Chapter twelve

Ying Xiong took slight comfort at the fact that his rank in court at the moment could protect Ying Yong from any harm. Ying Yong sigh and went home as he watched Ying Yong leaving in another horse carriage with her dark guards. Accordingly, to Ying Yong, she needed to see how the orphanage is faring and some other issues that he does not understand.

Ying Yong arrived at her family land at the suburbs of Xuanyang very soon. Ying Yong do not want to waste any time as she intends to go on top of the hill that was on her family property. This family property was enclosed in fog permanently throughout the whole year. It will be a good place for her to try out first on if her cloud seeding attempt could succeed. Ying Yong do not mind letting Ying Zhen and her father knew of her ability, so she uses transport to vanish from her room to the top of the hill.

Ying Yong had successfully desalinated salt from the sea water that was gathered from the sea around the capital. Ying Yong had also taken the opportunity to develop the necessary chemicals for cloud seeding. Of course, all this were done in the three months that Ying Yong was staying in the capital. Ying Yong jumped in happiness when she saw that the chemical, she develops using salt succeed in raining. It means music especially in times of famine for the empire.

Ying Yong decides to teach another leader of her dark guards bright on how to use the wooden bird to train the birds. Bright is in charge of all the training that will be carry out on her family land. Ying Yong knew that she could not be inpatient and could only wait for the birds to be trained so she could further develop cloud seeding techniques.

But it was when Ying Yong was teaching Bright on how to use the wooden bird when a little boy silently appears and was hugging her legs.

Bright said "master, this is shadow. He is estimated to be five years old, and he really is a genius at qing gong. But the only trouble with him is that he really is silent and do not like mixing with anyone. We called him shadow because he will all of a sudden appears. But strangely this is the first time he seems to be so close with someone."

Ying Yong decides to adopt shadow as her son when she saw how similar he looks to her sons that she previously adopted. Not only that shadow was all too well behaved and cute.

Ying Yong use transport to appear back to her room at the orphanage. Ying Yong knew that she could not regularly afford the time to come so she took the chance to further teach bright on new techniques that could train the dogs they gathered for army uses.