The carriage left Leshan County, the road gradually narrowed, turning from a flat official road to a dirt and stone path carved alongside the mountain.
The wheels rumbled across the uneven road surface, emitting a dull rumble, and the carriage body gently swayed, making one drowsy.
Donggong Ruoshu's head nodded off, bouncing onto her chest before she rubbed her eyes awake.
The scenery outside the window was much changed; no longer were there fields and houses, replaced instead by increasingly jagged rocks and dense woodlands nearing wilderness.
The chill of early spring was even more biting amidst the mountains, the lingering morning mist draped halfway up the mountainside, tinting the distant layered peaks in varying shades of blue-gray.
The carriage curtain was half rolled up, and occasionally, one could hear the call of birds in the empty valley, accentuating the tranquility of the mountain path.
