THIRTY SEVEN

After escaping out of the capital city, Ashina Helu led the small group toward the west side. He drugged the two noble women during the escape so both women would not be their obstacle. He only stopped when he reached a small village within Fengxiang County. 

He found small houses with a shared lawn in the middle which was the farest inhabitation from the other families in the village. One of the houses was occupied by a farmer husband and his newly wife. The three other houses should be inhabited by the farmer relatives but due to the landslide disaster in the past, the relatives died, leaving only the old farmer named Boqin to survive.

Ashina Helu used one house that was on the north side as a place where he kept Duan Wang Fei and