We were locked up again, and Mu Shuang was locked up with us.
But we were not being held in cells. The three of us were confined in a place that looked like a small courtyard, and it was not underground, but up in the mountains.
No tourists would ever come up this mountain, and guards stood both inside and outside the courtyard.
That left me somewhat puzzled. Why had Mu Xue not locked us underground? Was she not afraid that we would escape, or that someone would come to rescue us? After all, if we were kept in this courtyard, the chances of us being successfully rescued were much greater.
I sat beside the stone table in the courtyard. Ye Jinghong sat beside me, while Mu Shuang made tea.
I thought the treatment we received as prisoners was not bad. At least we could still breathe fresh air.
There were four men guarding the courtyard. Two stood at the courtyard gate, while the other two stayed by the walls, smoking to themselves. As long as we did not leave the courtyard, we were relatively free.
The food and drinks in the courtyard were quite good. There was even an exquisite tea set laid out on the stone table.
"We got you involved. Otherwise, you would not have been locked up here with us," I said to Mu Shuang.
Mu Shuang focused on making tea, though her movements were quite clumsy. She probably did not drink much tea in her daily life.
Hearing that, she looked at me. "I think this is pretty good. If I could, I really would like to return to the Mu family. I originally thought I could help my uncle-in-law do something meaningful, but I never expected my sister to..."
She did not continue, but