"Tsk, this Wen Xia isn't completely brain dead after all ba." Jia Hyson mildly comnts as he's swinging back and forth in a little bamboo cage stuffed with soft fur.
He was being carried through the night by one of the Wen family's most trained and trusted guards, feeling the night wind against his face as they jumped from rooftop to rooftop, experiencing for the first ti the amazingness of fictional ancient qigong* and the light footwork skills.
*Qi as in qi energy/life force energy- if you don't know what that is then get out you heathens cuz clearly you haven't been reading much Chinese translated novels and like, given this story is talking about tropes, like, wtf are you even doing here lol- and gong ans more or less Kung fu that's cultivated through continuous training.
In fictional stories with ancient setting, people can use qigong to enhance their body strength, health, defense - which can also be effective to a lesser extent in reality- but also is used to allow the user to have martial arts so good it borders on supernatural (depending on the story). Essentially it's slightly more realistic than wuxia but less than in reality.
Jia Hyson had to admit, he underestimated Wen Xia's intelligence. Maybe it was she had cooled down sowhat after leaving the scene, but from the quality of the guards it seems she had gone and told soone higher up in the family about the little dragon, allowing her to control so of the family's personal guards.
The guards then snuck into the inn, threw out a light sleeping gas into the corridors outside their rooms and went about looking for Jia Hyson. Unfortunately Jia Hyson was sleeping next to the most sensitive super assasin/spy/doctor Tang Muxin and even more unfortunately he was specifically sleeping.... underneath the super protective rooster Da Gong.
The Wen guards who saw a shiny golden tail under a giant black rooster: '...' What the fuck is this??
The guards looked at each other helplessly. The sleeping gas they used is pretty good but given the order was deed to be low risk since they were just stealing from so commoners, they didn't bring out their most potent batch or even second or third most potent. These sort of things were expensive and limited to get.
So even though the sleeping gas will make it harder to wake up and notice sothing off, it's not impossible to resist it given enough external stimulus. If they moved the rooster and the rooster woke up in fright and crowed right next to the lady's ear.... forget being drugged even a dead man might wake up after that ah.
However the other guards who checked the other rooms ca out empty. It seems this so-called dragon the young Miss Wen Xia wanted to take was the owner of the golden tail underneath the rooster.
The Wen Guards surrounding the sleeping rooster: '....'
....it was really hard to be a guard these days la. _(:3)_
The leader of the group looked at the youngest guard, a young girl called Little Fifteen since she was the fifteenth personal guard of the current generation who was born with deft hands and nimble fingers making her perfect for the job. A few other guards also nudged at Little Fifteen with looks filled with expectation.
Little Fifteen: '.....'
She had done a lot of things for the Wen family, mainly theft and lock picking, but she really didn't know how to hold a chicken without waking them, much less this giant black rooster with her small hands.
Circling her inner qi and controlling her breath, Little Fifteen squatted down and lightly held the sides of bird, making sure to place her hands underneath the wings since she wasn't sure if they would be very sensitive. Finally, she used her knees to help her carry the weight of the surprisingly quite muscular bird up and lift the rooster from the ground like so sort of heavy ceremonial bowl.
The leader of the guards knelt down, ready to snatch the little dragon in this mont but imdiately stiffened.
Curious, the other guards tilted their heads, trying to see what exactly made their usually unflappable leader freeze. Then they all froze in disbelief.
The sight they saw was so cute!
Too cute!
Wen family Guards: Kyaaaaaaaaa~! (,,,>
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