Chapter 329 Hot Spring Pool
Another day passed, and Su Yue and others in the carriage finally entered the Mo Kingdom smoothly.
Unlike the Dongyou Imperial City, the Mo Imperial City was built on a plain. There were no mountains around it, but there were many lakes and rivers. Therefore, the staple food of the Mo Kingdom was mostly fish and shrimp, and there was even a faint fishy smell in the air.
However, the smell is not strong, and people who have always lived in Mo Country naturally cannot detect it. People like Su Yue only smelled it when they came to Mo Country for the first time.
"It looks like we have arrived at the imperial city of Mo Kingdom." Shangguan Nanxing whispered to Su Yue and others.
"Well, when we get to Qinyan Villa, we'll act according to the plan."
Su Yue looked at the four girls who had been knocked unconscious by her in the carriage and nodded slightly. In order not to be exposed during the whole journey, she had deliberately let these four girls sleep all the time, and now she had to wake them up.
Not long after, the carriage came to a complete stop as the driver whistled softly.
"This is a new batch. Be careful and don't let anything unexpected happen." A man's voice came from outside the carriage. After getting an affirmative answer, the carriage started moving again.
It took about a cup of tea for the carriage to come to a complete stop.
"Those who don't want to die, come out." A slightly hoarse voice was heard. After Su Yue and the others looked at each other, they did not leave immediately.
After all, there are two grown men among them, and the first one to show up will always attract more attention.
After waiting for a long time, all the people in the three carriages got off. Su Yue and others stood at the back. She roughly counted them and there were about twenty people including them.
They were standing in a square courtyard with an ordinary house behind them, but for some reason, the house always had an eerie feeling.
At this time, Shangguan Nanxing and Ruofeng squatted a little to avoid attracting attention, with their legs hidden under their skirts.
It seems that although they are still the tallest in the crowd, they are not too conspicuous. They used this method to hide themselves in the Mo Country before.
"Take them all down there, and get rid of the ones that are no longer useful."
The man glanced at the standing women, each of whom had their hands tied, crying with their heads down, and looked no different from the previous groups of women who were afraid and dared not move, so he didn't think any more about it.
When Su Yue heard what the man said, she roughly guessed that this man was the one in charge here, so she raised her head slightly and glanced at the man who was speaking.
The man was very fair and looked to be about 30 years old. Although he was a man, he looked charming at first glance. His narrow eyes swept over and he almost noticed Su Yue's gaze. Fortunately, Su Yue lowered his head in time.
"Yes!" Several servants behind the man immediately walked to Su Yue and others and started to drive them away.
Because these girls were very scared and were being driven away, they naturally did not walk in an orderly manner. In the chaos, no one noticed Shangguan Nanxing and Ruofeng's slightly strange walking posture.
The man who had just spoken did not stay any longer and turned around and walked out.
At this moment, a gust of wind blew and lifted the half-covered window curtain. Su Yue's extremely sensitive sense of smell for blood made her raise her head and look at the window.
However, because the curtain was not opened for long and it was too bright outside, Su Yue did not see what the inside of the house looked like.
Then several servants drove Su Yue and others to a small room next to the house they had just been in. The room was not big, but because it was backlit, it was actually a little dim even in broad daylight.
"Just stay here and be quiet." One of the servants shouted loudly, and then quickly locked the small room.
When the girls saw that no one was looking at them, they stopped holding back their tears and started crying.
They were all passing through the border or seeking refuge with relatives at the border. No one expected to encounter such a thing. What's worse, their relatives were brutally killed, leaving them alone here.
"Nanxing, something was wrong in that room just now." Su Yue approached Shangguan Nanxing and whispered, taking advantage of the sound of the girl's crying.
"Let's go out and take a look after dark." Shangguan Nanxing nodded slightly when he heard this. Now was not the time to take action. He had just discovered that there were quite a few people surrounding the yard.
"Master, when are we going to change out of these clothes?"
Ruofeng came over with a bitter face. He had never worn women's clothes before, let alone such pink women's clothes. This made him very uncomfortable.
"Just wait until evening." Su Yue looked at Shangguan Nanxing and Ruofeng's women's clothing. Although it was indeed wrong to laugh at such a miserable moment, she really couldn't help it.
"You're still smiling, isn't it because I want to stay by your side and protect you?" Shangguan Nanxing saw Su Yue's smile, then touched the tip of Su Yue's nose with his hand, speaking in an intimate and loving tone.
Night came quickly. The girls around him were tired from crying and fell asleep one by one without any strength left. The room became much quieter.
Su Yue and others carefully lay at the door of the room, listening to the movements outside.
Sure enough, there were guards guarding the door.
"They cry every time they come. The eldest brother is wise. He starves the newcomers for two days. By then they are too hungry to have any strength and their tears have dried up. Then they can do whatever we want to them, right?"
One of the guards at the door heard the crying in the house that had been going on for a whole day and now there was no sound, so he complained out loud.
"Come on, let's bet on how long it will take for this batch to be completely obedient." At this time, another guard spoke up, his tone containing a hint of excitement.
At this moment, Su Yue leaned over the window, poked a hole in it, and then the silver needle shot out swiftly, and then the four people collapsed to the ground.
Upon seeing this, Shangguan Nanxing immediately used his inner strength to break the door lock. The door lock fell to the ground with a "click", which startled all the girls in the room.
"Sisters, run." Someone shouted, and then everyone saw the wide open door.
The next moment, a dozen girls rushed out immediately. Shangguan Nanxing pulled Su Yue, and Ruofeng pulled Xiaohe, and they mixed in the crowd and quickly approached the house in the daytime.
The noise in the house alarmed the guards, and soon a large number of guards rushed in and captured the running girls one by one.
When Su Yue and the others entered the room, they were shocked by the scene before them.
There was a huge pool in the middle of the house. With the sound of rushing water, the moonlight outside fell on the water, and you could vaguely see heat emanating from the surface of the pool.
The smell of blood during the day came from this pool.
"Hurry, go in and search." Just when Su Yue was about to say something, a voice came from outside.
Su Yue was stunned, and then she was pulled into the water by Shangguan Nanxing, and Xiao He was also pulled into the water quickly by Ruofeng.
At the moment the four people entered the water, the door was opened and two guards rushed in.
Su Yue was immersed in the water and couldn't hear what was happening outside, but Shangguan Nanxing and Ruofeng could hear it clearly.
After searching around, the two guards fixed their sights on the pool.
"No, are they hiding under the water? Should we search them?" A guard's voice came. Shangguan Nanxing clenched his fists, ready to kill anyone outside if they were exposed.
"This is the pool where the imperial concubine bathes. You are risking your life to go in. The imperial concubine is extremely particular about cleanliness. Didn't a guard jump into the water to look for someone before? Unfortunately, the imperial concubine found out and killed him. Don't you know about this?"
Another guard's voice came, which made Shangguan Nanxing feel relieved. After all, he didn't know how many people were outside. If he took action without being sure, it would be difficult to protect Yue'er's safety.
"What should we do then?" asked the guard who had just spoken, with fear in his tone as if he remembered something.
"Let's wait here. If there really is someone here, they will definitely be unable to hold their breath and need to breathe."
After the guard finished speaking, he looked at the water surface. Because this hot spring pool was running water, the water ripples created by Shangguan Nanxing and others did not attract their attention.
When Shangguan Nanxing heard this, he also clearly felt that something was wrong with Su Yue. It was impossible for a woman to hold her breath underwater for such a long time.
In a hurry, Shangguan Nanxing directly covered Su Yue with his lips to give her air. Ruofeng, who was standing next to her, naturally noticed that something was wrong with Xiaohe, and in a hurry he did the same and covered her lips.
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