Chapter 31: Escape

Chen Ajiao was already waiting for Liu Che's arrival in the dormitory, but she didn't expect it to come so quickly, and Situ Youning's girl really dared to tell Liu Che about her experience last night, which made her a little surprised.

"Your Majesty..."

As soon as Liu Che entered the house, Chen Ajiao pounced on him and began to cry.

"What's wrong with you?" Liu Che was a little unsure of what to do at this time, because it was still not very clear whether the queen had anything to do with Situ Youning's disappearance.

He and Situ Youning were separated at the gate of the queen's palace, Situ Shaoqi asked Liu Che to go directly to the queen's bedroom, keep silent and ask nothing, the truth will naturally take the initiative to uncover, if it is confirmed that it is indeed the queen's doing, he will immediately send someone to search the palace.

Chen Ajiao covered her face and looked up at Liu Che aggrievedly, tears couldn't stop falling, "Your Majesty, that woman named Situ Youning is so bold. โ€

"What's wrong with Youning!" Liu Che suddenly grabbed Chen Ajiao's shoulders hard.

"Your Majesty..." For the anger that Liu Che had never seen before, Chen Ajiao felt very shocked and frightened, and immediately stopped crying.

After realizing that he had hurt Chen Ajiao, Liu Che let go of his hand, for the cousin in front of him, Liu Che still had a little apology, respect and gratitude, so no matter how willful and domineering she did for so many years, Liu Che turned a blind eye.

"Woo..." Seeing that Liu Che's attitude eased, Chen Ajiao cried even more sadly than before, "I didn't expect that not only Situ Youning bullied the concubines, but even the emperor bullied the concubines." โ€

"You said Youning bullied you?" Regarding Chen Ajiao's words, Liu Che didn't believe it at all, there were still people in this palace who could bully people who were favored by the emperor's grandmother?

"Your Majesty, please take a look." Chen Ajiao said and let go of the hand covering her cheek, and a small wound on the left side of her ear appeared in front of Liu Che's eyes.

"What's going on?"

"Your Majesty, on the way back from the imperial grandmother's palace last night, the concubine met Situ Youning, and I wanted to say hello to her, but I didn't expect her to rely on the emperor to favor her and push the concubine to the ground, but the concubine took her back to the palace to teach her a lesson."

"What did you say?!" Liu Che clenched his fists.

"Does the emperor think that the concubines should do this in order to maintain the majesty of being the mother of a country?"

Liu Che didn't want to talk to her anymore, after all, the most important thing now was Situ Youning's safety.

"And where is she now?"

Liu Che's words made Chen Ajiao very puzzled, "The concubine let her go back." โ€

"You're still lying! Situ Youning didn't return last night, and now there is no one to be seen. โ€

"How is this possible?" Chen Ajiao thought back to what happened last night incredulously, she did ask Yulin Jun's people to send her out of the palace.

"Someone, search me carefully!"

"Your Majesty, the concubine did let her send her out of the palace, maybe something happened to her outside the palace." Chen Ajiao's expression began to panic a little.

"The guards at the gate said that Situ Youning has not gone out since he entered the palace."

"What?"

In the end, the guards found the blood stains of the talent not long ago in an old house in the queen's palace, and Situ Shaoqi was already in it at that time.

"Shaoqi! What do you think? โ€

Soon after Liu Che arrived, Chen Ajiao also followed, and she was a little surprised at first when she saw Situ Shaoqi appearing here, but soon she found something that worried her, that is, she never thought that Situ Youning would be related to Situ Shaoqi.

Looking at the bloody whips, short needles and wooden planks in the room, the two men wanted to destroy them all, Chen Ajiao looked nervously at the box on the table, but in the end what she was afraid of happened, a snake poked its head out of the box, that was to prevent Situ Youning from screaming, used to threaten her.

Situ Shaoqi couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore, grabbed the snake crawling towards him, and slammed it on the wall, and the snake didn't move at all in an instant.

"Say!" Liu Che grabbed Chen Ajiao's hand vigorously and shouted angrily, "Where is Youning?" โ€

Chen Ajiao's usual arrogance has all disappeared, and if she hadn't left a hand at this time, she would have fainted from the anger of these two men.

"I really don't know..."

"How could you not know?!"

"Let go of Gillian!" Empress Dowager Dou suddenly appeared at the door and looked at Liu Che with an angry face.

"Do you think she's really dead?" As he spoke, one of them approached the torch in his hand to Situ Youning and kicked him in the face with his right foot.

Seeing that Situ Youning didn't react for a long time, the two began to panic.

"Do you want to inform the boss? The boss said that she still has use value, and she can't be allowed to die. โ€

"You stay here, I'll let you know."

Can't let me die and don't help me heal my wounds, it's really enough to look at my vitality, Situ Youning complained in his heart and slowly sat up.

"You..."

"This big brother, what kind of place is this?" Situ Youning rubbed his eyes and looked at the person in front of him.

"So you're not dead yet." The man finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Woo woo..."

"What are you crying about!"

"Great, I'm glad I'm not alone, it's nice to have you." Situ Youning said and looked around, "I'm most afraid of the dark." โ€

โ€œยทยทยทโ€ The man's face was full of questions.

"You're such a nice man, woo... I've never left Chang'an City, I didn't expect to be taken so far away," Situ Youning wiped his eyes and slowly stood up against the wall, "Were you also caught by them?" โ€

"I..."

"You must be homesick, right? Where is your home? Woohoo... Hey, looking at the appearance of my brother's platform, I should have suffered a lot. As he spoke, he walked up to the man.

"You..."

"Don't worry!" Situ Youning raised his hand and patted the man's shoulder, leaving a blood-red palm print on his clothes, "If we have the opportunity to go out, I will definitely do my best to help you." After speaking, he lowered his head and began to cry again, "I've never left Chang'an, I'm so scared, woo..."

"Aren't you in Chang'an City? Don't cry, it's really upsetting. โ€

"Really?"

The man nodded.

"Thank you!" As he spoke, he hugged the man and patted him on the back, "What a good brother, so touched, woo..." This time the cry was much louder than before.

"Hey, isn't your head..."

"The talisman my mother gave me is gone, big brother, can you help me find it?"

"Myself..."

"Please, my eyes don't seem to be able to see clearly now, woo..."

"Alright, I'll help you." Saying that, he bent down impatiently and began to look for things everywhere, "What color..."

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the iron door behind the man shut, and he realized that he had been fooled.