Your Majesty, Eunuch Lin Is Pregnant

56. The Troubled Times

Translator: Storm in a Teacup

After saying that, she turned around and walked away.

Bohe didn’t want to offend her, so she followed her immediately. However, Ye Tingfang stopped after walking just a few steps as she turned around to tell the rest of them, “The rest of you now go get your punishment yourselves. If any of you didn’t take the punishment, you would better just be prepared to be thrown into the imperial prison.”

Although those people didn’t want to give up, they could only answer with a yes obediently.

Ye Tingfang took Bohe all the way back to her own palace. After they had entered her room, she ordered all the palace maids to leave and only kept Bohe alone with her.

“Do you know why I bring you here?” She found a place to sit down and then started to ask her with composure.

“Your Highness want to know what’s happened to Concubine Xian?” Bohe was actually quite stunned.

Hearing that, Ye Tingfang sneered disdainfully and waved her hand, “I don’t care about your master at all. And it’s none of my business whether she has been kidnapped or just eloped. I only want to know one thing. What is the relationship of your master and Jianmo?”

It turned out she was worried about Mr. Chu.

Recalling the times when Helian Chacha had been with Chu Jianmo, Ye Tingfang realized shockingly that she never really saw them talking together.

Bohe frowned in embarrassment, “Well… I have no idea of that.”

“Then what do you know? You can tell me whatever you know.” It seemed that Ye Tingfang was not in a hurry as she tried to dig out the information from Bohe step by step.

However, Bohe said nothing after hesitating for a while.

Looking at her timid face, Ye Tingfang knocked on the table with her knuckles anxiously, “You don’t need to be nervous. I’m not a monster and I don’t bite. Just tell me what you know.”

Bohe pursed her lips and said slowly under the gaze of Ye Tingfang, “It seems that Her Highness and Mr. Chu are friends. There was one time that the two of them met on the road, and they told me to leave so that they could talk. I thought they were trying to discuss something important, so I didn’t stay with them…”

Ye Tingfang’s face suddenly changed, “So you mean, they used to be together alone?”

Looking at her face, Bohe finally realized that she might have said something improper. But since she had already said it, she could only keep her head low and tried not to speak again.

Yet Bohe’s reaction made Ye Tingfang more confirmed about her suspicion and she started to curse loudly, “Humph, how come I didn’t realize that? Lin Dagou really knows how to seduce a man. So Brother’s imperial bed is not enough for her, and now she is seducing Jianmo!”

“Please calm down, Your Highness.” Bohe was so scared that she kneeled down, “Maybe… maybe Her Highness just had a random talk with Mr. Chu, and nothing else…”

“Shut up!” Ye Tingfang looked at her angrily, “Who are you to talk to me like that?”

Bohe went silent right away.

After cursing for quite some time, Ye Tingfang noticed that Bohe was still kneeling to the ground, so she vented her anger on Bohe instead, “Why are you still here kneeling? Just get out of here!”

Bohe got up quickly and then left the room while bowing to her all the way.

When she opened the door, some palace maids barged into the room with surprises. Looking at Bohe, all of them turned their heads around with embarrassment as they tried to pretend nothing had happened.

Bohe clenched her teeth and ran away.

As soon as she left, those palace maids started to laugh at her. Hearing their laughter, Bohe felt very upset. No one would dare to treat her like that when she had been serving the emperor back then.

Even though she was now sent to serve Helian Chacha, she was never treated like that. Now her master had left the imperial palace, the entire palace now saw Yonghe Palace as a joke.

If her master really never came back, didn’t that mean she could no longer stay in the palace?

She cried and ran. All of a sudden, she bumped into someone accidentally at the corner.

The man made a groan. And it wasn’t hard to tell that it was from a eunuch.

“What is wrong with you, girl? Why so impetuous?” That eunuch shouted at her.

Ye Shengxuan who was sitting on his imperial carriage saw her in the front, so he called her, “Bohe?”

Bohe raised her head and realized that she had just bumped into the imperial carriage of Ye Shengxuan. So she kneeled down immediately in fear, “Good day, Your Majesty.”

“Just get up.” Ye Shengxuan’s eyebrows furrowed, “What’s the matter with you?”

With his asking, Bohe could no longer refrain the grievances inside, so she told everything to him, including how the people in the palace were talking about Helian Chacha and how those palace maids bullied her nowadays.

Ye Shengxuan listened to her and started to frown again. His eyes turned cold gradually as well.

“Your Majesty, I’m sure Her Highness has not eloped. Please bring justice back to Her Highness!” Bohe cried so hard that she could barely talk.

“I see.” Ye Shengxuan’s face didn’t really change, “You just go back to Yonghe Palace first and I believe Concubine Xian will come back soon.”

Bohe answered with a yes and then left.

Returning to Yangxin Hall, Ye Shengxuan wrote a decree immediately stating anyone discussing about the elopement of Helian Chacha should be put in jail for slandering the concubine.

After such a show, the imperial palace finally found some peace back.

However, Ye Shengxuan didn’t feel relieved with that at all. He had the feeling that something bad would follow since Helian Chacha left the palace at this moment.

Ye Shengxuan’s presentiment seemed true. Helian Chacha was running the entire day with Chu Jianmo, and they were about to arrive at the next city in 2 hours, but they were caught by a heavy rain suddenly when the sky was getting dark.

For their safety, the coachman suggested that they should find a place to have a rest first.

There happened to be an abandoned temple by the road. After asking the opinion of Helian Chacha, they went into that dilapidated temple as both of them agreed to have a rest in this place.

Boom…

The lightning and thunder came along with the blowing wind and rain. As soon as they stepped into the temple, Helian Chacha was scared by that astonishing thunder. After that, a white lighting flashed through and lit up the Buddha statue wrapped up in spider silk on the niche.

Helian Chacha took a step back unconsciously and she didn’t expect that she would bump into Chu Jianmo’s arms.

So warm…

“Are you alright?” Chu Jianmo looked at her in his arms confusingly.

His voice dragged Helian Chacha back to the reality immediately, so she took a step back, embarrassed, “Ye… yes…”

As soon as she stepped back, Chu Jianmo took off his cloak.

When she was wondering what he wanted to do, he raised his hands to put that cloak on her and laced it up for her carefully, “Take this. It can be quite cold tonight, so don’t catch a cold.”

“What are you going to do if you give the cloak to me?” She took that cloak off immediately, “Just wear it yourself. It’s not a funny thing to catch a cold.”

Chu Jianmo was amused by her, and he stopped her hand right away, “I’m a man. I’m not afraid of coldness. And, didn’t you just feel it?”

“What?” Helian Chacha was confused by his question.

He winked at Helian Chacha, “My body is quite warm, so I don’t need these extra layers to keep myself warm.”

“…” This dude really knew how to flirt…

Helian Chacha felt like being the leading role in a silly romance story that she could enjoy the endless caring and affection of a handsome guy.

While she was still in her fantasy, Chu Jianmo had already turned around to check other things in this dilapidated temple.

When she finally came back to her mind, she was standing at the entrance of the temple all alone.

The wild wind had brought some raindrops in and they fell on the face of Helian Chacha. The coldness made her shiver a little bit.

It was weirdly cold today. Was the autumn coming…