Yun Chang POV

Haa… I gave a long exhalation. It was a lot colder than before, I thought as I saw the freezing condensation before me.

The cool autumn days were past, and the refres.h.i.+ng breezes became chilling to the bone. I looked around and saw that tall mountains had replaced the vast plains from before.

“Hey, you girls in the carriage, is it cold inside?” I turned back and hollered to the carriage while I was riding a horse.

“No, it’s comfortably warm.” Gan Qing’s voice came from the carriage. Her voice was soft, perhaps because the other 2 were asleep.

I must say, the green silk robe that Lord Cao Cao gave me was really useful in keeping warm. And it was because of that, that I gave it to Gan Qing, Mi Zhen and Hua Tuo so that they could keep warm in the carriage.

“Umm, is sister Guan not cold? You gave us your robe after all.”

“Un, I’m alright.” I said between s.h.i.+vers, “I’ve always dealt with the cold like this anyway.”

I haven’t had any easy days in my life and I’m used to it already. Though my body may be cold, this thin green robes are enough to keep my heart warm.

Xuan De.

Lord Cao Cao said that he was in Runan…

Un… I feel like we’re not on the right route. General Xiahou Dun said that we should see a city very quickly. But I don’t even think we will see a village in this sort of landscape.

“Wen Yuan, do you still have the map from Lord Xiahou Dun?”

“Ah, I’m looking at it now.” I turned my head and saw that Wen Yuan was already looking at the map. She frowned, and seemed unused to reading a map, “The route from here to Runan is… We seem to have gone off track.”

Eh?

“Let me see.” I received the map and took a close look as I said so.

Indeed, the landmarks as displayed on the map in the area where we were supposed to be by now did not indicate that many mountain peaks and gorges. Perhaps we have indeed gone off track.

“Looks like I shouldn’t have let my lord lead us…”

“Un? What’s wrong with having Lord Lu Bu lead us?” I hurriedly asked as I saw Wen Yuan’s face that looked like she had made a big mistake, and then looked at Lu Bu who was driving the carriage.

“To be honest, my lord has always been directionally challenged.”

“What?!” How could Wen Yuan only just reveal something so critical at this time?! “Wen Yuan, if you know that Lord Lu Bu is directionally challenged, then why did you let her lead? Even if you feel bad about it, yoy should at least help guide her right?”

“I didn’t think it would be like that. My lord (Lu Bu) has helped our lord (Liu Bei) point out the right direction many times before and she has always been correct all those times. And there was only 1 road for this journey so I didn’t think we would go off track.” Wen Yuan shook her head and slapped her face in helplessness, “Looks like my lord will get lost if it’s just her alone who’s leading huh…”

“…”

Hai~ Saying anything now is too late anyway.

“Lord Lu Bu!” I called out to Lu Bu who was leading us and saw from be phind that Lu Bu had both arms on her reins and seemed to be seriously handling the horses.

“Lord Lu…”

“…” Feng Xian had closed her eyes and lowered her head while having a pensive look on, “… Hu…. Hu.”

She’s asleep?!

“Lord Lu Bu, Lord Lu Bu, wake up.”

“… Un un? Have we reached already?”

“No way it’s that fast.” I withdrew my arms that I had used to shake Lu Bu’s shoulders, “Lord Lu Bu, we’re off track.”

To prevent the 3 girls inside the carriage from panicking, I said so in a soft voice and told Lu Bu the truth before pointing out the route which we were supposed to follow as well as our approximate position on the map.

“Ah…” Lu Bu stretched her arms as she looked at the map, “I’ve gone off track again huh.”

The way she said that makes it seem like it always happens. Shouldn’t you be more aware of it in that case?

“I’m sorry, I fell asleep unwittingly.” Lu Bu said between yawns, “I seem to get lost whenever I fall asleep.”

The only one who will still move forward while asleep is just you, Lu Bu. And I can’t believe she actually fell asleep with such chilly winds.

“But what do we do now? We’ve been travelling for 6 hours now, and it’s getting dark so I’m afraid we can’t return to our original route.”

I was hoping to make it to big brother before they finally engaged in an all-out battle but now that we are going to be significantly delayed after going the wrong way, big brother might meet with some mishap on the frontlines…

“It’s very troubling that we have gone the wrong way…” Wen Yuan, who had just caught up to us, said in a soft voice, “But there’s another route and this route has several Pa.s.ses along the way.”

Pa.s.ses huh? I looked on the map and saw that there was a road that weaved through the mountains and there were indeed 5-6 Pa.s.ses along the way.

“From how it looks on the map, this route doesn’t seem much longer than the original one,” Wen Yuan continued her explanation, “But I’m afraid that replenishment of our supplies will depend on the generosity of the generals of each Pa.s.s.”

“Supplies huh~ But the supplies sent to each Pa.s.s is a fixed amount. I doubt there will be that much extra resources to give to us.” Feng Xian said as she stroked Red Hare who was in front of her chest, her eyes which looked ahead were terrifying but listless.

“Un… Our supplies should be good for about a week or so. It’s still alright for us since we can just eat less but…” I looked back. “No matter what, we can’t let them suffer along right?”

They aren’t warriors after all so there are some hards.h.i.+ps they should not be made to endure,

“That’s right, we’ll just have to eat less.”

“Un, I’ll give my share to Red Hare.”

She doesn’t forget about it even at this time huh. But I haven’t fed Red Hare in a while so I’ll give part of my share to Red Hare as well.

“Daa!~” All of a sudden, a savage, who wore very little and had dark skin, jumped out in front.

Who is this?