Chapter 381 Prey? Liu Qingzhu's miserable end!
Chapter 381 Prey? Liu Qingzhu's miserable end!
Zhong Liulang's disgust was written all over his face.
Li Qingluo slowly put away his bow and sneered, "It turns out that the rules of the Xiamiao Hunting Ground are nothing to you, Captain Zhong."
Now is the time for all the girls to start hunting.
To avoid accidental injuries, all men must immediately stop all hunting when the horn sounds.
Even if you see your prey standing right in front of you, you must never attack it.
Zhong Liulang clearly knew the rules, but he broke them just to cause trouble for Li Qingluo.
It's really disgusting.
Hearing her ridicule, Zhong Liulang ignored it completely.
"You are the daughter of a guilty minister, yet you are still here to criticize me. Who do you think you are—"
Li Qingluo raised his hand, drew the bow, and shot the arrow without blinking.
Zhong Liulang shouted in a low voice: "Your Highness, be careful——"
The Fourth Prince and his wife standing by were both terrified and their faces turned pale.
However, the arrow just blew past Zhong Liulang's ear like the wind.
A strand of hair was cut off.
With a "clang" sound, Li Qingluo's arrow actually hit a deer's neck directly!
Que'er and Pan Li couldn't help but exclaim: "Good arrow!"
The servants of the Pan family and Nanny Zheng hurried after them.
Zhong Liulang turned his head with his neck stiff.
The Fourth Prince and his wife couldn't help but turn their heads to look.
They saw a deer running towards them from a distance, and in the blink of an eye, it was hunted by this woman...
Zhong Liulang's face looked extremely ugly.
"You-you did it on purpose!"
He gnashed his teeth and growled, "How dare you, Li Qingluo, shoot an arrow at the Fourth Prince? You are committing insubordination!"
"If you accidentally hurt His Highness, what will be your punishment?"
Li Qingluo: "If there's any accidental injury, wouldn't it be you, Captain Zhong?"
She was so provocative. Zhong Liulang had never been humiliated like this by any other girl.
However, Li Qingluo no longer wanted to pay attention to him. She and Pan Li quickly dismounted and respectfully saluted the Fourth Prince Duan Rongxuan: "Your humble servant, I pay my respects to the Fourth Prince, His Majesty's Consort."
The Fourth Prince's wife raised her hand and was about to call them to stand up.
The fourth prince, Duan Rongxuan, curled his lips and said, "So it's you two."
"If I had known it was you two girls, I would not have taken what was good from you."
"Slave, go!"
"Go pick up the rabbit and give it to Miss Li and Miss Pan."
The Fourth Prince ignored Zhong Liulang's increasingly ugly expression and pulled the hemp rope behind him.
A figure that Li Qingluo was extremely familiar with was pulled out in a panic from the servants behind them.
Pan Li exclaimed: "Liu Qingzhu? Why did she become like this?"
That was indeed Liu Qingzhu.
At this moment, her wrists were tied and a long hemp rope was held in Duan Rongxuan's hands.
However, she has completely lost her former beauty and appearance.
Who could still recognize that she was the eldest daughter of Dongyin Lane who was once so beautiful and charming?
He was extremely skinny and his clothes were the lowest-class servant's style.
His hair was like a pile of dry weeds on his head.
His expression was dull and numb, and when he saw Li Qingluo's figure, there was a hint of panic in his eyes.
"This prince asked you to pick up prey. Are you deaf?"
Duan Rongxuan picked up the long whip at hand and whipped Liu Qingzhu hard.
Liu Qingzhu screamed and fell to the ground, sobbing: "Don't... Your Highness, don't hit me..."
Duan Rongxuan's expression was ferocious: "Shut up, bitch!"
"This prince has said that you are not worthy of calling me His Highness!"
"What are you going to yell...?"
Liu Qingzhu fell to the ground in panic and replied, "My Lord, you are my Lord!"
"If you hadn't been willing to give me a chance to live, I would have died long ago..."
She choked up as she finished speaking and quickly got up again, rushed towards the prey, picked up the bloody rabbit, then ran to Li Qingluo and presented it to him with both hands.
"Miss Li, Miss Li, Miss Pan, please accept my benefactor's prey..."
Before he finished speaking, Duan Rongshi pulled the rope in his hand again, and Liu Qingzhu screamed and was pulled several meters away.
But she didn't even dare to lie down. She immediately got up and hurried back to the group of servants, keeping her head down obediently.
Duan Rongxuan: "Miss Li, do you like this humble slave of the prince?"
Li Qingluo lowered her brows and said, "I am terrified. This is your Highness's person. I dare not make any comments."
Duan Rongxuan: "Why not? Didn't that bitch hurt you terribly in the beginning?"
"She stole your identity as the daughter of the Li family for sixteen years, and even coaxed me into acting with her to deceive the entire General's Mansion."
"If it weren't for her, how would you have suffered all these years?"
"You won't be misunderstood and wronged by your father, brothers, and mother."
"This prince...this prince was also deceived by her in the past, but now I have come to realize that she is the evildoer. Would you like me to vent your anger for you?"
The Fourth Prince's wife listened at the side with an ugly look on her face.
Duan Rongxuan is now going crazy regardless of the occasion.
There were so many people around, and he openly showed his goodwill to Li Qingluo. He had no shame, but I still had some dignity!
"Your Highness, let's go."
"I'm not feeling well."
The Fourth Prince's wife spoke with an uncomfortable look on her face, but Duan Rongxuan was not angry at all.
He just said "spoil the fun", then took Liu Qingzhu's hand, and the group finally left in a mighty manner.
Zhong Liulang's vicious gaze still remained on Li Qingluo. Li Qingluo turned around and looked at him openly, his eyes even colder than his.
Only after they had completely left did Li Qingluo and Pan Li stand up, carrying the bloody rabbit.
Pan Li: "This Duan Rongxuan is really a lunatic!"
"After all, Liu Qingzhu was once his favorite concubine, and he actually tortured her into this state!"
Although Liu Qingzhu was not a good person, Pan Li was filled with indignation when he saw a living person being tortured into a state of being inhuman.
Li Qingluo: "Do you know what's going on?"
Pan Li: "I also heard from Pan... from my second brother. He said that after Duan Rongxuan became blind and his throne was taken away, he acted like a madman in his own house and started torturing others for fun."
"Just then, Liu Qingzhu escaped from the General's Mansion and fled back to Prince Yun's Mansion."
"When Prince Yun heard from his servants that she might have lost her virginity, he demoted Liu Qingzhu to a third-class lowly maid."
"Besides being made to do menial chores, she was either poured with cold water as punishment or made to stand on the ground like a dog, begging for food."
"Everyone in the Fourth Prince's Mansion, even the servants, are torturing her to death."
"If the Fourth Prince's wife hadn't been unable to bear it and secretly saved her several times, she would have died long ago."
"It's really tragic."
After hearing this, Li Qingluo couldn't describe the feeling in his heart.
Liu Qingzhu's fate today was indeed the result he wanted most when he spared her life.
But her tenacious vitality also makes me admire her a little.
Li Qingluo thought about his previous life. In the general's mansion, what he experienced was exactly the same as what Liu Qingzhu is experiencing now.
As the law of cause and effect goes on, it is finally Liu Qingzhu's turn to taste the suffering she had endured in her previous life.
After collecting the prey, Li Qingluo hurriedly took Pan Li and continued forward.
Soon, they arrived at the place agreed with the eldest princess.
Three miles to the southeast, there is an open river.
The Pan family's maidservants came forward and led the horses away to drink water and eat grass. Li Qingluo and Pan Li squatted by the river to wash their hands.
When Que'er saw the fish in the river, she was surprised and asked, "Girl, do you want to eat grilled fish?"
After saying that, he rolled up his trouser legs and prepared to go down to the river.
There was a sudden rustling sound in the grass behind me.
"Hey, look who is this?"
"They actually hunted a deer?"
"Pan Li, these maidservants of yours actually have some real hunting skills. I underestimated them."
As the voices were spoken, Concubine Jing Pei Zixuan, followed by Cui Shiyi Niang, Cui Jiu Niang, Cui Qilang, and the young Princess Nanping all emerged from the woods on horseback.
Li Qingluo and Pan Li bowed in greeting.
Cui Jiuniang and Cui Qillang both nodded at them friendly.
Pan Li stood up and asked, "Who said it was my maidservant who killed the deer?"
"It's clearly——"
Li Qingluo held Pan Li and smiled slightly: "You are lucky too, you hunted a white fox."
Nan Ping rushed out happily: "Sister Luo'er! Sister Pan Li!"
"Great! I've been looking for you for a long time. I finally found you!"
"But that white fox was not hunted by us girls. Cui Qilang killed it and wanted to give it to Jiuniang."
Cui Jiuniang and Pei Jingzhe will get married next month.
So the Cui family is now very close to the Pei family.
Cui Shiyi Niang: "Princess, we don't want to leave with them! Will you leave with us?"
Cui Shiyi Niang glared at Pan Li as she spoke, "I simply don't want to be associated with this kind of liar and trickster!"
Pan Li: ...
She looked aggrieved: "Eleventh Lady, where have you been? You've been looking for me so hard!"
"I clearly made an appointment with you, but when I arrived at the place where we agreed to meet, you were not there."
"I thought you broke my date."
Cui Shiyi Niang, who was blamed:?
"you……"
Pan Li: "Oh, right, when I went there, I happened to see the noble lady leaving."
"My dear lady, you passed by there before. Did you see Eleventh Lady?"
"Could it be that we missed it? How strange..."
Pei Zixuan was shocked.
Were they also nearby at that time?
Did they hear what I said to Madam?
Pei Zixuan's heart was pounding and she became uneasy.
She stared coldly at Pan Li and Li Qingluo, as if trying to see some clues on their faces.
No!
There are too many secrets about Pan Li, we must not let her be so proud any longer!
"Go, bring their deer over to me so I can have a look."
There was a dark flash in Pei Zixuan's eyes. She wanted Pan Li to make a mistake.
In this way, she can be punished, and no one else can find fault with her.
However, Pan Li was not like before, rushing to stop others when he heard they were trying to steal his things.
When the servants had carried the deer to Pei Zixuan's feet, she smiled and said, "My dear lady, you won't steal the deer that Luo'er hunted, will you?"
"If you just want to take a look, then just take a look."
"After all, with so many eyes watching, there won't be any robbery or the like..."
Pei Zixuan was stunned.
Even Cui Qilang was surprised.
This deer was actually hunted by Miss Li?
Nan Ping said with admiration: "Sister Luo'er, I knew it was you!"
Li Qingluo: "Just luck."
Pei Zixuan is in a difficult situation.
Of course she wanted to grab the deer right away.
With Pan Li's resentful temper, she would definitely make a big fuss.
I'll take advantage of this opportunity to force her to make a big mistake, like accidentally slapping myself...
She dared to be rude and violent to the emperor's concubines. No matter who the prey belonged to, Pan Li was completely finished today.
And no one on her side would testify for her.
He is just Li Qingluo, how many people can believe what he says?
As long as Pan Li made a mistake, it is a fact.
And if Li Qingluo could be dragged into this, it would be an even better opportunity...
Pei Zixuan said this and immediately got off the horse.
She pulled the arrow out of the deer and threw it away, ignoring the blood splattering on her body.
Then he looked at Pan Li and the others and said, "This deer is mine."
Princess Nanping: "What did you say?"
"Pei Zixuan, do you think we are all blind?"
Pei Zixuan turned her head to look at Cui Qilang behind her.
Cui Qilang was stunned for a moment, then he called out silently, "Little Princess, don't you want a fox too?"
"I happened to encounter a red fox before. Would you mind taking me to the forest to look for it?"
Before Princess Nanping could react, Li Qingluo and Pan Li took the lead and knelt down together, greeting Pei Zixuan and the others behind them.
"Meet the Princess, meet the Crown Princess."
"Greetings, His Royal Highness Prince Su."
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