Your Majesty, Eunuch Lin Is Pregnant

54. The Breathtaking Escape

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

Chu Jianmo came back in a short while, but he was still in that white clothes while holding another set which looked like women’s clothes.

Before Helian Chacha could ask, Chu Jianmo put that clothes into her hands, “Your clothes is too eye-catching. Hurry, put this on.”

She now realized that she was still wearing that palace maid uniform, “Okay.”

Giving the clothes to her, Chu Jianmo stepped out of the room so that she could get changed by herself inside.

She opened the door after having changed her clothes, and she found that Chu Jianmo was leaning on the pillar by the door, with his sword in his arms. Seeing that she came out, Chu Jianmo raised his lip corners slightly, “I’ve already told them to prepare the carriage. Come with me.”

After getting on the carriage, Helian Chacha started to feel nervous. She might never come back once she got out of this Changan City. A concubine eloping with a man, this was definitely a serious crime that one should be decapitated once caught. So it might not be the right time to consider how to make a living in the future.

This time, she bet everything on Chu Jianmo, and she hoped she had made the right choice.

As she was holding her dress so tight ever since she had got aboard, Chu Jianmo knew that she was quite nervous, so he tried to comfort her, “Don’t be afraid. We will leave this place safely.”

Helian Chacha raised up her head to look at him and then nodded firmly.

Meanwhile in Yonghe Palace.

“Your Highness, Your Highness. It’s time to get up.” Bohe came in, as usual, to help Helian Chacha get up.

However, the bed was completely empty.

She was so scared that she dropped the basin to the ground.

Bang…

She ran out of the bedroom in panic and bumped into a palace maid, so she grabbed her and asked, “Did you see Her Highness?”

That palace maid was quite confused by this question, “Isn’t Her Highness still sleeping at this time, usually?”

“Her Highness is missing…” Bohe’s eyes were filled with tears, “Her Highness is missing! Get someone to find her right now! Hurry!”

That palace maid was so shocked by her, but what might terrify her was that there were at least nearly 20 palace maids and eunuchs in Yonghe Palace, and they all failed to keep a teenage girl inside, and that Helian Chacha could disappear in this Yonghe Palace.

Later, if the emperor investigates it, none of them could escape from the punishment.

All of a sudden, everyone in Yonghe Palace was sent out by Bohe to search for Helian Chacha. But she herself went to Yangxin Hall instead.

At that time, Ye Shengxuan had just got up and was about to go for the morning meeting in the court. Hearing that Bohe, the head of the palace maids of Yonghe Palace was waiting to see him in an emergency, he told the imperial carriage to wait for a while.

Finally, Bohe heard Ye Shengxuan’s calling, so she ran inside immediately. Seeing Ye Shengxuan who was in a bright yellow gown, she kneeled down right away and sobbed, “Your Highness, Her Highness is missing! Her Highness is missing!”

Ye Shengxuan just felt quite dizzy, “What has happened?”

Bohe was so scared that she started to cry, “I was planning to help Her Highness get up in her bedroom hall, but when I went inside, she was not there. And now all the people of Yonghe Palace are searching for Her Highness, but we still haven’t found her yet…”

Ye Shengxuan’s eyebrows knitted tighter. Suddenly, it seemed that he had thought of something as he returned to his imperial bed immediately and took away the pillow.

The token was gone!

How dare this woman to run away secretly like that!

Blue veins burst out on his forehead as he shouted out, “Shiao Qi!”

Hearing that, Shiao Qi who was waiting outside ran into the room immediately and arched his hands to bow, “Your Majesty!”

“Concubine Xian is missing. Now, you take your men to go out of the palace and tell them to lock the palace gate. And then you search for her in the city. She should be still in the city at this time. Go!”

Looking at Bohe who was crying on the ground, Shiao Qi understood it right away, “Yes.”

In the early morning, all the imperial guardians gathered in the palace gate as they operated with their entire staff.

Seeing them, all the vendors in the market were scared to step back one after another.

Those imperial guardians held the portrait of Helian Chacha as they started to search for her, yet no one had ever seen her.

After searching on the Changan street for about 15 minutes, he suddenly recalled what Ye Shengxuan had said to him when he was checking a hostel, “Wait a minute!”

Those soldiers who were ahead of him all stopped and looked at him with confusion.

“She is not here. Bring everyone together and let’s go to the gate!”

If she wanted to run away, then she should be on her way to the city gate. They had to catch up!

Meanwhile, on the other side, the carriage of Helian Chacha and Chu Jianmo had already got to the city gate. The moment they tried to pass it, they were stopped by the guardians in front of them.

“Open the curtain.”

The coachman looked back at the curtain and said reluctantly, “Sir, there are only my young master and my young mistress inside, and my young mistress has caught a cold a few days ago, so she can’t bear the wind. Please show some mercy.”

“Who’s gonna have some mercy on me then?” The soldier stepped up, “The rule is the rule, one more word and I’ll send you to the court. Understand?”

Chu Jianmo heard it from the inside, so he reached out his head and asked, “What’s the matter here?”

“It’s Mr. Chu.” Seeing that it was Chu Jianmo, the soldier’s eyes were suddenly brightened, “We wouldn’t need to talk so much if I knew this was Mr. Chu’s carriage. Go ahead.”

“Thanks a lot.” Chu Jianmo smiled slightly and arched his hands to that guardian.

“Have a nice trip!”

He nodded at that guardian and then went back to the wagon.

Under the surveillance of that guardian, Chu Jianmo’s carriage went out of the city gate slowly.

Before they could go further, Shiao Qi caught them up with his men, “His Majesty just ordered to close the city gate immediately and search all vehicles.

With this order, those guardians didn’t dare to delay as they closed the gate instantly.

Boom—

All those who had not got out of the city were now locked inside.

Seeing that the city gate had been closed, those who failed to get out of the city started to complain about it.

“What happened? How can they just close the gate just like that? I need to go to the neighboring town today, and if I don’t go now, I won’t be able to come back tonight.”

“Exactly. The soldiers close the gate at any time, and they never care about our life at all.”

“I really can’t live with this anymore.”

“Quiet! Quiet!” Shiao Qi was on his horse and looking at the people around him, “Please listen to me. How long the gate will be closed depends on how well you can cooperate with us. As long as you cooperate with our searching, within 1 hour, this gate will be open again.”

After that, the deputy general next to him said, “Alright, please don’t worry too much, and come here for us to check.”

Those people all hurried to go out of the city for their businesses, so they acted quite efficiently. With the help of those imperial guardians, they formed a long queue quickly and then started to be checked.

However, after checking for a while, Shiao Qi still had not seen a trace of Helian Chacha.

Suddenly, a horrible thought flashed through his mind.

His face changed as he walked to the guardian immediately to ask him, “When you opened the gate today, did you see anyone suspicious? Or, have you seen this girl?”

He took out a painting from his sleeve and opened it to show the soldier.

“Someone suspicious?” The guardian held his chin and thought for a while, “No. All of them were quite normal, and I saw their faces. None of them looked like this girl in the painting.”

“Are you sure?” Shiao Qi didn’t want to quit, so he kept questioning, “Did you miss one or were there some people that didn’t open their curtain for you to check? Anyone like that?”

That made the guardian’s face turn deadly pale all of a sudden.

Looking at his reaction, Shiao Qi felt something terrible was about to happen, so he urged, “Have you recalled something?”