Chapter 419 The Lotus Goddess Reappears!

"Zongzheng Yu'er!"

"Is she really courting death?!"

Enraged, the Crown Prince slammed the teacup aside again. As the eunuchs knelt on the ground cleaning up the mess, he roared furiously, "Get out! All of you, get out of here!"

Until the announcement at the door: "Her Majesty the Empress has arrived—"

All the servants and guards knelt on the ground: "Greetings, Your Majesty the Empress!"

The empress, dressed in a magnificent and elegant manner, walked in.

"Yin'er, what's wrong?"

"Why did you suddenly get so angry?"

"You've never been like this before."

"Those who will rule in the future must not show their emotions, so that others will not sway their decisions."

"Didn't your mother teach you that?"

The Crown Prince then calmed himself down: "Mother, I know I was wrong. It's really Qinyu... she's too arrogant!"

"Mother, look! She has even delivered the letter to me!"

Upon hearing this, the Empress immediately dismissed everyone around her.

Once only the mother and son remained in the study, the Empress quickly checked Duan Rongyin's hands: "Be careful, she might have poisoned the letter!"

Duan Rongyin: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. I had the imperial physician examine the body before I looked at the contents."

The Empress then said with relief, "It's always good to be cautious."

"Yin'er, you just said that Qinyu sent you a letter?"

"Wasn't she missing?"

What's going on?

Duan Rongyin frowned and said, "I don't know either."

"However, I suspect that because I no longer want her after I've served my purpose, she has turned her love into hatred and has now returned to the Lotus Sect to cause me some trouble."

The Empress narrowed her eyes: "This poisonous woman."

"Yin'er, I said before that this woman knows too much about you. We must get rid of her to avoid any future troubles."

"You're being hesitant and clinging to old feelings, saying you can't explain to the Great Chu and that she can get rid of this by going on a marriage alliance. But look at what she's doing now!"

"They've thrown our Great Liang capital into chaos, destabilizing the court, and now they're going off to do stupid things like running a cult!"

As she spoke, the Empress was completely enraged.

Crown Prince Duan Rongyin, on the contrary, calmed down.

"Mother, if I can destroy her Jingyun Manor, I can destroy her entire Lotus Sect."

"Now I really have no use for her power and her dirty money anymore, and I must sever all ties with her. It may sound ungrateful, but I am not a heartless person."

"At least I gave her a way out and did not push her to the brink of despair."

"Now, she's being shameless, determined to push me to my limits!"

"Then, if I do something ruthless next, she can't blame me."

The conversation between the mother and son inside the door was overheard by Crown Princess Su Miaoyu, who was coming in from outside with a bowl of thick soup, hoping to ease tensions.

Hearing the Crown Prince's shameless face, Su Miaoyu's face was filled with mockery.

Then he turned around and quietly left.

Soon, the prince located the place where the Lotus Sect leader had recently been seen.

It's actually in Qishan!

Someone heard the sound of a bamboo flute halfway up Qishan Mountain.

I also saw a goddess in flowing white robes, holding a lotus flower, standing on a sacred stone, meditating and praying for the people of the world.

Some speculate that she is the leader of the Lotus Sect—the Lotus Goddess!

She even has a base in Qishan!

The crown prince did not rashly launch an attack.

Instead, they sent out dozens of assassins to spy first.

In the end, only one person returned alive.

"Your Highness, the Lotus Sect is full of experts. We have failed in our duty and beg Your Highness to punish us!"

The crown prince listened with disbelief: "How is this possible!?"

"Weren't almost all of her Lotus Sect's eight maids and four incense masters wiped out?"

"The other rabble are not worth mentioning at all, how could they possibly have so many experts?"

The assassin lowered his head and said, "Indeed, there are still many experts."

"Moreover... Your Highness, I also saw two familiar faces."

Crown Prince: "Who!?"

Assassin: "Yes... it's the two Zheng Xiangzhu."

The prince snapped out of his shock: "So she had a trick up her sleeve!"

"She rescued those two long ago, yet she lied to me, saying that all her men had been killed?"

"That Zongzheng Yu'er, she has deceived me again!"

"Was she waiting for this day, afraid that I would abandon her, so she kept a backup plan and was also prepared to betray me?"

"Good! Good, good, good!"

"What is Zongzheng Yu'er all about? What is she planning to do next?"

"If she reveals her true identity to the world and tells everyone about her relationship with me..."

The crown prince's face turned deathly pale.

He couldn't even imagine the consequences.

However, before he could even raise an army to besiege Qishan, rumors of an ambiguous relationship between the Lotus Sect goddess and the crown prince had already spread like wildfire...

In a fit of rage, the Crown Prince disregarded the consequences and produced the tiger tally of the Northern Army.

Qishan.

Chasing the rain for a whole day, finally waiting until there was no one else around.

Then, unable to resist, she lifted her veil, spread her legs, and started shaking.

The sparrow beside him ripped off his veil again and quickly closed his legs with her feet.

"Do you want to expose your plan and ruin it all?"

"You and His Highness have been planning this for so long, and now it's just one step away from completion. Can't you wait a little longer?"

Chasing the rain is driving me crazy.

He was so entangled in his white gauze dress and adorned with countless jeweled hairpins that he couldn't lift his head.

Po Feng and Leng Dian had burst into laughter several times in private.

Zhuiyu just wants to ask: Why me? Why me, of all people, have to play the Lotus Cult Leader?!

But then the girl said, "Since you have experience, this task of enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens can only be entrusted to you again."

“I will have Que’er accompany you and serve as your maid.”

As a result, the two of them were inseparable, treating each other like enemies.

Zhuiyu felt that this little bird was controlling him too strictly all day long, not giving him any chance to breathe.

Except when she can sleep sprawled out, she must maintain the proper decorum of a noblewoman on ordinary days.

Even when admonishing her young mistress, one wouldn't dare be so harsh.

It's one thing to not make a sound while eating.

Even urinating requires squatting.

Zhuiyu insisted on standing, and when she tried to control her, she took off Zhuiyu's pants right there and then.

Sparrow was furious and cursed loudly, thinking he was as hateful as a mastiff.

However, when they get serious, they both still act quite the same way.

Li Qingluo also became a maid.

He just drifts through life, barely scraping by on this mountain.

Duan Rong comes from time to time.

Sometimes they don't come.

His whereabouts are always unpredictable.

Just two days ago, they killed a group of assassins sent by the Crown Prince.

They even put a message back in.

Look how kind they are.

Now, all that's left is to wait for the Crown Prince, this big fish, to come up the mountain in a fit of rage and guilt.

Li Qinglu listened to Zhuiyu and Que'er bickering on one side, while she swayed back and forth in a rocking chair on the other side.

Leng Dian suddenly came over: "Miss, another group of merchants from the Great Chu has appeared in Jinling City."

"Furthermore, recently there have been some people of unknown origin trying to attack the cliff behind Green Pine Mountain."

"His Highness instructed me to report to you and let the young lady make the decision."

Li Qingluo gently pulled down the book covering her face.

"Great Chu? Are you here to see Zongzheng Yu'er or Zongzheng Wuheng?"

Leng Dian: "I don't know. Perhaps... they're looking for the brother and sister?"

Li Qingluo asked in surprise, "How did the news leak out?"

The guards of Prince Su's mansion and his own assassins would definitely not have any problems.

The problem lies with the other people.

Li Qingluo's expression turned serious: "The back of Qingsong Mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack."

"But now that it has been exposed, it is indeed extremely difficult to spare resources if you have forces and manpower tied up on both sides."

"Then let's move everyone here."

"There's a dungeon down here too."

"Although the Lotus Sect was destroyed and half of it collapsed, two prison cells could still be dug out."

Leng Dian was somewhat surprised by her decisiveness.

"yes."

After Leng Dian left, Li Qingluo saw Zheng Lingzhou.

He stood in a corner of the courtyard wall, staring at her with a deep, unsettling gaze.

Seeing her looking at him, he asked, "Luo'er, there's a patch of osmanthus trees in bloom in the dense forest behind the mountain. Would you like to go admire the flowers?"

Li Qingluo: "I don't want to."

She covered her face with the book again, annoyed.

After capturing Zheng Lingzhou, Duan Rongshi did not kill him as expected.

Even when Li Qingluo wanted to see him to ask him about certain things and seek justice, Duan Rongshi brushed her off.

Until this time on Qishan Mountain.

She saw Zheng Lingzhou again.

Zheng Wanxiu also came.

Li Qingluo knew Duan Rongshi's plan.

I also know he must have had his reasons.

But she was still very angry at that time.

Fortunately, Duan Rongshi came to Qishan that night and explained the situation to her.

"Luo'er, their father died because of my mother. I cannot kill them, brother and sister."

Li Qinglu thought of the Zheng family's downfall, which seemed to be due to their involvement with a concubine.

Is this concubine the Noble Consort Yue?

She listened with curiosity.

Duan Rongshi slowly began to explain: "My mother was sent to Daliang for a political marriage, and it was General Zheng who went to fetch her."

"With him escorting her all the way, my mother was able to arrive in Daliang safely."

"I heard it from the mute servants. They said the journey was fraught with danger, and many forces did not want to see my mother marry into the Great Liang smoothly. So all sides were trying to ruin her."

"It was General Zheng who risked half his life to protect my mother's safety."

"The two of them also forged a deep friendship through their shared hardships."

"This young General Zheng is the biological father of Zheng Lingzhou and her siblings."

"Later, my mother died under mysterious circumstances, and it was General Zheng who volunteered to thoroughly investigate the truth behind her death."

"But how could he understand that even my father himself was unclear about the situation, and the entire Guifu Palace had been bloodily cleansed? How could he possibly want to reveal the truth to the world again?"

"The Zheng family was framed and convicted on a whim, and the entire Zheng family was killed."

"Now, only those two siblings and your half-brother remain as blood relatives."

Duan Rongshi had already said this much, so what else could Li Qingluo say?

He knew perfectly well that the Zheng siblings had always wanted him dead, which made her hate them terribly.

Although Zulya is now dead, their thoughts should also be put to rest.

There's no point in saying any more.

However, some debts...

She can still try to get some interest back first!

Thinking of this, Li Qingluo stood up and looked at Zheng Lingzhou, who was still standing there with a disappointed expression.

"Why are you looking at osmanthus flowers?"

"Just wander around."

As she spoke, she turned and walked ahead.