Chapter 502: Injured? Even if I have to die, I must return to your side!

Que'er was also startled.

"Miss?"

"This..."

Que'er didn't dare to continue speaking, because she saw anxiety appear on her young lady's face.

Li Qingluo quickly shook open the black clothing, and soon found a tear and a patch of bloodstain on the sleeve.

She confirmed Duan Rongshi's injury location, and her heart actually relaxed a bit.

As long as it's not a fatal spot, everything can be discussed.

"Que'er, go ask where Your Highness is now."

After Que'er left, Li Qingluo tightly gripped the bloodstained torn clothing, her heart pounding nonstop.

However, Que'er actually took a long time to return.

Li Qingluo couldn't wait any longer, turned and left the room, only to run into Duan Rongshi and her master Nan Gongdi standing together and talking in front of the study in the front courtyard.

Li Qingluo quickly walked over.

"Master? It's so late, why are you still with Ah Shi?"

Nan Gongdi nodded at Li Qingluo: "Luo'er, master has something to attend to and must go on a distant trip, so I came to say a few words to Your Highness."

Li Qingluo: "You're going on a distant trip? I, the disciple, didn't know about this. Master, where are you going?"

Nan Gongdi: "As master, I haven't had time to tell you; isn't it just a coincidence that I ran into Your Highness?"

"Something came up in the sect, so master needs to hurry back to deal with it."

Li Qingluo knew that Nan Gongdi originally came to teach her martial arts because of her grandmother.

Perhaps he himself didn't expect to stay this long.

Moreover, Nan Gongdi now not only helps Li Qingluo with tasks, but also spends all day busily assisting Duan Rongshi in managing affairs.

But she didn't feel comfortable asking exactly what he was doing.

Duan Rongshi also never brought it up voluntarily.

Li Qingluo: "Then I, the disciple, have prepared travel expenses and dry rations for you. Master, if you're not in a hurry to set off, don't forget to stay at inns more often, and absolutely avoid camping in the wilderness again."

"Don't worry about the money, disciple; I certainly don't lack such things."

"Once you've decided which day to leave, you must tell the disciple."

Seeing her so filial, Nan Gongdi felt warm inside, and the smile on his face gradually widened.

He agreed, and asked: "You didn't come specially to pay respects to master, did you?"

Li Qingluo looked toward the person beside her who had been staring at her.

"I came to find Ah Shi to say a few words."

After Duan Rongshi followed her back to Tangdi Residence, as soon as they entered the room, Li Qingluo turned, crossed her arms coldly, and said: "Take it off."

Duan Rongshi: "……"

"You noticed?"

While saying that, he walked toward her and actually obediently took off his outer robe, inner shirt, and then his undergarment.

When he revealed his already bandaged arm, Li Qingluo saw the wound wrapped halfway up his arm, and her heart gave a hard jolt.

She reached out and touched it, demanding in a stiff voice: "What exactly happened?"

"Do you know, my half-life was almost scared away?"

Duan Rongshi raised his hand and gently stroked Li Qingluo's face: "You have so little confidence in your husband?"

"Luo'er, if I were truly seriously injured, that garment wouldn't even appear before you."

He would have destroyed the corpse and erased traces before she even returned.

Knowing he actually had such thoughts, Li Qingluo's face instantly grew even darker.

"Duan Rongshi, what else do you want to hide from me?"

"Remember, even if you die, you must die before my eyes! Do you hear me?"

She angrily grabbed his shoulder and pulled him toward herself to lean close.

The wantonness and coldness in her words made Duan Rongshi slightly startled.

"Death?"

In this world, only she would be so fierce about caring for his life or death.

Duan Rongshi only felt as if his heart had been slammed again by her.

His tone grew lower and gentler: "Good."

He tapped her nose, sighing helplessly: "How would I know Luo'er would have a little dog's nose?"

"This time I scared you, it's my fault."

"However, this little injury really isn't anything."

"What's important, Luo'er... I met that person today."

"That person, who is it?"

Li Qingluo thought of a name in her mind, and her heart jumped violently.

She lifted her head, eyes wide with disbelief: "Could it be Zong Zheng Langri?"

"You saw him so quickly?"

But thinking that he is Duan Rongshi, under heaven there seems nothing he cannot accomplish, so Li Qingluo wasn't so surprised anymore.

"What exactly happened, hurry and tell me."

Duan Rongshi closed his collar and slowly tied his sash.

Then he took Li Qingluo's hand and led her to sit on the low bench by the window, simply saying a few sentences: "I saved Zong Zheng Langri's life in the hunting grounds."

Li Qingluo was extremely surprised: "The hunting grounds? How could he go to the hunting grounds?"

"Although there will be a winter hunt, these past two days there hasn't been a whisper of news in the city."

"Now that spring has arrived, the day of the spring hunt is still far off; could it be... that you're behind this?"

Li Qingluo looked at him with deep suspicion.

"Although this is the state of Dai Chu, if it were really him who did it, Li Qingluo would actually believe it."

Duan Rongshi narrowed his eyes: "Indeed, the one who knows me is Li Qingluo."

Li Qingluo: "But I don't understand, how did you manage it? Could it be just because of that Eunuch Ji?"

"Wait!"

Li Qingluo thought of someone again.

That person originally entered South Peace City together with them, but after entering the city he vanished without a trace.

He only appeared once that New Year's Eve night when Li Qingluo saw him, and after that period he was never seen again.

Li Qingluo had thought he just liked leaving early and returning late, but now it seems he might not even be living in the mansion!

It's also because Li Qingluo has been busy with the tavern lately, so the people in the household haven't paid much attention.

"It's Qingyangzi!"

"What did he do?"

Duan Rongshi pulled Li Qingluo onto his lap.

Since they got married, he has liked letting her sit in his lap.

He uses himself as Li Qingluo's flesh-and-blood cushion.

That way, he can be more intimate with her.

Duan Rongshi likes it very much.

"Don't rush, listen as I explain slowly."

After the scandal involving Tranquil Distance Temple and Princess Zhiyan broke out, the people of South Peace were both avidly gossiping and extremely angry.

Because the abbot of Tranquil Distance Temple was the eldest son of the Xie family, many affluent households in South Peace, out of respect for the Xie family, went to Tranquil Distance Temple to pray and burn incense.

Otherwise, who would have the spare time to travel a three-day journey to a temple every year?

Moreover, over the past twenty-odd years, because Princess Zhiyan was especially devout and faithful to Tranquil Distance Temple, there have also been many who sought to curry favor with the princess's mansion, following the imperial nobles, donating large sums of silver to Tranquil Distance Temple.

You say using this silver to repair and expand Tranquil Distance Temple would be fine enough, but instead this Jiaoguan actually uses it to support the entire Xie family!

Truly deserving of death!

The Xie family, Jiaoguan, and that princess all deserve to die!

And the love-hatred entanglement between the princess and this Xie Huaiyuan just shows that Jiaoguan is basically a fake monk, right?

How could a temple led by a fake monk possibly be a truly efficacious temple?

Then haven't the silver and devotion of South Peace's people over the years all gone down the drain?

Truly deserving of death by a thousand cuts!

The great fire and collapse of Tranquil Distance Temple left the people of South Peace, after their anger, plunging into a state of bewilderment.

If even a temple can be fake, what in this world is truly genuine?

Just then, an anomalous sign appeared in the heavenly constellations.

A Daoist temple suddenly appeared in the wilderness outside South Peace City.