Chapter 5.1 (2/2)

“If you can’t smell this, then I would have to treat your nose.”

Pressing her lips tightly, Jin Xiu said: “But there is no flower in sight. Apart from trees and gra.s.s, where could it possibly come from?”

Fang Yun Luo walked back to the edge of that cliff. Looking down, she found a ladder leading all the way down to the bottom.

“Jin Xiu, wait for me here. I will return quickly.” She wanted to go down and explore.

“You will quickly return? My Lady, there is no path ahead, where will you go?”

Fang Yun Luo shock her sleeve and pointed down towards the cliff.

“My Lady, there is only a deep abyss below. It couldn’t possibly be you can’t accept the Lord pampering the Lady Yun?”

“Jin Xiu, what nonsense are you talking about! Wait for me here.” Saying this, Fang Yun Luo swiftly descended.

Watching this, Jin Xiu cried out: “My Lady!”

Her cry resounded throughout the forest.

Back at the carriages, everybody present had heard that ear-piercing cry. And out of all the people present, Qi Er Lun’s reaction was the fastest. Immediately he leapt onto a horse and followed the sound.

He was extremely worried, his heart a mess. Urging the horse to ride through the bushes filled with thistles and thorns he rode his horse wildly. He actions were not like someone who was going to lose their first love, but more like someone about to lose their other half.

“My Lady…….” Lying at the edge of the cliff, Jin Xiu continued to shout out. She did not forget that her mistress knew a foot movement technique, but she did not know of any that allowed people to descend a cliff.

Hearing the horse’s pounding drawing near, Jin Xiu swiftly stood up and shouted: “Ah help! Ah help!”

Qi Er Lun dropped the reins in front of Jin Xiu and dismounted: “What happened to your family’s Lady?”

“My Lord, my Lady had jumped down from this cliff. It’s all this servant’s fault, for I did not look after my Lady properly.”

Walking to the edge of the cliff, Qi Er Lun looked down, his heart’s worry calming down by half. With her skills, she should be able to keep herself alive, it was just……“Jin Xiu, why did your family’s Lady jump down?”

“My Lady smelled a flowery fragrance, so…..” She didn’t dare to say it might be because her Lady had been disgraced.

“Jin Xiu, go back and inform Ai Li to pack up and depart immediately. When I have found the Princess, we will catch up.” The sky was filled with black clouds, it might possibly be a thunderstorm.

“My Lord, I want to find my Lady. If anything happens……..this servant will not want to live too!” Jin Xiu choked out these words, crying madly.

“Your family’s Lady did not die, now go do as I said.”

“My Lord, is this true?”

“It is true.” He also jumped off the cliff.

Hurriedly Jin Xiu wiped away her tears, in disbelief she stared. Why did the Lord also jump down?

When Fang Yun Luo jumped down, she landed on a protruding ledge.

Vines had grown along the top of the cliff down, the wind howled and echoed within the valley, causing the vines on the ledge to sway. That flowery fragrance lingered in the air.

The vines grew along the sides of the cliff. How could they allow the wind to blow them away? That flowery scent wafted from within the vines, Fang Yun Luo pulled back the vines, discovering a dark cave.

One could see that this was a naturally formed cave. The temperature inside was quite cold, with a blaze of colour, grew a variety of flowers which she had never seen before.

Those purple coloured stems were very long and each stem sprouted five flowers. Each flower in turn had five b.u.t.terfly shaped petals. Each of the five petals were different colours.

Are they not the legendary Five Coloured Bewildering b.u.t.terflies! “Ah!” Fang Yun Luo was so excited that she cried out.

Qi Er Lun had just landed on this ledge when he heard her cry. Immediately he dashed into the vine covered cave and towards her voice.

Entering into the cave, the scene before him, even left him bewildered.

Fang Yun Luo walked towards a flower to smell its fragrance and temporarily felt light and airy.

Swiftly, Qi Er Lun spoke out to stop her and into his embrace: “Princess, we do not know if these flowers are poisonous or not. Do not go near them!”

“My Lord!” Why did he also come? It must be Jin Xiu’s hysteria earlier that brought him here. “These flowers are not poisonous, and possess a paralysing effect.”

“A paralysing effect? What use would that have?”

“It allows one’s pain senses to be dulled, and aiding doctors during operations. My Lord, you must have heard of boiled hemp. This is far more potent and effective than boiled hemp.”