After leaving Sizhou, the three of them fell into a disagreement over whether to head through Jizhou or Bingzhou.
Qingniao and Yu Shishi preferred Bingzhou, as it would allow them to travel directly to Youzhou without any detours. Jia Lingyun, however, argued that Bingzhou’s proximity to the Hu tribes made the roads volatile and dangerous, so he insisted on taking the route through Jizhou. In the end, unable to win against Qingniao and Yu Shishi, he had no choice but to take the Bingzhou main road toward Youzhou.
The journey was bumpy, the carriage swaying incessantly, and Qingniao, exhausted from the day, soon drifted off to sleep. In the middle of the night, while she was still groggy, the young master told her and Yu Shishi to get out of the carriage. He proceeded to swap their original, luxurious, and comfortable carriage for a hard, stiff ox-cart. It lacked a roof, the wind whipped in from all sides, and sleeping on the straw actually felt quite chilly.
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