Chapter 284 Luo'er and Prince Su, under the flowers and moon!

Zaina cried out in anguish, "I thought she still had some sense of family, but she doesn't deserve it at all!"

"And you, why are you aiding and abetting evil? Why are you persecuting Guli? She's practically your cousin!"

Pei Sanlang, already severely injured, began vomiting blood.

Seeing this, Li Qingluo quickly walked over: "Alright! Guli is indeed not dead yet!"

"Moreover, when the dungeon collapsed, His Highness Prince Su and I rescued her from the dungeon together."

"Right now, she lives in our General Xiuli's mansion."

"If you wish to see her, I can have her brought out of the city immediately."

Upon hearing this, Zaina turned and grabbed Li Qingluo: "Really? She's really not dead? How is she now? Is she...is she alright..."

Zaina simply couldn't bring herself to ask that question.

Li Qingluo: "She is indeed not quite as mentally sharp as a normal person. Moreover, she cannot speak, nor can she walk like a normal person. She is like a small animal, walking on all fours."

"I have never seen the outside world, the blue sky, the white clouds, the flowers and butterflies."

"She has never tasted any of the world's delicacies. She is truly pitiful."

"However, apart from that, she had no other discomfort."

"Although she does go crazy and lose control when she sees men, the courtyard where I placed her is now off-limits to all men, and only a group of maids and servants are there to take care of her."

"Presumably, nothing else will happen to her for the time being."

"By the way, her current name is Butterfly."

Zaina: "Butterfly? That's a beautiful name... even better than Gul. From now on, she should be a butterfly that can fly freely!"

"Besides, it turns out that this is all it takes... to make her live more freely..."

After saying that, Zaina turned around and knelt down in front of Li Qing, kowtowing several times.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you—"

"I owe you a debt of gratitude that I can only repay in the next life."

"If possible, could you please take care of her as long as possible?"

"Just consider it... just consider it taking pity on her. My request is shameful, but I have no one left to rely on!"

In this world, even her closest sister has now completely taken advantage of her, and hasn't even spared her own flesh and blood. She truly has no one she can trust anymore.

After speaking, Zaina didn't wait for Li Qingluo's reply. She glanced back at the old Duke and then revealed her last secret: "My sister is blackmailing Pei Lang into writing a book on the Pei family's military strategy. Otherwise, she'll wipe out the entire Pei family. And it won't just be a pretext; there will be even more ruthless methods..."

“Pei Lang had no choice. In order to save the lives of his entire clan and for the sake of me, who had been imprisoned by my sister, he began to write military treatises whenever he was lucid.”

"However, my elder sister promised that if the military treatise is completed, she will give me the antidote for the 'Entangling Silk'!"

"Otherwise, even if we kill my elder sister, the Pei clan will be doomed..."

Li Qingluo suddenly remembered the words that Twelve Sister had said to the person who dismembered her body after her death.

'Although his brain has been poisoned over the years and isn't very functional anymore... it's not completely useless... so it's still useful to Your Highness...'

Your Highness, who exactly is this Your Highness referring to?

Furthermore, was the "Maitreya Poison" from the Western Regions that harmed Twelve Maidens from Princess Qinyu's hands, or from Zaina's sister?

Could the person who dismembered Twelve Maidens be Zaina's sister?

Li Qingluo turned and walked towards Pei Sanlang.

"Who is the person who murdered and dismembered Nanjia? Is she Zaina's sister?"

Pei Sanlang stared at Li Qingluo in utter shock.

"How—how did you know?"

Li Qingluo: "If I said it was Nan Jia who appeared to me in a dream, would you believe me?"

Pei Sanlang: "Why would Miss Li lie to me?"

Li Qingluo: "I really didn't lie to you. I also know that you were in that dungeon when Nan Jia was dismembered."

Pei Sanlang froze on the spot.

He looked at Li Qingluo suspiciously. Why did she know about this as if she were there herself?

Could it be... that Twelfth Sister's vengeful spirit is truly haunting her and has appeared in her dreams?

He recalled that painful memory, and he collapsed to the ground, his face ashen.

Li Qingluo: "I'm asking you, who exactly is that masked person?! Do you even know?!"

Faced with Li Qingluo's aggressive questioning, Pei San roared angrily, equally unwilling to give up: "Yes! It's her!"

"She has been lurking around our Pei residence, the Crown Prince's place... and even the Lotus Sect has traces of her!"

Li Qingluo looked at Zaina: "So, it really was your sister who handed you over to the Lotus Sect. What exactly is she planning to do?"

Zaina shook her head in confusion.

"I... I really didn't know... otherwise I wouldn't have kept it from you!"

The old Duke slowly woke up and heard these words.

"Is what she said... true?"

"Sanlang, did you really conspire with others to kill a woman of your own clan... that Twelfth Sister?"

Pei Sanlang did not answer, but that was already the cruelest answer at that moment.

Li Qingluo turned around and went back into the house: "Yes, my maternal great-uncle. It's because my twelfth sister overheard him talking to a person wearing a mask, and now we know it's Zaina's older sister. They even said they wanted to kill Pei Yuan to prevent him, the emperor's close advisor, from causing trouble for the Pei family in the future."

"They captured Twelve Lady and cut off her limbs and head. They also drained all of her blood and made it into blood-clotting pills for you to eat."

"Great-uncle, are you really unaware of this?"

The old Duke shuddered, then leaned over the bed and vomited.

"You're so foolish, so foolish!! Sanlang—"

It seems he simply cannot accept the fact that he drank the blood of his own clansman's granddaughter.

Li Qinglu sneered inwardly.

At this moment, Prince Su stepped forward.

He stood beside Li Qingluo, and together they looked at Duke Pei.

After glancing at him, Li Qingluo suddenly raised her voice with renewed confidence: "Who knows how many corpses and vengeful ghosts are buried in that dungeon? Even some palace maids who mysteriously disappeared and could not be dealt with were secretly sent to your Pei family."

"Great-uncle, so the people of dawn you swore to protect with your life did not include these women who died because of you?"

"Do you know that the palace maids you ate recently were all people the Empress wanted to silence?"

"You wanted to destroy this dynasty, but now you're also bound by another witch, so haven't you accomplished nothing?"

"They even became the Empress's tool for silencing witnesses!"

Do you really think that no one is aware of your current situation and that of the Pei family?

"I think the Crown Prince and the Empress know it very well!"

"Otherwise, I wouldn't be toying with you two like this."

Upon hearing this, Duke Pei's face turned completely pale.

Zaina was even more flustered and defeated, completely at a loss.

Li Qing showed no mercy in her words, continuing to stare at them as she spoke each word clearly: "Look at the mess you've left for the Pei family! You've turned a perfectly good young man into a ruthless killer, a monster who would even harm his own family!"

"Even now, do you still think of yourself as some kind of hero? If you had died on the battlefield back then, everyone would still respect you as a hero who defended the country!"

"But look at the state you've become! If it weren't for His Highness Prince Su's intervention, you would have been dragged to your death by Pei Sanlang long ago!"

"Let alone a reunion with Zaina or even my grandmother."

"The Lotus Sect and the Crown Prince have all been playing your Pei family like puppets, completely fooling you. Don't you understand that?"

Old Madam Pei couldn't bear it and whispered, "Luo'er! Don't, don't say anymore..."

Li Qingluo: "Yes, Grandmother."

She finally shut her mouth obediently.

Duke Pei and Zaina felt a strange sense of relief...

Seeing this chaotic scene, Old Madam Pei really had nothing more to say.

Luo'er has already scolded everyone who deserved it.

Luo'er asked all the questions that needed to be asked.

Only Prince Su finally asked calmly, "The Pei family's military treatise?"

"Perhaps the old Duke has already finished writing it and handed it over to that witchcraft sect leader?"

Duke Pei: "No! If I had finished writing it, I would have become her pawn long ago. How could I still be alive today?"

"In the end, there are only a few chapters left."

Prince Su smiled slightly: "Alright."

Madam Pei took Li Qingluo back to the small courtyard of Qingsong Temple to stay.

Duke Pei and Zaina stayed at the pine-covered courtyard.

Pei Sanlang and Pei Wuniang were both imprisoned. As for how Prince Su would deal with them, Li Qingluo could not inquire for the time being.

That evening, just as Li Qinglu was about to go to sleep, Zheng Mama came in and reported, "Miss, the Prince has arrived and wants you to go out for a while."

Why did they come looking for her at this time?

Feeling nervous, Li Qingluo quickly got up, not even bothering to let her hair fall loose, and hurriedly put on her outer garment and slippers before heading out.

At this moment, Madam Pei naturally knew that Prince Su had arrived.

She sat up and threw back the covers: "Let's go take a look."

But she only stood by the window and looked out, and saw Li Qingluo and Prince Su standing in the courtyard. The moonlight shone on them, and they looked upright and honest, but it was late at night...

It can also be interpreted as a romantic scene under the flowers and moon...

cough!

Just as Madam Pei was hesitating whether to make a sound and disturb him, she saw Prince Su suddenly reach out and grab her beloved grandson's little hand.

Huh!?

What is this for?!

That's incredibly rude!

Madam Pei was so angry that she snorted loudly. Zhang Mama quickly grabbed her and said, "Madam, look! His Highness Prince Su is looking at the wound on the young lady's hand!"

Prince Su unwrapped the bandages on Li Qingluo's hand and took a look at them.

Li Qingluo quickly explained, "Your Highness, my grandmother personally supervised Doctor Luo to use the best medicine to bandage me, saying that it would not leave a scar."

"How is Your Highness's injury?"

As Li Qingluo spoke, she actually turned Su Wang's hand over to look at it from the back.

Duan Rong let her look at him, a slight smile playing on his lips.

She's quite sharp-tongued today.

Step by step, they managed to get about 70-80% of the information about the Pei family.

Moreover, both Duke Pei and Nazaina are now falling into self-doubt, and they will likely not find peace even in death.

There is only one thing.

"Why do you know so much about Pei Shierniang's death?"

Although he had investigated the matter thoroughly, she felt as if she were there herself, seeing clearly exactly how Pei Shierniang died.

Li Qingluo: Oh no! How am I supposed to deal with this incredibly intelligent, almost demonic person who's so difficult to fool?!