kxb: Well here's the next chapter! It's a little late and was pushed back due to Finals and the 6 snow days that kept moving the finals around along with the district deciding that we should just keep moving them a week later. But! Now they're done and now I can get back on track with the story.
I'm trying to decide when Ling Tong's going to come in, but, I'm thinking within the next few chapters or so, what do you think?
I don't own ANYONE except 唐乐琴 and the mysterious other OC that is coming in the next while.
Enjoy!
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"And then you move the fold in like this, before tying it around and voila!"
Staring at the man who just completely put on a very difficult outfit, he spun himself with a few bells still lingering and making a loud tingling 'thud'.
Turning to stare, he saw my expression and rubbed the side of his head. "You really don't get how to dress yourself in these clothes? 你开玩笑." Gan Ning looked through the chest once more trying to find a more suiting outfit for me, I suppose.
I don't see what was wrong with the fact I didn't know how to tie 5 ties at the same time. I can't even count up past 5 in English well, let alone tie knots in a short amount of time.
"Here, try this on. It should be easy enough." He said tossing over a few things before walking out, not bothering to even change out of the pink outfit I had "forced" him to put on just so I could figure out what I'd have to wear, and why.
Sure, it was ancient China but I really enjoyed my clothes that I had on at the moment. A Hello Kitty tank-top along with yoga pants. Oh, and did I mention the too-small silk top that went above my belly button? Tank-tops are something greatly needed for that…
What's so wrong with that choice of clothes for sleep and walking around (sometimes)?
Pulling on the clothes while humming a tune here and there, it wasn't half bad. Then again, why wouldn't they be less than adequate? A nice dark red tunic with subtle hints of a golden pattern that weaved around the front only to stop where the fabric ended, then started again on the other side. The pants however were…
Baggy? Messy? There could be 1,000 words to describe these pants.
Even with a darker almost flat black, they weren't very fitting; even for me. Unless I wanted to have pants drooping down my legs every few seconds that I moved, I'd need a belt or something to hold it together so I wouldn't have to walk around bow-legged trying to keep my pants from falling down and having to deal with all the guys here.
I guess that's one of the bad things when you go back in time through a video game to the Wu Fortress and camp.
"Did you die in there just from changing?"
Oh how I wish that was even possible.
For the past while Gan Ning had been showing me around the camp, around the fortress, occasionally telling me about his pirate life and how he wants to shove a foot in Tong's mouth; it was interesting but at the moment I wasn't willing to listen to him drone on and on while trying to make me remember my way around.
Like that would ever happen.
"You there?" Gan Ning asked, tapping my forehead with his index finger ever so slightly, pushing me back and forth off my center of balance.
"What!" Looking up at the barely taller warrior, he blinked then patted my head with a sly grin before tossing up some shoes.
Sitting back, he crossed his legs under the outfit while leaning back. "You don't come around from the known parts, do you? Red hair like that just doesn't come from mixes." He mused while I hopped around getting my shoes on making my mid-back length hair fall in my face making it more difficult than it already was.
A small knock came at the dark mahogany-like doors as Gan Ning and I both stopped while looking at the door.
At least he had to worry about his outfit and not mine anymore.
"Gan Ning, if you're in there open up." Said a voice in a more of a regal and a slightly worn voice as Gan Ning got up with a smile before walking up to the side of the door and turning to face me, his blonde spiked hair flowing in the wind before he nodded at the handle and gripped it.
Smirking, Gan Ning opened the latch. "Looks like you're lucky today, squirt."
Even though I was furious for him still using the word 'squirt' at me, when I was pretty much an average height beyond everyone of the people we've had to meet so far.
Trust me. There was a lot of people who know Gan Ning and raved about him before pushing my head down just like he did.
"What are you wearing?"
"Well, I was trying to show her how to change into a more suiting outfit than those weird-ass clothes she had on. By the way squirt! Why don't you come over here and meet who this person is, you'll be seeing him a lot." He sniggered to himself. More like I should not come over and see if he gets annoyed at me.
But then again, he does have a lot more muscle than me and a chimpanzee has enough weight to beat me up; I better not take my chances with him.
Scooting over into view, I wished I had pockets to put my hands in to fulfill my habit of doing so. But, what would that show the person that I was ready to die for that stood right there, within arm's reach, easily able to give him a hug and yell how cool he was or how awesome he was in Dynasty Warriors 6 while raving on about things he wouldn't even know about until who knows how long.
"Squirt! This is Lu Xun, he's the advisor here in Wu." Nodding his head and pointing a thumb at the taller warrior, it still seemed like neither of us would've liked to have been introduced to each other with Gan Ning using a thumb and calling out nicknames.
Because that just wasn't humane.
Bowing quickly on my part, and then getting back up only to fix my bangs and mentally hit myself, in my entire gaming years I never thought what I would have to do to say hello to the one person I trained up to level 50 and had as my prized possession.
Never.
"My real name is Tang Leqin. I-it's nice to meet you." I mustered feeling the heat go to my cheeks without warning. It didn't really help that Gan Ning nudged me in the stomach and was giggling like a Girl Scout who just sold 100 boxes of cookies to someone who didn't want to buy them, but lone and behold after a very convincing act from the Girl Scout, he did.
Nodding his head in a small bow, Lu Xun flicked his own bangs out of his eye sight before keeping up a small smile. "It's nice to meet you, that is a unique and, admittedly, pretty name."
If there was anything else I could say before he was moving on, the only thing I would be able to say would be: "Thank you, did I mention I love your feathers? May I pet them?"
And wouldn't that look utterly stupid.
"Gan Ning." Lu Xun started, facing him more-so than when he was saying a curt hello. Maybe it was just to please Gan Ning's antics so he could get on with what he already had to tell. Or maybe it was because I basically looked and acted like a foreigner and this isn't the time when China loved to have them here. "We've decided to count on you for going to Chi Bi, you'll be leaving soon and will have to get your men together, even Ling Tong can go with." He mused.
Having a devious grin form on his face, Gan Ning smiled and put an elbow on my head to use as a head rest. "Well! Then I need you to look out for the squirt here, not like she doesn't know some people but, would you really let her walk around the soldiers camp and expect to be able to beat all them up?"
"Ah, of course… that wouldn't turn out well, would it." Lu Xun looked over at me with something hidden in his eyes. Anger? Unhappiness? Woebegone?
Gan Ning slapped my back and pushed me forward as my darker brown eyes narrowed trying to figure out what was up with Lu Xun, and more importantly, why was Gan Ning selling me out?
Eh, I'll ask him after I get a weapon in oh, 500 years? No, really, I don't see why he won't even give me a staff! What harm could I do with a staff? Or maybe a twig, a twig will defend me for some period of time…
"Follow me then, miss Tang." Lu Xun said in a more polite tone and walked out with his feathers blowing in the wind he was creating ever so quietly. That's why! I thought and followed with more of a frown that wasn't supposed to be there, appear silently. He's being nice because there's a person with my last name here, so, he seriously thinks I'm related?!
Shaking my head, it didn't make sense. He was smarter than this, right? Maybe he's going to intterogate me, what if he already knows I'm not meant to be here?! What am I-
"Miss Tang, are you alright?"
Snapping out and looking at the older warrior, I nodded quickly. "I was just thinking on how nice the walls are decorated, and how long they took. They're very detailed and not worn down in the slightest, very skilled."
If that didn't work, I would need to use the plan of: shut up and just nod at everything.
"It did take a while, and it is skilled, I'm surprised to see that you've noticed that." Lu Xun said before having a small smile and walking forward again.
"Y-yeah!" I said before keeping up this time around.
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"You can't keep me here! I want a lawyer!" I yelled, why didn't I just bring my phone so I could explain to her that I was here in China and I needed help!
I learned German, not Chinese! Not like it'd ever come in handy, until now.
Of course they wouldn't understand me, it was like talking to a monkey and expecting him to figure out E=mc2 in one go.
Oh if I get out of this alive, we're having a serious talk when I find her.
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kxb: 3rd chapter! The first part was a bit rushed, and, I'm sorry if Lu Xun's a bit OCC __. *SIGH*
So! Todays word will be 桌(子) – table (zhuo zi).