“No, I haven’t.” Ye Shengxuan answered without hesitation.
Hearing that, everyone was stunned. Eunuch Fu looked at Helian Chacha who had been keeping her head down and then looked at Ye Shengxuan, saying, “But, Your Majesty, I saw it clearly that Eunuch Lin was…”
Ye Shengxuan looked at the short one standing next to him and stepped up to protect her behind his back.
“Didn’t Her Highness just lose one of her treasures? Why don’t you go and find it now, Eunuch Fu?” His cold voice sounded emotionless, “I still have something else to do, so I won’t greet Her Highness. I hope Eunuch Fu can deliver my greetings to Her Highness.”
After saying that, he left the scene immediately with Helian Chacha, leaving Eunuch Fu there alone with hatred in heart.
Since he had been apart from Ye Shengxuan and the others, Eunuch Fu patrolled in the harem with some of his men. But the more they searched, the more they became confused because after checking so many people’s backs, he believed that the man who had escaped from Cining Palace was Lin Dagou!
“Everyone stop!” He shouted to those eunuchs who were searching in the front, “Go back to Cining Palace!”
The eunuchs looked at each other and then went back to Cining Palace with him in a line.
Meanwhile, the Empress Dowager was sitting on her chaise while two palace maids were standing next to her and fanning.
Seeing that Eunuch Fu was coming from the outside, she opened her eyes slowly and waved at the palace maids to let them leave.
It seemed that Eunuch Fu had already got used to this kind of interaction that he went to help the Empress Dowager sit up naturally and then grabbed a cushion for her to lean against.
“Have you killed him already?” After she got herself seated up, the Empress Dowager started to ask him slightly.
Eunuch Fu took a step back and didn’t dare to look her in the eyes, “No, I haven’t found him yet, Your Highness.”
“What?!” The Empress Dowager’s face changed immediately as she yelled at him, “Then why are you back here? Go and find him.”
“Your Highness.” Eunuch Fu started to comfort her immediately, “Don’t worry, Your Highness. Although I still haven’t killed him, I already know who he is.”
“Really?” The Empress Dowager rested her head on her hand as she was waiting for his explanation.
Eunuch Fu clapped and then the gate opened slowly. Two guardians were escorting a palace maid to walk into the hall.
The Empress Dowager stared at the palace maid in front of her and asked skeptically, “Is she the one you were talking about?”
“No. But she knows who that one actually is.” Eunuch Fu approached to the palace maid leisurely and walked around her, “Shaoyao, tell Her Highness who you just met in the outer hall.”
Shaoyao looked it up at the Empress Dowager timidly and then looked down again, “Your…Your Highness, I just passed the outer hall and was stopped by Eunuch Lin. He… he told me that he wanted to send something to you according to the order of His Majesty. So I showed him the way but I didn’t know why Eunuch Lin never came out, and I thought maybe he had already left and I didn’t notice him. I never knew…”
Shaoyao already started to tremble when she was saying that, and she couldn’t stop kowtowing in tears, “Please forgive me, Your Highness! I really didn’t know that Eunuch Lin was the burglar!”
Everyone knew that the Empress Dowager was eccentric, so each one of them working in Cining Palace was suffering from the fear of losing life because of any tiny mistake.
And now she had let a burglar enter Cining Palace, so it left no reason for the Empress Dowager to forgive her.
As expected, after hearing what she had just said, the Empress Dowager was super furious and she pointed at Shiaoyao with her slim trembling fingers, “How dare you! As a palace maid, you failed to fulfill your duty. Take her down and give her 50 floggings!”
Shaoyao was so scared that she kept trembling while kowtowing to the Empress Dowager, “Your Highness! It was all my fault! Your Highness, please forgive me!”
Any ordinary man would get badly bruised by 10 floggings, not to say a young girl like her. She would never be able to take 50 floggings, so the Empress Dowager was killing her.
The guardians were trying to take her away but they didn’t know how to grab her when she kept kowtowing there. Eunuch Fu watched this scene and appeared to be quite impatient, “What are you waiting for? Just take her down.”
Those guardians didn’t care it was a girl in front of them at the moment as they grabbed Shaoyao by force and dragged her out immediately.
“Your Highness! Please forgive me! I won’t make the same mistake again.”
Eunuch Fu could still hear a bit of her screaming after they had left for a long while.
However, he didn’t care about her at all. He knew exactly that everyone was walking on eggshells as one would get easily killed if one failed to cope with the difficulty that popped up in the palace.
After a while of silence, the Empress Dowager finally spoke, “So, it turns out that the peeper is that Eunuch Lin?”
Eunuch Fu squinted his slim eyes which looked quite aggressive, “I think he is the man.”
“Then what are you waiting for? Now I ask you to let the security department arrest him for stealing immediately. And he better just die in jail!”
“That was my plan as well. But this Eunuch Lin is not like ordinary person, so I’m afraid we can’t get him with this plan.”
The Empress Dowager was confused, “Why?”
How come there could be someone that she couldn’t kill in this palace except for the emperor?
Eunuch Fu sneered and his amber eyes turned even colder, “I wonder if you still remember, Your Highness, the little eunuch who kicked me out of Yangxin Hall.”
The Empress Dowager stared at him skeptically and said, “You mean he is the man of His Majesty?”
“Exactly.” He nodded, “I followed that burglar to the outside of Cining Palace and bumped into His Majesty and Lin Dagou. Your Highness, do you really believe such kind of coincidence in this world?”
Eunuch Fu was trying so hard to convince the Empress Dowager that Lin Dagou was a spy sent by His Majesty to collect information here.
Although he was not sure if Ye Shengxuan had ever planned so, he knew this was the only way he could trigger the rage of the Empress Dowager. Everyone in this palace knew that although the Empress Dowager and the emperor looked quite close, they wished each other to fall from the position as soon as possible.
He believed that as long as he stuck to that point, the Empress Dowager would try her best to bury Lin Dagou alive.
As expected, hearing what he had just said, the Empress Dowager suddenly sat straight as she had made up her mind, “Send someone to keep an eye on Lin Dagou. Once he leaves the palace, kill him immediately. Remember to clean it up so that the emperor won’t find out it is us.”
“Yes, Your Highness!” Eunuch Fu kept his head down. But if the Empress Dowager had seen his eyes at the moment, she would have found out how cruel and brutal this obedient slave could be.
Meanwhile, Helian Chacha had already returned to Yangxin Hall with Ye Shengxuan.
When they entered the hall, she stood next to him quietly as she didn’t dare to make any extra moves.
Ye Shengxuan sat in his armchair with his legs crossed. He kept measuring her with his eyes and didn’t speak a word for a long while.
Helian Chacha couldn’t bear it anymore, so she asked, “Your Majesty, please just tell me what you want to know. I promise I’ll tell you everything I know!”
“Okay, since you have asked. I have a few questions here.” Ye Shengxuan switched the leg on top of the other, “Why did you choose to climb the wall when you could walk out from the door?”
Helian Chacha didn’t dare to think for a second before she answered, “Your Majesty, I just missed you so much and I care about you. So I wanted to go back to serve you as soon as possible. That’s why I chose to climb the wall!”
Ye Shengxuan raised up his eyebrows yet his eyes still looked very cold that no one could read his mind.
He didn’t ask the second question until after a long while, “Then why did Eunuch Fu say that you are the burglar?”
“Please trust me, Your Majesty! I didn’t take anything from Her Highness! If I lied about it, I would get stricken by the thunderbolt in heaven!” She excitedly swore to God right away.
Boom!
A thunder suddenly crashed in the sky right after she finished that sentence.
“No, I haven’t.” Ye Shengxuan answered without hesitation.
Hearing that, everyone was stunned. Eunuch Fu looked at Helian Chacha who had been keeping her head down and then looked at Ye Shengxuan, saying, “But, Your Majesty, I saw it clearly that Eunuch Lin was…”
Ye Shengxuan looked at the short one standing next to him and stepped up to protect her behind his back.
“Didn’t Her Highness just lose one of her treasures? Why don’t you go and find it now, Eunuch Fu?” His cold voice sounded emotionless, “I still have something else to do, so I won’t greet Her Highness. I hope Eunuch Fu can deliver my greetings to Her Highness.”
After saying that, he left the scene immediately with Helian Chacha, leaving Eunuch Fu there alone with hatred in heart.
Since he had been apart from Ye Shengxuan and the others, Eunuch Fu patrolled in the harem with some of his men. But the more they searched, the more they became confused because after checking so many people’s backs, he believed that the man who had escaped from Cining Palace was Lin Dagou!
“Everyone stop!” He shouted to those eunuchs who were searching in the front, “Go back to Cining Palace!”
The eunuchs looked at each other and then went back to Cining Palace with him in a line.
Meanwhile, the Empress Dowager was sitting on her chaise while two palace maids were standing next to her and fanning.
Seeing that Eunuch Fu was coming from the outside, she opened her eyes slowly and waved at the palace maids to let them leave.
It seemed that Eunuch Fu had already got used to this kind of interaction that he went to help the Empress Dowager sit up naturally and then grabbed a cushion for her to lean against.
“Have you killed him already?” After she got herself seated up, the Empress Dowager started to ask him slightly.
Eunuch Fu took a step back and didn’t dare to look her in the eyes, “No, I haven’t found him yet, Your Highness.”
“What?!” The Empress Dowager’s face changed immediately as she yelled at him, “Then why are you back here? Go and find him.”
“Your Highness.” Eunuch Fu started to comfort her immediately, “Don’t worry, Your Highness. Although I still haven’t killed him, I already know who he is.”
“Really?” The Empress Dowager rested her head on her hand as she was waiting for his explanation.
Eunuch Fu clapped and then the gate opened slowly. Two guardians were escorting a palace maid to walk into the hall.
The Empress Dowager stared at the palace maid in front of her and asked skeptically, “Is she the one you were talking about?”
“No. But she knows who that one actually is.” Eunuch Fu approached to the palace maid leisurely and walked around her, “Shaoyao, tell Her Highness who you just met in the outer hall.”
Shaoyao looked it up at the Empress Dowager timidly and then looked down again, “Your…Your Highness, I just passed the outer hall and was stopped by Eunuch Lin. He… he told me that he wanted to send something to you according to the order of His Majesty. So I showed him the way but I didn’t know why Eunuch Lin never came out, and I thought maybe he had already left and I didn’t notice him. I never knew…”
Shaoyao already started to tremble when she was saying that, and she couldn’t stop kowtowing in tears, “Please forgive me, Your Highness! I really didn’t know that Eunuch Lin was the burglar!”
Everyone knew that the Empress Dowager was eccentric, so each one of them working in Cining Palace was suffering from the fear of losing life because of any tiny mistake.
And now she had let a burglar enter Cining Palace, so it left no reason for the Empress Dowager to forgive her.
As expected, after hearing what she had just said, the Empress Dowager was super furious and she pointed at Shiaoyao with her slim trembling fingers, “How dare you! As a palace maid, you failed to fulfill your duty. Take her down and give her 50 floggings!”
Shaoyao was so scared that she kept trembling while kowtowing to the Empress Dowager, “Your Highness! It was all my fault! Your Highness, please forgive me!”
Any ordinary man would get badly bruised by 10 floggings, not to say a young girl like her. She would never be able to take 50 floggings, so the Empress Dowager was killing her.
The guardians were trying to take her away but they didn’t know how to grab her when she kept kowtowing there. Eunuch Fu watched this scene and appeared to be quite impatient, “What are you waiting for? Just take her down.”
Those guardians didn’t care it was a girl in front of them at the moment as they grabbed Shaoyao by force and dragged her out immediately.
“Your Highness! Please forgive me! I won’t make the same mistake again.”
Eunuch Fu could still hear a bit of her screaming after they had left for a long while.
However, he didn’t care about her at all. He knew exactly that everyone was walking on eggshells as one would get easily killed if one failed to cope with the difficulty that popped up in the palace.
After a while of silence, the Empress Dowager finally spoke, “So, it turns out that the peeper is that Eunuch Lin?”
Eunuch Fu squinted his slim eyes which looked quite aggressive, “I think he is the man.”
“Then what are you waiting for? Now I ask you to let the security department arrest him for stealing immediately. And he better just die in jail!”
“That was my plan as well. But this Eunuch Lin is not like ordinary person, so I’m afraid we can’t get him with this plan.”
The Empress Dowager was confused, “Why?”
How come there could be someone that she couldn’t kill in this palace except for the emperor?
Eunuch Fu sneered and his amber eyes turned even colder, “I wonder if you still remember, Your Highness, the little eunuch who kicked me out of Yangxin Hall.”
The Empress Dowager stared at him skeptically and said, “You mean he is the man of His Majesty?”
“Exactly.” He nodded, “I followed that burglar to the outside of Cining Palace and bumped into His Majesty and Lin Dagou. Your Highness, do you really believe such kind of coincidence in this world?”
Eunuch Fu was trying so hard to convince the Empress Dowager that Lin Dagou was a spy sent by His Majesty to collect information here.
Although he was not sure if Ye Shengxuan had ever planned so, he knew this was the only way he could trigger the rage of the Empress Dowager. Everyone in this palace knew that although the Empress Dowager and the emperor looked quite close, they wished each other to fall from the position as soon as possible.
He believed that as long as he stuck to that point, the Empress Dowager would try her best to bury Lin Dagou alive.
As expected, hearing what he had just said, the Empress Dowager suddenly sat straight as she had made up her mind, “Send someone to keep an eye on Lin Dagou. Once he leaves the palace, kill him immediately. Remember to clean it up so that the emperor won’t find out it is us.”
“Yes, Your Highness!” Eunuch Fu kept his head down. But if the Empress Dowager had seen his eyes at the moment, she would have found out how cruel and brutal this obedient slave could be.
Meanwhile, Helian Chacha had already returned to Yangxin Hall with Ye Shengxuan.
When they entered the hall, she stood next to him quietly as she didn’t dare to make any extra moves.
Ye Shengxuan sat in his armchair with his legs crossed. He kept measuring her with his eyes and didn’t speak a word for a long while.
Helian Chacha couldn’t bear it anymore, so she asked, “Your Majesty, please just tell me what you want to know. I promise I’ll tell you everything I know!”
“Okay, since you have asked. I have a few questions here.” Ye Shengxuan switched the leg on top of the other, “Why did you choose to climb the wall when you could walk out from the door?”
Helian Chacha didn’t dare to think for a second before she answered, “Your Majesty, I just missed you so much and I care about you. So I wanted to go back to serve you as soon as possible. That’s why I chose to climb the wall!”
Ye Shengxuan raised up his eyebrows yet his eyes still looked very cold that no one could read his mind.
He didn’t ask the second question until after a long while, “Then why did Eunuch Fu say that you are the burglar?”
“Please trust me, Your Majesty! I didn’t take anything from Her Highness! If I lied about it, I would get stricken by the thunderbolt in heaven!” She excitedly swore to God right away.
Boom!
A thunder suddenly crashed in the sky right after she finished that sentence.
