Zhou Yi rode his horse back to Luoyang City, dismounted from the city gate, and rushed straight to the city gate. Unexpectedly, before he entered the city, he was hugged by a black figure and pulled to an uninhabited place in the distance.
Zhou Yi took a closer look and found that it was Emperor Bing of Zhao. He asked repeatedly, "Emperor Bing? Why is it you? Hurry, I want to enter the city!"
Emperor Zhao grabbed Zhou Yi's shoulders tightly and said forcefully: "No, you absolutely cannot return to Luoyang City now!"
"Why?" Zhou Yi asked anxiously.
Zhao Dibing's face was full of solemnity. He spoke word by word, "When Wu Chongye returned to Luoyang, he first exposed your identity as a drunkard, and then accused you of colluding with foreign races and plotting to murder the empress. Now you are charged with deceiving the emperor, collaborating with the enemy, and plotting to murder the emperor! Now that you enter Luoyang City, there will be hundreds of people vying to eliminate you! So Xiaoya and I have blocked you outside the city gates, and we must not let you enter Luoyang City!"
"What?" Zhou Yi was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He said anxiously, "Wu Chongye and I have never had any grudges against each other. I even saved his life in Shangyuan that day. Why would he want to hurt me like this?"
"You are a man of the underworld. Things in the court are hundreds of times darker than those in the underworld. It's either you die or I die. Where is the morality?" Zhao Dibing looked solemn and lowered his voice a few points: "And I suspect that this time, Wu Chongye may have a big move in Luoyang!"
"Big move?" Zhou Yi was surprised.
Emperor Zhao nodded vigorously and said, "So, hurry up and leave! Stay away from Luoyang! Leave this place of trouble!"
Zhou Yi did not answer him. He pondered for a moment, then said firmly: "No, I promised Your Majesty that I would return the Heshi Bi to Xianju Courtyard. No matter what happens, I must do it! Besides, if I leave, what will you and Renya do?"
"When can we talk about promises? Ren Ya and I are both hostages. No matter how the weather in Luoyang changes, we will be safe! Let's go!" Emperor Bing of Zhao hurriedly reached out and pushed Zhou Yi up.
Zhou Yi grabbed Zhao Dibing's hand, his eyes suddenly seemed to be dancing with endless flames, and said: "If you leave like this, I will not be willing!"
"Then..." Zhao Dibing sighed and said, "Then what do you want to do?"
"Go into town in disguise and go to Li's Restaurant!"
At dawn that day, the city gates opened and a large number of merchants waiting to enter the city to do business and farmers rushing to the morning market entered the city one after another.
Zhou Yi and Emperor Bing of Zhao, dressed in disguise, blended into the crowd and swaggered into the city through the south gate.
The scale of Luoyang was indeed extraordinary compared to that of an ordinary small city. The south gate alone had three gates. The middle gate was called Jianguo Gate, the left one was called Baihu Gate, and the right one was called Changxia Gate. It was magnificent in structure.
At this time, the two men were wearing simple and worn cloth clothes bought from two farmers. Each of them carried a large bundle of freshly cut vegetables on their shoulders. They casually gave out their identities and names that they made up, and the guards at the gate let them into the city without any difficulty.
Zhou Yi secretly circulated the Nine Heavens True Qi on his face, causing his cheekbones to rise and his cheeks to swell. This would be difficult to detect unless he was an expert in internal Qi.
After entering the city, the two hurriedly walked towards the west of the city.
It was still early, and there were no customers in Lao Li's restaurant. The two people dressed as farmers hurried in. As soon as they entered the door, Zhou Yi shouted loudly: "Boss! Boss! The food is delivered!"
The one who responded was Li Dazui. He came out from the kitchen with a big beer belly and an unhappy look on his face, shouting, "What are you shouting for? What are you shouting for..." Suddenly, Li Dazui saw Zhou Yi's face, which had returned to normal. He swallowed the rest of his words, a look of surprise in his eyes, and said softly, "Yeah! Hurry up and send it to the kitchen!"
Afterwards, Zhou Yi and Zhao Dibing carried two baskets of vegetables and followed Li Dazui closely into a secret room in the back kitchen of Lao Li's restaurant. After a while, Hahaer, Du Sha, and Tu Jiaojiao appeared one after another, but the elusive Yin Jiuyou was missing!
After they were seated, Du Sha sat on the chair and said, "You can drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. You are now a wanted criminal in the imperial court and everyone wants to kill you. How dare you enter Luoyang City? Tell me, what's the matter?"
Zhou Yi nodded and said, "Yes, that's right, I hope you can help me enter the palace again!"
"Haha!" Hahaer suddenly burst into laughter and said, "You are no longer the respected guest of the Great Zhou State, so why are you still going to the palace?"
Zhou Yi said: "I like Renya in Qili Pavilion. I must rescue her and travel the world with her!"
"It sounds romantic, but it's not true!" Tu Jiaojiao fiddled with her hair and said softly, "The Great Zhou does not restrict Ren Ya's freedom. It's too easy for you to elope with her! Why take the risk of breaking into the palace!"
Zhou Yi narrowed his eyes and slowly smiled. The ten evil men were not good men and women. If they knew that Zhou Yi was carrying the precious He Shi Bi, they would have snatched it away long ago. How could they talk about cooperation? Therefore, Zhou Yi and Emperor Bing of Zhao had already thought about this reason clearly!
"because... ... ."
"Oh no! Oh no! Something terrible has happened!" Yin Jiuyou, who looked like a ghost, suddenly floated in from outside, and a look of exasperation appeared on his zombie face, which had not changed for a hundred years.
"No hurry, no hurry! Sit down and talk!" Li Dazui reached out to help the panicked Yin Jiuyou and handed him a cup of tea.
Yin Jiuyou took the teacup and drank it all, breathing heavily.
Du Sha said coldly, "What's going on? Didn't I ask you to go and see the results of the battle between Sun En and Wu Zhao? What happened?"
Yin Jiuyou sorted out his thoughts and said slowly, "Yes, I did watch the fight between the two, but their martial arts were so incredible and beyond the human world that I could only hide a few miles away and watch from afar. The two fought until the sky was dark, the sun and the moon lost their light, and even the whole world turned into a dark patch. The noise was so terrifying that I ran away alone!"
"But this is not the key!" Yin Jiuyou said anxiously: "On the way back to the city, I found an army, a large number of troops!"
Tu Jiaojiao snorted coldly, "What's so strange about this? Now Wu Chongye and Li Hao have each led two imperial guards to the capital to defend the king. Counting the guards at various passes in the capital, at least hundreds of thousands of Great Zhou troops have been mobilized in the suburbs of Luoyang!"
"More than that! Definitely more than that!" Yin Jiuyou suddenly stood up and shouted, "What I saw was an army all over the mountains and plains. The total number is definitely not less than 300,000!"
"What?" Zhao Dibing asked excitedly, "Whose army are they from? Who are they fighting against?"
Yin Jiuyou calmed down, thought for a moment, and said, "It should be the perimeter defense army. As for who is leading them, I don't know, but the word 'Wu' is written on the flag!"
"Ah! I understand!" Zhao Dibing slammed his head on the table, his face full of sudden enlightenment, and said: "You have been used by others! This has been Wu Chongye's conspiracy from the beginning to the end!" (To be continued)