Chapter 72 - The Corruption
In the Ni Mansion, Jin Yu is getting angry to find his wife is missing again. He was busy to engage respectfully with his father-in-law and uncle-in-law. He lets his wife to roam around in the back yard to find out by the end of his conversation, she is not in the courtyard again. He is checking in their room and find it empty. He is pacing back and around the room to think about his wife whereabouts. It will be impossible for her to get kidnapped from this tight security inside the Ni Mansion.
Eunuch Wang is reporting back to the emperor about his fails result to find the consort in the mansion. However, he brings Xiao Nie with him to the angry emperor in the room. She is bowing toward her emperor.
"where is your consort whereabouts?" Jin Yu is asking his wife loyal maid.
"I really do not know where is madame going? She was in the courtyard with young master Ni and Young master Lin," Xiao Nie is explaining as she was busy in the kitchen to clean up and prepare for the morning routine for her young madame.
"How can you not know? Is that your job to follow your madame to anywhere she goes!" Jin Yu is asking her with his cold sternly voice which send a cold shiver to her spine. It makes her tremble to face this scary emperor.
"Young Madame told me to stay in the kitchen and prepare for tomorrow morning after I clean up this room. Normally, madame likes to spend time with Young master Ni and Young master Lin," Xiao Nie still kneeling with her face toward the ground. She does not dare to face the emperor before he chooses to cut her neck off from her body. She is crying and wanting her madame to come back soon.
"Do you know the place where she always goes in the night with Ni sheng and Lin Yue?" asks Jin Yu to the scared Xiao Nie who does not dare to lift her face.
"They are always going to Uncle Chen shops to drink and going back almost in the morning… you can try to find them there," Xiao Nie is reporting to the emperor when she remembers her madame favourite place. Jin Yu is calling Zhang straight away to send him to the restaurant.
Zhang is knocking on the door to the emperor before he got the approval to enter the room and kneeling to give respect.
"Your highness, do you need me to od something?" Zhang still kneels in the floor and wait for his instruction.
"I need you to go to Uncle Chen shop and pick up my wife. I can not roam around freely in the town because of my position as the emperor," Jin Yu is sipping his tea. Eunuch Wang wants to vomit blood to hear his boss word. He was always going out from the palace all the time without worry about his position as the emperor.
Zhang is going out from the room and goes to pick up the royal highness consort Qing as instructed by the emperor. In the Uncle Chen shop, he finds only Uncle Shen hides due to his wound. He tells all the story about the incident to Zhang who is bringing him back to the Ni Mansion to get treated.
Zhang is reporting to the emperor about his finding and make the emperor and Eunuch Wang to follow Zhang to the police station in the city. He is doing it secretly and do not want to open up his identity before he knows their charges.
Inside the jail room, Ni Qing is playing card with brother Huo subordinate which make them almost strip off their clothes. Three of them already with their last pieces of clothing. Ni Qing is winning in every round and defeat them into the pulp. Lin Yue and Ni Sheng see her attitude and behaviour with the gangster, makes them to scratch their head. No one can beat her with her totalities on her disguise.
In the front area, Jin Yu is trying to bail her out from the jail as the officer can not tell him the charges. He can smell the bad odour of corruption in this police station. No Wonder, Ni Qing is pursuing this corruption odour and get throw into the jail. She must be scared with all the unknown people and scary burly man.
Jin Yu is really impatient as he does not get the clear answer from the officer. Jin Yu is really angry to get the same generic answer toward the staff inside this police officer. The reason behind their attitude toward Jin Yu as they are waiting for the next instruction from the Uncle Chen competition.
One of the police officers is already going to their boss house to collect their reward money and release everyone relates to the Uncle Chen case. However, He cannot do it now as if they are not yet getting paid. The one hires them will lodge the complain to the head of this police station which can resulted to the lost of their job.Â
"What is making you long time? I really do not have the leisure of time and play with you. I do want to pick up my wife and know the charges lay on her." Jin Yu is asking him. he knows the fact that this police officer is one of the corrupt officers and he knows well about the post of the police minister is holding by Lord Chu family. He tries to hold his anger and want to know the extent of their corruption in this place. He will clean this mess after his period of honeymoon is finished.
"Why? You are not the emperor of this country so shut up and wait until she got release. We are still investigating this matter," he scolds Jin Yu without aware about the person in front of him position as the son of the dragon and the leader of the country.