Vol 5 Chapter 39 (1/2)

WRITTEN BY XAPHHAUGUST 6, 2016

VOLUME 5 CHAPTER 39: DON’T TELL ME THIS IS RIDING AS 3 FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES (16)

Yun Chang POV

After a day and half of rest and recovery, we left Luoyang city at first light on the 3rd day. After the battle at Luoyang, the several hundred men we had suffered a fair number of casualties and were now just barely enough to guard our convoy.

And Meng Huo and the Nanman did not follow us for now. They were fascinated by the sights in Luoyang and were not too concerned with getting across the river as quickly as possible.

“Blade girl, we’ll be staying here for a few days more.” Meng Huo said to me as he sent us out, “You Central Plain-ers have too much on your mind and if you want to keep advancing, you have to set some things down.”

His words were uncharacteristic of him, but perhaps it’s because they seem uncharacteristic that those words have more weight.

“Un, I understand.” I replied as I saluted him in thanks.

“We’ll meet again at the river crossing.” They said as they sent us off, staying to watch us outside Luoyang city until we were out of sight.

Are the people of Nanman all this warm?

“General Guan, do you really not want to summon some of Luoyang’s guards?” Just as I was preoccupied random thoughts, Liao Hua parted the veil on her hat and spoke to me with an indifferent expression. It didn’t look cold but I couldn’t feel any warmth from it either.

“No. Now that you have left Luoyang as well, there might be some unrest in Luoyang so the city needs all the guards it can get.”

On the other hand, after that battle, I experienced firsthand how weak the soldiers of Luoyang city were. Of course, I won’t mention this as a reason.

As for Liao Hua, she still followed even after numerous attempts to turn her down.

She left the Administrator seal in the Administrator residence and wrote 2 letters, 1 for her resignation and another, a recommendation for Administrator. And now she was just an ordinary person with no official position.

And so, Meng Huo and the Nanman have left us temporarily while we have gained an old-fas.h.i.+oned girl, Liao Hua.

But really, why did Liao Hua choose to come with us all of a sudden? We only knew each other for less than an hour and she’d decided to hand over Luoyang to us, and thereafter, to leave with us.

It’s a little too absurd.

I looked ahead and saw Wen Yuan and Lu Bu discussing something over the map. Feeling bored, I decided to ask the question that had been bothering me. “Umm Liao Hua.”

“What is it, General Guan?” She replied in a low voice as usual as she sat on the horse with her back fully straight, in a position that would not have seemed out of place in a textbook.

Looking at Liao Hua who was like this, I couldn’t help but feel serious as well.

“I wanted to ask, where are you planning to go from here on?”

“Where ever works, as long as I’m with you all.”

“Hai~ Alright then,” At her words, I had no choice but to cut to the chase and ask what was bothering me, “If you just want to be witness to history, why do you have to follow us then?”

“… General Guan wants the truth from me?”

“Un, I really don’t understand why you must follow us.”

“It’s not like I can’t talk about it,” She paused and turned to look at me for the first time with an honest gleam in her eyes, “I can’t really put my finger to it, but I feel that everyone’s paths are very murky.”

“Eh?”

Our paths are murky?

I don’t know about Lu Bu but for me, I follow the path of loyalty and honour, and I have been doing so.

When she saw my puzzled look, Liao Hua did not seem perturbed and continued explaining, “Now that we’ve established Han Fu and Meng Tan as treacherous villains, if it weren’t General Lu Bu but General Guan back in Luoyang city then, what would you have done?”

“If it were me, I would definitely have made the same choices as Lord Lu Bu did then.”

That’s right. As one who holds loyalty and honour above all, eradicating evil is a duty I adhere to.