Zhuo Qing let out a cold laugh full of disdain, "Do you want to kill yourself? Oh right, how did you put it before? You’d rather die than leave with us. That night, you even threw yourself against my knife. You did it to save Jin Zijin, but he, he doesn’t care about your life at all. Haha, look how foolish you are, using your own life to save someone who’s just using you."
"I’m willing," Gu Youyou retorted, her tone far from cheerful, "at least he wouldn’t feed me those poisons."
Indeed, since she had been locked up here, she had started drinking those poisons again.
It was just for a few more days, she could endure.
But Zhuo Qing, this bastard, was truly pitiable. He had become a discarded pawn without realizing it, even complacently so, sorrier even than they were.
A moment later, the stone door opened, and Searcy along with Gui Yunxi, bowing and scraping, came in carrying a food box.
When Searcy first arrived, she was quite arrogant, secretly poisoning and tampering with the food during cooking, but by now she had been beaten into submission.
She was even limping as she walked.
Daring to poison the food, if not for the fact that she was brought back by Yu Jizi, and since Yu Jizi had not specified how to deal with her, they might have already killed her.
Gu Youyou had advised her, saying that one should know when to bend or stand tall. It was acceptable to act subservient when necessary and to take revenge when the opportunity arose. There was no shame in that.
Playing tough without the power to back it up was just foolhardy bravado, and she would be the one to suffer.
Now, with a limping foot, it would be even harder to escape when an opportunity arose.
In this world, only Gu Youyou could get Searcy to listen slightly, so she still took her words to heart.
Feeling that her advice made sense, to survive and leave this place, she should ensure her own safety, and save her energy to deal with these bastards, right?
So, these past few days, she had been very compliant.
As for Gui Yunxi, there’s no need to mention him, he was just a timid commoner, not worth confronting these tyrants.
However, while they seemed subservient on the surface, they weren’t idle.
Secretly, Searcy placed the meals on the lid of the sarcophagus and winked at Gu Youyou.
Gu Youyou was slightly stunned, it seemed Searcy had succeeded.
"Everyone, it’s time to eat," Gui Yunxi cheerfully called out to the men in black, "Today’s wild boar is exceptionally tasty, cooked by my own hands, assuredly better than what the head chef of Wanjia Building could manage."
The men in black didn’t acknowledge Gui Yunxi’s gesture, merely giving him a cold glare and signaling him to stand aside.
These two, one claimed to be a coachman, the other a kitchen maid.
Whether the one claiming to be a coachman could drive a carriage was uncertain, but the kitchen maid, her cooking was so bad that even dogs wouldn’t eat it.
She simply couldn’t cook.
If not for the unpalatability of her cooking, they might have actually been poisoned to death by now.
And, surprisingly, the cooking of the so-called coachman turned out to be quite decent.
Zhuo Qing sat down first, picked up some of each dish, and placed them on a separate plate, signaling Searcy to come eat.
After the poisoning incident, they had started to be wary of these two. While they cooked, they had someone watch over them exclusively. But that wasn’t enough; the food they prepared had to be tasted by Searcy first, only after she had eaten would they start.
Searcy ate the dishes, holding the empty plate and smiling, "See, perfectly fine. No poison."
Only then did Zhuo Qing and the others relax.
Gu Youyou was squatting by a wall, and Searcy also came to squat by the wall, right next to Gu Youyou.