Chapter 670: Chapter 651: Signal Smoke
Lin Yi never thought that he simply wanted to embarrass the Master slightly, but ended up sending him away directly.
According to the regulations of Lingyun City, anyone who defiles the Totem Shawl must walk the streets exposed for three days.
The Master had to walk bare-legged for everyone to see, which was a complete loss of face.
At this mont, he must be deeply regretting provoking Lin Yi, and the Silver Tael that fell from his possession was scavenged clean by onlookers.
With the Master’s obstruction gone, Lin Yi and his companions smoothly arrived on the main street of Lingyun City.
It was a street with rich ethnic characteristics, as n, won, and children all wore red, white, and blue stripes painted across their faces.
The brocades on their shoulders were even more colorful and varied in style, conveying profound anings.
“Who are you few, and where do you co from?” Suddenly, a group of Soldiers approached and surrounded Lin Yi and his group.
Because Lin Yi and his companions did not have the three stripes painted on their faces, they were obviously foreigners.
At the critical mont, Gao Wu wanted to demonstrate the power of money, but he was rejected by the Soldiers.
“Take them away!”
Nan Yi wanted to resist, but Lin Yi shook his head. Being taken away by the Soldiers might actually lead them to et the City Lord faster.
Just like that, Lin Yi and his group were brought to a small grove where hundreds of people were bound to tree trunks with iron chains, with Soldiers guarding all around.
“You lowly commoners, trying to escape my fiendishly sharp eyes, not a chance! n, bind them!”
At the Soldiers’ command, a dozen ferocious looking Guards ard with whips stepped forward.
Lin Yi couldn’t help but break into a cold sweat. He had wanted to see if there was an opportunity to et the City Lord, but now
“Damn, this is serious. What have we done to deserve this? We can’t just sit around and wait for death!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yi swung his fist and slamd it towards the Soldiers, and Nan Yi and Nan Er also charged, giving the Soldiers a tough lesson.
“Well fought! Well fought! These Governnt Officials locked us up here without distinction, they deserved a beating.”
“Truly our benefactors, thank you, young man, now we finally don’t have to go mining anymore.”
An elderly man with white hair trembled forward, bending over continuously to express his gratitude to Lin Yi.
“Wait!”
Lin Yi suddenly stopped. He had noticed the elderly man talking about mining stones – could it be mining for Jade?
“Old man, what you ntioned about mining stones, what is it?”
The elderly man pointed towards two mountains in the distance, half of which were split, and he sighed, “Young man, this must be your first ti in Lingyun City. When we speak of mining mountains, we are referring to mining Jade stones.”
“See that mountain there? I spent half of my life working there. A few days ago, I had an accident and took a tumble. I couldn’t manage to work anymore and finally ca back to rest.”
“And now, because I attended the Torch Festival and forgot to paint my face, they captured again, claiming I’m not from Lingyun City, which is outright unreasonable.”
Listening to the old man’s grievances, Lin Yi beca thoughtful. He looked at those bound to the tree trunks, none of them having the three stripes painted on their faces.
‘Never thought that this small Lingyun City would have so many rules; desecrating brocades warrants parading in the streets, and not painting one’s face leads to being sent to the mines. This place is really full of landmines. Seems like I need to ask the old man properly.’
[Ding Ding Ding, host has successfully purchased three barrels of red, white, and blue makeup paint and ten brushes! 80,000 Heavenly Bead Coins have been paid.]
“Co on, everyone replenish the stripes on your faces.” As Lin Yi said this, he took out the barrels of paint.
He instructed Nan Yi and the others to learn from the old man’s painting thod and draw three colorful stripes on the faces of all the bound people present.
Under the old man’s ticulous guidance, all the people had the characteristic three colorful lines painted on their faces, and Lin Yi also helped untie their ropes, granting them freedom once more.
Of course, Lin Yi also learned from the old man that during this month’s Torch Festival, the daughter of Lingyun City’s City Lord would also make an appearance.
Watching the captured free laborers they finally had escaping like this, the officials lying on the ground were not willing to show weakness.
Suddenly, one of the Soldiers pulled out a small brown bamboo tube from his bosom, removed the plug, and threw it into the sky with force.
Following a sharp whistle blow, a plu of purple smoke erged from the small bamboo tube.
Lin Yi smiled indifferently.
“Heh, good fellow, actually setting off signal smoke, not bad, it’s good to have more reinforcents co.”
“Quick, quick, quick, you guys have signal flares too, launch more, the red signal flares are the prettiest, who has them?”
Lin Yi shouted loudly, dumbfounding everyone as they stared at him with peculiar looks.
Seeing the bewildered Soldiers, Lin Yi offered a smile that bore deeper significance and then ordered Nan Yi and the others to search the Soldiers’ bodies and, upon finding any signal bamboo tubes, to pull out the plugs and throw them into the sky.
In an instant, the sky above the small forest was filled with red, blue, purple, and other colors of dense smoke, scaring the Soldiers until their legs went weak.
“We’re finished, we’re finished, such a grand scene will definitely alarm the City Lord, we’ve caused trouble, let’s run for our lives.” Having finished speaking, the Soldiers scrambled and tumbled trying to run away.
“Thinking of running only now? Too late! Nan Yi, catch a few, we’ll need them to file complaints later.”
Lin Yi’s plan was simple – he hoped to communicate with the City Lord of Lingyun City at the earliest through such a thod.
Sure enough, after a short while, with the sound of galloping horses approaching rapidly, a group of guards clad in red Armor ca over mightily.
“Who is causing trouble? How co it’s just you few people?”
Suddenly, an authoritative voice ca from among the guards.
Following the direction of the voice, one could see a man about 60 years in age, wearing luxurious blue Armor, a golden helt, with sharp eyes and a knife scar on his chin.
Upon closer inspection, Lin Yi, if not mistaken, recognized that this person was indeed the City Lord of Lingyun City – Ouyang Fu.
“That’s enough, go ahead and make your complaint.”
Having said that, Lin Yi kicked the Governnt Official at his feet, signaling to let him go.
The Governnt Official, as if having received an amnesty, scrambled up and ran to the City Lord, reporting in a panic: “City Lord! You’ve finally arrived, it was them, they took all our signal bamboo tubes, they drove all of our people away.”
Ouyang Fu looked at Lin Yi and the seven others leading the group, puzzled.
“Just the seven of them, unard peasants, beat a hundred of you Governnt Officials? Are your swords and spears just for show?”
“n, seize them all!”
Ouyang Fu barked angrily, ashad of how his subordinates had disgraced him.
The Governnt Official lying on the ground trembled all over in fear, “City Lord, they’re not just unard peasants, they are very strong—”
Before he could finish his sentence, Ouyang Fu drew his whip from his waist and lashed it fiercely onto the Governnt Official’s body.
In Ouyang Fu’s presence, he would absolutely not allow others to bolster their courage at the expense of dimming his own authority.
All these scenes were witnessed by Lin Yi who said in a calm tone: “Wait, so you are the City Lord of Lingyun City, Ouyang Fu? I have heard that the City Lord is sympathetic towards his subordinates, yet I did not expect to see such a scene today?”
…End of chapter…
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