A group of six riders were stopped outside the gate of Lan City upon arrival.
The two leading riders were tall and well-built people from the mountains that were about 40 or 50 years old. Two young men over 20 years old and two teenagers followed behind them. All of them were wearing animal hides.
As for their mounts, there were two mountain-gazing birds, three jumping sheep, and one beast that was covered in black scales.
"Take these. If your mounts take a dump, you have to clean it up. Otherwise, you will be given 10 lashes of the whip by the Public Order Bureau," a guard instructed as he threw six straw bags at them.
"When was this rule implemented?" one of the well-built middle-aged riders asked as he was not totally convinced.
"It's by order of the empress, and it will be this way in the future," the guard replied impatiently. He was tired of explaining the same thing every day for the past few days.
