“Sect leader master, fifth master comes back,” a male disciple said.
“Gao Zhang Shan returns,” Bai Bingwen, the leader of the Purple Jade sect, said. Then he, Gong Xun, Xu Jing Ling and Bai Xiao Feng halted their discussion and got up from their seats.
Through the tall and giant door, a chubby guy was walking and went to join all of them.
“Senior,” he said.
“Fifth junior, this time you were tired,” Bai Bingwen stated.
“No, I’m not. It’s my honor to be a representative of the Purple Jade sect attending the underworld event.”
“How is it going?”
“It’s quite good.”
“What’s about the dark sect? Did they bother you?”
“They were a little bit annoyed, but they didn’t cause any trouble. They were calmer than before.”
“It’s not their attitude. We have to be careful,” Xu Jing Ling said.
“Third junior is right.” Bai Bingwen nodded his head. “Dark sect is very tricky. We have to be careful.”
“Husband,” Bai Xiao Feng came to hold Gao Zhang Shan’s hand, “you traveled for many days, you might be tired. Go to rest.”
“Wait,” Gao Zhang Shan said, “I have something to report.”
“What’s that?” Bai Bingwen said.
“While traveling back, when I arrived at a village, there was a robbery. The villagers were killed, only three kids remained. Now, I took them to our sect to see whether they will be able to become our disciple,” Gao Zhang Shan told.
“Let them in first,” Bai Bingwen said.
After hearing the claim, Gao Zhang Shan hurriedly called the three little guys coming in.
“Kneel down,” he told, and the young kids bend their knees on the floor.
All the masters came to see closer. Among the three, there was a girl.
“She is pretty,” Bai Xiao Feng said with her lips extended largely and her eyes focusing on the little woman.
From the ground, different from the two male kids, the young lassie didn’t make her face low and her eyes looked straight up at the masters of the martial arts who were standing on the stage before her. Among the five, she perceived two male masters, one had black hair but some white hair and face’s expression like a tiger, and one had all white hair with a gentle face but strict, were watching her without dropping eyes.
“Say your name,” Gao Zhang Shan said.
“I’m Niu.”
“I’m Ah Long.”
“I’m Yang Ying.”
“Is Yang your surname?” Bai Xiao Feng said.
“Yes.” Yang Ying nodded her head.
“How old are you?”
“I am eighteen.”
“Did your parents live in the village?”
“My parents died many years ago. I lived with mother Wang. We were moving Wan Hua Lou to the city, then we arrived at the village and we took a rest. Then the robbers came to kill all the villagers including mother Wang and other people in the crew.”
“Wan Hua Lou!” Bai Xiao Feng narrowed her eyebrows.
“Huh," Xu Jin Ling threw from her mouth, then she vocalized with a mock voice, “A courtesan.”
“No, I’m not,” Yang Ying stated. “I was in charge of cleaning the tables, taking food to the guests and washing the dishes.”
It was an innocent reply, but Xu Jin Ling interpreted that the young girl was protesting with her, making her feel rage at once.
“Girls in a brothel, wild, uneducated, no shame,” she said.
All the masters looked at their sister, but no one opened lips, except Gong Xun.
“I don’t see anything wrong since she just said honestly, especially about her true job in the house,” he said.
Xu Jin Ling turned to face Gong Xun, “What are you wanting to say, fourth junior?”
“I said,” Gong Xun showed his face to his female senior, “she isn’t wrong to clarify about her duties at Wan Hua Lou.”
Seeing the spark, Bai Bingwen hurriedly removed it before it became a fire. “Let’s make a decision over these kids,” he said. “Which palace do you think they should go to?”
“I am fine to accept the boys if the sect leader senior wants me to,” Gong Xun said.
“Then you can have them,” Bai Bingwen said.
“Yes.”
“And…” Bai Bingwen looked at the young Yang Ying.
“I can accept her,” Bai Xiao Feng said.
“She is a girl,” Gao Zhang Shan said. “The disciples at our palace are all men.”
“I can teach her myself,” Bai Xiao Feng said.
“I think she should go to the Left Palace,” Bai Bingwen said.
Hearing that, the junior masters unlocked their eyes.
“She is a girl. It’s not easy for her to live together with the males,” he continued, with eyes towards the female leader of the palace. “At the Left Palace, they are all girls, it’s good for her and everyone.”
Though the mind didn’t want to, lips could not deny - because he was the leader of the sect.
“Yes, senior,” Xu Jin Ling stated.
“Good.” Bai Bingwen nodded his head, then he said to the kids, “Now, you are our sect’s disciples. You must follow and respect our rule. Go after your senior. He will tell you.”
“Yes,” the kids said and got up and walked out of the hall.
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Even though everything was settled, Bai Xiao Feng was still having questions. She said with her husband, “Why did sect leader senior give Yang Ying to third senior? He knows that I like her. Why didn't he give her to me?"
"At our palace, there are many disciples and there are many works already for you. Senior might be afraid that she would be your burden," Gao Zhang Shan said.
"I don't mind. Though we have many disciples, they are boys. I want a girl. Did you see her in the hall? She doesn’t like her.”
“Third senior might be a narrow minded person, but she is not bad, she will not harm the girl.”
“I know that she will not harm Yang Ying, but Yang Ying ever worked in a brothel, and third senior hates women in the brothel.”
“It has been many years already. I think third senior forgot about it. Even if she still has it in her mind, she will not count on Yang Ying because she is a kid and she is not a courtesan. Don’t worry.”
Knowing that she could not persuade her husband, Bai Xiao Feng stopped speaking. However, her mind was still bothered - as she savvied all the past of her older sister.
Not only the wife of Gao Zhang Shan but also the two male masters were worried since they knew their sisterhood’s personality and they saw the characteristics of the new disciple, but looked like they could not do anything because the girl was not under their management.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmdhkCc8cm
Yang Ying was sent to the Left Palace where she had to share a room with other disciples. She was having a good relationship with her female seniors as she was friendly to everyone. She got quite a lot of information even on the first day she arrived.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuDDF3Lrsv9
The new girl was told about the brief history of the sect. She knew that her own master was the third among the five masters who monitored the sect, the kind woman who wanted to take her as a disciple was her sixth master and she was the wife of the fifth master who saved her life, and the two men who were looking at her in the hall were her top senior master and her fourth master.
The Purple Jade sect had three important palaces, the Middle Palace, the Right Palace and the Left Palace. The Middle Palace was under management of the sect leader, but he allowed the fifth master and his wife to help monitor. The Right Palace was under control of the fourth master and The Left Palace was in the hands of her own master.
“How old are the sect leader master and the fourth master?” Yang Ying said.
“I’m not sure, but I heard they are more than fifty. Because they achieved the master degree of the martial arts, they can maintain their look,” the female disciple said.
“Is fourth master mean?”
“I don’t think so. Perhaps because he doesn’t talk much and he doesn’t smile, all the disciples are scared of him.”
“I see.” Yang Ying wagged her head. Her mind still thought about when the elderly guy spoke for her against her present master in the hall.
“It’s late. Let's go to bed. Tomorrow, we have to get up early to practice," the female disciple said.
"Will teacher teach us?"
"Most of time, it's eldest senior."
"Eldest senior!"
"Um." The female disciple nodded. "She is named Lin Quo Ju. She is the teacher's favorite disciple and her martial arts skills are very good.”
“Does teacher like her so much?”
“If she doesn't, how can she give a private room to her while all of us sleep together in a small space like this? But eldest senior is kind, she looks after all of us.”
After talking, the two girls dropped their backs on the bed.
But Yang Ying opened her eyes later on. She could not sleep because she was not used to her new bed. In the brothel, though she didn’t have a soft mattress, she had a private room where she could have full freedom to make a pose she wanted to. Here, her space was small and around her were people. She could not do anything besides staying straight, sleeping on the right or sleeping on the left.
Unable to stay in bed anymore, Yang Ying sneaked out of the room; she thought of doing some walking hoping it would make her tired and help her sleep.
Under the dark sky, the little woman strolled along the grass path. Then she saw a shadow quickly passed before her.
Hurriedly, she went after it, but she could not catch it.
‘Where am I?’
She looked around and felt silly about where she was.
“If the teacher finds that I am out at night, I will be punished.”
When she was trying to notice the way she should take to return to her room, she perceived someone in a park before her. Yang Ying moved closer then she noticed a man was standing there. Look at his behavior, it seemed he was waiting for someone.
From his clothes, Yang Ying sensed he was from the same sect.
“I will ask him the way.”
When she was about to go to that guy, a figure of a woman appeared. Yang Ying halted her feet.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdRXhMFnU5
“Her dress code is the same as mine. Who is she?”
Yang Ying decided to hide herself behind a bush to watch over them. She saw the two people move towards each other, they had a short talk which she could not hear what they were saying; afterwards, they left the site.
Yang Ying followed.
The two went into an old log, and Yang Ying went to look through a gap in the broken window. She saw the man wrapped his arms around the female’s waists and the woman embraced his neck and they kissed.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4b4PxzBtQF
‘Wow.’ Yang Ying opened eyes and showed a low chuckle. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4SzyAQMeNS
Not long after, the two people began their special chore. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJeI8YIaVU
The eighteen year old girl watched it quietly with a smile over her face.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHog2ISmW3
Because she had worked in a brothel, she had no shy feelings, instead she considered it as a show. 160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnkREZyImrJ
"Lucky, it's me. If you met others, you would be in trouble," she murmured.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8uRIln2cDo
It was a truth without a doubt. If others caught these two, they would yell and drag them to get punished. But Yang Ying didn't do that, because she understood that it was normal, and she didn't have a bad feeling towards the woman because in her opinion, sex was a physical need, both man and woman needed it the same. What she wondered was who they were and why they secretly did it.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKJuKyS4jU
After four minutes passed, the two lovers finished their work. Before they went their separate ways, they sucked their lips passionately.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSxyfz5Xar
Yang Ying had a thought then she decided to walk following the female and at last she arrived in the Left Palace.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1loBlPsB2U
The girl looked at the unfamiliar female who was walking into a room opposite her united bedroom.
'Is she my eldest senior?' She thought.
Now it was late, she had no time to think. She hurriedly got into the bedroom and dropped her back on the bed.
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When the sun rose, all the disciples got up. Afterwards, they walked in a row towards the training field.
Yang Ying was excited that she would be able to learn martial arts. But before she reached the workshop, she was called to meet the masters in the main hall of the sect.
"Last night, where were you?" Bai Bingwen said.
"I slept in the room," Yang Ying stated.
"Didn't you go anywhere?"
The girl hesitated for a few seconds. She was scared that her master would kick her out if she found out that she left the room at night, so she decided to lie, "No."
At that time, Gong Xun said, "Get in."
Then a man came in.
"Say it," Gong Xun called.
"Yesterday, I and other disciples were working until late at night. Then I was told to take a thing in the bedroom. When I walked to get the thing, I had a stomach ache, so I went to the toilet. When I got out, I saw her walking past. As I went to the bedroom, I saw my savings box was opened and all my money was lost."
"I didn't steal his money," Yang Ying said.
"You said you were in the room the whole night?" Bai Bingwen said.
Yang Ying wagged her head slowly and responded at a low voice, "Yes."
"Do you have a witness?" Gao Zhang Shan said.
"You can ask the senior in the room."
Without waiting Xu Jin Ling called for her one disciple to come into the hall. She asked and her disciple reported that Yang Ying and her talked till late night then went to bed together.
"She has a witness, so it might be a misunderstanding," Bai Xiao Feng said.
"It cannot be a misunderstanding," Gong Xun said. "My disciple said that he saw her clearly."
"So what do you want to do?" Bai Bingwen said.
"It's easy," Gong Xun said. "Let's check her place."
The hall was quiet for a second, then Bai Bingwen nodded his head.
Hurriedly, Gao Zhang Shan organized two disciples to search for the bed of Yang Ying. A few minutes later, they came back with a box.160Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrz8bvFpuu
