After Being Kidnapped by the Crown Prince - Chapter 183
~End of chapter 182
Seeing Ming Zhu shaking, Hong Ling felt both distress and pity for her. She already thought of an idea in her mind, “I’ll go attract their attention, you use the fabric to cover your face and quickly get out of here.”
Ming Zhu grabbed her fingers, “Right, this is the only way.”
Hong Ling was not afraid of anyone, not even tigers, so when they looked this way, she took the initiative to rush out and hit one of the men’s shoulders. Knocking against that hard body really was painful.
She showed her teeth, very skilled at acting as a shrew, “You! Do you not look at the road when you’re walking?!”
Chapter 183
(65.4)
Being scolded by Hong Ling, Song Huaiqing almost laughed from anger, “This miss, it is you who bumped into me.”
Hong Ling mistook him for the ruthless man who had let down Ming Zhu, and deliberately blocked him, “It’s obvious that you bumped into me, you’re a big man, but you don’t even dare to admit it.”
She held out her hand, “Give me money, I’m going to find a doctor to see if my bones have been broken by you.”
Song Huaiqing saw her as someone who was deliberately doing this for money, and he slightly curled up his lips, his smile was a bit cold, “How much does the miss want?”
“Ten taels of silver.”
Song Huaiqing wasn’t broke nor stingy, but he didn’t want to encourage this kind of habit.
Hong Ling saw that he was not giving the money and pestered him using logical arguments.
As they were arguing and pointing fingers at each other, Ming Zhu clutched the fabric in her arms, and hurried away from this place where they were quarrelling.
The corners of Zhao Zhi’s lightly twitched, and his glance swept over a figure that hastily passed them by, with stupefaction in the bottom of his eyes, but before he could even react, the person had disappeared.
Song Huaiqing was getting annoyed from quarrelling with that uneducated girl, his face turned icy, and he said to her as he looked at her, “If you continue to pester me, I will go and report you to the official.”
Hong Ling was most afraid of going to jail, inside there you couldn’t eat well nor sleep well, and you even had to endure the stinky rats. Pretending to be scared, she said, “Forget it if you don’t want to pay money, stingy ghost!”
She ran away as soon as she was done speaking.
Song Huaiqing laughed in anger, “I have never seen such an unreasonable woman in my life before.”
Zhao Zhi wasn’t listening to what he was saying, Song Huaiqing saw that he looked like he had lost his soul and asked him what was wrong.
Zhao Zhi pushed him away and suddenly started to run, frowning tightly, there was some confusion in his expression as well as some anguish.
He couldn’t help but doubt himself, did he see wrong? The back figure of that woman was really too similar to Ming Zhu’s.
When someone bumped into Zhao Zhi, he finally returned to his senses. There were no emotions in his eyes as he dragged his heavy feet forward. Suddenly, he stopped, his eyes were nailed on the edge of the steps, on that small pouch.
Pink and white, with a small fox embroidered on it.
Zhao Zhi slowly squatted down and picked up the small pouch, with shaking fingers. The expression on his face seemed to crack as his dark pupils, unwavering, stared at the pouch in his palm.
His eyes were filled with incredulity, the bottom of his eyes overflowed with an unusual amount of red blood.
“Your Highness?”
Zhao Zhi violently clenched his palms, and slowly stood up, his cold eyes revealed a little part of his ruthlessness, and when he lowered his eyes, this ruthlessness was concealed.
He did not care what Song Huaiqing would think, as he said, “Zhu Zhu is not dead.”
Song Huaiqing froze, not understanding why His Highness would suddenly mention Ming Zhu.
Zhao Zhi raised his eyes, the coldness in the corners of his eyes could not be suppressed. He also didn’t know whether it was because he was turning crazy that he was saying such words.
(66.1)
During this period of time, Song Huaiqing hardly ever heard Zhao Zhi take the initiative to mention his favorite concubine who had lost her life. Most men were fickle in love, the sadness and the grief would only be for a moment, and once it was past, it was over.
He had rarely seen Zhao Zhi lose his bearing like so, and did not know what to say for a moment, he couldn’t think of a good way to persuade him.
Zhao Zhi was grasping the pouch in his palm like he was clutching a life-saving straw, his jaw was taut, his expression looked like he was enduring something. He explained in a hoarse voice: “This is her pouch.”
Song Huaiqing was silent for a long time, raising his eyes, he looked deeply at him, before politely saying: “Your Highness, it’s just a pouch.”
Weren’t all the pouches under the sky quite similar to one another? Maybe he was mistaken.
Zhao Zhi’s face was pale, his figure was thin, as the breeze passed by, the light lapels of his jacked also swayed along, his hands began to shake. Then, he slowly calmed down, and silently put the pouch carefully into his sleeves. Lifting his eyelids, he said: “I can’t be mistaken.”
Back then, she must have escaped.
……
When Ming Zhu returned home, her legs had turned weak.
She was so frightened, her back was soaked with cold sweat and her thin underwear were thoroughly wet. She changed her clothes and drank a cup of hot tea, and only then did she gradually regain some composure.
Hong Ling’s gaze was complicated, “Zhu Zhu, are you really that afraid of him?”
Ming Zhu held the cup with both hands and nodded.
Hong Ling felt that the man she had seen today really did not look like a good thing, his words were also unpleasant, “It’s okay, he will not find you.”
Ming Zhu was still frowning, her nails were deeply piercing into her palms, and she only came back to her senses when she felt the pain. She forced herself to smile, “Mmh, I’m not going outside for a few months.”
To avoid running into him again.
Counting the days, from Zhao Zhi first appearance in Yangzhou to now, it had already been half a month, thinking about it, he shouldn’t be staying any longer, and would soon return to the capital.
“It’s really unlucky, you have to avoid him even now that we’re in Yangzhou.” Hong Ling said indignantly.
“It’s not like he’s going to stay in Yangzhou for the rest of his life.”
“Do you think he will come to look for you?”
Ming Zhu shook her head and silently lowered her eyelids, her expression was unclear, her voice sounded soft, “No, he won’t.”
Hong Ling loudly clamored a few times and did not ask further questions. Outside the courtyard, they suddenly heard the sound of people knocking on the door.
Translator : Laura
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