Chapter 14

Finally, she said those words!

Setting aside that Li Qingzhu was already a fake death, even if she truly sought death, what on earth does it have to do with Li Qingluo?

Is she the one Li Qingluo killed?

Is she the person Li Qingluo personally killed?

Li Qingluo has never sought death in all these years; on what grounds must she give her own life for Li Qingzhu's treacherous scheme!?

All the grievances and resentment in her heart, at this moment, reddened Li Qingluo's eyes.

She stared fixedly at Li Kechuan, maintaining that calm, and her stare pierced him as if he were a violent lunatic.

Li Kechuan's veins bulged violently, as if about to explode.

"You—!!"

Pei Lao Furen delivered a backhanded slap, striking Li Kechuan's face hard.

"Beast! Step back!"

Pei Lao Furen has trained in martial arts since childhood; even though she is old, this slap is enough for Li Kechuan to withstand.

A smear of blood quickly spilled from his mouth corner; seeing the blood, Li Kechuan's face was full of shock.

Pei Lao Furen glared at him with a hatred as stubborn as iron that won't become steel, furious: "Her suicide is her own affair! What on earth does it have to do with your sister!? If you want to lay that bastard's death on Li Qingluo, do you also want to lay it on me!?"

"If I hadn't uncovered that bastard's lineage, if I hadn't brought Li Qingluo back and returned home with her today, your beloved sister wouldn't have taken her own life, would she!?"

"She chose death out of her own folly. Yet you use this to vent, implicating innocent people, and even making me a target of hatred!"

"In any case, your whole family also has those who hate me."

Pei Lao Furen let out a cold snort, pulled Li Qingluo, turned, and said, "Go!"

Li Chao Jing only then seemed to regain his senses, hurriedly followed up: "Mother! Mother, Kechuan didn't mean it; he was just overwhelmed by sudden anger and excessive sorrow, which made him act that way."

Pei Lao Furen, annoyed, tossed out: "Don't follow me! Today, I don't want to see you again."

Li Chao Jing could only watch as Pei Lao Furen led Li Qingluo away, and the group resolutely departed from here.

Li Qingzhu died, and the whole Jiangjun Fu was filled with sorrowful wailing.

Pei Lao Furen resides in Jingci Tang, and the news made her restless.

She ordered Zhang Mama to go out and give a report; if she wants to cry, she must go far away to weep, otherwise everyone will be dealt with by family law!

Soon, the area finally became completely clear.

Pei Lao Furen asked Zhang Mama, "What is Li Qingluo doing?"

Zhang Mama: "The young lady is actually steady; she's still practicing calligraphy in the room."

Pei Lao Furen nodded: "This girl pretended to be honest at first, but actually she harbors her own little calculations in her heart."

"But we can't blame her for this. If I hadn't returned with her today, wouldn't she have been swallowed up by everyone in this mansion?"

Zhang Mama sighed: "Old Lady, the generals are too foolish. That... that Li Qingzhu girl, although raised by us since childhood and indeed we have feelings for her, she is also spoiled and too unruly."

"She dared to resolutely commit self-immolation, and it happened today... Doesn't this make the outside world think that our girl forced her to death?"

"And you, Old Lady, are being baselessly blamed for forcing the granddaughter to death."

"I'm old; even if I have that reputation, what of it? It's Li Qingluo, she's only sixteen. If the rumor that she forced her sister's death spreads, how could she have a decent second half of life?"

"However, I recall that the Zhuang family of Zhongyi Hou Fu seemed to have arranged a marriage with the Li family?"

Zhang Mama said she didn't know either and would have to go investigate.

Pei Lao Furen thought of Li Qingluo again, sighed: "This girl seemed to have known today in advance. She calmly accepted the cold attitude of her parents and older brother."

"You say she, what exactly is she thinking?"

Zhang Mama now also cannot see through Li Qingluo.

At first, she thought the girl was genuinely simple and foolish.

Now, she increasingly wonders, how could she be simple?

It's simply playing the pig to eat the tiger!

At that moment, a Mama hurried back from outside.

"Old Lady, I have urgent matters to report—!"

This Deng Mama is the one previously dispatched by Pei Lao Furen to keep watch over Jiangjun Fu.

Could Li Qingzhu's self-immolation truly have some unusual suspicious aspects?

Pei Lao Furen's brows twitched wildly, and she told Zhang Mama to call Li Qingluo.

Li Qingluo, upon seeing Zhang Mama, calmly cleared her desk first, then proceeded to Pei Lao Furen's chamber.

"Grandmother."

Li Qingluo paid her respects, and Pei Lao Furen urged her to sit down immediately.

Just after the fire at Jiangjun Fu, I happened to be hiding nearby, so I personally saw at the side gate a maid wearing a veil and covering her face with a fan, leaving under the protection of several guards.

"I thought, how odd, what maid could have guards? Where was she going? Such secretive movements, and with the mansion on fire they fled; this must be far from simple!"

"So, I quickly followed. Old Lady, can you guess where I followed to?"

Pei Lao Furen, without patience: "Guess what, just say it!"

"It's a residence on the Qinhuai River bank!"

"I haven't been in Jinling for years, so I don't know which family the residence belongs to. However, after that maid entered, she never emerged again."

"I almost got discovered, so I circled several times before daring to come back!"

Pei Lao Furen waved her hand, first sending Deng Mama out.

But she struck her, ensuring that this matter must not be disclosed to the fifth person.

With the room empty of others, Pei Lao Furen urgently looked at the Li Qingluo who had been sitting quietly beside her, and asked, "Do you know something, Li Qingluo?"

"Grandmother, I only guessed that perhaps some unexpected event might be awaiting me. It just so happened that my guess came true."

Pei Lao Furen knew she was not telling the truth.

Obviously, she still had something to hide from herself.

Pei Lao Furen gritted her teeth in anger: "Do you really intend to hide from Grandmother? Grandmother helped you, and this is how you repay me—by brushing me off?"