Chapter 250 Breaking Out of the Dungeon! The Case of Prince Su and the Pei Family!
Although the woman walked on her hands and feet, she was very fast, leaving Li Qingluo and Pan Li far behind.
When Li Qingluo and Pan Li returned to the exit unharmed, their whereabouts were discovered by Prince Su.
Duan Rongshi glared at her fiercely, his eyes seeming to say: I will settle accounts with you later!
Li Qingluo pretended not to see it, because the dungeon behind had completely collapsed, and even the entrance to the secret passage had been destroyed.
They were forced to climb the stone steps and wait for the Dali Temple officials to continue breaking down the door.
But when the people from the Dali Temple saw a crazy woman suddenly appear, someone cried out because of her terrifying appearance. The woman suddenly lunged at the officer and bit him.
"ah!!"
A scream instantly threw the crowd into chaos.
"What is that—"
Zhui Yu and everyone around immediately drew their swords to kill the woman, but Li Qingluo shouted, "Don't kill her!"
She rushed over, grabbed the woman, and shouted angrily, "Shut up! If I'd known you wanted to die, I shouldn't have saved you. Now let go of her!"
Upon hearing Li Qingluo's rebuke, the woman actually relented and quickly retreated, hiding behind Li Qingluo.
Fortunately, although the official's neck was bitten, the blood vessels and flesh on his neck had not been torn apart. As soon as the woman stepped back, someone immediately grabbed a strip of cloth and wrapped it tightly around his wound.
People shouldn't die.
There was no time to argue with Li Qingluo and the others about this, because the back of the dungeon had completely collapsed, and even the steps were starting to fall and sink.
Duan Rongshi withdrew his gaze from the woman and pulled Li Qingluo: "Come to my side."
Li Qingluo pulled Pan Li along, and the three of them quickly hid beside Prince Su.
Over here, Zhui Yu and the others were already shouting in unison: "One, two—break—!"
With a loud 'boom,' the iron gate collapsed.
The boulders behind them followed with a series of thunderous crashes.
Amidst the ashes and silt, Li Qingluo felt herself being tightly embraced. She instinctively buried her head in the embrace, and then she was swept away, propelled into a ray of light…
"Pan Li!"
As soon as Li Qingluo breathed in the fresh air, she immediately turned around to look for him.
Pan Li coughed and looked up.
She was protected and brought out by Sha Lei and Zhui Yu.
And that abnormal woman was also pulled out of the ashes.
Looking at the blue sky and white clouds outside, she clutched her head in terror and screamed in a low voice, "Ah—ah—ah—"
Li Qingluo and Pan Li had just exchanged a smile when they noticed the woman's unusual behavior.
She seems to be very afraid of sunlight?
Prince Su: "Zhuiyu, take off your outer robe."
Zhuiyu said "Oh," and quickly took off his outer robe and draped it over the woman.
The woman immediately squatted quietly in place, not daring to move at all.
"Luo'er! Luo'er—"
Before Li Qingluo could even see where she was, she heard a familiar shout.
She quickly looked up and searched for the source of the sound.
"grandmother!?"
Wearing full armor, Old Madam Pei approached hurriedly, her eyes red. Li Qingluo's eyes also instantly welled up with tears, and she took off running towards Old Madam Pei—
"grandmother!"
The grandmother and granddaughter embraced tightly in front of the ruins, and Madam Pei couldn't help but shed tears.
Seeing this, Li Qingluo hurriedly wiped away her grandmother's tears and asked anxiously, "Grandmother, why are you here? And you're dressed so majestically, Luo'er... Luo'er almost didn't recognize you."
Madam Pei slapped her on the shoulder: "You naughty girl, your grandmother was so worried about you, I thought something had happened to you."
"If anything really happens to you, Grandmother will turn against the Pei family!"
"If Grandmother didn't dress like this, how could she intimidate them? How could she even enter the Pei residence?"
The Pei family and Old Madam Pei had severed ties for thirty years, but now Old Madam Pei was going to great lengths to find Li Qingluo.
This means that the Pei family has been thoroughly offended once again.
Upon hearing this, Li Qinglu felt deeply ashamed.
"Grandmother, I have worried you again. I am an unfilial child."
She looked up at the sky and thought to herself: Sure enough, a day has passed. While she was unconscious, a whole night had passed; she wondered how her grandmother had spent the entire day.
If my grandmother were missing, I would probably want to turn the whole of Nanjing upside down, wouldn't I?
Madam Pei: "Besides you, who else could your grandmother worry about? But you really were kidnapped by the Pei family... How are you? Are you hurt anywhere? Are you alright?"
"Let Grandma see, child, turn around!"
Li Qingluo obediently turned around and let Old Madam Pei look her over.
"Grandmother, Luo'er is alright."
Seeing that she had no obvious injuries, Madam Pei breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
"Grandmother knew that our Luo'er was a lucky person who was blessed by heaven and would always turn bad luck into good.
After speaking, Madam Pei looked up at Prince Su, knowing that Luo'er's safety this time must be related to Prince Su again.
She quickly led Li Qingluo forward: "Your Highness, Luo'er has been saved by you once again. This old minister is truly speechless with gratitude. Our Xiuli General's Mansion is once again indebted to Your Highness. This is truly... truly, we do not know how to thank you enough."
Duan Rongshi: "General Pei, there's no need to be so polite. I met Miss Li by chance this time, and she helped me a lot. We helped each other, so it can't be said that I did it all by myself."
"There's no need to mention this matter again."
"Now I also need General Pei's help. Please take a look, General Pei, is this the courtyard where the old Duke once lived?"
Li Qingluo then noticed that the place they had escaped from in the dungeon was the Pei family's residence.
However, because the dungeon collapsed, the courtyard and houses above were also destroyed, and it was impossible to tell where this place used to be.
Madam Pei nodded bitterly: "Yes. This is indeed the courtyard where my elder brother lived. Although I have been away from home for more than 30 years, I still remember the road I took to get here."
“Your Highness Prince Su, before you came out, my elder brother had already been taken away from here by the third son of the Pei family. Your guards have already taken some people to chase after him, while the rest of the Pei family members are here.”
Instantly, everyone in the courtyard knelt down, saying, "Greetings, Your Highness Prince Su! Long live Your Highness!"
Madam Pei: "Bring up Duke Pei Bu!"
At Madam Pei's low shout, Zhang Mama and several others, who were also dressed in armor today, immediately brought up Duke Pei Bu.
Zhuiyu and Shalei then brought out a grand chair from somewhere and placed it in front of the ruins.
Prince Su waved his robe and sat down on the spot.
Clearly, the Minister of Justice is here today to solve a case in front of the ruins of the Pei residence.
Prince Su's sharp gaze, like an icy sword, stared at the usually timid and mediocre Duke Pei.
"Bold Duke Pei, your Pei family has actually built a dungeon in secret, and for many years you have been killing innocent women to feed the old Duke Pei with human blood in order to prolong his life. It is absurd and extremely cruel. Do you admit it or not?"
"And what about the death of Pei Shierniang? Is it related to this matter? Do you know anything about it? Confess now!"
Duke Pei stared blankly ahead and said coldly, "Your Highness, I do not know what you are saying. I do not understand."
"All I know is that my father fought for the country and lost two of his younger brothers in succession. He also returned from the battlefield covered in wounds and was already suffering from a strange disease."
"Knowing that his body could no longer bear the responsibility of serving as the Grand General of the State, he resolutely relinquished the military power that everyone in the world coveted, and made my Pei family live in seclusion from then on, no longer associating with any high-ranking families in Jinling City."
"Even the imperial court ordered his descendants not to show off before his death, so as not to give the Pei family any chance to cause trouble and harm the people of Daliang again because of him."
"Moreover, my father has always had his own doctor by his side. For many years, he has been troubled by illness and has almost never left the hospital, causing trouble and distress to me and my family."
"As for why there is a dungeon under my father's courtyard, what he did to harm innocent women, and the death of Twelfth Sister, I and my family really know nothing about it."
"And then there's Sanlang. He was deeply loved by his father from a young age, so he grew up by his father's side and did things for him. It's not surprising."
"Today, my aunt and Prince Su's men all came to our Duke Pei's mansion. One of them, with an intimidating air, insisted that his granddaughter had been kidnapped by our Duke Pei's mansion and came to demand her release. The other said that Prince Su was being held in the dungeon of my mansion. Such absurd things, if it weren't for the fact that it was the first time my family and I had ever seen them, we wouldn't believe it either."
"Although Your Highness did emerge from underground, you also destroyed our Pei family's residences. So many people are making a scene at the Pei family residence, demanding arrests and investigations. Is this because you think the Pei family has no one to rely on now, and that's why you're trying to bully us like this?"
"In that case, I shall immediately go to the palace and plead my case before His Majesty!"
Zhui Yu shouted angrily, "How dare you, Duke Pei! The facts are right before our eyes. Does your Duke Pei's mansion have a dungeon and you think you can lie about it? You kidnapped Miss Li and Miss Pan. If we hadn't come out to witness it, how could you have denied it?!"
"As for the despicable things you've done over the years, it has nothing to do with the past achievements of your Pei family!"
"You even dare to invoke His Majesty's name! His Majesty is the most discerning sage; does our Prince fear you?"
Duan Rongshi raised his hand to stop Zhui Yu from continuing.
Zhui Yu snorted in anger.
Duan Rongshi suddenly smiled and said, "Duke Pei has good backbone. I respect you as the Duke of Pei, and I have always been courteous to you because your Pei family has indeed made great contributions to the people of Liang in the past."
"But you show such disrespect to me."
"A dismemberment murder case has uncovered countless bloody cases behind your Pei family that have taken lives. Based on this one crime alone, the laws of the Great Liang Dynasty allow me to confiscate the entire Pei family's property!"
"You still want to play dumb with me? Do you really think I'm a pushover?"
"Guards, seize everyone in the Pei family. Send them to the Ministry of Justice prison. Let Zhang Yi interrogate them thoroughly to see if anyone in the Pei household truly knows nothing about the bloodshed that befell the late Duke Pei or about the Pei family's dungeon."
"How many maids in the Pei household have lost their lives?"
"How many innocent orphans has the Pei family arrested this time?"
"And those palace maids who have gone missing one after another, dig them up for me. Dig up their remains from the dungeon, and then verify their identities one by one. I don't believe the Pei family is completely unrelated!"
“Among all the servants, masters, young masters and young ladies in this mansion, there will always be one who can’t hold out. Those who don’t speak will all be subjected to severe torture, and there will always be one or two who will tell the truth.”
"Duke Pei, what do you think of my idea?"
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