She Rebuilt Her Fallen Country With Storage Space-Chapter 74 - Xiang Ying Ran Away
Chapter 74: Chapter 74 Xiang Ying Ran Away!
Chapter 74 -74 Xiang Ying Ran Away!
Xiang Ying woke up to find herself locked in a separate cabin.
She slightly moved, and the clinking of iron chains came from her wrist.
Looking down, the handcuffs and leg irons that had been removed were locked back on.
Xiang Ying immediately frowned: “Jie Chen, this petty man!”
However, to think that he could lock her up with iron chains was impossible.
Xiang Ying fetched a piece of wire from the space, gently turned it in the lock, and immediately with a “click”, the chains fell off.
She unlocked the leg irons in the same way, then stood up and patted her skirts.
Looking through the cracks of the window boarded up with wood, it was already daytime.
Xiang Ying walked to the door, tugged at it, and indeed it was also locked from outside.
She patted the door: “Open up! Let me out.”
Shouhou quickly made a noise from outside.
“Sister-in-law, oh,” he lowered his voice because he was unsure if he could still call her that, “Please stay calm. Jie Jianjun was furious, he has ordered heavy guards to take turns watching over you. Whoever dares to let you go will have his head chopped off!”
Through the door, Xiang Ying’s beautiful brows furrowed.
“Tell Jie Chen to come see me.”
“Don’t make it difficult for me, how dare I stir trouble at this time? Just stay peacefully, after a few days when the supervisor cools off, you two will be sweet as honey again.”
What is he even talking about.
A cold look filled Xiang Ying’s phoenix eyes: “How can Jie Chen lock me up now? We are about to reach Gourd Mouth where the water bandits are, only I can help him, hurry up and open the door!”
How could Shouhou dare?
Seeing his persuasion was ineffective, he simply covered his ears and shouted, “I can’t make the decision!”
Then, Shouhou arranged for soldiers to keep a strict watch and quickly ran off himself.
Xiang Ying pounded on the door, but no one bothered to answer.
She knew that Jie Chen must have issued a strict order, nobody would help her at this time.
Suddenly, Xiang Ying thought of something and turned her head towards the window boarded up with wood.
She went over to check, discovering the wood boards were hastily nailed in place, four thin boards in total, easy to dismantle.
Getting right on it, Xiang Ying picked a carpenter’s tool from the space and began to pry the nails.
Accidentally, she made a ‘ping pang’ noise, and immediately the soldiers at the door scolded: “What are you doing!”
Hearing they were about to unlock the chains and come in, Xiang Ying immediately pretended to kick and hit.
“You bunch of losers, are you deaf? I want Jie Chen to come see me!”
The soldiers listened closely through the door, realizing she was just throwing a tantrum.
One of them wanted to open the door to check, but another stopped him.
“Forget it,” that person whispered, “don’t forget she’s skilled. Maybe the noise was intentional, waiting for us to open the door and then she’d knock us down. If something happens, we’ll be blamed by Jie Jianjun.”
“You make sense.”
After his colleague nodded, he yelled towards the inside: “Stop making a fuss! Jie Jianjun said not until we reach the dangerous river and disembark will you be released. Conserve your energy!”
Feint cries of Xiang Ying came from inside.
The two soldiers exchanged a glance, revealing mocking eyes.
Even the Princess of Xizhou would only know to cry when she encountered trouble.
It was nearly evening when Jie Chen finally came with a cold and grim expression, followed by his subordinates.
The three children discovered Xiang Ying was missing, and together with Tao Xue, they cried and made a fuss.
Xiang Li repeatedly asked where his sister had gone.
That Qi Fengyi acted like a madwoman, and when the soldiers didn’t reveal Xiang Ying’s whereabouts, she began throwing punches.
They had no choice but to lock her up and keep a strict watch too.
Jie Chen, busy with the day’s arrangements, only then remembered that Xiang Ying was still detained.
He heard that she had wanted to see him, perhaps to clarify things.
Jie Chen also had doubts.
At first, he was taken to the palace by force because the elder princess fancied his looks and made him a male concubine.
He was reluctant, but after she forced him to drink a glass of wine, he lost consciousness.
Not long after, Jie Chen learned that the elder princess was pregnant.
Because of this, he was locked up in a cellar by her people.
They said he might be the father of the child; if he truly was, he could never reveal himself in front of the child for the rest of his life.
However, now Fang Qian was involved.
Jie Chen couldn’t help but doubt whether he really had indulged in pleasures of the flesh with the elder princess after drinking the wine laced with sedatives that night.
He wasn’t sure himself, and the possibility of unwittingly becoming a father irritated him.
Previously, he wished for nothing to do with Xiang Ying.
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Since the child was not his, there was no need for even a bit of tolerance towards her.
Yet, after a whole day of thought, for some unknown reason, he still wanted to get a clear answer from her.
Even though he knew she might lie, Jie Chen still wanted to hear her explain properly.
Seeing Jie Chen arrive, the two soldiers guarding the door immediately saluted, “Military Supervisor greets you!”
“Dismissed,” Jie Chen replied with dark narrowed eyes, “How is she?”
The soldier said, “She won’t eat or drink. At first, she cried and smashed things, but later, realizing it was no use, she simply stopped making trouble, it’s been quiet for a while now.”
Jie Chen’s brows furrowed, “Crying and smashing?”
Xiang Ying crying? With such a severe injury on her lower back, she hadn’t shed a tear.
Why would she cry just because she was locked up?
Jie Chen ordered sharply, “Open the door!”
Without doubting, the two soldiers quickly opened the door.
However, the cabin was empty, not a single person in sight.
“Where is she!” The soldiers were stunned.
Jie Chen hurried inside and saw the scattered chains on the ground and then noticed the violently broken window.
He pinched the bridge of his nose, gritting his teeth, “Xiang Ying… I really underestimated her!”
Skinny Monkey arrived at this time, seeing the situation inside the cabin, he guessed what had happened.
He rushed to the window to look outside, where the rushing river flowed, with green hills on both sides.
Skinny Monkey was shocked, “This woman, so fierce, Military Supervisor, she must have escaped downstream!”
Immediately, Jie Chen commanded, “Signal to anchor and stop the ship, also arrange four squads to join me in the flatboats to pursue her.”
“Pursue!?” Skinny Monkey was even more astonished.
Jie Chen glanced at him, “She’s been swimming for so long, she will run out of strength eventually, no more chatter, do as I say immediately.”
“Yes…” Skinny Monkey hurried off.
The six large ships came to a halt in the river.
Thankfully, it was a section of the river where the current wasn’t too strong; otherwise, they really couldn’t have stopped.
Outside, hurried footsteps continuously sounded, occasionally accompanied by Supervisor Ke’s curses as he passed by.
“I’ve always said he lost his soul to that woman…” His voice faded away, and the rest couldn’t be heard.
Tao Xue pressed her ears against the door, but couldn’t catch any news about Xiang Ying.
Tao Xue was anxiously pacing in the room, “What to do, Crown Prince and Miss Qi are both under separate guard now.”
She truly hated her inability in martial arts.
If she could fight like the elder princess, quickly defeating others, why would she and the children need to be confined here?
Just then, muffled grunt sounds came from outside the door.
It seemed like the soldier guarding them had fallen.
Just as the three children were puzzled, the door was opened from the outside.
Xiang Ying’s slender and beautiful figure appeared in the doorway.
Xiang Xiuxiu exclaimed joyfully, “Mother!”
“Shh!” Xiang Ying gestured with her hand, darted into the room, dragged the two unconscious soldiers inside, and closed the door behind her.
