novelden Chapter 207 Zhu Yu—Grandfather!
Chapter 207 Zhu Yu—Grandfather!
The voices of the two guards grew fainter and fainter.
A-Zhu was in a state of shock. The fact that the willow branches outside hadn't attacked Lin Shu was already astonishing, but now the vines in this secret room were actually making way for her...
Ah Zhu knew this vine better than anyone else; no one but Zhu Yao could control it. Just who was Lin Shu?
Thinking about it, Azhu looked up at Lin Shu with a complicated expression.
Lin Shu happened to lower her head and, by the light of the fire in the secret room, examined A Zhu. In that glance, she noticed a fleeting change in the dark expression on A Zhu's face.
Sure enough, he's not stupid anymore!
A-Zhu felt a little uncomfortable under Lin Shu's gaze, so she quickly lowered her head, put on a bewildered look, and tugged at Lin Shu's sleeve: "Sister...! Amazing!"
"Hmm." This time, Lin Shu didn't deny it. Instead, she gave him a deep look. She wanted to see what he was up to now that he was sober, yet he was still pretending to be stupid and getting close to her.
A-Zhu felt a little guilty under her gaze, and gave Lin Shu a fawning smile...
After that, neither of them spoke, and they continued to walk down the steps of the secret passage. There were faint lights on both sides of the passage, so they could see it.
As soon as I stepped down the stairs, a strong smell of blood hit me.
What came into view were three or four small but exquisitely and comfortably decorated dark cells, filled with young and beautiful women, all dressed in luxurious clothes, but with vacant eyes. When they heard the noise of their entry, they were startled and dared not lift their heads.
Looking at these young women, and recalling Zhu Yao's contradictory appearance, Lin Shu roughly understood something.
Walking further in, I saw a familiar face in the third room—the bandit leader Zhu Laoba! What was she doing here? And she'd been beaten half to death.
To be honest, Zhu Laoba is only considered handsome; Zhu Yao shouldn't even be interested in him! Besides, Shen Lin mentioned that she came to the capital to find her sister, and they parted ways after entering the city! I never expected to run into her here!
However, Lin Shu's main purpose this time was to investigate, and she did not intend to rescue anyone.
So she walked straight past it, went to the innermost airtight chamber, glanced at the stone door, then raised her right hand and pressed on a protrusion.
"Click... Boom..."
As the stone door slowly opened, a cloud of dust billowed down. Lin Shu waved the dust away and went inside first.
Ah Zhu quickly followed behind, and the stone door slowly closed after he entered.
I saw——
in the secret room.
Directly opposite the stone gate is a large stone wall. In front of the stone wall, a person with a full head of silver hair has two bloody holes gouged out of his shoulder blades. Two iron hooks pierce straight through the bloody holes, hanging the person halfway on the open ground in front of the stone wall.
The man's head drooped naturally, motionless like a dead man. Even when Lin Shu and her companion entered, they failed to elicit the slightest commotion from him.
"Sister, is he dead?" Azhu asked cautiously, tugging at Lin Shu's sleeve.
This was Azhu's first time entering this place. Having lived for over ten years, he only knew that the clan leader had hidden something in this secret passage, but he only found out what it was now.
"No." Lin Shu looked at the silver-haired man's slightly heaving chest and knew he was not dead.
Before A-Zhu could say anything more, she heard a noise coming from the stone door again, as if it was about to be opened from the outside!
At this point, who else could be in here but Zhu Yao?
Lin Shu quickly looked around and found nothing to hide behind the stone wall except for it. So she quickly pulled Azhu and hid behind the stone wall.
"boom……"
The door opened, and there it was—Zhu Yao!
Her slender figure slowly walked in, while Zhu Ke stood guard outside.
The banquet was supposed to end much earlier, but not long after Lin Shu left, Zhu Yao noticed that the rattan cane in her hand was becoming increasingly active, which made her suddenly anxious. Ignoring the guests, she made up an excuse and headed towards the secret room!
Of course, before coming, she asked Xiang'er to confirm that the Pavilion Master of Wushuang Pavilion was resting, and even Chou Er, who was serving behind him, was guarding the door, which made her feel much more at ease.
But once inside the courtyard, she not only discovered the dog hole, but also the footprints on the grass that stretched all the way to the entrance of the secret passage. Her heart jumped again, and she rushed into the secret room without stopping!
in the secret room.
Zhu Yao looked around, finally fixing her gaze on the stone wall, and then approached it step by step...
Hearing the approaching voice, the man with the cane, from behind the stone wall, Lin Shu wondered what would happen if she killed Zhu Yao now! A Zhu dared not breathe, fearing that Zhu Yao would discover his presence and kill him!
"Cough cough..." Just as Zhu Yao was only a few steps away from the stone wall, a cough interrupted her movements.
Coughing, Zhu Yu opened her cloudy, blurry eyes as if she had just woken up. She turned her head and looked at Zhu Yao with disgust, her voice hoarse and unpleasant:
"Ha! Another face change? Seeing you the moment I open my eyes is disgusting! Cough cough..."
The words "face swap" caused Zhu Yao's expression to contort for a moment. She then stopped approaching the stone wall and instead walked towards Zhu Yu, using her cane to lift Zhu Yu's chin.
"Yu'er is awake! Your great-aunt hasn't seen you in a long time, how come you've aged so much?"
Zhu Yao had intended to use the word "old" to provoke Zhu Yu, after all, what man in this world doesn't love beauty! Unfortunately, Zhu Yu truly didn't care, and after diverting Zhu Yao's attention, he didn't speak again.
Seeing that he had regained his usual indifferent and lifeless expression, Zhu Yao suddenly smiled, leaned close to his ear, and whispered:
"Alas! What a beautiful woman she once was, what a pity!"
"Yu'er, tell me, if that bastard who escaped more than thirty years ago were to come back and see you like this now, would he still recognize you as his father?"
The secret room was spacious and quiet, so the sound entered the ears of everyone in the room without any obstruction.
Zhu Yu's eyes finally changed, and he looked directly at Zhu Yao. He knew that since Zhu Yao dared to say such a thing, she must have known Xiao Wen's whereabouts!
Seeing this, Zhu Yao let out a few sinister laughs and continued to reveal Xue Wen's information:
"Hehe...! That bastard is lucky. Not only did he marry the Prince of Dingbei of Fengming, but he also gave you a stunningly talented granddaughter. I heard he's pregnant again now!"
Lin Shu, behind the stone wall, was shocked. She had known about Xue Wen's pregnancy in a letter home, but what shocked her was that the half-dead man outside was actually her maternal grandfather!
Zhu Yu did not show any joy after hearing this. Instead, she looked at Zhu Yao warily and said in a hoarse voice, "What exactly... do you want to say?"
"Yu'er, don't be angry. Your great-aunt means no harm. She just wants the blue pendant that you took with you back then. That pendant originally belonged to the Witch Clan. How could it be left to languish outside?"
Zhu Yao seemed to really like the expression on Zhu Yu's face; after all, it had been decades, and it was rare to see such emotional fluctuations.
"The Witch Clan? You... this outsider who has usurped the throne... dare to talk about the Witch Clan?"
Zhu Yu looked at Zhu Yao with eyes as calm as a still well, chuckled twice, forcefully turned her head away from her cane, and said with certainty in her tone:
"Your body can't take it anymore!"
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