Bai Suihe fell silent, a profound realization settling over her: this was not the peaceful era she had come from. In this time and place, human life meant absolutely nothing.
Where the carriage had just passed, the bodies of the bandits still lay abandoned by the roadside. Their comrades had fled without even bothering to take the corpses with them.
"Don't look," Gu Kaiyuan said, covering her eyes with his hand. He pulled the carriage curtain tightly shut, afraid she would be frightened. "You and Dongmei rest in the carriage. I'll go out and see what's going on."
Bai Suihe nodded and quietly slipped him a few silver notes. "If any of the brothers are injured, don't be stingy."
