frightfiction Chapter 436 Entering the City
Chapter 436 Entering the City
Xu Wenyan tried to get Xiaoman to give him a long conversation but got nothing out of him.
Xu Wenyan leaned against Xiaoman and murmured, "Are they too slow to come out? They can't be lost in there."
"Well, they've been in there for an hour, and something's not right." Xiaoman raised his head and looked at the sky which was already darkening.
Xu Wenyan stood up, his face full of worry: "The city gates are about to be locked, what are they doing?"
After a few more quarters of an hour, the huge city gate was closed by hundreds of officers and soldiers.
The two men folded their arms and looked at the city. Something must have happened, but they didn't know what it was.
"Wait until Manager Wu comes out tomorrow, then we'll go in and ask." Xu Wenyan said.
Xiaoman nodded: "This is the only way. We have to find a place to put the luggage."
It was a good thing that they were the only ones outside. If it were those two idiots, they would have rushed in by now when they saw Xu Wenyan and Xiaoman had not come out yet.
"Where are we staying tonight?" Xu Wenyan looked at Xiaoman.
“That tree over there is quite big.”
The two hid their luggage in the tree and spent the night on the branch.
When Xiao Xu Wenyan got up the next day, she felt like her waist was about to break.
After making sure the luggage was secured, the two waited for Manager Wu to come out at the city gate.
Manager Wu came out holding a small wooden sign with the forged information for Xu Wenyan recorded on it.
"Where are the other two people?" Manager Wu handed the sign to Xu Wenyan and looked to the side.
"Manager Wu, they haven't come out since they went in yesterday. We want to go into the city and take a look."
"Who in this city can catch these two?"
Obviously this matter was very strange, so Manager Wu did not delay any longer and took the two of them into the city.
When the officers and soldiers guarding the city saw that it was the people led by Manager Wu, they dared not say anything and let them pass.
"You guys go around the city first. I'll go ask the powerful people here what happened yesterday."
If the two of them were really arrested, it would definitely cause quite a stir in the city.
Xu Wenyan looked at the street, not knowing where to start.
The two first entered a noodle restaurant, which was the most popular restaurant in the city.
"Please take a seat, gentlemen. What would you like to order?" The waiter enthusiastically led the guests to sit down.
"Two bowls of beef ramen."
"Okay." The waiter yelled to the kitchen, "Two bowls of beef ramen!"
The waiter was about to go do something else. Xu Wenyan called him, "Waiter."
"Oh, sir, please give your orders."
"Did anything big happen in Tianshui City yesterday?" Xu Wenyan handed a piece of silver to the waiter, about one or two hundred coins.
The waiter looked around and quickly put the silver away. "Sir, you have asked the right person. Yesterday morning, the Chen Palace issued a notice saying that they wanted to find a husband for the princess."
"Marry a husband?" Xu Wenyan wondered. In this era, men had a high status, so when would it be a woman's turn to marry?
The waiter lowered his voice and said, "My dear, you don't know this. The city lord took a foreigner as a concubine. They gave birth to a daughter. The daughter is only fourteen this year, and she is ready to marry a husband. She even said that she wants to marry three people at once."
"Oh my god, are you so open-minded?" Xu Wenyan touched the table, but didn't touch anything.
"Waiter, serve us a plate of peanuts first." After saying that, Xu Wenyan turned back to look at Xiaoman: "Xiaoman, do you have money?"
Xiaoman smiled and said, "I saved all the wages you gave me."
Xu Wenyan finally felt relieved: "My Xiaoman is still reliable."
The waiter brought the peanuts and continued, "That's right. Two were caught before, but the wedding is scheduled for tomorrow, so yesterday the city lord called on all the young men in the city who caught his eye to go to the city lord's mansion to participate in the election."
"Ah? So there aren't many people on your street. Are they all going to participate in the election?"
"Yes, sir, I see that you are not from this place. You are handsome and very likely to be favored by the princess."
There were not many people in the store at that time, and the waiter was chatting lively with Xu Wenyan.
"Me? I'd better forget it."
"You are just too modest. Yesterday, two more outsiders were arrested at the city gate. I think you two should cover your faces and go out after eating your noodles."
Although the waiter spoke vaguely, Xu Wenyan roughly knew what it was about.
"Then do you know what those two foreign men look like? Give us a brief description."
The waiter thought about it carefully and said, "Those two guys are not as handsome as you, but they are very tall and strong.
You don’t know how terrible the fight was yesterday. Just the two of them beat up dozens of people.”
Now Xu Wenyan could be completely sure that Chen Sanlin and the others had been captured and taken to the City Lord's Mansion.
"Okay, we'll keep an eye out."
After learning more about Tianshui City from the waiter, Xu Wenyan and Xiaoman said goodbye after their meal.
After leaving the house, Xu Wenyan stretched and said, "Xiaoman, what should we say?"
"Let's go to the City Lord's Mansion first."
"Okay."
I just asked the waiter where the City Lord's Mansion was, and it took me about half an hour to get there.
The City Lord's Mansion is mainly built with earth bricks, with a main city and a small city on each side.
It turns out that the more remote the place, the less restrictions there are. Even the state capital is not this big.
Xu Wenyan observed it carefully. Just building this wall was not easy. "Come on, Xiaoman, let's take a look from the side."
The two of them walked around for a long time and finally found a place that was not guarded by soldiers.
After sprinting for a while, Xu Wenyan successfully lay on the wall and looked inside.
At first glance, what's the difference between this and a football field? There is such a large backyard in the City Lord's Mansion.
There are thousands of people in this backyard alone, seemingly rehearsing some show.
Thousands of soldiers formed a big circle, with people riding horses and shooting arrows in the middle, as well as people beating drums and dancing. It was very lively.
Moreover, each of those warriors was of burly build, and from a distance they looked like small hills. The most frightening one was a guy who looked to be more than two meters tall and covered in fat.
A true tank.
Xiaoman also successfully came up at this time.
"Damn it, Xiaoman, are we going to die if we go in like this?"
Xiaoman nodded: "Yeah, it seems to be about the same."
Xu Wenyan looked at Xiaoman and said, "Forget it. Let's not save him. There's no point in saving him. Let's just make do with our lives."
"Haha, okay."
After getting down from the wall, Xu Wenyan prepared to go see what was going on with Manager Wu. The information they alone obtained was too little.