Discontented.(Historical fiction)

Through the rain drops.

It was already the late autumn. The period of the time everyone clearly can see the beauty of Shinhu. Petals of cherry blossom trees are kissing the water in the Tan Hua River, with the assist of the cold breeze.

Elegant cherry blossom trees are gazing at the glimmering of the fireflies
and the dancing of the moonlight.
A young man was walking beneath the bright moon. Dressed in a white coloured silk robe which look so decent and wealthy with a small traveling bag hanging on his shoulder. His facial expressions were able to say how heavy the bag was. And it could also tell how long his journey has been. He could feel the rain drops touching his robe gently. As it was such a restless time for him, hedecided to spend the cold night in the
nearest inn. Finally, at the edge of the line of various shops he could see
a rest house named “Tan hi” he decided to go inside. There were few costumers and an old shopkeeper.

He gave a kind smile to the young man and asked, “Welcome young master, how may I help you?”

“Mister, Can I get a room here? And I also want some warm bottles of wine” the young man gave a smile back gently.
“Of course young master, this way please.” The young man could finally
satisfy because he was able to get a place to spend the night.

“By the way young master, may I know your name? I haven’t seen you here before” the old man asked while walking to upstairs to show his room.

The young man smiled and said “yeah, I’m hao bei ying from Fu ling, I
came here to meet someone”

The old man looked a bit surprised and asked “Fu ling? Young master you
came here from that far? Then you must be tired. Here is your room.
Rest well young master. I’ll get some wine for you.” He said pointing at the room which was in front of them.

“Thank you so much” the young master smiled and entered to the room after the old man left.

The room was good enough for him. There was a bed, table and two wooden chairs which had made for dining. In the Corner of the room there was a beautiful huge mirror with a small chair in front of it. Near to the bed there was a window. He could see the small rain drops kissing the window, so he guessed that the rain hasn’t stopped yet. He put his bag away, then seated on the bed and opened the window to feel the cold breeze.

It was such a beautiful view to see. He raised his hand out of the window as if to catch the falling rain drops. He sighed and muttered to himself “I missed the wind of shinhu so much’’

While enjoying the rain He suddenly looked out of the window because in an instant he could feel the wind started to blow in a bit faster phase. He realized that someone was watching him. He was startled and grabbed his sword.he looked everywhere.Then He saw a man who was running on the top of the roof of the inn.

He came out of the room through the window and flew to the roof.

There he saw a well-built young man who had his face covered with a black mask. Dressed in a black robe. he Kind of looked like a killer as he was dressed in a black robe from head to toe. He was average in height. And his sword kind of looked weird. The blade had a metal chain in a side of it.

Bei ying kept chasing him. He could feel the rain drops making him wet slowly, but he didn’t care. Bei ying moved the sword and tried to catch him without harming but it didn’t work because that young man’s moves were perfect. Bei ying suddenly raised his sword to stab him as he was so tired of moving. With the sudden move of his sword the young man jumped to the air and prevented the sword move. Bei ying realized how skilled the young man is as he wasn't able to hit him even once.

“Who is this actually? What is he doing here? I should remove his mask first.” Bei ying thought. But in an instant the young man was able to hit bei ying's wrist and made his sword fly away.seeing the opponent is weaponless he pointed his sword at bei ying.

Bei ying was shocked and asked “who are you young master?’’

The rain started to fall heavily. The both were gazing at each other.

The young man moved his head to the side and said breaking the silence “someone you used to know’’ his voice was bit thick and calm.

Bei ying was surprised and startled from his sudden reply. “w-what? But I don’t recognize you as your face is covered,may i see it?" while talking he tried to step towards the man as if to move the face mask away. But the man was faster that he moved sword blade closer to bei ying, his eyes looked so guarded and stern all of a sudden.

As Bei ying felt he was unwilling to show his identity  he decided to change the subject.

"why did you came here?” bei ying sputtered.

"what else? To steal of course’’ he scoffed and said.

“Steal? But the people here are innocent without even basic skills of self-defense.Your skills are great like a cultivator. Isn't it kind of unfair to them?" he asked with a doubt in his face. Bei ying had thousands of questions to ask but he couldn’t, because the sword was still pointed at him.

Then the young man laugh loudly and said “innocent people? Unfair? Oh yeah I forgot, they are innocent and I’m the bad guy, my bad’’

Suddenly another one dressed in the same black uniform like the stranger, came and said “we got them leader, please give us your command”

“Great, then let’s go back’’ he said with a rough voice.

Bei ying was completely wet from the heavy rain. But he still didn't know what he meant by “someone you used to know’’ his mind was completely blank that he didn't realize the both men had left long time ago.

As his dazed mind started to get a bit clear,he could hear people shouting. He instantly snapped out of his trance and get into his room. He met up with the same shopkeeper as soon as he came out of the room.

"young master, are you hurt anywhere? Why are you wet?" he asked with a worry filled face. People's shouts could still hear from the downstairs.

"I'm alright. What's the commotion?"

"The night hunters came"

"Night hunters? What's that?"

"Oh right! I forgot young master isn't from this area. I'll tell you what, these night hunters are a bunch of troublemakers. They steal from innocent people.

"Thieves? You meant those black robed men who have their face covered?"

"Did you see them? Young master you should be careful from them. They are a nothing but disaster. Stay away from them."

"Do you know them? Have you seen their faces?" Bei ying asked curiously.

"No one knows them. And nobody wants to know either"

Bei ying realized that it's impossible to get any imformation about the stranger from him. So he asked,

"What did they steal from here?"

The old man looked bit startled but he recovered instantly.He throws his hands in the air waving them to both sides.

"Nothing, nothing. They couldn't. There's actually nothing worthy here"

" But i clearly heard the other guy said they got them? Then what's that?"

Bei ying thought to himself,looking doubtfully at the shopkeeper who just excused himself to check other rooms.

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