"There are no bank notes left; I only have twenty taels of silver on me. The imperial decree stated that we are exiled troops 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 was already worn out by the torment and looked as though he had only one breath left.
In truth, Qin Hu was little better off. For the past few days, the vanguard camp had been marching thirty miles daily, assigned to tasks such as clearing paths through mountains, building bridges over rivers, gathering firewood, digging trenches, fetching water, and pitching camps.
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