949 The New Commander-In-Chief 4yr

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Before he departed from the capital city, Pang Jing and his close friends, each contributing one sentence at a time, had composed dozens of poems about the Western Regions. The main theme was half about the strong wind and heavy snow, and that other half about the desert. At the end of the winter, when he finally arrived in Jade City, he forgot all about those beautiful verses. All he could think about was staying in a large house and isolating himself from the snowy world outside forever.
'The capital is a paradise.' He secretly let out a heartfelt sigh.
Before leaving the capital city, Pang Jing had once made a bet with an official that though it was winter, with all the courier stations that the Central Plains had built in the Western Regions, he would be able to reach Jade City in a month, which was about the same amount of time that this journey would take in the summer or autumn. Because of this bet, Pang Jing had refused to progress at a moderate pace. Bringing only a small gr