Those few people closely followed behind Chen Shi's wooden cart, keeping their eyes locked on him. One of them, a woman wearing a red upper apron and a skirt of a hundred brocades, activated a Thousand Mile Sound Talisman, not knowing who she was communicating with.
Their tailing was quite subtle. When they reached a fork in the road, one person left the main road and entered the branch path. Meanwhile, in front of Chen Shi's wooden cart, a woodcutter resting by the side of the road also stood up at that moment, hoisted his two loads of firewood, and continued on his way, though his gaze remained fixed on Chen Shi.
When they reached the next fork, which was beside a town, a scholar eating noodles at a market stall saw Chen Shi's wooden cart pass by. He could not even finish the noodles in his bowl, only slurping up the strands at the corner of his mouth. As he stood up to retrieve his money, he left it on the table and walked briskly toward the provincial post road.
Along the way, the people tracking Chen Shi changed through two or three batches, each with different faces; only the woman with the skirt of a hundred brocades had not been replaced.
Chen Shi sat inside the cart, seemingly completely unaware, but in reality, he took every bit of this scene into his eyes, his heart turning stern.
This Young Master of Yudu is actually capable of mobilizing so many people in Xinxiang to monitor me. His sphere of influence is truly hard to imagine!
By evening, the wooden cart drove into Xinxiang Provincial City.
Chen Shi had been to the provincial city once before. When Ganyang Mountain Lord revived, he occupied Chen Shi's physical body and flew him