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Legacy of the Lunar Spear
Chapter 29
Home Sweet Home

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Ling tapped the brush shaft against her lip as she looked at
her report for the battle and aftermath of Guan Du. ��She had summarized it in a bullet point
fashion, leaving the eloquent battle summaries for men like Xun Yu.� She wanted it to be short and to the point,
it seemed like the best way to record what happened; it�s not like anyone would
ever want to read about this later.� Her
eyes looked past the paper and up through the window of their room.� There before her was the main courtyard of Xu
Chang palace.� It was nothing compared to
the splendor of the capital, but its charm was in the lack of ceremony.� It was just tranquil and pretty.� She shook her head, knowing that she was
procrastinating.� �

Dun�s documentation was already approaching novel status and
she genuinely enjoyed reading it.� Not
only did it give her an opportunity to see what she had missed, but it also
gave her an understanding of what had really happened.� They had been outnumbered, heavily
outnumbered.�� She assumed that those
details had been kept secret by Cao Cao and his close officers just to keep the
morale high and troops calm.�� To her it
made little difference, she�d destroy them all no matter what troops they had
brought, but she could see in Dun�s words how a good officer should feel about
numbers like that.� Her training was
going to have to be more involved than she thought, it was going to have to
change the way she looked at everything.�
Just as she was about to add another comment on her report, she heard an
almost musical tap at the door.� Who
would knock in a song format?� No one she
knew.�

Happy for a release from her obligatory paperwork, she got
up and opened the door.� She didn�t
really know what to think of what she saw. �Who the hell are you?�

Zhang He bowed dramatically and held out the Lunar
Spear.� �I am General Zhang He, I
recently joined Wei and with our new Lord�s permission I am returning this to
its rightful owner.�

Her only reply was the Lu glare.�

He fluttered his eyes and smirked.� �What�s wrong, my lady?�

�What is this bullshit?�

He stood up straight and gave her an appraising look.� �I underestimated you.� From what your grandfather said about you I
expected you to be a pair of tits with a bad attitude.� You�re definitely far from that.�

�You keep bad company.��
She snorted and turned her back on him.�
As much as she wanted her father�s spear she wasn�t going to give him
the satisfaction of taking it from him.�
She saw his appraising eyes; he was like every other officer that ogled
her.

�MMM�and a beautiful ass too.�

Her foot was already midair before she turned to see his
stupid grin.� She wasn�t expecting him to
catch her kick without much effort.�
�I�ll tear you to pieces.�

�You�re just the way I like my women.� A little spicy�� He ran his hand up her
thigh. �Hot and uncontrollable like a wildfire.�

He let her foot go and gave her a playful smile.� The pervert was actually enjoying her
rage!� �What the hell is your game?�

�Your husband reacted about as well as anyone else I�ve
encountered.� His masculinity is offended
by my silky voice and feminine moves and attire.� He�s subconsciously afraid that I�ll be
fondling him�.when in reality my true motive is to fondle his wife after he
labels me as a queer.� They always keep
their eyes away from me, never considering me a threat.�� Human nature is so predictable.�

�So, you�re a whore.��
She shrugged.�� Get yourself a
harem.�

�What�s the thrill in that?��
He toyed with the Lunar Spear as he talked to keep her attention.� �Do you know the intensity of an orgasm when
you�re body is reacting to the situation as dangerous?� Mmm�the adrenaline coursing through you
because at any moment you could be discovered and killed for your carnal
desires?� It is like a drug, the cravings
will continue to lure you back for more�begging you to take it to the next
level of excitement.� That is my
addiction�the danger.�

�Are you hard now?��
She growled.� �Because you are in
a hell of a lot of danger.�

�Not while I have this gift�� He smiled.�
�You won�t take a chance of losing it again.� I have your full attention, I know that.� Besides�to see your rage only makes me want
you more.�

�Keep talking.� The
more you talk, the closer you come to being a eunuch.�

He giggled as she balled her fists.� �I have you outmatched in mind, body and
talent.� Attack me and you will be
defeated.� I will outsmart you, out
maneuver you and shred your clothes into ribbons.�� He emphasized his threat by clicking together
the blades of his claws.

�Cute toy.�� She
scoffed. �Now I know why you won�t hand over the Lunar Spear.� It must feel good to hold a real weapon for a
change.�

�I�m already tingling with excitement, my sweet
wildfire.�� He tossed the spear at her and
winked.� �This dance has
been�.sensational.��

She gripped the spear in her hands, trying her damnedest to
not let her weakness show.� It was heavy
and too much for her to bear injured.� As
soon as he disappeared she let the blade fall to the floor.� She dragged it into the bedroom and hefted it
onto the bed and collapsed beside it.�
Some people obviously just had too much time on their hands.� She, however, knew she needed to take some
time and recuperate.� That kick was
foolish and she could feel her wound screaming.�

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Xiahou Dun was in a decent mood despite his throbbing
injuries until he saw Zhang He sauntering down the hallway.� �Fucking fairy.�

Zhang He gave him a delicate wave and smiled.� The gruff general�s mood went downhill and his
strides grew longer and faster as he headed back to his room.� �That�s right General Xiahou, go take it out
on your wife.�� Sometimes, this is too easy.

Xiahou Dun swung the door open to his room and his eye was
immediately on the Lunar Spear.� The icon
of everything he wasn�t.� �Happy now?�

�I wanted to get it myself.��
She shrugged.� �I�m certainly not
happy that Zhang He gave it to me, I�m sure he�ll never let me forget it.�

He wanted to get the damned thing too, but instead he was
more interested in chasing Guan Yu and getting his ass kicked.� �What? You think he�ll want to borrow your
clothes?�

�No, I think he wants to take off my clothes.�

�He�s gay.� He�s not
interested in woman.�

�According to who?��
Ling snorted.� �He hit on me!�

�Right. �Stop trying
to make me jealous.�

�Excuse me?�

�So he brought you your damned spear.� That�s all.�
I am not threatened by that.��
Nice try.�

She glared at him.�
�Doesn�t sound that way.�

�Look, I�m getting tired of everyone showering you with
fucking gifts and you expecting the same from me.� Like this�� He wrapped his hand around the
necklace Liao had given her and ripped it off.�
�If you�re going to wear jewelry you�ll wear something I give you or
nothing at all.�

�Give that back!� She jumped at his hand as he tossed her
mother�s necklace out the window.� �DUN!�

�Here.� If you must
have something.�� He put the blue
necklace that he had bought in her hand and crossed his arms.� �While we�re on the topic of attire, perhaps
we can also see if we can change your battle dress.�

�You are the last person on this earth who should be giving
fashion advice.� Those gold pants are
from the Qin dynasty!�

�At least I�m wearing clothes!�

�You don�t have to tell me!�
I have to take five hours to take them off you when I want sex!� Speaking of, it�s been a while!�

�You�re also knocked up.�

�So?� You think your
dick is going to hit the baby in the head?�
You�re not that big.��

�Well then you shouldn�t miss it too much for the next few
months. When Mengde goes to Wan Castle,
you�re going to accompany him.� I�ll be here,
in Xu Chang, reorganizing our armies.�
Try to learn something while you�re away. � Dun marched out the door and
heard her slam it behind him.� Not
big?� In comparison to who? Lu Bu?� He probably could have handled that
differently anyhow.� He groaned and
looked back at the door.� She�d be
fine�he had other things on his mind.� Mainly,
who he was going to recommend as Grand Commander.�

Ling went over to the window and looked down into the murky
Koi pond.� She frowned.� Perhaps it was safer there.

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�Liao?�

Zhang Liao looked up and smiled warmly at her.� �Yes Ling?�

�I�m sorry about what I said at Guan Du.� She sat down next
to him.� �You were right.�

He stopped sharpening his weapon and grabbed her hand and
squeezed.� He had missed her, even if it
was only a few weeks since they talked.�
�I just want you to understand that your actions affect more than just
you now.�

�Can you stop lecturing me?�
Can we go back to the way we used to be?�
I need a friend not another father.�

�No.� He shook his head.�
�I simply can not.� The moment
your father died I swore I would protect you and that is what I intend to
do.� Why should it matter?� You were friends with your father, were you
not?�

�Yeah, but you�re very�stern.� You don�t let me get away with anything.�

Liao smiled.� �Your
father was a big kid, I always took my parenting and military duties
seriously.�

�You miss your family still?� She asked.

�Of course.�

�Why haven�t you married again?�

�I blame myself for their demise.� I can�t imagine not protecting another
family��

�Liao, when was the last time you had sex?�

Liao cocked an eyebrow at her. �I thought you hated that
talk with your father.�

�I ran to you about it, remember?� It�s not disgusting when I talk to you about
it.� So tell me!�

�Ling��

�I�m worried about you!�
I want you to be happy and for as long as I have known you, you�ve been
alone and brooding.�

�I appreciate it Ling, however I think I�m old enough to
look out for my own well being.�

Ling frowned as he went back to sharpening his blade.� He shouldn�t be lonely.� She patted his shoulder and kissed his
cheek.� �Fine, ignore me.�

�I intend to.� What
did you want to talk about?�

�I�m just confused by Dun.�
I don�t get why he�s so pissed right now.� He was so quiet after we chased Guan Yu, and
on the way back here and now he�s pissed off.�

�He�s jealous.� Liao laughed.� �Are you blind?�

�Jealous of what?�
That damned Zhang He!� He thinks
he�s gay!�

�No, of me.�

�Tough.�� She
snorted.� �I�m not giving you up.�

�Ling, perhaps you should talk to him about it instead of
just reacting the same way.�� Liao looked
over at her.

�No.� He�s the one
with the problem.�

Liao shook his head as she kissed his cheek and continued on
his way.� He knew a confrontation with
Xiahou Dun couldn�t be avoided and it would happen when she was away at Wan
Castle.� With neither Lu Ling Qi or Cao Cao to mock
Dun�s anger, he would undoubtedly take up the discussion that they had started
in Guan Du.�� He hoped he could be
rational about it, but if the conversation turned violent he�d just have to
break Dun�s other ribs.

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Ling looked around the harem and wondered who was in charge
here.� Wouldn�t there be someone who
coordinated the concubines?� There had to
be someone, after all who could tell which women were relatives or whores?� She set her eyes on a well dressed woman and
figured she would do.� She was pretty and
aloof, that seemed like the right type of woman to interest Liao.� Decision made, Ling walked over and leaned
across the table.� �Hello.�

�Are you trying to flaunt your breasts in my face?�

�No.� Ling frowned.�
�I�m looking for a whore.�

�Just skip the foreplay; I suppose you aren�t much better
than the men.�

�For my father.�� Ling
crossed her arms and stared down at the woman.�
The Lu glare was completely unnoticed and ineffective.� This was the woman Liao needed!� �Look, I want you to be the one.�� The others will get scared of him when he
refuses.�

Cao Qing He looked at the young woman again.� �Who are you?�

�Lu Ling Qi.� My
father is Zhang Liao.�

Cao Cao�s eldest daughter smiled to herself and looked over
her Uncle Dun�s new wife.� So her
menacing Uncle settled down for this busty child?� �Given up on Lu Bu already?� I though he was your real father.�

�He was, but he didn�t need help getting laid.� My new father apparently does.� What�s with all the questions?� Can�t you just go to his room and do your
job?� You�re all bought and paid for; I
don�t have to explain anything other than who you need to fuck, right?�

Qing He was tempted to tell the girl exactly who she was,
but she had inherited way too many characteristics from her father.� All the manipulative and political drive were
hers, whereas her twin brother Ang received all the charisma and leadership
skills.� She would gain more by staying
quiet and using this against the girl later.�
It would do more damage.� Besides,
after being married to an impotent old man for three years, she really wanted
to have some good sex.� Another inherited
trait.� �Of course not.�

�Okay then.� Be in his
room after dinner.� Don�t be discouraged,
I think he�ll be annoyed at first but he�ll get over it.�� Ling smiled.�
Liao should be okay, right?�

Qing He smiled and watched the girl leave, her task
complete.� Zhang Liao.� It was curious that he didn�t use any of the girls;
however he was a new officer.� Perhaps he
just wasn�t comfortable with that idea of utilizing the harem yet?� Maybe he preferred to have his own personal
concubine?� She shrugged.� Did it really matter?� She was going to be in bed with him tonight
and he looked delicious enough to eat. �If he didn�t want to play along, she�d just
have to rape him.� No reason for her to
have to wait until her father found a new husband for his recently widowed
daughter.�

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Zhang Liao looked at the woman wrapped up in his sheets and
immediately knew how she had got there.�
He closed his eyes and regretted not seeing this happening while he was
avoiding the sex talk with Ling.� �My
Lady, I know who sent you here.� She
means well, but��

�General, why don�t you just take off your clothes and
forget about how I got here and just enjoy it?� Qing He smiled as he blushed a
bit.� He was gorgeous and slightly
modest.� Why couldn�t she end up married
to a man like this instead of some defective shriveled prune?

�My lady��

�General, I am not leaving.�
Especially not now that I�ve seen you for myself.�

Liao watched her stand up in bed, the sheets slipping off to
reveal her perfect body.� She was a
mature looking woman, probably a few years younger than himself,
and she had a familiar look about her eyes that he couldn�t quite place.� He was so distracted by watching her that he
didn�t realize she was upon him until she was peeling his armor off.� �This just isn�t right��

�You�re one of Lord Cao�s most valued officers�.I do think
it is more than acceptable that you be rewarded for your service.�� She ran her hand down his chin and leaned up
on her toes to kiss him.� She liked that
she was foiling her father�s plans to marry her off again; the bastard deserved
it for sending her off in the first place.�
Screwing his best general was even better.� Letting Lu Ling Qi give him a taste of his
own �reward� system�.that was just a bonus that only she was aware of.� �I just hope you�re good.� Your daughter says you�re out of practice.�

Liao smiled, he was actually looking forward to lecturing
her about this.� Before he could protest
she kissed him again and he felt the excitement begin to hinder his good
intentions.� Perhaps this woman was
right.� He wasn�t out of line by enjoying
the privileges that his lord had bestowed upon them all.� It might be nice after all, it had been a
while.� She was much better looking than
anything Dong Zhuo had available to his officers.� �Maybe against her standards�she has a libido
like her father.� Doesn�t help her
husband isn�t much better.�

�Enough about them�� Before
I gag.� Uncle Dun and his child wife�yuk.� �Tonight is about you and how you�re going to
give it to me.� You have a reputation to
establish here.�

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�Why is it that I have to hear from local gossips that my
son was married?� Why the hell can�t you
just write a damned letter, boy? Would it kill you?�
��
Xiahou Dun rubbed his neck and sighed. �Well I was busy.�

�Busy?� the elder Xiahou snorted in disgust.

�There is a war on you know?� Dun answered his father.

�Thank god your mother isn�t here to see this.� You marry some girl that Mengde finds on the
battlefield, get her pregnant�eat your eye.�
Eat your eye?� For gods� sakes
what the hell inspired you to do that?�
Where in your upbringing did we teach you to devour body parts you
lose?� You think your mother would be
happy to know you swallowed an eye for her?�
She�d vomit.�

�Well Father, I�m not surprised that it doesn�t please
you.� Hence the reason I didn�t bother to
write.� Dun slumped into a chair and poured himself some wine.� The old man was getting so much worse with
age.

�Well you better take my advice on this baby of yours, don�t
let your woman go breast feeding that kid till he�s two.� Look what happened to Yuan, I should have
never let your mother keep that up�� Xiahou Qin shook his head.

�Fucking hell, this again?�

�What? You still don�t believe me.� How else did that kid get so plump?� Same thing with cows, you want the calves to
get fat you milk feed em.� Yuan is the
veal of our family.�

Drowning out his father�s nonsensical lecture on the effects
of breast feeding his brother too long, Dun poured himself another drink and
waited.� Soon his wife would arrive and
save him from the crazy old son of a bitch.�

�Are you even listening?�

�No, when have I ever?� Dun replied and smirked as Ling Qi
appeared in the doorway.� His father was
immediately distracted and began scrutinizing her. �Meet my wife, Ling this is
my father.�

�Like I said, that breast feeding is going to be an
issue.� Going to end up with another
chubby Xiahou.�

Dun rolled his eyes and watched Ling react to the way she
was being scrutinized.� Eyes narrowed,
shoulders back nostrils flaring�good.�
His father deserved to get a tongue lashing.

�Well, I guess she�ll due.�
A bit young, didn�t realize you were so interested in bedding children,
Dun.�

�Are you just here to insult your family or does your visit
have some other purpose?� Ling sneered. �Because I don�t want to hear you
taking cheap shots at Yuan�s weight or my chest size.�

�Has the same lack of respect for her elders that you do as
well.�� Xiahou Qin sighed and looked at
his son.�

�Anyone who wants my respect has to earn it.� Ling shot
back.

�Oh�� Qin smirked.�
�So I haven�t betrayed or murdered my family so I don�t have a chance of
ever being appreciated by you.�
Shame.� Suppose it�s good that I
don�t respect woman who think it is acceptable to be on a battlefield.�

Ling Qi ground her teeth.�
�You prick.� If you think you�re
so much better than me then prove it.�

�I have.� My life is
not in question�.however I do have to wonder what morals you will impress upon
my grandchildren.� Certainly not the
right ones.� My son may find you amusing,
but I don�t think you�re good for much other than breeding stock.� Impressive bloodlines, but hardly much else.�

Xiahou Dun smiled at his brother as the man�s entrance was
unnoticed by their father.� Yuan was obviously
not pleased by having to endure his father�s ridicule.� �Have some wine.�

�What�s going on?��
Yuan whispered as his father hobbled towards Lu Ling Qi on his
cane.� The woman�s face was as red as her
warhorse and her fists were clenched.

�Our father is being himself.�

�Dun�he�s getting up there in age.� He�s going to break a hip if he tries to
defend himself against her�.�

�Eh.� Dun shrugged.

�I�m sure you�d love to challenge me, yes?� Over a few remarks that are pure truth? �Qin
pointed his finger at her and poked her in the shoulder.� �You are a hot-tempered, one-dimensional girl
who relied on her father for everything.�
You have not defined yourself as an officer, only the destructive spawn
of a very talented, but foolish warrior.��
I know my son well, so he must see something great in you.� I, �however, think you a disappointment and
a distraction.�

Zhang Liao didn�t want to interrupt, but Cao Cao highly
suggested that he put in an appearance when Ling finally met her
father-in-law.� He overheard the last
statement in the hallway and was surprised when he turned the corner and Ling
was still restraining herself.�

�You�� Ling hissed. �Are right�.for the moment.� However I will overcome this minor setback
and I will shove your own words back down your throat you condescending,
narrow-minded asshole.�

Liao grumbled.� �Ling
Qi.�

�Why should I let him throw all the insults?� She snorted.
�I�m sure he can take it like a man?�
He�s spent his whole life teasing Yuan, certainly he doesn�t have anything
he needs to compensate for.�

�Good, just what my youngest son needs, another mother to
baby him.�� He shook his head then looked
to the newly arrived officer.� �May I ask
who you are, General?�

Ling protectively sidestepped in front of her mentor, �Allow
me to introduce my adopted father, General Zhang Liao.�

Liao smiled as she said it with the most hostile crack to
her voice.� He stepped up next to her and
wrapped his arm around her shoulder.�
Obviously Dun was just going to watch the entertainment.� �An honor to meet you General Xiahou.�

�General Zhang, it is I who is honored to meet you.� My nephew is very lucky to have a man of your
caliber in his service.�

�Thank you sir.� Liao bowed his head respectfully.�

�I don�t recall hearing of an official adoption�however I
think that very noble of you to take in your old Lord�s child.�

�I have loved Ling as my own child for years.� Nothing has to be officially declared.��

�I�m hardly a child either.� Ling snorted.

�Really?� Xiahou Qin chuckled.� �It is amusing what the young perceive to be
true.�

Liao squeezed her arm.�
�Ling has outshone many warriors her age on the battlefield so far.� We concentrated on skills during her training
before but now it is time to progress to strategy and leadership.�

�Mengde agreed to help.�
He�s always been better at lecturing.��
Dun finally joined the conversation.�
�She�s accompanying him to Wan
Castle.�

�Oh�send her to school with your perverted cousin and his
delinquent son.� Brilliant Dun.�� He turned to mock his son and noticed that
Yuan had arrived.
�When did you sneak in?�
I must be going deaf if I didn�t hear the floor squeak with your
entrance.�

Ling tensed as she saw Yuan�s hurt expression.� �You bastard!�
Don�t talk to him like that!� I
don�t care who you are!�

�I am his father, which gives me the right to scold my son
for his obvious lack of regard for his body.�

�Father, just get over it.� Dun rolled his eyes.

�You mark my words son, she�s going to turn your baby into
veal.�

�What the hell are you talking about now?� Ling balled her
fist.

�Breastfeeding.��
Xiahou Qin turned his attention back to Ling Qi.� �How long did your mother breastfeed you
for?�

�I don�t know.� Why
would I know that?�

�I bet it wasn�t two years, you look like a very trim young
lady when you�re not knocked up.� You
should ask her.�

�She�s dead.� You want
me to have a s�ance just to ask her about breast feeding?�

�What the hell is Mengde up to these days?� He�s killing men, plus their wives and
concubines?� He turned back to his two sons. �That cousin of yours is letting
power drive him mad.�

�No�� Dun looked at Ling.�
�Your mother�s dead?�

�Yeah. My grandfather made sure neither one of them would be
captured at Guan Du.� Ling hoped he wouldn�t be mad. She should have told him,
but when was the right time?�

�Impressive son.� He crossed his arms in disapproval.

�According to who?� Dun scoffed as he ignored his father�s
comments.� He figured someone just told
her that to upset her, she could be gullible.

�Me.� Liao answered.

Dun looked at him and scratched his beard.� Shit.
�Why the hell didn�t you say anything?� I
mean we could have buried them��

�It was a bad time.� I
buried them in the garden.� It wasn�t
something I thought should be publicized.�
I took care of the burials and ensured Ling got her mother�s pendant.�

Ling bit her lip.�
This was going from bad to worse.�
She knew old Xiahou Qin was soaking up every word.�

Dun sat back in the chair.�
�The pendant you gave her in the hall.��

�Yes.� Liao wondered why that mattered.

�Ling�damn it!� Why
the hell didn�t you say something?� Dun stood up and kicked the chair.

�You were upset and we had just finished arguing about the
Lunar Spear�� Ling shook her head.� �I
don�t want to talk about this now.�

�Too late for that.� Xiahou Qin noted.

�I�ll find it.� Dun watched her eyes dart away from him and
Liao�s encouraging squeeze to her arm.�
He really was a bad husband.

�My father�s body and armor is all over the country in
pieces.� One pendant won�t matter.� She
shrugged and kept her eyes off of Dun to avoid him reading her lies. �Forget
it. I like this one just fine.�

Yuan stood up and punched his brother�s arm lightly to get
his attention.� �I�ll help you
look.�� He didn�t have a clue what was
going on, but it meant he could get out of being around his father and that was
a bonus.

�Thanks�� Dun looked at his father.� �Sorry Father, we don�t have time to talk.�

�You fucked up, didn�t you?��
Xiahou Qin shook his head. �You always do when you have something good.�

�I must get it from you then.� Dun followed his brother out
of the room and cursed himself for his stupidity.

�What did you do?� Yuan asked quietly as he tried to keep up
with his elder brother�s long strides.

�I�m a fucking idiot.� Dun sighed and ran his hands through
his hair.� �At Guan Du I saw Liao giving
her this stupid necklace and she hugged him�so I thought he was giving her
presents.� I just hate that he�s so
damned perfect�.fuck.� It wasn�t a
present it was a damned memory.�

�What happened to it?� Yuan asked, not wanting to know how
badly his brother had screwed up.

�Last night we fought about the Lunar Spear and while I was
on a roll I ripped the necklace off her neck and threw it out the window.� I told her she was my wife and the only jewelry
she was going to wear was what I gave her.�
I threw it out.� It�s all she has
that is her mother�s...�

�Oh.� Yuan wondered how his brother could be so damned
intelligent and always let his anger ruin that.�
�I suppose this is a bad time to mention the necklace you gave her is a
fake, huh?�

Dun snorted and kept walking.� �Funny.�

�No�I�m serious.� Yuan trotted after him, having to speed up
to compensate for his sibling�s fast pace.�
�It�s a fake�even Dian Wei could tell.�

�I bought it from the market��

�You don�t buy jewelry in the market, Dun.� Yuan shook his
head.� �You find it on a battlefield or
in a castle�never in a market.�
Bazaar�maybe.� Market��

�I get it.� Dun ground his teeth.

�Sorry.� What window
did you throw it out of?�
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��
�Perhaps you�ll show me to my nephew, now?�� Xiahou Qin asked as if the argument hadn�t
just abruptly ended with his son running out of the room to look for a
priceless amulet.�� He looked at the
necklace on Ling�s neck.� A cheap piece
of sea glass?� Some observant general his
son was.

�This way General.� Liao bowed and walked out of the room.

�Welcome to the family Lu Ling Qi.� I hope for your sake my son has learned from
my mistakes.�

Ling looked at him.�
�He�s smarter than me�and I�ve learned from my father�s mistakes.�

�Have you?� He asked.�
�Can you look me in the eye and tell me you don�t want to take Mengde�s
life for taking your father�s head?�

�No.� She replied.�
�However I think he�s supposed to prove himself worthy of that when I go
to Wan Castle
and endure his lectures.�

�Maybe you�re not so bad at strategy after all.� Qin smiled.
�However seeing through Dun�s ploys are one thing, avoiding Mengde�s�.well
that�s something I don�t believe anyone really capable of.�

�I don�t pretend to be a strategist.� I know my strength is in my blades.�

�You were not born that way.�
So perhaps you can learn the way of a strategist as well.� You do not have to be one, but understanding
them is quite useful.�

�What do you want from me?� She asked, annoyed by his sudden
change of demeanor.

�Live up to who you are.�
Prove me wrong.�

She blinked as he left the room.� She toyed with her necklace and sat
down.� The Xiahou clan was definitely
hard to understand.

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�� Xiahou Dun
was on his hands and knees in the Koi pond feeling in the muck for what just
didn�t seem to be there.� Yuan was sitting
on a rock as the fish swam leisurely around his feet.� �How the hell could it have disappeared?�

�� Maybe they
ate it.� Yuan offered and shrugged.� He
saw that glint of realization in his brother�s eye and tried to take back what
he had said. �No, Dun, they�d just spit it out��

�� Dun already
had the first fish in his hand and slapped it on a nearby rock.� He reached over to grab his scimitar and
quickly had the fish decapitated and sliced open.� He frowned and threw the ornamental fish over
his shoulder and reached in for the next one.

�� Dun,
they�re Koi!�� Yuan tried to protectively
shove some unsuspecting fish over behind him as his brother continued to gut
and search.� �They�re just here for
decoration! They didn�t do anything wrong!�

�� They�re
just fish, Yuan.�� Dun threw another fish
over his shoulder and grabbed another one.�
�Fish who ate my wife�s necklace.�

�� That you
threw into their pond.�� Yuan stood up and sighed.� �I won�t be a part of this waste.�
��
�� Then send
over Xu Zhu and tell him to bring some rice and seaweed.�

�� Stop
blaming the fish and just go admit you were wrong.� Yuan suggested and received
a decapitated fish in the face for his suggestion.�

�� I�ll find
it.�

�� You�ll
still be wrong, Dun.� The flying fish guts were enough to convince Yuan to just
go find Xu Zhu and let him have a snack while Dun carved up the beautiful residents
of the Koi pond.

�� As Xiahou
Yuan marched off wiping fish guts from his uniform, Lady Bian looked at the
necklace in her hand.� Her refined eye
had spotted something bizarre in the pond earlier when she was walking with her
husband.� When he left her to go do
something official, she returned to inspect her findings.� Now it all made sense.� Xiahou Dun had once again tried to sabotage
his own marriage by overreacting to something insignificant.� It gave her an opportunity that she wasn�t
going to pass up.� If Lady Lu was
accompanying Mengde to Wan Castle,
he was in danger.�� Cao Cao had waved off
her concern.�� He was an excellent
swordsman and Dian Wei was never far from his side.� She knew how foolish men could be and often
preyed upon that, even where Cao Cao was concerned.� Certainly Lu Ling Qi would override any
obligations to her husband or adopted father in order to have her revenge.� She was no ordinary woman.�

Lady Bian stood up and grasped the
necklace in her hand as Xu Zhu ran over to the Koi pond with a picnic
basket.� She turned her back to the
ridiculous scenario and made her way back to her room.� This necklace might be useful someday.� Her own feminine instincts detected a lot
more from Lu Ling Qi than she had shown thus far.� There was ambition there, much like her own,
and any ambition in this palace was a threat she would deal with.� For now, she would wait and see.

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