On the way back from Capital City at the end of winter, three months had swiftly passed since encountering assassins.
For a whole three months, under normal circumstances, Li Ming's master and uncle should have delivered the letter within a hundred miles of Capital City to the center at such rapid speed. The Emperor should have received the message by now.
After all, if someone dared to attack the royal pigeon within a hundred miles of Capital City, even if the Emperor's reinforcements did not arrive, a nationwide wanted message should have been issued.
——The royal pigeons, specially bred, each carried unique mechanisms. If killed, even if buried in the deep, unknown sea, burnt to ashes, or swallowed whole, the relevant officials would immediately know that one of the pigeons had been killed.
——Even trapping them wouldn't work.