Qi Feng came to the cell and saw a jailer beating the prisoners with a whip, and three others drinking wine.
The prisoner's arms were hung up, his hair was disheveled, his cloth clothes had been torn by whips, stained with blood, and his skin and flesh were exposed in the firelight.
Su Xi looked at the scene in front of her and couldn't help but frown tightly.
"Stop!" Although he didn't know what crime the man had committed and was beaten like that, looking at the man's miserable state and imagining the scene when Yan Yan was beaten, Qi Feng couldn't help but stop.
When he saw him and Su Xi, the jailer who was wielding a whip shouted at him: "Who is that?"
Hearing the sound, the other three people drinking wine turned to look at them at the same time. One of them walked over angrily. He didn't know that the person standing in front of him was the emperor's favorite son, the seventh elder brother, and he charged at him without mercy.
He yelled, "Who are you? You dare to break into the prison cell and disturb my enjoyment of drinking. See if I don't teach you a lesson." After saying that, he stretched out his hand to hit Qi Feng in the face.
With a "bang", the jailer who was waving his fist was kicked far away by him, and finally fell to the ground, causing a thick layer of dust. Su Xi hurriedly covered her nose and waved a handkerchief in front of Qi Feng.
of dust.
When the people behind him saw this, they immediately looked at him fiercely. They were angered by his kick, and the man wielding the whip opened his eyes wide with anger. He stretched out his hand and swung the whip at Qi Feng fiercely.
The fierce whip wind resounded throughout the cell.
"Stop it now, this is His Highness the Seventh Prince." Eunuch Gao's scream suddenly sounded behind him. The person wielding the whip had no time to stop the strength of the whip in his hand, so he had to throw it to the side hard, just in time.
The whip was thrown on the face of the jailer who had just been kicked to the ground, and a bloodstain instantly appeared. Soon, traces of blood leached out. The person who wielded the whip must have used a lot of force, and the person who was hit was instantly
He rolled on the ground several times in pain, his skin and flesh were visible, blood oozed from the corners of his lips, and his face was pale.
Su Xi took a breath.
The jailer who threw away his whip knelt on the ground with a frightened "plop", and the other people turned pale with fright. They knelt on the ground and trembled, not daring to raise their heads.
The most miserable jailer had to dig his nails deeply into his thighs to disperse the pain on his body. He endured the severe pain on his face, which was like the bite of insects. His face was sweating profusely from the pain, and he knelt on the ground and violently screamed.
Trembling and not daring to make a sound.
"We have only been away for a while, and you have committed such a big crime. Why don't you plead guilty to His Highness the Seventh Prince?" Eunuch Gao, who was in charge here, originally led the Seventh Brother in, but he left midway due to a sudden upset in his stomach.
In the latrine, I didn’t expect to see these ignorant guys waving their fists at Brother Seventh just after I came back. When he saw this scene, his face turned pale with fright.
"This slave deserves death. Please forgive me, Your Highness, Seventh Prince." Several people shouted tremblingly, their faces already pale with fright due to Eunuch Gao's shouting. They had just arrived, how could they know who the Seventh Brother was?
Someone broke in and disturbed their mood. They were so angry at the time that they couldn't care less about the person's identity.
Eunuch Gao quickly begged for mercy on their behalf, "Your Highness, they are new jailers and have offended Your Highness. I hope Your Highness will spare them this time."
Their cries for mercy suddenly rang out in the cell, high and low.
Qi Feng frowned and shouted in a low voice: "Okay, shut up, everyone, it's so noisy."
He turned away from them and looked around. He saw a fire burning in the center of the cell, and the iron inside was burning red. There were also broken whips lying on the ground, and the whips were stained with blood.
.There is a burning smell in the air, as if the flesh has been burned.
What he saw was shocking. If these things were used on Yan Yan, he would not dare to think about it. He quickly raised his eyes to Eunuch Gao and asked: "Eunuch Gao, why don't you take me to see where Yan Yan is being held?"
where."
Eunuch Gao on the side quickly echoed: "I will take you there right now. Don't worry, I will remember His Highness's instructions and told them not to embarrass that girl."
With that said, he hurriedly leaned over and led Qi Feng towards the cell.
Under the guidance of Eunuch Gao, Qi Feng turned several corners and finally stopped in front of a cell. This was an extremely dark cell. Although the air was relatively dry, there was a faint smell of moisture.
The rotten smell is looming.
He couldn't adapt to the darkness here at all, so he hurriedly asked them to bring more torches.
Not long after, more than a dozen torches on the stone wall suddenly illuminated the cell as bright as day. Qi Feng could not adapt to the darkness for a while, and only felt a dazzling dizziness. When he opened his eyes, the firelight illuminated the cell brightly.
Eunuch Gao stood submissively beside Qi Feng, looking fiercely at the incomprehensible jailers beside him from time to time. After learning that he was the seventh elder brother, the jailers also stood behind him tremblingly.
There were thick and fine beads of sweat on his forehead.
He remained silent, and they did not dare to take a breath. They saw Yanyan lying in the cell and sleeping deeply. Outside the cell, he felt and heard her shallow breathing.
A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth unconsciously.
Eunuch Gao on the side took in all this smile and sighed in his heart that it was a good thing he didn't make things difficult for the girl inside, otherwise he would definitely not be able to eat and walk around now.
"Why don't you unlock it quickly and let me in?" Qi Feng saw them standing behind him silently for a long time. He suppressed the anger in his heart and kept his voice very low, fearing to wake up Yan Yan who was sleeping.
The jailer holding the key behind him hurriedly ran over to unlock the lock. His nervous hands trembled, and the sound of the iron chain rang dullly, which was particularly harsh at this time. He pulled his head and looked at Qi Feng, and saw that deep in his eyes condensed into
Bing stared at him angrily. He was so frightened that the sweat on his head started to flow down, and his hands were soaked with sweat.
"Go down and bring a basin of hot water over." Qi Feng walked in gently without looking at them, and Su Xi followed his footsteps and walked gently to Yan Yan's side.
Hearing this, the jailers fled the place as if they had received amnesty. As you pushed me to give way, one of the jailers brought hot water to his scalp and ran away in a hurry.
"Who could do such a heavy hand?" Looking at the whip marks on Yan Yan's hand, Su Xi took a breath of cold air. After saying that, she dipped a handkerchief in hot water and gently cleaned it for her.
"Your Highness, I have to clean up the whip marks on her body." Looking at Qi Feng who had been watching Yan Yan closely, Su Xi looked at him helplessly, with a blush on her face.
"Yeah. Be gentle, don't wake her up." After saying that, he still sat aside and looked at Yan Yan closely.
Su Xi felt dizzy for a while, and the blush on her face almost reached her ears, so she had to say bluntly, "Your Highness, you are here, how can I clean up Yanyan?"
"Okay." Qi Feng finally came to his senses and hurriedly walked outside the cell, turning his back to them.
He stood bored outside the cell. For a long time, Su Xi never called him. He was too embarrassed to look back, so he had to turn his back to them and stare at the wall.
Suddenly he heard a low chuckle coming from behind. He couldn't help but look back and saw Yanyan sitting inside smiling happily, while Su Xi on the side looked at her helplessly, covering her mouth and smiling.
Seeing him turning back to look at them, Yanyan finally laughed out loud, and the sound echoed in the cell, as clear as a bell.
Seeing her smiling so happily, his eyes softened when he looked at her, like the boundless lake water surrounding her. He walked to her and sat down with a smile, glared at her, and then asked with concern:
"How happy it is to be in jail! Do the injuries on your body still hurt?"
Yan Yan was so frightened by his sudden tenderness that she shuddered. She looked at Su Xi with a smile and said, "Sister Su Xi gave me the medicine, so the pain doesn't go away."
"You are poor!" Su Xi yelled from the side, reaching out and gently pointing at her head.
"Ah, it hurts!" Yanyan covered her head and shouted.
"What's wrong?"
The two asked in unison, with worries on their faces.
"Haha, you have all been deceived." Looking at their expressions wishfully, Yanyan sat there happily alone.
"Scared me to death. Yanyan, I won't pay attention to you." As she said that, Su Xi turned her head and stopped looking at her.
"Ah, good sister, Yanyan doesn't make trouble anymore. Don't ignore me." Hearing this, Yanyan pulled Su Xi's clothes and kept playing with them.
Qi Feng looked at her with a wry smile, "Originally, I thought you would still be unbearable in prison, but now it seems that you are quite happy living here."
"This is not like being in prison." Yan Yan looked at him, looked around the prison, and said with a smile, "Except for the rough place here, I enjoy five-star treatment here!"
Ignoring their incomprehensible expressions, she patted the quilt on her body and said with a smile: "Who is in prison and is treated as well as me? They are covered with high-quality quilts, eat food from the imperial kitchen, and there are people
Waiting. There is still one advantage to knowing you. Even if I am in prison, it is like being a guest. It is not in vain that I was forced into the palace by you and suffered all these physical pains."
Su Xi watched her talk with great interest, and was also infected by her smile. This was the first time she saw someone in jail as happy as she was.
The cell suddenly became quiet. Yan Yan looked at Qi Feng, who was silent on the side, and asked, "What's wrong with you? I'm happy, so you're not happy?"
She saw him looking at her with a distressed look on his face, a hint of tenderness welling up in the depths of his eyes, which instantly turned into self-blame, and sighed, "Yanyan, I'm sorry for bringing you into the palace and making you suffer."
Such torture.”
A sour feeling filled her eyes, making her speechless for a moment.
"Don't worry, I will definitely let you leave this place as soon as possible, and I will definitely seek justice for you. The person who hurt you will definitely pay a hundred times the price." As he said that, his face darkened, and his eyes gradually became gloomy.