"Viscountess, why are there people preventing us from advancing?" Hu An asked, confused. On Qin Empire land, who would dare make life hard for the emperor’s daughter?
"Across the Lancang River is Hadisai City, the territory of Earl Mokolari. This fencesitter has finally sided with the lower house. Sadly, someone like him doesn’t have any guts. If he had really wanted to butter up my uncle, he should have sent cavalry to lockdown this bridge. I would have been forced to take a different, longer route. Do you understand now, Hu An?"
Hu An shook his head in shame. His family was not any great worldly family and he had no chance of gaining the rank of a noble. These inner workings of the wealthy were something that he had only read in books. Since leaving his home, he had been studying in Bitter Water Prefecture, focusing solely on the research of magic. He might have been able to fight, but was unable to understand whatever Viscountess Lex had just said.
