PRECIOUS PRINCESS

TWENTY-ONE

Xiao Lan simply gaped in disbelief, she exhaled her breath repeatedly,

"...pull..excuse.pull...exclude...exclude you two"

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"Uncle Tao will you accompany me to the Li Empire?" xiao Lan asked Uncle Tao,

"Have you got it?" ask uncle Tao make sure,

"It has been" Xiao Lan nodded her head, saying,

"Well, Tae and Fu'er we're leaving first" Tao's uncle told them,

"Be careful" said Uncle Tae and Aunt Fu at the same time,

In the midst of the journey Xiao Lan felt that someone was following them, she turned around but found nothing. Less than a little more they came out of the demon forest they were blocked by some people who seemed to be robbers, he said,

"Give me your treasure!" said someone from them, Xiao Lan's eyes staring at the silhouette of someone familiar to her he was trying to remember,

"Do you remember me?" ask that person, just now,

That person looked into Xiao Lan's eyes he remembered the veiled girl along with a man who defeated him and his accomplice at that moment. He immediately knelt before Xiao Lan. The people around him were surprised why he was kneeling like that. He then whispered something that made everyone there round their eyes they knelt down before Xiao Lan.

"Excuse our presumption" said the man,

"Who are your names?" xiao Lan asked coldly,

"We don't have a name, miss" said the person representing the others,

"I'll give you the name Ho and the others I leave to you. Do you have any communication tools you can use to call each other?" xiao Lan asked them, Ho took out a whistle from inside his shirt,

"This lady, you can blow this to call us. When you blow it one time you only call me if you blow it twice you call a quarter of us if you blow it 3 times you call half of us and if you blow it 4 times you called all of us" Ho explained,

"How many of you are there?" asked Xiao Lan,

"For now our members there are 100 people, miss" said Ho,

"Now I'm naming you Gold Tiger do you understand?" xiao Lan said firmly,

"We understand" they said in unison,

"For now I don't need your help yet maybe next time now I should leave immediately. Oh yes no one betrays me look on your right arm there is already a tiger-shaped tattoo if one of you has difficulty or pressed the enemy then the sign will turn into your gold can ask the other Gold Tiger for help without the enemy knowing and if you betray the tattoo it will turn red and your whole body will also turn red like a burn. Do you guys understand?" xiao Lan asked firmly and coldly,

"We understand!" say them again simultaneously.

Xiao Lan immediately continued her journey towards the Li empire as she exited the demon forest she turned around and said,

"Go back, there's no need to accompany me anymore" the person watching him from behind the tree only smiled faintly then came out,

"I don't think you know where I am"

"Go back" Xiao Lan said again, that person immediately entered back into the demon forest,

"Who was Lan'er?" ask uncle Tao, please,

Upon reaching the gate of the palace Xiao Lan was intercepted by two soldiers,

"Who are you and what business are you here for?" the soldier asked haughtily as he saw the clothes Xiao Lan and Uncle Tao wearing look shabby. Xiao Lan did not respond to him just taking out the jade that was already imprinted with Li imperial tokens. The man looked at the two of them in disbelief he still railed at them with various questions, he said,

"How did you get that token? Where did you make it?"

"Your emperor gave it to me" Xiao Lan said flatly,

"Where might the emperor meet a girl like you, it's impossible" he said disparagingly, Tao's uncle who had quietly opened his voice,

"How can you doubt that stupid! Our arrival is very important this is about your empress!" said uncle Tao was impatient with the soldier earlier,

"Do you know about the queen?" Xiao Lan was so upset with the soldier earlier that he gave off an aura of killing him that the soldier stiffened from feeling someone want to pounce on him alive,

"I've given you this token, you still can't believe it? Even your emperor will trust me more than a lowly warrior like you" he said, pressing the soldier, as the soldier was about to open his mouth General Hongli suddenly came,

"Xuan Lan's! You coming? Why not get in?" the soldier immediately broke out in cold sweat while Xiao Lan smiled, grinning,

"Ask your soldiers" he said flatly,

"Did he get in your way?" ask General Hongli again,

"We take care of them later the most important thing now is medicine for the empress" said Tao's uncle reminding them all, General Hongli immediately drove them to the empress' residence. Xiao Lan handed over the black lotus she obtained yesterday to the palace healer.

It had been hours that everyone even the emperor was waiting for good news from inside there but there had been no signs the healer would come out yet. After waiting another hour or so the healer finally came out with a face that looked tired but could not hide his happiness.

"How's the empress doing?" ask emperor Li to the point,

"The empress is fine, a little late the lady gave her black lotus maybe the empress will not be helped" said the healer,

"Now the empress must rest until tomorrow morning, no one should see her first. Servant resigned" said the physician was taken by the king and he left them all,

Emperor Li immediately hugged Xiao Lan tightly he was very grateful to the girl who had helped him,

"Thank you, Lan'er" he said involuntarily as his tears trickled down, Xiao Lan felt warm at the recesses of his heart he returned the emperor's embrace and patted the Li emperor's back, Xiao Lan said,

"It's okay, can we rest?" xiao Lan asked because from earlier he had not rested, the emperor let go of his embrace he drove Xiao Lan and uncle Tao to the harem reserved for them,

"Stay here first, why don't you take Tae and Fu?" asked the emperor, curious,

"They will follow, maybe tomorrow will come" said uncle Tao to answer the emperor's question,

"Is it really uncle?" uncle Tao just nodded his head, Xiao Lan did not know that his uncle and aunt would follow them here. If the four of them go there will be many loopholes for the criminals to catch them therefore uncle Tao and uncle Tae choose to divide their journey.

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