159: Chapter 89: Qilin Moves!_3 159: Chapter 89: Qilin Moves!_3 Li Guanyi nodded his head and admired the scenery on both sides.

The distance between Jiangzhou City and Guan Yi City was more than three hundred miles.

The Xue Family’s caravan had to reach its destination in a day.

Li Guanyi noticed that every few tens of miles along the way, there was a post station bustling with carriages and horses, with people from various countries stopping there to drink tea and eat food.

The meat placed on the tables outside was extremely abundant, with much left over.

Foreigners who came did not have to pay with Silver Coins.

Afterwards, they praised the state of Central Plains, true to its reputation of abundance, vastness, rich resources, and its people’s luxurious appearance.

Initially, there was a post station every fifty miles, then every thirty miles, and later, every twenty miles.

Besides, on the road were monks and Taoists, as if a grand Taoist debate was in session.

There were also carriages decorated extremely lavishly.

Looking out over the waterways of the river, there were flower boats stretching continuously, nearly covering the entire waterway of Jiangzhou City, grand and magnificent.

At a glance, it indeed looked like an extremely grand sight.

However, amidst such a vast and impressive crowd, Li Guanyi also saw many common folk.

The faces of these commoners were tinged with fatigue as they hurried outwards.

Among them, an elderly man with two children, hustling along as if the increasingly hot weather and prolonged walking under the sun had taken its toll.

He stumbled and began to fall forward.

The fallen commoner on the ground, and the coming and going of foreign monks and Taoists on both sides, revealed a stark contrast,

Li Guanyi frowned, dismounted, and rushed over to help but another young man with bronze skin also extended his hand to help the old man.

The two exchanged glances.

Li Guanyi took the old man’s pulse and said, “You haven’t eaten for too long, and it’s too hot.

Find some shade to rest.”

The Xue Family’s caravan continued on, not stopping for Li Guanyi.

Xue Daoyong tacitly approved Li Guanyi’s actions.

The young man helped the elder to the shade of a tree.

The old man had brought water with him; he took a drink, ate some dry food, and gradually revived his strength.

Li Guanyi said, “Old man, where are you from?

You need to take care of your health.”

The elder, having caught his breath, said, “Thank you both for your concern.

I am a commoner from a town near Jiangzhou.

Now is the opportunity to head southwest.”

Li Guanyi was surprised and asked, “Head southwest at this time?”

The old man chuckled bitterly and said, “No other reason, don’t you know, it’s really because of the grand ceremony, it’s too…

”

When the man saw the fine silk on Li Guanyi’s body, he abruptly changed his words, quickly saying, “It’s because of my own reasons.

Your grace in saving my life is a debt I can never repay.” He bowed several times, then without resting further, took the two children and hurried away.

Li Guanyi was about to speak, but the young man with the bronze skin said in a low voice:

“With such clothes, you are a nobleman, and he won’t talk to you.”

Li Guanyi understood the implication and gripped the hilt of his knife.

The young man patted the curved sword at his waist and said, “I’ve come from the west.

I heard that the Emperor of Chen treats his people like a Saint, and I was curious.

I rode a camel out of the desert, then a donkey to get here, but what I’ve seen does not seem right.”

Li Guanyi asked, “Do you know why?”

The young man replied, “I don’t know much, only that along the way, these foreign envoys and merchants don’t have to pay.

There are post stations on their roads, and I heard an elder say that counties within a five-hundred-mile radius have to offer food.”

“Then the neighboring counties have to send five thousand performing households to the Capital City to play music.”

“All these expenses come out of the common people’s pockets for the grand celebration.”

Li Guanyi furrowed his brows, looking at Jiangzhou City, the grand ceremony of Chen Country, a major event for the whole world.

Yet still, it weighed down on the shoulders of the common people, the Emperor of Chen…

Li Guanyi did not voice his opinions, but simply caught up with the Xue Family’s carriages, entering Jiangzhou City with the old man.

Naturally, no one dared to stop the Xue Family’s convoy, and that young man from the Western Regions followed behind Li Guanyi on his donkey.

As a person from the Western Regions, not even a capitation tax was required.

Li Guanyi gazed at the huge city ahead.

Majestic, solemn, immense.

This was Jiangzhou City, the Capital City of Chen Country, a place his parents had once traversed.

More than ten years ago, had not the Taiping Duke entered this city gate riding a Qilin, with the crowds cheering all around?

Li Guanyi thought as he entered Jiangzhou City, he suddenly paused, sensing a familiar yet strange aura.

Just as Li Guanyi entered Jiangzhou.

The entire Jiangzhou City suddenly fell silent, a deathly stillness brought on by every beast and insect daring not to make a sound, even the wind ceased.

Li Guanyi felt that the Qi Mechanism also noticed him.

That Qi Mechanism fluctuated violently, and then—

A roar, like that of a tiger or a dragon, suddenly exploded!

Qilin!