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The Palace of Hell! Yanqiu's heart trembled, and she couldn't help but hug herself tightly, not daring to think about it anymore.

She thought hard about who poisoned the Queen. Logically speaking, there was no way to manipulate the food because Manager Yang was watching, so who did it? ... She thought about it so much that her head hurt, but she couldn't think of the reason. There was no daylight in Gong Zhengsi's cell, and she didn't know whether it was day or night. Only when she was hungry did she feel like a few hours had passed.

This maddening feeling is boundless, as if it can only be forgotten like this forever.

Yanqiu couldn't help but feel a sense of despair in her heart as she thought about it. At this moment, a shrill scream suddenly sounded in the cell: "No! No! I don't want to go! Let me go! Let me go! Feng"

The sudden sound spread in the dark cell, and it was like an invisible hand stirring the entire deep sea. Countless cells began to buzz and move. Yan Qiu shivered and couldn't help but hug herself tighter.

The voice was still screaming: "Let me go! I won't go! I won't go!..."

Yan Qiu's eyes showed fear, why is this voice so familiar... It seems... it belongs to Ji Qiu!

A sudden thought occurred in her mind, and she rushed to the bars of her cell and shouted loudly: "Ji Qiu! Ji Qiu! What's wrong with you? Ji Qiu... what are they going to do!"

"Crack!" A whip came from nowhere and hit her hand on the iron railing hard. A sallow face appeared in front of her cell, it was a man who looked like Gong Zhengji. He touched the snakeskin whip in his hand and sneered: "You are seeking death! What are you shouting about?! You will be next!"

Yanqiu's hand hurt as if something was drilling into her bones. She asked angrily, "What's next? What are you going to do to Ji Qiu?"

The expressionless chamberlain Jie Jie smiled strangely: "What else can I do? I'm going to ask you a question!"

Yanqiu took a breath of air. Ji Qiu's voice was getting closer and closer, and she was like a chicken about to be slaughtered, screaming and struggling. When she heard Yanqiu's voice, she was like a straw grasping at the edge of a desperate situation, and she quickly screamed: "Sister Yanqiu, help me, I don't know anything, I don't want to go, I don't want to..."

Her crying and begging voice made Yanqiu panic. Ignoring the waiter in front of her, she rushed forward and shouted through the iron fence: "Ji Qiu, it's okay, it's okay..."

"Papa!" After a few more sounds, the sallow-skinned chamberlain lashed out with his whip again. Yanqiu endured silence and let the snakeskin whip fall on her: "Jiqiu, don't panic. , If you haven't done it, they won't find it on you!...Ah..." With the last cry of pain, it was the waiter's whip that hit her face.

My face was burning with pain, and it was so painful that tears were about to flow. Ji Qiu was pulled over crying, and was about to be pulled out of the cell to be tortured. She cried and clung to Yanqiu's cell, crying: "Sister Yanqiu, help me, help me!"

Yan Qiu was flustered. Although Ji Qiu was not good in every way, she had been a close sister to her since she entered the palace! Deep down in her heart, she had long regarded her as her sister. How could she watch her being dragged away by Gong Zhengsi's people and forced to use that terrible instrument of torture?

Ji Qiu refused to leave, and the escorting chamberlains couldn't help but get angry, and they all rudely greeted Ji Qiu with the whips in their hands. Their whips were made from snake skin and were extremely heavy. With only a few strokes, Ji Qiu's body was covered in blood.

She almost stopped crying, and Yanqiu was beaten several times in the cell. She would only defend herself over and over: "It's not her, it's not Ji Qiu, it's really not her..."

"Who is that?" The sallow-skinned chamberlain said in a nonchalant manner: "If no one is willing to confess, we have to make them speak one by one."

As he spoke, the whip in his hand struck Ji Qiu's body without any effort, causing Ji Qiu to shrink into a ball in pain.

Several chamberlains fought like this for a while, and Ji Qiu finally couldn't help but scream: "It's not me, I...I confess! I confess!... Wuwu..."

When this sound came out, all the servants who were fighting vigorously stopped their hands. The sallow-skinned chamberlain smiled sinisterly: "Wouldn't it have been done if we had told you earlier? This will save our family from getting tired from the beating. Say it quickly!"

Although he seemed very careless when he said it, his eyes like dead fish couldn't help but light up. If someone confessed, then Gong Zhengsi would have done a great job!

Ji Qiu choked, raised her red and swollen eyes, glanced at Yan Qiu, said something quickly with her chapped lips, and loudly said: "She did it! She did it! She... poisoned the Queen. !”

With a bang, Yanqiu heard something explode in her head. She opened her eyes wide and looked at Ji Qiu in front of her. Something slowly passed through her mind. Just now Ji Qiu said, she said, she said, she was sorry... …

Then came this shocking slander.

Everyone in the cell fell silent, and for a moment you could almost hear a pin drop. The chamberlain outside the cell sneered: "Is it really her?"

"Really, really, my father-in-law must believe me. It was Yanqiu who poisoned the queen!" Ji Qiu knelt down and grabbed the corner of the servant's clothes, pointed at the stunned Yanqiu and cried, "my father-in-law believes in me, how can I do this?" Dare to poison the Queen? Besides, this slave is waiting on the Queen to change her clothes, so there is no way to do anything. Only she, Yan Qiu...she has a chance!"

Yanqiu looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief. No, she must have heard wrongly. How could Ji Qiu speak like this?

The waiter glanced at Yanqiu and sneered, pushing away the hand that Jiqiu was holding on to: "How do you expect our family to believe you? Didn't you just have a deep love for each other as sisters? Which song were you singing at this time? ?Why can’t our family understand?”

Yanqiu opened her mouth, and just as she was about to say something, Jiqiu had already rushed towards her again, crying: "My father-in-law, don't you believe me? But this is absolutely true, it's Yanqiu...she is in the daily life of the empress." The flower ointment is poisoned, and she puts in a small amount every day and can’t tell at all.”

The chamberlain's eyes narrowed, looking straight at Yan Qiu like a cone. The fog in Yanqiu's heart suddenly became clear, and she couldn't help shouting: "Ji Qiu, how could you do this?!"

Ji Qiu looked at her, her red and swollen eyes flashed with guilt, but soon she started crying: "Sister Yanqiu, although we have a deep love for each other as sisters, what you do cannot implicate me. If I die, What should I do if I die? I still have my parents alive, and I, I... I don’t want to die."

Her intermittent crying made Yanqiu feel desolate in her heart. Yes, she doesn’t want to die, she wants to live, she wants to be rich and powerful, she wants to reach the sky and become King Jing’s concubine!

But she didn't want to die, but someone else died? !

Yanqiu felt her heart was clogged and her eyes were burning, but she couldn't shed a single tear. The chamberlain waved his hand, stared at Yanqiu, and said slowly: "Take this Jianqiu back first, and interrogate this Yanqiu first!"

As soon as he finished speaking, several wolf-like chamberlains opened the door of Yanqiu's cell and pulled her out. Only then did Yanqiu feel the shadow of death hanging over his head. She belatedly screamed: "It's not me, it's not me!"

"It's too late!" The chamberlain sneered, grabbing her hair and sneering at her, showing his yellowed teeth: "Confess well, how you poisoned the Queen, you have to spit out every word!"

Yanqiu endured nausea and fear and turned away, just in time to see Jiqiu being dragged down. When she turned around, she clearly saw the luck and joy of surviving the disaster in Jiqiu's eyes.

My heart just sank into the abyss.

…

In the dark night, at the side door of the palace gate, a dark figure hurriedly bent down and walked out of the palace gate. A figure stood in the shadow. The dark figure lowered his head: "Gong Zhengsi has found out."

The figure pondered and asked in a low voice: "Have you caught anyone?"

"It's a female officer named Yanqiu. Gong Zhengsi is using severe torture on her. I'm afraid... she won't last long." The black figure said in a low voice.

The figure was silent for a while and asked slowly: "What about the other palace people?"

"You should be able to be released tomorrow. However, you still have to be restrained and cannot serve the emperor and queen, so..." the black figure said cautiously. He said and looked around.

"Well, if Yanqiu's female officer recruits someone, if you hear anything harmful to me, just..." He gestured. The black figure nodded and then hurriedly disappeared at the palace gate.

The side palace door closed gently. The man standing in the shadow slowly walked out, and the lamp next to the palace door shone dimly on his face, reflecting a gloomy and solemn look...

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I finally climbed up and spent the past few days moving, organizing, and doing my daughter’s birthday party. I was so tired that I almost vomited blood, but today I finally revised eight chapters of the new article and wrote a chapter about the Demon Queen. I continued to work hard. I want to get back to writing!

I'm in tears, I still have to revise the manuscript for publication...