As for Princess Chang'an, the matter is even simpler: she is the cousin of Qin Hu’s cousin. Once Qin Hu is dead, the vast family fortune of the Marquis of Champion will naturally fall entirely into the hands of that cousin.
These various factions, each taking what they need and colluding with one another, have thus quickly united...
It really is true that entering the marquis’s household is as deep as the sea; there are truly so many people who want him dead.
"Qin An, do you think we can find somewhere to get out of the wind?"
Under the bright moonlight, the brutal north wind let out shrill whistles as it swept across the open wilderness, blowing the torches to flicker on and off, feeling like countless flying blades slicing against the skin.
"We can't, Young Marquis. We’ll be punished by military law if we do."
Qin Hu and Qin An, hunched over and shivering, pushed against the wind as they ran out from the camp, their feet crunching through the thick snow.
The frail Qin An, not paying attention for a moment, was knocked right over by a heavy gust.
The two sentries on duty saw them come out, exchanged sinister smiles, scooped up two handfuls of snow to extinguish the campfire they had been using to keep warm, and then slipped into their tent.
Damn it, they’ve even bribed the lowly grunts to try and freeze me to death!
This was a very small camp, consisting of about twenty tents surrounded by horse-drawn carriages. There were no anti-cavalry spikes or obstacles laid out on th…
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