In the hall, everyone was shocked and instinctively looked at Hua Mei who was laying on the ground.
By this time, Hua Mei had become completely frightened. She could only repeatedly say, “It’s not me. I didn’t mean it. My legs were numb.”
Looking at all this, Yun Qianyu’s first thought was that Hua Mei had been attacked and the target was actually her. By attacking Hua Mei’s legs so that she would fall into Yun Qianyu, the ultimate aim was to get Yun Qianyu to stumble into the table on which the jade Guanyin was placed.
Fortunately, Xiao Jiuyuan had pulled Yun Qianyu aside in time.
Looking at the crying Hua Mei, Yun Qianyu’s heart couldn’t help but ache. Immediately, hate-filled Yun Qianyu’s heart and she clenched her hands tightly. Glaring at Yun Qianxue, Yun Qianyu thought, ‘You cunt, you’re playing dirty in front of the empress? It seems that I have underestimated you.’
In fact, Yun Qianyu had been on guard against Yun Qianxue. However, since the empress was present, she thought that Yun Qianxue wouldn’t dare to make a move.
Unfortunately, a disturbance had occurred outside and Yun Qianxue had used this opportunity to make her move.
Ignoring Yun Qianxue for now, Yun Qianyu focused her attention on figuring out a plan. Right now, the most important thing was to save Hua Mei. It should be known that if the empress was to pass judgment, the sentence would be death.
After giving it some thought, Yun Qianyu figured that Xiao Jiuyuan was the only one that could save Hua Mei.
She couldn’t care about the resentment between herself and Xiao Jiuyuan, as long as he could save Hua Mei.
Right now, Yun Qianyu was very close to Xiao Jiuyuan. Feeling anxious, Yun Qianyu looked up toward Xiao Jiuyuan and signaled to him for help.
Xiao Jiuyuan understood Yun Qianyu’s gaze at a glance, but he didn’t do anything. Since it was already an exception that he had saved Yun Qianyu, he didn’t care about the life and death of a lowly servant girl.
Although Hua Mei was Yun Qianyu’s servant girl, she was still a lowly servant. Since Yun Qianyu was the Li princess consort, even if the empress was very angry, she would not punish Yun Qianyu.
With that thought, Xiao Jiuyuan didn’t even look at Yun Qianyu anymore. Feeling even more anxious, Yun Qianyu knew that if Xiao Jiuyuan didn’t save Hua Mei, she would surely die.
Thinking about this, Yun Qianyu took a small step back and stood side by side with Xiao Jiuyuan. Tugging at his clothing, Yun Qianyu gave Xiao Jiuyuan another look, ‘Please help me this time, I’ll owe you one. Please!’
Xiao Jiuyuan originally wanted to refuse, but suddenly he thought of his unexplained fainting the previous night.
‘Since Yun Qianyu has good medical knowledge, maybe she could help me find out the reason.’
As Xiao Jiuyuan was thinking about it, Yun Qianyu tugged at his clothing again.
Looking down at Yun Qianyu, Xiao Jiuyuan gave her a look that seemed to say ‘Beg for it. Beg and I’ll save her.’
Putting her self-esteem aside, Yun Qianyu quickly whispered into Xiao Jiuyuan’s ear,
“Xiao Jiuyuan, I beg of you to save Hua Mei’s life.”
Yun Qianyu really didn’t want to see the empress kill Hua Mei, which was why she was willing to beg Xiao Jiuyuan.
Xiao Jiuyuan was very satisfied with Yun Qianyu’s attitude. He turned to look at Hua Mei and saw that the girl’s face was extremely pale and her body was shaking. Obviously, she was extremely frightened.
In the hall, after a brief shock, everyone looked up at Empress Chiang in astonishment.
With a darkened face and great killing intent, Empress Chiang looked coldly at Hua Mei and was about to sentence her to death.
However, before she could say anything, another voice rang out, “Men, get this lowly servant out and give her 20 paddle strokes! How dare she break the emperor’s gift!”