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
Everyone looked at her and nodded with agreement. Four of them there were ready to do anything for their late master because except for being their late master, every one of them had a different reason to respect him. They continued their discussion. At the end of the discussion, two body guards who were still recovering were assigned to stay at the capital. One of them who is named as Sun Wu had a cousin brother who was a merchant. He had few shops in the capital, an inn and he had many contacts with different people. Sun Wu had a good relationship with him. Therefore Wu was assigned to go to his cousin brother and join his business. He was supposed to help building up the economic power of the team. The other bodyguard Xiao Lu was assigned to enter the General Huang Song's personal guard team by any possible means and he was supposed to spy on General's every action. Both of them agreed with their tasks. As for Zhu Li, Wang Wei thought of making her a female spy at general Huang S
Then they left the grave. Sun Wu and Xiao Lu who would be remaining in the capital were asked to make a proper tombstone for Lady's tomb when they have a time. After that, Wang Wei decided to have a look at the Jiang Lin manor and all of them walked silently to the direction of Jiang Lin manor. When they reached, they saw there were two guards in-front of the front gate. But because they were much more familiar with every inch of that household, they could enter the house premises, closing the guards' eyes. They walked around silently beholding the changes in the house. Once a house which was very glamorous looking and lively had become gloomy and abandoned. There was no any light inside the house. Even the trees, plants and everything in the surrounding seemed withered. Zhu Li was really heart-broken for her lady. She knew how much her lady cared about the maintenance of the household. She cared and loved everyone and everything in her house. Even the trees and plants in the court
"Miss is not strong enough yet to use a real sword. Let's practice the basic sword techniques with this wooden sword" Wang Wei explained. But looking at her curious glance he understood that what she was asking about is the surprise he mentioned. With a smile he replied, " for the surprise miss has to wait until we finish our training" Then they started their first day of training sword technics. Yin Yue was so excited to start practicing sword technics. She knew that her father was famous not only for being "The general with highest achievements in the Qing empire" but also for his exceptional sword-man ship. After practicing for another two-three hours, they concluded their training session earlier than other days. "Now let's go to see the surprise I prepared" Wang Wei suggested and Yin Yue agreed without hesitation. They took a different path than their usual path which was leading to another side of the city. Yin Yue didn't have much memory of this side of the city because sh