Your Majesty, Eunuch Lin Is Pregnant

50. Picked on by the Empress Dowager

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

“If I’m late and you want to punish me for that, I won’t say a word about it for sure.”

Hearing that, the Empress Dowager was quite shocked, but she soon nodded with satisfaction.

Then, Helian Chacha said again, “But I was not late. You got up earlier, Your Highness. And if you punish me for being late, I won’t accept that. I mean, there is still a quarter left before I am supposed to greet you, right?”

Bohe was so frightened that she dragged Helian Chacha’s sleeve a bit. However, Helian Chacha didn’t seem to change her mind at all as she was still looking at the Empress Dowager right in the eyes courageously.

The Empress Dowager had been planning to kill her for a long time, so she didn’t want to please the one who chose to be her enemy already.

After all, she didn’t mind making a scene with the Empress Dowager. As long as she could get the token from Ye Shengxuan today, everything in this imperial palace would not bother her anymore.

The Empress Dowager squinted her eyes angrily and pounded the table all of a sudden, “You really know how to defend yourself, Concubine Xian!”

Helian Chacha smiled, “Thanks for the compliment, Your Highness.”

The blandness of Helian Chacha enraged the Empress Dowager that blue veins popped out on her forehead, and she said coldly while her sharp eyes were shining with killing intention, “You truly are not late today, so I won’t punish you. Just come here and serve the tea.”

Right after that, she leaned back on the chair and looked at Helian Chacha lazily.

At that moment, a palace maid brought the tea. Seeing that, Xu Ruyun smiled secretly and stuck out her foot to trip that palace maid.

The palace maid lost her balance all of a sudden, so she screamed out and threw away the cup in the tray, and then it flew to Helian Chacha directly.

“Watch out, Your Highness!” Bohe shouted.

However, it was already too late. With the sound of crashing, the cup fell to the ground, and almost half of the organza dress of Helian Chacha went wet immediately.

Seeing that she had ruined the dress of Helian Chacha, the palace maid was so scared that she kneeled down and started to kowtow, “I didn’t mean to do that. Please forgive me, Your Highness. Please forgive me!”

The Empress Dowager yelled out angrily the moment she saw that, “How dare you! Such a clumsy maid. Are you able to take the responsibility if you hurt Concubine Xian? Come on, take this palace maid out and flog her 30 times.”

Helian Chacha glanced secretly at Xu Ruyun who was trying to stay calm and then said with a calm face, “It’s alright, Your Highness. She didn’t hurt me at all, just deduct her one month salary as the punishment.”

It seemed that the Empress Dowager had never expected that Helian Chacha would be so lenient, so she was shocked a bit, “You are really an angel, Concubine Xian.”

Then she turned around to scold that palace maid, “Shouldn’t you thank Concubine Xian right now?”

“Thank you, Your Highness. Thank you, Your Highness.”

Helian Chacha smiled at her slightly, “It’s alright. Just bring me another cup of tea, please.”

The palace maid nodded and then left to bring her the tea.

After such a drama, it seemed that the Empress Dowager was getting bored as well. She drank the tea and then chatted with those concubines for a bit. Then, she felt tired and asked them to leave.

Helian Chacha stood up to leave, but the Empress Dowager suddenly said to her, “Please stay, Concubine Xian. I still have something to talk with you alone.”

Those concubines who were about to leave now all turned around to look at Helian Chacha as each one of them was secretly amused.

However, they were all tacitly silent and left right away.

When all of them had left the hall, the Empress Dowager asked those palace maids to leave as well and only told Helian Chacha to stay.

The Empress Dowager leaned on the chair and rested her chin on one hand as she looked at Helian Chacha lazily, “Concubine Xian, do you know why I keep you here?”

Helian Chacha shook her head slightly, “I don’t know.”

The Empress Dowager squinted her eyes a bit, “Then do you remember that day when you came to Cining Palace with His Majesty and Yunuan?”

Helian Chacha who was keeping her head down suddenly had a trace of shock flashing through her eyes as she was wondering if the Empress Dowager wanted to show her trump card since she asked it so straightforward.

She hesitated for a while, “I do. That was my first time to meet you, Your Highness.”

“Yes, that was indeed our first time to meet each other.” The Empress Dowager looked up slowly at the screen bathing in the sunlight, and she  squinted as if she was trying to recall something, “But what I didn’t expect was that our second meeting would come in such a short time.”

Helian Chacha felt her heart beating faster.

“That day, you saw it, right?” The Empress Dowager looked down and stared closely at Helian Chacha who was sitting on her right.

“What did I see?” She decided to play dumb as in such a tricky moment, she would never let things like this block her way.

Her reactions made the Empress Dowager frown, “Concubine Xian, you and I are both smart ones, so we don’t need to beat around the bush. Aren’t you the one who was peeping outside my bedroom hall that day?”

Helian Chacha chuckled, “It must be a misunderstanding, Your Highness. I was with His Majesty all the time that day. And if Eunuch Fu was here, he would be able to prove it for me. I mean, I met him that day when I passed Cining Palace with His Majesty.”

Hearing that, the Empress Dowager was shocked a bit as Eunuch Fu had told her before that Concubine Xian was in the outside of Cining Palace with the emperor. But according to his description, it should have been that Concubine bumped into the emperor when she was fleeing away.

Eunuch Fu was indeed sure about that, but Concubine Xian didn’t seem to lie either.

Besides, according to Concubine Xian’s personality, if she wanted to take revenge on her, she would have told the emperor about it a long time ago. But given the way the emperor was treating her, Concubine Xian might not have told on her.

Or, there was something hidden in it?

Helian Chacha had noticed the confused look of the Empress Dowager, so she soon had an idea in her mind and said, “Your Highness, I know His Majesty once had a fight with you just to save me. But I just want you to understand that I am not your enemy.”

“Why would I trust you?” The Empress Dowager asked with her eyebrows knitted.

“You don’t need to trust me, but I will prove it with action that I am not hostile to you, Your Highness.”

The Empress Dowager looked at her meaningfully and then her eyes went quite complicated for a second as she was wondering if she had actually misunderstood Helian Chacha.

“Since she asked for peace first, I will just let her go for now, and keep an eye on her. If she plans anything weird, I can kill her immediately.”

Thinking of that, the Empress Dowager said slowly, “Then I will trust you for the time being, and you’d better not play any tricks with me. Otherwise, even His Majesty will not be able to save your life.”

She smiled and nodded, “Don’t worry, Your Highness. All I just said are absolutely true.”

“Alright, I’m tired. You can leave now.”

“I am leaving, Your Highness.”

After coming out of Cining Palace, Helian Chacha could barely feel her legs as she was so scared.

She had thought that the Empress Dowager would do the same trick, and she fooled her successfully in time. But if the Empress Dowager asked further, she might not be able to handle.

It seemed that there was no other plan for today than greeting the Empress Dowager, so she could go to Ye Shengxuan’s place as finding the token was her priority at the moment.

As she was about to turn around and walk to Yangxin Hall, she felt like bumping into someone’s strong chest.

“Ouch!” She was pushed a few steps back, “Who is it?”

The moment she raised her head, she took a deep breath.

How come her enemies were everywhere!

That man was shocked as well when he saw her as his eyes looked quite uncertain, “How come you look so familiar? Have we met somewhere before?”

Helian Chacha covered her face with her sleeve immediately and tried to avoid his sight, “You must be joking. We have never met before.”

Damn! Why would she bump into Jiang Yunuan in this place?