52 CHAPTER 52 : DELICATE CONDITION

"Xiao Xi, go home! Let me look for the eldest miss!", said the young coachman.

"No! I will not go and you can't make me!", Xiao Xi tried to free her wrist from the coachman's hand.

"Don't be stubborn!", the coachman couldn't believe that the usually timid maid is actually as stubborn as a mule!

"Li Lang! You better let me go or I would tell your father on how you mistreated a woman!", Xiao Xi threatened the young coachman.

"Why are you spouting out nonsense? Fine! If you want to find the miss by yourself, then go! Don't come and find me when you're in trouble!", the coachman walked to the other direction of the market and disappeared in the middle of a crowd. He just wants Xiao Xi to go home before dark. It is dangerous for a woman without any martial arts to walk by herself as drunken men are likely to be around.

"Humph!", Xiao Xi walked to the opposite direction. She had thought that Li Lang is a good man. But today her initial impression of him had been destroyed. 'I was blinded by his look!', Xiao Xi had thought. She had just wanted to look for her missing miss but that man is trying to take this opportunity to climb to a higher branch! She won't let him!

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Meanwhile in the Jianghu at the Qilin HQ,

"Master, please punish this guard for his incompetence!", Jie Er kowtowed and slammed his head on the floor slowly so he wouldn't be hurt much. Among the shadow guards, Jie Er is the gentlest and most delicate.

Looking at him is Jie Yi, the leader of the shadow guards. Jie Yi really wanted to smack the head of Jie Er. Even at this time he is still afraid of getting hurt?!

"What had happened!!", the cold voice echoed in the large hall. All the shadow guards in the vicinity shivered. Long Jie had just finished his work when suddenly Jie Er barged in while holding Xi Rui. He had wanted to commit murder when he saw a man was holding his wife but her pale face stopped him.

"Answering Master, this guard saw Miss Li fainted in the alley alone. So.. I just bring the miss here?", Jie Er answered with a statement which is more like a question. Jie Er had been assigned to protect Li Xi Rui instead of Jie San.

"Madam", said Long Jie.

All the shadow guards look up to their master. 'What is master talking about?', is what in their mind.

"Call her Madam!", he said. Sooner or later she will be his wife, so it doesn't matter if his people call her that earlier. At first, he had been shocked when he saw the pale face of Xi Rui. He thought something bad had happened to her and prepared to punish Jie Er for failing to protect her.

"YES MASTER!", said all the shadow guards. 'Master, can you just say more than five words when giving order? We are not a psychic like second master~', the shadow guards' heart is always in turbulence when their master behaved like a tyrant.

*cough* "This old one greets the sect master", an old man in white bend his body forward. This old man has a high rank in the Qilin sect. He is the Qilin sect's physician, Bai Wu. No one knew his background but he has been around as long as the sect master.

"Old Bai no need to be too courteous. How is the madam? Is she alright? Why did she suddenly fainted?", Long Jie impatiently asked the old physician.

Feeling amused, the old physician smiles. Their sect master hadn't show this kind of anxiousness ever. 'The miss is truly powerful!', he approved of the new madam. "Answering the sect master, it is just fatigue. It is a normal thing in her delicate condition. Resting and some medicinal herbs can alleviate these symptoms", the old physician answered.

"Is she sick? Does she hurt anywhere?", Long Jie stood up from his seat. 'Why would Xi Rui need to drink medicinal drink if she is not hurt?', he thought as he glared at Jie Er. When Jie Er brought Xi Rui to him, he had ordered the old physician to check on her. Never would he ever thought his Xi Rui would be badly hurt!

Jie Er wanted to cry, 'Master, madam truly just fainted! I didn't do anything!'. But of course he is not brave enough to even defend himself in front of his master.

"Calm down Sect Master, young madam is not hurt anywhere. This is just a normal medicine to strengthen the body in pregnancy", said old Bai Wu. When the old physician saw Long Jie stood there without expression, he called him, "Master?".

Without saying anything, Long Jie disappeared! While all the shadow guards were also stunned.

With their eyes, the shadow guards communicate~

Jie Si: When did they do that?

Jie Yi: Don't know. *Eyeballs shaking*

Jie Wu: When he sneaked into her room? (the first time when Long Jie had been looking for the Qilin mark)

Jie Yi: No. The Sect master didn't do 'that' at that time. *Eyeballs trembling*

Jie Liu: The other time in her room? (he implied the second time Long Jie had sneaked in)

Jie Yi: Not that time either. The sect master didn't do 'that' at the last minute. *Eyeballs twinkled*

Jie Er: That time in the carriage!

*PAK!!!!* Jie Yi finally smack Jie Er's head!

All the shadow guards: That was this morning!!!!

Jie Er: *crying*

Jie Yi: Maybe the time when the sect master went missing?

All the shadow guards: Leader must be right!

*Nodded their head*

How could they forget about the time when the sect master had been missing for a night? That night, they had been ambushed by the another sect and all the guards had been pre occupied with their task to protect their master. Their master have a high level martial arts himself so they had not expected him to be suddenly missing. How could they have known that the one who kidnapped their master was actually the madam?

"Madam is truly capable!", Li Xi Rui's rank in their heart have just risen.