Chapter 63: Booby-Trap
After traveling on the land of the Great Yan Dynasty, Beqi and his party finally arrived in Jicheng.
Jidu, the capital of the Great Yan Dynasty, has undergone fifteen expansions over the past 2,000 years. With each expansion, the original wall was heightened and reinforced, and a new wall was erected several miles outside the city wall, enclosing a larger area into the city. Therefore, from the outermost city wall to the innermost palace wall, the thistle has a total of seventeen high walls.
Thirty years ago, Jidu had just undergone a recent expansion, the latest of which was one hundred and eighty miles long and wide, and in the thin morning mist, the tall city wall was like a sleeping dragon, lying quietly on this boundless plain.
Each wall is fifteen zhang high and ten zhang thick, and the whole body is built with extremely strong black dazzle rock. Between the rocks and the rocks, a hardware solution was poured to make the city wall more and more impregnable. On these black Xuan rocks, which are twice as strong as diamonds, a large number of rune formations of the genus Wutu xìng are also carved, and the earth veins and spiritual energy are extracted to strengthen the city wall at all times, and the city wall is always shining with a pale yellow light, which is frightening.
On the city wall, every two miles, there is an arrow tower with a height of 100 zhang. The arrow tower is ten zhang long and wide, with a total of nine floors from top to bottom, and a large number of ink machines and bed crossbows are arranged, and the lethality is extremely terrifying. Inside the city wall, there are countless hidden soldier holes and tunnels, and the naked eye can see one by one external peeping holes, gun holes, and arrow holes, and the black holes look cold from the bottom of the heart.
As the team gradually approached the walls of Jicheng, Beqi felt that his heart was beating faster and faster, and the blood was flowing in his veins, making him a little dizzy. He instinctively felt that something would happen in this huge capital, something that would have a major impact on him, or on this Great Yan Dynasty.
Taking a deep breath, Beqi pointed his finger on a wooden talisman hanging from his waist. A few simple runes on the wooden talisman flashed slightly, and a vague force spread out from the wooden talisman, covering Beggar's true qi fluctuations. Now it seems that Beg is an ordinary martial artist who has probably cultivated within thirty or forty years.
Lu Chengfeng, Luo Kedi, and Ma Liang also injected a true qi into the wooden talisman hanging on their waists, covering their internal force aura. The Four Breath Talismans were made by Lu Chengfeng himself, and they were also the last kind of practical talisman of Lu Chengfeng's Society, in addition to the Hou Earth Spirit Armor Array and the Tai Platinum Sword Array.
With the big butler of Lu Guo's 'Tao family' coming forward to dredge, the team entered Jidu smoothly, and the sergeants at the city gate didn't even check whether there was any contraband in the convoy, so they let them enter the city.
Jicheng is the core hinterland of the Great Yan Dynasty, with hundreds of thousands of troops stationed all year round, and countless soldiers of the major wealthy families in the city are guarded by soldiers, not to mention how many masters are hiding in it. Don't beg their group is just more than 4,000 guards, for the huge thistle, it is like a drop of water spilled into the big lake, and they can't set off the slightest wave, and they don't take them to heart at all.
Along the main road that is 30 zhang wide, I passed through thirteen city walls along the way. Then don't beg them to go any further. Further inside, the people living in the core city are all princes and nobles of the Great Yan Dynasty, from the subordinate vassal states of the Great Yan Dynasty, and the descendants of ordinary wealthy merchants are not qualified to enter the core city.
After some busyness, the Lu family of Liyang bought a large mansion in the city in advance, which was enough to accommodate more than 5,000 people. Under the greeting of the chief steward of the Liyang Lu clan stationed in Jidu, a large group of people and horses were stationed in this mansion, and then Beg immediately explained to Zhang Hu, Hu Wei and others to arrange the guards on duty.
After Tie Yuewu hurriedly bathed and changed clothes, he immediately sent Lu Qiuluo, the chief steward of the Lu clan in Jicheng, to lead the way, carrying three cartloads of gold and jade jewelry, to visit the current ruler of the Great Yan Dynasty's Guozong Mansion, Yanxing Gongyu Xuan.
Yanxing Gong Yu Xuan, the 392nd grandson of Yanhuang Yandan, is a man of power, loves money, values profit and light righteousness, and is responsible for supervising and managing the life, old age, sickness and death, punishment and reward, title change and other affairs of the royal family of the Great Yan Dynasty.
If you want Lu Chengfeng to smoothly inherit Yan Buji's title and fief and official position, you must buy Yu Xuan.
Beg and the others entered the city early in the morning, and it took a lot of time to enter the city, and by the time everyone had settled down, it was already after noon. When Tie Yuewu bathed and changed clothes, counted three carts of gold and jade jewelry, and went to visit Yu Xuan, it was already approaching evening. The matter is urgent, and if you delay it for a little time, there will be more variables, so Tie Yue Wu knows that it is really unetiquette to visit a duke of the Great Yan Dynasty in such an abrupt manner, but she can't care about it so much.
There was no news from this time, from near evening until the moon hung in the middle of the sky, I didn't see Tie Yuewu come back, and I didn't see her send the guards around her back to inform her. Gradually, not only Lu Chengfeng, but also Beqi felt a little anxious.
Lu Chengfeng sat in the lobby, his hands hidden under the case, his fingers trembling violently.
Beg walked slowly in the yard with his hands behind his back, like a fish swimming in the water, fluttering under his feet, but he did not bring up a little smoke and dust, nor did he make a sound. He sometimes looked up at the sky, sometimes looked back at Lu Chengfeng, his brows furrowed tightly.
After waiting for another half an hour, Beqi also felt that something was a little wrong, he stomped his feet heavily, and said in a deep voice: "Except for Lu Qiuluo, who else knows where the Guozong Mansion is? Call someone over and take me to recognize the way." ”
Lu Chengfeng jumped up suddenly, he shook his head again and again, "I can't do it, I can't do it." It's not as good as Little Monte. There are countless masters in Jicheng, there are more than 100,000 soldiers who patrol the night at night, and legend has it that there are real cultivators in the inner city who are on duty at night, and you can't go out. ”
Beg stomped his feet again, and he whispered, "Then where have they gone?
The two were discussing here, Zhang Hu suddenly hurriedly walked in, he saluted Lu Chengfeng, and hurriedly said: "Childe, don't beg brother, a few subordinates from the Guozong Mansion came with the seal of the lady, saying that they asked the prince to go to the Guozong Mansion secretly to discuss. ”
Lu Chengfeng was overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled Beg and walked out.
Don't beg to hurriedly turn around and say hello, Luo Kedi and Ma Liang glanced at each other, and hurriedly followed.
Outside the main hall of the first courtyard of the mansion, several men wearing black sè cloaks and covering their faces and doors were standing quietly under the eaves. Hearing the footsteps of Beg and the others, several men hurriedly turned around and handed over a thumb-sized jade seal with a red body. "But in front of the prince of the wind, at the order of my family, I invite the prince to come to the mansion to discuss important matters. ”
Along with the seal, there was also a token cast with gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin hardware. The palm-sized token is full of wind patterns and moires, in the wind and clouds, a blue bird is spreading its wings and flying high, on the back of the token, in a round of bright rì, a small seal engraved with the word 'Ji'.
Lu Chengfeng took the seal and looked at it, it was indeed Tie Yuewu's personal seal. And Beg took the token, the token looked small, but the weight was very heavy, he looked at the token round, at the edge of the token, sure enough, there were the words Yu Xuan of the Great Yan Dynasty.
After checking the token, Beg asked, "The guards beside Madame, why don't you come with you?"
The man just now said lightly: "Do you think that anyone can walk at will at night? ”
With a sneer, the man explained with a bit of arrogance: "Even if you enter the inner city later, you have to hide in the car, don't make a sound, don't move, otherwise you will cause trouble, don't blame us for ignoring it." Chengfeng Gongzi, don't forget your current identity, you are still the eldest son of the Lu family in Liyang!"
Lu Chengfeng snorted lightly, and he looked at Beggar.
Beg narrowed his eyes and whispered, "Our son wants to bring a few guards." ”
The man in black glanced at Bei Qi and the others, and said indifferently: "Except for the prince who rides the wind, it is best not to have more than four guards." The car we brought with us was too small to fit too many people. ”
Beg pointed to himself, Luo Kedi, and Ma Liang, and he said indifferently: "Just the three of us will serve our son." ”
Several men in black nodded in unison, and without further ado, they pulled the cloak that covered their faces, turned and walked out.
In the shadow of yīn outside the gate of the mansion, a small two-wheeled black-painted carriage was waiting there. Beg waited for the four of them to get into the car, and several black-clothed people surrounded the carriage, all the way to the inner city.
Along the way, a procession of soldiers passing by at night from time to time, but when they saw a pale blue lantern stuck in the wheel of the carriage, all the soldiers assumed that they did not see the carriage and let them pass.
All the way straight, a few black-clothed people really had great power, and at this time, all the city gates in Jidu had been locked. Without alarming anyone, they opened the two small side gates of the city walls and marched into the inner city.
The streets in the inner city of Jidu are all based on the specifications of more than 2,000 years ago, and the widest streets are only about three zhang. On both sides of the street are inhabited by the princes and nobles of the Great Yan Dynasty, and the walls are ten zhang high, which sets off the extremely narrow streets.
A few men in black drove the carriage around and around into a remote alley.
The carriage stopped suddenly, and Be, who had been watching the surrounding movements through the crack in the window, was stunned, there were dark lights here, and there was not even a door, how could it be the Guozong Mansion? He hurriedly asked in a low voice, "How many people, where is this?"
Several men in black laughed in unison, suddenly turned around and jumped into the darkness with a few bounces.
Don't be surprised, he let out a clear whistle and slammed his foot on the carriage door. Dull shattered, turned into countless debris and flew out, don't beg to jump out of the carriage.
In the darkness, dozens of strong winds hit silently, and in an instant, they arrived at Beqi's side, covering his entire body.
More strong winds hit the carriage, and the cold air stimulated the three of them in the carriage to sweat coldly.
For the sake of not begging them to be cut down as soon as they enter the city, comrades, give them some votes to encourage and encourage!
Tickets, tickets, all kinds of strange tickets!