Chapter 84 The Scheme Succeeded (2/2)
Lengmei continued on crying out and grasped Bai Bulun's trouser legs tightly. Then she pleaded with tears, ”Young man, did you hear it? I'm so wronged! Please help me!”
Bai Bulun was the god for Chu Tiankuo at the moment. In order to sue for peace with the border area, Chu Tiankuo must be able to take temporary setbacks and could only show some respects to Bai Bulun.
What Chu Tiankuo thought was quite helpful for Lengmei's plan as Chu Tiankuo could only entertain Bai Bulun mannerly at the moment. Hence, it was the best way for her to seek help from Bai Bulun.
”Look at what His Majesty did! He just favored Tang Xia who made me lose my child! Please uphold justice for me!”
Lengmei's words stressed how malicious Tang Xia was and how partial Chu Tiankuo was to Tang Xia, which would make people hate Tang Xia more.
”Tell me, how could His Majesty slight over me in this way! As his imperial concubine, I am not favored by him. Moreover, he did not speak for me after I lost our child! What a miserable life I'm living! ”
As Lengmei grasped Bai Bulun tightly, she complained tearfully about her completely fake tragedy, which made Bai Bulun, the envoy from the border area, quite angry.
In his border area, men were all unconstrained and upright and would never make their women be wronged. Hence, Bai Bulun became angrier and angrier with Chu Tiankuo.
Actually, Bai Bulun did feel sorry for Lengmei who could not claim justice after losing her own child. Therefore, he could not stand it anymore and clapped on the red sandalwood table with his eyebrows knitted.
The sound of ”bang” frightened everyone including Chu Tiankuo. Apparently, Bai Bulun was angry, quite angry.
Bai Bulun's opinion on Chu Tiankuo was changing gradually. He was suing for peace under orders, but he could not carry on the negotiation in the face of the muddleheaded Chu Tiankuo. He must uphold justice for the poor imperial concubine.
Moreover, Bai Bulun thought that Chu Tiankuo was quite coward and inadequate to be an emperor as he could not protect his own imperial concubine and cast his child away so easily.
And Bai Bulun could not figure out why Chu Tiankuo should delay dealing with this matter as Chu Tiankuo could solve the problem by punishing Tang Xia. Why did Chu Tiankuo say that they could talk about it later?
Bai Bulun could not help thinking that punishing Tang Xia severely in front of him was the best way to show sincerity to the border area. Besides, Chu Tiankuo should know that dealing with it in this way could be conducive to their negotiation as Chu Tiankuo was wise enough.
Was it like what Lengmei said that Chu Tiankuo could abandon the state affairs because of Tang Xia?
As he thought so, Bai Bulun could not stand it anymore and said to Chu Tiankuo,
”Your Majesty, in my humble opinion, I would not get involved in this matter if I were not here. Now that I see what happened, I must uphold justice for this poor imperial concubine!”
Hearing Bai Bulun's angry words, Chu Tiankuo felt that he could do nothing as he should and must listen to Bai Bulun's words.
”Your Majesty, all your imperial concubines are women who can bear your children. Their babies are all likely to be the emperor in the future. How could you not care even if you lost your child?”
”I don't understand why the empress is so important to you that you do not prevent her from taking advantage of her authority and framing other imperial concubines. How could you react like this?”
”I insist that you do not show enough sincerity as you don't punish your empress who framed the imperial concubine in such an important occasion.”
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Chu Tiankuo felt quite flustered in the face of Bai Bulun's interrogation. He must promise that he would punish Tang Xia on this occasion if he wanted to show his sincerity. Hence, Chu Tiankuo forced himself to do so.
”Brother Bai, what are you talking about? I understand you and I'm going to punish my empress. I just don't want to embarrass her in public. Lengmei, just leave for now. I will definitely claim justice for you.”
Hearing Chu Tiankuo's words, Lengmei thought her plan succeeded and left the hall reverently, wiping her tears.
After Lengmei left, this matter ended temporarily. As Zui Linglong standing aside saw through everything, she went to Lengmei's palace with the excuse of visiting her to warn Lengmei that she should not be happy too early and Chu Tiankuo knew it was her scheme.
As Lengmei did not expect that Chu Tiankuo could see through her scheme, she shouted unwillingly,
”That is impossible!”