Chapter 36: Rushing Into The Encirclement
Yin Yuanli looked up vigilantly.
Qin Wanwan also stretched out her little neck, and as she looked, she saw people wearing familiar clothes getting closer and closer.
Those were the uniforms of the Tianqi Border Army!
Yin Yuanli recognized them too and let out a heavy sigh of relief.
Qin Wanwan’s eyes lit up when she saw the person leading them.
“Daddy, Daddy!”
Her voice was not very clear amidst the sound of hoofbeats, but Xie Chong saw her.
In that instant, his heart finally settled in his stomach.
“Wanwan!”
Xie Chong accelerated further, and only slowly stopped when he reached them. After the two sides met, Xie Chong scooped his daughter into his arms.
Heaven knows how anxious he was when he heard his daughter had been kidnapped after he returned.
The man, who had always kept his emotions in check, had an unusually grim expression at that time.
He didn’t even have time to rest or change his clothes before taking his men and starting to search everywhere, even sealing off the entire Shahe City.
Fortunately, the parrot by Wanwan’s side was found near dawn and found him.
At this moment, Xie Chong’s eyes were red, partly from lack of rest for a long time, and partly from the joy of surviving a disaster.
Of course, he didn’t actually cry.
“How are you? Are you injured.”
He held the little girl and checked her carefully.
Others also stepped forward.
“Which bastard had the guts to kidnap our General’s daughter!”
“Wanwan, do you know where those bad guys are? Your uncles will get revenge for you!”
It wasn’t that everyone in the military camp liked and doted on Qin Wanwan, but the warriors who were close to Xie Chong truly treated Qin Wanwan as their own daughter.
Upon hearing that she had been captured, no one present was not anxious, and they almost turned Shahe City upside down.
“I’m okay.”
Qin Wanwan was being examined from all sides, and some even pretended not to see her and said she had lost weight.
“Who says you’re okay, you’ve lost weight, you’re haggard, those damned human traffickers!”
Yin Yuanli was pushed aside with his horse.
These people with their big eyes didn’t see him at all!
However, he was also somewhat surprised by Qin Wanwan’s identity, as she was General Xie’s daughter.
No, General Xie doesn’t seem to be married, right?
“Daddy, I… I found a brother.”
With difficulty, she struggled out of the embrace of her doting daddy and uncles, and Qin Wanwan pointed at Yin Yuanli with her small hand.
“And the horse, Ox, and sheep were all snatched… found by Wanwan~”
She was really amazing!
Qin Wanwan felt proud of herself, and Xie Chong and the others’ gazes finally fell on Yin Yuanli and the horses.
“My, this is a good horse, hahaha! This one horse alone is worth quite a bit of silver.”
Everyone else was looking at the horses; after all, men, especially soldiers like them, who wouldn’t like a strong, good horse.
They all broke into smiles.
Xie Chong’s gaze, however, fell on the little boy.
Xie Chong: Wait, why does this child look more and more familiar?!
Before Xie Chong could figure it out, Yin Yuanli moved first.
Sitting on the horse, he cupped his hands together and performed a simple salute.
Although he was small, his noble bearing could not be hidden.
“General Xie.”
Xie Chong suddenly remembered his identity and his eyes widened: “Your Highness the Crown Prince!!!”
His voice cracked on that single exclamation of “Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
It was this exclamation that caused the previously lively atmosphere to suddenly freeze.
Everyone else was stunned, their eyes wide, looking up at the little boy.
“Y-Your Highness the Crown Prince?!”
This is terrible! How did the Crown Prince end up at the border pass instead of Shangjing, and… and it seems he was also kidnapped by human traffickers.
If not for this incident, wouldn’t the Crown Prince of our Tianqi Dynasty have almost been sold!
My goodness, what a shocking piece of gossip this is!
Most importantly, the Crown Prince’s maternal grandfather is none other than Xie Chong’s former superior, the old Duke of Zhenguo!
It’s no wonder Xie Chong didn’t recognize him; he basically stayed at the border pass. Although the old Duke was his superior, he had never met the Empress.
Not to mention the Crown Prince; he had only seen him once at a celebration banquet when he returned to Shangjing this time.
“How did you end up here?”
Xie Chong’s expression was about to crack. This was the Crown Prince; if anything happened here at the border pass, Shangjing would be thrown into chaos.
Moreover, if something truly happened, how could he face the old Duke?
Qin Wanwan leaned into her daddy’s arms, looking bewildered. The brother she found seemed to have a very important identity?
Yin Yuanli glanced at Qin Wanwan: “General, don’t worry about that for now. Those kidnappers should be catching up. Let’s deal with them first.”
Xie Chong’s expression turned serious.
He picked up Yin Yuanli and handed him to a deputy general.
Both Yin Yuanli and the deputy general stiffened.
One was unaccustomed to physical contact, while the other was afraid to move.
Deputy General Feng: This is the Crown Prince!
If he were to get so much as a scratch, would his own head remain on his shoulders?
“General Xie, I can ride a horse myself.”
Xie Chong: “You can’t, your legs are too short.”
A rather blunt personal attack immediately made Yin Yuanli dejected.
While they were delaying, the kidnappers had caught up.
The kidnappers riding small donkeys had ferocious and menacing expressions.
But from a distance, within their line of sight, they saw the border army. It was impossible not to see the uniforms of the border army.
Their expressions immediately changed from menacing to panic-stricken.
“Turn back, hurry up and turn back!”
They hastily turned their donkeys around, but the donkeys seemed to be disobedient.
“Hee-haw, hee-haw~~~”
Especially the donkey ridden by the head kidnapper; after being whipped on its rear, it didn’t turn back but instead, at a hundred-meter sprint, carried the head kidnapper right in front of the border army.
The other kidnappers were also brought along, stumbling and falling.
Compared to the border soldiers on their tall horses, they, sitting on donkeys, were at a disadvantage.
In less than a minute, the donkeys, with the kidnappers on them, very willingly charged into the border army’s encirclement.
Xie Chong and the others: ………
Actively charging into the enemy’s formation and getting surrounded was indeed a scene none of them had ever witnessed.
A group of border soldiers looked down, glaring at the kidnappers.
Surrounded by the border army, all the kidnappers were breathing very cautiously.
“Um, we… we were just passing by.”
“Lies, bad guys, kidnappers who steal children!”
A familiar voice rang out, and the kidnappers looked towards Qin Wanwan.
Upon seeing her, they discovered the two children they were chasing.
“Daddy, they’ve captured so many children.”
The head kidnapper saw the little girl call the man in the imposing silver-white armor “Daddy,” and his vision went black.
It’s over, it’s completely over.
Xie Chong made a gesture: “Arrest them all.”
The head kidnapper, with a surge of anger, suddenly roared, startling the people, horses, and donkeys.
Immediately after, with lightning speed, he flipped off the donkey and crawled out from under the horse’s legs with his hands and feet.
Yes, he crawled on all fours.
