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04.An Ambush
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2024-10-29 19:42:56After 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.
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A daughter's revenge 05. A Departure of a hero
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
A daughter's revenge 06.Rescuing the heiress
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
A daughter's revenge 07.The massacre
"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
A daughter's revenge 08.Pu Nam City
"Mother....!"When Yin Yue woke up screaming ,it was already dawn.The sun has risen.The beams of golden sunlight were coming through the entrance of the cave, brightening the inner surrounding of the dark cave. The smell of roasted meat was spreading everywhere around the cave.Yin Yue sat up and looked around.Wang Wei was sitting infront of the fire, preparing breakfast.Because she screamed ,Wang Wei was looking at her at the moment . "Young miss,you are awake,"Wang Wei casually asked. "Please come here and have something for breakfast. There's no much but I prepared something for breakfast ."Wang Wei said to Yin Yue. He had brought water from a nearby stream and gathered some fresh fruits.He had prepared the rest dried meat too. No more assistance for getting ready in the morning.No more cheerful greetings from Xin Xin,who was her maid and closest friend. Sighing to he
A daughter's revenge 09.Planning
"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
A daughter's revenge 10.A Carriage with a stampeded horse
"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
A daughter's revenge 11.Rescuing the lady and getting a job
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
A daughter's revenge 12.Meeting with the magistrate and beginning of a new life
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
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A daughter's revenge 30.An opportunity?
It was one fine morning. As usual, Yin Yue got up early in the morning, managed to complete her own schedule without trouble and started her appointed duty on the day. As she was a lowest ranked servant, she was not appointed to one master or one courtyard. Her place of duty is always changed according to the need and her duties also varies according to the need.Therefore she was able to meet almost every type of working personnal. That was the reason she could complete the previous home work given by Wang Wei successfully. Today she was working as a cleaning servant at first young master's quarters. After cleaning, she carried the dirty water bucket away and now again she was walking towards the quarters,carrying a bucket full of clean water. She was passing the young master's reading room when she heard some sounds of two people talking. It was not in her nature to eavesdrop another's personal talking but according to the words she heard,that seemed to be someone was reprimind
A daughter's revenge 29.Achieving the first goal
After three weeks... The time flew by. Everything went normally and smoothly. For Yin Yue, the only special thing happened during this period of time was the grand opening of their inn. According to Zhu Li's ideas and planning, with the help of Wang Wei and Ting ..,the opening ceremony of the their inn happened successfully.Now it has been doing considerably well for about twelve days. Except for Zhu Li and Ting, they had another two females and one male as their staff. Two friends of Ting, also were giving their helps when needed. They also were timid and disobedient at first just like Ting. But Yin Yue or Wang Wei didn't know how, Zhu Li had managed to train them in a very short period of time like a week ,before the opening ceremony takes place.They did a great job by spreading the news about newly opened inn,describing the amazing taste of food there..,high quality service with lower amount of money.. ,comfortable settings of rooms..and other facilities. Their food menus we
A daughter's revenge 28.Nightmare
Yin Yue was sitting around a table in the garden with her parents.They were chatting happily with each other.It was a rare occasion Yin Yue got to spend her time freely with both her father and mother, because her father was always busy with military works.They were having tea and enjoying the scenery of setting sun in the evening . Suddenly, as if it was going to rain,a massive dark cloud invaded the sky.It was getting larger and larger and covered the whole sky including the sun.The surrounding got dark like a solar eclipse happening and a sudden thick fog started to invade the surrounding,backing up the speed of spreading darkness.Yin Yue was frightened to the core because of this sudden change.She looked at where her parents were but she couldn't find them.The thick fog had covered all the area densely .She called her parents, crying.But she couldn't get any answer.She kept calling while crying .She couldn't move anywhere to look for her parents because of the darkness .And the t
A daughter's revenge 27.Anayzing the information and planning further
Zhu Li served tea and snacks to Yin Yue.Yin Yue came to her normal senses immediately. All others were just waiting until Yin Yue have her tea. "Uncle,sister,Ting er..please join with me.Let's have tea together"Yin Yue asked every one. Wang Wei and Zhu Li looked at each other..,after hesitating for a moment, they joined Yin Yue. They enjoyed the tea together. After having tea, they started discussing and exchanging information. Wang Wei informed about all the decisions he took and all the plans he made in details to Yin Yue. And he informed the secret codes of communication which they decided to use. After explaining the plans they made in capital, they started to analyze the information Yin Yue had collected . "Miss,as you have mentioned,city magistrate has only two sons.And eldest son is not the present lady's son.right?" Wang Wei asked Yin Yue. "Yes,I cofirmed it from many people" "How is the father-son relationship between elder young master and magistrate?" "They have a v
A daughter's revenge 26."Ting"-A new member
When they reached to the door, Yin Yue could see that was a girl and a little boy. She identified the girl immediately. "Zhu Li.." Yin Yue called her name. Her voice was filled with the happiness of seeing a familiar face in an unknown city. Zhu Li came running to Yin Yue. The little boy tag along with her, hiding behind. "Oh ..our young miss...our miss.." she muttered happily, smiling and sobbing at the same time, observing Yin Yue from head to toe. "Zhu Li is so sorry. Miss had to suffer so much. Zhu Li couldn't take care of our miss better." Zhu Li hugged Yin Yue tightly as she was overwhelmed by sadness. "Miss has become so thin. From now on this Zhu Li is going to take care of our miss" she continued without stopping. Even Yin Yue couldn't tell a word. "Are you going to make our miss stand here for the rest of the day? “therefore finally Wang Wei asked Zhu Li. "I am so sorry miss, I am so happy to see you. That is why…please come this way" finally she stopped her grievance
A daughter's revenge 25.Surprise
"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
A daughter's revenge 24.A smart disciple
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
A daughter's revenge 23.Loyalty
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
A daughter's revenge 22.Zhu Li's Past-3
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
