Here's a continuation! thx for the reviews! i dont get it! The paragraphs look much longer on microsoft word...maybe that's because I type in courier new size 10. Dammit.

I think this is a great let-down after the last chapter. It was so romantic! Sniffs

Ru Ying Sui Xing – Chapter 11 – Fleeing

Father growled and shoved the letter to me. "Read it. Tell me what this means."

All right, father could have missed it, right? I shivered and then took the letter. As I read it, I quivered and shook in fright. I couldn't hold the paper correctly.

Dear Lady Huang Yue Ying,

Thank you for the gift you have decided to give me. But still, I have to say that you really shouldn't have.

I still desire to see you again, and I know that you want to see younger brother's and my farm. Younger brother's name is Zhuge Jun. I have already told him about you.

Come here for dinner, and do not worry. My brother and I have been cooking since our uncle died, so we can cook. Our lives as farmers are hard, and if you wish to see how it is, you can come earlier. You feel good working with your hands believe me. I did.

Zhuge Liang

I shook my head and looked up at Father. "I don't know what this is."

He held my scythe up to my face. "You know what it is. Why don't you tell me why you are spending so much time with the young Zhuge?"

"..."

"ANSWER ME!" father hollered.

I gulped and then shouted so loud that the whole mansion could hear, "ALRIGHT!" I whispered, "I'll tell you...Zhuge Liang and I-"

Dai Xian stood up. "Lord Huang, I refuse to let her say this!"

Father glared at her. "What?"

"When I agreed to work for you Lord Huang, I did only because of Miss Ying! She was eight years old and she had trouble coping with her mother's death! I was sixteen and I agreed to work for her, not for you! I was her mother for those years!" Xian pointed to me. "I don't care about you! Only the young miss!"

Dai pushed my scythe out of the way. It nearly slashed Liang's hat still on my head. "Lady Huang! Flee! Meet with Lord Zhuge! Now!"

Father tried to slice Dai, but she was quick and avoided all attacks.

"You are ordered to remain here!" screamed father.

"Do not listen my Lady! Go! Now!"

I hesitated. "But Dai Xian – "

"Go! You must!" Dai Xian avoided a few more attacks. "I figured out your emotions towards the young Zhuge! Please go!"

She knew? But that wasn't important now. I had to flee. So I nodded and left the mansion, leaving Dai Xian, father, and Liang stuck on my mind.

Looking for Liang's farm, I realized that I didn't know the way. The only thing I knew was that there was a big peach tree in Liang's farm.

I looked from corner to corner, nearly getting run over by carriages owned by father. I had to disguise myself and it would be simple with 500 yuan on me. I had to buy something and change fast. That was when I entered a huge marketplace. There had to be something suitable for me to change into, but if I wanted suitable, I would still appear the same. So what is the last thing on earth I would wear? Dai Xian always said to me, "At all doubts when someone is after you, dress as a man, look like one, smell like one and flee."

It was no surprise that women or I should say wives always bought clothes for their husbands, the husbands being the lazy ones. So if I bought something a man could wear and pass for one, there is no problem right? It wouldn't cost me much but if I couldn't find Liang today, I would be broke.

Stuffing my original clothes (The same one I wore yesterday at the Peach Garden) in a blue bag, I put on the one I just bought. I really did appear as a man. I stared straight into the stream and wiped off the makeup I wore. Which was pretty much lipstick, but still. Would you see a man in the market wearing lipstick? Maybe just the gays, but...

I changed and started looking for an empty room or something of that sort to make sure I had looked okay. I was fine and wearing Liang's hat really did it for me. Good thing I didn't speak. No one called me Lady anymore. That is quite offending if I didn't dress like this, but that is good news now. Perfect. There is one more component to cover.

I had to stink. Now this is really out of the question, but how could I do that on purpose? I ran and tripped purposely by my own two feet and landed in a pigsty. I rolled over the ground, attracting stink to me. People glared at me and told their children not to be like me. Forget you. I'm escaping from my father.

After I was done, I called a rickshaw driver and asked him in the lowest voice possible to bring me to the Zhuge brothers. He must have known them because he dropped me off in a farm with a huge peach tree. So I paid him and walked toward the farm. It wasn't long until I saw Liang and his brother there.

"Can I help you?"