Engraving the Characters "Shenzhou," a Distinguished Guest of Mount Zhongnan

The sun had dipped a little!

Yet the congestion before the main city road showed not the slightest sign of easing, and the soldiers of the Five Gate Garrisons still had not appeared to maintain order.

There was no sign of them!

Yuwen Liqian remained patient, but the students behind her were already growing restless.

They looked at the packed crowd around them, their hearts full of dissatisfaction, yet constrained by their status and the etiquette expected of representatives of the Han Kingdom, they could only stand there with sleeves flicked aside!

The students had grown tired of waiting as they looked at the dense sea of people around them.

They could not force their way through.

Nor could they start cursing, lest they disgrace their scholarly dignity.

The students began discussing matters in low voices, their words containing no shortage of criticism and dissatisfaction toward Yan Territory's governance.

"A lawless land, with unruly rabble springing up everywhere!"

"It needs great scholars to come govern the country. What a foul miasma of chaos!"

"It is even worse than the barbarian Southern Mang, without the slightest appearance of propriety."

One student even offered a suggestion:

"Lord Su, why not beat a few of them to death and let these unruly rabble know their place!"

Before Su Changhai could answer, several officials beside him hurriedly advised:

"No, absolutely not!"

If they did that, the officials traveling with them would all bear collective responsibility.

Su Changhai immediately refused as well.

These Green Gang people had arranged for others to block them here precisely to make them anxious.

Once they grew anxious and made a mistake, they would be led around by the nose. And if they struck people in broad daylight, under the eyes of everyone watching—

If something happened this afternoon,

then