Chapter 549 This dog's life is worthless!

Qingyangzi personally held the lamp and whispered, "Your Highness, that person is down there."

"Fortunately, the lady shot him on a pressure point that day, which allowed him to fake his death and escape."

"Sha San and his men brought the person over that very night."

"The person has been saved, but he's not easy to fool."

Duan Rongshi: "Let's go and meet this heir of Marquis Wu of Wei."

Go down into the tunnel.

Qingyangzi walked at the very front.

Duan Rongshi interrupted the retreat.

Li Qingluo looked at both sides of the tunnel and saw that the walls were engraved with Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures, so this tunnel must have been left by that eminent monk in the past.

The heir of Marquis Wu of Wei was lying in the innermost position.

Suddenly a lamp appeared in the darkness. He had been lying on the couch with a deathly expression, but when he saw the light, he abruptly turned his head and covered his face.

It wasn't until Duan Rongshi and the other two walked over that they arrived.

Duan Rongshi: "If you don't want to live anymore, I can let you live or die here by yourself."

Upon hearing this voice, the heir of Marquis Wu of Wei turned his head sharply.

"It's you?"

The heir of Marquis Wu of Wei was named Wei Zhaolie. He grew up learning martial arts from Marquis Wu of Wei at the border. He was exceptionally brave and skilled in martial arts and was a rare and talented general in the Great Chu Kingdom.

If it weren't for the fact that the Marquis of Wei's mansion was feared by the Chu Emperor, he should have been a young general, a prodigy of heaven.

This person has a limitless future and will be a hero of the Great Chu who can succeed Marquis Wu of Wei in protecting the country.

Unfortunately, a desperate counterattack completely crushed him.

At this moment, Wei Zhaolie lay on the bed, looking exactly like a useless person.

His eyes were lifeless, and he refused to move.

"It was you who saved me."

Why did you save me?

"Aren't you just a dog in front of Zongzheng Langri?"

"And you, you two actually know each other? Ha, ha, ha..."

"Does the Chu Emperor know that you were originally in cahoots?"

Duan Rongshi: "What difference does it make whether he knows or not?"

"Now that I've saved your life, you can treat me like I'm just a dog."

"If you want to live, struggle to stand up on your own."

"If you don't want to live, then rot here."

"Consider it your dog's life, it's worthless."

Wei Zhaolie was so humiliated and insulted that a hint of resentment flashed across his face.

"you!"

He looked up at Duan Rongshi.

"Then why do you aid and abet evil?"

"You saw it that night too, how cruel and ruthless this dog emperor is on a daily basis."

“My father guarded the border for thirty years, yet he trampled on him like a worn-out shoe!”

"My son and I are willing to serve the Great Chu with our lives, but we are no longer willing to serve this tyrant!"

"If you were to save me, it would mean you still have a shred of conscience. Why would you kill my son and me for him?!"

Duan Rongshi: "If I don't kill, will you win that night?"

"You and your son were impulsive to begin with."

“Originally, your Marquis of Wei Wu’s mansion still had a chance to save most of the people, but you chose a bad time to fight to the death.”

"The result was that everything was destroyed."

Wei Zhaolie's face was ashen.

He thought of the endless stream of imperial guards emerging from behind the Chu Emperor.

Thinking of the group of archers who had been secretly hiding behind him all along.

The thought of the Chu Emperor's ruthlessness in disregarding even the life of his own son in order to kill his father!

"It's me...it's all me."

"If I hadn't acted impulsively that day, my father wouldn't have joined me in this fierce rebellion..."

"It was I who caused the deaths of my entire Wei family!!"

Wei Zhaolie screamed in agony, "I'm the one who deserves to die! Why won't you let me die—"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"What's the point of me living alone?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"You may leave."

"Let me rot completely in this dark underground, stinking like a pile of mud. I deserve to die, I am the one who deserves to die the most!!"

Li Qingluo: "If you die, what will become of your mother, your half-sister, and your younger brother?"

Wei Zhaolie's pupils trembled violently.

He looked up at Li Qingluo in disbelief.

"What, what did you say?"

Li Qingluo: "To save the three of them, your grandmother bravely and resolutely set a fire herself, burning herself and the entire courtyard to the ground."

"I can only save a few of my men."

"But they are still hoping that you can come back alive and lead them out of the abyss."

"Lead them to regroup and preserve the last bloodline of your Wei family."

"If you die, they will die with you."

Wei Zhaolie struggled to get up, but suddenly rolled off the bed.

Qingyangzi wanted to go forward to help him up, but Wei Zhaolie pushed him away.

He turned around and kowtowed heavily to Li Qingluo and Duan Rongshi.

"If it is true, I, Wei Zhaolie, will repay you with my life."

"only……"

As he spoke, he slowly got up, clutching his chest, and looked up at the man and woman in front of him with a weak expression and a face full of doubt.

Why did you do this?

"What exactly do you want from me?"

Duan Rongshi: "They are just a family of loyal martyrs, and they don't deserve such an unfair fate."

"Your Highness, there's no need to think so much."

"If you want to live, then struggle to live on your own."

"If you want revenge, you have to walk that path yourself."

After saying that, Duan Rongshi led Li Qingluo away from the tunnel.

Qingyangzi turned back and gave Wei Zhaolie a deep look before turning around and following him.

After they came out, Duan Rongshi instructed Qingyangzi: "Keep an eye on him, don't let him really die."

"If he wants to leave and will not die, let him leave."

Qingyangzi: "Your Highness, do you intend to give this person an important position in the future?"

Duan Rongshi: "No one knows what the future holds."

The next day, Li Qingluo and Duan Rongshi slowly returned to the city after the city gates were opened.

He didn't even go home before heading straight to the palace to attend court.

Two days later, Duan Rongshi, Yang Qilang, and Zhang Tingjiu set off together and left Nan'an.

Duan Rongshi only brought Leng Dian and another guard from the Prince Su's mansion with him, Chong, as his attendants.

Zhuiyu is still recovering from her injury, so she was left in Nan'an this time.

In the blink of an eye, three months have passed.

During this period, even the Spring Festival passed by in a quiet and deserted manner.

There was no grandmother, no master, and no Duan Rongshi.

Li Qingluo, along with Zheng Mama, Que'er, Sha Zimen, and the rest of the household, spent a rather unremarkable New Year.

Fortunately, spring arrived after the New Year.

Li Qingluo counted the days; tomorrow would be the three-month mark.

Duan Rongshi and his group did not return.

During this period, she only received three letters from him.

The last letter I wrote home was half a month ago.

The time I put pen to paper was a month ago.

It seems that their matter did not go very smoothly.

He would never actually disturb his mother's tomb.

How can we keep this a secret from Yang Qilang and Zhang Tingjiu?

Li Qingluo also had no idea what he would do.

That evening, an imperial edict arrived at the Nangong residence.

It was an imperial edict summoning Li Qingluo to the palace.

"Madam Li, the Seventh Princess has recently fallen ill. His Majesty has heard that you two are on good terms, so he would like to invite you to the palace to keep the Seventh Princess company."

"Madam Li, please?"

Ha, what do you mean by accompanying a princess?

Li Qingluo knew it was just a pretext.

If Duan Rongshi's mission goes wrong, the madman Emperor Chu will surely take it out on his wife, that is, himself.

Therefore, this trip to the palace is definitely not a good thing.