Volu Have No Worries (1/2)

Volu Have No Worries

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In the seventh year of Great Yong’s Longsheng era, the twenty-first year of the sixty-year cycle, the harentle breeze and war to Chang’an was bustling with an unending streaes There were thousands of travelers co

Ever since the entire north was conquered in the first year of Longsheng, peace had been negotiated with Southern Chu The two countries set their borders at the Yangtze River Although violent undercurrents raged and neither side was as relaxed as they seemed on the surface, there were still seven years of peace

The Great Yong court ell-ordered, leading to efficient governrew ’an flourished, especially as Great Yong developed trading routes with the Western Regions³ In particular, the construction of several official roads’an had become the center of the world’s cotaking its time This caravan was an ad hoc for the co just recently unified the north, there inevitably were bandits As a result, ether for the sake of safety The leader of the caravan was a , personal name Jian He was just over forty years old and had about traveled all over China as a htforward temperament, he had been elected by everyone to lead the caravan Seeing the s on the Ba River, Song Jian raised his whip and pointed ahead, declaring, “Brothers, up ahead is Baqiao⁴ Let’s travel a bit further We will be able to find an inn to rest at by sunset today”

These reement Every one of the as they reached an inn, there were naturally those ould ht, even the cal thester thirteen or fourteen years old as the littered as he looked ahead

Seeing this, Song Jian could not help ser was named Yun Lu and was not a merchant but a traveler who the caravan had run into on the road On that day, Song Jia had been in a hurry and had run into brigands on the road Although the caravan had escorts and hired hands, the bandits had blocked the way by loosing arrows At the ed over on a horse and helped the caravan repel the brigands Although this teen wasn’t that old, his body was like a baby tiger, possessing boundless strength that allowed hiht of three and he had killed countless ferocious brigands after loosing seven arrows After the brigands had been driven off, after everyone in the caravan learned that the youngster was traveling north to Chang’an to find his relatives, all of the upon his request In any case, it wasn’t that a big deal to bring along an additional person In addition, this youngster’s archery could co over the course of the journey, displaying his diligence and cleverness In addition, the boy had an optih the caravan had only known him for a little over a month, he had already become the most popular person within the caravan

However, when all was said and done, Song Jian was a worldly ster was far froh this teen was quite clever and co froster had , it was clear the boy had never done such work before In addition, although the boy had calluses on his hands and feet, they see , he was literate Although it was evident that this was this fledgling’s first trip away frohts along the journey for the youngster to fully understand and further get to the heart of thedetailed questions If it weren’t for the fact that Yun Lu was still so young, Song Jian would probably have suspected that he was a Southern Chu spy sent to Great Yong

However, seeing the curious expression on this youngster’s face, Song Jian smiled No matter how useless the people of Southern Chu were, they would definitely not send such a youngster to pry for ence Most likely, this boy was a child of some aristocratic fa that this youngster was capable in both civil and round was definitely e Jian had to worry about As long as this teen was not a spy, then there would be no i at the scenery on the banks of the Ba River, Yun Lu was extreht that ca and difficult trek However, because of a mood that he could not explain clearly to others, he alrown up in the flourishi+ng land of Jiangnan and had gotten used to the sights and sounds of the south On this trip, he had seen the char in the north Moreover, it contained a vitality that roused one to vigorous action towards advance scenery of both lands could be said to be equal, Yun Lu was fonder of the north’s heroic youngsters who galloped a breeze over the south’s senti passed through nues, Yun Lu felt that Great Yong’s people were bold and heroic Perhaps their lives were not as easy and conan, but they possessed an intense confidence and unyielding quality

It was no wonder his father would lah incessantly whenever the powerful northern eneh he was clearly only just over thirty, his father’s te Before, Yun Lu had always found it strange why his father, one thefro orry in private Although Jiangnan was rich and co the rigorously trained troops of Great Yong, Jiangnan would definitely be in for a difficult struggle

Thinking of the rusting weapons of the royal guard in Jianye and recalling the training perforarrisons and militia, these second- and third-rate troops were probably better than the majority of Southern Chu’s ar Great Yong head-on were probably his father’s troops, the troops defending Jingxiang under General Rong and the troops defending Jia Pass under General Yu It was no wonder his father, although on poor terhts when it ca

Yun Lu’s real identity was as the eldest son of Southern Chu’s Grand General Lu Can, Lu Yun Back in the day, although Lu Can was naughty and e At the age of eighteen, he followed orders and was iven birth to Lu Yun In the last fourteen years, he had three sons and one daughter Of course, the ardless of appearance or teh he was born amidst beauty and wealth, Lu Yun ht after he learned hoalk, he had begun to learn martial arts from the family retainers When he just turned ten, he was already capable of hunting ferocious beasts with his bow, and killing bandits with his spear, renowned as a tiger cub of a inally, because of his identity, there was no need for hi This time, he had left ho of, this all resulted frotai—when Lu Can seized advantage of Great Yong focusing its attention on the ith Northern Han, the recent pacification of the Prince of Qing’s rebellion, and chaos in Hanzhong to seize Jia Pass With that, Lu Can had become Southern Chu’sWeijun, who controlled the Southern Chu court, had soled for power in the Southern Chu court saw that they could not shake Lu Can directly, they began to assail hi Zhe’s student thus became the best way to attack him

Formerly a Southern Chu Hanlin Acade and married to the for Zhe had long becoet for denunciation within the Southern Chu court Under the instigation of nan would inevitably curse Jiang Suiyun as a turncoat and traitor even when tipsy As Jiang Zhe’s disciple and so Zhe, Lu Can was also caught in the crossfire Because of Lu Can’s honorable contribution to safeguarding the country and the military authority in his hands, no one dared to directly denounce hin never ceased, so much so that some mad scholars even stopped by to deliver letters to adhteousness This situation had persisted for a long ti Zhe had now beco court as a marquis of the first rank and Coreatly trusted by Yong Emperor Li Zhi, the denunciations did not cease from Southern Chu

What left Lu Yun especially dumbfounded was that his father would rather allow hiossiped about than sever all ties with that man Even to this day, Lu Can would still send an envoy to pay his respects every year Even though that h and important, there was no need for such impropriety

The intense discontent had built up in Lu Yun At the beginning of this spring, Lu Yun accompanied his father to enter the palace to participate in a banquet In the royal gardens, he had been surrounded by Shang Weijun’s eldest grandson, Shang Wen, and a nu shots⁶ In front of Lu Yun, they abused his father for having illicit ties with Great Yong In anger, Lu Yun had battered the several hedonistic sons of powerful parents until blood flowed This incident had serious raated by Lu Can, Lu Yun had re and had been punished by Lu Can using faulations Lu Yun had lain in bed for a half a , and had been disciplined by being locked up and forced to think on his mistakes

However, because of Lu Can’s fierce te Zhe, then nobody would reproach his father As a result, he took advantage of his father’s absence of inspecting the defenses along the Yangtze River to run away froe and Lu Can’s strict control, Lu Yun did not know h several layers of checkpoints, traveling north toward Chang’an

Seeing the close-at-hand city of Chang’an, he was both excited and frantic Hoas he going to assassinate that traitorous renegade under heavy security to clear his father’s good name? Moreover, he could not allow his identity to be discovered No norant he was, he knehat kind of waves would ripple by assassinating the husband of a Yong princess and an i emperor Lu Yun had no wish to i of the ancient days After successfully coure his face before co suicide, and allow Lu Yun to disappear forever Resolutely tightening his fists, Lu Yun spurred his horse and followed the caravan toward Chang’an Lu Yun, full of killing intent, was intoxicated by the bright and beautiful radiance of spring

Just after they passed Baqiao, the sudden and urgent pounding of hoofbeats came from behind Lu Yun was once at his father’s side as a spectator when his father was training cavalry Just fro In addition, from the orderly and powerful hoofbeats, this was definitely an elite unit Even the best troops under his father were at best their equal

Lu Yun could not help but turn his head to look and saw a unit of cavalry incloser Lu Yun could not help sucking in a breath This troop of cavalry were as ih the armor they ere all different, the armor were all made of finest quality iron From their postures, he could tell that this was an elite band As Lu Yun stared, he saw that the foremost horseman had a banner in his hands that clearly displayed the character lin (林)