Chapter 465 - It Was Difficult to Enter the City (1/2)

Chapter 465 It Was Difficult to Enter the City

“Why can’t we enter the city?”

Under Long Tianyu’s cold eyes, the guard involuntarily shivered.

He looked at Long Tianyu in a quandary, but still stopped his horse.

“Mister, you may have forgotten it after a long time. Our prefecture is in the charge of Prince Qing. You can enter the city at normal times. But these days I got the order that no one is allowed to enter the city without the invitation.”

Long Tianyu snorted coldly, but saw someone among the team beside them take out a gold token.

There was a character Qing written in a lively and vigorous style on the token, but he could tell that it didn’t seem like granted by a prince based on its specification.

“Get out of the way. We are just normal tourists intending to visit here. We are not officials.”

Long Tianyu rebuked him coldly, but unexpectedly, the guard waved his hand instead of getting out of the way.

In an instant, a group of guards stared fiercely at Long Tianyu and his team with spears in their hands.

“Mister, I don’t mean to offend you, but we got the order. If you insist on entering the city without the invitation, we have to offend you.”

For a time, they confronted each other with swords.

Although those guards didn’t dare to rush at them first, the blades of their spears were sharp and bright.

Long Tianyu glanced at them, and they were startled by the cold eyes of the childe on the horse.

Nevertheless, they still braced themselves to block his way.

In the past, even if Long Tianyu fought his way through a group of people, few of them could block his way.

He glanced at those who were about to enter the city, and found that there were some small characters engraved on the gold token.

The guard would read the small characters while verifying the information after taking the token.

They had probably recorded the information of those who held the tokens.

The Prince Qing was a careful person. However, in this case, even if they got an invitation from someone else, they would probably give themselves away when entering the city.

Long Tianyu patted his horse and turned around. Seeing the man with a cold face leave, the guards felt glad.

At that moment, they just felt a shiver down their spines.

Moreover, they knew that once they fought with the man, they were certainly no match for him.

Other people and horses stopped when Long Tianyu went to inquire.

Now seeing him return without accomplishing anything, they had to walk away a little, so as not to delay others’ entering the city.

Lin Mengya poked her head out of the carriage and looked at Long Tianyu in puzzlement. Although she knew nothing about what had happened, Zuo Qiuyu, who had been beside her carriage since they set out, said that Long Tianyu seemed to have quarreled with the guards because of entering the city.

“What happened?”

Seeing Long Tianyu walk to her window, Lin Mengya involuntarily asked.

Hearing he said that they needed an invitation to enter the city, Lin Mengya frowned slightly.

“Cousin Yu, send someone to find out whether all of cousin Chen’s factions got no invitation.”

Zuo Qiuyu sent someone to do that immediately. After a while, the one came back and reported that Lin Mengya was right.

“That’s right. What invitation? He just intends to stop us from passing. He has sent the invitations half a year ago. It seems that the Prince Qing has planned it long ago.”

Moreover, he did it so secretly that even Cousin Chen didn’t know it.

The Prince Qing was so audacious and even didn’t show any respect for the emperor!

“Prince Qing is abominable indeed, but the vital problem is how to get into the city. Maybe we can break into the city. We will expose our identities in the worst situation. I don’t believe that he dares to kill me!”

Zuo Qiuyu growled with his eyes full of unwillingness.

But Long Tianyu and Lin Mengya stopped him at the same time.

“No, we can’t. I looked around and found there are plenty of guards at the gate. Besides, not all of them are the guards of Prince Qing. If we kill them indiscriminately, your brother’s troops will be weakened.”

Although Long Tianyu was proud, he was not arrogant.

He knew about the current situation better than Zuo Qiuyu.

“Well, tell me, how can we enter the city? Since he has made up his mind to intercept the members of my brother’s factions, the situation in other cities of Yulong Prefecture might be the same. Are we going to make a big detour?”

Zuo Qiuyu was in great rage. He beat the carriage so violently that the carriage vibrated.

At the sight of this, Lin Mengya knew that he felt aggrieved. But she couldn’t think of a good way in a short while.

She didn’t know when they were discussing a major event, the pretty faces of hers and Baishao’s came into the view of a lascivious man.

Not far from them, there was a tea stand. A few sturdy men dressed like servants were laughing and drinking tea there.

Among them, there sat a man dressed in a red brocade robe.

The man was in his twenties with a white face and regular features, but he stared fixedly at the women and girls coming and going.