Chapter twenty two: Crazy words of a dying man

Master Chang's words were like a match have been lit into the crowd sending them on a frenzy.

" He has gone mad. "

" He has lost his mind. "

" What is he saying? "

" Is the new Queen sick? "

" Why would the King marry a girl that is sick? "

The muttering and confusion rose like hellfire among the crowd compounding the confusion that the prisoner presence has caused.

The King looked murderous, the cloud on his face looked ready to rain. His hands gripped the throne hand in a such a tight grip that his knuckles were almost white.

The Queen was stoned face masking the blood-eating rage coursing through her veins. She grew rigid and tensed.

How dare he?

She understood what the bastard was talking about.

She couldn't believe he dares throw such accusation openly at her.

She knew the man was a spineless worthless piece of human being but hadn't expected him to be this malicious.

She wasn't the only one to make the inference.

Some of the ministers were also making the connection even though most dismissed it as the confused rambling of a man about to lose his life.

Only two people looked suspicious of the man's sayings.

The Queen's mother and Minister Wang.

The servants were all confused including the little blonde hiding by the side.

She was confused about the rising tension among everyone and what was Master Chang saying that was making the King and Queen angry.

The Queen's face might look blank right now but Salsa could read the anger in them.

How?

She can't say, but when it comes to the Queen she is aware of everything about and around her.

Master Chang's eyes grew crazier with madness and desperation when he saw the riot of confusion his words were causing.

He wasn't going down without causing any damage. If the bitch think she could get read of him that easily she should think again. Even if she sells him he promised to come back and make her pay.

He laughed, the sound crazier than his last laugh.

A malicious glint appeared in his eyes as he continued to sprout out more words.

" So you see My King you are the joke of every man here because the young woman you just married is nothing but a saph... "

The King already fed up with the words the prisoner was sprouting raised his hand and gave an order to his guards closest to him.

The guard without hesitating ran his sword through Master Chang's chest with a stern unsmiling expression on his face.

The words he was trying to use to cause more harm and confusion didn't get to be finished as the sword pierced through his soft flesh, his beating heart to the front...

His eyes went wide as a saucer with disbelief and fear.

He couldn't believe that he was dying...

When the realization sank in his look of disbelief transformed into one of a smug smirk stained with blood dripping from his mouth...

The King might have silenced him but that doesn't mean that the words he has spoken were false. He would have wished to be around to see the look on the King's face when he realizes his words weren't the rambling of a crazy man.

Onyx snapped up when the sword ran through the man. He hadn't expected the King to take such drastic action. She turned to look at him to gauge his reaction to the man's words but all she saw written on his face was rage.

Does he believe him?

She hopes not.

She can't believe the fat bastard had been able to figure out her feelings for the blonde.

" What are your feelings for her? " a little voice in her mind asked.

Onyx looked toward the blonde and her heart skipped in her chest. She wanted to take the blonde in her arms and just hold her. To feel her close.

Right now the blonde was gaping at the bastard with so much shock on her face that she wanted to go to her right now and assure her that everything will be alright.

The blonde was such an innocent that all these must be too much for her.

Salsa has never seen anyone killed before. Her eyes were about to fall out of their sockets in shock and fear.

A squeak had escaped like a mouse through her lips when she saw the guard run his sword through Master Chang like he was a piece of meat with no emotions on his face, and she couldn't believe how easily they took his life.

Yes, Master Chang seemed like a bad man but did he deserve to die because of some words he said though she doesn't know the meaning of them?

Maybe she could ask the Queen any time they are alone. She will like to know why Master Chang had angered her so.

She felt someone looking at her and knew immediately by the tingling of her skin who it was.

Her stomach fluttered like a hummingbird and her heart skipped in her chest as she turned to look at her.

She couldn't resist.

She was relieved to see those beautiful brown eyes not radiating anger anymore. There was this tenderness in their depth that relaxed her and at the same time made her tense up for a different reason.

Her heart was pounding now and her throat feels a little dry.

Was her stare getting stronger and more heated?

Salsa swallowed and looked away before she combust from the Queen's strong intensity.

It made her a little uneasy and tingling all over and hungry for what? She can't answer...

Whatever it is, is making her very warm.

Their interaction didn't escape two pairs of eyes in the crowd.

The Queen's mother's eyes went from her daughter to the blonde and then back to her daughter. She felt angry and a little disgusted by the look in her eyes.

What is going on here?

That blonde servant must have bewitched her daughter and she was going to get rid of her before she causes more trouble for her.

Master Chang lifted his dying towards the Queen only to find her looking at the blonde and he shook his head at her shamelessness.

She was carrying on her abominable interaction with her servant right Infront of everyone with no care for being seen.

Is unfortunate that the King is blinded by her beauty to see the evil he has married.

His smirk grew smugger because he believes in his heart that the young woman sitting on the throne was going to be the downfall of the King. He doesn't know how but she is going to cause a lot of trouble in the Kingdom.

His eyes went from the Queen to the blonde, he regrets not bedding the bitch when he had the chance. She is just so beautiful that even now at the point of death his dick twitches at the thought of bedding her.

" Next time my sweet blonde slave, " he thought as the rest of his life bled out of him.

Silence like a graveyard spread across the crowd like a wildfire after Master Chang took his last breath.

Different thoughts ran through everyone's mind as they all watched the condemned man.

Most thought he deserved it, others didn't care few speculated on his words, one of those was Minister Wang.

His dark calculating eyes hadn't left the young Queen since the man's words and he had witnessed the interaction between the Queen and the blonde servant.

Was there something going on there?

Was there some truth to the man's words?

From his seat, he couldn't really read the expression on her face but this piece of information may be something to put away. It might be useful in later future.

As he watched the Queen intently, his son Haitao imitated his action but for a different reason. He too had caught on to the words of the dead man but he didn't believe it. The Queen was just too beautiful to be one of those things.

He heard about people like that in foreign lands. About women loving their fellow women and men loving men.

Disgusting beings, his face squeezed in disgust.

There is no way a woman as beautiful as their Queen could be one of those.

She is just too beautiful.

His eyes darkened with lust. The King was an old man and wouldn't be able to satisfy such a vibrant woman in bed, he was going to help him out with such duties. After all, if his father's plan goes well he will become the next King, and the first thing he will do will be to marry the Queen.

Her sister had not been able to grant their father his heart's desire so he was going for plan B.

He can't wait to possess such a beautiful creature. He will make sure no harm comes to her in whatever his father plots. She is going to be his Queen.

Onyx's skin felt as if ants were crawling all over and she looked around wondering at the cause. Her eyes met the dark ones of a young man in the crowd and an unease shudder ran through her.

The young man was looking at her with so much lust that it made her skin crawl and filled her with uneasiness.

Who is he?

Her attention left him to focus on the King when he started to speak.

The King was so angry at the dead man for telling lies against his beloved Queen that he felt death was an easy escape.

How dare he talk such nonsense about his Queen?

He was going to disabuse the crowd of his words and make it known with certainty that his words were merely the confused rambling of a desperate man.

He ordered his guards to remove the corpse, the sight of him was making him angry all over.

" I know all of you must be confused about this man's words___he began to address the crowd making sure to allow his disgust for the man's behavior to show in his voice___ I must assure you that his words are lies. Lies told by a dying man to hurt the Queen for trying to punish him. Please disregard everything you have just heard. "

His words were immediately interrupted by the murmurings of the crowd as they murmured their opinions about the event that just happened earlier.

The Wang's ministers began to deliberate among themselves on the implications of such an accusation against the Queen being true and what it will mean for them.

If they can get any evidence to back this accusation they will use it to petition for the Queen's removal and beheading.

Their leader sat acting ignorant of their words while he hatches his plan in his mind.

Zhang's ministers were worried. Such a heavy accusation against their Queen was a bad omen and is only by luck that the King didn't believe the dead man's words.

This must be the work of their enemies. The Queen can not be such a woman, which leaves the only explanation that the man was put up by someone to say the vile things he said to put doubts in the King's mind about his new Queen.

But who could do such a thing?

Their suspicious eyes went towards the Wang's ministers. The primary suspect was Minister Wang who was looking ahead with no emotions on his old wrinkled face. He is the only one powerful enough to pull off such a thing.

They know about the man's ambition and his displeasure when the King decided to once again marry another Queen instead of making his daughter, a concubine his Queen.

Everyone in the Kingdom knows about the King's affection for Concubine Su, but not enough to make her his Queen.

Their eyes remained on the man as they deliberated on how to counter his defaming attack on their Queen.

They looked towards their leader, the Queen's father.

What will he do?

Surely he will not let this evil plot from their enemy go without any action.

Minister Zhang like Minister Wang had no expression on his face, though he is angered by the laughable attempt by his enemies to discredit her daughter. He is going to make sure that it never happens.

When the King realizes that the mutterings of the crowd were getting out of hand and he wasn't done with his speech he raised his hand to bring order.

At the sight of the King's raised hand, the crowd grew silent.

" I want to issue a warning to everyone. Anyone who dares try to harm the Queen with words or action will face the wrath of my sword! " the King's voice thundered through the crowd.