Clouds and Moon Shadow

Chapter 386 The Surging Killing Intent!

"Outside the back gate of Lingyun Temple, tell him to sell me to some remote mountain village. Don't use a slave trader; make him go himself. Ideally, I'd rather never leave, suffer endless torment, and die in the mountains..."

Looking at her, Gu Qingyue spoke in a plaintive voice, each word slowly escaping her lips.

Like a vengeful demon.

"You even threatened him, saying his mother lives in Mingzhi County..."

"Shut up! I... I don't know what you're talking about, you... you're talking nonsense! Nonsense, I didn't!"

Liu's teeth chattered, and she could barely speak. She knew she was truly finished this time!

That little bitch actually found out!

"Yue, Yue'er, don't listen to what others are saying. How could my aunt do such a thing..." Liu stared intently into Gu Qingyue's eyes, trying to argue her way out of trouble.

"Oh, no? Then shall I have Granny Wang come and tell you about what happened back then? Oh, and Granny Wu from the Prince An's mansion, she stood at the back gate of Lingyun Temple and heard everything you said... and the man who sold me..."

Gu Qingyue deliberately spoke in a meaningful tone. In fact, they had not yet found the person who sold them out. If Liu Shi insisted that she was not the one who did it, she really had no direct witnesses.

"Nonsense, nonsense! Impossible! Nobody—" Liu panicked, her voice hoarse. "Absolutely not! You're lying!!"

"No? Then Auntie is so nervous she can't even speak clearly. What's wrong? Oh, or should we change the subject?"

Gu Qingyue watched with amusement as Liu Shi trembled and could not sit up straight, retreating towards the wall. She glanced at her disdainfully, thinking, "She doesn't want to talk now, but she'll have to tell you everything later!"

"For example, you haven't forgotten about the time you had someone put a Heart-Eating Gu on my mother, have you? That was half a year ago. I believe you, as the wife of the Duke's heir and the matriarch of the family, still have that kind of memory!"

Gu Qingyue dropped another bombshell!

"You! I...I didn't, you------" Liu felt as if someone was choking her. Her lips felt icy cold, and she couldn't utter a single word. Was she going to die?!

"Or, let's talk about how my aunt strongly urged my mother to go to Ci'en Temple, and then had her ambushed and killed at the foot of the mountain. She also instructed that her lowly servants must humiliate her to death, and the more miserable the better?"

Gu Qingyue's eyes were frozen. She stared fixedly at the collapsing Liu Shi, her smile gone, replaced by a surging killing intent!

The Liu family is so cruel and shameless, how can they deserve to live?!

"You're lying! Lies! I didn't!" Liu finally broke down!

She gripped her sleeves tightly with both hands and screamed loudly!

"Nothing? You didn't commit adultery with Liu San? Or did you let Liu San defile your younger sister because you were jealous that she could win her husband's favor? Or did you hide Liu San away to be your concubine, pawn, and dagger?"

Seeing her breakdown, Gu Qingyue slightly suppressed her murderous intent and spoke calmly.

"Or are you saying that you didn't collude with the Prince An's mansion to ambush and kill my mother at the foot of Ci'en Temple Mountain? You didn't have someone put the Heart-Eating Gu on her?"

At this point, Gu Qingyue felt a dull ache in her heart, and she began to tremble.

"You didn't have someone sell me out to attack our second branch of the family? You said that only if the entire second branch of the family was wiped out could you get what Grandfather had?"

Upon hearing this, Liu felt a chill run down her spine.

No! Her whole body went numb! She froze, feeling utterly hopeless and utterly exposed, as if she had never felt this way in her entire life!

It was as if someone had stripped her of all her clothes; her blood rushed to her head, and she felt death gripping her throat, icy cold and filled with the chilling aura of death…

'Bang!' Suddenly, the door to the dark cell was kicked open!

Gu Qingyue had anticipated this, so she did not make a move.

The next moment, a tall figure rushed in from outside, grabbed Liu's hair, and slapped her hard across the face!

"You slut! You cheated on me! How could you be so vicious!" Gu Changqing couldn't remember how he suddenly rushed out; he just felt a surge of anger rising to the top of his head!

He flung open the door to the dark cell next door and rushed out like a madman!

It wasn't until he slapped Liu Shi in a frenzy that the pain and numbness in his palm brought him to his senses!

"Speak quickly! You didn't do these vile and cruel things! You didn't sell Yue'er! You didn't kill your second sister-in-law, you didn't have anyone cast a spell on her, you didn't collude with the Prince An's mansion! You didn't commit adultery!! Speak! Speak quickly!"

Gu Changqing no longer cared that Gu Qingyue was still beside him. He grabbed Liu Shi by the neck and lifted her up from the ground.

Although Gu Changqing was a civil official, all the men in the Gu family practiced martial arts from a young age, and he was no less skilled.

"Let go first," came the old Duke's aged voice from behind.

"Let Yue'er finish asking her questions. Don't be impulsive!" The old Duke's hand was trembling slightly. He grabbed Gu Changqing's arm and made him let go.

Because he saw that Liu Shi was being pinched by Gu Changqing until her eyes were almost rolling back!

Upon hearing this, Gu Changqing's eyes turned bloodshot, but after a moment, he still let go.

"Cough cough cough..." Liu Shi collapsed to the ground, coughing awkwardly.

Tears mingled with strands of hair, sticking to one side of her swollen cheek, making her look like a demon.

'Hahahaha...' The next moment, Liu's tears flowed even more profusely.

"So what if you commit adultery? You heartless and ungrateful man! All you do is pamper your two shameless concubines all day long. Do you even respect me, your legal wife? Do you think I wouldn't cheat on you? Hahaha!"

Liu felt her blood run cold, and all the resentment and anger in her heart surged forth like a tidal wave!

"All you know is to bury yourself in being a lowly civil official. Did you see that old geezer only favors the second wife? He even wants to give the most important thing in the Duke's mansion to the second wife. Luckily, Gu Changling was unlucky and died out there. Hahahaha! Serves him right!"

Upon hearing this, the old Duke closed his eyes briefly and remained silent.

"You! Second brother is not dead! You're talking nonsense!" Gu Changqing had been a coward all his life, but at this moment, when he heard Liu Shi talk about his second brother, his eyes reddened.

His second brother was the closest to him from childhood to adulthood.

Knowing he was incompetent and unfit for military service, he had no choice but to become a civil official.

He was timid and cowardly. He knew that everyone said behind his back that he was able to get an official position because of his ancestors' connections, so he flattered people everywhere, hoping that someone would take notice of him and that he could be promoted quickly.

But deep down, he couldn't help but envy his second brother for being able to fight on the battlefield and serve the Great Chu!

He was envious.

Although he had been jealous of his younger brother's early rise to the rank of second-grade general, he never wished for his brother's death!

On the contrary, he hoped that his second brother could bring honor to the family and make him proud, so that his colleagues could also respect him!