As Merotse walked into his tent King Bacham threw the paper at him.
“Look at this! What a good thing you did! What in the name of hell have you done?”
Merotse picked up the papers and realised that what he had been worried about had been revealed by the letter, reading:
“A black crow passed itself off as a cuckoo which was good at singing. A maid has replaced the beautiful Queen. Being famous King Bacham, can you bear such a cheat? Can you put up with such a shame?”
Merotse’s heart was sinking fast and his face became clouded.
“Who sent this letter?” he asked. Right then he wished that he could swallow the person who wrote the letter then chew him up.
“It came with this arrow.” A livery passed the arrow with the red copper tail to Merotse.
This was Zhaotoin’s arrow. Merotse thought of the owner of the arrow and burned with anger,
“My King, I didn’t expect that the people of the State of Ling dared to deceive us. I will go back right now to wipe them out to a man and seize the real Cholmo back for you,” Merotse swore. What he really thought was to dismember Zhaotoin into tiny little pieces. That should be the ignominious fate of the interfering informer.
“You are the only one who has actually seen Cholmo; we have never seen her! Did you deliberately cheat me together with them?” King Bacham began to suspect Merotse.
“My King, Cholmo will become your wife. How could I dare to see her clearly and fully? Besides this, in my eyes, all the ladies on earth have no exact difference. They only vary in their fineries and decorations. If the maid was dressed in the Queen’s clothes how could I recognize her?” Merotse explained this in haste. King Bacham then stopped blaming him for this deceit.
“Ok. Then take 100,000 of our crack troops with you and bring Cholmo back to me. We will wait here for your return.”
Darong Zhaotoin was so happy to see the troops from Hor swarming back in because he got another chance to retaliate at Gesar.
Instead of fighting with the Sate of Ling, Tsinpa Merotse just wanted to persuade Cholmo to go with him lest there be further trouble. Therefore, Merotse sneaked into the State of Ling and directly went to besiege Darze city where Cholmo lived.