Chapter 611: Xu Mu

After the news of the night army's march came, it was impossible to directly determine whether the city lord of Jiucheng was willing to help them. In this case, Ruan Yi needs to take some precautions. On the way here, Ruan Yi had already thought about it.

If the lord of the city is willing to help, then they can carry out the plan smoothly, if the lord of the city is unwilling, then they can only make plans, if the lord of the city is not only unwilling, but also privately inform the night army of the purpose of their trip, it will be very detrimental to their actions. Without knowing the attitude of the City Lord of Wine City, Ruan Yi did not plan to report the news of their arrival.

"Ladies and gentlemen, although the City Lord of Jiucheng has two sons who died on the battlefield, there is no way to confirm whether he is already afraid of the Night Army, so I want to keep a low profile," turning to look at the faces of the others, Ruan Yi continued: "Let's go to the city to find a place to stay first, and then I will take a few people to meet the City Lord of Jiucheng quietly, and then meet after understanding the situation." ”

Ruan Yi's method is their best choice at the moment, firstly, it will not expose their overall number, and secondly, because of Ruan Yi's identity, even if the city lord of Jiucheng is unwilling to help them, it will greatly reduce the possibility of informing Ruan Yi and the others of their plan of action to the night army.

"The Third Highness's method is very good, then let's go to the city to find a place to settle down, and then make plans," After a brief consideration, several people around Ruan Yi agreed one after another.

"Drive," Soon, Ruan Yi and his party rode directly into the south gate of Jiucheng. Based on the direction they entered the city, the guards under the gate did not stop them at all.

After entering the wine city, those sons of the family opened their eyes one by one, and finally really saw what poverty is. The gray buildings, high and low, are crowded together, without style and color. The road under their feet was not smooth at all, and it seemed that when the road was paved, the workers did not think to pave the road more smoothly.

Matching the dilapidated streets, the pedestrians who came and went were dressed extremely ordinary, which could be described as shabby in the eyes of those sons from the family. It was a long way inside that they saw a few inns and shops scattered on both sides of the street.

In front of the inns and shops, some of the stall owners looked at the stalls in front of them in a dejected spirit, shouting without a word, as if they had already decided that no one would come to buy anything before they shouted.

All the scenes in the city revealed a thick gray atmosphere, which made Ruan Yi and the others gradually feel like they couldn't look at it directly. Speaking of which, Jiucheng is still located on a trade route, so it is always much stronger than the border towns of Qincheng and Qucheng.

Walking further, Ruan Yi and the others finally found a larger inn. After entering, it was deserted, and there were only a few sporadic guests in a huge inn, and they were all just eating some side dishes and drinking some wine.

In fact, the original wine city was not like this, but because of the war, there were no merchants who came and went, and there were originally many people in the city who joined the army, but now the number of people has been greatly reduced, so that all kinds of business are not good.

The arrival of Ruan Yi and the others at the moment may be the biggest deal for this inn since the Yiguo conquered the Night Army. The guys in the inn were very enthusiastic about the arrival of everyone, and they couldn't keep busy at all. Soon, because he saw Ruan Yi and others dressed extraordinarily, the shopkeeper who was lazily leaning on a chair behind the counter also came out to receive him.

After getting on with Ruan Yi and the others, the shopkeeper was even more enthusiastic than the two guys, and kept greeting Ruan Yi and the others. While introducing the delicacies in the store, he boasted about what was better than other inns.

It's just that after its hype and boasting, Ruan Yi and the others disliked this inn even more. If it weren't for the fact that they were worried that they might have to go directly to the City Lord's Mansion if they went inside, everyone really didn't want to settle down in such a place.

"The three of you will take a trip to the City Lord's Mansion with me, and you and the others will stay at the inn and wait for us to come back," After the innkeeper arranged for everyone to sit down, Ruan Yi, who was a little anxious, planned to leave for the City Lord's Mansion immediately. The sooner he knew the attitude of the city lord of the wine city, the sooner Ruan Yi would feel at ease.

"Childe, let's go all the way from Fancheng to Jiucheng, it's better to rest for a while before leaving," Seeing that Ruan Yi seemed to be in a hurry to go to the City Lord's Mansion, the person who just wanted to rest couldn't help but persuade.

"Yes, before we go to the City Lord's Mansion again, we should at least ask the City Lord's Mansion how to get there," and then another prince spoke.

After being reminded by the two, Ruan Yi immediately turned to look at the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, how to get to the City Lord's Mansion?"

"Go out to the left, keep going forward, and wait until you see the tallest building," the shopkeeper replied very simply, and it was obvious that the city lord's mansion was easy to find.

"Has anything happened in the city recently?" After getting the shopkeeper's answer, Ruan Yi continued to ask.

"It's business as usual. ”

"Do you know what the city lord's attitude is towards the night army's requisition of food?"

"How can you know about this kind of thing, but the small ones in Flowing City have heard of it. ”

"The store is unprepared to hear about it. ”

"Okay," the shopkeeper said slowly, "Liucheng is close to Shiyan City, and the night army sent an army to Qincheng before. Because he was afraid of the power of the night army, the city lord of Liucheng sent people to each household to ask for food for a few days, and finally handed over enough grain and grass to the night army within the specified time limit, and the city lord of Liucheng had already expressed his willingness to submit to the night country. ”

"Why didn't the Night Army arrive in Wine City?"

"It may be because of the long distance and inconvenient travel, there are 100 miles from Jiucheng to Liucheng, and most of them are mountain roads during the period, and it is really more than 100 miles. ”

"Did the city lord show any special behavior after learning about the night army's food requisition?"

"That's not true, our city lord has rarely shown up, and there hasn't been much change in the city recently!"

"Earlier, I heard that some people on the other side of Flowing City fled in advance after learning the news that the Night Army was going to Flowing City, but is this happening?"

"It's true, since the Night Army arrived in Shiyan City, this kind of situation has been relatively common in this area. ”

"Then there should be some people in your exile city who fled before, right?"

"At first, there were, but then we were all driven away by our city lord!"

"Why did you drive away?"

"The lord of the city said that the wine city was not a good place to take refuge, and it was not for them. ”

"Then why don't you leave?"

"Where can we escape? Now that the royal family can't take care of us, to put it mildly, there is no place for the Wing Kingdom to stay. ”

"Thank you for telling me honestly. ”

"You're welcome, it's our honor to be able to serve you. ”

Based on the relationship between Ruan Yi and the others who wanted to keep their identities secret, they were all called sons before, so the innkeeper naturally thought that Ruan Yi and the others were everyone's sons, but why they gathered in the wine city made the shopkeeper very puzzled. Of course, the shopkeeper will not ask questions that should not be asked, and many years of experience in opening a store make the shopkeeper very clear that he only needs to answer the questions seriously.

"The three of you will go to the City Lord's Mansion with me first, and the others will all stay in the inn and don't move around at will," After thinking about it briefly, Ruan Yi felt that everything he should know was already known, and now they could try their luck at the City Lord's Mansion.

"I wish Gongzi success," Now that the situation in Jiucheng has been roughly asked, no one will dissuade Ruan Yi anymore, as for whether Ruan Yi's trip will go well, based on the shopkeeper's statement about their city lord, they can't estimate it for the time being.

After Ruan Yi took the three of them away, he hurried all the way, and soon found a location in the middle of the city to sit in a large building, and the three big characters on the plaque directly told the four people to find the right place.

There were also four expressionless guards guarding the gate of the city lord's mansion, some of which were heavily guarded.

After the four of them walked over, they were unsurprisingly stopped by the guards. So, one of them hurried in and let one of the guards go in to inform them of their arrival.

Seeing that the four of them were gorgeously dressed and had an extraordinary bearing, the guard did not dare to slack off, and went in directly to pass the word after greeting the others.

"City Lord, there are four people outside who claim to be from the Imperial City who want to see you, do you want to let them in?"

"The people of the Imperial City want to see me?" Xu Mu, the city lord of the Wine City who was facing the guard, closed the scroll in his hand and slowly turned to look at the guard. Xu Mu's slender face was slowly revealed, with a pair of long eyebrows, two thin eyes, and a long beard, and the whole person's temperament gave people a sense of scheming.

"Exactly, and according to the observation of his subordinates, the four people who came were all high-level martial cultivators," under Xu Mu's rhetorical question, the guards below hurriedly replied.

"Please let them in!" After receiving the confirmation of the guards, Xu Mu couldn't help but think about the identities of the four people outside.

Not long after, the guard brought Ruan Yi and the four of them. At a glance, sure enough, all of them were high-level martial cultivators, and the strength of the four of them surprised Xu Mu incomparably.

"City Lord Xu, why don't you worship when you see the Third Highness," when Xu Mu was about to guess the identities of several people, one of them immediately questioned.

In the next time, Ruan Yi had already taken out a token, which was the identity token of the royal family, with several dragons clearly engraved on it, and the wing word of Yiguo in the middle.

As soon as the token came out, Xu Mu directly determined Ruan Yi's identity, because that token was not something that ordinary people could have. And judging from Ruan Yi's temperament, he really doesn't look like an ordinary son-in-law.

"See Third Highness," After some deliberation in his heart, Xu Mu chose to salute Ruan Yi without hesitation.

"City Lord Xu doesn't need to be polite, His Royal Highness is not carrying the emperor's order this time!" Ruan Yi politely signaled Xu Mu not to be formal, and then introduced Xu Mu, "The three of them are the children of the family who accompanied His Highness here. ”

"I don't know what His Royal Highness and the three sons came to find Xu?" With Xu Mu's cleverness, it is not difficult to deduce that Ruan Yi and the others came to find him some personal matters.

"Not long ago, His Highness received news that the grain and grass team of the Night Army was coming to the Wine City, and I believe that the city lord also knew about it. To tell you the truth, His Royal Highness came down to find the city lord because he wanted the city lord to assist us in sneaking up on the grain and grass team!" Through a brief conversation, Ruan Yi had already realized that Xu Mu was a smart person, so he simply chose to tell the truth.