Share in the Spoils

Chu Feng was careful on his way back. He tensed the muscle of his body to seal his breath and the scent of his body inside himself, leaving no trails for others to follow.

Who was that man in the yard? Chu Feng looked in the direction of his house with bated breath.

It was the silhouette of a man who had his back towards Chu Feng. He was cladded in a bizarre suit of clothes, made entirely out of flax and linen.

The strange man in the yard first bowed to the Mountains of Taihang then crouched down, digging up the earth in the yard. It seemed as if the man were looking for something.

The look on Chu Feng’s face drastically changed when he realized that the site where the man was digging was where the parterre was located. All the three seeds he brought from the mountains of Kunlun had been buried there, and with all that hope and expectation he had been having, how could Chu Feng stand to see them being unearthed by some random stranger?