Your Majesty, Eunuch Lin Is Pregnant

53. The Choice

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

She was rushing all her way back. However, what she was thinking of was not getting out of this palace, but the miserable emperor who was screaming in pain…

The sun was about to rise when she finally returned to Yonghe Palace, and only in 2 hours those palace maids and eunuchs would get up for their work.

Taking off her night suit, she started to calculate in her mind. No, she couldn’t wait until they woke up. She needed to leave as soon as the palace gate was open, otherwise, Ye Shengxuan would ask them to search the entire imperial palace when he found his token was missing.

And by that time, the token she had got would not only be useless but also made her the target of them all.

Thinking of that, she rolled her eyes and sneaked into Bohe’s room instead.

Bohe was sleeping soundly at that moment, so she walked to the wardrobe of Bohe quietly to take out a palace maid’s uniform and then left.

Going back to her bedroom, she changed into the palace maid’s uniform quickly and made her hair as well. After that, she took the token and the thing Chu Jianmo had given her and left Yonghe Palace right away.

It was almost 6 o’clock in the morning, and there were already some palace maids and eunuchs gathering in front of the palace gate. Some of them were going out shopping for their masters, and some of them were going out for errands.

Helian Chacha hid in the crowd and waited for the palace gate to open.

While she was waiting, she felt that someone had tapped her shoulder all of a sudden.

She was scared to shiver a bit and she didn’t dare to look back at all. But that person was quite outgoing that she came to her since she still had not replied. When she finally saw her face, she asked in confusion, “Eh? Which palace do you work at? How come I never saw you before?”

Helian Chacha thought rapidly in her mind and then replied with a bow, “Sister, I am from Yangxin Hall. The leading eunuch told us yesterday that His Majesty wants to try some special food from the outside, so he asked me to go out and buy some.”

“So you’re from Yangxin Hall.” Hearing that she was from Yangxin Hall, all the others around her came to her unconsciously, “How are the benefits in Yangxin Hall? I bet you are so happy to serve His Majesty by his side every day.”

She took a few steps back as they kept asking her about this and that, yet she tried to stay cool, “Of course. His Majesty is blessed by Heaven. Even if I can’t serve him by his side, it would be a blessing for me to bear the burden for him.”

Hearing that, the palace maid pouted and complained, “I really envy those of you who got to serve His Majesty so closely. You will get more rewards when you leave the palace in the future. Not like us, once we leave the palace, we don’t know what else we could do.”

Working in the imperial palace sounded like a decent job, but those people in the outside would never know that when they left the palace at a certain age, many people who had worked in the palace could not survive the life out there at all.

Getting used to the affluent life with fancy clothes and nice food versus living a life of an ordinary man, not many people could bear such an abrupt change.

“You’ll cross the bridge when you come to it. Don’t worry too much. Besides, how can someone working in the palace be inferior to the people in the outside? Just relax, even if we leave the imperial palace, we are still able to earn a living in the future.” Helian Chacha consoled them.

Hearing that, the palace maid thought she had made a point.

“You’re right.” She asked Helian Chacha in a good mood now, “I’m Nuonuo. What’s your name?”

Name…

“Chacha.” She gave her a smile back, “Just call me Chacha.”

This was the first time that she said her original name. But she had never expected that she would tell someone her original name in such a situation.

“Chacha?” The palace maid said her name, “You have a lovely name.”

Right after their talking, someone drawled in a thick voice from the palace gate, “Opening the palace gate—”

Hearing that, Nuonuo glanced at the direction of the palace gate and then grabbed the hand of Helian Chacha, saying, “The imperial gate is opening, so there is no time to talk to you. You can meet me in the imperial kitchen when you have the time. I’m always there to prepare desserts for the masters.”

So she was a pastry chef in the imperial kitchen. Then how come she had never met her before? Was she new here?

As she was thinking, Nuonuo had already run to the imperial gate and was being checked by the guardians there.

Helian Chacha adjusted her clothes as well and walked to the palace gate, and took out the token to show it to the guardian at the gate.

The guardian had a look at it and then waved his hand, “Go ahead. Next one!”

She walked out quickly and then suddenly stopped at the place which was 10 meters away from the palace gate, looking back at the imperial city.

At that time, the sun had not totally risen up, so the imperial city was still covered in a mist. The dim and hazy vision of it was just the metaphor of the extremely dark life inside the peaceful-looking imperial city.

“Goodbye, Ye Shengxuan…”

Holding the token tightly in hand, she started to walk to the Chu House quickly.

Maybe she had left the palace too early, the front gate of the Chu House was still closed.

She held her skirt and stepped up to knock on the door.

Knock knock—

After a long while, a weak and exhausting voice came out from the inside, “Who is it?”

Then, the door bolt was removed as a servant with fully grey hair reached out his head to check out, “And you are…”

Helian Chacha took out the thing that Chu Jianmo had given her and handed it over, “I am a friend of Mr. Chu. May I ask if he is at home now?”

Seeing the jade pendant, the servant’s eyes were suddenly brightened, so he opened the door immediately, “So you are a friend of our young master. Come on in.”

After they walked into the door, Helian Chacha asked the servant, “Has Mr. Chu got up?”

The servant smiled happily, “Already up for a while. Our young master likes practicing swordplay in the early morning. So you will be impressed by his charisma if you go there to meet him now.”

As of speaking, he led her to the garden.

It was still in the early morning. She and the servant walked quite fast along the quiet paths while she could smell the fragrance of the morning dew.

After walking for about 10 minutes, she could vaguely hear the sound of the blade piercing the air.

All of a sudden, the old servant stopped and pulled down the peach branch in front of him carefully, “Our young master is right there.”

Helian Chacha looked in the direction he pointed at.

A man in white was playing a sword in the garden. Sometimes he jumped up with the flying skill, and sometimes he swept the floor at a very fast speed. Helian Chacha watched him from afar, only seeing a white shadow swaying there.

With his floating clothes and powerful sword, he looked very warm and reliable at the same time, as he combined toughness and gentleness very well.

Somehow, she was attracted by it that she touched the peach branch in front of her eyes unconsciously.

“Who’s there?” Chu Jianmo who was playing his sword shouted out and rushed to her with his sword, and he put the blade right against the neck of Helian Chacha.

He took back his sword immediately when he finally saw the visitor, saying in surprise, “Qinyuan? How come you are here?”

Helian Chacha glanced at the old servant nearby, and Chu Jianmo understood right away, “Uncle Qian, we don’t need your help here. You can leave now.”

The old servant nodded and then left.

There were only the two of them left in the whole courtyard, and now Helian Chacha took out the token, “I got it.”

Looking at the token, Chu Jianmo’s eyes were suddenly brightened. He grabbed the hand of Helian Chacha and told her to hold the token tightly, “You cannot show it to others without caution.”

He looked around and said, “It is not safe here. Follow me.”

After walking with Chu Jianmo for a while, she was led to a room by Chu Jianmo. The room was filled with bookshelves, and they were all filled with books. On the very end of those bookshelves, there was a desk with a full set of stationery.

It seemed that this place is the study room of Chu Jianmo.

As they had seated, Chu Jianmo reached out his hand, “Come on, show me the token.”

She took out the token and handed it over.

Chu Jianmo looked at the token closely and said after checking for a long while, “It is absolutely real.”

Then, he asked Helian Chacha, “Qinyuan, when did you get it?”

“Last night.”

He held his chin and went silent for a while, “Then we will leave the city soon. It will be really difficult for us to leave when His Majesty finds out that his token has been stolen.”

“Just wait for a moment here for me. I’m going to pack up something.”

Without waiting for a response from Helian Chacha, Chu Jianmo walked out of the room right away.