Near dusk, Ji Fa, who was already tired from running thousands of miles, finally arrived at Chaoge City

Looking at the black and red brilliance of the sunset shining on the mud bricks of the tall city wall, I fell into a momentary state of distraction.

This horse was no longer the horse he had ridden out of Xiqi City, and after barely reining in the reins for a moment, like countless other horses before him, finally fell weakly, foaming at the mouth, unable to move again.

The crotch had been worn by the horse's back countless times, then healed countless times, and then worn out again, and some pieces of clothing and flesh had been glued together, and the slightest movement was like tearing pain.

The body that has just been recuperated has undergone a severe test, although it has survived until now, it is about to be overwhelmed, maybe the next explosion crisis may happen again, and if it really happens this time, there will definitely be no good luck last time, and he will be able to escape from death, but these are no longer important in Ji Fa's eyes now, and he has no time and energy to think about it.

On the way to this thousand-mile journey from Xiqi City before departure, only one thing firmly occupied all the thoughts.

Along the way, he kept asking himself a question, what was the reason for saving her, and what was the force that supported him to do this?

Of course, there is no point in thinking about these at this time, I have already come, and these are actually not important, and the most important thing is that I think I can save her when I get to Chaoge City?

Inexplicably, Ji Fa suddenly remembered that something like this had happened in Xiangcui Garden at the foot of Yunlong Mountain, and this scene seemed to be as if it had just happened yesterday.

That time, there was a strange woman in the dust who helped her, but what about this time?

Looking at the people of Chaoge City who were obviously dressed very differently from what he was wearing from a distance, Ji Fa frowned and walked slowly towards the city gate with tired steps.

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Chaoge City is indeed the capital of the Shang Dynasty, and in terms of building scale and momentum, it is far from being comparable to Xiqi City.

Even the people of Chaoge City are not only much better than the thieves and hungry people they saw along the way, but the pride and domineering of the emperor on their bodies are more obvious than the people of Xiqi City.

The city wall of Chaoge City is about more than ten zhang high, the thickness is up to forty or fifty zhang, even the top of the wall is enough to drive several carriages side by side, the city wall is thick and magnificent. The streets in the city are wide and bright, criss-crossing and straight as a sword, and the east-west direction is transparent, and the city wall is relatively built in the range of 100 miles away from each other in the north-south direction, covering an extremely wide area, and there are many wine shops and teahouses, so it is the most lively.

This is the outer city that belongs to the three walls, the largest area, and the largest number of residents, and it is inhabited by ordinary people of Chaoge Castle, and there are all kinds of people, including all kinds of slaves and other lower-class people.

The outer city is also surrounded by the city wall within fifty miles away, where are the brothers of various dignitaries and nobles, or their relatives, so it is also called the royal city, the luxury of the royal city building is far better than the outer city, and even the palace city surrounded by it is not as good, here of course, ordinary people enter relatively little, most of them are the places where some dignitaries and nobles live.

The palace city in the royal city, this is the place where the emperor of heaven lived and discussed, and it is the most majestic and sacred place, and only the people who serve the king in the palace and the ministers of civil and military affairs can enter and exit, and the guards are strict, and the ordinary people have no chance to enter.

Ji Fa quietly stood in an unobtrusive corner of an extremely luxurious tavern in the royal city, looking at everything in the palace city from a distance through the window, and paying attention to the movements around the tavern, but his heart was extremely anxious.

This is already the third day of the morning song.

After rushing into the huge Chaoge Castle in a daze, the first thing to solve naturally must be how to find Daji there, but this palace castle with tall walls and heavily guarded soldiers is so big, it is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack to find a person locked up there without any clues.

What's more, Ji Fa was not familiar with Chaoge at all when he first arrived, and even the language seemed to be a little different from the accent of the people of Chaoge.

In order to avoid attracting attention, but also to be able to find a way to secretly rescue Daji without knowing it in the future, the only way to find out the news is through a roundabout way, and there is no doubt that the place where people come and talk the most is the most suitable for listening to the news.

After two days in the tavern, nothing was learned from the gossip that the most favored minister of the day, the most feared minister was, and the richest minister was, but there was still no progress in the matter of concern.

Today is in the tavern again, Ji Fa is very anxious in his heart, he has been delayed for a lot of time on the way from Xiqi, and now he will not find a chance to start when he arrives in Chaoge City, and now he has not heard any clues related to this for a long time, and Chaoge City seems to have never attacked Yousu and does not show any movement.

It is definitely not a way to go on like this, so Ji Fa secretly thought to himself whether to think of a way, simply break into the mansion of the favored minister, and forcibly find someone in the know to torture him, although it may be a little troublesome to go straight ahead, but it will not be as helpless as now.

Just as Ji Fa was pondering like this, a figure flashed in the private room of the restaurant separated by a screen made of bamboo, and two people slowly walked out of it, one of them followed behind him and whispered to the one walking in front of him: "So please ask Master Cen to say a few more kind words in front of Lord Fei, and the little one is grateful."

When Ji Fa heard the words "Lord Fei", his hand holding the wine glass stiffened slightly, hovering in mid-air.

Slightly sideways, he pretended to inadvertently squint and look over there, and found a person dressed in the appearance of a somewhat bloated butler talking to the person in front of him who looked like a guard with a short sword hanging from his waist.

The person who was called Cen Ye looked extraordinary, he was dressed quite gorgeously, his clothes were obviously not ordinary colors, and at the same time, his nose was straight and wide, his eyes were cold, and he had been slightly tilting his chin, looking quite proud.

Cen Ye snorted lightly in his nostrils, counted as a reply, and then strode towards the door, looking at the few movements between the two of them in such a hurry, it can be seen that Cen Ye is not a small person, at least in front of the person behind him, after seeing Cen Ye agree, a smile suddenly bloomed on his face, and he looked very grateful and happy.

"Lord Fei?"

After Ji Fa reminisced in his heart, he quietly got up and settled the account, and then followed Cen Ye's back not far away.