Chapter 990: Chapter 990: A Big Shot is Coming
“…” Bai Junjun gave him a speechless glance. “Are you crazy?”
Li Wenli pouted in grievance. “Ha, now you’re attacking ? Isn’t this the classic guilty conscience maneuver — turning the tables and accusing instead?”
“You’re the one with a guilty conscience.” Bai Junjun rolled her eyes at him. “I found the person.”
“Who did you find?” Li Wenli didn’t catch on.
“…” Bai Junjun.
“???” Li Wenli blinked, his mind finally processing it after a mont. “You an… you found Yuwen Luanfei?”
Bai Junjun nodded.
She briefly recounted today’s events, and Li Wenli listened in stunned silence.
The young lady was truly a chosen one, her luck unparalleled. Whenever she set out to find sothing, there was nothing she couldn’t track down. Look at this: in less than half a day, she managed to locate Yuwen Luanfei within the massive Biluo City of hundreds of thousands.
Listening to Li Wenli’s exaggerated flattery, Bai Junjun couldn’t help but curl her lips disdainfully. Tch, wasn’t it him who just accused her of sneaking out to ss around?
Li Wenli, slightly guilty, rubbed his nose. “I… I was just joking.”
“Tch.” Bai Junjun shot him another eye roll.
But before the two could bicker further, the sound of drums beating ca from outside. They both focused their attention to listen carefully.
Outside, a soldier’s chanical voice rang out. “Starting today, Biluo City will be under lockdown for seven days. During this period, no one is allowed to wander the streets. Violators will be treated as spies.”
The guard’s ssage continued to be repeated, and neighbors started muttering among themselves.
“Why another lockdown? There’s nothing going on.”
“I just saw heavy patrols around the North-South Bridge. It seems soone important is visiting Biluo today.”
“Could it be Yuwen Luanfei?”
“Tch, Yuwen Luanfei is already a prisoner. Why would he be accorded such high treatnt? It’s probably soone from the Northern Lands.”
“The Northern Lands? Could it be the Fifth Prince?”
“Whether it’s the Fifth Prince or not, one thing’s for sure — their arrival must be significant.”
“It seems the Fifth Prince and the Ninth Prince are working together.”
“Ha, well, since they’re both stationed in the Northern Lands, it’s natural their bond would be close.”
“So you’re saying Yuwen Luanfei is truly unlucky, getting played by the Ninth Prince.”
“Alright, for your own safety, stop gossiping. Walls have ears.”
Common folks always have their ways of catching wind of news, and Bai Junjun and Li Wenli eavesdropped on a good deal of chatter.
They hadn’t expected the citywide lockdown, restricting everyone’s movents, to be due to the arrival of an important figure from the Northern Lands.
But who could this important figure be? And what business would they have in Biluo?
“Could it be possible,” Li Wenli calmly analyzed, “that the Fifth Prince and Yuwen Jun are allies, having sorted out their profit-sharing arrangent long ago? Perhaps Yuwen Jun’s journey south was planned from the start to disrupt the fragile balance in the Southern Lands.”
Bai Junjun nodded, agreeing with Li Wenli’s speculation, and continued to gossip. “I wonder how Yuwen Jun and the Fifth Prince are splitting the benefits.”
“Maybe the Fifth Prince promised to let Yuwen Jun claim the Dragon Throne?”
But whether Yuwen Jun would actually get the throne in the end is another story. The Fifth Prince, after all, is not only robust but cunningly deceitful. He might’ve been using Yuwen Jun from the beginning, only to turn around and eliminate him when his usefulness runs out.
These endless intrigues of the Imperial Court seed exhausting even to think about.
Bai Junjun shook her head, suddenly missing the freedom of the Ownerless Land.
Wouldn’t it be better to live freely—farming and storing grain—than to obsess over becoming a ruler?
Speechless.
But since a prominent figure was arriving, they absolutely couldn’t miss the chance to witness the drama unfold. Front-row seats to the gossip spectacle were a must!
Technically, despite the city-wide lockdown barring citizens from entering or leaving, neither of them were actual residents of Biluo City.
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