Chapter 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 exited 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 swordmanship.

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 she had visited this side only once when they were having a tour to see around the city.

On their way,Wang Wei talked about the sword technique practicing.And he talked about his late master, General Jiang Lin who was an exceptional swordman in the empire.

Yin Yue had known that their whole generation was famous for having skilled warriors in swordmanship.

Now from Wang Wei she got to know that her father was mastered in two special sword technics called " lightning blade" and "spinning shadow blade"

"Miss, as I got to know,"the lightning blade" is a technique pass down in your family for generations."The spinning shadow blade"is a technique my master learnt from his master."Wang Wei was describing what he knew.

"It was very rare to find a matching opponent for my master in sword manship.Unless that inimical friend of my master backstab him,he would never be defeated in an open fight."he said with an emotional voice.Yin Yue kept listening without saying any word.

Suddenly Wang Wei remembered that it might be painful for Yin Yue's slightly healed heart to recall the sad memories.So he turned the topic to another side.

After walking about fourty five minutes ,finally it seemed they reached to their destination .It was a land with a house encircled by a wooden fence.From the outer appearance ,it looked more like an abandoned inn than a commoners' house.They entered the land through the gate.

"Miss,this place was an abandoned inn and now it belong to you" Wang Wei told the little girl.

"Then this is the surprise uncle told me"Yin Yue thought to herself.

"I bought this place to use as our basement by using the money we brought when we left the capital"Wang Wei explained further.

"But uncle, how can we use this place as our basement?we have our works to do.we can't stay here.And if we are not staying here this place will be wasted"Yin Yue asked back.

She knew and experienced that it was hard to practice and carry on their mission living in another household secretly .It would be comfortable if they had their own place to carry on their work.

But because they were powerless and they had no enough money, they had to become servants in a powerful household so that they could earn a living and become powerful step by step.Although they had no a slightest thought of remaining as servants for a long time,until they remain as servants ,they were bound to follow the rules and regulations a servant should follow.In Qing empire except for the emperor's palace,all the servants in aristocratic families followed a similar system of rules.

All the unmarried female and male servants lived in the ' quarters of their workplace.They were not allowed to come to work from outside.Only after they were married off, they were allowed to start a family outside.But they had to keep working under their master for the rest of their lives.If they want to get free from being a servant,they had to pay a fine for their master for the freedom.

They differ from slaves only from their ranks and because they were paid servants .

"Miss,if their is someone to take care of this place on behalf of us,this place wouldn't be wasted.And we can come here in our free time.right? "Wang Wei also asked back.

Ying Yue nodded in agreement ."That means uncle has already found some people for our side"She thought to herself.

"Uncle,who is going to take care of this place for us?"She asked.

"That is the surprise I prepared for miss to see"Wang Wei replied with a slight smile.And he made a sound to call someone.

"oh then this place is not the surprise,but a person is a surprise"Yin Yue was indeed a bit surprised after hearing this.She eagerly but silently waited there for seeing this person.

She could see a faint shadows of two figures appearing in the distance from the opened door.