Chapter Thirty-Nine: Heavenly Prison Two
The heavenly prison is indeed a heavenly prison, with a step-by-step guard, the ground is damp and cold, the winding and narrow dungeon passage, on both sides are high-hanging copper braziers, inside which burn red-hot charcoal.
Xia Zi dragged her skirt and supported Ziyu as they walked down step by step, and behind them came the voices of two idle jailers.
"This prison is usually empty on ordinary days, what's going on today? First, a pampered imperial concubine came, and now a princess of the Yan King has arrived."
"Shh, keep your voice down, don't you want to die? Can we really discuss these two masters?"
On both sides were people who had been imprisoned for a long time, with tattered clothes and disheveled hair. They were either serious offenders of the imperial court or royal relatives who had committed crimes. Thinking about it, they too had once prospered, but now they were in such a state. It could be said that they rose to power through intrigue and fell because of intrigue. Walking along the path in the prison to the very end, there was a small door that hadn't been closed tightly. Along with the sound of fierce lashings, a woman's mournful cries echoed out from inside, each cry startling and piercing the ears.
"Princess Wang, I can only send you here, Princess Li is locked inside, you go in yourself."
Zi'er was about to say something when he saw Xia Ziwei nodding beside him, the prison guard's expression changed as if he had just received a great pardon, and quickly left with three steps in two strides.
Gently push open the door, inside a high iron frame supports a basin of bright red embers, illuminating this dark space.
A woman wearing a white prison uniform was bound to the wall by thick iron chains, her wrists were bruised and bloody from struggling against the chains, her hair was disheveled and covered her forehead, and Xiao Zihui vaguely recognized that this was Li Fei, whom he had met at the banquet last time, and the change in just a few days was so drastic.
The eunuch's whip still came down with force, the whip had been modified to add some thin iron wires, which was carefully made by Xia Ziying. A fierce lash went through the thin fabric, piercing into the flesh, and then a violent pull, causing unbearable pain. The place that was hit became a red stripe, with blood and flesh mixed together. The woman's ear-piercing screams were endless.
Across from him, Xia Ziying sat in a chair with a white fox fur coat, her vermilion-painted fingernails lightly tapping against the tea bowl, occasionally raising her eyes to leisurely appreciate the scene before her.
"Stop it!"
The voice was almost trembling
The eunuchs and palace maids standing around them only discovered someone behind them, turned their eyes over, saw a furious Xia Ziyu, and immediately bowed to pay respects.
Xia Ziying was taken aback, then turned her head around, with a bright color in her eyes, and hummed.
Is it her? It's actually her? She was already worried that one person wasn't enough to beat up, and now this weak sister who has been looking for a chance to get rid of her is just in time.
The eunuch in charge of the execution stopped, got up from his chair with a seductive movement, let out a mocking light laugh, and walked over.
"My good sister, how did you come? I was just feeling that watching someone being beaten is really boring. You came, it seems like you really understand your sister's heart."
A loud "bang"
Xia Zi's delicate face was slapped with five fingerprints, and Xia Ziyu's slap was made with great force.
The palace maid and eunuch kneeling on the ground trembled all over, their eyes wide with incredulity, their jaws hanging open for a long time... Her Highness the Imperial Consort... was actually beaten by someone...
"You - Xia Ziluo, dare to hit me?" It took a long time to react, shame and furious anger, a delicate face completely distorted in the sight of everyone. "Come on, take her down, beat her, use a whip to beat her, with a force thousands of times heavier than that cheap woman, Li Fei."
"Come in——"
Ren Xiazi shouted for half a day, but no one dared to move.