Chapter 89 Reverse the Verdic (1/2)
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Tang Xia looked into the distance scornfully with a sneer and went to the altar with Lyuyou.
When Tang Xia arrived at the bottom of the altar, people called as expected, ”Here comes the empress!”
Then almost everyone fixed their eyes on Tang Xia angrily as if they lost the baby, instead of Lengmei.
”She is the empress! What a beauty!”
”So what? She is so vicious.”
”Right!”
”The empress must be a malicious woman as she has done such a cruel thing!”
”Agree! It will bring bad fortune to a family with such a cruel hostess.”
”So His Majesty...”
”His Majesty is enchanted by her beauty!”
”Right, no one is perfect!”
Common people discussed when they saw Tang Xia. Then favorable statements were for Lengmei as expected while Tang Xia was universally condemned.
Looking at those who were ignorant of the truth, Tang Xia sighed in her mind, ”Forget it. There is no need for me to get angry with those ignorant people.”
Then Tang Xia looked at Lengmei who was standing on the altar and looked back. When they made eye contact with each other, they both sneered with dislike and scorn.
Lengmei fixed her cold eyes on Tang Xia with the thought that she would definitely win. Although she wanted to laugh out, she could not do that as she was standing on the altar and needed to complete her acting.
Hence, when Lengmei looked at Tang Xia, she burst into tears suddenly and said,
”Your Grace, do you have any qualms about killing my baby? My baby was so young that he was even not born and did not see me for once!” Then Lengmei started to cry, covering her face with hands.
Tang Xia remained silent and just looked with a poker face at Lengmei who pretended to be crying.
As the common people noticed Lengmei who was crying on the altar and Tang Xia who wore a calm look as if there was nothing to do with her,
they favored Lengmei more and condemned Tang Xia who was cruel and vicious.
At this time, there was a stir among the common people. When Tang Xia and Lengmei turned around, they found that another group of people came. There were a larger number of common people for the moment.
As Lengmei noticed there were more and more people, she felt quite pleased and fixed her cold eyes on Tang Xia, covering her face with the wide sleeves. And she thought, ”Humph, how dare you tussle with me! I'll see how you will end.”
However, things did not happen in the direction which Lengmei had imagined. After an uproar rose among the common people,
they became quiet for a while. Then those negative comments against Tang Xia disappeared and compliments arose.
”What? What is going on? What happened out there?”
Lengmei thought on the altar and noticed that people began to put in a good word for Tang Xia and raised their heads to look at her fiercely, which somewhat made Lengmei flurried.
It turned out that people just came here in the nick of time were those who had been helped by Tang Xia. They heard that the empress made one imperial concubine have a miscarriage.
And that imperial concubine redressed an injustice on the altar. They all believed that the kind empress who had provided them with food to help them survive would never do such a cruel thing.
Hence, they gathered up spontaneously to go to the altar and righted a wrong for Tang Xia. They said to other common people,
”The empress is so philanthropic that she provided food outside the town for several days!”
”Right! Our family could survive thanks to the empress! We all appreciate her great kindness.”
”Don't you dare to slander Her Grace!”
”Agree! Her Grace must be the reincarnation of Bodhisattva! There is no such kind person who suffers so much!”