57 What The Future Will Hold. (1/2)

Mai found it funny that she knew this exact scenario was going to happen. However, that couldn't help her for trying to tease them about it.

”Cough, did you guys not eat while I was away?” Mai asked softly. Though her voice barely had any sound to it both the men had bright red faces as they brought down there chopsticks.

”Not exactly” Han Bing started but was cut off by Zheng Li ”It was just no where near as good as this!”

Mai decided to leave them alone and to switch topics.

”So what do we have planned for the rest of the day?” Mai asked Han Bing.

Mai was used to being a college student that was always busy. Even over the summer she would take a class or two so that she could finish faster. Doing nothing with her time besides cooking was not something that she wanted to do.

”What do you want to do?” Han Bing asked back. He had no idea what Mai actually wanted to do since this was what most young noble ladies would like.

”Hmm” Mai thought ”I want to go hiking? Fishing? Maybe even math? How about medicine?” She asked herself each subject, however, reject each subject that she thought about for some reason or another. Mai continued to think about what she wanted to take up her time doing. Something that brought to much attention would only attract the wrong people whereas doing the opposite of the spectrum would cause her to be way to bored.

The silence had stretched on for minutes in the dinning room as Mai continued to go over options in her head. Both Han Bing and Zheng Li were staring at her, trying to figure out what she was thinking about so much. Every few moment Mais eyebrows would furrow together while she muttered no to herself. They both realized that she was putting a lot of thought into her answer and nether of them wanted to interrupt her.

”When do you guys think the Emperor will figure out that you guys left?” Mai asked quietly. Mai realized that a lot of what she would want to do depended on how long they would be staying at this location.

”Shouldn't be for awhile till he discovers that we are here. He probably already knows that we are missing. Probably knew a few hours after we disappeared” Han bing replied.

”How will you know?” Mai asked slightly concerned that they were like sitting ducks staying in this house. Although it was very pretty there was no where that they could run to easily without being spotted in the distance.

”There are some people of mine that stayed in the city keeping tabs on the Emperor for us” Han bing replied. His face returned to his original cold appearance.

”How long does it take news to reach here?” Mai asked. She was concerned that even if they did have people reporting what was going on, did it matter if the news travelled to slowly for it to be worth while.

”We trained a few birds to travel back and forth so the information is very reliable and fast” Han Bing said with a small grin forming on his face.

”Oh messenger birds” Mai said while nodding her head in approval.

Han Bing looked at Mai in surprise. Followed by turning his head towards Zheng Li as if to ask if this type of information was something that people would know about. Zheng Li shook his head signally that the answer was a no and shrugged his shoulders.