"There are no banknotes left, I only have twenty taels of silver on me. The imperial decree stated that we are being exiled as convicts and our family property has been confiscated."
Qin An was only sixteen years old and served as Qin Hu's personal page. Extremely thin and frail, he had long since reached the limit of his endurance and looked as though he had only one breath left in him.
In truth, Qin Hu was in no better shape. Over the past few days, the Vanguard Battalion had been marching thirty miles daily, assigned to tasks such as clearing paths through mountains, building bridges over rivers, gathering firewood, digging trenches, carrying water, and pitching camps.
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