Chapter 223: Two corpses were carried to the Liu family's gate!

Duan Rongshi shouted: "Make way——"

Que'er and the others hurriedly flew forward with Prince Su, while Li Qingluo was still in a daze from the grief of Sui'er's death; upon hearing the sound and turning her head, she instinctively raised her sword to block, but these flying darts came at her like flying rain——

Ding ding ding ding……

The knife that Duan Rongshi had originally intended to fly toward Zheng Lingzhou now spun over and blocked these hidden weapons and flying darts for Li Qingluo.

She raised her head again, but where was Zheng Lingzhou's figure?

Only his voice echoed in the woods: "Hahaha…… Prince Su, one day I, Zheng, will surely kill you with my own hands!"

"Luò'er, today because of you the Lotus Sect has suffered great harm to its vital energy; next time, I will not protect you like this again!"

"Do as you see fit!"

Zheng Lingzhou vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

His skill was on par with Duan Rongshi's, making him quite troublesome.

Zhui Yu and Po Feng hurriedly led people to continue searching the woods, while the others began to collect the corpses in an orderly manner.

Here, Duan Rongshi swiftly sheathed his sword and quickly walked toward Li Qingluo.

Seeing Li Qingluo covered in blood, still holding a blood-red sword, Duan Rongshi's breath caught tight.

"Li Qingluo!!"

He rushed over in large strides, grabbing her and anxiously sizing her up from head to toe.

Li Qingluo raised her hand to wipe the tears from her face, numb, and said: "Sui'er is dead."

"She died right before my eyes, her belly still carrying a child——!"

Duan Rongshi confirmed she herself was uninjured, yet he did not relax his breath.

Instead, he raised his hand and used his own sleeve to continue wiping the blood from her face clean.

"People cannot be revived after death; you need not blame yourself."

"What you must do is make those who harmed her suffer so much they wish to die, paying a price dozens or even hundreds of times more terrible than hers!"

Li Qingluo raised her head to look at Duan Rongshi.

The scattered light in her eyes slowly gathered.

"Yes. You're right. I will make them pay dozens, even hundreds of times the painful price Sui'er paid!"

Deng Mama lost half an ear, and Liu Sui'er, the deceased, was gone, so Li Qingluo's group hurriedly returned to Osmanthus Garden first.

Here, Zhui Yu and the others carried the corpses of Liu Sui'er and Liu Jinzhi, and found the Liu family's home.

After Zhui Yu knocked on the door, it was Wang Shi who came to open it.

Wang Shi saw a crowd of dark-clad officials at the gate and was terribly frightened.

She dared not speak, lowered her head, saw two corpses laid out before her, screamed in fright, and collapsed to the ground.

Liu the Old Man came out hearing the noise: "You foolish woman! Who dares come to cause trouble at our door? Can't you say your own legitimate daughter is the favored concubine of Prince Yun's Mansion?!"

But upon reaching the gate and seeing the two corpses, Liu the Old Man was so frightened he lost his voice.

The other family members in the house heard the commotion and hurriedly came out of their rooms.

"What's going on? Why are there two corpses?"

"Could it be the eldest brother? He's been running around outside these days, supposedly looking for business opportunities, but yesterday the second brother came back saying he saw the eldest brother at the gambling house's gate."

"What nonsense are you spouting?!"

Liu the Old Man let out a loud shout, about to go out and check, when Liu Da burst out from the crowd.

"How, how could there be so many officials? Officials, have we done anything wrong?"

Seeing Liu Da return, Liu the Old Man's back straightened instantly.

"Did the officials get the wrong door? Everyone in our family has already returned, so these two corpses truly aren't ours……"

Wang Shi turned pale and said: "No…… no! Sui, Sui'er went out today! She, she hasn't come back yet!"

Liu the Old Man turned, glared at Wang Shi, and roared: "What's a young woman doing running around all day? It's you, as her mother, failing to keep an eye on her! If she really died out there, she deserved it!"

As soon as his words fell, Zhui Yu saw that the family members were all present, then directed his subordinates to step forward and flip open the white cloth covering the corpses.

"These two, are they yours?"

Zhui Yu pointed at the already-cold Liu Sui'er on the ground and said: "Today I, from the Dali Temple, went out to handle a case, and at the foot of Green Pine Temple I encountered these two."

"That fat woman suddenly went mad, grabbed a knife, and killed this woman; she was pregnant and died on the spot."

"That fat woman dared to commit murder in front of the Dali Temple and has already been executed on the spot."

"I heard these two are both from your family?"

"If so, please take them in."

Having said that, Zhui Yu led the people away in large strides.

Behind them, a shrill wail of anguished crying immediately erupted.

"Sui'er——Sui'er!!"

"It's Jinzhi, Jinzhi ah!!"

"Good heavens, what on earth is going on——"

"Sui'er actually pregnant——how, how could this be possible!!"

"Elder sister-in-law, you really know nothing at all?"

Liu the Old Man: "Jin, Jinzhi, my daughter!! Jinzhi——"

The surrounding neighbors all came out to watch the spectacle, pointing and gossiping about the Liu family.

Zhui Yu half-turned, glanced behind, and let out a cold snort: "The Liu family's greater suffering is still to come."

As he would say, they should have killed the whole family under the cover of dark, windy night.

However, the young lady obviously had her plans, and as an official of the Dali Temple, I cannot exterminate a family without justification.

I could only restrain this impulse for now.

Li Qingluo had just returned to the Osmanthus Garden when she heard Deng Mama rush out and say, "Miss, the Old Lady has awakened!"

Li Qingluo's originally gloomy and heavy heart finally felt a hint of joy after hearing those words.

"Really!? Grandmother—"

Deng Mama and Zhang Mama went down first to bandage the wounds.

Que'er and Oriole quickly stepped forward, first taking off Li Qingluo's outer coat, then wrapping her in a cloak, only then allowing her to enter Pei Lao Furen's resting room.

"Grandmother!"

Li Qingluo rushed in, seeing her grandmother indeed open her eyes and sitting up spiritedly at the head of the bed eating, she instantly burst into tears of joy.

"Grandmother—"

After losing her good friend Nan Jia, her younger sister Sui'er, and with her grandmother's life and death uncertain, Li Qingluo's heart was tightly wound like a string.

Fortunately, grandmother finally came to.

The biggest stone in her heart finally settled completely at this moment.

Li Qingluo rushed over, tears streaming, and flung herself into her grandmother's arms, crying, "Grandmother! Luo'er thought she would never see you again…… Luo'er really misses you; please don't scare Luo'er like that anymore, okay?"

Li Qingluo lifted her head.

Pei Lao Furen quickly handed over the bowl and gently wiped Li Qingluo's tears.

"You silly girl, look at you crying, like a little flower cat."

"Don't worry, grandmother won't die. Luo Shen Doctor has returned, and he even brought back the new master you had asked for grandmother!"

After the incident of the fake Chen He blew up, Pei Lao Furen flew into a rage.

She no longer trusted those other people to teach Luo'er, so she personally asked an old acquaintance to come to Jinling to personally teach her dear one.

However, this person had been entangled in troubles, so he was delayed in coming.

This time, when Luo Shen Doctor went out to wander among the clouds, he happened to go to the border and capture this person, still coming in a hurry.

Because he initially received a handwritten letter from Pei Lao Furen, urging him to hurry back to save a severely poisoned young lady of the Pei family.

But only after returning did he learn that it was Pei Lao Furen who had nearly died.

Luo Shen Doctor and Pei Lao Furen had been friends for decades, and the shock almost stopped their hearts.

After taking her pulse, it was confirmed that aside from still having residual poison in her body, Pei Lao Furen had merely not yet regained consciousness.

Coincidentally, just as they were speaking, Pei Lao Furen actually woke up!

At that moment, while speaking, Pei Lao Furen pointed out to Li Qingluo the two people standing at the side of the bed.

"Hurry up and pay your respects to Luo Shen Doctor, and from now on your true master, Nan Gongdi—Mr. Nangong!"

Li Qingluo only then realized there were other people in the room.

She must have been too excited, so upon entering she only saw her grandmother.

She quickly straightened up, her face flushed: "Luo'er has met Luo Shen Doctor, and met…… Mr. Nangong."

Since she had not yet formally performed the bowing ceremony, Li Qingluo was not qualified to call this person master.

She lifted her gaze and saw that Luo Shen Doctor was a middle-aged man with a full head of white hair, yet his appearance was not old, quite handsome.

Nan Gongdi has a long scar on his face, his appearance frightening and terrifying, but his age is roughly the same as Li Chao Jing's, and he looks quite stern.

Both of them stared at her and nodded.

"Have met Miss Li."

Li Qingluo dared not stare any longer, lowering her eyelids.

Pei Lao Furen laughed "haha": "This little monkey, usually bold, but now seeing the two of you, she actually knows how to be shy?"

Li Qingluo hurriedly fled amidst the laughter.

However, as soon as she left, Nan Gongdi furrowed his brows and said, "Old Lady, this girl might be difficult to discipline."

Although she had changed her clothes, as soon as she entered, Nan Gongdi smelled the blood odor emanating from her body.

Nan Gongdi does not like people with too heavy a killing karma.

Pei Lao Furen chuckled: "If she sees blood, it must be that those people deserved it; what are you afraid of? Our Luo'er is the type who distinguishes gratitude from grudges, open and upright, a woman."

"In the future, spend more time with her and you'll naturally know her character. She and I are the most alike!"

That evening, Li Qingluo came again to see Pei Lao Furen.

Deng Mama's head was wrapped in thick gauze.

Li Qingluo hurriedly asked, "Does it still hurt?"

Deng Mama smiled: "Miss, don't worry. This old servant is also fortunate to have happened to meet Luo Shen Doctor's return; otherwise this ear truly couldn't be reattached."

Upon hearing that, Li Qingluo put her mind at ease, turned her head, and looked toward Pei Lao Furen: "Grandmother, you called Luo'er—are you talking about moving?"

Luo Shen Doctor has returned.

Grandmother also woke up.

The two of them, grandmother and granddaughter, along with all the mamas, naturally could no longer stay in Prince Su's private residence.

Pei Lao Furen, however, fixed Li Qingluo with a half-smile and said, "You still haven't said—what exactly is going on between you and Prince Su?"