"Your Majesty! Are you okay?" Ming Yu immediately knelt beside Chen Liqin, helped him stood up.
"It hurts…," the girl grumbled, still with her face buried in the chest.
Chen Liqin raised his eyebrows in wonder. He felt familiar with her voice.
At that time, the furious kitchen crew and the guards arrived with a loud shout.
"DON'T RU—YO—YOUR MAJESTY!"
The fire in their heart extinguished in the blink of an eye, replaced with shock and fear. They hurriedly paid respect to The Emperor.
"Long Live Your Majesty!" they exclaimed in a choir.
"Ouch … ah! My Chicken!" Did not notice the tense atmosphere around him, Shao Chen found his chicken on Chen Liqin's clothes. He hurriedly grabbed it and blew the dust away without confirming whose clothes had been stained.
Chen Liqin's jaw dropped. Blood flew high to his head. So high that he could not say a word.
"Yo—Your Majesty! Sh—she stole the food that had been prepared for these milords. We could not serve the food on time because of that!" one of the cooks hurriedly explained as he thought that the emperor was furious at them who was looked like neglecting their job.
Chen Liqin's feature was getting completely red. "You!" He pointed his finger at Shao Chen but the latter did not notice his angry mood, looked at the emperor with his usual fool expression.
"Fhat (what)?" Shao Chen asked with a mouth full of chicken meat.
Just as his eyes met Chen Liqin's, he horked the chicken down in the blink of an eye. "Cough! Cough!" Shao Chen patted his chest several times before the large lump of chicken meat that had not yet been chewed could slide safely into his stomach.
His finger was pointed at Chen Liqin's face. "Thief Emperor!! Gave my money back!" Without warning, he directly seized Chen Liqin's collar with his oily and dirty hands.
"How dare you act like this to His Majesty!" Yang official roared in red face.
"Shut up! That is none of your business!" Shao Chen scolded him back.
Shao Chen then tugged the collar tighter, shouted, "Gave my money back, you thief!!"
Chen Liqin's face was completely black and a murderous aura enveloped him. He gripped Shao Chen's wrist and without saying a word, he tightened the grip until Shao Chen could not bear the pain anymore.
"It's hurt! Let go! Let go!" Shao Chen complained, trying to pull his hand out of the grip but he was not strong enough.
"You want me to throw you into the jail again, hm?!" Chen Liqin roared, vented all the anger that had pent up inside.
It was a coincidence that when the emperor snapped, two of the underground jail's guards were also passing that area. One of them was He Tao. Hearing that horror exclamation, they immediately knelt in front of the emperor.
"Your Majesty! Please don't send this crazy girl into jail again! All of us, lowly servants, that had tirelessly guarded the jail could not focus on our task because of her. Your Majesty, please have mercy!" He Tao kowtowed, banged his forehead against the road several times.
"Please have mercy, Your Majesty!" His colleague followed He Tao to kowtow.
Chen Liqin could not be more infuriated than this. His grip became tighter and tighter until Shao Chen's wrist bond almost cracked.
"It's hurt! Thief Emperor, it's really hurt!!!" Tears had stained his doll-like pretty face.
"Shut up!" Chen Liqin snapped. He almost fainted because of anger and his head ached mercilessly.
If this girl entered his view for a few more minutes, he felt he would get wrinkles on his face!
At last, Chen Liqin ordered the two guards, "Sent her into the Cold Palace!"
Cold Palace was a special place where guilty concubines or empresses were sent to and lived for the rest of their life. The cold palaces were built in the most abandoned block of the palace, near the Underground Jail and Condemnation Block.
Feng Meifeng, who had been searching for a way to save Shao Chen, was dumbfounded. Not only her, all of the people there, both men and women, both servants and officials, dropped their jaw.
Throughout the history of Xin Kingdom, all of the harem girls would get to be favored by the emperor first, became a concubine, then sent to the cold palace if they committed a mistake that infuriated the emperor. There had never been a lady that sent into a cold palace with status as a harem girl! And this crazy girl had been sent into the cold palace after only living in the palace for a very short time!
'Young Miss, you are really….' He Tao was amazed by this new record-breaker. Maybe, if there was a competition for the troublemakers in the palace, Shao Chen would definitely win first place.
In the future, their grandson and granddaughter would find a history about the first harem girl who was sent to the Cold Palace after entering the palace for less than two weeks because of staining the emperor's clothes with a lump of chicken meat. It was ridiculous!
On the other hand, not too far from the scene, Chen Guang was walking leisurely with his wife. They coincidentally witnessed this commotion.
"Was not that girl the one that making trouble at your birthday party?" Yan Mei asked, shaking his head in disbelief. She remembered that the girl was thrown into jail for three days. In other words, today was the d-day for the girl release from prison.
"She's making trouble again," Yan Mei said with mixed feelings, between amazement, disbelief, and funny.
Chen Guang could not help but shook his head too. The corner of his mouth was slightly up but his eyes were viewing Shao Chen seriously.
Noticed that, Yan Mei asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"My wife, visit and take care of that girl when she was living in the Cold Palace," Chen Guang asked.
Yan Mei was confused but she eventually nodded. She would ask for the reason after they arrived at their private pavilion.
On the other hand, Dai Junjie was also watching the commotion when he noticed Shao Chen's figure. His eyes could not stop peering at the harem girl as he felt familiar with her.
'Where did I see her?'
"What's wrong Junjie?" a man beside, who was slightly shorter than him, asked.
"That girl … feels familiar," Dai Junjie did not try to conceal it.
"That harem girl? She was the one who made trouble at the birthday party."
Dai Junjie thought hard. Suddenly, an illustration passed through his mind. Then, a pretty doll-like man who was walking through the city road popped up inside his head.
Dai Junjie's eyes lit up in excitement. Finally, he found him!
"Yao Yusheng!"