usatvline Chapter 307 Where are the people?
Chapter 307 Where are the people?
The group arrived at the dark prison, where they were greeted by people outside: "Your Majesty, Consort Lan, Consort Yun, Prime Minister Ye..."
"Young Master Ye is unconscious. Have you seen the imperial physician? Has he woken up?" Consort Yun asked.
The eunuch quickly nodded in response, "The imperial physician has already been summoned to examine him, and the second young master has woken up, but..."
"Just what?" Yi Yun Kui narrowed his eyes.
The eunuch bit his lip: "This servant doesn't know what to say, Your Majesty, please come in."
The eunuch opened the door to the dark cell at the back, and the group stepped inside. They saw Ye Feiran sitting there, tilting his head and grinning foolishly.
"Feiran!" Ye Qinghao's expression turned somewhat grim, and he quickly called out again, "Feiran!"
Ye Feiran simply sat there, without any reaction.
Ye Qinghao strode forward, squinting at Ye Feiran, only to hear Ye Feiran still muttering, "Chicken legs, roast duck, lamb chops..."
Ye Qinghao raised his hand and slapped Ye Feiran across the face.
Ye Feiran turned to look at Ye Qinghao, her face full of anger: "Who are you? Why did you hit me? You dare to hit me? I'll beat you to death!"
Everyone had already noticed that something was wrong: "What's going on?"
The eunuch standing nearby hurriedly said, "This servant doesn't know either. When Young Master Ye regained consciousness, he was already like this. The imperial physician has examined him, but he couldn't explain the cause either."
"Could it be... that he knows he said something wrong and is afraid of being held accountable by the Emperor, so he's pretending to be crazy?"
Ye Qinghao suddenly turned his head, his eyes sharply fixed on Yun Fei, who was speaking.
Yun Fei felt a chill run down her spine under Ye Qinghao's gaze and took two steps back: "What I'm saying is the truth. Otherwise, how could a perfectly healthy person suddenly go mad?"
As soon as Consort Yun finished speaking, footsteps came from behind her, followed by a voice: "Your Majesty, something has happened! Something terrible has happened in the city!"
Yi Yun Kui turned his head, his brows furrowed in annoyance: "What's the panic? What serious incident has occurred?"
“There are quite a few people in the city who, while strolling on the streets, suddenly become crazy, as if they have contracted some strange disease, and start talking nonsense.”
"What?" Yi Yun Kui turned his head and glanced at Ye Fei Ran beside him: "What's going on?"
"I don't know either. All I know is that over a hundred people in the city have suddenly gone mad, and most of them are from the powerful and influential families in the city."
"The city is now in complete chaos. Some of those who have suddenly gone mad are spouting nonsense and making wild pronouncements, while others are smashing things. The city is in a state of panic, and the people who were watching the lantern festival in the streets have scattered in a panic. The prefectural government has quickly dispatched a large number of people to quell the unrest. They are currently sending those who have been arrested back to their respective residences..."
Consort Yun's face also suddenly turned ugly. How could this be?
"Dispatch the Imperial Guards to provide support."
"Yes."
Consort Lan turned to look at Consort Yun, then glanced at Ye Feiran: "It seems that Second Young Master Ye has also fallen for the trick."
"It's likely that someone deliberately caused this chaos because of the lantern festival and the large crowds on the streets today."
"I just don't know if these people have been drugged, or if there's an antidote. If they can't be cured, then this will cause a huge mess."
Ye Qinghao's face also showed a hint of panic: "I told you, Fei Ran is my child. I know him very well. Although Fei Ran is usually uneducated and incompetent, he would never say such rebellious words."
"Now that Fei Ran is in this state, I beg Your Majesty to have mercy and allow me to take him home so that the physicians in the manor can treat him."
"Your Majesty..." Ye Qinghao bit his lip, looking grief-stricken. "Feiran is the child that my wife risked her life to give birth to. If something really happens to her, I really have no way to explain it to her."
Consort Lan nodded: "Since this matter is not just about Young Master Ye alone, and there is a reason for it, then there is indeed no way to blame Young Master Ye."
Yi Yun Kui was extremely agitated: "Take him away, take him away."
Ye Qinghao quickly responded and stepped forward to pick up Ye Feiran.
"That is my daughter..."
"Where is Miss Ye?" Yi Yun Kui turned to look at the eunuch.
The eunuch hurriedly said, "Miss Ye is locked up right next to us. She hasn't been able to get any information out of her; she just keeps saying she doesn't know anything."
“Of course I know nothing; this whole thing was deliberate.” Consort Lan stepped out of the dark cell: “Take me to see it.”
"Yes."
After leaving the dark cell, the group walked to another dark cell a few meters away from the one where Ye Feiran had been imprisoned.
"That's it."
The eunuch opened the door and stood aside with his head bowed.
The first to enter was Consort Lan. Upon seeing the scene inside, she couldn't help but exclaim in shock, "My God... how... how could this be? Where is Miss Ye? Where is she? And where did all this blood come from?"
Consort Lan pressed for answers, and everyone was confused about what had happened. But judging from Consort Lan's tone, they knew that something must have gone wrong.
The group followed Consort Lan into the dark dungeon, where they found it in complete disarray.
There were still traces of blood on the ground, more than a dozen bloody handprints on the wall, and a bloodstained garment lying haphazardly in a corner...
Before anyone could speak, Consort Lan had already strode to the corner and picked up the garment.
It was an outer robe, a sky-blue color, but now, that sky-blue robe had a hole in the abdomen, as if it had been ripped by a sharp weapon, and from that tear, a glaring bright red color spread outwards.
"This..." Consort Lan's hand holding the robe trembled slightly. "This should be... Miss Ye's clothes, right? How could this be? Is Miss Ye injured?"
"But where is Miss Ye?"
Consort Yun's face also showed disbelief, with a hint of bewilderment.
All eyes turned to the eunuch: "Speak! What exactly happened? What did you do after bringing Miss Ye back?"
The eunuch was also taken aback by the scene in the dark cell, and his expression was extremely flustered: "This servant...this servant doesn't know either! After the interrogation, this servant closed the door, and no one has approached this dark cell since. This servant doesn't know how Miss Ye suddenly disappeared into thin air?"
"Interrogation?" Ye Qinghao narrowed his eyes. "What did Qing'an do wrong? Why is she being interrogated? And who is interrogating her? Why not call out the interrogator and ask if Qing'an was tortured, and where she was taken?"