Lord Cao Cao trusted me enough to go out of the Kingdom on my own. It's been 2 days since my arrival in the Wei Kingdom. Everyone here has been really nice to me and I am grateful that they gave me a warm welcoming.
I decided to go to the market out of the kingdom today. Everyone was busy today for some reason and I had no one to hang out with. I walked to the front of the kingdom gate and the armies turned to me when I approached. They smiled at me. I did the same for them.
"Hello there. I want to go to the market not too far from here." I told them.
"Sure, why not? Just make sure not to exhaust yourself. Would you like one of us to escort you there?" one of them asked me. It would be a burden to have to go with me. I'm good by myself. I also rely on people too much. I shook my head.
"It's okay. I'll be fine on my own. I won't be gone for long." I replied to him. They opened the gate and I walked out, smiling happily to myself.
"Lady Kabanuna sure is lovely and beautiful. Any man who gets her will be happy forever." I heard one of them say. It made me shy and my cheeks grew pink. I turned back to them. They were staring at me. I smiled and waved goodbye to them.
"See you guys in a bit, okay? Bye!" I said, smiling.
"Bye!" all of them replied to me. I turned back forward and began skipping to the village market nearby.
I was humming to myself for fun until I reached the market. There were lots of people selling stuff. I even saw a few American people selling their goods. One of them turned to me and smiled.
"Hello, young lady. You are very beautiful. I have clothing that will suit you perfectly. These goods came all the way from America. Come take a look." He said, taking my arm and making me go check out his clothes. There were lots of shortalls and shirts. I have never seen them before. Wow, they are so beautiful!
"Wow, they are so beautiful!" I exclaimed, looking at the shorts and shirts.
"I think this style suits you very much. If you get some, I'll give you a discount, yeah?" he persuaded. Hm, I think this might be a good style for me. That way, I won't have to keep wearing dresses all the time.
"Okay, sure!" I replied.
I bought a plenty of shortalls and shirts. I was very happy because the man gave me a huge discount and I was able to get a lot. He even gave me a free Nike bag to put my clothes in because the shoulder bag Lady Diao Chan gave me was getting packed.
I went over to the dresses and there were very beautiful ones. It was an old woman selling them. She turned to me when I approached the dresses.
"Hello dear. You are such a beautiful young woman." She told me. I smiled and blushed.
"Thank you. You're too kind." I replied to her. I got a few qipao cheongsam dresses with collars with the matching shoes. Instead of the shoes being flat shoes, they were boots. I liked that idea more than the shoes being flats so I got more of them.
"Where are you from, child?" she asked me.
"I'm from the Wei Kingdom not too far from here." I replied, giving her the dresses.
"Will this be it for you?" she asked and I nodded my head.
"Yes." I replied to her. She smiled and told me the price. She only made me pay the price of 3 dresses. She said this is because I was very kind to her. "Thank you for the discount."
"You are most certainly welcomed, dear." She replied. I smiled and decided to go to the food area. I bought myself 2 egg rolls and a small plate of orange chicken. While I was eating away happily, I turned and saw 5 guys ganging up on the old woman. What do they think they're doing? How rude to do that to an old lady. I got up and went to them.
"Hand it over now, you old hag!" one of them said, pushing the old lady and she fell down. I gasped and ran to her.
"Oh no, are you alright?" I said, helping her up. I turned to them angrily. "What is your problem? Don't you know it's very rude to treat old people this way? What's wrong with you?" These guys are so mean and cruel! The 5 guys smiled.
"Hmph, what a beautiful girl." One of them said.
"You better leave this old woman alone, you bully!" I said to them angrily.
"I think Master will be pleased if we brought her to him instead of money. She will be able to make us rich." Another one said. One of them grabbed my arm and I pulled away.
"Don't touch me!" I screamed, as they tried to grab me. I moved away and began running off. They chased me. Oh no, now they're after me! Maybe I can reach the kingdom before they get me. I should let Lord Cao Cao know there are bad people here.
"After her! Do not let her escape!" one of them said, and they ran even faster. I screamed and ran faster as well.
Since my hair was down and flowing with the wind, one of them grabbed my hair and pulled it back as I fell down from behind.
"Ouch!" I said when I fell down. No, they're gonna capture me! What am I gonna do? I got up and tried to run again but they grabbed my hair again and put a bag over me. I began struggling to free myself. "Get this bag off me right now!" I heard them laughing. I was stuck in a bag and couldn't escape. Lord Cao Cao and the others are gonna think that I ran away! Oh, if only someone were here to help me. I was lifted off the ground and they carried me off somewhere I didn't know because I was trapped in the bag…
It was beginning to get dark and Kabanuna hasn't returned yet. The armies kept watch but there was no sight of her. Suddenly, an old woman appeared. She was panting.
"Who are you?" one of the armies asked her.
"The young lady. She's been captured by some pirates." The old woman said.
"What young lady?" they asked.
"She has silver eyes and purplish red hair. I didn't get her name but she told me she was from the Wei Kingdom. She was wearing a blue Cheongsam dress with flowery designs." The old lady said. The armies looked at each other.
"Someone kidnapped Kabanuna! We must report to Lord Cao Cao immediately!" one of them shouted.
An army ran inside the kingdom and he ran towards the castle but he was bumped into Lord Sima Zhao. Lord Sima Zhao turned to him.
"Sheesh, what's the rush?" he asked. This freaken army better have a good reason why he ran fast and bumped into me.
"Lord Sima Zhao! There has been a report from an old lady from the village nearby that Lady Kabanuna has been kidnapped!" the army said. Lord Sima Zhao's eyes grew wide with shock. Kabanuna has been kidnapped?
"What? By whom?" he asked.
"The old lady said some pirates captured her." The army replied. Damn it! Why did Kabanuna go into the village alone? This is exactly why we don't allow girls to go into the villages alone. Stuff like kidnapping happens. Lord Sima Zhao began running to the castle and he got inside. He saw his friends. He quickly rushed to them.
"Guys, an old lady told the armies guarding the gate that Kabanuna has been kidnapped by some pirates in the nearby village!" Lord Sima Zhao blurted. Everyone was shocked.
What the hell? Why was she even in the village? Lord Xiahou Ba quickly got up.
"We have to tell Lord Cao Cao." Lord Xiahou Ba said. He began running upstairs to Lord Cao Cao's room. He swung open the door and Xun Yu and Sima Yi were in there with Lord Cao Cao. "Lord Cao Cao! Lord Sima Zhao said that an old lady told the armies that Kabanuna has been captured by some pirates! We have to go save her!"
They what? Lord Cao Cao freaked out.
"What? Kabanuna has been kidnapped? We must head out in search of her now!" Lord Cao Cao said, grabbing his sword on the wall.
Soon everyone heard that Kabanuna was kidnapped by pirates and everyone was in an uproar. Lord Cao Cao, Lord Xiahou Ba, Lord Wen Yang, Lord Guo Jia, Lord Xiahou Dun, Lord Yue Jin, and Lord Li Dian went out of the kingdom to search for her. Lady Cai Wenji wanted to go help them search for her but Lord Sima Shi didn't allow her to because she could get captured as well.
"Search everywhere for Kabanuna!" Lord Cao Cao said. They all got on their horses and rode off in search of her.
No matter how hard they searched for her, they could not find her. It was too dark and they couldn't see in the dark and were forced to go back into the kingdom. Everyone was so upset that Kabanuna was captured…
