Chapter 527: Luo'er enters the prison to visit her husband!

Jiang Yanzhi knelt straight on the ground.

Still, half of his face had been struck and turned to one side.

He merely murmured, "Mother, however you have humiliated me these years, I accept it."

"But Father, while alive, once personally told me."

"The entire Jiang family is my greatest responsibility and burden."

"Mother, I am unfilial today. If there is retribution, let me be reborn as an animal in my next life!"

"Son, I have no regrets."

After saying that, he kowtowed heavily on the ground several times, then rose and left decisively.

"Lock up the Old Lady's courtyard."

"No one may come and go as they please."

After the people had gone far, Li Qingluo also gently closed the window gap.

Then she climbed the tree and successfully met up with Que'er.

Que'er: "Miss, you scared me to death, but fortunately you weren't discovered."

Li Qingluo: "Something big is going to happen in the Jiang family, let's go!"

Li Qingluo and Que'er went to the second courtyard and found Jiang Qiniang.

Before Jiang Qiniang could speak, Li Qingluo pulled her and said, "Whether you believe it or not, I did not go to your grandmother's house tonight."

"Because your great-uncle got there first, carrying a prepared medicine to see your grandmother."

Jiang Qiniang was astonished: "You, what do you mean by this?"

Li Qingluo: "I have no other meaning."

"I just wanted to tell you of my innocence."

The more Jiang Qiniang listened, the more confused she became.

Li Qingluo: "Forget it. Your whole family has been taught to be extremely filial to your grandmother; who could imagine there might be another possibility?"

"The hour is already late, so I will take my leave first."

Not wanting to linger in the Jiang household, Li Qingluo hastily bade farewell to Jiang Qiniang with Que'er, then slipped out into the dark night.

Jiang Qiniang's face looked grim.

As she turned her head, she saw her own father.

She jumped in surprise, "Father?"

"Father probably didn't see that Southern Palace maiden, right?"

"If he had seen and heard those words, I would be in trouble……"

Jiang Second Elder: "What were you muttering to yourself just now?"

"Qiniang, are you ill because of Yang Qilang?"

"Don't worry, Father will spare no effort, even his life, to look after you."

"Your grandmother only cares for your third uncle, yet she pushes your later life into desperation, disregarding your life or death……"

Having said that, Jiang Second Elder lifted his foot and walked out quickly.

Jiang Qiniang had a premonition that something was about to happen.

When she tried to chase after him, her birth mother grabbed her tightly.

"Don't, don't go."

"Qiniang, whatever your father did, he did it for you."

Qiniang stared blankly, tears streaming, fear gradually rising in her heart.

At the Xu hour, outside the Dali Temple.

Li Qingluo arrived just in time.

Having just stopped her feet under the archway outside the tavern, Zhang Tingyi's people came over to find her: "Southern Palace maiden?"

"Our official is waiting for you over there; please come over."

Li Qingluo saw a black carriage parked in the direction of the Dali Temple prison gate.

She hurried over and greeted the person in the carriage: "Common woman pays respects to the official."

Zhang Tingyi lifted the carriage curtain, looked at Li Qingluo with a complex expression: "Southern Palace maiden, today Changning had an incident at your tavern; I, the official, ought not to have come again, but I also want to ask you clearly."

"Why exactly have you bullied Changning to this extent?"

"What deep grudge do you and her mother share?"

"I hear Changning runs to your tavern every day, so devotedly supporting your business; are you being overly heartless?"

Li Qingluo had long known she would face a round of questioning.

"Right and wrong, true and false—I'm sure Official Zhang, having heard the truth, already has his own judgment in mind."

"The matter is as follows……"

She quickly related the whole story.

"So I suspect that yesterday, perhaps the Changning County Princess saw me enter the Princess's residence, and I don't know whether the official said something he shouldn't have, which she then overheard?"

"That is why she had the Changning County Princess set up such a dangerous plot, which nearly dragged everyone into ruin."

"If it weren't for the Seventh Princess's kind heart, I doubt I would still be waiting for Official Zhang to arrive tonight."

Zhang Tingyi's face was grim.

He wished he could return home right now to give Changning a thorough scolding.

"How she has become more and more like her mother's temperament these days!"

"Willful to the point of foolishness!"

What disappointed him even more was that she actually twisted right and wrong, black and white, to deceive himself!

Zhang Tingju felt both angry and anxious, but then he wondered if Chang Ning was afraid that his own background would be leaked?

Or is it her, wanting to avenge her own parents?

No matter which situation it is, Zhang Tingju is very unwilling to see it.

"Alright."

"I, the official, am aware of this matter."

"Lady Nangong, you should first go in with me to see your husband!"

Zhang Tingju stormed in with a blackened face, directly entering the prison.

Li Qingluo followed behind with light, leisurely steps, instead seeming like someone unconcerned.

The Dali Temple of DaLiang, she had also been there before.

The various horrifying scenes inside still linger vividly in her memory, making her feel somewhat uneasy.

Compared to the Dali Temple of Da Chu, the one in DaLiang is actually even worse.

Everywhere are bloody scenes.

Zhang Tingju, led by a minor official, walked a considerable distance before realizing that Li Qingluo and her servant were both women.

But when he turned around, he saw that she was not as frightened as he had imagined.

Moreover, this woman could pull off a major case like the Ningyuan Temple incident, and even open the world's first women's tavern.

Her courage is indeed beyond that of ordinary people.

He deliberately slowed his steps.

After Li Qingluo and Que'er caught up, he said: 'No one from the Jiang family has come over, so this third master of the Jiang family has been tortured beyond human semblance.'

"As for your husband..."

Zhang Tingju deliberately sighed.

Li Qingluo's heart leapt to her throat in an instant.

"Sir Zhang, if you have something to say, just speak plainly."

Zhang Tingju: "You take a look yourself."

Could he have been executed!?

Although Li Qingluo didn't really believe it, her steps involuntarily sped up considerably.

A flicker of teasing and satisfaction flashed in Zhang Tingju's eyes; he was quite pleased to finally see a hint of the panic that this young lady ought to have.

Soon, as they passed a cell, Zhang Tingju pointed at the bloody, mangled person inside and said: 'Third master of the Jiang family.'

Li Qingluo took a close look: a blood-soaked person lay on a tangled mess of yellow straw, hair disheveled, sprawled on the ground; if he hadn't said so, no one would believe this person was the Jiang family's once radiant and splendid third master!

"He has been afflicted with gu poison, which is why he went mad."

"To make him recount what happened before and after being afflicted with gu poison, he refuses to cooperate properly and won't give a clear account, so naturally he has to suffer some hardship."

After all these days, why won't he speak?

He must have some misgivings, afraid to speak.

Anyway, if he doesn't speak, the Jiang family has a mother and elder brother who dote on him, and they might still manage to get him out.

If he had spoken, he might already be dead...

Li Qingluo could also guess what this third master of the Jiang family is holding out for: he's waiting for the last hope of survival.

But he doesn't know that Minister Jiang is likely about to abandon him completely.

"Lady Nangong, your husband is in that cell ahead."

"Be careful."

"The cells to his left and right are all inhabited by vicious criminals who have committed multiple murder cases."