Chapter 408 Grandmother risks her vast fortune to save Luo'er's life!
"Once it enters your lungs and viscera, even a celestial being cannot save your life."
"Either die, or continue living like a monster."
Upon hearing this, everyone stood up.
Only Li Qingluo remained seated in her chair, her hands resting on the armrests, quietly gazing at the Miao girl.
Madam Pei strode forward, grabbed Miao's hand with great emotion, and asked, "Since you could tell at a glance that she was poisoned, is there any way to save her?"
"If you can save my granddaughter's life, I am willing to give you half of my fortune!"
As she spoke, Old Madam Pei's knees buckled, and she was about to kneel down: "I beg you, please save my granddaughter's life—"
"grandmother!"
"Xiuzhen!"
"Madam—"
Everyone rushed forward to help Madam Pei, and Li Qingluo was the first to rush over and hug her grandmother's arm.
My grandmother, who was proud all her life, is now willing to kneel down to a stranger for her sake.
Li Qing's tears streamed down her face instantly.
"Grandmother, are you going to take my life now?"
"Luo'er doesn't want her grandmother to do that."
Madam Pei raised her hand and wiped away her tears.
“Silly child, Grandma is asking for help willingly and sincerely. Grandma doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with it.”
"You all—get out of the way!"
She gave a sharp rebuke and lowered her head to look at the others.
Doctor Luo quickly pulled Dong Siyuan aside, his eyes unusually fierce.
Dong Siyuan shuddered, touched his still-cracked lip, and mustered his courage to step forward with a pained expression: "A-Jin..."
The Miao woman glared at him, her eyes filled with utter disgust: "Get out of my way!"
But just as Madam Pei's knees hit the ground, he reached out and helped her up.
"Please rise, Madam. How can I possibly accept such a great courtesy from you?"
"Now that I have come to your Great Liang, I will naturally not stand idly by and ignore this matter."
"Get up quickly, let's talk things over."
Li Qingluo quickly said, "Grandmother, nothing can be forced. Whatever the outcome, I will face it with equanimity."
In the year or so since her rebirth, Li Qingluo has resolved many of the regrets and hatreds from her previous life.
If there's really no hope for her, she won't blame fate or others.
At most, before facing death, he would dismember Zuliya and Zongzheng Wuheng into eight pieces.
Madam Pei: "You...! Your grandmother forbids you from saying such things!"
But when I think of the terrible state she was in when the poison took effect, I can't bear it.
Dong Siyuan: "Let's not stand here any longer, let's sit down quickly and let Ajin examine the county princess first."
The Miao woman said coldly, "I told you, don't call me A-Jin! It's disgusting!"
Dong Siyuan lowered his head, looking dejected.
The crowd's suspicious gazes darted back and forth between the two, but no one dared to ask anything at this moment.
After the Miao woman took Li Qingluo's pulse, she deftly pulled out a small knife from her waist.
"Would you mind if I took some blood from you?"
Li Qingluo nodded: "Of course."
As she spoke, she calmly rolled up her sleeves and then personally made a cut on her fair arm.
At this moment, all the men consciously lowered their heads and avoided eye contact.
The Miao woman took some in a small bowl, and when she thought it was enough, she told her to go aside and treat her injuries.
Doctor Luo personally bandaged Li Qingluo's wound.
Meanwhile, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the Miao woman took a bamboo tube from her waist.
She tilted the bamboo tube, and a snow-white worm fell into the bowl.
The worm wriggled and swam around in the bowl, and soon crawled out of the bowl and fell onto the table.
But then it went silent.
The Miao woman poked the insects around and asserted, "Indeed, even your blood is poisonous."
Everyone gasped.
Dong Siyuan didn't dare to speak, so he kept giving Luo Fan meaningful glances.
Luo Fan clenched his fist and coughed heavily: "May I ask... Madam, since this poison is of the same origin as the Gu poison technique of your Miao region, are you confident in eliminating it?"
"If there is any need, we will do our utmost to cooperate."
Miao girl: "What's the rush?"
"I need to take another look."
"I heard that the source of this poison has arrived today. Please take me to see it."
Dong Siyuan quickly turned around and led the way out: "Ah...no, Sect Leader Jin, this way please—"
So, the Miao girl was taken to see the butterflies again.
After a long while, she came out of the butterfly room and was wiping the bloodstains on the knife with a handkerchief.
It seems she also took the butterfly's blood.
"Please give me two more days, preferably so that I can examine this young lady in person when she is suffering from the poison. That would be the best time."
Li Qingluo nodded: "Alright, I will come when the poison takes effect."
As she spoke, she instructed Sha Qi to hand a poison to the Miao woman.
The Miao woman smelled it, and her expression changed drastically.
Then, with a serious expression, he quickly returned to his room.
Madam Pei instructed Ying'er to stay here with her people.
"You must serve them with utmost care and attention, and have them learn to cook a few dishes from the Great Chu or the Miao region."
"If you need anything, just run errands. If you need money, just use your token to get it; you don't need to ask me."
"This courtyard is for her to use; we'll do whatever she says."
Ying'er, accompanied by several nannies, replied, "Yes, Madam."
Butterfly has fallen into a deep coma again these past few days, so she has to stay here.
Dong Siyuan naturally had to stay as well.
Remembering that there were still two Chu people imprisoned in the back mountain, Li Qinglu gave Dong Siyuan a wink.
After the two walked to the side, Li Qingluo asked him, "What is this Sect Leader Jin's temperament like?"
Dong Siyuan: "Is the county princess worried that she will interfere with the affairs of those two in the back mountain?"
Zuliya also came from Miao territory, and Zongzheng Wuheng was the sixth prince of the Great Chu.
Miao territory was also part of the territory of the Great Chu.
"Don't worry, the Witch Moon Cult and Cloud Valley are sworn enemies."
"They never get involved in court affairs, and they don't care about changes of dynasties in the outside world. They just stay within the world of their own sect."
"I never expected that I could persuade her to come out of retirement so easily this time."
Li Qingluo glanced at Dong Siyuan suspiciously.
She had reason to suspect that the Miao woman had come for him.
Her lover, who had been missing for over a decade, left without a word back then.
The next message she received was a letter asking her to come to Daliang.
If she really didn't care, why would she beat him up the first time they met after all these years?
The key point is that Li Qingluo noticed that the head of the Jin Sect had a hairstyle that resembled that of an unmarried woman.
As the two were talking, they saw two beautiful young women carrying trays walk in again.
Both of them were exceptionally beautiful.
Dong Siyuan: "They are A Jin's apprentices, one named A Lan and the other A Duo. They seem to know the rules quite well."
"Princess, rest assured, I will keep an eye on them these next few days."
Although Dong Siyuan was trustworthy, Li Qingluo still left Sha Er at Qingsong Temple.
After giving his instructions, Li Qingluo went to the back mountain of Green Pine Mountain accompanied by Sha Qi.
Zulya is still hanging on the cliff.
After only a few days, she had become so thin that she looked like a skeleton.
It's like being sucked blood by something in reverse; the description is terrifying.
If Li Qingluo hadn't been certain that she was still clinging to life, she would have thought she had been tortured to death.
"Wake her up."
At Li Qingluo's command, a basin of cold water was poured over Zuliya's head, soaking him completely.
Seeing that she was unconscious, Sha Sancai brought her another bowl of pig's blood and forced it down her throat.
Zulia opened her eyes instantly and eagerly leaned forward to swallow.
Not a single drop could be wasted.
Both Sha Qi and Leng Dian, who were watching from the side, almost vomited.
Zulya, however, became more and more energetic as he drank, and eventually licked the rim of the bowl clean.
But since it's animal blood, it can't stop what's missing in her body.
So she turned her head and vomited again with a "wah," along with all the bitter liquid that was already in her stomach.
Her face was already cracked and bleeding.
At this moment, she was covered in vomit, which was both black and red. Vomit was hanging on her chest and the corners of her mouth, and her eyes were drooping and lifeless.
She rolled her eyes blankly, finally fixing them on Li Qingluo.
A hint of hatred finally flashed in his eyes.
"It's you..."
"Kill me...please kill me..."
Li Qingluo: "You can't stand it already?"
"Isn't this poison a treasure you refined yourself over five years?"
Li Qinglu raised her hand and sat down in the chair that was brought to her from behind.
She placed her hands gently on the armrests, her eyes like cold stars, transforming into a chilling sword light, exuding an undeniable majesty and intimidating power.
When did this woman develop such poise?
Zuliya was greatly surprised.
She had never taken the Li family's lost daughter seriously before.
Even the first time I heard about her was when Zheng Wanxiu and her brother mentioned that they wanted to use this woman as the substitute for their sickly son.
In Zuliya's eyes, she wasn't even as good as a Gu!
The only reason I had an impression of her was because the Sixth Prince said she seemed to be familiar with the defenses of the underground city of Jinling. If we could capture her and make use of her, it would definitely be of great benefit to our Great Chu in the future!
That's why she took out this medicine.
Who would have thought that this medicine would become the knife that slowly sliced him to death!
Zuliya knew he was not going to survive.
For the past two weeks, she has been living a life worse than death.
Her life experiences had flashed through her mind again and again.
Only then did she belatedly realize that the person she felt most indebted to was her own sister, Zaina.
The sisters have relied on each other since childhood.
Zaina was clearly the master's most beloved disciple back then, but he encouraged her to escape Miao territory to pursue true love for the sake of power and status.
Even though he knew that the man she loved was not a good person, he did not try to persuade or stop her; instead, he encouraged her from behind the scenes...
Watching her step by step walk into the abyss of love.
Then, she used her closest flesh and blood—Butterfly—to concoct poison and raise venomous insects to draw blood.
What exactly do you want to do?
"You might as well explain yourself clearly, so I can die a quick death!"
Li Qingluo: "I want the butterfly to live."
"I want all the remaining poison you have."
Zuliya curled the corners of her lips: "Poison? Didn't I give all the poison to Qin Ling?"
Li Qingluo: "You don't have to say it. But I can keep you hanging on by a thread, so you can't die, but you can't live either."
"Do you think I really don't know about your dealings with Zongzheng Wuheng?"
"You want military treatises, and you also want the underground defense map of Jinling City. You, Zuliya, also have another master behind you, don't you?"
"Your Great Chu has always been eyeing Great Liang covetously. Even a fool could see what you were up to, right?"
“You could not possibly have given all of the poison in your possession to Zongzheng Wuheng.”
"Zuliya, what other schemes and plans do you have up your sleeve?"
“If you don’t tell me, I will hand you over to the Dali Temple of the Great Liang. They will surely have more and more vicious ways to deal with you, the spy from the Great Chu.”
"When that time comes, you'll have broken arms and legs, and the pain won't just be the pain of not being able to suck human blood."
A hint of panic flashed in Zuliya's eyes.
"Don't try to scare me!"
"The world I've seen and the storms I've weathered, how could you, a little bitch, possibly suppress me with a few words and a few tricks?"
Li Qingluo: "Alright. Someone, give her another bowl of pig's blood to taste."
Zulia screamed in terror, "No—"
"I'll talk!"
“I have already instructed the people of Princess Qinyu’s residence to poison the upper reaches of the Qinhuai River… Judging by the days, it should be within the next two days.”
"At that time, everyone in Jinling City will become blood-sucking demons, just like you and me!"
"Haha, hahaha—"
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