Bab 29: Time Goes Away, Waiting For Nobody
Listening to the birds chirping outside, Fei walked alone in the empty—save for the guards—open corridor, heading towards the courtyard to learn this week's new combat technique.
As she looked at the yellowing leaves outside, she thought to herself a verse that her Wing Chun teacher often said while drinking his tea, 'Time goes away, waiting for nobody'.
Her master's birthday was in late summer, and it has only been a month since his departure. Yet the leaves are already showing signs of changing colors, a sign of autumn.
Though she had read many books with grandiose descriptions of this season, this was the first autumn that Fei has seen; and she felt that no description from the books could ever match up to the real deal. She was looking forward to when autumn would be at its peak, a time that she was sure would be aesthetically pleasing.
After Carlos left for camp, Fei hardened her resolve to train harder and to accumulate more knowledge, so that she would be a suitable bodyguard for her master when he returned.
She vowed that she would become the best bodyguard that he's ever seen!
She didn't care about anything else, only whole-heartedly focused on her work. She often read in the library, even after her classes ended, hoping to achieve her goal of reading every book in it before her master came home.
After two weeks, Fei's Language A skills, including reading, speaking, listening, and writing, far surpassed those of regular servants in that lived in the estate. But that was to be expected, after all, she could remember every word that she's seen.
But although Fei's skills were better than servants, that didn't mean that she had completely grasped the language. In fact, saying she was better than servants doesn't isn't much praise.
Two of her worst subjects were writing and understanding. Writing was difficult for Fei because she did not understand how to express her thoughts, even if she could remember the shapes of the letters.
Adding on, although Fei understood the physical meaning of a word, she could not understand its hidden meaning when placed in context with other words.
For example, that strange book that she read the first time she went to the library called The Odyssey. Every now and then, Fei would go back and reread it; but she still can't understand exactly what it is talking about. The book/poem seems to speak in riddles, and so even while she could read each and every word, Fei couldn't fully understand the point of the book.
One day, Fei realized that The Odyssey is what you would call a 'poem,' and from then on, she would regularly read poems, even though she didn't understand what they meant. She just thought that if she kept reading poems, perhaps one day, she'll know what they mean.
Just like this, Fei spent her time in a relaxed and peaceful way.
There was one thing that Fei was a little disappointed about though:
She never saw her Wing Chun teacher again after the first week of her classes.
Although Fei had expected it as such, she still felt a little down. Perhaps it was because he was the most serene and skillful teacher out of all her other teachers?
Indeed, Fei began to train under many professionals to hone her physical abilities and skills. These classes were mostly just for practice, not educational—since she already learned the general information about those techniques from books.
After Wing Chun, Fei learned other various forms of unarmed combat. Apparently though, learning all those martial arts was not needed in an actual bodyguard training; in fact, according to a book Fei read, it would be enough to receive less than two months of training to be considered a qualified Close Protection Officer.
In the book, it was said that one of the most basic knowledge one needed to know before becoming a bodyguard is first aid. Such knowledge was supposed to be gained before learning the complex skills such as tactical or weapon mastery.
But it seemed as if Fei had skipped the first steps and jumped right into the complex stuff!
Nevertheless, Fei understood that this was to better protect her master, so she didn't feel any enmity towards Mr. Rochester, who planned all of this.
Waking from her thoughts, Fei realized that none of the servants had approached her this morning. Previously, some of them had regularly bombarded her with all sorts of offensive words and phrases.
They had started this ruse ever since Carlos left, but it was only recently that Fei learned what all those words they used meant. She also came to know that this was called 'verbal bullying.'
As for the reason that garnered such bullying? Well, Fei had absolutely no idea. She always nodded at them as a form of politeness, and when they spoke poorly of her, it wasn't as if she spoke back and did the same to them.
Fei recognized that if she did thrash out at those people, she would be making trouble for her master, something she did not want. Besides, she never had the urge to talk back to those people anyway. Those words they said didn't harm her. Did they think it would?
Fei suddenly shook her head, noticing that her thoughts had gone awry once more. She continued walking once more, wondering how concealed carrying training, the first session that included the use of weapons, would go.
PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA 
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Why do you think the servants stopped being mean to Fei?
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