Chapter 286: Under the Moon, Witch Sisters Reunite!

Provoke?

But how could that be called provoking?

Yesterday, those who deserved scolding have basically been scolded already; those not scolded out loud also shouldn't be scolded.

Does she still not know this sense of propriety?

However, now it's her turn to act, so she had no choice but to reply repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes. Your Highness, everything you say is right!"

"Commoner guarantees, commoner will absolutely be obedient, only letting grandmother and Old Duke Pei have a reunion meal. Not saying anything else! Okay?"

Prince Su shook his head helplessly: "Do as you wish. When your hand is crippled, I won't interfere anymore."

In the blink of an eye, it was evening, sunset time.

Li Qingluo set up a table in the courtyard.

When Old Duke Pei, supported by Zha Yina, finally walked out of the room, seeing this table full of fragrant, colorful food and his younger sister Pei Xiuzhen already seated, the old duke's eyes instantly welled with tears.

"Xiu Xiu."

Old Duke Pei called out.

He thought his sister would no longer pay him any mind, after all, so many criminal cases had happened to him, and many people had died because of him.

Xiu Xiu had always been a righteous, hot-blooded good girl since childhood, so he knew well that after being resurrected by Zha Yina and set upon the sinful path of needing to drink human blood, he and this sister would no longer walk the same road……

Decades without seeing each other, I never expected she'd still be willing to share a meal with me.

The old duke sat down, while Zha Yina stood beside him, at a loss.

Just one day, and she had completely turned white-haired and wrinkled.

It seems she looks many times older than her normal age should be.

Pei Lao Furen raised her chin: "You sit down too."

Zha Yina looked flattered and surprised: "I, I really can too?"

Pei Lao Furen: "I really am annoyed by you, but I can't hate only you."

"Back then, sister-in-law fell ill, depressed and unhappy for years, suffering endless injustice and humiliation… even dying with resentment, all of it thanks to you. But my elder brother also bears responsibility; you two are a natural pair, nobody can escape the blame for her."

"When we go to the underworld later, go personally apologize to her!"

When mentioning his deceased wife, the old duke also lowered his head in shame.

"Xiu Xiu, I'm sorry for what I did to A Qin; it's all my fault. As for this matter, elder brother admits it."

"But Zha Yina, she suffered torment and hardship for my sake, so don't hate her. If you must hate, hate only elder brother, okay?"

Seeing him still so protective of Zha Yina, Pei Lao Furen didn't say anything.

"Alright, everyone sit down. Why so much nonsense?"

Zha Yina could only help the old duke sit down with a pale face.

Pei Lao Furen watched Zha Yina's every move.

"I also have to admit, you truly love elder brother. Even loving him to the point of madness, which finally drove him insane."

Zha Yina lowered her head bitterly, like a child who has done wrong.

"But is living like this really enjoyable?"

Pei Lao Furen wanted to know.

Zha Yina shook her head: "To be honest, the past few years were enjoyable. Back then, Pei Lang hadn't lost his mind or gone mad, and he rarely went crazy and failed to recognize people. During those years, we two never stepped out of the small courtyard of the Pei mansion, just living our simple little lives……"

"Until Gu Li, no, until Hudie was born…… we finally tasted the bitter fruit completely."

"Although I don't want to admit it, Xiuzhen…… I seem to have really made a mistake."

Pei Lao Furen shook her head.

She does not believe Zha Yina truly knows her mistake.

It's just that she herself is now also suffering pain and torment, which gives her this feeling.

But she doesn't want to bring this up today, so she only raised her wine cup: "Elder brother, I toast you. May we in the next life still be pure and innocent siblings……"

Having said that, Pei Lao Furen tilted her head back and drained the cup.

Li Qingluo had Zhui Yu inform Ling Fengzi, after which Ling Fengzi happily went up to fetch several baskets of gourd chicken, then happily went back down the mountain.

Li Qingluo then set up another table under the trees outside the courtyard and invited Prince Su to eat.

As for Zhui Yu and the others, plus Granny, Nan Gongdi, and Luo Shenyi and a few others, Li Qingluo naturally didn't forget, leaving a table beside the pine grove where they could still see the commotion here.

Three tables of people, each enjoying their own liveliness, not disturbing each other.

"Your Highness, would you like to try?"

Li Qingluo personally tore off a chicken leg and placed it in Duan Rongshi's bowl.

Today grandmother and the old duke have completely taken over the small courtyard, so she worries he might be displeased.

At this moment, she naturally attends to him with great care.

Duan Rongshi seeing her constantly picking vegetables for him, her attentiveness obvious, really couldn't stand it and tapped the table.

"Sit down."

Li Qingluo: "Okay."

Prince Su again reached out to tear off another chicken leg for her and placed it in her bowl.

"Eat. No more picking vegetables for the prince!"

The two of them each had one chicken leg, which was just right.

Li Qingluo grinned: "Yes, commoner will obey rather than merely show respect."

Duan Rongshi seeing her happily gnawing on the chicken leg, only then began to eat his own slowly.

The sky gradually darkened, with several lamps hung on the treetops overhead, so it wasn't completely dark.

Just the two of them eating at one table, before long they couldn't eat any more.

Li Qingluo supported her hard-to-bear belly, knowing her grandmother's table had not yet broken up, so Prince Su could only keep her company, sitting idly here.

Suddenly she also felt a bit embarrassed: "Your Highness, what do you think of that person, Zayna's senior sister..."

Rather than sitting idly, it would be better to find something to talk about; Li Qingluo brought up that person she was most curious about in her heart.

Prince Su: "Inscrutable and unfathomable. This person moves between the Marquis Pei's residence, the Lotus Sect, and even the Crown Prince's side, leaving traces; her goal is absolutely not just a single military manual."

Li Qingluo: "The Crown Prince you mentioned... Your Highness, I dare to guess: is the Lotus Sect actually the Crown Prince's faction?"

Prince Su raised his head and narrowed his eyes, looking at Li Qingluo: "Do you know what you're saying? To rashly comment on a prince, or even a former crown prince... do you know that is a capital offense?"

Li Qingluo stuck out her tongue: "Isn't this said right in front of Your Highness?"

Duan Rongshi's gaze deepened: "Your dog's courage keeps growing."

He lifted the tea cup and took a sip; Li Qingluo thought he wouldn't answer, but then he suddenly said: "Qin Yu is not the true Qin Yu from before."

Li Qingluo didn't understand at once: "Your Highness, what are you saying?"

Duan Rongshi gave a bitter smile and shook his head: "Forget it, even if I told you, you wouldn't understand."

Li Qingluo: "If Your Highness doesn't say it, how would you know I don't understand? I'm all ears, please speak."

Li Qingluo was very curious about what kind of person Qin Yu really was.

Moreover, it seems Prince Su clearly knows that Qin Yu is not as simple as she appears on the surface, and he must have long known her identity as the Lotus Sect's leader.

Li Qingluo gazed expectantly at Duan Rongshi with her big, watery eyes.

Duan Rongshi raised his hand to cover her eyes, whispering: "You are not allowed to look at me like this."

Li Qingluo's body instantly stiffened, and she dared not move.

"Wait until later, I will slowly tell you then."

Li Qingluo only felt her face suddenly grow hot.

Really strange, what's happening to me?

Moreover, lately, whenever she gets especially close to him, she inexplicably becomes a bit nervous...

This feeling is really uncomfortable, and Li Qingluo feels quite ill at ease.

It seems we need to find an opportunity to have the Divine Physician Luo quickly examine her!

Speaking of which, what about the future?

Tonight is clearly the best opportunity!

Your Highness, really, isn't it painful to hide a bellyful of secrets?

She is willing to share the burden with him!

However, Li Qingluo dare not say it, for fear he will cover her ears again.

Just then, some drunken Pei Lao Furen came out.

"Luo'er, accompany grandmother back."

Li Qingluo hurriedly rose and went over: "Yes, grandmother."

After Pei Lao Furen paid her respects to Prince Su, she then brought Granny and Li Qingluo back to the small courtyard of the Green Pine Temple.

On this side, Prince Su looked at the courtyard that had suddenly become empty again, and a feeling of long-lost loneliness welled up in his heart.

He let out a slight sigh, muttering to himself: "Truly absurd."

The third day.

Once again, it was the cliff edge where Li Qingluo and Prince Su had initially fallen off the cliff together.

Zayna sat alone on a stone, blown by the unusually swift wind on the cliff, her head of silver-white hair already utterly disheveled.

She had no choice but to slowly put on the hood of her cloak, waiting until the footsteps behind drew near before turning to look.

"Zayna! You're unharmed—how wonderful!"

"But... how did you become like this?"

The visitor was merely a woman around fifty years old; her hair tied in the style of an unmarried woman revealed that she had never married in her life, yet because she took good care of herself, she looked no older than about forty.

A head of black hair, not a single white strand.

On her face, not a trace of aging could be seen.

She was Zayna's full sister, Zulya.

Seeing her sister so young, Zayna involuntarily touched her own face, then slowly removed her hood.

"Older sister... you knew I wouldn't die, didn't you?"

"Even now, I look more like your older sister."

Seeing Zayna's head full of white hair and her face full of wrinkles, Zulya furrowed her brows.

"Look at you, what kind of mess have you turned yourself into? And what about that Old Man Pei?"

"You've grown old—could it be that he's dead?"

"And what about the blood worm? Quickly give this to me; I'll keep it for you, Older Sister will definitely find you a better host so you can regain your looks, and it's not at all difficult."

Zayna shook her head with a bitter smile: "Older sister, who are you talking about? Gu Li?"

Zulya hearing this was also not surprised.

"You already knew? But what's the big deal about that?"

"That lump of flesh you gave birth to is merely a monster, but she has an advantage: she is actually a natural poison carrier, a poison treasure! You didn't know that, did you?"

"Moreover, Older Sister has tested these years—even her fingernails can produce poison; there's no part of her body that isn't a treasure, and those poisonous herbs and drugs can't kill her!"

"Hahaha... I heard that when the Pei family's dungeon collapsed, they rescued a monster."

"Actually, that's Gu Li, right?"

"Don't worry, Older Sister will snatch her out of the Xiuli Jiangjun Fu. Then we two sisters, bringing your child, can return to MiaoJiang and, with our current strength, how could we not dominate the whole MiaoJiang?"

Zayna nodded perfunctorily.

They slowly took out a booklet from their bosom.

"Older sister, this is what Pei Lang finally completed at the moment when the oil ran out and the lamp dried up, the thing you wanted."

Zuliya's eyes lit up instantly, her expression even somewhat excited.

"The Pei Family Military Manual, he, he really finished it!?"