Chapter - 85 Fighting Contest to Find a Suitor (2) (1/2)
”If we offer the horse to the sweat of blood to the young Master,” did ask for one among them, ”what reward do you believe that he is going to give us?”
”He is surely going to spend more nights with you,” answered another while laughing.
The first protested, sulky. They bickered while laughing.
”Be quiet,” says one among them. ”Don't unveil our intentions, they don't seem to be that easy…”
”The woman over there,” says another in a low voice, ”carries a sword, she practices the martial arts for sure. And she is rather good looking!”
If she had ten years less, the young Master would certainly fall for her!
Ke Zhen'e understood well that they were speaking of Han Xiaoying and felt even angrier: this ”young Master” of which they spoke can't be someone that advisable!
The eight women finished their meal, took their camels and left the hostel.
After their departure, Ke Zhen'e asked Guo Jing, ”Jing, what do you think if the gongfu of these eight women?”
”What women?” wondered Guo Jing.
”They are disguised in men,” explained Zhu Cong, ”but you didn't realize it, did you?”
”Who knows the Mount of the White Camel?” asked Ke Zhen'e.
No one had heard to speak of it. Ke informed them about the conversation that he had heard, the other Freaks found that these shameless women didn't lack of boldness, but their audacity to want to tackle someone stronger than them was something to laugh of.
”Two among them,” said Han Xiaoying, ”have a big nose and green eyes: they probably aren't Chinese…”
”Effectively,” confirmed Han Baoju. ”And these entirely white camels only exist in the Territories of the west.”
”That they want to steal the horse,” said Ke Zhen'e, ”that is not too serious, but they said that numerous dangerous personalities were going to a meeting in Yanjing: it must probably hide an important plot to harm the Song dynasty. It could even have disastrous consequences for our people! Since we fell on such a business, we cannot wash our hands of it.”
”Certainly not,” said Quan Jinfa, ”but the appointment of Jiaxing is near, we can't waste any time.”
They hesitated, because it appeared impossible to reconcile the two missions.
”That Jing goes there first,” says suddenly Nan Xiren.
”Fourth brother wants to say,” did decipher Han Xiaoying, ”that Jing must go alone in Jiaxing, and that we will join it once we will have solved this business in Yanjing?”
Nan Xiren nodded the head.
”It is true,” says Zhu Cong, ”it is time that Jing travels a little alone to acquire some experience all by himself…”