Chapter 283: Help (1) (1/2)

The men were calling out with strange gibberish sounds.

Chu Lian’s brows furrowed together. Her expression turned grave and she immediately turned to Wenlan, “Be careful, Wenlan, these people are Tuhuns!”

They hadn’t even reached the northern border and they were still within the territory of the Great Wu Dynasty. How had the Tuhuns set an ambush for them here?

Although Wenlan didn’t know how Chu Lian had been able to tell that these people were Tuhun, she had always put her full trust in Chu Lian.

Wenlan gripped Chu Lian’s wrist tightly and forcefully pulled Chu Lian onto a horse.

She held the reins as she looked up at Chu Lian and said, “Third Young Madam, run away first! This servant will hold them back!”

After saying so, without waiting for Chu Lian to speak, she slapped the horse on the rump. The red chestnut horse reared up in fright and cried once before taking off.

Chu Lian quickly held grabbed the reins in fright. She crawled forward as far as she could on the horse’s back and grabbed onto its neck.

With the howling of the wind in her ears, Chu Lian could hear the sounds of battle getting further and further. After a moment, she could hear hoofbeats.

Chu Lian grabbed tightly onto the horse’s neck. The cold wind was cutting her face as she wailed inwardly.

Wenlan had been too concerned with protecting her that she had forgotten to ask if her master even knew how to ride a horse! This was great. Even if she somehow evaded capture by the Tuhuns, she was going to be half-dead after falling off the horse!

As the horse charged out of the forest, the hanging branches of the trees forced Chu Lian into a sorry state. Before she could relax and try to control the horse, the sounds of hoofbeats from behind her increased in pace, as if someone had come chasing after her.

Chu Lian’s nerves tightened and she tried her best to hug the horse’s neck with the reins in her grip. She balanced herself properly on the horse’s back and turned around to look behind her.

With that one glance, she took in a gasp of cold air.

Those two Tuhuns had come after her.

When she had glanced back, the Tuhuns were actually not more than twenty metres away from her!

A chill snuck down her spine. Chu Lian knew that she wouldn’t meet a good end in the hands of the Tuhun. Even if she managed to survive in the Tuhuns’ grasp and returned to the Great Wu Dynasty alive, her reputation would be ruined.

Even though the Great Wu Dynasty was more open-minded, they were still a feudal society and females were on the losing end.

Furthermore, going by how crazy He Sanlang was towards her even when her reputation was just fine, once she was kidnapped, he would probably write a divorce contract on the spot!

She forced herself to calm down and stop thinking of anything irrelevant to her situation. She gritted her teeth and plucked a hairpin from her head before stabbing the horse’s rump viciously.