Chapter 527 - 472: Pairing the Mandarin Ducks
This time, Yang Zhenshan did not take the land route to the Capital City but chose to travel by sea.
From Chongshan Pass heading south, passing Jing’an Prefecture and then eastward to Tenglong Guard, taking a seagoing ship from Tenglong Guard and sailing southward until reaching Jin Hai Guard, and then from Jin Hai Guard into the Capital City.
If they were to take the land route, such a large entourage would need at least half a month to reach Capital City. If they encountered rainy weather or other delays, it would be common to see an extra ten days to half a month added to the travel time.
However, if they chose to travel southward by ship from Tenglong Guard, it would take only six or seven days to arrive at Capital City.
Nevertheless, Yang Zhenshan was not in a rush to enter Capital City; when he passed through Jing’an Prefecture, he made a trip back to Anning County to visit Yang Zhengxiang and Lu Songhe.
Both Yang Zhengxiang and Lu Songhe had aged, with Yang Zhengxiang having passed the proverbial age of seventy and Lu Songhe being well into his eighties.
Yang Zhengxiang’s health was still good, but Lu Songhe’s body had become frail and worn. He fell seriously ill earlier in the year and was now bedridden.
At the Lu family, Yang Zhenshan sat in front of Lu Songhe’s bed, looking at the emaciated figure of Lu Songhe with a heavy heart.
Birth, aging, illness, and death are the natural course of life.
Even though Yang Zhenshan often sent Lu Songhe Hundred Herbs Brew and Dongling Spring to nourish his body, he couldn’t change the reality of Lu Songhe’s frailty.
Not to mention Lu Songhe, even his two sons, Lu Zhaoqi and Lu Zhaoran, both had heads full of white hair.