Chapter 6 — Tham Chieu

But that night, Bui Thanh walked into a concubine's room. Three days in a row, each day a different person. Lam Dinh Ngoc chased after him and caused trouble, and for three days he was blocked outside the door. The furniture in her room was also broken countless times. On the fourth day, Bui Thanh took the initiative to visit me and the baby, asking a few unimportant social questions. I replied casually. After finishing the meal, I quietly sent him back to the study room, but Lam Dinh Ngoc seemed to be waiting in the middle of the way. Her eyes were red and her whole body was very emaciated. The moment he saw her, Bui Thanh's eyes showed a very clear impatience. "Bui Thanh..." "Do you like the new and the old?" Lam Dinh Ngoc asked him almost in despair. "Since Tham Chieu appeared, your attitude towards me has become more and more cold." "Before, it was clear that you were always on my side despite everything." "Why don't you even agree to meet me once now?" "And those women..." "Didn't you say that?" Is it just an act?" "Then why act for a while and then go to bed with them?" "What about me?" "What exactly am I to you?" She asked hoarsely. The only response was Bui Thanh's cold voice. "Dinh Ngoc." "You are too jealous, not suitable to be my wife." "You should learn Chieu Chieu how to treat people, learn how to be tolerant of others, learn how to be my wife." Lam Dinh Ngoc was stunned on the spot, not daring to believe and asked back: "You said I'm jealous?" "Bui Thanh, you said you liked it the most before." I'm jealous of you!" "Now that I have Tham Chieu... am I no longer good at anything?" "Bui Thanh, tell me the truth." "You... do you already love her?" Lam Dinh Ngoc cried extremely pitifully. If it were before, Bui Thanh would have been heartbroken. But at this moment, he just glanced at her faintly, his tone cold. "Chieu Chieu knows how to treat people." "Very suitable to be my main wife." "But she is not." Lam Dinh Ngoc took a step back, as if stoned by lightning. "For you, I am willing to be your concubine." "And yet you let a woman from a merchant family sit on my head and bully me." "Now you insult me with her!" "Bui Thanh!" "Do you have a heart?" Recently, Bui Thanh had been bothered by her. Now that chain of questioning has ignited his anger. "Lam Dinh Ngoc." "I don't have a heart?" "Why should I get married to Tham Chieu?" "It's because you took advantage of me, then left me alone outside just to test my loyalty!" "That's the mess you yourself caused." "From childhood to adulthood, I always followed behind to clean up the aftermath for you." "And yet you still have the face to ask if I have a heart or not." no?" "So what if Chieu Chieu is a loving daughter?" "In the past half a year after getting married, she has been managing the General's palace very well." "The last time she distributed relief porridge, she still had His Majesty's eye on it, and rewards were like water flowing into the palace." "She has never had half a heart, and you used the most cruel words to speculate on her." "Okay." "If you ask like that..." "I also ask you a question today." "Khi Chieu Chieu helps me shoulder everything, shares the burden with me..." "So what are you doing?"... Lam Dinh Ngoc stammered for a long time without being able to say a word. Since childhood, she has been very well protected by her parents. In the past, Bui Thanh always stood up to solve everything for her. That's why I grew up to be as indulgent as I am today, never knowing how to think about others. Bui Thanh gradually lost patience, waved his sleeve and led me away. I lowered my eyes, not looking at Lam Dinh Ngoc once. But I still feel the resentful eyes glued on me.

Maybe... she won't let me go so easily. For a month, Bui Thanh never saw her. Even though Lam Dinh Ngoc was crying, causing trouble, and even threatening her with his own body, he only coldly told her one sentence: "No see." "Wait until you realize you're wrong, then come find me." That day, I was feeding the fish by the lake. Lam Dinh Ngoc suddenly appeared, with a "thud" sound, he knelt down in front of me, grabbed the hem of my dress, crying and choking: "Tham Chieu, I was wrong before, I'm sorry." "Can you take me to see Bui Thanh once?" "He never refused to meet me." "I really want to meet him." "Tham Chieu, consider me begging you to take me to meet him." I struggled to help. stomach, bent down to pull her up, softly comforted her: "How could he not see you? It's just..." Lam Dinh Ngoc's eyes, swollen from crying, suddenly stared at me. Immediately after that, she tightened her grip on my wrist and pulled me back forcefully. The autumn lake water is bone-chillingly cold. I struggled a few times, but instead she pinned my head to the bottom of the lake. The lower abdomen quickly gave out painful cramps. A few drops of blood flowed from between her legs. While my consciousness gradually became blurred... I vaguely saw Bui Thanh's figure. In the end... he still cares about Lam Dinh Ngoc. He carried her first and swam towards the shore. Her pitiful cry echoed in her ears. "Brother Thanh, I just want to see you." "That's why I specially came to apologize to her, wanting to ask her to lead me to find you." "But she scolded me and wanted to push me into the lake." "She said that if I died, the position of main wife would be hers." "I'm so scared..." "Thanh brother, don't go." "Can you hug me?" When the guard picked me up. shore... The lower half of my body was stained with blood. The baby passed away before it was even born. Lam Dinh Ngoc almost laughed out loud. She was just about to pull Bui Thanh back to nag him a few more words...