“Lady, could you possibly be thinking of your family?” The old woman’s voice suddenly sounds again, cutting off Gui Wan’s rather gloomy thoughts.
“Yeah, recalled some things from the past.” Gui Wan very faintly smiles, despite that it cannot be clearly seen in the darkness, but the airy nonchalance in her tone, seems rather unreal.
“Lady, wait till it’s almost daybreak, and we’ll be reaching the border region between the Celestial Empire and Nu Tribe, another two days of travelling after that, and we shall arrive at the Celestial Empire’s city borders, and then you can return home……” The old woman is filled with high hopes, her deliberately lowered voice unable to conceal her great excitement.
“Lady, did you by chance meet with some sort of troubles?” Seeing Gui Wan say nothing, the old woman converses on her own, “If met with troubles, don’t get angered, if matters cannot be solved, then just rely on your heart to solve it. Sometimes, the conflict between reason and emotions, requires looking into what your heart says……”
“Heart……” She sounds a soft murmur like a sneer, wanting to refute her words, yet says nothing, suddenly, she recalls how a certain man once said to her, he will satisfy all her wants, her memories of that moment appears so vividly before her eyes, and she instantly slips in surprise.
“Lady, how did you get all the way here?” The old woman seems to be struggling to sleep, pestering Gui Wan as she mutters on nonstop, “How could you travel all alone, you must know, when women go out, they cannot do without a man ah……”
“The road here was indeed not very safe,” This voice suddenly sounds from below, only when she looked down, did she find, the three sleeping figures within the carriage had already woken up, and have heard the conversation between Gui Wan and the old woman, all of them sits up. Amongst them, a girl in yellow clothing says: “If not for special circumstances, who would go out all on their own?”
Seeing the girl’s glance directed towards herself, Gui Wan backs up into the dark a little.
The women inside the carriage can no longer go back to sleep, sitting together as they chat away, originally somewhat of a lonely room suddenly filled with support.
Within the sound of the women chattering, that girl in yellow suddenly turns to Gui Wan, asking: “What about you?”
Having yet to completely react, Gui Wan shows a face of loss, saying: “What?”
“We were asking you, why are you travelling all alone?”
After a moment of silence, she naturally couldn’t tell them the actual truth, Gui Wan gracefully answers: “I didn’t want to become other people’s burden, so I came out on my own.”
Seeing the three people’s puzzled expression, with only the old granny remaining thoughtfully in silence, Gui Wan closes her eyes, no longer saying anything more.
Why did she escape on her own, the reason is actually simple, she does not want to become Lou Che’s burden. The Nu Tribe abducted her there, Ye Li suppressed himself, not daring to offend her further, all of this makes one thing clear, the thing they want in exchange must be of extreme importance, perhaps it concerns the tribe’s entire nation. She only did whatever she could, this way, she would not become Lou Che’s burden.
Her top priority right now is to return to the Celestial Empire, spread the news, preventing Lou Che from going to the Nu Capital to make an exchange.
The value of myself is determined by myself, it is not up to anyone to manipulate my destiny, Gui Wan silently says this to herself with utmost certainty in her heart.
Just when the atmosphere livens up inside the carriage, the outside suddenly becomes noisy, the originally little noise, instantly spreads out, gradually increasing, the carriage is immediately silenced, Gui Wan is puzzled, softly asking: “What’s going on outside?”
The several women’s faces seems to tense up along with the increasingly loud noises. The girl in yellow crawls to the carriage opening, lightly opening a small crack in the door, turning her head back, her face pales, seriously saying: “Seems like we’ve encountered bandits.”
Two exclamations sounds within the carriage, the girl in yellow fiercely glares at them, snapping out: “What you panicking for, be quiet.”
Silence is once again restored. This horse carriage is originally the tail of the travelling merchants and performance troupe, sounds of fighting have yet to be heard upfront.
“This is too dangerous, why don’t we take advantage of the current situation and quickly jump out?” One of the women suggests, her expression filled with panic, even her words were somewhat incoherent.
“You think you can live if you jump out? Where do you think this is, this is the wilderness, if we don’t follow the carriage team, we’ll definitely die halfway there.” The girl in yellow once again snaps, her expression somewhat impatient, “We have no other choice right now, quickly take out all valuables, place it together. Then find something like ash or mud, an