Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes Chapter 13 (1/2)

Chapter 13

The wheels of the carriage are turning. I looked at the man in purple across of me, whose eyes are closed. I grabbed on the wood fence. I shouted to the two people in front of the carriage: “Hey! Stomachache, urgency.”

“You sure have many things, brat!”

One stopped the carriage, while the other jumped off it. He opened the door and dragged me out of the carriage.

“Hurry.”

He pointed at the bushes on the roadside and said: “After you’re resolved your business, come out.”

The man was holding the other end of the rope on my body. I looked around. There’s no other way, I had to squat on the gra.s.s and resolve my business.

The man sitting on the carriage is cursing. He said they should’ve leaved me on the mountain to survive on my own. Bringing me is too much trouble. Besides selling me, won’t bring them much money.

The other one said laughingly: “This is still a success. Although the ginseng of a thousand years ran away, but we’ve caught something better. Well, this woman, if we can’t sell her, we still can bring her back for our own pleasure. The two are idiots. They can’t do something serious. Just bear with it for a few days.”

I rubbed my empty stomach. I miss s.h.i.+fu more now. Yes, I’m kidnapped. This situation began three days ago, when I left s.h.i.+fu. Originally, I was planning to go to Shengling sect and stay there for two days. Then I’ll bring back food and continue to ma.s.sage s.h.i.+fu’s legs and shoulder. But the improper dressed I, met two brawny men on the hillside. It’s the two men in front of me. They were carrying an unconscious man in purple, the man that’s now asleep in the carriage.

The two brawny men are now discussing where they should go eat and drink. I said with good intention: “The food at Shengling sect is really delicious.”

The two men stared at me for a long time. Suddenly one of them raised his hands against me. I didn’t win the fight, so I was forced in the carriage again.

We were on the road for three days. The man in purple slept for three days. I missed s.h.i.+fu for three days.

I don’t remember ever leaving s.h.i.+fu for so long. Although s.h.i.+fu likes to order me to do things I don’t like, like doing the laundry, making his bed and ma.s.sage his legs and shoulder. He also likes to make fun of me to past time, but s.h.i.+fu is always there when I’m sick. When I wake up form a nightmare s.h.i.+fu is also there. When I’m being bullied, s.h.i.+fu will bully that person back. I scratched my head and thought that compared to ginseng soup or stewing mushroom with chicken, the look s.h.i.+fu have when he rubbed my head and say “Xiao Xiang Zi, good”, is more delicious. I really want to go back to s.h.i.+fu, ah…But now how do I go back to s.h.i.+fu….

The carriage seems to be hit by a stone. I was thrown to the other side of the carriage. The man in purple opposite me was also fiercely thrown to the other side of the carriage. His breathing became disorderly. I lifted my head and saw that his eyes opened a little.

“Ah, you’ve woken up.”

Because of my shouting, the two men driving the carriage turned to look at us. They stared alertly at the man in purple before they continue to drive. I understand. The man in purple’s hands and feet were chained. His face is pale and his breathing is weak. He looks like someone who is about to die. The two men have nothing to worry about.

The man moved his hands and feet. The chain caused a ringing sound. He seemed to be aware of the situation his in now. His body turned stiff. He raised his head to look at his surroundings. His eyes stared at the backs of the two big men for a while before he turned to look at me.

“Who are you?”

“I’m Xiao Xiang Zi.”

I kindly reminded him that we’ve been kidnapped.

He wrinkled his brow.

“You look really cheerful.”

“Because now, aside from me, there’s someone else who is uncomfortable. s.h.i.+fu said that in a bad situation, looking at somebody who’s in a worse situation than you, will let your heart be more balanced.

The man sighed and dropped his head.

“Fool…”

Seeing that he was really depressed, I kindly leaned against his ear and whispered: “Don’t worry, s.h.i.+fu will come and save. I’ll let him save you too.”

The man glanced at me and didn’t speak.

Because I’ve a companion now, I’m not feeling lonely anymore. So I began chatting with him. But this person doesn’t seem to like talking, I told him about my life with s.h.i.+fu and the interesting things we did. He blinked and kept listening, I talked from afternoon to midnight, and still this man hasn’t spoken a word. Suddenly one of the two men in front of us growled: “She! Is the idiot disciple of Shengling sect’s shaozhu, whom he treats like a precious thing!”

I scratched my head and was about to say that s.h.i.+fu doesn’t treat me as a precious thing, when a sudden gust of wind made me close my eyes. When I opened my eyes, at the end of the road there was a dim light. A figure of a person slowly came from the light.

“Ah! s.h.i.+fu! s.h.i.+fu,”I yelled.

I was so excited that I crashed against the wooden fence again. I couldn’t wait for s.h.i.+fu to crush this thing and to fly into his arms.

But s.h.i.+fu hasn’t yet approached when I heard a “hehehe”cold sneer.

My spine went cold, my hairs stood up. In my memories, s.h.i.+fu rarely sneered like that, but once he sneers like that….

“Very good, very good.”

s.h.i.+fu pulled a whip from his waist. I’ve never seen him used the whip before. But I don’t know why, seeing him with the whip in one hand, laughing with a murderous look, I actually felt at peace.

“Xiaoye1 searched the whole mountain for this person, but she has been abducted by you two.”

The whip touched the ground with a “pipa”sound. My body also got startled by the sound.

s.h.i.+fu said laughingly: “Let xiaoye be busy for a few days without results. Say, how do you want to die? Xiaoye will follow your wishes.”

The two looked at each other. One said: “We didn’t mean to offend Shengling sect. This lady is shaozhu’s disciple; we shall certainly return her to shaozhu.”

I looked at the man in purple next to me. He remained silent and quietly observed the situation.

I whispered: “Don’t worry, my s.h.i.+fu is not a soft and big hearted person. This two people will certainly get whipped.”

The man in purple looked at me for a moment and suddenly said: “If your s.h.i.+fu heard this, you’ll also be whipped.”

“s.h.i.+fu will not whip me.”

Saying that I remembered that s.h.i.+fu never has used his hands against me. Every time he’ll get mad at me. At most he’ll pinch my cheeks really hard. Remembering this, I felt that s.h.i.+fu is pretty good. When we go back to the manor, I’ll do my best at ma.s.saging him.

While I was lost in my own thoughts, s.h.i.+fu said: “Hmpf…I always prefer to get back what was stolen from me, with my own hands.”