5007

Chapter 5007: 5.0759 Scheming

Prince Guangwa stammered for a while, finally finding his voice. He turned and glanced at Duan Yue. "Your Majesty, this must be a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"

The short, dark-skinned prince strode over to his two trembling concubines. With a wave of his hand, he gave each of them a loud slap across the face. "You two must have eaten a bear's heart and a leopard's guts, haven't you! How dare you provoke the Crown Princess of Shenzhou?!"

"Don't you know that the Crown Princess of Shenzhou possesses unparalleled divine power, unmatched in the world? Even this prince, when he meets the Crown Princess, can only humbly concede defeat!"

"Now hurry and get over there and apologize to the Crown Princess! Do I still need to teach you?!"

His sarcastic words made Duan Yue frown. His cynical tone, while outwardly praising Qiao Qiao, was actually filled with veiled insults.

The two concubines quickly knelt obediently on the ground, timidly calling out, "This servant's eyes were clouded; we did not know the Crown Princess had arrived..."

The little Crown Princess flicked her finger, and two ebony talismans flew towards the concubines, striking their foreheads with two sharp "pats."

Prince Guangwa's eyes flashed with anger, and he was about to speak loudly when he heard the little Crown Princess's voice, like cold spring water, slowly rise. "By whose instruction were you two told to keep me here?"

The two concubines' faces were blank and muddled. They felt only that cold voice echoing in their minds and involuntarily answered, "We two servants were entrusted by a fellow countryman to create trouble in the imperial garden today on some pretext. We only needed to keep a passing noble person here; the rest was not for us servants to handle, as Túláng would take care of it."

"Impossible!" Prince Guangwa roared. "Without my command, how could Túláng possibly attack the Crown Princess?"

The two concubines' eyes were dull, yet they spoke in unison, "Has the Prince forgotten? You told Túláng to protect us well. If we were in danger at the hands of a noble person, Túláng would naturally save us from peril."

Prince Guangwa's face grew even uglier, a sickly yellow color, and he opened his mouth, unable to refute. The order had indeed been given by him. This lust-struck Prince of the Barbarian Tribe changed women as quickly as he changed clothes. He often spoiled his favored concubines, wishing he could give them all the world's treasures. But once they fell out of favor, he discarded them like worn-out shoes. The reason Túláng had been left with these two favored concubines was that they had come to him crying two days prior, complaining about being bullied by his main wife and having a difficult life. Thus, Túláng had been placed with them for protection. He never expected this would lead to trouble!

"What benefits did you two receive from your fellow countryman? Hand them over."

The two women's faces were expressionless. They rustled around and took out several bags of spirit coins and two spirit artifacts from their inner realms, placing them all before everyone. They remained kneeling there motionlessly.

"Prince Guangwa, the facts are clear, the culprits and stolen goods are all here. The money used for the bribe is right here. What do you have to say now!"

Prince Guangwa's face flashed like iridescent clouds, shifting back and forth.

Qiao Mu said expressionlessly, "One last question: why did you specifically choose to act here?" Why did they have to lure her to the imperial garden, to hold her there and not let her leave, merely to have Túláng fight her? Or... was there another agenda?

Lord Qiao Qiao turned and exchanged glances with Duan Yue.

"Go." The two had just swiftly flashed and flown up when they felt a heavy gravity cover them from mid-air. With a loud "bang" beneath their feet, the entire ground instantly collapsed.