The carriage stopped while the two conversed. Or am I misunderstanding your objection?
He told the driver to of the carriage to drive non-stop and the horse ran extremely fast. Along the road, there was an old man who saw them and asked, “Sir, you seem anxious, where do you need to go?”
Non stop and extremely fast, the story says. Well must be something lost in the translation.
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