On this journey northward, the Imperial Carriage was naturally heralded with great fanfare and majesty, with tens of thousands of people stretching several miles. At each city they passed, officials knelt to welcome them, and the local people hurried to make way. Although the journey was only a few hundred miles, it took them over a month.
By the time they reached Yanmen County, it was already the beginning of October.
And in Shuo Bei, there is no autumn.
As soon as they crossed the Great Wall, there were no more undulating mountains or cities scattered high and low. What lay ahead was a vast grassland stretching to the ends of the earth.
The sky was vast, and the wilderness boundless.
Only those who have seen such a vista can truly understand the meaning of these words. The northern wind swept up some withered yellow grass into the sky, making the flags in the procession flutter, and people swayed in their saddles.
