Chapter 47: Unexpected Change

Huipin was willing to leave, but she still retained the last bit of rationality. But when she was provoked by Concubine Liu, the string in her brain broke instantly.

She let go of Yun Qin's arm, turned around and walked back to Lady Liu, and slapped her hard in the face.

Lady Liu never expected that she would suddenly attack. She couldn't dodge in time and screamed immediately.

Huipin looked at her covering her face, sneered, and said angrily: "Who do you think you are? My people beat your maids, and I will beat you too!"

Lady Liu raised her head and glared at Concubine Hui fiercely. When she looked at the emperor, she became pitiful in an instant, "Your Majesty, you saw that this is how Concubine Hui bullied me. You have to make the decision for me!"

Seeing her like this, Huipin's eyes became even angrier, and she raised her hand to slap Concubine Liu again.

But the slap did not fall on Miss Liu's face, as Hawking Chi had already grabbed her wrist.

"Have you made enough noise?"

Huipin looked at Huo Jinchi, tears fell out again, and cried to him: "No! I am a concubine, she is just a beauty, can't I teach her a lesson!"

Everyone was stunned to see that she dared to yell at the emperor.

Yun Qin wanted to cover her mouth, so she hurried forward, held her hand, and whispered, "Madam, calm down. Your body is more important."

She couldn't let the topic revolve around the issue of status. Given the emperor's temper, if she really pissed him off, he would definitely do something like demoting Concubine Hui's status!

I'm afraid Huipin will go crazy on the spot, and they are the ones who will suffer in the end!

Yun Qin did not look up at Huo Jinchi, but lowered her head and brought the topic back to the topic, "Your Majesty, you should have seen that the queen has no intention of arguing with the beauty, it is the beauty who has been provoking again and again. The queen is pregnant now, and her mood is easily unstable. Let me take the queen back to the palace to rest first."

Huo Jinchi let go of Huibin's arm and looked down at Yunqin. He was not surprised that she spoke up to defend Huibin. Instead, he felt that this was her character.

"Is there any place for you to talk here?" Concubine Liu hated Yun Qin even more than Concubine Hui, and she immediately shouted sharply.

Yun Qin still lowered her head, and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "It is true that I have no right to speak here, but this matter was caused by me. If the maids around the beauty had not been disrespectful to the queen, the queen would naturally not have offended the beauty by standing up for me."

"Okay, okay, you are really sharp-tongued. You want to put all the blame on me without any teeth!" Lady Liu laughed angrily, looking at Yun Qin and wishing she could smother her with her eyes.

"When Qing He stopped me from mocking her, many people saw and heard it. How come the beauty said that I was the one who was cheated?" Yun Qin's voice was still neither loud nor low, but her words were enough to make people angry. "My queen suffers because she doesn't know how to talk. If I don't have a sharper tongue, will I just watch her being bullied?"

"You, you!" Lady Liu felt so choked up in her chest by her words that she kept saying "you" for a long time but couldn't utter any other words.

She was so angry that she couldn't speak, and Huipin was happy. She exhaled a breath of foul air, held Yunqin's arm again, and was as graceful as before.

The ready-made steps were passed over. Huo Jinchi lowered his eyes to glance at Lady Liu with some warning in his eyes, then turned to Huipin and said, "You go back to the palace first."

"Yes, I'll take my leave." Although Huipin still felt aggrieved, Concubine Liu obviously didn't get any benefits, and this was enough to make her happy.

She glanced at Lady Liu with a hint of provocation, then took Yun Qin's arm and walked towards where the sedan chair was parked.

Because of this delay, no one noticed that a person had quietly approached Huibin's sedan chair.

The accident happened at the moment when Huipin raised her foot to step onto the sedan chair.

Yun Qin only saw a figure suddenly rushing out from the side and pushing Huipin hard.

There was a pond behind the sedan chair. She had one foot raised, and when she was pushed, she couldn't even keep her body steady and fell straight into the pond.

In a panic, the only person she could grab was Yun Qin, who was very close to her. Yun Qin stumbled and fell into the pond as she was pulled by her.

The moment she fell into the water, Yun Qin turned her head and saw only Kong Cainü's face full of resentment, and then her body was submerged in the cold water.

Everything happened in a flash. Only after hearing two consecutive sounds of someone falling into the water did the people on the shore react and screams immediately rang out all around.

"Help!" Huo Jinchi's expression also changed, not as calm as usual.

The palace servants immediately jumped into the water, but no one expected that the banks of the pond were all mud. As soon as they got into the water, their feet sank into the mud and they couldn't float up at all. They could only sink deeper and deeper, sliding into the deep water bit by bit with the mud.

"This, this is a man-eating pond..." someone exclaimed.

Watching people sinking into the water little by little, it is useless to struggle. This is nothing but cannibalism.

Huo Jinchi narrowed his eyes slightly and shouted, "Go get the bamboo pole!"

Xu An was standing beside him. When he heard what Huo Jinchi said, he immediately shouted, "Go, get a bamboo pole, a long one, go!"

Everyone then reacted and ran to get bamboo poles.

Kong Danying had been pinned aside by the eunuch. When he saw this scene, he chuckled twice, and then his laughter got louder and louder, "It's God's will. It's God's will that you, Huipin, die. Hahahaha..."

Huo Jinchi lowered his eyes to look at her crazy appearance, a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes, "Tie her up, don't let her die."

Immediately, a eunuch came forward, stuffed her mouth with a rag, tied up Kong Cainu, and threw her aside to be guarded by someone.

Hawking Chi withdrew his gaze and looked at the surface of the pond. The two struggling figures were no longer visible.

He was worried about Concubine Hui and the unborn child. The image of the little palace maid with her eyelashes trembling kept flashing through his mind, and he couldn't help thinking: She must be extremely scared.

As he was watching, the rippling water in the center of the lake suddenly rolled over, and a gorgeous face suddenly emerged from the water. Along with her, Huipin also floated up with her arms outstretched and struggling.

When the two fell into the water, they were caught off guard and without a struggle, they were carried away by the mud and slid into the deep part of the pond.

Even though Yun Qin could swim, her feet were sucked into the mud and she slid all the way to the deep end of the pond. She finally had a chance to float up after the mud was washed away by the water.

Huipin couldn't swim at all. Even without the mud sucking her feet, she could only struggle continuously under the water.

Yun Qin floated behind Huipin and just watched her struggle coldly at first, but when she saw her bulging belly, she suddenly remembered that she had felt the living life in her belly up close.

She gritted her teeth, swam over, grabbed her collar, and floated to the surface with her.