Zhang You struggled to sit up and looked around. This place must have been abandoned for a long time and had fallen into disrepair. The room was full of cobwebs and was pitch black.
Zhang You looked around but didn't see Qiuyue.
Recall what the palace maid said before.
It seems that her mention of Qiuyue was just an excuse to lure them over.
But how did they understand them so clearly? And how could they even know Qiuyue's characteristics? And why did they lure them here?
They are just Qiao Si's maids, not even his closest maids. What's the point of capturing them?
They were extremely confused, but they couldn't just sit there and wait for death.
After dropping them off, the group of palace maids stood respectfully aside, as if waiting for someone.
While they were not paying attention, Zhang You struggled to move closer to Chunhua. Chunhua was knocked unconscious, and her hands and feet were tied up with thick ropes, leaving her unconscious.
Zhang You moved closer and found that blood was still oozing from her temples. Her hands were tied behind her back, so she could only shake Chunhua slightly. Her mouth was blocked by a handkerchief, so she could not shout and could only hum.
After struggling for a while, her inner clothes were soaked with sweat. A palace maid who was nearby saw her movement and kicked her in the left chest. The sudden loss of weight made her fall uncontrollably on Chunhua.
Perhaps the impact was too great, Chunhua frowned and finally woke up slowly.
Zhang You sat up with great effort. Her wrist was broken by the kick just now, and the pain made cold sweat break out on her forehead.
"What are you arguing about? Be quiet! You're the one causing all the trouble!"
Chunhua looked around blankly and quickly realized her current situation.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Xia He being harassed by a palace maid. She sat up and yelled at the maid, "What are you doing!" There was murderous intent in her eyes. If it happened again, she would definitely not be careless and be ambushed.
"Oh! You're awake! I thought you were dead? Haha, but it will be soon. You don't have to rush. When the noble arrives, it will be the day of your death." The palace maid looked at Chunhua who had woken up with disdain, not taking them seriously at all.
"What more did you say to them?"
"The noble man is coming soon, don't really kill him, it will be difficult to explain when the time comes."
The palace maid listened to their preaching impatiently, rolled her eyes secretly in disgust, and said "Oh" reluctantly. After that, she looked at Chunhua and Zhang You fiercely, then turned and approached the palace maids.
Chunhua moved closer to Zhang You, "How are you? Why do you look so bad?"
Zhang You whimpered twice and raised her chin to indicate that she couldn't speak. Chunhua looked at the gray-black handkerchief, hesitated for a few seconds, and then stepped forward to bite it off for her.
"Ugh~" Zhang You couldn't help but dry heaving. Chunhua spat out the handkerchief in disgust and spit out several mouthfuls of saliva.
"Pooh! Pooh!" Zhang You spat several times, and only spoke when she felt the strange taste in her mouth was gone: "I just fell down and hit my wrist accidentally. It will be okay if I take it slowly. How are you? Are you seriously injured?" Zhang You looked at her temples with great concern.
"It's nothing, just a few scrapes. I was on my way to report the news when two palace maids suddenly jumped out and stopped me. I tried to talk to them nicely, but they attacked me." Chunhua recalled it now with a resentful tone. She only hated herself for being too cautious and not killing them, which allowed them to take advantage of her. "After I knocked them down, I was just about to leave when another group of people surrounded me. I was so focused on guarding against them that I didn't expect the two behind to attack me and knock me unconscious."
Zhang You said that with Chunhua's fighting power, even if she couldn't fight ten people alone, at least she shouldn't have been injured by these palace maids. It turned out that they were the ones who launched a sneak attack.
"What about you? What's wrong with you?"
"Alas - I followed that palace maid halfway when I suddenly realized something was wrong. I was about to take the opportunity to escape and had already knocked her down, but I met them halfway. There were many of them, so..." Zhang You looked helpless. Who would have thought that the two of them were captured by the same group of people.
"Did you discover anything during this time?"
"I only know that there is a noble in the palace behind them. After thinking about it, I can't think of anyone else except Li Xianyu. But even if she is angry and wants to vent her anger, there is no need for her to catch us, right?" Zhang You didn't understand.
Chunhua thought for a moment after hearing this: "Could it be that he wants to use us to threaten the princess?"
"We? Is she crazy, or are we? We're just two maids, what threat can we pose?" If it was really Li Xianyu who did this, Zhang You wanted to open Li Xianyu's mind and see what she was thinking. She had someone bring them here instead of killing them so easily. After bringing them here, she didn't torture them, but instead waited for that person to arrive.
Is this person really Li Xianyu? What on earth does she want to do with her psychotic personality?
"Could it be that it's not Li Xianyu?" Chunhua spoke with a complicated look in her eyes.
Zhang You saw that she seemed to have something to say, so he asked directly, "Why do you say that?"
Chunhua recalled the assassination attempt on Chunlie and the others and expressed her suspicions: "Do you remember when we followed the princess to the royal hunting grounds and the night she disappeared, we also encountered an assassin?"
Zhang You thought of what happened at that time, frowned slightly, and fell silent.
"Qiuyue told me at the time that the people who killed us and the princess did not seem to be the same group of people. If those of us who went out to look for the princess would also be killed, then why didn't Dongmei and the others encounter them, but us? And this time, have you noticed that it is also related to the three of us?" The more Chunhua spoke, the more she felt that there was something fishy going on, as if the three of them had offended some powerful person without knowing it.
Zhang You was in deep thought, with no clue, "Then who do you think it could be, if not Li Xianyu?" Zhang You couldn't think of a second person in the palace.
She could understand that Qiao Si had many enemies, but why were they being targeted?
They had never been to the capital before and hadn't met anyone there?
Chunhua looked at Zhang You and shook her head blankly, "I don't know."
The two of them were whispering to each other, and Chunhua's hands were constantly moving.
Using her clothes as a cover, she found the mechanism of the bracelet on Xia He's wrist, pulled out the string inside, cut the rope on her hand, and then untied it for her.
Zhang You moved his wrist. The bruise had healed a bit and it didn't hurt anymore if he didn't move his wrist.
"I made some marks on the way here. If the princess can't wait for us for a long time, she will come to find us. But I don't know how long it will take for the princess to find us. We can either delay the time or find a way to escape." Zhang You proposed an idea.
"There are many of them. If we find a way to knock them down, we should be able to escape. We have to find the right time." Chunhua's eyes were firm, and they quickly agreed on an escape plan.
Zhang You immediately pretended to faint on the ground, and Chunhua shouted loudly to attract the attention of the group of people.
"Xia He! What's wrong with you! Xia He!"
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