Yingying in her bed could not sleep as she wonders about Yongqi’s eye contacts with hers. ‘No it couldn’t be’ she whispered to herself, ‘he has such a loving wife and I really cannot be compared to her wife.’ She smiled to herself, ‘Yes that’s it, he has a loving wife and I am just thinking nonsense, and the best is not for Huanzhu gege to find out, if not how will I be able to face all the people?’

Yingying was able to sleep now, as she thought that there is nothing more, suddenly tears rolled down her face, I have no one to turn to, I only have time to cry to myself, and she remembered her troubles…

"Yongqi," started Xiaoyanzi, "Don’t you think that Liu-Ah-Ge is always staring at Yingying?"

Liu-Ah-Ge that pleaded for them as both princesses are going to have their heads chopped off, as that he became one of their good friends.

Yongqi did not reply, he just stares at the wall blankly.

‘What is Yongqi doing,’ thought Xiaoyanzi. "Yongqi," she repeated as she went to his side to shake him, "What are you thinking?"

"Oh sorry dear," Yongqi said as he was woke up of the dreaming and thinking, "Nothing much, what was you saying just now?"

"I was saying that, Liu-Ah-Ge is always staring at Yingying, do you think he falls in love with Yingying," asked Xiaoyanzi curiously.

Yongqi felt a sense of jealously arise, just the jealously he had on Xiaoyanzi and Xiaojian. He could not do anything and said, "Yes maybe, but, will Princess Yingying fall for him?"

"Aw, come on, you are so bad," Xiaoyanzi said.

Yongqi said, "Hey, it’s the truth!"

"Alright," Xiaoyanzi gave up, "Maybe you are right, but don’t you think that we should just attach some strings on them."

Yongqi got bored, he doesn’t want to hear any of the falling of Yingying again, or he would just simply get mad.

He said calmly, "I only have my wife in my whole heart," he lied while hugging Xiaoyanzi in front of him at her waist.

Xiaoyanzi was so touched and stayed in his embrace. Suddenly she turned around of the happiness, "Are you stating the truth?" she asked innocently.

"Do you want me to dig out my heart and show it to you," asked Yongqi teasingly.

Xiaoyanzi smiled and both of them kissed passionately. Yingying’s image was drifting out as Xiaoyanzi replaced it as they kissed. ‘How I wished this is Princess Yingying I am kissing,’ thought Yongqi dreaming. They drifted off to sleep just like this.

The next morning, Xiaoshunzi came knocking at the door and said, "Wu-Ah-Ge, gege it is really very late already, and you will have to greet Lao Fu Ye and Huang Shan."

Yongqi stirred.

Xiaoshunzi knocked again, "Wu-Ah-Ge, gege, it is really late and you will have to fetch Princess Yingying here to teach gege martial arts."

Upon hearing Yingying’s name, he was awaken instantly and shouted back to Xiaoshunzi, "I’ve got that just prepare breakfast for us."

"Yes, Wu-Ah-Ge," replied Xiaoshunzi respectfully.

Yongqi looked at her wife who is sleeping soundly beside her and touched her face gently. ‘How could I possibly think of wanting such an international princess while I had the girl who faced through thick and thin with me?’ he scolded himself.

Yongqi waked Xiaoyanzi gently and said, "Xiaoyanzi, it’s getting real late, please wake up," shaking her gently.

Xiaoyanzi stirred for a while.

"It’s late?" Xiaoyanzi immediately woke up, "Oh my, Yingying is supposed to teach me martial arts!"

Then she saw that look in Yongqi and calmed down, "Yes, my dear?" she smiled and asked.

"You are so beautiful," Yongqi said, drawing her in his arms, "I really love you," and therefore gave her alittle kiss on her cheeks.

Xiaoyanzi giggled and returned his kiss, "Of course I love you too."

"Come on," Yongqi said, "Let’s get changed and have our breakfast and fetch Princess Yingying here."

"Oh yes," Xiaoyanzi remembered.

They soonly changed and had their breakfast.

Immediately, they went to Ci Ning Gong to greet Lao Fu Ye and Qian Long.

"Huang Ah Ma jixiang, Lao Fu Ye jixiang," greeted Yongqi.

"Huang Ah Ma jixiang, Lao Fu Ye jixiang," echoed Xiaoyanzi.

Qian Long nodded and say, "Xiaoyanzi, today you are learning martial arts from Yingying gongzhu, make sure you don’t create any trouble."

"I promise I will not," Xiaoyanzi said.

"And I will assure that Xiaoyanzi will do nothing wrong," said Yongqi.

"That’s better," replied Tai Hou, "Now go and fetch Yingying gongzhu."

"Yes, Lao Fu Ye," said Xiaoyanzi.

"Xiaoyanzi / Yongqi shall leave," said both of them in unison.

Qian Long and Tai Hou nodded and Qian Long shouted as they walked together, arms around each other, "Remember to take care!"

"Yes I know!" said Xiaoyanzi.

Both of them laughed and shook their heads at his lively Xiaoyanzi.

Erkang stared at Ziwei longingly as he woke up before Ziwei.

"Thank you for helping me to give me a baby," Erkang whispered very softly touching Ziwei’s hands.

Ziwei stirred, and woke up, "Erkang," she whispered.

"Yes my wife," said Erkang.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Ziwei asked.

"I want to thank you for helping me to get pregnant," Erkang said.

"Awww… How sweet of you," Ziwei exclaimed.

Both of them reached for a little kiss.

"Come on," Erkang started, "We have to go to the palace to report don’t you remember?"

"Oh yes, I forgotten it completely," Ziwei said.

They both changed and when to have their breakfast hand in hand.

They quickly went to the carriage and went into the palace.

"Yingying, are you there," shouted Xiaoyanzi from outside.

"Oh yes, do come in and take a seat," Yingying replied.

Both Xiaoyanzi and Yongqi went in to take a small seat.

"A minute please, I am making some tea for both of you," said Yingying.

"Thank you," Yongqi said politely, "You shouldn’t have, and you should call the maids to do it."

"Oh I always do the things by myself," replied Yingying from the kitchen, "I don’t feel really good by calling the palace maids to do all the jobs."

"How thoughtful she is," thought Yongqi. Again, the images of Yingying reappeared in his mind again.

Just then, Yingying came out of the Kitchen bring two cups of tea. The tea smelt really very fragrant.

"Yingying," Xiaoyanzi said excitedly, "What tea leaves do you use? It smells so nice," taking a sip, "And of course tastes nice too!"

Yingying smiled, "This is the tea leaves I have brought from Mongolia, it’s from one of the villagers and they are really rare, me myself have only got a few with me."

"Oh I see," said Xiaoyanzi.

"Are you ready to teach me?" asked Xiaoyanzi again.

"Oh yes of course," said Yingying.

"Make sure you are mentally prepared," joked Yongqi.

"There you go teasing me again!" Xiaoyanzi glared at him angrily.

"Oh, sorry my wife," said Yongqi.

Three of them led themselves to Jing Yang Gong.

Outside, the voice of a eunuch started, "Ziwei gege jia dao (Ziwei gege’s reaching), Fu Da Ye jia dao! (Fu Da Ye is reaching)."

Tai Hou, Qian Long and Qing Er went in front to take a look at Ziwei and Erkang.

"Huang Ah Ma jixiang, Lao Fu Ye jixiang," both of them greeted in unison.

"Ziwei you are expecting aren’t you?" asked Tai Hou concerned.

"Yes I am and I am really very excited," Ziwei replied.

"But you must really take care of yourself," Qian Long reminded.

"Yes, Huang Ah Ma," Ziwei said.

They all chat for a while and where Erkang found out that there actually is someone missing. "Where is Xiaoyanzi and Wu-Ah-Ge?" asked Erkang.

"Oh yes, where are they?" asked Ziwei.

"Both of them," Qian Long said, "Speaking of Xiaoyanzi, wanted Yingying gongzhu to teach her martial arts."

"Ah?" replied both of them in unison.

"That’s what I am worrying," Qian Long spoke frankly, "She can’t even learn what Yongqi martial arts are and still wanted to master Yingying gongzhu’s."

"That’s what I am having in mind," Ziwei said worriedly.

"I think you both should take a look," Qian Long said, "I don’t want to go is that I just don’t want to see how Xiaoyanzi learns," giving a disgusted look.

"I think so too," Erkang said.

"Oh ok, please go," said Tai Hou.

"In that case, Ziwei shall not disturbed Lao Fu Ye and Huang Ah Ma anymore," Ziwei said respectively.

"Ziwei / Erkang gao tui (Ziwei / Erkang takes my leave)," both of them said.

"Ziwei, do be careful!" Qian Long said.

"Especially Xiaoyanzi’s swords!" Tai Hou said remembering all kinds of troubles Xiaoyanzi created.

Erkang and Ziwei both laughed and turned behind and said, "Yes I know!"

"Here, Huanzhu Gege, take this sword," said Yingying, "I am teaching you the basic skill first, then you will be able to master all kinds of skills."

Yingying took out her sword and danced with the sword gracefully, each step and every skill was gracefully demonstrated.

After finishing demonstrating, all of the people in Jing Yang Gong clapped thunderously.

"Huanzhu gege," Yingying said, "I will teach you step by step."

"Oh ok," said Xiaoyanzi, holding the sword.

The way Xiaoyanzi is holding the sword is of the wrong, therefore Yingying corrected her, and said, "Huanzhu gege, the way you sword is wrong," demonstrating how she should actually hold the sword.

"Oh," Xiaoyanzi changed the way of holding her sword.

Following every single step that Yingying demonstrated slowly. However, the step is getting tougher and tougher each time. Soon, Xiaoyanzi could not follow it anymore and gave up, "Yingying! It’s so diffcult! I am giving up!"

Yingying was shocked by the reaction, "Huanzhu gege, didn’t you say that you want to learn martial skills?"

"Yes," Xiaoyanzi said, "But it is certainly very difficult."

"But when the first time I learned I also felt like giving up but in the end I get to have known martial skills," Yingying reasoned.

Erkang and Ziwei heard everything of Xiaoyanzi giving up and immediately went in and said, "Well, well, well," Erkang said, "Xiaoyanzi are you sure you are giving up? Don’t call for Princess Yingying to call her to teach you martial skills again then."

"Xiaoyanzi," Ziwei said, "No pain no gain remember?"

"Alright," Xiaoyanzi said reluctantly, "I will learn then."

"Learn it for me ok? Dear," said Yongqi pleading, turning to Yingying, "Princess Yingying sorry for that, there I told you, you really must be mentally prepared when teaching Xiaoyanzi."

"It’s ok," Yingying reasoned, "I am like that too."

Yingying again, graced the martial steps again, this time slowly in order to let Xiaoyanzi catch what she is doing. This time, Xiaoyanzi get to absorb a little easier, and finally after watching Xiaoyanzi training it for 5 hours, she finally learnt about the basic sword skill!

"Thank you Yingying," Xiaoyanzi said, "I don’t know that learning this is actually that easy."

"So far in our records, no one had actually succeed in teaching Xiaoyanzi anything," exclaimed Yongqi unbelieving at Yingying’s talent.

"Princess Yingying, you are such a talent," commented Ziwei.

Yingying smiled, "It begins with Huanzhu gege," Yingying said, "And all of you here, giving her support and her determination."

"Xiaoyanzi," added Erkang, "Congrats, you actually managed to master such a sword skill, actually this is not that basic, this is quite a precious and different sword skill and you managed to master it and I am very sure that your martial skills will improve a lot if you keep training."

"Really?" Xiaoyanzi exclaimed, "Thank you Yingying!"

"Don’t have to thank me," Yingying said.

True indeed, Xiaoyanzi’s martial skills really developed and improve a lot, if she really continue to master that sword play that Yingying taught her, her martial skill will be able to be compared to Yingying’s.

‘How graceful her martial steps are,’ thought Yongqi, ‘How wonderful is she to teach Xiaoyanzi.’ He looked at Yingying longingly again. This time he could not escape Ziwei’s and Erkang’s eyes. Both of them exchanged glances and knew that something is wrong. However, the careless Xiaoyanzi always seemed to forever so careless and didn’t notice it and that was very lucky for Yongqi.

-continued on chapter 7-

• Will Xiaoyanzi find out about Yongqi’s fall?
• Will they have anymore fun and laughter if Xiaoyanzi finds out?
• Why is Yingying crying late at night? (paragraph 1)
• What really is troubling Yingying?
• When will Yingying return to Mongolia in order to let Yongqi rest his mind?
• What is the real purpose of the visit?

Really treasure you sharing all your time reading my story, thanking all of you!

Completed on: 8^th Aug 2000 – 6.48PM