CH 53

With a belly full of hopeful expectations and counting his chickens before they are hatched, Yu Cang set off to deal with his bête noir once and for all. But before he was even half-a-mile into his journey, he heard the thundering of horses' hooves behind him, when he turn back for a look, he saw that the Crown Prince Wanyan Shuo and his personal bodyguard Xiao Yan had caught up to him. Shocked and dismayed, he hurried to dismount from his horse to formally greet Wanyan Shuo, before saying: “The body of the Crown Prince is more valuable than ten-thousand taels of gold, I wonder what is the important matter that has caused you to come here personally?”