A Fated Love
Chapter Six: Stealing the Beauty of Wu
Da Qiao awoke after a few hours of sleeping she stood up and began looking around to see if Xiao was back.
The few minutes passed as Da Qiao realised that she was still out shopping; she grabbed a small basket and walked out the front door to collect flowers.
She walked for an hour till she got to a large hill with many flowers growing on it; she sat down and began gently removing each flower from the ground.
The wind became stronger causing her hair to fall out of the clip that held it; this revealed the true length of her hair. Her long black hair reached to her knees, as she continued to pick flowers three men approached.
Dressed in the coloured uniform of Wu, as they approached closer she stood up and began to speak. "Excuse me, what brings you three here? No soldiers ever come here for they have no reason to."
The three men looked at her; one stepped forward and replied "Are you Lady Da Qiao of Wu?"
Da Qiao nodded and then with great haste the men grabbed her one holding their hand over her mouth, and the other taking some strange herbs forcing her to breathe in their essence through her nose.
Da Qiao tried to scream but the essence of the herbs took hold of her as she slowly went unconscious one of the men lifted her up into his arms as they quickly walked off heading out of Wu.
The basket lay there on the hill slowly rocking in the wind.
Xiao arrived back home calling out "Da where are you?" the house lay silent with no reply from her sister.
Xiao worriedly walked out the front door looking for Da Qiao as she called out her name continuously.
An hour passed as she continued to walk on arriving at the hill of flowers, looking around her attention was immediately drawn to the basket rocking in the wind.
She gasped as she recognised it to be Da Qiao's tears fell down her face as she realised what could have happened to her.
She then ran with great haste for the main City in Wu in hopes of seeing an official or an officer who could help her.