I didn't want to wake up at all. Although the beds were different from our modern beds back at home, a part of me hoped this was all a dream. That I will wake up and see my loving father and my disciplinarian of a mother. I also missed my sisters. This dream I wanted it to end so I could see them again.
"Young mistress! Young mistress!! Time to get up."an unfamiliar voice said. I got up in panic just like the the day before.
"Who are you? Where is Ruomei?" I ask searching for Ruomei.
"Young mistress, Ruomei is preparing your bathe. I am also your maid, Suyin. Mistress, is it true you can't remember anything?" she asks.
"Yes, I can't remember anything."
"What do we do young mistress? If the general found out, we will be dead! And your martial arts... You can't remember meaning you don't know martial arts anymore. Young mistress, please punish me. Its all my fault" she says kneeling down.
" What are you saying? Its not your fault. Please stand up." I say heading to take my bathe
This time, I took almost an hour to dress. General Wu was very strict about dressing it seems. When I saw him, he was just returning from the battlefield but still looked like a noble. But I was dressed differently.
"Why am I dressed like this?" I ask looking at the boyish outfit.
"Young mistress, you usually go to practice your martial arts with the general." Ruomei says causally.
It finally dawns on me. I don't know martial arts! What am I going to do? How was I going to fool a general? It seems Suyin was thinking the same thing.
"Ruomei, young mistress doesn't remember anything. How is she going to practice martial arts?" she says panicking.
"Oh no! Oh! This is bad. Young mistress!!!" Ruomei says joining her to panic.. I have to think of a way immediately.
"How about you tell him am sick?" I say wanting to find an excuse.
"That won't work. The general will summon a physician to check you. He will immediately know you have amnesia." Suyin said.
"Suyin, you are an expert in martial arts too. The general trained you and the young mistress together when you were young" Ruomei said
"But I am no where near the young mistress when fighting the general." She said. This immediately gives me an idea.
"I don't need to win. I just need to survive today at least. Show me a few moves". I said.
Suyin does her best to show me a few martial art moves. It was just like in the movies.
"Greetings young mistress. The general is waiting" a maid says opening the door.