Chapter 531 Beheading! He's already dead!
Yang Qilang and Zhang Tingjiu happened to arrive at Li Qingluo's rear.
The guards and yamen runners who were preparing to arrest Li Qingluo were instantly entangled by the two men.
They never even considered that a woman like Li Qingluo could pose any threat, so they could only shout, "Sir, please hold them off for a moment, and we will apprehend these two!"
Li Qinglu smiled and watched as Shangguan Zhong picked up the knife from the guard's hand on the ground.
Shangguan Zhong: "Just you?"
"You, a woman, dare to lay a finger on me?"
"I will personally kill you first!"
He slashed at Li Qingluo with a fierce expression—
Li Qingluo calmly dodged the attack with ease.
"Lord Shangguan, are you working for the Fourth Prince?"
Why would he suddenly do something bad to the Jiang family?
"Is his plan to silence Yang Qilang at the Dali Temple to frame the Jiang family again?"
"After all, if the Jiang family makes a fuss about Yang Qilang taking the blame to save the Third Master Jiang, then the Jiang family will be completely finished."
"Lord Shangguan, do you think my reasoning is correct?"
Li Qingluo dodged and weaved around Shangguan Zhong, making him circle around the tree like a dog on a leash.
He was about to strike her with his next blow.
But she cunningly turned around suddenly, ran behind him, and patted his back hard.
"Lord Shangguan, is it possible that your true master is not the Fourth Prince, but the Prince of Qin?"
She began to analyze the situation point by point, and although it was unclear whether her analysis was accurate, it successfully enraged Shangguan Zhong to the extreme.
"You bitch!"
"You think you can know that?"
"Go to hell!"
Li Qinglu turned around and, before Shangguan Zhong could even see clearly, struck him heavily.
Shangguan Zhong felt a numbness in his entire arm, and the knife fell to the ground.
Then she quickly pulled the thin thread off her elbow, stood on tiptoe, and swiftly wrapped it around Shangguan Zhong's neck.
Then he pulled hard behind him—
Shangguan Zhong, unable to breathe, pounded on Li Qingluo.
Li Qingluo: "I'll use a little more force."
"Sir, your head might be cut off."
"Now, who's the bastard?"
Shangguan Zhong: "I...am...an official appointed by the court..."
"You dare... to... kill me..."
"I will make sure you... die a horrible death..."
Li Qingluo: "Very good."
After she finished speaking, she tightened her grip again.
Shangguan Zhong's eyes almost popped out.
He opened his mouth wide, but no matter what he did, he couldn't breathe.
He felt his blood gushing from his neck.
He wanted to beg for mercy.
However, he could no longer utter a single word.
Upon seeing the situation, the guards and yamen runners on the other side immediately rushed towards the scene.
Duan Rongshi and Yang Qilang may be here.
These guards and yamen runners were stopped halfway through their journey; they couldn't possibly kill them all.
Yang Qilang and Zhang Tingjiu had both sustained some injuries.
Only Duan Rongshi remained relaxed.
Seeing the couple's behavior, Zhang Tingjiu thought to himself: Fortunately, Lady Nangong is kind-hearted enough to spare Changning's life. She must be being so polite because of me.
We should still let Changning handle the burial properly in the future, and absolutely not provoke them again.
Otherwise, she herself couldn't even guarantee how she died.
Still shaken, Zhang Tingjiu had no choice but to fight even harder.
Meanwhile, Yang Qilang on the other side also felt a lingering fear.
I knew that Li Wulang was skilled in martial arts, but I never expected that his beautiful and delicate wife, who was also quite good at business, was also a martial arts master!
He could kill high-ranking officials of the imperial court without batting an eye, and his hand wouldn't even tremble.
They are by no means ordinary merchants!
Fortunately, he and Li Wulang are not enemies now.
Besides, they can be considered friends who have gone through thick and thin together, right?
However, just as Shangguan Zhong was about to be strangled to death or even beheaded by Li Qingluo, Li Qingluo suddenly let go.
She loosened the thin thread and quickly put it back into her bracelet.
She dragged the half-dead Shangguan Zhong to the tree with one hand and threw him there.
Zhang Tingjiu and Yang Qilang caught a glimpse of this scene and both stared in shock.
Is she still a woman?
Duan Rongshi followed and stood under the tree in front of Li Qingluo.
Yang Qilang swallowed hard and shouted loudly, "Did you see that?"
"Shangguan Zhong has been subdued by us. Anyone who wants to live should surrender immediately!"
Dong Shaoqing hurriedly scrambled out, shouting, "Yes, yes, everyone stop right now!"
"Young man and lady, you have done a wonderful job."
"Although the methods are somewhat cruel and bloody, it is wise to spare Lord Shangguan's life..."
Before the words had even finished,
Duan Rongshi had already taken Shangguan Zhong's head and personally chopped it off with a single stroke.
Amidst everyone's horrified gazes, he turned and raised his head high.
"Shangguan Zhong is already dead."
"All those who obey his orders, cease all movement!"
Lord Shangguan was actually beheaded alive?
With just a few of them, they routed all the guards and yamen runners of the Dali Temple, causing countless casualties!
These people... no!
It must be those two leaders; they're in control of the whole situation!
Who exactly are they?
Perhaps because Duan Rongshi's aura was too intimidating and oppressive, no one dared to move for a moment.
When a loyal follower of Shangguan Zhong shouted, "They killed Lord Shangguan! We'll fight them to the death!"
Without hesitation, the constable behind him stabbed him through with his knife!
Immediately afterwards, the crisp sounds of weapons being thrown to the ground rang out one after another.
Even Zhang Tingjiu was surprised.
How could the backbone of the Dali Temple be so weak?
It seems the future of their Great Chu is truly worrisome...
However, the commotion here was initially something the Dali Temple tried to keep hidden, but it could no longer be concealed and spread uncontrollably throughout the entire Nan'an.
Every household closed and locked their doors.
Even young children dare not cry out at night.
The Nan'an government officials, unaware of the situation, assumed that Shangguan Zhong was unlikely to lose, so they simply pretended to be dead and remained silent.
Meanwhile, the other guard posts, seeing that the Nan'an government had not made any move, assumed that it was some kind of special crackdown tacitly approved by the government, so they all refrained from coming over to investigate.
In this bizarre turn of events, such a commotion and fight occurred at the Dali Temple, and in the end, it was Yang Qilang who ran to the palace gate, knocked on it, and shouted, "Your Majesty—"
"Your Majesty!! Help me—"
"Shangguan Zhong, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, colluded with treacherous officials to try and kill me!"
"He also colluded with Miao witchcraft, turning the entire Dali Temple prison into a cannibalistic den of demons—"
The Emperor of Chu was startled awake from his dream.
There was already lightning and thunder outside.
His nightmares have become less frequent lately.
But he could still vaguely hear some noise.
"What's all this commotion?"
Eunuch Ji stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, did I wake you?"
"Something happened at the Dali Temple."
"The prisoners in the Dali Temple jail have all gone mad."
"Several people escaped, but I heard they were stopped by Lord Shangguan, the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, who wanted to silence them all."
"Now Lord Shangguan has been beheaded and his head is separated from his body."
"It is Yang Qilang knocking on the palace gate, crying out for your help."
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