Unable to enter the city?
How could the Lan Family afford to bear such shame? After all, Young Master Lan had taken on the responsibility towards this reclusive prodigy. Furthermore, if he needed something like a permit to enter the city with his already soaring status and background, his face would have been thrown on the ground and trampled on to no end.
Once the popinjays got out of the forest, they had sent messages home accordingly.
The expedition consisted of two hundred and twenty people; only seventeen had returned. There was a lot of casualties. Hearing that their children or grandchildren had gone through such danger, the seniors of each noble families – especially the direct elders of the young masters and ladies - were all petrified. They whined and blustered about how their children had suffered.