บท 21: SILENT COMMOTION (2)
Early night she veiled herself and went out, she planned to follow the soldiers this night; they came out from pavilion and marched toward middle grade residence areas.
They crossed small and big streets, it seemed that they were ordered clearly and they were following the orders.
Few stay behind and two went to knock on the door small maintained house.
A middle aged woman opened the door, soldier inquired her something which she argued, meanwhile middle aged man opened back door of the house and tried to run from the house, soldier was infuriated that she was disinclined to tell.
Other who were standing at the start of street, they heard some movement in the back street, and went there and caught the man which could not run far away in this short time.
They brought the whole family with them in the pavilion.
She could not make any move because soldiers were scattered and on guard, they were well trained in martial arts too.
Whole family was doomed in this night…
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A young man who had joined Palace security and was soldier too was diligently on guard of Palace back forte.
This forte was greatly away from Palace pavilion, he was unaware that his whole family was eliminated by the King.
He was thinking that when he would go on holiday to meet his family, what kind of presents he would buy for them.
His parents took much toil to bring him up that he was selected in the army and most importantly in the soldier squad which protect Palace.
To see him one could tell that his parents used their all sources to shape him up facing thick and thin them without letting him know that they used their every asset to nurture him.
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Two noble girls which were made slave by the King, were taken care by the Queen.
Both were sitting in the servant abode, both were angry because concubine made bad remarks for Queen, they knew that Queen was kind heart and generous, she even went to the extent to help them from their hard labor and maid them maid servants so that both could live batter and even cared for their necessities.
They saw the gloom in the eyes of Queen when concubine insulted her in front of many noble women of Royal State.
Both were feeling helpless at that time.
One of them was learned in medicine because their father was noble physician of province. Both were thinking ways to teach concubine definite lesson.
"Jie, should we poison her meal?" thinking something younger one asked while both were sitting on their beds, they did not sleep. It was just first fall of night.
"This way we might implicate others, this is bad idea," Jie was combing her hair with slender long fingers and heard her sister, and it seemed that her sixteen years old sister was occupied with one idea without thinking its consequences.
"Oh, I hit a good one this time, what if she lost her beautiful hair, how would she look?" Wei proposed another one; Jie looked at her quickly and asked, "Who would be brash to cut her hair?" Wei looked Jie with glowing lexes and said, "I did not say that someone would cut them," she answered playfully chuckling.
Wei used to spend her time lurking around her father when he worked with herbs that means she knew some herbs. "I did not get the reason behind your glowing expression, Jie asked with confused countenance.
"Jie Lan you have to bring some herbs from herbs garden, if you wanted to know, what is in my mind, I can't go outside in the garden because I fear dark and it is already night."
Jie Lan was eighteen years old elder sister and Wei Lan was younger sister sixteen years old. Jie Lan did not bother to pack her hair after listening that her younger sister had something batter in her mind.
She came out of her abode carefully so that nobody could see her walking around in the night. She crossed small pathway with cat feet softness and reached the garden which was much away from central Palace building.
She entered in the garden once she met with the first fence and got hurt by it due to moon light was not enough for vision.
Her sister had told her the herbs she needed to pluck, she walked and in tiny light of moon which was not sufficient though but she tried her best discern herbs and pluck their leaves for her younger sister to make what was in her mind.
Her movements were slow and calculated, sometime she look this and walked to see the others.
This garden was close to back forte of Palace and Lue Zhen was keeping eye, he turned to look around and noticed a shadow in the herb garden, this shadow was moving suspiciously in the garden, he suspected that some spy might entered through some means.
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