Lin Kun and Chang Yu watched Lu Qing and Zhu Yu start eating the jerky, and their expressions seemed much more at ease.
They had lain low here for over a decade, disguising themselves as mountain bandits, but they could never really act like bandits by pillaging—that was something their pride and principles would never permit.
Moreover, in the past decade, the lives of the Lan Country's people have increasingly worsened, making it even more unbearable to add to the suffering of these innocent civilians.
Therefore, life in the village was tightly constrained and difficult.
Usually, they managed with limited resources, but now that an Imperial Censor from Jin Country was here, they didn't want their Young Master, the future ruler of Lan Country, to appear too impoverished before the visitor from the Upper Country.
Especially Lin Kun, who could tell that both Lu Qing and Zhu Yu, despite having no luxuries on them, exhibited an unmistakably noble and effortless demeanor.
