Disclaimer: I don't own any Dynasty Warriors characters. Just the protagonist and her family and the servants...and the friends in the village...yeah thats all! This is a short chapter. I wrote it on top of my head for 3 hours on it. And please review! I would like to hear your feedback because I worked my butt off. Should I continue or no?
Chapter Two
Why does everything has to be so hard? Why can't people understand me? I'm not going to be so whiny and annoying!
Mei was seen in her kitchen with the cook. The cook was pulling seeds out of the bitter melons with her scoop. Mei loved food and she always sat with the cook to learn how to cook. The cook was an old lady with grey hairs and she was also stout and short. The lady was name Lady Shi but everyone even young Mei called her Auntie.
"Young miss, you have been here for some time. Don't you think your mother wonders about you?" Cook Shi asked.
"Let her wonder. I like to be here with you Auntie! I mean you make wonderful foods!" Mei answered.
Auntie Shi shook her head. She hated when Mei was around. Mei loved bugging everyone.
"Why? You don't want me around?"
"Its alright Mei. I just think you have some lessons for school and such. Your parents might wonder."
"I don't! I mean learning how to cook is my next lesson!!"
Gosh, she's so annoying! Auntie thought. "Well alright, here are some melons. Take the seeds out and put them in a pile."
"Wow! I'm actually learning how to cook! Thanks Auntie! What are we making?"
"We're going to stuff ground pork in the bitter vegetables. And then you can make the meatballs with the noodles."
"Is it going to be hard?" Mei asked as she was working diligently.
"No hun. Our young milk boy even knows how to do it!"
"Oh," Mei said as she looked at ground pork. "What I do with this?"
Auntie looked at Mei with confusion. She put the seeds in the trash. "Hun! Your supposed to put them in the pile. I was going to plant them!"
"Uh oh! I didn't know! I'm so sorry!"
Auntie Shi was getting mad and yelled at Mei "Get out Mei!"
Mei, in a hurry, left the room with her hands dirtied.
Mei ran into Zhang Liao. "Oh! Why are you here?"
"Is there a problem with me being here?"
"Why- yes! I mean I see you here quite a lot! Why so?"
"Because your father and the Governor. I'm just here protecting him."
"Isn't that Lu Bu's job?" Mei smiled brightly.
Zhang Liao gave her a look. "Don't be so smart!"
"Ugh! Everyone hates me!"
Zhang Liao laughed. "I believe everyone are just annoyed by you but no hate you."
Mei frowned. "Maybe I should make my presence unknown then."
"Of course you can't. Your a sweetheart."
Mei frowned. He was getting on her nerves. "Hush it! I'm going to my room."
To her youthful surprise, Mei was beginning to be an extremely mean girl. She hated the thought of people around her. It annoyed her soul and how people can reprimand her. No one reprimanded her; not even her parents. Mei got what she wanted, she hated people saying 'no', and she was just a lively girl. She tensed herself to explore the outer world, not knowing how chaotic it was at the moment.
Mei passed along the gardens and noticed all the chrysanthemums her mother planted. She noticed her sister studying hard underneath the cherry blossom trees. Unlike her sister, Mei despised studying. She hated opening up a book to read. Her lady maiden smiled at them and whispered to her sister. Chun turned herself around and said "My dear sister. Please join me for some tea and reading."
Mei sneered. "What do you wish me to do? Read and knit at the same time! Sorry, Sis! I hate that kind of stuff!" She called out and ran to her chambers.
The lady maiden, Li-Ren, frowned and remarked "my lady, your sister is not a young maiden sometimes."
Chun laughed silently and added "Oh no she is a lady, just a very lively young girl."
The maidens laughed and watched Mei run to her chambers.
Mei ran to her father's rooms and overheard the Governor Ding Yuan and her father converse. To her surprise, Governor Ding Yuan was going to assist the war against the rebellion. Her father was laughing heartily and reported to give money to his soldiers. Then they converse about certain people who she did not know. Some names were Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and He Jin. Then they spatted out about the ten eunuchs and Mei would almost hurl. She hated the eunuchs; they were nothing but suck-ups. Mei fell to the floor as her ear was close to the door's ajar space. She frowned when she heard Zhang Liao would go to war and so was Lu Bu. She just knew something would go wrong and here it was. Mei heard her father's footsteps appear closer to the door and she got up silently to run to her rooms.
However she was too late. Her father called after her "Mei! Miss. Gong Mei! You get over here!"
"Yes Father," she replied.
"I know you were eavesdropping. Why so?"
Mei was silent but replied "I was running to my room and I heard you and the Governor speeches about the war."
Her father laughed and said "Young Mei, young beautiful Mei. Your just a young lady. You need not of such stuff."
"Father I must insist on helping the men!"
"Wh- What?" her father gasped.
Mei's mother was reading a book in her room with the doors open. As soon as she heard of her young daughter's protests, she rosed herself to her daughter and husband with a shawl draped around her shoulders. "My dear daughter, a war is no place for a lady!"
"No!! You don't understand! I'm not like Chun! I'm not going to be a responsible wife like you, Mother! I want to serve these men!"
"Serve these men? Are you insane, child? I think she has a cold," her father answered.
Mei stomped her feet. She had no choice but to admit her ideas. "I want to learn the field of medical!"
"Dear, medical? You want to be a battlefield physician? You want to endure the scars and bloody tissues of men?" her mother exclaimed.
Mei nodded her head and replied "Yes. What good should I be staying home, knitting feathers and knits for these men? I can serve them better."
Lord Gong shook his head and said "My daughter has gone mad."
Lady Wong took Mei's hand and yelled "I have taught you better. Now come with me to your room!"
"NO! I won't! I'm 16! I'm old enough to plan about my future!"
"Why are you thus rebelling?" her father yelled.
Governor Ding Yuan came to the hallways and clapped his hands. "Oh dear, Gong! Your daughter is a spitfire! Very entertaining!"
"I'm not a show!" she snarled.
"Maybe you wouldn't if you keep your mouth shut!" Lady Wong said as she pinched Mei's arm.
"First of all, Lady Wong! You praised Chun and her glorious outgoing and her beautiful nature! You displeased me and my passion for living! You say thats not a girl's worth. However, I see it not as a worth of a girl! It's an opportunity! Girls aren't meant for show-and-tell! And Chun may act that way as she please, however, I am not letting you or my parents run my life! I'm young and naive - quite so - but I want to be a physician! I want to study the herbs and remedies and the diseases in this world!" Mei said as she walked away with dignity.
"That girl - she may never change!" Lu Bu said with a laugh.
"It is not her fault. It is my fault. I have never kept her close like Chun," Mei's mother said.
"Please don't say that, my dear. You love them both the same but when she was borned, we were busy with politics," her husband explained.
Zhang Liao was behind the whole scene and wondered to himself. Then after Mei walked out of the hallway to the springs, he appeared to the crowd of shocked people. "Sometimes it is best to let the girl decide. When she falter, she would then realized her faults and mistakes and run to her parents for forgiveness. It is then your role to teach her. I believe you should let her go her way."
Lord Gong frowned. "I can't let my baby girl go. She is young and active, however, she is not this kind of lady to see this bloody battlefield."
"I know you don't think she is, however, in my eyes, she is that type of lady who is serious about her certain field when she finds her interest," Liao smiled.
"Perhaps you should talk to her," Mei's mother suggested.
Zhang Liao bowed his head and went to the springs to search Mei.
Mei was dipping her feet in the little pond, nearby, wondering how things she encountered turned out to be. Her conscious tells her to be a physician. She wanted to help the soldiers. She loved the army. All the glorious stories Lu Bu told her made her excited. She wanted to experience it herself.
Footsteps were heard around her and she puffed "what else would you want? I don't want to argue!"
"Perhaps arguing isn't the best way to handle an issue," Liao said.
Mei gasped and smiled brightly. She turned to him. "And what is it then?"
"You should do your 'future' as you wish. I am not forcing you or preventing you. You may do as you wish," he spoke.
"Your not my husband. You can't tell me what to do!" she yelled.
"Of course I am not. I am speaking on the behalf"
"Interesting! Will they let me?" she asked smiling.
"Of course. I am the 'negotiator'." Liao said.
Mei looked around and shrugged. "I guess I should study the remedies and cures of Hua To then!"
Zhang Liao grinned and held her hands "Perhaps I should come to find the books as well?"
"That would be appreciated," Mei said as she giggled.
Author's Note- REVIEW! I want some!
