Chapter 622_1

Waiting for two or three days would have been bearable, but who would have expected the city gates to remain closed for an uninterrupted span of four or five days? This was not a time of war, and to hermetically seal the city gates without any reason for such a length of time was unprecedented in the entire history of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Of course, now that the refugees had left, they wouldn't be aware that their presence was the cause. People simply felt that Ceng Lu was audacious to the extreme. Even if the Emperor was far away and aloof, one wouldn't dare to be so rampant. Besides, Xin'an City was less than half a month's journey from the Capital City. Could Ceng Lu truly believe that relying on the Empress from the Ceng Family within the palace, he could act so recklessly?