Dressed as the villain's stepmother

Jiang Lianzhu didn't know the twists and turns in his mind. Seeing his sudden change of words, Jiang Lianzhu raised her eyebrows slightly: "Thank you, sir."

After she finished speaking, she carried the food box and walked all the way in, pretending to deliver a few steamed buns to the cells she passed by. It wasn't until she turned the corner that she straightened up and walked towards Xue Yin's cell.

The Sky Prison is still cold and damp. There is only a broken straw mat and a pile of damp straw in each cell. Almost all the prisoners seen are lying on the straw mats and wrapping themselves in wet straw to keep warm. It can be seen that the atmosphere in the Sky Prison is Winter is so painful.

Jiang Lianzhu shook her head. Xue Yin's cell was in the innermost cell. She walked faster.

"Clang-" When passing by a cell, a small sound suddenly came from inside.The sound was so abrupt, and it seemed particularly abrupt amidst the rustling sounds. Jiang Lianzhu was suddenly startled, and subconsciously glanced into the cell.

Inside was a man who was shackled with anklets. He probably wanted to drink water from the tattered and rotten wooden table, but he tripped over the anklets and fell to the ground.

Her eyes touched the man's face, and she frowned slightly. She suddenly felt that the man looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him before.

Jiang Lianzhu didn't think too much about it. She took a quick look and left quickly with the food box.

I quickly walked to Xue Yin's cell. The cell was as dark as ever, but what was different this time was that a candle was lit on the stone wall outside. Although the candle was dim, the situation inside could still be vaguely seen.

There seemed to be more than one person inside. Jiang Lianzhu approached the cell door and took a closer look, only to see that it was Prince Xiang and his wife who were inside. She didn't know when they were imprisoned in Xueyin's cell.

The two of them were sitting next to each other, and the one with his eyes closed tightly, resting on Princess Xiang's lap, who else could it be if it wasn't Xue Yin?

Jiang Lianzhu couldn't help but feel a thump in her heart. She stretched out her hand and knocked lightly on the iron cell door. The slight sound instantly attracted the attention of the two people inside.

Princess Xiang recognized Jiang Lianzhu at a glance, and her eyes turned red immediately. She and Prince Xiang dragged Xue Yin to a place with better light, and begged with her eyes exposed: "Lianzhu, Yin'er has a high fever, can you help me?" he?"

When she saw Jiang Lianzhu, she knew that Xue Yin was saved.

Jiang Lianzhu couldn't help but feel complicated when she saw that Princess Xiang had changed from her usual simple and noble appearance. Her clothes were wrinkled, her hair was messy, her hands and face were dirty.

"Miss Jiang, Yiner has had a fever for two days and has not been able to eat for the past two days. What should we do?" King Xiang said with some choking. Both of them knew that Jiang Lianzhu had sneaked in, so they deliberately lowered their voices. , looking at her expectantly.

Xue Yin was closing his eyes tightly at this moment, his lips were white, but his cheeks were covered with a thin layer of powder. He looked really serious.

The clothes on his body were already in tatters. It seemed that he had been tortured a lot during this period. The blood stains that oozed out were scabbed on the clothes. At first glance, they looked like blood clothes, and the traces were terrifying.

"Feed him this, once in the morning and evening. He will slowly get better in the next few days." Unexpectedly, the things she prepared were just used. Jiang Lianzhu hurriedly opened the food box and handed the antipyretic pills she made inside to Princess Xiang. .

Seeing Princess Xiang taking a few pills with trembling hands, she then took out a portion of white porridge and a few white flour buns from the food box, poured the white porridge into the eating bowl in the cell, and then put the bowl back and put it away.

It was very cold, and the bowl of white porridge was no longer steamy and had become gentle, but it made the eyes of King Xiang and his wife warm again.

Since I entered the prison, I have either had rotten rice, rotten vegetables or rice bran steamed buns.Both of them were from noble families. Although they were not particular about finesse, they had not suffered such hardships. Even if there was white porridge that was not sour, it was clear and watery, with barely a few grains of rice visible.

In order to survive, the two of them insisted on eating these meals to fill their stomachs, but they still lost a lot of weight.

Especially Princess Xiang, who was already in poor health, and now she is even more emaciated to the naked eye.

"Thank you so much, Lianzhu." Princess Xiang's tears finally rolled down. She forced a pill into Xue Yin's mouth with trembling hands, pinched his chin and made him swallow it, with a nervous and anxious expression. Only then did it ease.

Jiang Lianzhu felt a little sad when she saw this scene, but when she saw that there were no injuries on the bodies of King Xiang and his wife, and that Mo Yue was not tortured, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After passing the medicine to Princess Xiang again, Jiang Lianzhu asked about their situation.

"I heard that there are witnesses in the case of Prince Xiang's Mansion. Is this true or false?"

When she mentioned this, Princess Xiang's expression became angry: "The evidence found is true, but the evidence is false."

Seeing Princess Xiang's excitement, Jiang Lianzhu suddenly remembered why she felt that the man she just met looked familiar.

That person was one of the people she had seen when she went to Prince Xiang's Mansion before and was punished for taking advantage of Princess Xiang's relief efforts to save the refugees.

"Wasn't the Crown Prince in a cell by himself earlier?" Jiang Lianzhu asked.

"It turned out to be true. Those jackals were determined to beat him, but Yin'er didn't compromise. Seeing that they couldn't punish him, they turned to me and the prince, hoping to threaten Yin'er. Yin'er My son couldn't bear the suffering for me and the prince, so he secretly slept on the stone slab at night and made himself feverish. Those people saw that he was unconscious and could not interrogate him, so they only had a few days of peace and quiet." Princess Xiang's eyes were red and she gritted her teeth. road.

"Seeing that Yin'er's fever was severe, those people were unwilling to give him any medicine. They seemed to want him to be burned to death in this prison."

Prince Xiang was silent on the side, his eyes were red: "In the end, it is my incompetence that failed to protect you."

Xue Yin was still unconscious. Princess Xiang hid the bottle of medicine in the straw. The two of them did not take a sip of the bowl of porridge and fed it to Xue Yin bit by bit.

Jiang Lianzhu knew clearly that these items were found from the ship brought by Xue Yin. Regardless of whether they had anything to do with Prince Xiang and his wife, they had to get Xue Yin's confession.

She sighed, admiring Xue Yin's toughness and filial piety.

"Prince and concubine, Yun Chuan has now personally gone to Jiangnan to investigate this matter. You should be aware of his abilities. Please hold on and give us more time. We will get to the bottom of this matter as soon as possible and return Xiang Xiang to the truth. The palace is completely innocent."

Prince Xiang nodded, with hope in his eyes: "Okay, we will persevere. Please worry about our Prince Xiang Mansion."

"Your Majesty, there is no need to be polite to us. We all know that Prince Xiang's Mansion is innocent." Jiang Lianzhu nodded. Seeing that it was almost time, she took a deep breath and said, "I'm leaving. Take care of yourselves."