" You, stand up and explain what's going on here ! "
Using the brief moment when the superior looking eunuch ordered Gao Gao, Lin Ping raised his hand and used his sleeve to clean up his noise, wiping the noise.
A completely healthy young bleeding from his nose didn't feel so good.
It was clear with their arrival, It seemed that he and eunuch Gao had attracted attention from, as a stranger it didn't matter that Lin Ping had fused with himself in this world, Lin Ping didn't know anything, as the he in the world also didn't know anything.
Lin Ping felt that in a situation when one didn't know much, it was best to keep mum at first.
Quiet but watching, observant, the aura of these people carried authority, especially the female in a regal looking red robe, there was strong nobility and power around her.
" Was she the empress "
Lin Ping refrained from looking directly, chanting mantras in his mind lest he committed an impudence by looking at the empress in the "wrong" way, or bleeding again from the arousal such impeccable face and burst.
It was never a naught to be careful, in his former life Lin Ping had read books on feudal or imperial societies, whilst in the modern world it at least "seemed" that everyone was equal.
In such world, it didn't even seem so.
Beauty was wonderful, and pleasing to the soul, but life was first.
Gao Gao stood from the ground, his figure trembling.
What was he to say, what was he to do!
He was dead, this was the end of his life.
Silents tears flowed from Gao Gao's face, extreme fear, anxiety and despair hitting him.
Gao Gao cursed his fake uncle that was his father, he also cursed the boundary keeper and this "son".
The head Eunuch, the Empress !
What kind of day was this, was this a dream, or an illusion.
He could die, he would die, could he lie, Gao Gao didn't want to die, he was still young.
He was an innocent young person.
Lin Ping kept quiet at the side, but seeing this pitiful act of this Eunuch Gao, his trembling and tears, Lin Ping sneered within.
One would think he was the aggrieved one, the " innocent" one.
But Lin Ping kept quiet, he was in an unfamiliar place, unless he was asked or it was necessary, silence was best.
And he was the stranger here, he didn't if either way whatever happened if this eunuch Gao would still be supported, he had to be careful.
Lin Ping watched eunuch Gao, to be honest Lin Ping was worried that eunuch Gao would lie about what transpired between them.
Gao Gao opened his mouth, actually he also wanted to lie, but it was not possible.
The Empress was here, everything would be investigated, he could only speak the truth and hope, plead for mercy.
" This is the boundary keeper's son " he started to talk.
Gao Gao continued, but now his voice became so low that it was almost inaudible, " He came to collect the wages of his family "
They all heard the first thing Gao Gao said, " the boundary keeper's son "
But the second, it was so inaudible.
In fact, if not that Lin Ping was just beside this Eunuch Gao he also wouldn't have heard the other party, and it was still almost inaudible.
The Empress kept quiet and just watched, no one knew what she was thinking, Head Eunuch Payo interpreted it as the empress wanting him to effect appropriate action!
Payo lashed out immediately, " speak out! "
He couldn't hear him well, he heard something like " he came to collect the wages of his family ", something like that.
Those of higher astral power had higher physical endowments, Gao Gao's inaudible voice it didn't escape the empress or head eunuch payo but Payo thought he had heard wrong hence he lashed at Gao Gao.
Just a few days ago the wages of the boundary keeper and his family had been disbursed, so what was the issue.
Although the boundary keeper was more of a ceremonial than actual important position, the commitment and sacrifice of the boundary keeper and his family was not overlooked.
In fact regularly he inquired from Gao Gao on the affairs of the boundary keeper.
So this was the boundary keeper's son, supremely handsome, he also had an impeccable body structure, but what was he doing with so many animals in the palace.
Gao Gao repeated himself as he had to, " he came to collect his family's wages "
Payo frowned, " Had the boundary keeper's family been owned their last wage, that wasn't a good thing, did this Gao Gao pocket it, hence the commotion, it seemed what he thought he heard at first was true "
Payo was the only one doubting, at the side Panae kept quiet, but her attention was very placed on this matter, and unlike Payo she was certain that the former prostrating eunuch had said , " the other party had come for his family's wage " even the first time.
Panae was interested in the matter for some reasons and interfered directly.
Payo was about to question Gao Gao on why he had not given the boundary keeper his last wage when the empress's voice drifted in the courtyard.
" How many months worth of wages have you withheld "
Panae felt the head Eunuch Payo was very meticulous in matters but he wasn't very cunning, it couldn't be for a simple matter or a small wage that this handsome man had left the boundary seclusion and the cause for the severe "begging" they had seen.
Gao Gao raised his head and glanced at Lin Ping, in fact Lin Ping was also looking at the other wondering what he would say.
Ever since the arrival of the empress and the head Eunuch Gao Gao knew he was done for.
And thinking swiftly he had formulated a plan to possibly safeguard his life.
" All your Majesty ", he replied, " All his family's wages in the last two decades "
" Ehhnn, Payo let out a loud scream in shock, how come! "
Realizing his misdemeanor he bowed to the empress , " forgive my manners your Majesty "
How come?!