Pei Nanjia was a little surprised as to how Li Qingluo knew Qing Yangzi.

Li Qingluo shook his head: "My grandmother lived in Qingsong Temple for thirty years. Have you forgotten this?"

Pei Nanjia was dazed for a moment, then smiled with a pale smile: "I know many people want to help him, but I just can't get angry..."

Li Qingluo held Pei Nanjia's hand and said, "What's going on? Nanjia, although Grandma thinks Qingyangzi is innocent, Grandma and I also want to help you."

"Did you really falsely accuse Qing Yangzi?"

"But why did you do this? If Qing Yangzi is found not guilty and released, you will be charged with false accusation!"

Before Pei Nanjia could reply, someone behind her had already spoken to Li Qingluo in a bad tone before she could.

"Our Jia'er was poisoned to this point because of him. Does that mean she still owes Qingyangzi?"

Pei Nanjia: "Mother!"

Li Qingluo and Princess Nanping quickly turned around and saw a woman dressed in plain clothes with a sad face walking in. She looked very similar to Pei Nanjia, and judging by her age, she should be Pei Nanjia's biological mother, the concubine of the second house and the second courtyard.

The second master of the second house is Pei Nanjia's father.

His father never married in his life, and there was only one woman in the entire backyard, Aunt Pei Nanjia.

Most people in Jinling City praised him for his loyalty and righteousness, but there were also many people who scolded him for being ignorant of propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame, and for disregarding the moral code of ethics by treating a concubine as the mistress of the harem.

Besides Pei Nanjia, the couple had no other children.

There is only this one, the apple of my eye.

Li Qingluo suddenly remembered that in addition to Pei Nanjia, there was another exception in the Pei family.

That is the second master of the second branch. Like Nan Jia, he is out of tune with the men of the Pei family.

Because, I heard that he is currently a little popular in the emperor's court.

Even more popular than Duke Pei...

And the men of the Pei family, like the women, are obviously eager to live in seclusion and keep a low profile, hiding their edge.

And there was Pei Sanlang, who looked like an extraordinary man, but he just spent the whole day doing nothing.

Moreover, he seemed to have an intricate relationship with the late crown prince and even the Lotus Sect.

This Peiguo Mansion is really complicated and weird everywhere.

Li Qingluo stood up and saluted Pei Nanjia's aunt, and Nanping followed suit in a daze.

The woman was also a person who knew the rules. She quickly stepped aside and said hurriedly, "Young ladies, please don't do that! I am just a concubine and I dare not accept your courtesy. I was disrespectful just now. I am honored to meet you two young ladies."

Li Qingluo still bowed slightly: "You are Nan Jia's mother, so you are naturally the elder."

Nan Jia smiled at her aunt, "Mother, why are you here? Luo'er and the princess are my true friends, don't worry."

This concubine's surname was Guan, and everyone in Pei Guogong's mansion called her Concubine Guan.

When Aunt Guan heard her daughter say this, she wiped her eyes and came over to say with a smile, "Mother is very happy. I've heard Jia'er mention this before. Now Jia'er finally has true close friends. As soon as I saw them, Mother knew that they are indeed very good girls."

"So, do you want them to know about your situation?"

Pei Nanjia nodded with a pale face.

Aunt Guan tightened the fur wrapped around her body again.

Then he slowly revealed the truth: "Back then, when Qingyangzi was still the second son of the Chen family, the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue, Jiaer's father and Master Chen had been classmates and friends since their youth, so the two of them privately arranged a marriage for Jiaer and Chen Erlang."

"But Qing Yangzi suddenly became a monk a few years ago without caring about our Jiaer's reputation and embarrassment."

"Although his family later suffered a great disaster, and we understand the difficulties he faced in becoming a monk, he has never personally explained it to Jiaer until now."

"Jia'er is stubborn and wants him to say in person that there's no possibility between them anymore, or to write a letter of cancellation in his own handwriting. But every time he goes back to Qingsong Temple, Qingyangzi avoids him. Seeing Jia'er is like seeing a poisonous snake or a ferocious beast, and he can't avoid her."

"Jia'er has been delayed for several years. How much longer can she be delayed?"

"Although we only have one illegitimate daughter in our Second House, Second Courtyard, she is also our only precious jewel. How can I and her father not be anxious?"

"Last month, the master personally went to Qingsong Temple again."

"But, ladies, guess what our master saw with his own eyes?"

"They are preparing for a wedding at Qingsong Temple. And the person they are about to marry is Qingyangzi!"

Princess Nanping slammed the table and stood up: "He's a Taoist priest, and he can actually get married? What kind of weird thing is this? Isn't he afraid that the gods in heaven will strike him down?"

Li Qingluo pulled Princess Nanping aside and explained, "I also heard from my grandmother that Taoism is divided into two sects. They are the Quanzhen Sect and the Zhengyi Sect."

"The Quanzhen Sect has strict precepts. Taoist monks must live in monasteries and practice cultivation. They cannot marry, eat meat, or drink alcohol. They believe in 'abandoning alcohol, sex, money, anger, attachment, love, and worry.' The worldly desires are obstacles on the path of cultivation and must be eliminated in order to achieve enlightenment."

"The Zhengyi sect's rules are less strict. They believe that 'the absence of yin and yang leads to extinction and the end of the world'; therefore, Zhengyi Taoists can marry and have children, and they don't abstain from meat."

"Grandmother said that Qingsong Monastery practices the Zhengyi School. The previous abbot left the mountain with his wife a few years ago to travel around the world, so he left the position of abbot of Qingsong Monastery to his direct disciple Qingyangzi."

"But if Qingyangzi is going to get married, hasn't he written a letter of withdrawal to Nanjia yet?"

Nan Jia smiled bitterly and nodded slowly, "You're right, Luo'er. When my father saw this situation that day, he was naturally furious, so he beat Qing Yangzi."

Li Qingluo even gasped!

Those Taoists in Qingsong Temple are not someone to be trifled with. If Qingyangzi was really beaten, would those Taoists just stand by and watch without intervening to stop it?

Unless Qingyangzi himself does not allow them to interfere!

Li Qingluo looked at Nan Jia: "And then? How did you get poisoned?"

Nan Jia: "My father loved me so much that he bought me some chestnut cake from a bakery on the way home. But after eating it, I had vomiting, diarrhea, and blood. I passed out that night."

"My father hurriedly begged the palace that night, knelt before His Majesty and begged the imperial physician to return. He even asked all the famous doctors in Jinling City to save my life, but in the end, I was diagnosed with poisoning."

"But how did I get poisoned?"

"Father naturally investigated further, and eventually found the problem with the chestnut cakes. There was nothing wrong with the shop, but after further investigation, he found the problem with Qingyangzi's wife who hadn't married yet."

"Rumor has it that she's a woman of the underworld, but she's also a poison doctor. And on the day my father beat Qing Yangzi, she happened to appear at the pastry shop, and went in right before my father did."

"Luo'er, Princess, is there such a coincidence in the world? My father took the evidence and almost killed his way to Qingsong Temple. When he told me the truth, Qingyangzi was a little surprised, but he just said lightly: Her master suddenly encountered an emergency, so she left Jinling two days ago."

"And Qing Yangzi is also preparing to pack his bags and go to the woman's master's sect to find her."

"Luo'er, what on earth do their affairs have to do with me?! If he had written the letter of annulment earlier, why would my father have been so impulsive and caused trouble for him?"

"And that chestnut cake, was she originally going to poison my father, or was she trying to poison me?"

"If my father ate this chestnut cake, and I couldn't enter the palace to ask for the emperor's grace to invite the imperial physician, nor could I invite so many imperial physicians, would my father lose his life?"

"If my father dies, how many days can my mother and I survive in this Pei Mansion?"

"Luo'er, I was filled with resentment and hatred, so in a fit of rage I falsely accused Qing Yangzi and had him brought to the Jinling government office."

That woman poisoned someone and wanted to escape, but of course it was impossible.

The government has already gone to her master's sect to arrest people, and it is impossible for Qing Yangzi to leave.

Therefore, Pei Nanjia used this despicable method to lock up Qing Yangzi. If the woman really loved Qing Yangzi, she would definitely come back to save him.

What's more, she now hates Qing Yangzi very much.

As Pei Nanjia spoke, tears streamed down her face.

How could she not hate it?

It was just a letter of breaking off the engagement, but Qing Yangzi was reluctant to give it to her.

So is he heartless, or does he have feelings for her?

She has thought of everything over the years.

I even had a little hope for Qing Yangzi and had some delusions in my heart.

He didn't even dare to see her, but he couldn't let go of her in his heart?

It wasn't until this near-death experience that Pei Nanjia understood.

No matter what Qing Yangzi thought, he became a Taoist priest without saying a word, and their fate was over.

As for the fact that he now wants to marry another woman but does not give her a letter of withdrawal, it is purely a humiliation to her.

Pei Nanjia: "Luo'er, I am willing to bear the consequences no matter what they are. But I will not allow the person who poisoned me to go unpunished."

"I won't be alive much longer anyway, so what if I risk my life against them?"

What does Pei Nanjia mean by this?

Li Qingluo saw Guan wiping her tears and did not ask any further questions.

Princess Nanping was sensible enough not to ask any further questions, but her face was filled with uncontrollable sadness.

After Nan Jia said those words, her body was already exhausted.

So the maid took her back to rest, and then Guan Shi told Li Qingluo and Princess Nanping, "Jia'er's poison has already penetrated her heart and spleen. Even the imperial physicians are helpless... They say Jia'er has only three months to live... She can survive."

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