Their return journey was much faster; you could say they were flying homeward like arrows, galloping madly toward the city gates. In just five days, they caught sight of Xizhou City's gate.
Seeing the city gate, Manbao and Bai Shan spurred their horses to accelerate and charged straight ahead.
The soldiers routinely guarding the city gate heard the urgent hoofbeats and lazily lifted their eyelids for a look, thinking it was an external military report, intending to shut their eyes to continue dozing. As their eyelids closed halfway, what they saw finally registered in their brains.
He opened his eyes wide again, seeing the two riders charging forward, jumped up joyfully from the foot of the city wall, and waved, shouting, "Lord, Lord, Lord Zhou—Young Master Bai—"
The gate guards were startled by him, and seeing it was the soldier from the envoy, they were quite angry, scolding, "Why are you shouting like that?"
