"Hurry after them!" Old Pei told Pei Houli and Pei Wenbo. Bad news aside, as orphans and a widow striking out over mountains and rivers to Capital Jingcheng, who'd know what could happen to them on the road?
Lady Chen snapped to attention and urged them on anxiously.
Pei Houli and Pei Wenbo immediately went to the county town, rented a horse-drawn carriage, and gave chase.
The merchant caravan, burdened with goods, wasn't fast. Racing against time, they caught up with The Kong's mother and daughter in a small town a hundred miles away.
