TFDC Chapter 29.2

Chapter 29.2 - Four clawed golden dragon

“Who are you?”

“This subject-girl is the left prime minister’s eldest daughter, Lou Qingwu.”

“Lou Qingwu?” The emperor repeated, looking at this delicately gentle and weak girl that looked like a little white rabbit.

He reluctantly waved his hands, “What do you want to say?”

Lou Qufeng didn’t think that Lou Qingwu would actually open her mouth at this time and couldn’t help but worry that Lou Qingwu would say something incredibly offensive.

But in his heart, he knew that no matter how bad the situation got, it wouldn’t be worser than his treasonous crime of dreaming to be the emperor.

So his body lie even lower on the floor, virtually laying flat on the ground as his heart grew even more unsteady.

Today, what could he do to make the emperor less angry?

At the same, Lou Qingwu’s steady voice came from the side like a gust of cool wind.

Her voice was comforting, light and gentle and not allowing anyone to interrupt.

“Emperor, this servant-girl would only like to say two points. The first is that if my father wasn’t loyal to the emperor, he would never send such an obvious gift as a birthday gift. Instead, he would scheme secretly, waiting for the perfect time. This time, little sister made a mistake, please let the emperor investigate clearly.

The second point is that this subject-girl accidentally heard today that my father knew that the emperor was worried about the scarcity of the army provisions near the border, and to minimise the emperor’s worries, was planning to donate 100,000 gold ingots as the real birthday gift for the emperor with the Ruan family’s head. Following this, how could my father have the intention to be emperor himself? Could the emperor please think of this three times and please give my father and little sister another chance?”

After she finished speaking, everybody in the Peony Garden fell into a deathly silence again.

One hundred thousand gold ingots, this … isn’t that one million silver ingots?

My god!

Is the left prime minister crazy?

That’s so much money!

But, they all understood underneath that this Lou family’s eldest daughter was saying this to use the hundred thousand golden ingots to save her father and her little sister’s lives.

After all, if the emperor becomes suspicious, that’s definitely a disaster for his subject.

Then at this time, to protect his life, he would have to demonstrate his loyalty anad that would be to give away all of his fortune.

Hundred thousand gold ingots wasn’t just a thousand or a hundred ingots, when pushed out, it would definitely blind everyone’s eyes!

Indeed, the emperor’s pursed lips did loosen as he stared deeply at Lou Qingwu.

His eyes moved from Lou Qufeng to Lou Qingwu and around but he still didn’t speak a word.

But from his actions, he had clearly been stirred by Lou Qingwu’s words.

But as the majestic emperor, he had already spoken.

If he opened up again to release Lou Qufeng, wouldn’t he be hitting his own face?

But his heart didn’t want to part with the hundred thousand gold ingots.

The border was already calling alarmingly, begging for army rations and he had been worried for days and days on end.

If at this time, one hundred thousand gold ingots appeared out of nowhere, then a lot of things could be solved easily.

The emperor couldn’t speak easily but to his side, the empress could see everything clearly and appropriately, opened her mouth.

“Emperor, from this empress’ point of view, today is your grand birthday and so, you shouldn’t see blood so easily. Furthermore, emperor, you are always virtuous and the let prime minister has always been loyal, so unfortunately, this time might just this Lou family’s second daughter who made a careless mistake and caused a misunderstanding.”

These light words that explained that it was just a simple misunderstanding gave the emperor a platform to come down but he still needed to be angry at a person.

He threateningly moved his eyes around and fell upon the Lou Lianxin who was still shaking and unsteady.

His deep voice sounded, “Listening to the empress, it really was the emperor who thought too much. Lou prime minister has always been willinging to sacrifice everything for the country and this emperor didn’t believe him at first. But this time, it seems like it was someone else bit off more than they could chew, and harmed not only themselves but those around them! If you can’t sew, then don’t ever pick up a needle every again! Also, this emperor never wants to see her again!”

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TL note

Emperor says that he never wants to see LLX again which means she won’t be able to marry into royalty easily but of course, she can just wait for the emperor to die and crawl onto Xiahou Qing’s bed anyway.

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