Yang Er and his entourage left Tongguan and sailed eastward to Qi to take up their fiefdom. Apart from Zhang Xutuo, the Qi prefectural magistrate, the rest of the group consisted of the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled. Most infuriatingly, the most valiant of the group, Zhang Xutuo, and the most talented Sili Dafu, Xue Daoheng, were not Yang Er's subordinates; they were merely traveling along the way. Thinking of the desolation he felt when leaving Chang'an, and seeing this group before him, Yang Er felt an overwhelming pang of sorrow.
Among the group, the one who had followed him the longest was probably Fatty. So he thought of the group of playboys in Chang'an City before—Li Jiancheng, Chai Shao, Dugu Tuo, the Yuwen Huaji brothers, the Xiao Ding and Xiao Yuanshan brothers, and so o
