"No Wedding Unless Enemies and Lovers" 《不是冤家不拜堂》Chapter 100

 Ji Yu Qing shook her head, pushing down the strange thought in her mind, she had been very careful just now, she didn't notice anyone following her, it must be because she's too sensitive.

Ji Yu Qing smiled: "Yes very pretty, Mo Xiang why didn't you pick some more, even I want to take some back."

Ji Ling Xue laughed, "Younger sister shouldn't go plucking flowers, the mountain roads are dangerous, it's more important for us to go pray for children in front of Guanyin." As she spoke she pulled Ji Yu Qing along by the hand.

They knelt on a prayer mat in front of the child granting Guanyin, Ji Ling Xue moved back and forth without sincerity, she tilted her head to look at Ji Yu Qing devoutly praying, then pick up a inscribed bamboo stick tub shaking it until a stick fell   out.

Picking up the stick, Ji Yu Qing smiled looking at it: "Haha, I got it, it's a high quality stick."

Ji Ling Xue looked over and hurriedly congratulated her, "The Guanyin here is very effective, congratulations younger sister for your wish to come true, have more sons for the prince."

Ji Yu Qing smiled running to get the stick read for her, no longer paying attention to Ji Ling Xue.

Ji Ling Xue left the mountain first, Ji Yu Qing was feeling great, her pace was even quicker, she didn't make Ji Ling Xue wait for long. 

It was night, Xiao Yi Chen had still to return to the residence, Mo Xiang helped Ji Ling Xue wash up before going to bed, after blowing out the candles she went to the outer room to rest.

Ji Ling Xue stared at the curtain on her bed in the dark with wide eyes unable to sleep, she and JI Yu Qing had grown up together, she thought she knew that profound and sinister younger sister of hers, she didn't realise she had a lot of secrets she didn't know, fortunately her days in the residence was boring enough, she finally found something she could focus on.

Calling out for Ru Ge who was resting in a secret place, Ji Ling Xue said: "I heard your martial arts isn't bad."

Ru Ge gave a light grunt, waiting for what else Ji Ling Xue was going to say, "Then it would be no problem for you to jump over walls with me on your back right?" Ji Ling Xue continued saying.

Ru Ge raised an eyebrow, his night vision wasn't bad, he looked at Ji Ling Xue who was dressed in clothes for the night, asking: "You're outfit...you want to meet your lover?"

Woosh! A pillow headed towards Ru Ge's forehead.

Ru Ge gave a strange chuckle avoiding it, he raised his hand calling for her to stop, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't tease you."

Ji Ling Xue then stopped, "Now carry me on your back avoiding the guards in the residence into my younger sister's courtyard?"

Ru Ge looked at Ji Ling Xue like he was looking at an idiot, he had not seen someone wonder about their own home in secret.

Ji Ling Xue raised her hand to knock Ru Ge's forehead, hurry up, it's now midnight, just in the dead of the night."

Ru Ge's lips twitched, finally he could only surrender under "violence", both hands wrapped in gauze he carried Ji Ling Xue leaping out of the window and flew towards the roof.

Ji Ling Xue wrapped her arms around Ru Ge's neck, preventing him from dropping her by going too quickly.

Ji Yu Qing's courtyard had already diminished the candles, Zi Ye stayed by Ji Yu Qing's beside watching her fall asleep, she wasn't sleeping peacefully constantly having nightmares, her head swayed.

Zi Ye took a wet towel to help Ji Yu Qing wipe the sweat from her forehead, it was at that moment when a small bamboo pipe poked through the paper window, a black smoke came from the bamboo pipe.

Zi Ye's eyelids gradually dropped, her body swayed as she fell against the bed falling asleep, Ji Yu Qing having nightmares on the bed calmed down at once, sleeping heavily.

Ji Ling Xue stuck to the doorframe timing, picking up a dagger she proficiently forced the lock open.

Ru Ge leaned against a pillar in the corridor silently watching Ji Ling Xue's actions, "You make this look well-practiced, I wonder if you had been a thief before?"

Ji Ling Xue rolled her eyes, "I was bored at home, I was very interested in anything with a padlock on." As she spoke she waved the small dagger in her hand, if Ru Ge said another useless thing, she would beat him up.

Ru Ge made a shutting up gesture, indicating Ji Ling Xue should continue.

After the door opened Ji Ling Xue and Ru Ge walked in one after the other...

At this moment, Xiao Yi Chen sat in the carriage on his way back to the residence, rubbing his sore temples.

Recently he had been in charge of the entire capital city's security, what's more he was investigating the whereabouts of the Dayan's third prince, where there was the slightest sign of movement, he would be there, his former free and unfettered days were over.

"Prince, we've arrived at the residence!" The driver outside respectfully announced.

Xiao Yi Chen gave a faint grunt, pushing aside the curtain he alighted from the carriage.

He had just stepped over the gates, the housekeeper came running out, greeting Xiao Yi Chen, he took out a piece of paper from his sleeve handing it to Xiao Yi Chen, "Prince, I thought prince ought to know about this."

Xiao Yi Chen looked at the paper in his hand with the light from the lantern hanging on the gate, his eyes narrowed, this was Ji Yu Qing's writing, she had spent six hundred silvers on one meal, a set of head ornaments for eight hundred silvers, a custom-made pomegranate red hundred crane dress for three hundred silvers, each of these expenses were more than his as a man, did she really think she was the mistress of the residence?

Xiao Yi Chen had thought after putting Ji Ling Xue in charge of the accounts, Ji Yu Qing's expenses would cut down a little, he didn't expect it to increase so much more.

Xiao Yi Chen got more angry as he thought about it, it seems like he needed to have a talk about life to Ji Yu Qing, waving his hand, he put away the paper in his sleeve, he turned towards Ji Yu Qing's courtyard.

Halfway, Xiao Yi Chen thought of something and stopped, turning he headed towards Ji Ling Xue's courtyard, Ji Ling Xue's room had already diminished their candles, Xiao Yi Chen stood there making a gesture, a secret guard in bappeared in front of him in hel, "Prince!"

Xiao Yi Chen nodded asking, "Princess and imperial concubine went to the marriage temple today, did anything different happen?"

The secret guard recounted word by word everything he had seen, having spoken he then added: "Prince, princess seemed to have discovered something, she just went to the imperial concubine's courtyard."

Xiao Yi Chen nodded, waving his hand, the secret guard hid back into the shadows.

Xiao Yi Chen turned around, with a flash he flew to the roof, with a few light leaps he landed on the roof of where Ji Yu Qing slept, he stooped down on the roof carefully prising open a roof tile, using the moonlight he observed what was happening in the room.

In the room, Ji Ling Xue and Ru Ge stood before Ji Yu Qing's bed, Ji Ling Xue was bent over looking at the deeply asleep Ji Yu Qing, waving her hand in front of her, then she pushed the other person's shoulder, making sure she was already passed out like the dead, that's when she retracted her hand.

Ji Ling Xue's line of sight fell on Ji Yu Qing's pillow, remembering she had slept with Ji Yu Qing before as a child, she would always hide anything under her pillow.

Ji Ling Xue carefully used a quilt to replace the pillow, holding the pillow she felt a slight melancholy, Ru Ge took out a small night pearl from his chest as a light for Ji Ling Xue.

Ji Ling Xue smiled, it really was helpful to have such a clever bodyguard.

JI Ling Xue found something wrapped in a handkerchief from inside the pillow.

Xiao Yi Chen peeking from the roof top took in a sharp breath, staring at Ji Ling Xue's hand unblinkingly.

Inside the handkerchief Ji Ling Xue opened were several jade jewelleries, simple and unadorned, Ji Ling Xue's lips twitched, unexpectedly her dowry jewellery was "valued" in such a way by Ji Yu Qing.

On the roof, Xiao Yi Chen felt a sense of disappointment, he really thought Ji Yu Qing had a secret, it turned out to be her missing her family.

Ji Ling Xue took out a small bottle from her chest sprinkling the fine powder over the jewellery, before she wrapped the handkerchief back up stuffing it back into the pillow slipping it back under JI Yu Qing's head.

Ru Ge stood to the side, the gaze he looked at Ji Ling Xue was profound.

JI Ling Xue turned her head: "Don't look at me like that, I'm not so evil to take her life, you should know the jewellery she has hidden inside the pillow are my dowry, who let her steal my things, shouldn't I give her a little punishment?2

Ru Ge immediately grunted, "Since it's your dowry, they are meaningful, isn't it better to take them back." Poisoning was too callous.

Ji Ling Xue gave a grim laugh: "Things that someone else has touched, I don't want it."

Ru Ge's lips twitched, pinching his chin he wondered, "Then she has touched that prince husband of yours, do you also not want him?"

Xiao Yi Chen who was sprawled over the roof was about to leave after failing to see anything good, he immediately froze hearing what was said, pricking up his ears he listened attentively to Ji Ling Xue's answer.

Ji Ling Xue said: "I am obsessed with cleanliness, of course I don't want a man that has been stained by another woman."

Xiao Yi Chen was shocked, he lowered his head to look inside the room, inside, Ji Ling Xue didn't notice at all someone was watching them from the roof, as before she casually searched everywhere.

Ru Ge leaned against a wall, with a smile yet not a smile on his face he tilted his head up to look at the roof tile that had been lifted.

Women understood women the best, Ji Ling Xue who had looked everywhere but found nothing suddenly picked up the embroidered shoes by the bed, under Ru Ge's stupefied gaze from the seams she took out a crumpled piece of paper.

Ji Ling Xue raised an eyebrow proudly, "Found it!"

Ru Ge grimly walked to Ji Ling Xue's side, the weak glow from the night pearl shone on the unfolded piece of paper, the two of them looked at each other.

Ji Ling Xue felt like she had picked up dog poo, wondering if she should hand this layout of the residence over to Xiao Yi Chen, Ru Ge took the map looking over it, "Oh damn, your younger sister is a spy, colluding with outsiders to act against your prince..."

Ji Ling Xue's lips twitched, she felt dizzy at Ru Ge's "your prince" left and right. She hated Xiao Yi Chen, if he was to be out of luck, she would be glad to see it happen.

Ji Ling Xue took the map from Ru Ge's hands giving a grunt, stuffing it into her chest, then she picked up a piece of paper and brush beginning to draw under the dimmed light of the night pearl.

Ru Ge leaned in to look then shook his head curling his mouth.

Ji Ling Xue put the brush down blowing on the ink, taking out a cork-tree bark, she dabbed the paper with Chinese honey locust water.

Ru Ge raised an eyebrow asking: "What are you doing?"

Ji Ling Xue said: "Making the ink look old, cork-tree bark and Chinese honey locust water can rub away ink, it'll become yellow, cork-tree bark prevents damage by moths."

Ru Ge smiled, "I know that, ai, how long are you going to take, what if the people in the room wake up?"

Ji Ling Xue turned to look at Ru Ge smiling: "Then it'll be up to you."

Ru Ge's lips twitched, what's up to him? Watch him simply and roughly knock two women out? Princess your tastes are too much...

A quarter of an hour later, Ji Ling Xue left Ji Yu Qing's courtyard on Ru Ge's back, when they returned it was very quiet.

In the darkness, Xiao Yi Chen stepped out from his hiding spot staring in the direction Ji Ling Xue left in deep in thought, he turned entering Ji Yu Qing's room.

Ji Yu Qing felt someone sit by her bed in a daze, only her eyelids were so heavy she couldn't open them at all, under the haze she heard someone ask: "Where's the thing I want?"

Who was speaking? Was it that mysterious person who strangely wanted to help her get the position she wants?