Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Ye Xi felt like her brain was about to explode. The atmosphere was quite ambiguous, and she couldn't help but shout for help in her heart. She quickly looked away, and then her fingers nervously dug into the clothes on her thighs. She felt her ears turn red and burned like fire.

"Madam, your clothes today are different from usual. Is it to disguise yourself?" Wei Jue broke the silence.

"...Yes, I was afraid of being discovered, so I disguised myself." Ye Xi took a long time to react and felt that he couldn't speak clearly.

"The appearance is outstanding, and the clothes are just the icing on the cake." Wei Jue said.

The heat on Ye Xi's face just subsided and instantly rose again. Fortunately, she was covered by the veil. She wondered in her heart, is this man praising her? So straightforward. In fact, Ye Xi must be happy to be praised by a man with outstanding appearance. With the veil covering her, the corners of her mouth rose wildly, and she couldn't suppress it. Who doesn't like to be praised?

Ye Xi suddenly thought of Pei Zhu. Pei Zhu also liked to praise her beauty, but she was his wife, so she thought it was natural. After all, businessmen knew how to talk. Well, she paused and glanced at Wei Jue, thinking that officials were talking nonsense. Hey, he probably said it casually to thank her for helping her to make her happy. She couldn't believe it.

Her smile disappeared instantly and she replied, "Thank you for the compliment, sir." Then she said nothing more.

Wei Jue clearly felt that the mood of the lady in front of him had changed. He wondered what he had said wrong, stared at Ye Xi, and just as he was about to speak, he heard someone outside reporting.

"My lord, it's ready."

"Got it." Wei Jue responded and stood up, "Madam, let's go."

When Ye Xi saw Wei Jue stand up, she also stood up quickly, put on her veil, adjusted herself, and after making sure that everything was safe, she stood up and waited for Wei Jue to lead the way.

Wei Jue saw that she was ready and said, "Madam, please."

When they walked out of the door, Xue Jiu appeared. It turned out that he had been waiting outside the door. Wei Jue walked in front, followed by Ye Xi, and Xue Jiu was behind Ye Xi.

They came to a gate with a high stone wall. It was called a gate, but in fact it was just a lot of thick wooden stakes nailed into the ground as a "wall", with a few slightly thinner wooden doors in the middle. From this, the space inside the stone wall was visible. There were two guards guarding the gate. When they saw Wei Jue coming, they greeted him and unlocked the door for him. The three of them walked through the door and came to another door on the left, and the guard inside unlocked it for them.

Ye Xi thought that after unlocking the door, there would be the so-called prison cell inside, but she didn't expect that there were stairs leading down. She noticed that there were several wooden stakes standing on the stone wall close to the ground. After seeing the stairs, Ye Xi realized that the so-called wooden stakes in those places should be the so-called "windows", which should be used for lighting the prison cells in the basement.

There were oil lamps on the stairs, although they were not bright enough to see the road. Not long after they walked down, they turned a corner, and then Ye Xi smelled the lingering smell of rust. It was the smell of blood, she was absolutely sure.

At the end was the real prison cell. In the middle were several tables put together, with many strange iron tools on them. Ye Xi only recognized the knives, awls, and branding irons. She had never seen the others. She knew they were all torture instruments. She didn't dare to look closely, but the black stains and the stench on the instruments told her that they should be coagulated blood or human tissue.