Chapter twenty -three 

One month later

For Ying Yong time pass amazingly fast as she spent time between training in the army, at the academy and at her personal armory where she experiments with making glass and guns. Even time spent at the academy is also quite fine with Ying Yong as she spent most of the time sleeping while rotate sitting on her many different dark guards during class time. Ying Yong knew that Ying Zhen is satisfy with her knowledge as he always personally tested her.

But Ying Zhen still wanted her to attend the academy so she could mix with people of her age. So that is why Ying Zhen personally requested the teachers to ignore Ying Yong on whatever she do as long as it is not too extreme. Sleeping is also another excuse for Ying Yong to ignore Tuoba Xin who spent a lot of his academy time in disturbing her.

It was only after a time that Tuoba Xin awaken her from her sleep and in a blink of light, Ying Yong pulled out a sword was placed at his neck that was too fast for him to even react than he stopped disturbing her when she was asleep. One point of the peace treaties was to let the prince and princess stay in Qin and study for a year.

Today is the start of the annual royal family hunting season and Ying Yong was forced to go along as ordered by Ying Zhen. Ying Yong was at the stables of the royal hunting ground to choose the horse that she will ride during the upcoming hunting. Ying Yong immediately falls in love with a thousand-mile pure bred horse that she saw in the stable.

Ying Yong signal for the stable boy to move away as he try to stop her from getting too near to the horse. As this pure-bred horse is newly sent to Qin by Yuan who is famous for raising pure bred horses. And up to now this horse has injured quite a few royal trainers and is still not a trained horse.

A distance away, Ying Yong accurately throws a needle at the horse acupuncture point that will stop it from moving. Ying Yong knew from the look in the horse eyes is that this horse will only bow to a strong person. And normal soft techniques could not conquer this horse. Ying Yong went to the horse when she sees that it is now moving and smirk in the horse ears.

"You could try and see if you could move. I know you are a smart horse. If you want me to cure you, can. But you must treat me as your owner and loyally obey my every order from now on. You could try to attack me after I cure you and I could stop you again and ensure that I have a nice feast of horse meat after this."

From the look in this pure-bred horse eyes, Ying Yong knew that it was time and took out the needle from the acupuncture point. The thousand-mile pure bred horse neigh seemingly in obedience and bend down to wait for Ying Yong to get up.

Ying Yong bend down to said that this horse name from now on will be thunder and ride it out of the stables to the amazement of the surrounding stable boys.