Everyone was paid according to their rank and seniority. When Yin Yue's time came, she received three pieces of silver.* Taking them she left the place. In her previous self, she didn't even get to see these pieces of silver although she knew that there is this smallest, basic unit of money because they always dealt with silver and gold coins. She experienced a totally new side of the society in her life, collecting her salary for the work. After getting paid, she thought of visiting (uncle)Wang Wei because it was a day off too. After reaching the stable complex, she informed her arrival to Wang Wei through a guard. Wang Wei came to escort Yin Yue in. He could see that Yin Yue had become thinner and pallor than before in this one week's time. He was so sorry and hurt to see the little hands of her filled with bruises and cuts. He even suggested Yin Yue to withdraw herself and follow another method. But Yin Yue was firm in her dec
Because they still had few hours left of Yin Yue's day off, both of them decided to start the practice today itself. Wang Wei understood that young girl was weak in physical strength, So he decided to teach some basic movements and some exercises for improving her strength, flexibility and agility of her body. On the calm river side, enjoying the serenity of beautiful nature, Wang Wei started teaching his first lesson. “Young miss…, humans are a small part of this whole universe. When we born into this world, we receive the life energy from this universe to our soul. We live with that energy. Some people just live. They don’t try to improve their life energy. But some people try in various methods to improve and develop this life energy. Monks, Shamans, priests…those people are some groups who try to find the secrets of this life energy.” Yin Yue listened very attentively to Wang Li’s words. “We…martial artists are one of those groups. Martial art is not all about fighting or k
On their next day off, they decided to start practicing since early morning. This time, Wang Wei took Yin Yue to visit a different place. They entered the forest beyond the river and walked through the forest. The sun was still young and a cool breeze was passing. It was refreshing to have a walk in the forest. After about half an hour of walking, they reached to a hillside. From the bottom, Yin Yue could see that the summit was about two hundred meters above from them. "Miss, we are going to practice today at the hilltop. Can miss manage to climb up?" Wang Wei asked. Without saying anything, she started to climb up. Wang Wei was not using his full strength and kept climbing with medium speed. Yin Yue was catching up to his speed without much trouble. Wang Wei's One objective of making her climb this mountain was to check her progress. He could observe that she had improved herself for better during last week's time. Her
Yin Yue liked to get all the new knowledge to succeed her mission. So she agreed without hesitation. They left the inn and went to their very first training place, the isolated place near the river. "Miss, an intelligence service is like a deep rooted tree. As all the roots gather and bring nutrients, water and other necessary things which needed for the existence of the tree, the members spread around, would bring the necessary information to nourish our mission" Wang Wei started explaining. "But it is not all about gathering information. We should be able to act according to the situation when necessary. For that, we need trusted allies who are loyal to us." he went on. "We only have a few allies for now. When I go to capital, I would make sure to contact them and join them for our mission." "Apart from members, there should be a good leader, sharp witted, intelligent and active leader for an intelligence service to be successful." "otherwise it wouldn't be sustained for a long
After finishing their teaching and learning session for the day, Wang Wei and Yin Yue was heading back. The dusk was not fallen on the city yet. The copper colored sun light beams were still on the sky, coloring the surrounding, faces of people passing through the streets chattering and smiling. The vendors of the market place were trying to sell at least one more thing to their buyers before ending their business for the day. Wang Wei stopped near a stationery shop and bought ink stone, papers and brushes which needed for writing. He gave them to Yin Yue for using them to complete her second task. As a lowest rank servant, it was not normal for Yin Yue to use writing materials in her working place. Because normal servants' literature skills were not very high, they rarely use writing materials although they could read and write to some extent. Yet she accepted them because she needed to do her works.
At the capital .... Wang Wei and his fellow workers left for capital early in the morning next day. There were six men in their group, managing twenty high bred horses. They reached the capital a bit before night fall and they lodged in one of their usual inns. In the six men's group, Wang Wei was the only new one. All others had been to capital before, for the business because they had been working in city magistrate's stables for years. Although he was new, yet become The in-charge of stables’ one section, he got the senior workers support after showing his great skills in handling horses, specially taming the wild horses. Although Wang Wei knew every nook and corner of the capital as back of his palm, he was new to this business system. Therefore, he intended to learn and get familiarized with this business system in order to get his own benefits later for completing their own mission. Still, he needed to contact his old friends too. But he postponed all those works for the next
It took some time for that creditor's servants to find out that their master's would-be-wife is missing. They were afraid to inform their master about that because they knew pretty well that they would be punished for their negligence. But they had no other choice hence they informed their master. After hearing that news, the debtor was furious. He didn't believe what his servants said that the girl has fled because he knew that Zhu Li came with him willingly. He issued orders to his all servants, raging with fury, to search for the girl and escort her back safely. After searching for some time, they managed to catch her because she was not familiar with the area they were passing. After that, although the debtor didn't say anything to Zhu Li, he doubled the security around her and continued their journey back. It became really hard for Zhu Li to even have a glance outside the carriage. Still she wanted to escape.
After hearing that, the people outside the carriage could see the curtains of the carriage's window were pulled to a side and an extremely beautiful, elegant face of a lady appeared there. Her long beautiful eyes were piercing through the crowd and stopped at the pitiful looking girl who was dragged away by a group of people. She thought for a moment and gave some orders to one of her servants. He reached the passing crowd and gave his lady's order to those group of people. That order made them surprised yet they didn't dare to ignore it when they get to know the identity of that lady. She was Lady Jiang Lin, the wife of General Jiang Lin, a well-known general throughout the entire Qing empire. They came in front of the carriage with the girl. Then the lady asked them the reason for dragging away the girl by force. "Answering my lady, she is our master's would-be-wife. We were escorting her to our mas