Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 834 - 832_1

Chapter 834: Chapter 832_1

At dusk, a black "swallow" flew into the cell and landed on Shangguan Xuanyi’s shoulder.

This was one of the "swallows" Shangguan Xuanyi released this morning.

The two birds that Shangguan Xuanyi released, which resembled swallows, were messenger crows raised by Xiao’er in her spatial realm.

Messenger crow was a name Xiao’er came up with. They could be considered mutant crows, as their tails slightly resembled scissors. When they flew in the sky, they could easily be mistaken for swallows, but they were essentially crows.

Crows were the smartest birds on earth, with very high intelligence. And the crows raised in the spatial realm were even smarter and craftier.

Xiao’er thought it was a waste not to make full use of the intelligence of the crows.

With time on her hands, she taught them to carry messages like homing pigeons. Actually, it was more like communicating her thoughts with them in the spatial realm. And to Xiao’er’s delight, the crows truly understood.

Using messenger crows for delivering messages, under certain special circumstances, wouldn’t arouse the enemy’s suspicion. Like this morning, the guards who saw them flying out of the cell assumed they were swallows nesting in the house. Who would have thought they were messengers!

Shangguan Xuanyi took off the message tied to the crow’s back, this message had been sent back undisturbed.

Seeing this made Shangguan Xuanyi frown.

The two messenger crows he released this morning, one was to send a message to Zhao Yong and the other to Yang Liu.

Now, the crow carrying the message to Yang Liu had returned. This could mean only one thing: the crow had found Yang Liu, but she couldn’t remove the message, so it came back.

If it wasn’t able to find Yang Liu, it would have continued searching.

Seeing this, Xiao’er also frowned. Why couldn’t Yang Liu remove the message? Could it be that she was dead?

This idea gave Xiao’er quite a scare!

She quickly shook her head. No, that couldn’t be it!

Shangguan Xuanyi wrote another note and released another messenger crow from his spatial ring. This crow had the specific task of delivering messages to Yang Mei; he needed to let Yang Mei check on Yang Liu’s situation.

As the messenger crow took flight, Xiao’er felt a lump in her throat.

Shangguan Xuanyi held Xiao’er’s hand. "Don’t worry, my people won’t have any accidents so easily."

The sisters Yang Liu and Yang Mei had been by Xiao’er’s side for many years. She had long considered them sisters. Shangguan Xuanyi knew that in Xiao’er’s heart, they were as important as her own relatives. This year, she had even started to prepare their dowry and was looking for their future husbands, hoping they could have a grand wedding when they turned twenty.

If something happened to Yang Liu, Xiao’er would definitely be devastated.

Xiao’er, whose heart was in turmoil, said: "Brother Shangguan, we need to go out and find Yang Liu!"

"Alright." Once Shangguan Xuanyi heard this, he agreed without hesitation.

Even if this escape would disrupt all his prior arrangements.

Shangguan Xuanyi quickly took out a pen and paper and began to issue new orders.

He then released two more messenger crows from his spatial ring, attached the messages, and let them fly out.

The guards outside the cell saw more "swallows" flying out of the cell and couldn’t help but comment: "Why are so many swallows flying out of the cell? Could it be that the prisoners are trying to send messages to people outside?

"Have you had your brains fried by the sun? Have you ever seen a swallow acting as a messenger pigeon? When the two were put into the cell, they didn’t have a birdcage with them. Where would they get swallows to send out messages?"

"That’s true!" Upon hearing this, the guard realized he was overthinking.

Probably this year, more swallows flew in from the north, and they haven’t settled in yet.

"When it gets dark, we’ll go out and find Yang Liu." Shangguan Xuanyi, watching the messenger crows fly off, said.

Xiao’er nodded.

Sun Yang in the opposite cell listlessly lifted his head and squinted. "It’s strange. How do I hear the sound of birds flying?"

Hearing this, Xiao’er glanced at Sun Yang. People with vision impairment indeed had an acute sense of hearing.

Xiao’er thought for a moment. She took out a gold hairpin from her space, unlocked the latch, and walked out. She crossed over to the opposite cell.

Sun Yang looked in the direction of the sound. "There was no sound of the dungeon door being unlocked, so how is there a sound of a lock being opened from the cell opposite?"

Next, Xiao’er used the gold hairpin to unlock Sun Yang’s cell. She approached him and said, "This is an antidote pill that the imperial doctor created. Try and see if it can restore your eyesight."

Xiao’er placed a bottle of pills in Sun Yang’s hands.

With handling the bottle, Sun Yang was caught off guard. So the one who unlocked the cell was the Sixth Prince’s wife?

Since when can a prince’s wife have such petty thief skills?

Seeing his stunned face, Xiao’er said: "Don’t worry, it’s not poison!"

After that, she didn’t bother about him any further. She locked the cell and returned to her own cell.

...

That night, there was no moonlight, only a few cold stars twinkled in the night sky filled with dark clouds.

Sometimes there would be streaks of lightning in the distance, but no thunder could be heard.

A dark figure, blending with the night, slowly approached from afar.

He arrived at the entrance of the dungeon, signaled the guard to unlock the door, and walked inside.

In the cell, Yang Liu was bound with iron shackles on her hands and legs, fastened to the wall. Her clothes were in tatters, everywhere were bloody patches and wounds.

The shadow silently stepped in front of Yang Liu.

He looked at her emotionlessly. "Speak! Who is your master?!"

This person has martial arts skills that are not inferior to his own, and even the maids by their side were highly skilled. Someone who can hire such skilled fighters as maids definitely wasn’t an ordinary person!

Yang Liu hung her head as if she hadn’t heard him at all, giving him no response.

Seeing this, the shadow picked up a whip soaked in saltwater from the side and began whipping Yang Liu relentlessly. The whip had fine hooks embedded on it, tearing away her flesh as it landed.

"Speak or not! Will you speak!..." The whip kept landing ruthlessly on Yang Liu.

But no matter how much the shadow beat her, Yang Liu remained silent.

In the end, Yang Liu’s clothes were all torn apart, and a bottle fell from her body.

Seeing this, the shadow stopped whipping and picked up the bottle.

When she saw him pick up the bottle, Yang Liu’s face changed. She lifted her head, looked at the shadow angrily, but her voice was unusually weak, "Don’t touch my things!"

The shadow opened the bottle and sniffed. A unique fragrance wafted out, refreshing the spirit!

Something clicked in his mind and he laughed. "Ha ha! You think if you don’t speak, I won’t know who you are?"

Having said that, the shadow strode out of the cell.