Traveling among the merchants as they followed Gao Gun to Chang'an, Wang Chong and Su Luoyan naturally could not bring so many people with them. They therefore kept only a dozen or so at their sides, while the rest disguised themselves as a merchant caravan and trailed slowly behind in a winding procession. When Sun Mingke heard that Wang Chong was going to Chang'an, he pestered him to let him come too. Wang Chong thought bringing this younger brother along would be quite helpful, so he took him along. Since he himself would be keeping Su Luoyan company, he worried Sun Mingke would have no playmate and brought Jiang Wenyue, who was close to Sun Mingke in age, as well as the five youngest Wudang Disciples. Su Luoyan brought only four male servants and seven maidservants. To avoid attracting attention, they even kept the others in the party in the dark: Wang Chong, Su Luoyan, Sun Mingke, Jiang Wenyue, and the four male servants and seven maidservants all claimed to be Wudang Disciples. With five genuine Wudang Disciples serving as their front, and Asia's Number One Evil Art transforming their appearances, no one else could tell.
Jiang Wenyue sat in the carriage, idly enjoying the scenery along the way, and felt utterly at ease.
As the youngest general under Wang Chong, he was a little younger than both Sun Mingke and Wang Dong, yet came from the humblest background. Jiang Wenyue could only feel that his present life was like a dream or an illusion, so good that it hardly seemed real. Occasionally, he missed his mother and thought to himself, *Once I've helped the Prince of Yan finish this important business, I'll ask him for leave and go back to the Turks to bring Mother to the Central Plains.