After few days...
General Jiang was heading home from the border with twenty of his most trusted subordinates in Black Dragan army. Before entering the capital, they had to pass a defile beyond the Megan valley. When entering the valley, General Jiang suddenly ordered his men to hold their horses. Two of his body guards reached him to ask the reason for his order.
"I feel very uneasy about something, there must be something amiss definitely "he said.
"I want you to examine the bi-face of that defile before we enter. Both of you, take five men each and check before we enter" he ordered.
They got the order and left while others were waiting there, keeping their guard up. After about one incense stick time, two bodyguards returned reporting what they found.
"Master, you were right. There are about 200men hiding. I couldn't figure out what their target is. But definitely they are waiting for an ambush." one guard reported.
"Master, they are waiting for you" Wang Wei, the other guard who went to search reported.
"But I couldn't find out who gave the order to them"
General Jiang thought for some time. As he was named “Black dragon”, he was not afraid of death at all and he knew his subordinates too. But as a good leader, he was not going to put his subordinates’ lives in danger carelessly.
Enemies were ten times more than them. If they decide to fight, they had to be more tactful and the luck must be definitely with them. He was the one knew his men's abilities the best and this time he thought of trying their luck a bit too.
"Wang Wei, take 10 men and lead them from the left. I'm taking the rest from right. We are not directly attacking them. We have to attack them secretly due to our limited man power" General gave his orders.
They led the attack as planned. Finally, at the end of the attack five of them were wounded moderately, others were unharmed or minimally wounded. From the enemy's side about ten men fled last. Others were killed by the guerilla mission.
But they couldn't catch anyone alive to find a lead for their leader.
They started their journey again. They were passing a forest when they faced their second attack. This time also there were about hundred attackers covering their faces with masks. Though they were able to escape long range attacks last time because of the hidden attack, this time they had to face the long range attacks of enemy archers. They were fighting fiercely, yet started falling one by one facing the enemy's arrows.
Only eight of them were standing in the arena when one of the guard saw their general was fighting with five and another was aiming an arrow towards him. He shielded the general from arrow using his own body as the shield and leaving only seven alive of them on the battle field.
General's team managed to do a considerable damage to enemies yet they were falling. The rest of them had been shot two, three times when they fell on the battle field. When Wang Wei was falling, he had received two arrows and he saw his master had been shot by three arrows but still was fighting. When he couldn't manage to stand he tried crawling towards his master. That's when he saw the most dreadful scene of the day.
Someone stabbed their General from behind.
General Jiang had been shot by three arrows. Seeing that none of his men are surviving further, he desperately continued the fight until he felt someone stabbing him behind. Vomiting a mouthful of blood, he fell on his knees slowly looking at the masked man who stabbed him. That man came in-front of his eyes with his rest subordinates. He removed his mask and that is when General Jiang couldn't believe his own eyes. "You…" General Jiang managed to ask. "yes…it's me." It was General Huang who had stabbed him and now was standing in-front of General Jiang. "why?” General Jiang wanted to know. "You colluded with enemy to harm our great Qing empire. As a general of Qing army, as a subject of Qing empire you have committed treason. All the members of Jiang family are to be slayed by beheading as per imperial order" General Huang announced. He looked at the fatally wounded General Jiang Lin scornfully…or was it the satisfaction in his eyes a
Wang Wei started searching all the corpes one by one like crazy. He could identify his fellow soldiers’ bodies who were guarding the mansion of General, female guards who were there to assist & protect the lady.And beside them, he could identify their ladyship’s corpse lying, a blood stained dagger was in her folded fingers.It seemed even in this sudden,unexpected massacre,she had not given up without a fight. She indeed deserved to be the "lady of the black drgon". Wang Wei sighed deeply with regret after seeing these. But there was still another important thing he should do. Therefore,leaving all the corrpses behind, he went inside the house and started searching.The house was a mess because during the killing process,the assassins had searched the house too, scattering and breaking the things which got into their hands.He searched every nook and corner very carefully until he noticed a pile of hay in the stable near the Servants' quarters.Although that was a nor
"Yue Er..,are you practicing the embroidery ?" Lady Jiang called her daughter. Yue Er was indeed practicing the basic embroidery techniques her mother taught her, when she heard her mother's voice. She lifted her head from the embroidery she was doing and looked at her mother. "yes mother, I'm practicing. Soon I will be able to do embroidery as good as mother" she replied her mother enthusiastically. After seeing her daughter's enthusiasm, lady Jiang Lin smiled at her happily. "Then, let me see your work" she asked her daughter, coming into her room. It seemed her daughter has practiced really hard because her embroidery had turned into a beautiful Peony flower. "Yue Er…you have done a good job. It is so beautiful. Mother is so proud of you" she praised her daughter. Yin Yue was so happy. "Mother…when I'm able to do embroidery like you, I'm going to embroider a dress for my l
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"We can hire a good team of assassins to assassinate General Huang and eliminate his family totally" Wang Wei said with a lowered voice,lowering his head. Ying Yue's eyes turned towards Wang Wei,shooting a sharp glance at him. "Do you think I would allow to do something like that?"although her voice was not high,Wang Wei felt as if those words are booming in his ears. "I dare not.This ignorant servant asks for young miss's forgiveness"he immediately knelt infront of her. Yin Yue calmed down. "I am the daughter of General Jiang Lin.Merely taking their lives is not enough for me.I want them to suffer ,I want them to have the taste of betrayal,I want to disclose their conspiracy to the world and I want to restore my father's and my family's honor"she said with determination. Wang Wei was really surprised for a moment .Yesterday,she was a little girl,frozen with fear and shock but today she is issuing orders as if she is a general in army. "No wonder,it is our master's blood runnin
"Miss,please can you explain what you said before in details?Wang Wei couldn't comprehend what miss said before"He asked very politely. "As I said before ,I want to avenge for my family myself.Of course I need your support.I would be depending on you.But avenging my family would be my responserbility.That is why you would not be the one joining the army but me."Yin Yue explained the first part. "of course,females are not allowed in our Qing empire's army.That is why the one joining the army wouldn't be a female" she explained the second part looking at Wang Wei.From his looks she understood the question he didn't ask. "That is because I'm going to disguise myself as s male" she explained the last part clearing all the confusions.Wang Wei was astonished to the core. He could not imagine how did this little girl's line of thoughts ended up like this.It was an unexpected decision and hard choice from such a little girl.He opened his mouth to protest, explaining the difficulties,but h
That was Wang Wei who was running along the horse.With his amazing running speed,he could catch up with the speed of the horse. Anyone who was watching could not guess even in their dreams that this man who was running fast like a horse might have been severely injured a few days ago. So, while running,suddenly he jumped up very high and leapt on to the horse.The horse seemed to panic once again and speeded up more.But Wang Wei kept hanging on the horse.With the experience of being a horse rider since he was a child,little by little he managed to calm the horse down.Finally ,he led the calmed down horse back to where people were gathered and were talking,exclaiming about the incident took place.As soon as the carriage was stopped,the driver and the servant girl came running.Both of them heaved sigh of relief seeing the carriage back and they thanked him profusely . The girl leapt up the carriage to check the condition of her lady.She was fainted inside the carriage.She came to her
The next day morning, Wang Wei came to escort his young miss out. When he knocked the door, he was asked to come in. When he entered, again he was astonished for a moment. There was no longer his young miss in front of him. Instead of the pretty young girl he knew, there was a cute looking young boy standing there. Wang Wei beheld the boy head to toe. Her hair style had changed, and something was different about her long bright eyes. Except for that, although there was no other visible differences, her appearance had changed considerably. He kept staring at her for another moment. "Uncle Wei, is my appearance weird?" Ying Yue asked awkwardly. "No miss. not at all" Wang Wei replied immediately. "Then why are you staring at me like this?" she asked again. "Instead of a young miss, when a young master appeared in front of me suddenly, I was a bit startled." Wang Wei replied. "Uncle, remember to call by my name from now on. otherwise it would be weird if you call me young miss by chan