Chapter 472 Ashi listens to Luo'er talk about her mother!

Duan Rongshi: "None of these are important."

"It seems that my mother and this Abbot Jia Guan really did have a relationship."

Li Qingluo kept shaking her head: "No, Ashi."

However, this was not the place to talk, so she could only explain briefly: "My mother has never loved him."

"It's just that at the time, Mother Consort had no better choice."

"So when he sweet-talked her and said he wanted to be her husband, and that none of her other suitors could compare to Xie Huaiyuan's pretense, she believed him."

"But over time, perhaps out of jealousy and hatred, or perhaps because the Xie family was involved in a corruption scandal, he did something that betrayed his mother."

"When my mother had nowhere else to turn, she told me herself that she was going to Daliang to be a princess sent for a political marriage."

When Li Qingluo recalled her mother talking about the past, although her expression was indifferent as if she had let go of everything, a faint sadness still flowed through her eyes.

Countless people in this world say they love Zongzheng Qingyue.

But these same people were the ones who wielded knives and injured her, leaving her covered in wounds.

Li Qingluo felt a pang of pain in her heart, as if she were experiencing the same pain herself.

"Ashi, we must avenge our mother!"

She said it with absolute certainty.

Although Zongzheng Qingyue was unwilling to see these people again, Li Qingluo, having lived two lives in the mortal world, was determined to seek justice and revenge for her mother!

Seeing her indignant expression, Duan Rongshi felt a warmth in his heart.

"It seems you get along very well with your mother?"

"What do you think of her?"

"I feel like I've been to the underworld before. It's a deathly place, shrouded in gloom."

"Why hasn't my mother been reincarnated yet?"

Li Qingluo was thrilled to see that he truly believed everything.

"My mother is doing well."

"Ah Shi, she is really a very, very good person."

"All the beautiful descriptions that the world uses to describe women can be applied to her."

"Perhaps because a Guanyin statue in her likeness was sculpted here, she also received countless offerings and merits."

"And it was because of these merits that she was able to defy fate and send me back to the beginning."

"Also, she lives in the upper realm of the underworld, a place where birds sing and flowers bloom, and it is spring all year round."

"My mother's palace was like a fairy palace, spacious and bright, as well as cool and comfortable."

"Furthermore, Mother will no longer need to undergo the cycle of reincarnation and suffer the pain of rebirth. Once we can reach a conclusion that satisfies her, she will leave the underworld and go to the place above."

"but……"

Li Qingluo looked at Duan Rongshi with some difficulty, "Before my mother sent me back, she said that if I saw the reason why she suffered endless incense offerings and merits, I should... destroy it for her."

It seems that Zongzheng Qingyue already knew what was going on at Ningyuan Temple.

But she couldn't bring herself to tell Li Qingluo.

She probably knew that Li Qingluo would eventually come to Da Chu because of her, and would inevitably discover the truth about Ningyuan Temple.

Therefore, Zongzheng Qingyue wanted Li Qingluo to destroy the Guanyin statue.

Duan Rongshi held Li Qingluo's hand tightly and agreed, "Okay."

Hearing these anecdotes about his mother filled Duan Rongshi with great joy and satisfaction.

Moreover, he believed every word and every sentence Li Qingluo said.

It turns out that Mother really did go to a very good place.

She should be able to clearly sense the annual sacrifices that he and the mute slaves hold for her, right?

Thinking of this, his heart, which had been dark and damp for more than twenty years, finally began to gradually brighten and warm up.

When he wandered around searching for Luo'er, he visited the underworld, where his mother was.

It's a pity that his mother didn't come out to see him.

No sooner had the two finished speaking than Sha Yi threw a stone into the courtyard: "Miss!"

After he shouted, Li Qingluo finally let them into the courtyard.

Sha Yi: "Miss, a large group of people is coming from the foot of the mountain."

"Sha Si has already gone to investigate and found that it is indeed the second princess of the Great Chu Kingdom, along with her family, servants, and no fewer than a hundred people."

Li Qingluo: "So many people?"

"It seems that this Second Princess really enjoys grand displays."

Li Qingluo looked at Duan Rongshi, "Ashi, have you found out what this second princess did to my mother?"

Duan Rongshi: "She stole the Chu Emperor's calligraphy and secretly gave it to Empress Gao of Daliang."

"Therefore, my mother's death was caused by her secretly instigating it."

Li Qingluo: "That's not all!"

"She was just a maggot in the gutter. Back then, she was always jealous of the relationship between my mother and the Emperor of Chu, jealous of the respect my mother received as the legitimate princess, and jealous of how everyone in the Great Chu loved my mother."

"Especially Xie Huaiyuan, she had always admired him back then, so she hated Mother Consort even more."

"That's why she wanted to completely ruin her mother's reputation back then."

"She has done many dark and wicked things in secret."

"She spread rumors about my mother, saying that my mother and Xie Huaiyuan were no longer innocent."

She also said that her mother kept dozens of male concubines in her palace, and each of them was exceptionally handsome and charming.

"During the ancestral worship ceremony, she also plotted to embarrass my mother. If it weren't for the fact that the Emperor of Chu... was so biased towards my mother, my mother would have already been stripped of her princess title for that mistake."

"And afterwards, not a single clue could be found that she had framed him."

"My mother's reputation in the Great Chu became increasingly tarnished, and that was all her doing!"

"Today, I can finally have a proper meeting with her!"

As Li Qingluo spoke, she clenched her fist tightly, and her knuckles cracked.

Duan Rongshi listened with his hands behind his back, his eyes narrowed deeply.

Soon, the Second Princess of Great Chu and her family entered the mountain gate amidst a grand welcome from the monks of Ningyuan Temple.

After completing the rituals of burning incense, paying homage, and offering sacrifices according to tradition, the Second Princess and her entourage finally dragged their weary bodies to the back courtyard wing to settle down.

However, when she saw that they had been assigned to cramped courtyards, and that in previous years even the servants could live more spaciously, but this year they all came to complain that there was simply not enough room for them, the Second Princess finally realized that something was wrong.

"Master Jiechi, what exactly is going on?"

“In previous years, I have not been treated like this.”

"Moreover, I have donated no less than a thousand taels of silver for incense every year. Do you think I can't even find a spacious place to stay at your Ningyuan Temple?"

Princess Zongzheng Zhiyuan of the Great Chu glared angrily at the fat monk Jiechi with her cold, beautiful eyes.

Although she is 44 years old, she takes good care of herself and her face is almost wrinkle-free.

Her head was adorned with pearls and jade, making her appear even more elegant and noble than the Bodhisattva in the hall.

Her youngest daughter, Princess Changning, quickly said, "Mother, you used to live in the east wing. Although it was just enough to stay in, it was still more spacious and had better lighting than this room."

“My daughter just looked around and found that the house is covered in mold and has a strange smell.”

"The Ningyuan Temple is increasingly disregarding us!"