They were even uprooted, without any clans to protect them.
Virtually anyone could bully them.
If they weren't truly out of options, why would they risk going south alone?
But at the first stop, they encountered trouble.
Such encounters are indeed tragic, but in the grand scheme of the Great Khan, they are nothing.
Especially to the guards around Pei Yuqing, who've been on missions all over, witnessing countless horrors. Just like the Ming Feng at the Hot Spring Villa that day, witnessing such atrocities without a change in expression, they were hardly moved.
Inside the room, apart from the voices of the two servants recounting, it was very quiet.
Pei Yuqing listened quietly and asked, "Do you know which part of the South?"
The two servants looked at each other and shook their heads together, "This... we do not know."
Pei Yuqing had anticipated this; he turned to look behind him and instructed, "Go investigate, be cautious, and do not alert any soldiers."
