"No Wedding Unless Enemies and Lovers" 《不是冤家不拜堂》Chapter 91

On hearing what was said Yi Yun had her mouth wide open in surprise, she didn't know what to say, Ji Ling Xue was saving her then?

That thought flashed through her head over and over, she had only thought of pushing her in the water at that moment.

Xiao Yi Chen on seeing Yi Yun fall silent, opened his mouth to ask one more time: "How did you fall into the lake?"

Yi Yun lowered her head, her fingers moving around inside her sleeves, trying hard to find a rational excuse.

Yi Yun  said: "I...I also don't know, it was too chaotic then, princess suddenly bent over backwards, I wanted to pull her up, sadly I wasn't strong enough and fell in the water as well..."

Mo Bai followed up: "After that?"

After that...her mouth and nose were filled with water, her mind was muddled, she felt a hand pulling on her clothes deeper in the lake...then, then...she fell unconscious.

Xiao Yi Chen frowned, seeing that he couldn't get an answer of her, he comforted Yi Yun with a few words, arranging for someone to take her back to her residence, the he sent a letter to the housekeeper to send an apology gift.

Yi Yun looked at Xiao Yi Chen with reluctance to part, meekly asking: "Where is the princess?"

Xiao Yi Chen fell silent, Yi Yun's eyes darkened, she turned around and got into the carriage.

The carriage wheels moved, Yi Yun lifted the curtain looking back, only the back of Xiao Yi Chen could be seen on the boat, gradually disappearing from her sight.

Xiao Yi Chen again sent the secret guards to search in the lake, personally questioning the assassins who had been caught, he didn't expect these stubborn characters to be so tight-lipped that under the most cruel torture they wouldn't say a single word.

Chi Feng rushed over with twenty of the residence's private soldiers, commencing a sweeping search of the shore, finally they found a shoe dropped by Ji Ling Xue, beads of pearls.

Xiao Yi Chen followed the clues, out from the mud to the official road, the wheel prints left by the carriage suddenly disappeared, the trail ended like that.

Xiao Yi Chen stood on the official road looking ahead, his mind was in an indescribable mess, he wasn't sure if he was anxious or worried.

Xiao Yi Chen: Ji Ling Xue, you wait, this prince will find you very soon.

"Achoo!" Ji Ling Xue gave a loud sneeze in the carriage, trembling she said: "I'm so cold, older brother...when do we reach our destination and there can be a fire...if anything happens to me, prince Chen will be angry, you wouldn't get anything good from it."

The entire journey, Ji Ling Xue discovered the reason why they kidnapped her from the conversation between the kidnapper and the one steering the carriage.

This matter started two years ago.

Two years ago, the idle prince Xiao Yi Chen suddenly received an imperial decree to go to the northwest, at that time Xiao Yi Mo had just ascended the throne, he was in the process of a great clean up of the court, putting in his own men.

Xiao Yi Mo who had just ascended the throne was very afraid of Xiao Yi Chen, the military power of two hundred thousand men were in his hand, if he rebelled it wasn't impossible for him to become emperor.

The situation at court was temporarily very tense, this was one of the reasons why Xiao Yi Chen had to leave the capital.

After Xiao Yi Chen arrived in the northwest he began a campaign to expand their territory from all sides, to prove his abilities to Xiao Yi Mo.

Xiao Yi Chen's campaign, rallied young and vigorous young men to enlist, at the same time of defending their country they could get some accomplishment.

Xiao Yi Chen had only stayed in the northwest for two years before he was called back to the capital by an imperial decree, and those men who followed him stayed in the northwest.

The general in the north west changed, those small countries at the border who had their lands occupied, caught in the crossfire of war once again emerged suddenly, now after honing their strengths for two years they began to strive hard to fight and regain their lost land.

There were the more successful ones who entered the centre of the country, hiding in the capital while looking for an opportunity to seek revenge on Xiao Yi Chen, and today was the assassination they had long planned for.

These kidnappers were the enemy soldiers from Daiyan, they had known it was not easy to deal with Xiao Yi Chen, thus they hid in the water, they didn't think Ji Ling Xue and Yi Yun would fall in the water and ruin their plan.

The kidnapper threw a smelly outer jacket over Ji Ling Xue, it smelt so bad she almost threw up last night's meal.

With the jacket as a shelter, Ji Ling Xue twisted her wrists in attempt to save herself, even though she had left clues along the way, she didn't really think of relying on Xiao Yi Chen to rescue her, the golden needles would have turned cold by the time he arrived.

She knew how to escape from a rope, Mo Xiang had to be credited for this, she remembered when Mo Xiang taught her she said, "Princess, this servant will teach you a few self-defence skills, you're the princess there will always be someone who wants to use you, you can't not have any ways of protecting yourself."

Now thinking about it Mo Xiang really did have good foresight, Ji Ling Xue gave a bitter smile.

The carriage finally stopped, the sound of the wheels turning ceased, Ji Ling Xue clearly heard the sound of insects calling outside.

The kidnapper boss turned around and got off the carriage, scouting out the area with the kidnapper who steered the carriage, only after making sure no one had followed them did they drag Ji Ling Xue off the carriage

Ji Ling Xue had her eyes covered so she couldn't see the way, and she was dragged roughly along a bumpy road, her foot stepped on a course stone causing her to bleed so painfully that her forehead broke out in cold sweat.

Ji Ling Xue heard the sound of horse hooves behind her, then it gradually faded, her heart turned cold, this was a trick   often used to prevent people from following their trail.