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Post by siuyiu on Aug 7, 2017 16:48:06 GMT
chinaman this is reinafu's pet project--i only interject silly scenes to be... well, silly! so, i have no idea where she intends the story to go!
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Post by reinafu on Sept 2, 2017 15:40:49 GMT
I can't believe that more than 2 years have already passed since last time !!!
Well, it's not only my project but Admin's one too ; I had a lot of ideas, but they had to fit Admin's ones, and also, since I watched so many Shaws' movies and old series, I was afraid to be too much under the influence of these and that what I would have written would have been received as pale copies of such good works, so, I decided to wait for a while...and didn't see the time pass and pass again !!!
Liu Han Wei has become the hero of one of my own stories (that has nothing to do with the one here), now, but don't worry, I have a BIG imagination, and when I'll find a while to read again the story here and to write again, I'll do it, keep hope !!
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2017 3:52:45 GMT
I can't believe that more than 2 years have already passed since last time !!! Well, it's not only my project but Admin's one too ; I had a lot of ideas, but they had to fit Admin's ones, and also, since I watched so many Shaws' movies and old series, I was afraid to be too much under the influence of these and that what I would have written would have been received as pale copies of such good works, so, I decided to wait for a while...and didn't see the time pass and pass again !!! Liu Han Wei has become the hero of one of my own stories (that has nothing to do with the one here), now, but don't worry, I have a BIG imagination, and when I'll find a while to read again the story here and to write again, I'll do it, keep hope !! whoa!! actually I was waiting for your next story so I could continue the story. I think it's okay to be influence by other stories, cause that's how it is!
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Post by reinafu on Mar 10, 2019 20:29:52 GMT
Cai mansion, it's almost night
When reinafu and Liang Siuyu arrived in front of the Cai's Mansion, Reinafu looked at the very high walls and said " Well, it's very impressive...".
Taking her sister's hand, Siuyu said : " Let's jump and go inside ".
Reinafu : " Jump ? Why jump ? Why don't we knock at the door ? "
Siuyu : "Well...It's a very strange mansion, and the people inside are very strange too. If we knock at the door, maybe nobody will come to open the door, or maybe we will be attacked by the monster we described to you earlier..."
Reinafu : " But if the monster's appearance is linked to people landing on the ground, we also risk to meet him either way we'll try to go inside ! "
With a smile, Siuyu answered : " I'm quite sure that your weightlessness technique is as good as mine and that we won't awake the monster when we'll land in the courtyard...Let's go, Sister ! "
They both jumped over the wall, and, as Siuyu had said, nothing happened when they arrived in the courtyard. They went into one of the rooms and Siuyu showed a corner of it, saying :
" We left ChefYing there, and when we returned, nobody was here ! I don't know where he is and..."
A voice behind them made them start :
" Siuyu ! My darling ! It's you !! "
The two sisters slowly turned back and discovered ChefYing who went on :
" And you are here too, my dear friend Reinafu ! How come you are here and how did you get in ? "
ChefYing came near Siuyu and tried to take her hands, but she stepped back and said with an angry voice :
" Don't come nearer, ChefYing ! I already told you that I won't be your wife and look at this : I don't wear the jade bracelet anymore, so, you can't force me to marry you ! "
Furious, ChefYing tried to slap her, but Reinafu took his wrist and enunciated with a threatening tone :
" Don't even dare to touch my sister, ChefYing ! "
He stepped back and stupidly repeated : " Your sister ??!! "
Reinafu : " Yes, my sister !Liang Siuyu is my long lost sister ! "
Another voice behind them exclaimed :
"Oh Gods !! That's impossible !! "
Everybody turned back and Siuyu recognized Old Andrea, who was almost fainted, leaning on a column of the room.
ChefYing and Siuyu rapidly came near him and ChefYing said :
"Uncle !! Are you alright ?! "
With shaking hands, Old Andrea took Siuyu's face in his hands and stammered :
" My daughter ! You really are my daughter Siuyu ! "
With tears in her eyes, Siuyu noded and answered :
" I didn't come alone, Father. Look, here is my sister Reinafu."
Unable to stop her tears, Reinafu ran to her father and took him in her arms, saying :
" Oh, Father, I thought that I would never see you again !! "
With each of his daughter leaning on each of his shoulders, he fondled their hair, saying :
" I can die in peace now that I have seen my daughters again !! "
Reinafu exclaimed :
" No, Father, you can't die ! Our family must be reunited again in order to get revenge for all these years we were separated and for all the other members of our family who were assassinated ! "
Old Andrea : " What do you mean by " our family must be reunited again ", Reinafu ? "
"Mother is still alive, Father, and she is so eager to see you ! "
Old Andrea : " You mean...You mean that my dear Ah Ke is still alive ? Where is she ? Is she doing well ? Why isn't she with you ? But what happens, Reinafu ? Why do you suddenly look so sad ?? "
Reinafu sighed : " Well...She has changed a lot...She...She is now a cold-blooded murderer and...and she lost her sight and an arm..."
ChegYing exclaimed : " A murderer ! Just like my own mother !! "
Both sisters looked at him and Reinafu said " So...We are cousins, ChefYing..."
He noded and remained silent, while Old Andrea talked to Siuyu :
" My dear daughter Siuyu ! I was so anxious when I hurt you with my secret dart ! I didn't want to hurt you, I thought that you were going to avoid it !! Will you forgive me one day ? "
Siuyu : " I already forgave you, Father, and you didn't know that I was your daughter at that time..."
A furious voice exclaimed : " What happens here ? Who are all these people ? !! "
Everybody turned back and, with a large smile, ChefYing went to the woman who had talked and said " Mother !! It's me, ChefYing !! I'm back at home !! "
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Post by reinafu on Mar 14, 2019 20:32:03 GMT
Squinting her eyes, Cai Wei Liang scrutinized ChefYing, and suddenly exclaimed :
" My son !! It's really you, my dear son !! But where were you ? Why didn't you send me any news ? I was so worried about you, I even thought that you were dead and I almost became insane !! "
ChefYing :" I'm sorry, Mother, I was on a mission and I was unable to keep contact with my family. It would have been dangerous for all of you if I had contacted any of you. I was worrying for you too, Mother, and what Uncle Andrea told me about you and your experiences on our poor maids and servants worried me even more...You should stop all this, Mother, it's too dangerous and killing innocent people won't be good for the Cai Family if someone discovered what you have done ! "
Cai Wei Liang : " This old Andrea is absolutely stupid !! He should have never told you about that ! I MUST take revenge of those who killed your family and on those who killed the Liangs, I MUST force them to tell my where my husband is ! It's my duty, and I'll use all means to succeed, with or without your approval ! "
During this conversation both Reinafu and Siuyu were shocked by what they heard, and Reinafu softly coughed :
" Auntie..."
Cai Wei Liang looked at her with a suspicous face and abruptly asked :
" Who are you, young girl ? Why are you calling me Auntie ? And who is this other girl with you ? "
Old Andrea intervened :
" They are your nieces, Wei Liang, my daughters Reinafu and Siuyu. "
She looked once again at the two sisters and finally said :
" I don't see any similarities with you, Andrea. Are you sure that they aren't spies ? "
Siuyu was about to talk, but Reinafu was quicker and, striping her shoulder, she said :
" Look at this, Auntie, and you'll be sure that we are your nieces ! "
Siuyu also striped her shoulder and Wei Liang suddenly cried :
" My nieces !! We finally found some of your family members who are still alive !! Where is your mother ? Is she alive ? "
Reinafu saw the anxiety in her father's eyes, and, after taking a look to Siuyu who noded, she said :
" Yes, our mother is still alive. That's why we came here, in order to fetch our father and lead him to Mother. "
ChefYing said : " I come with you. "
Siuyu answered : " We don't need you, ChefYing, and remember that I'll never marry you, we are not engaged anymore and in addition to that, you perfectly know that we can't marry, it's absolutely against the rules and I don't understand why we were engaged when we were still babies !! "
The rest later, it's time to go to bed...
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Post by Admin on Mar 15, 2019 3:22:52 GMT
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Post by reinafu on Mar 16, 2019 17:55:40 GMT
Wei Liang said : " She's right, ChefYing. Let them go and come with me, we have so many things to tell each other ! "
ChefYing looked and Old Andrea and his daughters and said : " Don't worry, Uncle, I'll do what you asked me for regarding the JiangHu world ".
Old Andrea thanked him with his head and after greeting his sister, he and his daughters left the Cai Mansion...
Liu Han Wei and Ding Hua Fei walked fast, each of them dived in their thoughts. When they arrived at the crossroads where there was the fake Liu's house on the right road and the real one on the left, they stopped walking and Han Wei said :
" What do you think ? Do we go to see your Grand-Mother first ? Even if we come with anger, I'm sure that she will be relieved to see that you are alive, she seemed to be sincerely worried about your long absence when Siuyu and I talked to her, and she is so worried about her husband too, that I think that it would be good for her to have a little respite among all her hardships, even if it's a very small one..."
Looking at his companion, Hua Fei whispered : " You are very kind, Han Wei. Though my Grand-Father had such a bad behaviour towards you and your family, you still show kindness to his wife..."
Han Wei : " She is not responsible for his bad deeds ; none of us is responsible and showing compassion for her is the least I can do, after all of her sufferings..."
Hua Fei : "Let's go to see her, then ".
The two boys took the right road and, after a little while, they arrived in front of the fake Liu's house.
Ding Hua Fei hesitated for a few seconds, took a look to Liu Han Wei, who encouraged him with his head, and he finally knocked on the door. When the servant who opened the door recognized him, he exclaimed :
" Oh, it's you, Young Master !! Please, quickly come with me, your Grand-Mother isn't very well and I'm afraid that she won't last for long ! "
Hua Fei and Han Wei looked at each other and quickly followed the servant to Madam Ding's room.
She was in her bed, very pale and obviously with great difficulties to breathe and Hua Fei fell on his knee near the bed and exclaimed :
" Grand-Mother ! It's me, Hua Fei ! What happened to you ? Why are you so weak ??!! "
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Post by reinafu on Mar 16, 2019 18:39:41 GMT
There were three maids in the room, a beautiful woman and a little girl (Xiao Hua, as our readers can remember from the past chapters) and,except the beautiful woman, they were all crying, and one of the maid said :
"Our Mistress has been poisoned ! "
Han Wei and Hua Fei simultaneously exclaimed : " Poisoned ? But when and by who ??!! "
Nobody answererd and, after a violent coughing fit, Madam Ding finally said :
" My dear Grand-Son ! I'm so happy that you finally came back at home ! Did you find your father ? "
She suddenly noticed Liu Han Wei's presence and she exclaimed :
" Why is this guy with you ?! He lied to me and told me that my son was dead !! "
Ding Hua Fei answered : "That's true, Grand-Mother, I myself saw Father's head in a temple. I'm sorry that it took me so long to come back, Grand-Mother ! Had I come earlier, I would have been able to protect you from this people who poisoned you ! Do you have any idea of who it is ? Did you ask for a doctor ? "
The little Xiao Hua cried : " The doctor came and he said that there was nothing to do in order to save her !! She lost all her martial skills and she is totally unable to stop the poison going to her heart and she will die soon !! "
Taking Hua Fei apart, Han Wei whispered " Martial skills ? Did you know that your Grand-Mother knew martial arts ? "
" I never saw her training in any martial arts technique, I don't know what is this girl talking about ! "
" Why do you call her " this girl " ? Don't you know her ? That's so strange ! She told Siuyu that your Grand-Mother was her Granny ! "
" How could she be her Granny ??!! As far as I know, my father didn't have any brother or sister !! "
Returning near Madam Ding, Hua Fei sat near the bed and took her hand in his, while Han Wei called Xiao Hua :
" Xiao Hua ! Do you want to show me the garden, please ? I think that a little girl like you shouldn't stay near an ill person for the whole day and..."
The beautiful woman suddenly stood up and shouted : " Who do you think you are ?!! My daughter will stay here as long as I'll ask her to stay ! You are nothing to us and you don't have the right to interfere in our lives !! "
Han Wei : " I beg your pardon, Madam, but I'm the son of Madam Ding's husband, so, Xiao Hua is a little bit a member of my family too ! And you are ? "
Beautiful woman : " I'm Madam Ding's daughter ! Ding Mei Lan ! "
It was Hua Fei's turn to stand up and shout : " Which Madam Ding's daughter ??!! My father never told me that he had a sister ! "
Madam Ding : " It's... It's because I hid her away for long years...And everybody thought that Xiao Hua was one of our maid's daughter when she came at home years ago..."
Hua Fei : " Why...Why did you have to hid you daughter away ? Was my father aware of this ? "
Madam Ding : " You father has never known that he had a sister... It's because after your Grand-Father left us after building this house and asking us to leave here, I...I met another man years after and we fell for each other, but he was killed when I was pregnant and I didn't want Liu Si Hua to know that I was pregnant from another man and I went away in order to hide until the baby was born and when your aunt was born, I left her there and I returned to this house..."
Hua Fei and his aunt looked at each other with a suspicious look and Hua Fei asked : " And...who is Xiao Hua's father ? "
Ding Mei Lan abruptely answered " It's none of your business ! Just bear in mind that I'm your Aunt and that you have to respect me and your cousin Xiao Hua ! "
Xiao Hua exclaimed : " But Mother, you said that if I was born it's because you had been..."
Ding Mei Lan slapped her daughter and shouted : " Will you shut up, stupid girl ! Always meddling with adult's matters and talking nonsense !! "
Han Wei and Hua Fei exchanged a glance and Han Wei said :
" I'm a little bit bothered by these family's histories, I need to go out for a walk ! "
He got out of the room and, after verifying that nobody was following him, he decided to visit the Ding's house in order to find some informations about the new facts he and Hua Fei had just learnt...
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Post by reinafu on Mar 17, 2019 12:10:24 GMT
Still suspicious about his supposed Aunt, Ding Hua Fei carefully looked at each of the present person in the room and asked her, showing them with his hand :
" Everybody is crying in this room, Aunt, if my Granny is really your mother, how come your eyes are empty of tears ??!! "
With an annoyed move, Ding Mei Lan answered : " I cried so much since I came here after learning my Mother's poisoning that I don't have anymore tears ! "
Truning to his Grand-Mother, Hua Fei asked her : " Granny, is she really your daughter ? "
The old woman closed her eyes and silently noded. Hua Fei incllined nearer to his Grand-Mother and whispered :
" Do you know who poisoned you, Grand-Mother ? "
She kept silent, obviously refusing to reply his grand-son's question, and he insisted :
" Grand-Mother, you know your murderer and that's why you didn't use your martial skills to protect you, right ? Answer me, Grand-Mother, I beg of you, give me an answer !! "
Opening her eyes full of tears, Madam Ding began :
"You must promise me to not avenge me, Hua Fei. I deserved this death, and I don't want anyone to get revenge for me.
The one who killed me is..."
Ding Mei Lan suddenly fell on her mother's chest, crying :
"Oh, Mother, don't speak this way, please !! "
As Madam Ding didn't react, her daughter shaked her and shouted :
" Mother ? Mother ! Answer me, please !! "
Ding Hua Fei frowned and moved his aunt aside to take a look to his grand-mother, and seeing that she didn't move anymore, he exclaimed :
" Grand-Mother ! What happened ? "
He searched her pulse, but unfortunately, she had died and he suddenly turned to his aunt and shouted :
" What did you do to her ?!! How come she died so suddenly ? "
Ding Mei Lan was now crying a lot and she stammered :
" I...I don't understand what you mean...I did nothing to her ! She was my mother ! How can you suspect that I could have done something wrong to my own mother ??!!"
Hua Fei : " Because she was about to tell me who poisoned her and you prevented her to tell me who it was, and suddenly, she dies !! Don't you think that there is something suspicious, there ??!! "
Hua Fei looked at the maids and Xiao Hua and he saw that the four of them seemed to be frightened as much as possible. Xiao Hua was looking at him with a begging look and, with an imperceptible move of his head, he ordered her to go out of the room.
As nobody was paying attention to her, the girl escaped and began to run in the property, in order to flee..
While all these events took place in Madam Ding's room, Liu Han Wei had penetrated in a room and, taking a look around, he whispered for himself :
"This room is obviously a young woman's room and it's not in the quarter of the maids, so, it can't be none other than Ding Mei Lan's room. Let's see what she hides..."
He was carefully ferreting in the room when he suddenly found a false-bottom in one of the bags put in a corner of the room, and inside it, he found a tiny bag in which there were several small yellow sachets. He took one of them, carefully opened it, smelt it and quickly closed it, thinking :
" Poison ! And a strong one ! Could it be...No, that's impossible ! A woman killing her own mother ??!! I must tell Hua Fei and we must leave here at once before something wrong happens to Hua Fei ! "
He was about to leave when Xiao Hua litterally fell into his arms. When he saw that she was crying, he softly asked her :
" What happens, Xiao Hua ? Why are you crying ? Also, tell me what you wanted to say when your mother slapped you and since when do you live in this house with your mother, please. "
Hicupping and crying more and more, Ding Xiao Hua answered :
" As far as I remember, I have always lived here, but my mother only came a few days ago, when she learnt that Granny was feeling very bad..."
" Is it true that you Granny knew martial arts ? "
" Yes, she was an expert in throwing darts and coins technique, and she taught me all what she knew. "
" Does your mother know that ? "
"No, I never told her about that. She...She doesn't love me ! "
" Why dlo you say so, Xiao Hua ? Every mother loves her daughter ! "
" I know that she doesn't love me ! I heard a dispute between her and my Granny in which she was yelliing at Granny, telling her that if she hadn't left her away after she was born, she wouldn't have been raped and wouldn't have bore me as her daughter !
There is something wrong at this moment : Granny has died and Hua Fei is arguing with my mother...He ordered me to leave the room and I want to leave this house at once ! "
" Your Granny is dead ? !! But how come ??!! Well, do you know of a hideout near this place, Xiao Hua ? "
The girl explained him where she intended to hide and he said :
" Listen, Xiao Hua. I'm going to fetch Hua Fei and meanwhile, prepare some things you want to take with you and wait for us there, we'll come as soon as possible."
Xiao Hua agreed and he left her in the room, taking with him the bag containing the poison sachets.
When he arrived in Madam Ding's room, Ding Mei Lan was shouting at Hua Fei :
" I'm now the Ding's Mansion Head, Hua Fei, and I order you to leave immediately ! "
One of the maids begged :
" Bring us with you, Young Master, we don't want to stay here ! She's a monster, she..."
She couldn't say one more word, killed by a tiny dart. Putting out his sword, Hua Fei exclaimed :
" I'm now convinced that you are the murderer, and I even wonder if you really are part of my family !! "
Liu Han Wei jumped near Ding Hua Fei and whispered :
" Don't fight, Hua Fei, we might be outnumbered and there are a lot of things to clear...Xiao Hua is waiting for us outside, let's go at once, we'll return later with a plan carefully thought of. "
Hua Fei didn't agree with this, but he admitted that he didn't know how many men were at his aunt's orders and, throwing a smoke ball in the room, he escaped with Han Wei...
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Post by reinafu on Mar 21, 2019 10:01:03 GMT
After the smoke totally disappeared in the room, Ding Mei Lan took a despising look at the two remaining maids who had fainted, went to her mother's bed, took a long look at her, and, with a surprising tender gesture, she closed her mother's eyes and fondled her mother's cheek before leaving the room. She went first to her room and when she saw that the room had been checked and that her secret bad had disappeared, she went furious and called her men. They all wore black clothes with the character"Ding" embroidered in red on their chest and they wore a red tissue around their necks and around their heads too and she ordered :
" Go to my nephew and his friend's pursuit ; they have stolen something from me ! And don't kill them, I want to question them."
They quickly left the room and she began to look for her daughter. When she saw that Xiao Hua had disappeared too, she mumbled :
" This little viper !! Where has she gone !! "
She finally went to a rarely visited room of the Ding Mansion, touched a part of the wall that opened a secret passage that nobody in the house was aware of, not even Madam Ding, and she followed a long hallway leading her to a basement wide room lookiing more like a cave than a room.
A masked body was there, turned to the wall, and she knelt down, saying :
" I'm here, Master ".
The masked man turned back to her and said :
" Did you do what I had asked you for ? "
With tears in her voice, she answered :
" Yes, I did it, Master, but...but she was my mother ! "
He replied with anger :
" Which Mother are you talking about ? This woman abandoned you when you were a baby ! Did she visit you even once ? Is it her who took care of you when you fell, when you trained, when you cried, when you've been raped, when Xiao Hua was born ?!
If not for us, The Six Poisons Clan, you would have been dead long ago ! Tell me what happened. How come you seem so angry ? "
Mei Lan explained what happened to her master and he asked :
"Do you know who is the guy who was with your nephew ? "
Mei Lan : " I don't know who he is, but he looked so much like the guy who...who hurt me years ago, that I first thought that it was him !! But he looks younger than him..."
The master remained silent, but he thought " It must be Liu Si Hua's son ! Maybe we'll finally find this latter thanks to his son ! "
He finally said : " You must find these guys and your daughter, Mei Lan, we can't take the risk that they appear at the next JiangHu's clans reunion and succeed in not allowing us to be the leaders of the Jianghu ! "
Mei Lan : '" I already gave my orders, Master. I wonder where Xiao Hua has gone. "
Master : " Since you asked your maid to give your daughter to your mother, you came to visit her only twice or thrice in 12 years, why are you worrying about her ? I guess that you don't love her and that she doesn't love you either, so, what's the point of worrying about where she is ? "
Mei Lan : " That's true, I don't love her, because each time I see her, I think about what happened to me and why she was born, and of course, she can't love me, since she doesn't know me enough to develop filial feelings towards me...What bothers me is that she seemed to know Hua Fei's friend and I wonder if they left together..."
Master " Don't mind her, Mei Lan. Let's return to our clan. I guess that you told your men where to find you if you leave this house ? "
Mei Lan : " Yes, Master, they know where to go when they'll find the fugitives."
Master : "That's good, let's go now ".
The master went to the front wall of the cave, touched a rock at the bottom of the wall, and the wall opened on the forest that was near the Ding Mansion and the couple left the hidden cave, walking towards the Six Poisons Clan's Mansion, in the south of the district...
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Post by reinafu on Mar 21, 2019 10:20:31 GMT
Ding Xiao Hua had thoughtfully taken two horses from her Grand-Mother's house without fortunately being seen by anybody and when Ding Hua Fei and Liu Han Wei met her after a long running, Hua Fei jumped on the same horse as the girl, and Han Wei jumped on the other and, after a quick confabulation, the two men decided to go to Reinafu's inn, since it was there that they had planned to reunite with their respective lovers after a week. As Hua Fei knew now that there was a secret hideout in the well of the inn, he planned to hide there whiile waiting for the two Liang sisters.
While they were running away, they suddenly heard a big noise behind them ; Han Wei took a look and said :
" They are chasing us !! "
Hua Fei looked around him and said :
"There's no place to hide, here. If we fight, they might hurt Xiao Hua !"
The girl exclaimed : " I'm able to fight too ! I'm not a child anymore ! "
Han Wei said : " We know that, Xiao Hua, but we don't want that any of us might be killed without knowing what is all this story about ! Let's go to the Liu's house. My men will fight and help us ! "
They directed their horses towards the road leading to the real Liu's house and the pursuit went on, but when Ding Mei Lan's men saw the Liu's mansion, they suddenly stopped their horses and turned back, which made Hua Fei and Han Wei being very surprised.
The same surprise as their pursuers' ones was also visible on Hua Fei's and Xiao Hua's faces and Hua Fei stammered :
"It's exactly Grand-Mother's house...How can this be..."
They penetrated in the Liu's Mansion and Han Wei said : " Well...Since my father is your grand-father and since your grand-mother was his first love, I'm not surprised that he built the same mansion for her as for my mother...That's a little bit strange, but knowing now all the misdeeds my father was able to do, I'm not surprised at all...
Let's rest a while here just in order to be sure that these guys won't attack us, and let's think of a plan to discover what happened to Madam Ding."
Hua Fei almost shouted :
" I'm sure that it's my aunt who killed her ! I'm sorry, Xiao Hua, I shouldn't talk about all this in front of you, but I'm so shoked by Grand-Mother's death that I can't help ! "
" Don't worry, Hua Fei. This woman doesn't love me and I don't love her either. I have always looked at Granny as if it was her my real mother. "
They were now in a reception room of the Liu's mansion, and Han Wei asked Xiao Hua :
" Tell us more about you, your granny and your mother, Xiao Hua. We need to discover the truth about this family and everything you remember could be very useful for us."
Xiao Hua sat between her two companions and began to speak.
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Post by reinafu on Mar 21, 2019 10:53:13 GMT
" From what Granny told me, one of my mother's maid came to Granny and left me there when I was born, telling her that mother didn't want me without any other explanation. Granny was so kind with me and she loved me so much, that I can't believe that she is dead with such an awful death...
She raised me with all her love, she taught me all what she knew, including martial arts and her secret throwing darts and coins technique. She told me that it was my mother's father who had taught her. "
Hua Fei asked : " Do you know your Grand-Father's name, Xiao Hua ? "
" He was called Chinaman. Granny met him several years after her first love left her in Ding's Mansion. She didn't want to fall in love with him, but well...love commands and since your Grand-Father was married to another woman, she finally agreed to Chinaman's love. But when she was pregnant, my Grand-Father was killed, and she was so anxious that her baby might be killed too that she hid in another city until the baby was born and then, she left it to a friend of hers that she had met there.
When she returned to see her baby, the friend and the baby had disappeared and she learnt that her friend had been killed too and the baby was nowhere to be found..."
Hua Fei and Han Wei exchanged a glance, each of them thinking : " It must be Liu Si Hua's work ! ", and then, Han Wei asked :
" How are you aware of all these matters, Xiao Hua ? "
Xiao Hua : " Granny told me several things, and I also heard a dispute between her and my mother "
Hua Fei : " Do you remember when this happened, Xiao Hua ? "
Xiao Hua : " Something strange happened several months ago. One night, I was unable to sleep, so, I was walking in the courtyard when I saw a masked body leaving my granny's room and jumping on the roof. I shouted, the men came to see what was going on, but nodoby found anything and they all believed that I was a liar. Granny seemed well, she didn't find anything strange in her room, so, the story stopped there.
But Granny's health slowly declined and she finally had to stay in her bed without being able to do anything...It was two weeks ago... And then, this woman came in our house with her men, telling everybody that she was Granny's daughter and that she had learnt that her mother was ill and that she wanted to take care of her. She didn't allow the maids to be alone with Granny and one night, I heard the dispute between her and Granny, and that's how I learnt that my mother had been raped and that she didn't want me to be her child. I also heard that they talked about a Six Poisons Clan, but one of my mother's guards saw me while I was listening outside the room and I had to go away...
Mother didn't want to believe Granny when she told her that she had looked for her for ages and that she loved her and that she had left her in order to protect her from being killed...
I'm so sad that Granny is dead... "
She hid her face in her hands and cried, whiile the two men were shocked by what they heard.
Finally, Han Wei said : " We must examine your Grand-Mother's corpse, Hua Fei. If your aunt is an expert in poisons, we must be sure that it's her the murderer...
Her own mother ! I can't believe it !! If she was my father's daughter, I would say that I'm not surprised and that she has inherited his bad deeds, but from what Madam Ding told you, Chinama was a very famous and respected member of the Jianghu, so, I don't understand how come she is so heartless !! "
He asked a maid to take care of Xiao Hua and the two men stayed alone, discussing of what to do...
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Post by reinafu on Mar 23, 2019 22:04:11 GMT
They were still discussing when, a while later, Xiao Hua suddenly rushed into the room, shouting :
"Uncles ! There's something wrong !! Come outside quickly !! "
The two men jumped on their feet and followed the girl in the courtyard. She did a large arm gesture and said :
" Look at there ! There is a big fire !! And it seems that it comes form the Ding Mansion !! "
Ding Hua Fei exclaimed : "She is right ! It comes from our mansion ! "
Liu Han Wei called one of his servant and asked him to pass the order to all the men in the Liu's mansion to rush quickly to the Ding Mansion and to carry water on wagons in order to help put out the fire.
The three of them then ran to the stables, jumped on horses and left the Liu's Mansion as quick as possible.
When they arrived at the Ding Mansion, they saw some of the villagers who lived around the Dings who were trying to stop the fire, and they soon were helped by Han Wei's people. While they were struggling against the fire, Han Wei told Hua Fei to follow him aside and when they were sure that nobody could hear them, he said :
" Didn't you notice anything strange, Hua Fei ? "
Hua Fei : "Well, I was too focused on the fire to notice anything ! What happens, Han Wei ? "
Han Wei : " It seems to me that I recognized PrincessK and Master Wan among the people who were helping to stop the fire ! "
Hua Fei frowned and exclaimed : " I don't have any confidence ! They attacked me and KellyChen in Reinafu's inn ! I wonder why they would be here ! Maybe it's them who put the Mansion on fire and who cheat people in making them believe that they help to stop the fire because they saw us !
Let's go to see and question them ! "
They returned to their companions and felt relieved when they saw that the fire had finally been confined. Hua Fei saw PrincessK and Master Wan too, and he firmly walked towards them and asked :
" PrincessK, Master Wan ! What are you doing here ? I'm almost sure that it's you who set the fire in my house !! "
Without letting the chance to Master Wan to answer, PrincessK exclaimed :
" What ?? It's your house ?? Oh, I'm sorry, Hua Fei ! And I can swear that we have nothing to do with this ! We were passing by and when we saw these poor villagers trying to stop the fire, we decided to help them, that's all ! "
With a suspicious look, Hua Fei scrutinized PrincessK and her fiancé, and then the villagers, and the older one confirmed :
" That's right, Young Master. They just arrived a few minutes before you came, and they helped us at once ! "
PincessK pursued : " Hua Fei, I want to apologize for what happened in Reinafu's inn ! It was such a misunderstanding ! I deeply regret to have fought you and KellyChen and I swear that it won't happen again ! "
Liu Han Wei asked : " How come you are so far from Reinafu's inn ? "
PrincessK : " Master Wan is a little bit ill and we have been told that there is a very good doctor in the North, so, we are on our way to him. We'll see you later at Reinafu's. ", and, letting the two men mesmerized, she took Master Wan's arm and they left them, walking quickly towards the North.
Ding Hua Fei thanked the villagers and, after they left, he penetrated in the Ding Mansion followed by Liu Han Wei and Ding Xiao Hua.
The three of them were shocked when they discovered the maids and the servants of the Ding's all dead in the courtyard. Han Wei examined the corpses and said :
" They didn't die due to the fire, they have been murdered. There are traces of a blade on some corpses, and the other ones must have been poisoned because either their arms, either their necks are almost black ! Someone tried to hide this by putting the mansion on fire, but we came to early and it didn't work..."
Hua Fei and Xiao Hua simultanesouly exclaimed : " Grand-Mother's body ! "
All three ran towards Madam Ding's room and they were relieved to see that not only the corpse hadn't disappeared, but also that the fire hadn't attacked the room as yet. Hua Fei asked Xiao Hua to wait outside, and the two men began to examine the body of the dead Madam Ding.
Finally, Hua Fei said : " Here ! Look a her knee ! There is a tiny trace of dart, here, and the skin around is becoming black too ! "
Han Wei : " You are right, Hua Fei, and I just found the same mark on her shoulder, near the neck, look ! "
Hua Fei : "Ding Mei Lan, you murderer ! I'm sure that it's when she fell on Grand-Mother, playing the filial daughter and crying, that she killed her. Your mark seems more recent than mine and the skin isn't black as yet...I wonder with what she hurt her mother, I didn't notice anything and when I pushed her aside, she didn't have any weapon with her ! "
Han Wei cogitated a few seconds and then said with a wondering face and voice : " Maybe a ring with a secret tiny dart in it ? What do you think ? Did you notice if she had rings ? "
Hua Fei : " I must confess that I was so worried about my Grand-Mother that I didn't carefully look at my aunt and I don't know if she wears rings or not..."
Han Wei : " Let's go outside and ask Xiao Hua. "
They left the room and they joined Xiao Hua. She silently questioned them and Hua Fei said :
" We are now sure that Grand-Mother has been murdered before we had to escape from here...Xiao Hua, did you notice if your mother wore rings ? "
Xiao Hua :" Yes, she has rings in almost all her fingers ! And I noticed that each of them as a different color and that she always seemed to play with the rings turning them around her fingers in a direction, and then in the other one, just if she had a mannerism ! "
Han Wei said : " We have now the weapons..." He looked around and said : "All these poor people murdered ! I wonder why and who killed them...Let's search the mansion and see if your aunt is still here or if there are some people who were able to escape from the murderers...I'm going to ask my men to search too and to let us know if they find anything interesting. Do you agree, Hua Fei ? "
Too shocked by the last events, Hua Fei noded and each of them took a different direction...
When they all reunited a while later, Hua Fei and Han Wei began to worry when they saw that Xiao Hua wasn't with them and they began to call her. It was almost night and they were about to return at the Liu's when they were surprised to discover Xiao Hua apparently arriving from the outside of the Mansion and they asked her :
" But from where do you come, Xiao Hua ? How come you didn't answer us and why weren't you with the others when we reunited ? "
" I called you, but nobody heard me...I found a secret room and a secret passage leading to the outside, and I found two traces of people walking to the South. But they were so light that I almost missed them. Also,...I found this ! " She proudly brandished a blue book as if it was a banner and she gave it to Hua Fei.
Han Wei came nearer and they both read in a whisper the character written on the book : " Wan ".
Hua Fei was about to open it, but Han Wei stopped it and asked Xiao Hua :
" Where did you find this book, Xiao Hua ? Did you open it ? "
Xiao Hua : " No, I didn't. I found it in the secret room, hidden in a niche near the part of the wall in which there is the secret mecanism opening the secret passage. "
Han Wei talked to Hua Fei : " Don't you think that it's strange ? This character " Wan " ...the same as Master Wan...What is the link between the Dings and the Wans ? And why is this book hidden in this particular house ? Could it be related to the Six Poisons Clans ? And if so, we must be very cautious when we'll open this book...I wonder what's in it...
Let's return at home, my men will build a decent grave for your Grand-Mother and her people. "
After a last look at Madam Ding and at the Mansion, Xiao Hua and Hua Fei followed Han Wei and they returned at the Liu's Mansion...
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Post by reinafu on Mar 31, 2019 20:15:21 GMT
Sorry everybody ! I noticed a few contradictions and mispellings iin the above texts I wrote ! I'll correct them as soon as possible.
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Post by Admin on Apr 1, 2019 8:11:21 GMT
Sorry everybody ! I noticed a few contradictions and mispellings iin the above texts I wrote ! I'll correct them as soon as possible. reinafu : I wonder if the story is better compiled in one sheet and create a new thread, while this thread is for the discussion? Therefore the reader will be able to read it easily.
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