HKYWA 2014 Online Anthology (Fiction 3-6) - page 673

my uncle. I called upon a secret meeting with the three servants that were the closest with my
father. They admitted that things were worse than before since my uncle took over the business.
He had privately taken possession of some goods during delivery. Then claim the goods to be
robbed by bandits on the way. In addition, he would then ask the customers to pay more for the
goods protection fee. The reputation of our merchandising business had hit the rock bottom.
On the fifth of December, that was seventeen years after the day of my father’s death, the
servants agreed to go on strike, forcing the uncle to abdicate. I was elected as the new chairman
of the business after my uncle had run away into the darkness of the valleys.
Within ten years, I became the region’s wealthiest man. I was so proud that I had more than a
thousand fleets of camels, and my business extends to all corners of the East and the West.
As for the yeti, many times I tried to find him, but what I could find was only an ice wall. I
would often wonder if my encounter with the yeti was true, or was it merely an illusion. However,
deep in my heart, I knew that the yeti was staying in the mountain, waiting for lost travellers and
guiding them back to the right path. (903 words)
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