He didn't really want to come.
It was Lady Li, concerned about Wei Shu's frail constitution, that he wouldn't be able to handle such affairs and might end up with a situation where the elderly would send off the young, regaling him with insistent worries.
After hearing so much that their ears practically grew calluses, father and son finally set out.
Wei Shu, seeing that the Su Tang father and son duo adamantly refused to leave and knowing that the campaign against the mountain bandits could not be delayed, plus some matters that perhaps he could inquire of Su Tang...
He did not refuse any longer.
Thus, more than a hundred troops from Marquis Huaiyuan's residence joined Wei Shu on the road.
After hurrying for nearly eight hours, they finally arrived at the foot of Rong City Mountain on the afternoon of the second day.
The journey had afforded almost no proper rest, leaving both horses and men thoroughly exhausted.
