.
Liu Jinshu took his luggage, mustered up his courage, and walked down step by step in the dark.
There was a slippery staircase below, and she went down it in the dark.
Then I heard a strange sound entering my eardrum.
There were hoarse male voices and some hoarse female voices.
"Is this a secret passage leading out of the mansion? Why does it look so strange?"
After going down the stairs, Liu Jinshu saw several iron cages made of black iron.
There were many people locked in the iron cage, including men, women, young and old.
Her face was pale as she slowly approached the iron cage.
"Why are there so many people locked up here? Oh my God!"
"How many secrets does this Prince Qi's Mansion have?"
She was a little bit incredulous and looked around, finally her eyes fell on the man on another iron frame.
The man's limbs were chained, his body was covered with whip marks, his hair was dry and his appearance was unkempt.
"Who are you?" Liu Jinshu asked.
The man on the iron frame didn't answer him. He just opened his eyelids, glanced at her coldly, and then lowered his head.
"There's actually an underground prison here."
She glanced around and saw a woman trapped in another iron cage.
The woman was about thirty years old, wearing thin clothes and with messy hair.
She leaned quietly against the iron railing, looking straight ahead with empty eyes.
Liu Jinshu walked towards the iron cage, but the woman inside didn't look at her.
Only then did she realize that the woman was blind.
However, she felt that the woman was very familiar.
He seems to be very similar to someone, the current Majesty.
Just as she was thinking about it, she felt a strange breath coming towards her.
That breath seemed familiar.
As she took a step back, a big hand suddenly reached out and grabbed her neck.
Liu Jinshu struggled desperately, but the more she struggled, the tighter the man pinched her, almost suffocating her.
“Let go…let go of me!”
"I am the concubine of the King of Qi, don't hurt me!"
Then the sinister voice penetrated into his eardrums.
"So what if it's the Prince of Qi's concubine? You dare to come here and seek death!"
The man's voice sounded familiar to Liu Jinshu, and she opened her eyes in confusion.
When she saw the man's face, her expression changed.
"Second brother, is that you?"
"Why did you escape here?"
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