"We have no bank notes left. All I have on me is twenty taels of silver. The imperial decree stated that we are exiled as convicts and our family property has been confiscated."
Qin An was only sixteen years old this year and served as Qin Hu's personal page. Being very frail and already worn out by the torment, he looked as though he had only one breath left.
In truth, Qin Hu was in little better shape. Over the past few days, the vanguard camp had been marching thirty miles a day. Their duties consisted of clearing paths through mountains, building bridges over rivers, gathering firewood, stoking fires, digging trenches, fetching water, and setting up camp.
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