Shen Dingzhu lowered her eyelashes slightly to block the fog-like darkness under her eyes. She took the charcoal, held it in her hand and pondered it, and asked casually: "Princess, where did the injury on your face come from?"
Puyue was a little impatient: "Didn't you listen to me just now? I couldn't stand being beaten by the prince, so I escaped. Okay, write it quickly. I can't bear this hellish place for a moment."
Shen Dingzhu said nothing, lowered his head, and wrote eight words on the paper given by Bo Yue:
I am in Pengcheng, and there is danger here.
Puyue checked her eyes twice and frowned in confusion: "If you write like this, can General Shen Lan understand that you are locked up?"
There were some gray stains on Shen Dingzhu's face, but her bright and charming face could not be concealed. Her watery eyes looking at Bo Yue were even more radiant.
"The paper is only this big. If you don't write it like this, what else can you do? Besides, didn't the princess say that my brother should come to Pengcheng as soon as possible?"
But Puyue asked: "Then how can I prove to General Shen Lan that this was written by you?"
Shen Dingzhu smiled slightly, her beauty was not diminished by her embarrassment: "Brother recognizes my handwriting."
Pu Yue stopped asking questions and neatly rolled up the paper, tied it to the carrier pigeon's leg, and then threw it out of the window and let it fly.
Shen Dingzhu looked at her fingertips calmly, then leaned against the wall nearby, closed her beautiful eyes and rested.
Since Bo Yue came, she no longer seemed anxious.
Puyue tried to communicate with her several times, but Shen Dingzhu ignored her because she was in poor spirits. Gradually, Puyue stopped talking to her, but whenever there was a sound of movement at the cell door, she would poke her head in and take a few more glances. .
In this way, three days passed, and the jailers changed several batches.
Puyue was anxious and pushed Shen Dingzhu out of his sleep: "What's going on? Didn't your brother receive the letter? Why didn't you come to rescue us?"
Shen Dingzhu opened his misty eyes and looked at her with some confusion: "Why did the princess ask me this? Instead, she wanted to ask your carrier pigeon whether it could successfully send our letter for help? "
Doubts and a strange emotion flashed in Bo Yue's eyes.
Shen Dingzhu's red lips opened and closed: "It's so chaotic outside, maybe they have been beaten down and eaten by the unknown rebel army. Princess, don't worry, if my brother can receive the letter, he will definitely come to Pengcheng. Sooner or later, we will Can go out."
Pu Yue lost her temper for some reason and stood up suddenly: "I really wonder how you survived. Why did my brother raise you to be so useless!"
"I'm just a concubine, what use do you have me for?" Shen Dingzhu asked, making Jiang Puyue even more angry.
She turned to the cell door and paced back and forth, and Shen Dingzhu ignored her and continued to meditate with her eyes closed, her black hair disheveled, and her demure face revealing unparalleled beauty.
Sitting here, she is like a Bodhisattva who has strayed into the quagmire, full of brilliance.
Finally, Puyue fell ill.
After eating a bowl of soup and rice given by the jailer, she suffered from unbearable abdominal pain and rolled back and forth.
Shen Dingzhu changed his dull expression these days and became anxious: "Princess, are you in pain? They won't care about us, just be patient and let it pass."
Bo Yue was sweating profusely in pain, and her face was pale. The raised scars on her face looked like flesh mounds, which was even more terrifying.
She grabbed Shen Dingzhu's sleeves and her eyes were about to burst: "I...I can't bear it anymore. Please call the jailer and ask for a doctor for me."
Shen Dingzhu shook his head with regret: "How is that possible? We are prisoners now. It would be great if they don't pressure us to live and die. How can they find a doctor for us?"
Pu Yue was furious and pushed her hand away.
Probably because she disliked Shen Dingzhu's uselessness, she crawled to the side of the cell, kept beating the railings, and yelled outside: "Come on, come on, I'm going to hurt so much, you, you can't ignore me!"
Shen Dingzhu retreated to the corner and sat down, looking at Bo Yue calmly with a pair of dark eyes.
After a while, a jailer arrived and saw that Puyue was really in pain. The jailer glanced at Shen Dingzhu, who was sitting in the corner, as if he was a little frightened. Then he called his colleagues to open the cell and dragged Puyue out. .
"You'd better be honest!" Before the jailer left, he scolded Shen Dingzhu in warning.
After Bo Yue left, the expression on Shen Dingzhu's face completely calmed down, and half of her charming face was illuminated by the light cast from the window.
She raised her hand and rubbed the remaining mud on her fingertips, feeling a little disgusted with herself because she hadn't bathed in several days.
After nightfall, there was a sound in the cell and someone came in. Shen Dingzhu opened his eyes.
A tall figure walked towards him with the light behind him, until the moonlight and the light of the torch illuminated his features.
Shen Dingzhu was not surprised when she saw him, but her face was colder, like a piece of white jade, staring at him with no emotion.
Zhou Luli was a little surprised: "When did you guess that Puyue betrayed Jin?"
Shen Dingzhu twitched her red lips, not even bothering to reveal a sneer. The beauty sat upright, with nobility and coolness.
"No need to guess, your methods are too obvious. A noble princess was actually given to the prince by Emperor Beiliang and allowed to be beaten by him? The scar on her face is also fake. If it is true as she said, she disappeared She has been living a miserable life incognito for these years, so she would not have such a pair of delicate hands, not to mention, a homing pigeon that can fly over at any time is really ridiculous."
Therefore, Shen Dingzhu had already guessed that Puyue was not missing, but was hidden and deliberately revealed false news to Xiao Langyan.
After so many years of not seeing each other, Zhou Luli has become much more mature. Wearing Beiliang's armor, he seems to be a general.
Shen Dingzhu didn't want to look at such a traitor.
"Then you mix white mud into what Puyue eats? I really underestimated you before. I thought that a charming girl like you could achieve your goal by just lying. I didn't expect that you have grown a lot. .”
Shen Dingzhu once read a book and learned that in order to strengthen the cell, craftsmen used white mud that is solid and not easily corroded. This kind of mud is very sticky in the gaps.
If you accidentally eat it, it will of course make your stomach and intestines stick together and cause abdominal pain.
She gave Bo Yue a little at a time, which was enough for her to bear.
Shen Dingzhu snorted coldly, her graceful features were as cold and arrogant as the girl in the boudoir back then, as if no one could look into her eyes.
"You asked me to write the letter just because you wanted to use me to blackmail the Jin army and make them think you had me as a hostage. Therefore, I didn't use my own handwriting at all. Of course you can't deceive anyone."
The beauty's tone was cold, and she didn't look embarrassed even when she was sitting in prison.
She looked at Zhou Luli: "I advise you to return from your lost way. Betrayal of your family and country is already a despised crime. What's more, even if you kill me, my brother Shen Lan will not stop. He will avenge me. , flatten the Beiliang."
Across the cell, Zhou Luli's eyes were deep and his smile was even more unpredictable.
"Yes, your brother Shen Lan is a fierce general, loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Even if he knows that you are being held hostage by us, he will not disobey the emperor's order."
He said, taking a step closer: "Your brother will not ignore the overall situation for you, but what if it is Xiao Langyan?"
Shen Dingzhu's heart suddenly skipped a beat, and she tried not to show any nervousness on her face, but the clenched fingertips under her sleeves revealed her thoughts.
She had deliberately concealed Xiao Langyan's whereabouts. How could Zhou Luli and the others know that he was coming?
Zhou Luli's voice was long, with an inexplicable sneer.
"We have not underestimated your importance in Xiao Langyan's heart, and we would like to thank you. If you hadn't disappeared suddenly and Xiao Langyan was frantically looking for you in Yuyangguan, we still wouldn't have known his whereabouts."
Shen Dingzhu gritted his teeth, and his beautiful cheeks had a vivid charm because of his anger.
Zhou Luli's eyes deepened. He looked at the guards on the side and motioned for them to open the cell. Several people forcibly held Shen Dingzhu down and tied her up while she was struggling.
"In order to prevent you from committing suicide, I can only do this. I hope you can forgive me for being rude." Zhou Luli seemed to have some regrets, but his voice was cold.
He walked into the cell, approached Shen Dingzhu, and was spurned by her: "Disgusting, despicable! Xiao Langyan has never used such despicable methods, you will never defeat him in your life!"
Zhou Luli walked behind her, half-knelt down, and took out a wooden comb engraved with Sauvignon Blanc from his arms.
He picked up a strand of her hair with his big palm and combed it gently. Shen Dingzhu couldn't struggle, but felt nauseous.
"Do you think I want to be this kind of person? Shen Dingzhu, you don't know anything. You are so well protected that you don't know the truth at all."
Zhou Luli's voice was deep: "Is Xiao Langyan really aboveboard? In order to fight for power with the prince, he killed my eldest brother who was leading the army, cut off his reinforcements, and had him trampled to death by three thousand enemy cavalry. , what did you know at that time?"
Shen Dingzhu also knew what Zhou Luli was talking about. The so-called struggle for power was just the strange result of the court struggle. Xiao Langyan fought fiercely with the prince in order to control part of the military power.
But the murder of Zhou Luli's eldest brother was more of Concubine Xian's handiwork.
"It was you who were confused and Concubine Xian instigated it. In order to bring the Zhou family closer to the Ninth Prince, you made you hate Xiao Langyan." Shen Dingzhu scolded him for not thoroughly investigating.
Zhou Luli's thin lips curled up into an indifferent sneer: "It seems that you have really fallen in love with him. No matter what I say, you probably won't believe it."
He lowered his head slightly, came close to her ear, and said quietly: "My father has died tragically in his hands. I hate him to the core and wish to cut off his head with my own hands. But now I understand that the best way to retaliate against him is, I should let him watch the person he cares about become my person, and then kill him bit by bit."
Zhou Luli said, grabbing Shen Dingzhu's slender neck from behind with his big palm.
