Recently eunuch Gao had been having issues sleeping and he couldn't do anything.
A fat relatively young man, with oily skin, his life was enjoyable, even among so many eunuchs in the Imperial palace.
Weird noise, strange noises had been coming from the other side of the wall, and he couldn't do anything.
Cows mooing loudly, goat bleating fiercely, together with grunts, and he wouldn't do anything.
As for living this place, he couldn't, he wouldn't.
This place came with the position and had been a source of fortune for the Gao family for years.
Right from the previous Eunuch Gao.
The previous Eunuch, his "uncle " Gao had passed ( "ensured ") , he got this place.
It came with the position!
What was the position?, truly an humble and rewarding position.
The eunuch serving as the liaison to the boundary keeper, the intermediary.
Over the years everything had been gone fine, the previous Eunuch Gao had lived the last 10 years of his life in peace and good wealth before passing it to his " nephew ".
Truly everything had been going fine, the other side always behaved, more than behaved, extremely behaved
but what was going on now!
Eunuch Gao truly wanted to check out the other side to see the issue, but he did want to unsettle the boundary keeper and his family.
It was best to leave them in oblivion.
Although it was uncomfortable, he could only stomach it.
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In five months time, Lin Ping was completely transformed.
From the handsome slender youth, he now look like a vibrant dashing warrior.
But he had given up, he couldn't just bear the solitary life any more.
The monotony.
Wake up, eat, drink, work out, sleep.
No entertainment, nobody.
He had imagined the outside world and how he would fit it so many times and he didn't want to delay any longer.
There was still about a quarter of the cattle and food stuffs left, even after ferocious eating, but he was truly tired of this kind of eating, eating.
His appetite was waning.
At first considering to leave what ever was remaining behind, as Lin Ping played wrestling with his ox, holding it's horn and pushing it backwards and even with the ox's relentless forward onslaught Lin Ping didn't budge, it was then he truly realized how strong he had become.
Then it hit him, he Lin Ping had finally been enlightened at a way
Lin Ping chuckled to himself in excitement, he couldn't sleep through out the night.
What a Genius!
Truly as Teacher, as student
Truly when one follows the teachings of the Sage, one also becomes " saged "
Tomorrow he was leaving this place.
Removing his clothes and entering the small pond, Lin Ping floated as he gazed at the moon.
The moon is this world was grey, unlike the milk-ish white of his former, painting the world in a otherworldly glow.
he just couldn't wait for tomorrow.
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The next day unlike his regular sack clothe, Lin Ping dressed in the elegant clothe he could find in the hut, a faded black robe.
Thank heavens life was yin and Yang, as the clothes made the man, the man also " made " the clothes.
Beautiful and dashing, the lack-luster clothes wasn't so bad on him, the man.
The pond mirror had confirmed it.
Dragging one long rope tied to a number of goats intelligently arranged to move together with one hand, a sack bag on his back, and another rope leading the oxen carrying his load.
In this set hope Lin Ping was ready to foray into the external world.
Walking to the entrance direction of the habitat, he looked at the two gates at opposite sides that led to the different directions and pondered.
By all guess, this gates lead to the two antagonistic empires of which he, no his father was an employee of both.
Where to go ?
Where to go collect money first!
Indecisive, Lin Ping decided to gamble, taking a stick twig " Y " shaped deciding to go wherever two of the three sides point.
Settling on three throws, the first and second point to the right, by all agreement Lin Ping should go right, but amidst his second throw Lin Ping realized that the left side owed him far more, as he and his father were connected, close to 30 years of wages!
A decade Lin Pang served before leaving to get a spouse, added to his Mother's immediate conception time after marriage together with his 18 years of age, not a single wage had been collected.
What!
He was going to this left first!, the right would settle after.
Lin Ping recalled what he saw in Lin Pang's diary, on how the Empress of the left was a cold celestial beauty.
If he had time, he take a look at this Empress.
It was just curiosity, Lin Ping felt his Father boot-licked, sorry held in high esteem things of the upper echelons of this world.
He didn't the old man's words at face value.
Having decided Lin Ping excited through the left gate immediately
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