Harem Daily Life

Chapter 297 Secret Passage

With the help of the faint light, Tao Yanyan found that the secret passage could go further down, so she called out to the Demon Lord who had been looking for a mechanism around the stone gate: "Why don't you go forward and see, maybe you can get out."

The Demon Lord had no choice but to walk in front, relying on the dim light of the fire stick to lead her along the secret passage.

Coming to a fork in the road, neither of them knew which way to go.

"This is your home, you choose." Tao Yanyan gave the choice to the Demon Lord. The Demon Lord thought about it and chose the road on the left.

The two of them walked along the road and unexpectedly came to a secret room.

"If we can't find the exit, then we will go back the way we came and take the right road at the fork in the road." As soon as the Demon Lord finished speaking, a female voice came from the corner and said, "Who is it? Who is there?"

Tao Yanyan was startled by the sudden sound, and hid behind the Demon Lord with a scream: "Yes, yes, yes... there is a ghost!"

The Demon Lord calmed himself down and raised the fire stick to shine at the woman who made the sound.

The woman was about 40 years old, and her face was pale because she had not seen the sun for a long time. Her clothes were torn and tattered, with only a few pieces of clothing covering her main body. Her hair was long, smelly, and tangled.

"Who are you? Why are you locked up here?" asked the Demon Lord.

It was obvious that she had been locked up for decades. She was so thin that her cheeks were sunken and she no longer looked like a human.

The woman heard the man's voice, but couldn't see clearly in the darkness, so she asked, "Who are you? Did that bitch Yin Qiaoying send you here?"

Hearing the woman calling the Madam by her name, the Demon Lord frowned and asked, "Do you know my mother?"

As soon as the words fell, the woman suddenly became excited: "What? You are Yin Qiaoying's son?" As if she had thought of something, she shook her head repeatedly: "Impossible, you can't be her son, she can't have children, how can you be her son!"

The Demon Lord and Tao Yanyan were both shocked.

The Demon Lord was a little dazed for a moment.

Tao Yanyan swallowed her saliva and asked carefully, "How do you know she can't have children? Who are you to her?"

The woman kept saying "impossible" while crawling towards them. After Tao Yanyan asked, he took a step back, trying to avoid her.

The woman raised her head, lay on the ground and looked up hard. Finally, she saw the two people clearly through her messy hair. Her eyes paused on Tao Yanyan's face for a few seconds, then moved away to look at the Demon Lord.

"Can you take off the mask? I want to take a good look at you." The woman was crying, but she was not aggressive. The Demon Lord thought about it and reached out to take off the mask.

It was also the first time that Tao Yanyan saw the true face of the Demon Lord. Before that, he could only see the area below his nose because of the mask. Judging from the shape of his lips and chin, he should be a handsome guy.

This time I got to see his true appearance, and I have to say, he is quite handsome, only slightly inferior to He Linzhang.

The woman looked at him carefully, and became more and more excited as she looked at him: "Are you twenty-three years old this year, and your birthday is June 20th?"

The demon was startled and his eyes narrowed: "Who are you?"

The woman reached out her hand to pull him, but the Demon Lord, who had a mysophobia, didn't want her to get close at all. He took a step back. This step was like a knife stabbing into the woman's heart. She burst into tears: "Son, I am your biological mother! You are my biological son, not Yin Qiaoying's son, but my biological son!"

This bombshell news undoubtedly left both Demon Lord and Tao Yanyan stunned on the spot.

After a long while, the Demon Lord finally found his voice: "Nonsense, what evidence do you have?"

The woman propped up her frail body with both hands and said firmly, "There is a birthmark the size of a copper coin on your left waist, right? Also, you are allergic to figs, right?"

With every word she spoke, the Demon Lord became more frightened.

Because what she said was true!

As soon as Tao Yanyan saw the expression on the Demon Lord's face, she knew that what the woman said was true. She suppressed her fear and asked, "Then you said you are his biological mother. Are you also Mu Yu's concubine?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, then immediately shook her head, "No, no, my husband is a guard. I am not a concubine, but the main wife who was married to someone in a formal ceremony. I was Yin Qiaoying's maid before. She was pregnant and said she wanted to find someone to keep her company, so she took me to Penglai Palace to take care of the baby together. I thought she took good care of me out of consideration for the relationship between master and servant, but I didn't expect that after I gave birth, her belly disappeared, and she told me in front of me that she was not pregnant at all, she just wanted my son!"

The woman burst into tears: "She took my son away and locked me up in the Flower Pavilion. I accidentally entered here and never left again... Twenty-three years, I haven't seen the sun for twenty-three years. Surprisingly, when I was about to die, I was able to see my biological son again and expose Yin Qiaoying's conspiracy. God is open to my eyes, God is open to my eyes!"

After the woman finished speaking, she was out of strength and fainted.

"Hey, don't die!" Tao Yanyan pushed the stunned Demon Lord: "Go and see her quickly, maybe what she said is true!"

The Demon Lord finally came to his senses and stepped forward to feel the woman's breath: "She's still alive. You... you see there's a small hole over there with water in it, would you like to clean her up?"

Tao Yanyan looked in the direction of the sound and saw water flowing in from a small hole. She thought that this woman was a key witness in the overthrow of the eldest lady, so it would be useful to save her. So she tore her dress, wet it with water, and washed her.

The water was cold, and perhaps it stimulated the woman. Not long after she finished washing, she woke up slowly.

Seeing that her clothes were torn, Tao Yanyan took off his coat and put it on her. After thinking for a while, he said to the Demon Lord, "Hey, take off one of your clothes and give it to her to keep warm."

The Demon Lord, who had been in a depressed mood, heard this and took off his clothes like a puppet and handed it over.

Tao Yanyan took it and immediately put it on the woman. She had been malnourished for many years, and her frail body could not support the clothes at all. Tao Yanyan tore off two strips of cloth, used them as a belt, and tied it on her.

Seeing that her hair was tangled and she couldn't look straight, she shouted to the Demon Lord: "Do you have a dagger? Cut her hair short."

The Demon Lord had no choice but to walk over to the woman, endure the discomfort, pull up the woman's hair, and cut off the tangled part.

After some treatment, the woman was no longer as sloppy as she appeared at first.

"What do you usually eat here?" Tao Yanyan asked.

The woman's eyes flickered, and she was a little embarrassed to speak: "Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can catch a mouse..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Tao Yanyan jumped onto the Demon Lord like a frightened little animal. This time, she not only hugged him with her hands, but also wrapped her feet around his legs. "There's a mouse, there's a mouse, mom, I'm so scared!"