On the official roads, teams escorting convicts were everywhere. Zheng Fan rode his horse, accompanied by Siniang and A Ming.
Lord Jingnan indeed treated Zheng Fan as one of his own, even entrusting him with handling his family's funeral affairs. It took Zheng Fan quite some time to wrap everything up properly.
Siniang and A Ming were accompanying Zheng Fan to the capital this time. However, because Zheng Fan was riding in Lord Jingnan's carriage at the start of the journey, they had to follow from a distance.
After Zheng Fan experienced an intensely thrilling twelve hours in Yanjing, A Ming and Siniang were summoned by Zheng Fan to help collect the corpses at the Tian Residence.
Although he hadn't personally participated in the purge of the great clans, watching the endless columns of convicts on the official roads over a mere ten days to a fortnight made the sheer scale of the cleansing terrifyingly clear.
