A banquet table had been laid out in a corner of the inn's main hall.
Yu Jinhong solemnly bowed to Ding Songyan and Zheng Zhuxi.
"Thank you both for your help along the way. Without you, we would surely have lost the Mount Fuyu Elixir Herb."
"Have you handed over the goods?" Zheng Zhuxi asked with concern.
Yu Jinhong sat down as he replied:
"As soon as we entered Qisong Prefecture's capital and brought everyone to the inn, I accompanied the caravan's manager to the Hundred Treasures Hall and handed the Mount Fuyu Elixir Herb to the Yellow Millet Sect elder there."
The Hundred Treasures Hall was a business belonging to the Yellow Millet Sect, primarily dealing in rare minerals.
"Are you sure you weren't dreaming?"
"Are you sure he was really a Yellow Millet Sect elder?"
Zheng Zhuxi and Ding Songyan asked almost simultaneously.
Looking a little embarrassed and somewhat helpless, Escort Captain Yu answered:
"I haven't slept for a whole night and day. I haven't dreamed, nor have I felt myself waking from a dream-unless I'm still dreaming right now.
"That Yellow Millet Sect elder has worked with the Chen Family Caravan many times. Every delivery goes through him. If something went wrong on his end, that's the Yellow Millet Sect's business, not the caravan's or the escort agency's.
"Besides, Chen Jindong was there along with the elder. The Mount Fuyu Elixir Herb was prepared for him."
Ding Songyan and Zheng Zhuxi asked no further questions. They were simply, sincerely happy that the Long Road Escort Agency had completed this escort mission. Zheng Zhuxi even drank a cup of wine to celebrate.
The young woman set down her chopsticks and asked curiously:
"So it was for Chen Jindong... He's only been at the peak of the Dayan Realm