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Ning Zhuo was exhausted from a whole day of of rough hiking through dense woods. He had not arrived first as this was an endurance over an agility test to see who could handle the long marches associated with being a foot soldier being trafficked to whatever stop they were needed to be fodder for lords who refused to build a half decent wall. The ride to his reporting post would probably be his last taste of a horse in a while as those were luxuries afforded only to a prince. In this test, everyone had to carry their belongings over a twenty mile stretch as they walked from the city towards the remote barracks which were located to an enormous border wall which had b
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Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-2
In two lines opposing stood soldiers with spears, Ning Zhuo grasped his and quickly disarmed his opponent with ease. Sitting on a dais above them was an empty chair and a subordinate who stood next to the chair with a bemused expression as he directed the traffic of losers and winners. The bouts were decided by the subordinate on a chalkboard behind him as the main chair sat vacant.After his quicker bouts, Ning Zhuo would sit at the foot of the dais and watch the other soldiers who took much longer than he did to battle it out. Mostly the deciding factor was who was used to using sword staffs. In most cases, it was the more wealthy or larger opponents. Ning Zhuo was lucky in the couple tries that he had so far that he had idiots.As he rose again as someone called him for a new bout, the subordinate took the weapon out of his hand. "No.""For what reason?" Ning Zhuo asked with irritation. "I won the la
Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-3
Ning Zhuo looked around himself as he got off the wagon that he had hitched a ride on as his superior rode inside, the general rode inside where he was reading over a military text intently while stabilizing himself on the side of the carriage to stop the rocking. He had never sat outside of a carriage before to guard it and now that he was a lieutenant colonel, it felt strange even more that he was assisting in the training of other soldiers now."Lieutenant Yu, do you ever have the experience of going inside a brothel?" The Colonel, Ao Guong, slapped Ning Zhuo's shoulder heavily."No, I would have been beaten by my grandmother if I did so. I just thought it was not a good idea to have a potential for there to be accidents with the brothel workers.""See you have too much of a thoughts floating around in your head. But this is why the General Gongsun has decided that you will join our little band of wolves. We cannot be dange
Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-4
The smell of the combination of sickly sweet was overwhelming as Ning Zhuo shuffled behind General Gongsun as they were ushered inside. Woman hung onto the general's every word as it was obvious that he was soldier with the most money. Occassionally a woman's hand would trail over to him, but Ning Zhuo would make sure that the woman's hand would brush along the steel of his sword.The hand would slither down to try to get to his find, but then would slide back, the General carefully dipped back to make sure that Ning Zhuo would not get overwhelmed by the sheer horde of women who were out tonight for money. The brothel definitely was home to over two hundred workers who definitely wanted some gold tonight from a rich client.The private room was spacious and held two beds with elaborately designed curtains. There was a very ornate table and chair as well as a beautiful qin which rested on gold dusted lion's paws.Ning Zhuo cros
Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-5
"Yanwan," Ning Zhuo turned to Colonel Guong, "you should try to give her a less dangerous job. There is no telling what danger will happen to her. She's unprotected and if there is an issue then we are so far away that we cannot come quickly.""Lieutenant Yu, I see that you have a care for small ladies then. Would you like to be her guard on your days off? You can go visit the brothel and have her serve you wine the entire day. Having it be known that she has a protector other than her older brother could also bring us a benefit. It would be good to have a courier bring information quietly, rather than us all clamboring over there and making a big affair of it." General Gongsun nodded slowly as he looked from his colonel to his lieutenant who were both crammed into the carriage with him as he had gone outside in a downpour after they had returned from the brothel.Ao Guong shook his head vehemently. "It's my sister
Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-6
"Everyone get out of the room immediately. If it is spoken who is this person, then the punishment will be beheading. I'm not going to have any exceptions if anyone speaks of who was found here today. Get out." As the assassins filed out of the room, Master Guo looked concerned at the former student of his whom he never imagined that he would see again after deciding that there was nothing more that he could teach him. To have a star pupil returned to him in such a sorry state was beyond humiliating. "Ning Zhuo . . . Ning Zhuo? Can you hear me? What in the world is your royal highness doing here in the last place you should be? Why aren't you in the capital serving your royal father?"There was an incessant poking at his head and Ning Zhuo sat straight up as he felt his head and immediatelly groaned. There was an enormous bronze bowl of water which was placed before his bed where reflected he could see th
Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-7
"Father when picking a good housemaid, she should not be as beautiful as me. If she is going to be by my side and follow me, then she should be invisible to everyone other than the person whose hands she waits on. She must take good care of only me. If I get all of the good qualities in a maid, I am set for success. Then instead of her serving me, she is going to have eyes for my husband instead. Father we have to pick one who is average looking so all the attention will be on me when I enter the room." The small missus of the house strutted around the yard as all the prospective maids were standing in an odd formation around the courtyard.Yan Sha tried to stop herself from rolling her eyes as the young Missus Qian was even more spoiled than she had assumed she would be. In her time in the capital before, a lot of Princess Yan Ming's friends were like this. She had to play as if she cared so she would not be bullied by them.
Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-8
"Ning Zhuo, it's strange that you survived after being handled by that cult." General Gongsun was seated on Ning Zhuo's pallet as the Taishou towns doctor was palpating Ning Zhuo's wrist.The doctor made a sound with his tongue in disgust as the shallow cuts all around Ning Zhuo's chest had just been bandaged properly by the physician. Ning Zhuo had regained consciousness quickly, but he had felt extremely weak. He burned with fever that only now with the medications from the physician were slowing down enough the pounding in his head for him to have a coherent conversation with anyone."Strange that he survived? It's a miracle. He was obviously thrown off a cliff due to your negligence. Where is the great general I hear about whom treats his men well? Here are you playing with the lives of your new recruits. I am only here due to my interest in who could survive the cesspit of those rebels.""Physician, I understa
Cat Who Walks Thru The Wall 39-9
The wedding caravan stopped suddenly and Yan Sha felt the sneaking suspicion creep on her back. She jumped out of the line as she wondered what could have stalled the wedding line. She knew that Missus Qian should be out in front shouting at the carriage driver, but there was no sound, as her brave mistress was nowhere to be seen. It was odd.Her feelings were confirmed as she could see up ahead her suspicions had come to light. Up in front as she saw the black masked bandits start to creep onto the young Qian's carriage, Yan Sha dropped the pot she was carrying and immediately sprinted into the woods. As others saw the same, they began to follow her example.As the ruckus started to mount, one of the bandits switched directions and started to hunt the stragglers instead of the main party. She gritted her teeth as she started to wonder why Qian would be targeted. These types of situatios were not unfarmiliar to her,
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