Your Majesty, Eunuch Lin Is Pregnant

55. Everybody Knew It

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

The guardian wet his lips nervously and said after hesitating for quite a while, “General, I really didn’t see the girl in the painting, but…”

“But what?” Shiao Qi was almost driven mad, “Just spit it out.”

The guardian kept his head down in fear, “But there was a carriage that I let pass without checking…”

“Why didn’t you check it?” It seemed that Shiao Qi suddenly thought of something as he looked super serious, “Do you mean that there was someone you couldn’t afford to offend in the carriage? Who was that?”

Under the pressure of Shiao Qi, the guardian didn’t dare to hide it anymore, “It was the young master of Chu Family, Chu Jianmo. And his coachman said that his wife caught a cold and they needed to go out of the city for treatment, so she couldn’t bear the wind. And that’s why I didn’t check them carefully…”

“Chu Jianmo is not married at all,;how can he even have a wife?” Shiao Qi felt quite dizzy because of the huge anger.

And if things were just like what this guardian had told him, then the one inside that carriage must have been Concubine Xian.

He didn’t expect that they were late anyway.

He kicked that guardian angrily and turned around shouting, “Zhuifeng, come here.”

Zhuifeng who was still checking other commoners raised his head and looked over, he then told the imperial guardian next to him to take over and ran to Shiao Qi, “What can I do for you, General?”

“Her Highness has already gone out of the city. Now, you take two teams to chase her, and I will go back to the palace to report to His Majesty. I will catch up with you guys later.”

Zhuifeng’s eyebrows furrowed as he answered immediately, “Yes.”

While he was about to take his men to go out of the city, Shiao Qi told him again, “Remember, Chu Jianmo’s martial arts are fathomless, and he probably also has his secret guardians with him. So you better just follow them in a distance when you find them, and make sure you never get spotted by them. Understand?”

“Rest assured, General!”

After giving his order, Shiao Qi went back to the imperial palace with the rest of them.

At that time, Ye Shengxuan was reading the memorials in his imperial study. Hearing the eunuch report from the outside that Shiao Qi had returned, he asked them to let Shiao Qi in.

Stepping into the imperial study, Shiao Qi said immediately without bowing to him, “Your Majesty, Her Highness has already left Changan City. But according to the guardian, they mustn’t have gone too far.”

“They?” Ye Shengxuan was so intelligent that he grasped the key point of the entire sentence, “Who else did she leave with?”

“Your Majesty, it was Chu Jianmo.”

“I knew it would be him!” Ye Shengxuan pounded the table all of a sudden and his eyes were filled with coldness.

He had doubted about the relationship between Chu Jianmo and Concubine Xian before, and he had even conducted an investigation on them. But what was surprising to him was that all the evidence had proved that they were not connected. So Chu Jianmo was indeed quite crafty.

“Your Majesty, what do we do now?” Shiao Qi asked anxiously.

If they didn’t go chase them now, they might not be able to catch them at all.

Ye Shengxuan held his chin and thought for a while, “Send a message to General Zhenwei in Nanjing and tell him to recall Chu Jianmo.”

“But…” Shiao Qi was a bit worried, “What if he refuses to go back?”

After all, Chu Jianmo had already left with Concubine Xian publicly, and that meant he didn’t care if he became the target of Ye Shengxuan or not. Since he had already prepared for this outcome, why would he care about the recalling order from General Zhenwei?

“That’s exactly what I want. He won’t go back!” Ye Shengxuan walked to his imperial chair in a few steps and swung his sleeves to sit down, “And, you take another team to block the shortest way from Changan City to Kingdom Qi. If I guess it right, Kingdom Qi is their destination this time.”

Kingdom Qi?

Shiao Qi’s eyebrows knitted a bit as he was really confused. But seeing that Ye Shengxuan looked really upset, he held back his thoughts and answered with a yes, then left the city with his soldiers.

Right after he had left, the rumor of Concubine Xian eloping with Chu Jianmo was spreading over the entire imperial palace.

“Hey, have you heard it? Concubine Xian eloped with the youngest son of General Zhenwei. How weird is that?” The palace maid whispered to the people beside her, “His Majesty favored her so much, how come she was still not satisfied with that? She even dared to seduce Mr. Chu, what a whore!”

“You know nothing. She is pretty and that’s her capability.” Another palace maid was fanning, “That’s why people always say that face is the top value of women. You better take more care of your skin because maybe there will be someone who wants to elope with you next time.”

“Hahaha… stop joking, sis. We are all good girls and we don’t elope with men.”

Bohe happened to pass by. Hearing them talking like that, she was really mad and she went to shout at them, “What are you talking about!”

Looking at her, those people were all stunned first and then started to check her from head to toe, “Oh, isn’t this the head palace maid of that Concubine Xian? People always say dogs are like their masters. Will you elope in the future as well?”

Bohe was so mad that she stepped up and grabbed the collar of that palace maid in the front, “Who eloped? Her Highness was kidnapped. Keep your mouths shut!”

Knowing that Bohe had already lost Helian Chacha as her back, those palace maids were not afraid of her, and they just sneered, “Kidnapped? You are really a good storyteller, huh? Someone already saw her going out of the palace this morning without permission. What kind of self-motivated kidnapping was that?”

“You! Just keep your mouth shut!” Right after that, Bohe pulled that palace maid’s hair quite harshly.

Those palace maids had never expected that Bohe would dare to fight with them without the support of her master, so they circled her and started to beat her immediately, “Beat her! Beat her hard! Or she will think we are afraid of her!”

When she used to serve Ye Shengxuan, Bohe had learned some self-defense skills. So these fragile palace maids were not her match at all.

After fighting for a while, those palace maids started to scream because of the pain, while Bohe had also got a black eye under their attack.

Yet none of them wanted to quit. They were just scratching and pounding each other randomly as if they only wished to kill the other right on the spot.

“What are you doing here? Stop!”

Hearing that, they looked unconsciously towards the direction where that voice came from, and they saw Ye Tingfang who was wearing a light yellow dress standing not far from them, staring at them disappointedly.

The moment when they saw Ye Tingfang, everyone was stunned, “Your Highness!”

Then they got off from each other and bowed to her respectfully.

“Good day, Your Highness.”

“How dare you fight like that in public? Don’t you still know the rules in the palace?” Ye Tingfang went so mad when she saw those bruised palace maids in front of her that she clenched her teeth, “Come here!”

A patrolling guardian just passed by and heard her, so he came to them immediately, “What can I do for you, Your Highness?”

Looking at the tough guardian in front of them, those palace maids all calmed down and started to beg, “Please forgive us, Your Highness. It was her! She started it first. We are not to be blamed!”

Facing the slandering, Bohe sneered and said, “No! If you didn’t insult Her Highness in public first, I would never bother to fight with you.”

That palace maid didn’t want to surrender, “We didn’t insult her. We were just telling the truth. Concubine Xian has eloped for sure, and it is well known to the entire imperial palace.”

“I dare you to say that again!”

“Wait.” Ye Tingfang walked slowly to Bohe, “You are the palace maid from Yonghe Palace?”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Ye Tingfang glanced at her slightly and said, “Raise your head.”

Bohe raised her head and looked Ye Tingfang in the eyes. Seeing her face, Ye Tingfang raised her eyebrows a bit and said without extra explanation, “Come with me. I need to ask you something.”