Chapter 31: Calligraphy

Wuyi continued with his tasks and trainings that Chao assigned him. 

At the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wuyi added a pinch of astragalus to a serving girl’s afternoon tea, causing her and her friends to suffer from digestive troubles and be unable to serve that night. In the fall, he tied a thread around the fetlock of a visiting noble’s Ferghana horse, inducing a temporary limp that extended the noble’s stay at Lujingbao fort by two days. He never questioned the underlying reasons for Chao’s tasks; he was more focused on the ‘how’ than the ‘why.’ He believed this was also a lesson Chao intended for him: to obey without questioning the motive behind an order. Even if he was curious, he knew that knowing more than he needed to was not always a good thing.