Yuan Ye and Ah Qing couldn't get along, and he felt it was a bit unnecessary, but safety came first. After some thought, he realized he couldn't just do as he pleased, so he didn't say anything further, tacitly agreeing.
So, Tao Liulang led the way with the donkey, Jing Qilang carried the bamboo spear, Yuan Ye sat in the donkey cart, and Ah Qing guarded them with a stick. Their group set out like they were going on a pilgrimage to the Western Heaven.
It really felt like a pilgrimage to the Western Heaven; the road was damn hard to travel on. The Hosokawa Family didn't seem to care about maintaining the roads in their territory. The dirt road was sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, full of potholes, even harder to travel than the road to Nagano Castle, making Yuan Ye's butt hurt.
