Daning Prefecture!
Huizhou City.
At the city gate, beneath the night sky.
An old man in his fifties arrived at the city gate with a young woman dressed in a light-purple coarse-cloth gown.
After arriving, they kept looking cautiously and worriedly behind them into the darkness.
Only upon seeing the soldiers stationed at the gate did the two relax slightly.
"Stop."
Seeing the two people approaching alone from outside the city, the soldiers guarding the gate immediately stepped forward.
"Sir."
The old man immediately cupped his fists in salute.
"Who are you? Do you have travel permits?"
The banner officer on duty approached, eyeing the two of them warily.
Daning Prefecture bordered Liaodong, and Huizhou City was a frontier city of the Ming Dynasty's Daning Prefecture. Its defenses were naturally much stricter, as were its inspections.
This was also to prevent spies from entering the city.
Thus, travel permits were extremely important.
In this era.
Without a travel permit, one simply could not travel far. Everyone needed one, while those serving the authorities required official documents as well.
"Sir."
"These are our travel permits."
The old man immediately fumbled around inside his robes, took out two documents, and respectfully handed them to the soldier before him.
The banner officer on duty accepted the two travel permits and examined them by the light of the torches at the gate.
"Lin Fu."
"Shen Yu'er."
"Registered in Beiping Prefecture."
"What are you doing in Daning?" Seeing that there was no issue with the travel permits, the banner officer returned them to the old man and asked.
"Reporting to you, sir."
"We have come specifically to find someone."
"My young master has been serving in the Daning Prefecture army for nearly a year now. We have received no news of him for so long,