บท 162: Meeting the In-Laws to be (2)

Since their charge finally got on the carriage, the two maids also quickly got onto the palanquin. With the carriage driver's signal, the palanquin bearers lifted it up and began following behind the conspicuous carriage. The horse-drawn carriage proceeded at a moderate speed, not too fast and not too slow for a city, through the streets.

"Say, does the Imperial city have a law about the speed of a horse in the streets?" Shen Tianyu asked because she knew royalty tended to use four horses within a city and they were the only ones permitted to use horses within He City. Even then, they were not allowed to go above a certain speed limit as it would be a hazard to the pedestrians, whether the horse went crazy or not.