Still breathing!
Mr. Li finally got relieved a bit, but soon he looked quite fearless again.
“Don’t panic. I bet a guy like him won’t die so easily.” Then, he dropped his whip in disgust and told the guardian calmly, “Tell Doctor Cao to come here and check on him. I don’t want him dead.”
The guardian answered with a “Yes” and then ran out. A short while later, he came back with a doctor in plain clothes.
This doctor seemed to be quite used to this kind of situation that he put his medicine box on the table naturally and walked directly to Helian Chacha who was tied to the stake.
He put a pill into Helian Chacha’s mouth first and then rolled up her sleeves to check her pulse on the wrist.
The moment he took the pulse of Helian Chacha, he started to frown and his eyes were filled with confusion. So he put down the left hand of Helian Chacha and checked the pulse on her right wrist.
“Holy grace!” He was scared to take a few steps back, “How…how…”
Mr. Li was startled, “He’s dead?”
“No!” It took Doctor Cao quite a while to calm down and reply to Mr. Li, “But she is a woman!”
“Woman?” That was absolutely a more terrifying thing to Mr. Li than the death of Helian Chacha, “You sure you didn’t make a mistake?”
Doctor Cao nodded affirmatively, “I’ve been working as a doctor for 30 years, how can I make a mistake on telling the difference between the pulse of men and that of women? She is definitely a girl! Mr. Li, have you arrested the wrong person?”
“Watch your motuh!” Mr. Li paced around for a while and made up his mind, “Doctor Cao, treat her and make sure her injury won’t get any worse. I need to leave for a moment. Xiaowang, stay here and keep an eye on them. None of you will get away with it if there is any mistake!”
Without caring about how the two left there were thinking, he turned around and ran out immediately towards the Cining Palace.
He wasn’t so sure of the grudge between Eunuch Lin and the Empress Dowager, but he knew it clearly that the Empress Dowager would rather witness Lin Dagou losing his reputation than take his life. It would be enough for Lin Dagou to get despised by the entire palace because she was actually a girl.
Upon his arrival, Mr. Li told everything that had happened in the dungeon to the Empress Dowager.
“Are you serious?” The Empress Dowager’s eyes turned red out of excitement.
“Exactly!”
The Empress Dowager squinted her narrow eyes slightly and told Mr. Li, “Don’t do anything to her at the moment and send someone to where she lives now. Get me all the things related to her identity.”
“But why, Your Highness?” Mr. Li looked super confused.
The Empress Dowager didn’t answer his question but just said slowly, “I have my own plan.”
Mr. Li replied in a hurry and ordered someone to search Helian Chacha’s place.
The Empress Dowager was sitting on her chaise, looking more and more satisfied as she said to herself, “Your Majesty, this time you are gonna lose.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Li broke into the room of Helian Chacha with his men abruptly, and all those eunuchs who were resting gathered together to watch them. Eunuch Fu had just died in the morning, and now Eunuch Lin was arrested by the Ministry of Punishment. It wasn’t that common for them to witness such an exciting show.
Xiaohuozi just came back from his shift at the moment, and he went to stop them immediately when he saw a group of people searching things in the room of Helian Chacha, “What are you doing here?”
Mr. Li felt actually quite good so he didn’t want to argue with him, saying, “Eunuch, please don’t hinder us from doing our business. Or, I will arrest you as well!”
“Arrest me?” Xiaohuozi didn’t fear the man standing in front of him at all, “For what reason are you going to arrest me? Eunuch Lin just found the body of Eunuch Fu, and he didn’t kill him. You arrested him for no reason and His Majesty will punish you later!”
He always believed that Ye Shengxuan would not ignore this because he had been caring for Helian Chacha so much these days.
“His Majesty?” Mr. Li seemed to have heard a big joke that he started to laugh out loud, “Hey, don’t make me laugh. You know she is not a eunuch but a real woman! You said His Majesty would punish me? But I’m afraid she will be more likely to be punished.”
Mr. Li’s voice was quite loud that the moment he finished his sentence the crowd at the gate was stirred up immediately. Everyone looked super surprised and some of them even started to recall Helian Chacha’s behaviors which showed that she was a girl.
Before Xiaohuozi could take in this shocking news, there came another voice from the inside, “Sir, we just found this inside the pillow!”
Xiaohuozi was the closest to Mr. Li, so he saw the thing held by that guardian.
It was a crystal-clear jade pendant that didn’t look like something a eunuch like Lin Dagou would possess. What was more hopeless for him was that it was engraved with two words, “Xuanyuan”!
Mr. Li was shocked when he took that jade pedant from them, but soon he started to smile slightly.
“It seems that she is not just a simple woman. A good show will be on.” He raised his eyebrows to Xiaohuozi and pushed him away, saying while waving his hand, “Let’s go!”
Looking at Mr. Li and his men leaving away, Xiaohuozi started to feel agitated. Finally, he turned around and ran to the direction of Yangxin Hall.
However, when he arrived at Yangxin Hall, the guardian at the gate told him, “His Majesty is not in Yangxin Hall, you can wait here.”
Xiaohuozi’s heart stopped beating for a second as he realized it was already at dusk, and people were not allowed to enter Cining Palace easily at night. Was Lin Dagou really doomed this time?
As he was thinking, he saw the imperial rickshaw of His Majesty was coming towards him.
His eyes brightened up all of a sudden and he ran to him without more thinking, “Your Majesty! Help! Help!”
Yet before he could get closer to Ye Shengxuan, he was stopped by Shiao Qi, “Which palace are you from? How dare you stop His Majesty! Behave yourself.”
Hearing that, Ye Shengxuan looked up to check the front. The moment he saw Xiaohuozi he recognized that he was the little eunuch who always hung around with Helian Chacha, so he said, “Let him come here.”
Shiao Qi frowned a bit but he still let Xiaohuozi go.
Seeing that, Xiaohuozi ran to Ye Shengxuan immediately and said with worries, “Your Majesty, please save Dagou. It’ll be too late if you don’t go there right now!”
Hearing the name of Helian Chacha, Ye Shengxuan suddenly felt super worried, “Say it clearly! What happened?”
In order to save Helian Chacha, Xiaohuozi skipped the part that she was actually a girl and had that jade pedant from Xuanyuan Kingdom. He just exaggerated the thing that Helian Chacha was arrested by the Ministry of Punishment today and his room was searched.
Ye Shengxuan’s face turned gloomier as he was listening.
Before Xiaohuozi could finish, he said, “Go to Cining Palace!”
At that moment, Mr. Li had already given the jade pendant of Helian Chacha to the Empress Dowager. Looking at the jade pendant engraved with the two words “Xuanyuan”, the Empress Dowager smiled slightly, “What a nice piece of jade this is.”
Mr. Li echoed by her side, “This is more than a nice piece of jade. I heard that only royal family members of Xuanyuan Kingdom are allowed to wear the jade pendants engraved with the two words, ‘Xuanyuan’. Even if Lin Dagou is not a member of the royal family, I bet she had a close connection to the royal family!”
Hearing that, the Empress Dowager squinted her eyes as she looked happier while staring at the jade pendant.
She had just planned to kill Helian Chacha with a random excuse, and she had never expected that she was related to the Xuanyuan Kingdom.
It seemed that this Lin Dagou had to die.
Right at that moment, a palace maid reported from the outside, “Your Highness, His Majesty is here.”
Still breathing!
Mr. Li finally got relieved a bit, but soon he looked quite fearless again.
“Don’t panic. I bet a guy like him won’t die so easily.” Then, he dropped his whip in disgust and told the guardian calmly, “Tell Doctor Cao to come here and check on him. I don’t want him dead.”
The guardian answered with a “Yes” and then ran out. A short while later, he came back with a doctor in plain clothes.
This doctor seemed to be quite used to this kind of situation that he put his medicine box on the table naturally and walked directly to Helian Chacha who was tied to the stake.
He put a pill into Helian Chacha’s mouth first and then rolled up her sleeves to check her pulse on the wrist.
The moment he took the pulse of Helian Chacha, he started to frown and his eyes were filled with confusion. So he put down the left hand of Helian Chacha and checked the pulse on her right wrist.
“Holy grace!” He was scared to take a few steps back, “How…how…”
Mr. Li was startled, “He’s dead?”
“No!” It took Doctor Cao quite a while to calm down and reply to Mr. Li, “But she is a woman!”
“Woman?” That was absolutely a more terrifying thing to Mr. Li than the death of Helian Chacha, “You sure you didn’t make a mistake?”
Doctor Cao nodded affirmatively, “I’ve been working as a doctor for 30 years, how can I make a mistake on telling the difference between the pulse of men and that of women? She is definitely a girl! Mr. Li, have you arrested the wrong person?”
“Watch your motuh!” Mr. Li paced around for a while and made up his mind, “Doctor Cao, treat her and make sure her injury won’t get any worse. I need to leave for a moment. Xiaowang, stay here and keep an eye on them. None of you will get away with it if there is any mistake!”
Without caring about how the two left there were thinking, he turned around and ran out immediately towards the Cining Palace.
He wasn’t so sure of the grudge between Eunuch Lin and the Empress Dowager, but he knew it clearly that the Empress Dowager would rather witness Lin Dagou losing his reputation than take his life. It would be enough for Lin Dagou to get despised by the entire palace because she was actually a girl.
Upon his arrival, Mr. Li told everything that had happened in the dungeon to the Empress Dowager.
“Are you serious?” The Empress Dowager’s eyes turned red out of excitement.
“Exactly!”
The Empress Dowager squinted her narrow eyes slightly and told Mr. Li, “Don’t do anything to her at the moment and send someone to where she lives now. Get me all the things related to her identity.”
“But why, Your Highness?” Mr. Li looked super confused.
The Empress Dowager didn’t answer his question but just said slowly, “I have my own plan.”
Mr. Li replied in a hurry and ordered someone to search Helian Chacha’s place.
The Empress Dowager was sitting on her chaise, looking more and more satisfied as she said to herself, “Your Majesty, this time you are gonna lose.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Li broke into the room of Helian Chacha with his men abruptly, and all those eunuchs who were resting gathered together to watch them. Eunuch Fu had just died in the morning, and now Eunuch Lin was arrested by the Ministry of Punishment. It wasn’t that common for them to witness such an exciting show.
Xiaohuozi just came back from his shift at the moment, and he went to stop them immediately when he saw a group of people searching things in the room of Helian Chacha, “What are you doing here?”
Mr. Li felt actually quite good so he didn’t want to argue with him, saying, “Eunuch, please don’t hinder us from doing our business. Or, I will arrest you as well!”
“Arrest me?” Xiaohuozi didn’t fear the man standing in front of him at all, “For what reason are you going to arrest me? Eunuch Lin just found the body of Eunuch Fu, and he didn’t kill him. You arrested him for no reason and His Majesty will punish you later!”
He always believed that Ye Shengxuan would not ignore this because he had been caring for Helian Chacha so much these days.
“His Majesty?” Mr. Li seemed to have heard a big joke that he started to laugh out loud, “Hey, don’t make me laugh. You know she is not a eunuch but a real woman! You said His Majesty would punish me? But I’m afraid she will be more likely to be punished.”
Mr. Li’s voice was quite loud that the moment he finished his sentence the crowd at the gate was stirred up immediately. Everyone looked super surprised and some of them even started to recall Helian Chacha’s behaviors which showed that she was a girl.
Before Xiaohuozi could take in this shocking news, there came another voice from the inside, “Sir, we just found this inside the pillow!”
Xiaohuozi was the closest to Mr. Li, so he saw the thing held by that guardian.
It was a crystal-clear jade pendant that didn’t look like something a eunuch like Lin Dagou would possess. What was more hopeless for him was that it was engraved with two words, “Xuanyuan”!
Mr. Li was shocked when he took that jade pedant from them, but soon he started to smile slightly.
“It seems that she is not just a simple woman. A good show will be on.” He raised his eyebrows to Xiaohuozi and pushed him away, saying while waving his hand, “Let’s go!”
Looking at Mr. Li and his men leaving away, Xiaohuozi started to feel agitated. Finally, he turned around and ran to the direction of Yangxin Hall.
However, when he arrived at Yangxin Hall, the guardian at the gate told him, “His Majesty is not in Yangxin Hall, you can wait here.”
Xiaohuozi’s heart stopped beating for a second as he realized it was already at dusk, and people were not allowed to enter Cining Palace easily at night. Was Lin Dagou really doomed this time?
As he was thinking, he saw the imperial rickshaw of His Majesty was coming towards him.
His eyes brightened up all of a sudden and he ran to him without more thinking, “Your Majesty! Help! Help!”
Yet before he could get closer to Ye Shengxuan, he was stopped by Shiao Qi, “Which palace are you from? How dare you stop His Majesty! Behave yourself.”
Hearing that, Ye Shengxuan looked up to check the front. The moment he saw Xiaohuozi he recognized that he was the little eunuch who always hung around with Helian Chacha, so he said, “Let him come here.”
Shiao Qi frowned a bit but he still let Xiaohuozi go.
Seeing that, Xiaohuozi ran to Ye Shengxuan immediately and said with worries, “Your Majesty, please save Dagou. It’ll be too late if you don’t go there right now!”
Hearing the name of Helian Chacha, Ye Shengxuan suddenly felt super worried, “Say it clearly! What happened?”
In order to save Helian Chacha, Xiaohuozi skipped the part that she was actually a girl and had that jade pedant from Xuanyuan Kingdom. He just exaggerated the thing that Helian Chacha was arrested by the Ministry of Punishment today and his room was searched.
Ye Shengxuan’s face turned gloomier as he was listening.
Before Xiaohuozi could finish, he said, “Go to Cining Palace!”
At that moment, Mr. Li had already given the jade pendant of Helian Chacha to the Empress Dowager. Looking at the jade pendant engraved with the two words “Xuanyuan”, the Empress Dowager smiled slightly, “What a nice piece of jade this is.”
Mr. Li echoed by her side, “This is more than a nice piece of jade. I heard that only royal family members of Xuanyuan Kingdom are allowed to wear the jade pendants engraved with the two words, ‘Xuanyuan’. Even if Lin Dagou is not a member of the royal family, I bet she had a close connection to the royal family!”
Hearing that, the Empress Dowager squinted her eyes as she looked happier while staring at the jade pendant.
She had just planned to kill Helian Chacha with a random excuse, and she had never expected that she was related to the Xuanyuan Kingdom.
It seemed that this Lin Dagou had to die.
Right at that moment, a palace maid reported from the outside, “Your Highness, His Majesty is here.”
