Chapter 33 Possibility
"Young Master Wen, Young Master Wen, are you alright?" Eunuch Kang Ning scrambled to his feet in a panic, not even bothering to check if he had seen the Second Prince or not.
"Eunuch Kang, quick, help me up." Wen Zan, with the support of Eunuch Kang Ning, struggled to his feet, enduring the pain as he headed for the door of the courtyard. It was only after he had exited that he noticed the mud on his shoe.
"My shoes—" the man cried out, pulling out a handkerchief to wipe them. These were the shoes he had worn specially for the visit to the Traveling Palace, and now they were dirtied like this.
Eunuch Kang Ning calmed his spirits a little, and sat down to catch his breath, then saw Young Master Wen frantically wiping his shoe with a corner of his handkerchief. He glanced again at the overly elaborate embroidery of the shoe, thinking that even the work from the palace would probably look similar.
"Young Master Wen—" It seemed they were very cherished, probably quite rare too.
"Are you sure it ran this way?" Zheng Nianru looked ahead skeptically. The fox had darted away quickly, and all she saw was a flash of red going in this direction, but by the time they gave chase, it had completely vanished.
"Commandery Princess, let’s look a little further ahead. If we really can’t find it, then we’ll go back," Nian Xia suggested, looking at the increasingly wooded courtyard. She hadn’t expected the trees behind their yard to almost merge with those of the mountain, making her feel somewhat uneasy.
"Okay." That red fox really was extraordinary, rarely seen with such few mixed colors.
Wen Kang stopped in his tracks, staring blankly at the group of women walking below along the slope of the mountain.
Eunuch Kang Ning suddenly felt that destiny was preordained by heaven itself. Look, there was no need for him to go to the trouble of a deliberate encounter; they had met by chance.
"Young Master Wen, what do you think?" Eunuch Kang Ning whispered, as they were standing on top of a two-meter-high slope, with a line of Wen Zhu bamboo rustling along the road below. Eunuch Kang Ning wasn’t certain about many things, but he was very confident about recognizing Princess Chao Ren.