Cute Wife Gourmet

Chapter 32 Why Can't You Be More Rogue

The battle lasted until dawn, and the officers and soldiers won a great victory. The boss who escaped through the secret passage was blocked at the exit and captured, and the whereabouts of the second in command is still unknown.

Bai Chongye was captured, and more than a thousand bandits surrendered. The rest who would rather die than surrender were all killed. The notorious Black Wind Hill was completely destroyed and ceased to exist.

However, no trace of Yaoyao was found.

Song Qi and his brothers searched the pile of dead bodies but couldn't find her. Yaoyao disappeared without a trace like air.

Faced with such a huge victory, Xia Chunyu was not happy at all. He couldn't find Yaoyao, and he felt empty inside and not in good shape at all.

"Has no one seen her?" Xia Chunyu asked gloomily.

Song Qi said, "We caught Li Tie who was next to the Second In Command. He said that before the incident, Sister-in-law... Miss Ye was tied up by the Second In Command and locked in a small room next to the Juyi Hall. But when I rushed over, there was only a rope left in the room with blood on it. The window was open, so Miss Ye must have jumped out of the window and escaped."

Xia Chunyu's heart tightened when he heard the word "bloodstains". The second in command must have discovered that Yaoyao had eavesdropped and arrested her. This was Bai Chongye's conspiracy. Even he almost fell for it, let alone Yaoyao.

"Some of the bandits arrested in the Juyi Hall said that Miss Ye told them there was a secret passage in the Juyi Hall, so they came to the Juyi Hall."

"After that... there was no news of Miss Ye." Song Qi's voice lowered as the prince's face became increasingly gloomy.

"Young Master, there is an auntie outside who calls herself Jiang and wants to see you." A guard came in and delivered the message.

Aunt Jiang? Xia Chunyu hurriedly said, "Please ask her to come in."

After escaping last night, Aunt Jiang was busy taking care of the injured Aunt Zhao. After she settled Aunt Zhao down, she came to the third in command to ask about the third wife. But she didn't know where the third in command was. She asked many soldiers, but they ignored her. She had to go to her husband again, but her husband took the soldiers to the secret passage to chase the eldest in command. So, she has been delayed until now to find the third in command.

"Third in command..." Aunt Jiang was extremely excited when she finally met the Third in command.

Song Qi smiled and said, "Aunt Jiang, you should call me the prince."

"Yes, yes, look at my stupid mouth, please don't be offended, my lord." Aunt Jiang smiled awkwardly.

Xia Chunyu didn't care: "Aunt Jiang, have you seen Yaoyao?"

Aunt Jiang was surprised: "Has the prince not found the third wife yet? That's bad."

Xia Chunyu's heart sank: "What do you mean?"

Aunt Jiang recounted in detail how she and Aunt Zhao encountered the Second In Command last night and were almost hacked to death by him, and then Ye Jiayao appeared and saved them, and how she became the Second In Command's hostage.

"Aunt Zhao and I followed the direction pointed by the Third Madam to look for the Young Master, but unfortunately we didn't find him. Instead, we ran into a few soldiers. I told them that the Second In Command of the mountain stronghold was over there, and they chased after him. I thought the Third Madam had been rescued... The Third Madam was trying to save me, otherwise she wouldn't have been kidnapped by the Second In Command. It was all my fault that the Third Madam was harmed..." Aunt Jiang thought of Ye Jiayao's good points and couldn't help crying sadly.

Xia Chunyu's eyebrows were twisted into a shape of "川" (a character on the left). "Yaoyao said she had seen me before, and even pointed out where I was to you?"

Aunt Jiang nodded.

"Which direction is she pointing to?" Xia Chunyu asked.

Aunt Jiang choked up and said, "The martial arts arena."

Xia Chunyu and Song Qi looked at each other. He had indeed followed the second in command Sheng Wu to the martial arts arena last night, but he left when he found out that the man was not Sheng Wu. How could Yaoyao know? Did she really see him? When was it? If she had seen him, why didn't she say hello to him? Did she want to take advantage of the chaos to escape?
"Oh, now I remember that the Third Madam also said that you are the Crown Prince and don't want her anymore." Aunt Jiang was very scared at the time and didn't listen carefully.

Ugh! When did he ever say that? It's really weird.

Song Qi suddenly thought of something and said hesitantly, "My Lord, could it be that Miss Ye was also near the courtyard at that time?"

At that time, the prince seemed to have mentioned acting or something.

Xia Chunyu's face darkened. If it was really at that time... But, wasn't she always thick-skinned? When did she become so self-aware?
Song Qi looked at the prince with sympathy. The prince was just being stubborn. It was obvious that he cared about his sister-in-law very much.

"Chun Yu..." A handsome man wearing a jade crown and gorgeous clothes walked in.

"Your Highness." Xia Chunyu stepped forward and bowed.

Helian is the only king of a different surname in the Bian Tang Zhao clan. Helian Xuan is the best among the Helian royal family. The old prince Helian died young, and Helian Xuan inherited the title at the age of 20. He has a close personal relationship with Xia Chunyu. This time, the two of them joined forces, one openly and one secretly, to eradicate the Black Wind Hill that has been ravaging the land of Qi and Lu for more than ten years, and made a great contribution.

"The body of the second in command Sheng Wu has been found." Helian Xuan said.

"Where is he?" Xia Chunyu's heart trembled. Sheng Wu was already dead, so where was Yao Yao? "He was outside, shot like a hedgehog. The soldiers didn't know he was Sheng Wu at the time, so they didn't pay much attention to him. He was found during the cleanup."

Xia Chunyu walked out quickly, and Song Qi and Aunt Jiang followed him.

There was a corpse lying in the yard with more than a dozen arrows stuck in its back. Xia Chunyu went forward to check.

"It is indeed Sheng Wu. Where was he found?" Xia Chunyu was in a heavy mood. A general stepped forward and replied, "On the cliff beside Yanxia Lake."

"Who shot him? Find this person quickly." Xia Chunyu almost shouted. He had a bad feeling. Last night was so chaotic and it was dark. If Yaoyao was with Sheng Wu at that time, she would probably be in great danger.

Upon hearing this, the general straightened his chest, raised his chin high, and said loudly with a proud light in his eyes, "My Lord, I shot him."

At that time, no one knew that the person shot dead was the second in command of Heifenggang, otherwise the body would have been carried back long ago, which would have been a great achievement.

Xia Chunyu stared at him intently: "Was there anyone with Sheng Wu at that time?"

The general had not yet realized that he was doomed. He thought for a moment and said, "It seems there is a woman."

Xia Chunyu's breathing almost stopped, and he managed to utter two words through his teeth: "Where is the person?"

The general finally noticed that the prince's expression was not right. His fierce eyes looked like he wanted to kill someone. For a moment he didn't know how to answer.

Helian Xuan shouted, "The prince asked you a question, why don't you reply quickly?"

"It seems... I fell off a cliff..."

Xia Chunyu grabbed his collar and lifted him up: "What did you say?"

The general said in horror: "It was too dark at the time. I saw they were trying to escape, so I ordered the arrows to be shot. I don't know if the woman was hit by the arrow, but when our people approached, the woman had disappeared. I was just guessing, I didn't see her fall with my own eyes."

Xia Chunyu was completely stunned. On the edge of the cliff, there was another round of random shooting. Even Sheng Wu was shot into a hedgehog. Could Yaoyao be spared? Not even a corpse was left. This person was gone. A few days ago, she bit his nose and forced him to swear not to abandon her. The night before, she kicked him in his sleep. Yesterday, she asked Song Qi to bring him steamed buns. The scenes kept turning around in his mind like a revolving lantern...

Her beautiful smile, sly, complacent, hypocritical smile, her pretending to be pitiful, pretending to be well-behaved, pretending to cry and winking at him, her every expression seemed to be engraved in his mind, so clear that he didn't even know that he remembered it so clearly.

Helian Xuan didn't know what happened, but looking at Xia Chunyu's reaction, he guessed that the woman must be someone Chunyu cared about very much.

"Young Master..." Song Qi was also very sad. There was no suspense anymore. Miss Ye, whom he had called his sister-in-law for less than a month and who cooked delicious food for them every day, was no longer around.

Aunt Jiang was stunned for a long time before she burst into tears: "Third Madam...I have harmed you..."

Helian Xuan frowned. Third Madam? Chunyu's wife?
Exhausted, Ye Jiayao used her last bit of strength to climb ashore, then lay down on the grass, unable to get up again.

Damn, if I wasn’t a good swimmer and couldn’t swim and float for a while, I would have drowned in the lake.

After lying there for a while, Ye Jiayao finally recovered until her wet clothes were almost dried by the sun and the mountain breeze. She raised her hand and touched her chest. Fortunately, her private money was still there.

She sat up with great effort and looked around. There was a forest not far away. She had been swimming north last night. If she was right about the direction, she had already left the territory of Black Wind Hill. If she continued to walk north, she would reach Jinan Prefecture.

After her escape plan was successful, the first place she had to go was Jinan Prefecture. She had to go to the Wei family to investigate the situation.

Standing by the lake, I took one last look at the towering mountains. Farewell, Black Wind Hill...

Chunyu, Prince, although we had to be a fake couple and you are indeed annoying, we will never see each other again anyway, so forget all the good and bad things! Just treat it as a dream.

And Aunt Jiang, Aunt Zhao, and all the people in the village who are kind to her, I hope you are all safe and live a happy and peaceful life from now on.

After the farewell ceremony, Ye Jiayao tidied her hair and clothes, then walked towards the woods in the north without looking back.

Just as Ye Jiayao was looking at Heifenggang from afar, Xia Chunyu was standing on the cliff of Yanxia Lake, silently remembering someone.

A woman who suddenly broke into his life and was once mistaken by him as a spy sent by Bai Chongye. For this reason, he never treated her well, often scolded her and was mean to her, and sometimes deliberately tormented her, so now he felt very guilty and regretful.

Isn't she a pitiful person? She was treated badly by her stepmother at home, kidnapped by bandits when she got married, and became his woman inexplicably. Now she is buried under the cliff, and her body is nowhere to be found.

Yaoyao...

He repeated the name silently in his heart. She had asked him to call her that many times, but he never did so once. He always called her "Hey" or "You, woman".

Yaoyao...

I said that, not to ignore you, why can't you be a little more rogue and fierce as always? Why don't you jump out, point at my nose and say... Hey, stupid donkey, I'm already your woman, don't even think about abandoning me...

My eyes felt sore and uncomfortable, and something was about to burst out uncontrollably.

Xia Chunyu rubbed his eyes, looked at the boundless lake, and said softly: "Yaoyao, I'm taking Dabao and Erbao away. I will take good care of them for you. If there is a chance, I will come back to see you..."

　I may have something to do tonight, so I will update it at noon. Regarding the update, there will be one update per day this month, and two updates per day next month. Friends who like Yaoyao, please support her, it's so cute~
　　
　
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