Hu Li waited with her eyes closed. Her male servant inform her that the carriage is ready to start travelling. She agree and feel the carriage starting to roll again. She lift up the curtain to see Prince Wang Cao following behind with his men. She hope that he will not follow too tightly. The carriage travel for awhile when she hear the music is playing the usual wedding songs. It must be the wedding carriage nearby. After awhile the carriage she is travelling on stop, her maid inform her that the crown prince is up ahead and she needs to get off.
Hu Li get off to see the servants all line up on the side of the road. They are all bowing The crown prince can be seen in a distance approaching. The wedding band is following behind with soldiers and the wedding carriage. The flag of Xia is flying high. The crown prince see his brother and sister in a distance. He stop in front of them. Getting off the horse, he smile at them.
"My brother and sister, why are you out here today? Here to pick me up?!"
"Welcome home, eldest bother! Sister is just bored at the palace. She wants to go out for a while, so..."
The crown prince laugh. Hu Li see that this crown prince have a nice easy going personality. He seems to respect his siblings. He is patting Wang Cao's shoulder a lot. Hu Li bow to him and the crown prince smile broadly.
"My sister, always restless. Well go have fun and remember to return back to the palace soon for my wedding!"
"Yes, my brother. I will do that."
He look surprise and look at Wang Cao. He clear his throat and smile again. He bide farewell to them and get on his horse. The wedding band continue to play the songs as they pass the Princess's entourage. Hu Li take a quick look at the wedding carriage, it is indeed with the designs as on the paper she have seen. It maybe hidden with more explosive.
Hu Li cast a simple magic on the wedding carriage and the wheel suddenly came off. They all hear a woman scream inside. Her maid hurry to help the princess inside the carriage to safety. Everyone is confuse on what to do. The crown prince who is riding in a distance comes ridding back to see the wheel is damaged.
"Your highness! The wheel, it's damaged!"
"I can see that!"
"Eldest brother, what should..."
"Your highness, if you don't mind, you can use my carriage to go back into the city."
Suddenly everyone stop talking and they all look at Princess Wang Ching. The crown prince finds it strange that his sister is offering help to him. He nod his head slowly and say his thanks. He order everything on the wedding carriage to be remove and place in the other carriage. Shortly, after his bride enter the carriage that belongs to Princess Wang Ching. The wedding band re-arrange themselves and line up properly. The crown prince walks up to his horse and hop on. He half turn his body to look at the sister that he grow ups with. Today she did not talk back as usual and she is polite. He look at the blood siblings who are standing together and smiling. Feeling uneasy he smile and wave. He turn around and command his horse to start walking. The wedding band starts playing the music and the soldiers are starting to march. Hu Li watch her carriage starting to move away.
"Sister how are we going to the royal summer house?"
"Walk."
"Ride my horse..."
"No. I walk."
She stand near the wheel that have give way. She see the design of another type behind the wheel. Wang Cao notice that she is looking at the wheel. He follow her eyes sight to see a strange design curved into the wood. She look at Wang Cao and she gives it a knock on the wheel. One of the spokes drop and inside, some black powder drop out. At that moment, only the sound of nature is heard. Wang Cao use his finger to pick up some of it and smell.
"Eldest sister... you ..."
Hu Li stand up straight and look around. His men and her servants, their faces are frighten. Wang Cao stand up and look at his men.
"Today whatever you have all seen. You have to swallow it down. Never say a word on this. My men, i need you to help me to dismantle this whole carriage. Destroy it!"
His men surround the carriage and start to undo the carriage. The sun is high up when they are dismantling it. When they are done almost at sun down, they found every corner of the carriage, there is explosive powder. Using the curtains, the servants have the powder sweep up on it. In the end, there are small bundle of cloth wrap up at the side of the road. The carriage parts in the end are burnt. Wang Cao have his men pick up the bundles of cloth to bring it back into Yamen and inform Lord Gong. Half of his men travel back to the capital while the crown prince have arrange another carriage to pick her up in the dense forest.
Before she step into the carriage, a sharp whistle is heard travelling to her direction. She doge it and Wang Cao and his remaining men have his sword remove from the scabbard. While her servants are panicking and hiding where they can. She look up the hill, there are a few men standing there. The sun is going down but she can still see who it is. She half smile, Princess Wang Ching it's time to exit the stage. Soon the men from the hill are defending with speed and firing their arrows. In the dense forest, they all hear the sound of the bells ringing and soon the moon will be hanging high up the sky.