Taking medicine was helpful. Every cut and bruise was almost gone, and she used it only once. She thought that that medicine was expensive, but she didn’t know how much he paid for it.

Lou made her way to the stable and her mood improved more on the sight of Ash. She talked to everyone that worked as caretakers for the horses and they agreed to let him be lost and not closed all the time.

The first thing she did was give him a fresh carrot she found in the cafeteria. Of course, Lou didn’t ask permission to take it, she just used the skills she gained when she still was a thief. Ash liked the carrot and it disappeared in a few seconds.

Lou prepared Ash and took him to practice. After five hours she managed to gallop and jump. She was so excited that the first thing she did after leaving Ash in the stable was to dash to Xin Huo.

She entered the room without even one knock on the door and shouted with a very red face from running “Brother! Brother! I can gallop and jump now!”

Xin Huo that had a meeting about going to the north with Wu Bai was shocked at the rapid presence of Lou. He was happy though that she managed to do it so fast. Now their plans didn’t have to wait for too long.

“Good!” With a smile answered Xin Huo at her shout.

“SOOO, when are we going to depart?” Lou wanted to go now or at last the fastest they could and added, “I can ride well now”

“That is right. We only need to choose guards” he said and got up showing that she shall follow.

They entered a small room and there were about ten to fifteen soldiers. Both men and women. Tall and short. Thin and fat. Skinny and muscular.

“Everyone here is extremely trained in combat and are ones of the best.” Xin Huo said like it was only oblivious and continued now facing Lou, “You can choose who will be going with us”

The people were stunned by hearing that a little boy will choose. They didn’t know who he was, but they knew one thing ‘Commander things highly of him’.

“Umm, Can I really choose?” with anxiety invoice asked doubtfully Lou. Was he only testing her or was he serious? She never knew with one it is.

“We will be going, and it need be someone both of us is comfortable with, right?”

“Well, yeah” she answered and looked at the people that were in a daze and scanned them. From top to toe and decided of five people. Two women and three men.

The women were both tall, not skinny or too muscular. One had long brown hair and green eyes and the other had short blond hair and brown eyes. Both were beautiful.

The three men were tall and two of them were twins. Both twins were identical but just one of them had a mole under the right eye and the other had nothing. The third mad was one forehead bigger than the twins. He wasn’t only bigger but older too.

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Lou described them and got to know what their names were. Brown haired woman was named Lilian and the blond-haired woman was Bell. One of the twins was Xinge and the one with mole was Xinjiu. The old man was Owen.

When she decided Xin Huo decided and said “We will depart the day after tomorrow! Go now and rest everyone!”

He looked at Lou with eyes meaning ‘You too Lou’

Lou and everyone else without any decays went to their elected rooms. The last one to depart was Xin Huo and Wu Bai. They discussed what will be necessary on their journey.

The day to depart come. It was very early that everyone gathered. Xin Huo said that they should rest, but no one did that. Of course, he supposed it would be like that.

The one that trained the most was Lou. She gained more brushes that when she would train in a whole week.

She focused most on horse riding with a weapon like a sword, spear, bow, and arrow. She thought that archery was good with horse riding, so she practiced mods with a bow.

At first, she couldn’t catch balance but after many failures, she and Ash come to understand what was wrong and that was Lou’s stance on the horse. Ash too understood it was his fault and helped Lou to catch balance.

They were so happy that Lou made an appearance at Xin Huo’s study. Of course, he scolded her for not taking a break and training unending, but still, he was happy she is not lazy. After scolding he gave her a prize. That was a horse bag, so she could have her things there.

The time they should depart arrived and the last one to make an appearance was Xin Huo. Just when he comes the five guards saluted and waited for his orders.

“Brother! Can we go now?” Lou wanted to depart as fast as she could. It will be her first time traveling somewhere and she was very excited. Seeing that Xin Huo giggled a little.

“If everyone has everything that necessary then we can start departing now.”

Everyone nodded their heads, suggesting that they are ready. And just like that, they departed.

…

Four hours passed. Lou and the other women started to be hungry, but they didn’t say a word. Xin Huo saw Lou’s expression and guessed she was hungry, so they took a break.

“What you can catch is our lunch today,” Xin Huo said with a mocking voice to Lou. He thought that she would get angry, but it had the opposite effect.

“Okay!” she thought he wanted to test her archery, so she was excited to show what she can do.

Lou soon saw big and fat birds. They were quite the distance away, but she still took the stance to shot. Everyone that saw her didn’t believe she could catch it.

After two minutes she already caught five birds. Three more minutes and there were two rabbits too. Everyone that didn’t believe had a big O made of their mouth.

When everyone was still in shock, she gathered firewood and started the fire. She took Xin Huo’s dragger, he didn’t care much and observed what she will do. She split up meat from fur. Arranged it in two different piles.

The meat from rabbit was cut in symmetrical parts, she took out some of the herbs she had got last time and wrapped the meat in them. After that she just stuck them on a stick she prepared wit Xin Huo’s dragger.

The other part of the stick she stuck into the ground. Making it be roasted without holding. When rabbits were grilling she took the opportunity to prepare birds. She did the same pattern on birds she did with rabbits.

Xin Huo was amused on the sight that everyone followed his little girl with the awestruck stare. He wanted to laugh but didn’t want to break Lou’s concentration.

“It’s ready!!” Lou shouted happily and woke up the overwhelmed guards. She gave their portions out and the first one to eat was the commander. When he started then everyone else too.

They bit the meat that was soft inside and crispy on the outside.

“It’s truly delicious! How did you make it?” The twins said together and took another bite.

“It’s made better than my wife does. Don’t tell her that!” the old man said, and everyone started to laugh. Xin Hou too thought that it was delicious and that she will make a good wife.

After a few minutes, there was nothing left. They cleaned the place and departed again.