Chapter 508 Strict Inspection

Walking on the street, there were still soldiers everywhere searching for assassins. Compared with yesterday, the number of people searching was no less.

"That assassin is so abominable. Our Majesty kindly accepted her as a concubine, but she didn't know how to be grateful. She even assassinated her in public. It's simply a heinous crime!" Zhao Qi said angrily.

"Maybe she has some unavoidable difficulties." Wu Fan said.

"What difficulties can she have? She is the princess of Nanping. Has our Yanfeng Kingdom treated them badly for so many years? Without our Yanfeng Kingdom, their Nanping Kingdom would have been annexed by the surrounding countries long ago." Zhao Qi said.

"Maybe something big happened in Nanping Kingdom, and she had no choice but to do this." Wu Fan said.

"What could happen? I heard that Blackwater attacked Nanping, but isn't the matter resolved? The Blackwater army has retreated, what else can they do?" Because her father was assassinated, Zhao Qi had no good feelings towards Wu Ya. She looked at Wu Fan and said, "You are a minister of Yanfeng and a viscount appointed by His Majesty. Why do you keep speaking for the assassin?"

Facing Zhao Qi's suspicion, Wu Fan said, "I am not speaking for the assassin. I just think that the assassination was a bit sudden and unreasonable, so I guess there may be other reasons."

"No matter what the reason is, assassinating the emperor of our Yanfeng is a capital crime." Zhao Qi said angrily.

Seeing this, Wu Fan stopped speaking for Wu Ya. Obviously, Zhao Qi couldn't listen at all, and it was useless to say more.

"I hope Yanfeng can investigate the situation of Nanping before making a decision." Wu Fan thought to himself.

Now Wu Fan was afraid that the old emperor didn't know the truth about Nanping State, and would send troops to attack Nanping State out of anger after being assassinated. Wu Fan didn't care much about what would happen to Nanping State, but if the war between the two countries broke out now, it would likely affect the special mission that Wu Fan had taken on, and that was what Wu Fan cared about.

Wu Fan drove the carriage and soon arrived at the city gate. There were indeed many soldiers guarding the gate. Every citizen entering and leaving the city was strictly searched. There were also people like Wu Fan who drove the carriage out of the city, and those soldiers would not let them go. No matter which official or wealthy businessman's flag was hanging on the carriage, it would be checked, and the inspection was quite careful.

Faced with such an inspection, no one dared to have any objections, even those officials or people from the wealthy businessman's house who were usually arrogant. They could usually ignore these soldiers guarding the city, but now they all cooperated obediently.

After all, it was the emperor who was assassinated. This was a big deal for Yanfeng Country. Anyone who dared not to cooperate might become a suspect, and a large number of soldiers might come to the door in the next second.

"It's a bit tricky." Wu Fan was a little worried when he saw this situation.

The reason why he agreed to accompany Zhao Qi out of the city was not only for the thousand gold coins, but also to personally experience the intensity of the inspection at the city gate. After all, Wu Ya was still in his residence, and he had to find a way to send Wu Ya out of the city. Although the official post was temporarily safe because of Zhao Qi, no one dared to guarantee that there would be no accidents, so it was better to leave here as soon as possible.

However, when Wu Fan saw the intensity of the inspection here with his own eyes, he was not sure that he could take Wu Ya away safely. It was not easy to take a living person out of the city with such a strict inspection.

"Stop! Everyone on the carriage get off! Take out your identity card!" While Wu Fan was thinking, his carriage had arrived at the sentry post at the gate, and was stopped by these soldiers as expected.

"I am the newly appointed Viscount by His Majesty. This is my token." Wu Fan got off the carriage and handed over his token, wanting to see if his Viscount status could help his carriage avoid being searched.

The soldier looked at Wu Fan's token with a serious face, and then said: "Let everyone in the carriage get off for inspection!"

"Isn't that necessary?" Wu Fan said.

"Everyone must get off the carriage for inspection!" The soldier said without question.

"Can't I be a Viscount?" Wu Fan said.

"No!" The soldier said with great certainty: "Not to mention the Viscount, even if the Marquis comes, he must cooperate with the inspection!"

Because of Wu Fan's slight hesitation and non-cooperation, several soldiers not far away came over here, and even some of them were captains.

"What's going on?" The captain came over and asked, looking Wu Fan up and down with a vigilant look.

"They don't cooperate with the search!" said the soldier just now.

The captain had a serious face and said in a stern tone: "Let everyone in the carriage get off for inspection! Immediately! Right now!"

Before Wu Fan could say anything, a team of soldiers had surrounded his carriage with alert expressions.

"Don't be nervous, don't be excited, I'll let them get off immediately." Wu Fan said.

It seems that the identity of the viscount is really useless here, and it is not enough at all.

"Zhao Qi, Xiaoqing, you get off." Wu Fan shouted to the carriage.

The curtain of the carriage was lifted up, Xiaoqing calmly stuck her head out, looked around, threw a token in her hand to the leading captain, and then returned to the carriage without saying a word.

The leading captain took a look at the token and didn't care too much at first. After all, there were many people who handed in cards to be exempted from inspection in the past two days. However, there was an order from the top, and no matter who it was, they had to accept the inspection this time.

However, when he saw the sign clearly, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at it carefully again, and after making sure that he had not seen it wrong, he respectfully handed the sign to the entrance of the carriage. Xiaoqing reached out from inside and took the sign back.

"Let them go!" The captain saw Xiaoqing taking back the sign, and hurriedly turned around and shouted.

"But captain, they haven't been inspected yet." The soldier who stopped Wu Fan before said.

"I said let them go, didn't you understand what I said?!" the captain shouted.

"Yes!" The surrounding soldiers immediately dispersed and made way for Wu Fan's carriage.

"This..." Wu Fan was a little confused when he saw such a change.

"I'm sorry, I offended you just now, you can go now." The captain said to Wu Fan, and the tone of his speech was completely different from before.

Wu Fan was stunned and said, "Okay."

Then Wu Fan got on the carriage and drove it out of the city. Although he didn't know what was going on, it was naturally a good thing to be exempted from inspection.

"It seems that I underestimated Zhao Qi's identity before." Wu Fan thought as he drove the carriage.