Scene eight:That night, Prince Mua Kong was looking through some doc.u.ments in his studying room when someone knocked on the door, "Come in," Mua Kong answered.
A bodyguard came in, "My Lord, we were dispatched early this morning to the place you marked on the map but..." He sounded a little nervous, thinking of a better way to break the news to the Prince but there really is no better way to break the news. Regardless, the Prince will be mad so he continued, "But there wasn"t anyone living in the hut and the place looked like it was raided."
Prince Mua Kong stood up as he slammed the book in his hand onto the table and glared at the bodyguard, "Have you searched thoroughly?" His voice sounded colder than ice which send chills to the bodyguard"s bone.
The bodyguard cowered lower than before and replied, "Yes."
"And you did not find anyone?"
"Yes."
"Useless!!" The Prince slammed on the table again with his bare hand causing the table surface to crack.
"I"ll personally go back there myself tonight," Mua Kong shouted angrily.
That night, the Prince secretly went out of the Palace with a few bodyguards.
Dawn was approaching when they arrived deep in the mountain. The little hut looked like a tornado had just blew through the area. Prince Mua Kong could not find the two people he wanted to protect. He felt a sense of hopelessness and unaccomplished. He was sure that this is the work done by the same group of a.s.sa.s.sins. He can only hope that the grandma and Hli Ja are ok since their bodies could not be found. The next thing is to find the a.s.sa.s.sins. There has to be a clue somewhere. He thought of the same thing as his father, to send spy and intel to infiltrate the other two countries and he will investigate from within.
Scene nine:
Six years later appeared on the big screen
In a town bustling with people and businesses, a beautiful young girl ran out the door in a hurry from a little house. She turned around and waved back, "I"ll see you later grandma."
She ran happily to a famous restaurant, Lotus Flower Restaurant. She went to the kitchen and greeted the head staff, "Hi, I"m Hli Ja. I will be here temporarily working in the kitchen until the owner comes back. I will be in your care for the next two weeks." The head staff is well aware that she will be helping for the next couple of weeks as the owner and his family make the trip to see their mother-in-law who is on her dead bed. The mother in law lived in the next city so the owner will be gone for a couple weeks. Their son Cher Pheng was good friend with her and they asked her to help the restaurant while they are gone.
Hli Ja will be working as a cook in the kitchen for the upcoming weeks as the restaurant will be short staffed. Like that, the first week went by smoothly. After she was done at the restaurant she will go home and help her grandma sell herbal medicines. They have a small herbal shop in front of their home. Some herbal medicines, they buy and trade with traveling merchants. Some herbal medicines, Hli Ja make the trip to the wilderness mountains to collect them.
One sunny afternoon on the third day into the second week, a heavenly handsome young man and two other men pa.s.sed through the city. They checked-in at a hotel a few buildings down the road from Lotus Flower Restaurant. Once they checked in at their inn, they order lunch be brought in to the handsome young man"s room. The men were talking about their investigation and sharing intel they gathered during their travels.
That late afternoon, the group planned to scout the town since they were there already. They walked out of their inn and strolled down the street. After they pa.s.sed through Lotus Flower Restaurant entrance, Hli ja burst out of the restaurant entrance. A server chased after her carrying a bag of food, "Wait, bring this to your grandma." The server yelled as she chased after Hli Ja.
Hli Ja stopped and turned around to receive the bag, she replied, "Thank you Mai. I"ll see you tomorrow," and she sped off. She was in a hurry to get back and help her grandma tend to the shop.
The heavenly handsome young man froze feeling electric shock through his heart when he heard Hli Ja"s voice. He turned around as soon as he heard the replied, but by the time he turned around, she already sped off running farther away. He looked at her back for a moment and looked up at the sign of the restaurant. The personal bodyguard went up to him, "My Lord, do you want to eat here?"