AGENT 11 (Chu Te Gong Huang Fei novel/Xiao Xiang Dong Er 潇湘冬儿

Agent 11 ch5

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Q11 Chapter 5
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Chapter 5 Swallowing Tooth and Blood

The sky gradually began to darken as the north wind's whistling blew throughout the sky. It was so chillingly cold that you could feel like it was piercing through your bone marrow. The wind swirled with snow as the sky howled like mad monsters.

Under Zhuge's orders, people were cleaning the area. They shoveled up those children's corpses with their spades and then threw them in to a carriage. Not far from there, the workers dug a small pit. Together with those bloodthirsty beasts, those children were thrown in and covered with twigs. The pile of corpses was then burned creating a thick black smoke. Their worthless lives were just like rubber balls. The rich masters will only play with them once then immediately discarded even before the toy become greasy.

Jing Yue was wearing a broken sack sitting very still with her head down against the cage. She suffered heavy injuries, even an adult would not have been that patient. Initially, the people cleaning up thought that she was already dying, but after checking for several occasions, they saw her chest move up and down slowly. Knowing that she was still breathing, they were amazed on what sort of strength supported this child during her ordeal. Upon seeing this, they had decided not to throw her in the pile to be buried, but instead, loaded her into a cage.

The cage that looked so crowded before now looked quite spacious. The children were all dead except one. The workers sighed at the child's good luck but at the same time they couldn't help but poke their heads in to size her up several times carefully.

Even if they could not pinpoint it, they were still keenly aware that this child, in comparison to before, was somewhat different.

Zhen Huang's city gates were wide open. Zhuge's family had enormous influence and status in the Great Xia. They controlled the armed forces that were in charge of defending the border and protecting the trading routes. They garnered huge respect and admiration. As members for the Zhuge family pass by, citizens would bow their heads as they watched the move away.

Jing Yue didn't know how long she was in the carriage. Even with all the rocking, she didn't have an ounce of consciousness. Today, the sun was very bright, but the wind was very cold. It kept blowing through the gaps of the cage making her thin clothing rub against her wounds making it even more painful.

Around the corner from the main street Jiuwei, was the inner city's Ziwei Square which was named after the Queen Ziwei, the nation's founding mother. For 400 years, it has been a sacred place in Great Xia. The commoners passing through must kneel three times and kowtow nine times in veneration towards Queen Ziwei's Central Palace.

The workers hired by Zhuge had to all get off of the carriage to meticulously kowtow to the palace.

While they were doing that, a hissing melodious voice could be heard from the front, "Whose servants are you? Why are you blocking the middle of the road?"

Zhu Shun hastily got up to see who exactly was speaking so high and mighty to them. He quickly bowed and respectfully said, "Why it's Prince of Shu Ye, we'll immediately make way for Gongzi ."

Zhuge's people quickly moved out of the way to give way to Shu Ye's horses. Suddenly he saw the wounded Jing Yue in the carriage and stopped.

"Were you guys attacked by wolves?"