The rain continued until it almost dawned when it finally stopped.
Afterward, Ma Lu and Gu Qingyi set out towards the mountain bottom, with the nearest county town being Yuchang County, but it was also a hundred miles away.
Both Gu Qingyi and Auntie Zheng were injured, and the latter was even with a toddler, so even with horses, they couldn't travel fast.
Ma Lu accompanied them for ten miles, passing through a small village, with the countdown on the Traveler's Bracelet showing less than twenty minutes remaining.
Ma Lu and Gu Qingyi agreed to meet outside the south gate of Yuchang County in six days, then he made an excuse to fall behind, found a secluded place, wrapped up the valuables and two sets of clothes he couldn't take with him, and buried them underground.
Done with that, he entered the village and found a farmhouse that seemed honest, paying a hundred copper coins to leave a packhorse he'd swiped from the temple in their care.
