Early the next morning, Xu Qing drove the Thousand-Mile Steed, adorned with a white flower on its chest, pulling a thin-skin coffin to the Government Office entrance.
The Thousand-Mile Steed was once ridden by Xu Qing from the East City Road Ferry all the way to the Imperial Mausoleum in the northwest.
Xu Qing didn't care for the horse back then, though he only rode it once, he pushed the horse's strength to its limits, feeding it Fasting Pills, Breath-Gathering Powder, and Strength Pills all at once. The horse had never run so fast in its entire life!
Afterward, Xu Qing was preoccupied with his own affairs and just left the horse to go on its own.
As it happened, the horse, wandering along the official road, encountered Wu Wencai, who was heading to the Capital City for exams.
The horse seemed quite intuitive. Xu Qing didn't know whether the horse saw something special in Wu Wencai, or perhaps it simply saw him as a long-term meal ticket.