Khutulun was tending to General Fei’s wounds which left me and five soldiers to hold the fort. Having an idea of the kind of conflict that awaited us, I ordered them to remain over the wall while I waited for the enemies to come for us again. The rest of the soldiers were either sent back to their homes or killed.
Apparently, for years, the governor of Ji had been cultivating a rebellion and had even vowed to kill any member of the Imperial family that they came across. It was a mere coincidence that I was the first one to enter their lands in both cases. Once with Fa Min and Ling, and the other today.
But more importantly, they had a contact inside the palace beside the cook behind the poisoning of the emperor and his favorite. Yes, ‘favorite’, not ‘favorites.
And how did Hui-Lui come across such an information being nothing but a recruit, you ask?