In order to avoid suspicion and to give Fushan a proper identity, Mendu did not actually bring the girl home, but placed her in the house next door to his own and waited for an auspicious day to welcome her back home.
Mu Nanjin was happy for Fushan, and only returned to the Mu family after the doorman had settled the people.
Captain Liu, who was still on duty at the Duwei Mansion, asked the Jinyiwei guarding outside the door, "Did Mu Xiaoqi send anyone to the prison today?"
The two Jinyiwei looked at each other. Captain Liu had asked this question for the fifteenth time today. "To answer your question, sir, no."
"Is the capital so peaceful today?"
When Captain Liu returned home, he learned from his son that Mu Nanjin and his colleagues were busy distributing compensation to the residents of Zhengfu Street, so they did not patrol and did not catch the troublemakers.
This was fine, he was happy to have some free time. But the next day he was not so free.
In the early morning, Mu Nanjin and his men arrested a large group of people who were causing trouble, followed by a large group of noble ladies and noble men, and then even officials were taken to jail. Towards evening, they also arrested a large group of martial artists who were fighting in the city.
The jail was bustling with people of all kinds of identities being thrown into it.
Mu Nanjin was not in a hurry to try them. He locked them up for a day and a night first, and then tried the case together with the captured people the next day.
Ordinary people and noble ladies and gentlemen had never seen such a scene before. They were trembling with fear when they were put in jail. Some even cried, and others kept begging for mercy. However, no one paid any attention to them.
Even if the family came to redeem him, they could not do so, which made the officials full of resentment. A censor reported Mu Nanjin's case to the emperor.
The emperor asked the censor: "Then tell me why Mu Nanjin wanted to arrest them?"
The Supervisory Censor said angrily, "Let's not talk about anything else, just talk about the arrest of the official's wife and daughter. Some of them just robbed a piece of cloth and left without paying for it. It was just a minor offense and they should be fined to pay back the money. There was no need to arrest them. Now they are locked up in jail, they must be scared."
"Minor offenses?" The emperor sneered, "My dear minister, do you think that money can solve everything? Do you think that the mistakes of the wives and daughters of the officials will be forgiven after they buy the torn cloth?"
Seeing that the emperor looked unhappy, the censor said hurriedly: "That is not what I meant. I just think the punishment is too severe."
The emperor said calmly, "If the cloth was yours, and the person who tore your cloth was a commoner, I guess you would not be able to get away with it even if you locked him up for half a year."
Supervisory Censor: “…”
He couldn't refute this.
The emperor continued, "The official's wife and daughter were only imprisoned for a day and a night. How can it be said that they were not tortured too severely? If I don't scare them, I dare say they will do the same thing in the future. It is said that the princes are guilty of the same crime as the people. My son was punished for doing something wrong. Shouldn't your wife and children be punished for doing something wrong? Or do you think that the official's wife and daughter have a higher status than the prince?"
"I dare not."
The censor knelt on the ground hastily and said, "Even if I had the courage of heaven, I would not dare to think so."
Those who originally wanted to stand on the side of the Censor saw that the Emperor was speaking for Mu Nanjin, so they gave up the idea of speaking for the Censor.
The emperor snorted coldly and stood up and left.
"Retreat from the Court"
Eunuch Yuan quickly said to adjourn the court and followed him.
Ministers: "Farewell, His Majesty."
After the emperor left the hall, the ministers walked out one after another.
The Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice whispered to the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice: "The Emperor was clearly speaking in favor of Mu Nanjin just now. In my opinion, Mu Nanjin did this completely at the Emperor's instruction."
The Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice nodded and said, "I think so too. The Emperor must want to take this opportunity to discipline some people. When I return, I will warn my wife and others to go out less, and even if they go out, don't cause trouble."
"Me too."
The Minister of Personnel at the back walked up to Emperor Wenzong and said, "Your Mu Nanjin is so capable that he dares to capture anyone, and he is not afraid of causing public outrage, which will implicate even your Tang family."
Emperor Wenzong of Tang sighed: "She is working for the emperor. What can I do? I can't ask her not to do it, right? This is disobeying the emperor's order."
He asked Tang Jingrui, and it was the emperor who issued an edict specifically requesting Mu Nanjin to go on patrol.
Although she did not specify what she was going to do, everyone knew that the emperor wanted to use Mu Nanjin to capture more children of aristocratic families to appease their arrogance.
Moreover, Tang Jingrui said that Mu Nanjin himself would definitely be fine, but it was hard to say for their Tang family.
However, since the emperor had asked Mu Nanjin to do this, he would not sit idly by and watch the Tang family suffer because of him.
The Minister of Personnel patted him on the shoulder, sighed, and left.
Mu Nanjin, who was still patrolling the streets, had no idea what was happening in the court. He only knew that the streets had become more and more peaceful in the past two days.
Not only was there no one causing trouble, but it seemed like there were fewer young ladies and gentlemen in the mansions, and she could finally live a life of eating and drinking.
However, she had only been relaxed for two days when Captain Liu started to cause trouble again.
Captain Liu ordered: "Mu Nanjin, the patrol is over now. From tomorrow on, you will be responsible for arresting the wanted criminals."
Mu Nanjin said: "I still want to patrol."
【I want to live a life of eating and drinking every day. 】
Captain Liu: “…”
If you continue to patrol, officials, their families, and people from aristocratic families will not dare to go out on the streets.
He rubbed his forehead points: "You must obey your superiors' instructions."
Mu Nanjin didn't say anything, but he was shouting in his heart.
【I want to live a life of eating and drinking every day. 】
【I want to live a life of eating and drinking every day. 】
【I want to live a life of eating and drinking every day. 】
Captain Liu was embarrassed and said, "What you proposed to the governor has been approved by the governor."
Mu Nanjin couldn't remember what it was for a moment: "What is it?"
"It's about letting the daughters of the Royal Guards study. Since the governor has agreed, shouldn't you also agree to the task he assigns?"
Mu Nanjin asked: "Is this the task assigned to me by the governor?"
Liu Qianhu nodded heavily, as if afraid that she would doubt him: "Yes."
"Who do you want me to arrest?"
"Go find Captain Liang, and just cooperate with him."
"oh."
Mu Nanjin turned around and left, taking Liu Qian and the others to find Captain Liang.
However, he was told that Captain Liang had gone to report to Kan Chaoyan, and if he wanted to go on a mission with Captain Liang, he should wait at the gate.
Mu Nanjin, Liu Qian and others arrived at the gate and saw Captain Liang's men waiting with horses.
Liu Qian and Yang Bo went to get the horses, while Mu Nanjin walked to the side of Captain Liang's men.
The people led by Captain Liang were all general flag bearers of the seventh rank. They couldn't help but frown when they saw Mu Nanjin standing there silently.
They had always been dissatisfied with Mu Nanjin's joining the Jinyiwei. Not only did a girl with no skills join them and drag them down, but she was promoted to the seventh rank flag in a short period of time. No matter who it was, they were dissatisfied. Especially those who had been struggling for three or four years and were still in the seventh rank flag position, they really felt unbalanced.
One of the generals named Ai Qi whispered to Yu Jie beside him: "The governor and his men are so unfair. In order to promote her, they lied that she was the one who wiped out the bandits in Canglong Mountain in Jiangnan. Who would believe this?"
Yu Jie sneered: "If she really was the one who suppressed the bandits, she wouldn't have been promoted to only a seventh-rank official, she could have been promoted to a centurion."
Little did they know that the governor and his men really wanted to promote Mu Nanjin to the rank of centurion, but were worried that promoting him too high and too fast would cause Mu Nanjin's dissatisfaction, so they only promoted him to the seventh rank.
Ai Qi didn't like anything about Mu Nanjin: "Besides being pretty, she doesn't have any ability at all. I don't know why the governor and his men wanted to promote her."
"She is using her beauty to please others, and this will not end well."
Zhong Yu, who was closest to Mu Nanjin, looked at Mu Nanjin sarcastically and said, "Miss Mu is different after she was promoted to the small flag. Her authority is greater than before. She doesn't even greet us when she sees us."
The others also looked at Mu Nanjin.
Mu Nanjin recalled that he had not saluted them before, so he clasped his fists and said, "Greetings, gentlemen."
Zhong Yu snorted coldly: "You are so perfunctory, let's do it again."
His companion Fan Zhi tapped and tugged at his sleeve, signaling him not to go too far.
Zhong Yu ignored him and said to the indifferent Mu Nanjin: "Why don't you do it again? Do you want us to treat you?"
At this time, Xu Cheng and Yang Bo came over with their horses and saw that the thirty generals looked at Mu Nanjin unfriendly. They quickly ran over to protect Mu Nanjin behind them and said angrily: "What do you want to do to our girl?"
Zhong Yu frowned and said, "It is not your turn as a mere ninth-rank Jinyiwei to control us no matter what we want to do. Mu Nanjin, why don't you salute us quickly?"
Mu Nanjin said calmly: "I just bowed."
"I didn't see it." Zhong Yu turned around and asked the other general flags: "Did you see it?"
The other general flags said in unison: "I didn't see it."
Xu Cheng clenched his fists: "You are clearly bullying our girl."
Yang Bo asked coldly: "Is it fun for a group of men to bully a girl?"
Zhong Yu sneered: "You keep calling her a girl, are you having an affair with Mu Nanjin?"
Ai Qi said loudly: "Three men protecting a girl like this, there must be something wrong."
Liu Qian was furious: "Don't slander me."
"Did we say anything wrong?"
"you……"
Liu Qian took a step forward angrily.
Zhong Yu snorted coldly: "Do you want to fight so many of us by yourself?"
At this moment, an angry voice came from the gate: "What are you doing? Do you want to be punished for fighting at the gate of the Duwei Mansion?"
When Zhong Yu and the others saw that it was Captain Liang who came out, they immediately bowed and said, "Greetings to Captain Liang and all the five hundred households."
Captain Liang came over with ten of the five-hundred-households and glared at them: "Explain to me what's going on."
Liu Qian pointed at them and said, "Captain Liang, they are insulting the reputation of the young lady."
Then briefly recount what happened just now.
Captain Liang and the other five hundred households gasped.
These people who don't know how to live or die actually dare to speak rudely to Mu Nanjin.
Zhong Yu curled her lips and said, "We are just telling the truth. How can we insult Mu Nanjin's reputation? Besides, Mu Nanjin hangs out with grown men every day. Does she still have any reputation?"
Captain Liang shouted urgently: "Zhong Yu, shut up."
Then he looked at Mu Nanjin nervously, worried that she would kill everyone in anger.
The thirty general flags all noticed Captain Liang's expression, and they were more convinced that Mu Nanjin was using her beauty to please the governor, otherwise Captain Liang would not be so afraid of Mu Nanjin.
Zhong Yu snorted coldly and stopped talking.
Captain Liang and the other five captains did not hear Mu Nanjin's thoughts, and they were feeling uneasy. They didn't know what she thought about this matter.
Little did they know that Mu Nanjin didn't take the general flag seriously at all, and didn't take their words to heart, because to her, a bunch of minions were not worth her anger.
Captain Liang glared at Zhong Yu and the others: "Mu Xiaoqi and her people are here to help us catch the wanted criminal. Please be polite to me."
"She helps us catch the wanted criminal?" Ai Qi thought he had misheard and couldn't help scratching his ears: "Captain Liang, are you sure? She can help us catch the wanted criminal? It's good enough that she didn't hold us back."
Captain Liang's face darkened. "I've noticed that you guys are getting more and more presumptuous. It seems like I've been too indulgent towards you recently. Wait until the mission is over and see how I'll deal with you."
The generals stopped talking, but glared at Mu Nanjin.
Captain Liang sighed secretly.
If the emperor had not ordered that Mu Nanjin's affairs should not be told to others, I would really like to let Ai Qi and the others know how terrifying Mu Nanjin's strength is.
Mu Nanjin didn't want them to continue talking nonsense, so he asked, "Who are we going to catch?"
Captain Liang took out a portrait and handed it to Mu Nanjin: "The person we want to capture today is him, the butcher assassin Fang Dashi. In the past three months, he led his men to slaughter people from several county offices, including county magistrates, county lieutenants, county lieutenants, chief clerks, and registrars. They only target officials, but because they are only fourth or fifth-rank warriors, they can only target people with low official positions."
Mu Nanjin looked at the portrait whose true face was difficult to recognize, and countless ellipsis flew through his mind.
…
…
…
I miss sketching.
Captain Liang and the other five hundred households: "..."
Who is Sketch?
As far as they knew, there was no such person around Mu Nanjin.
Liang Baihu asked: "Is there anything wrong with this portrait?"
Mu Nan returned the portrait to him and said, "If the criminal changes his hairstyle and clothes, and makes some minor changes to his face, will you still recognize who he is?"
Liang Baihu: "..."
It is because of the inability to recognize that the other party escapes many times.
Captain Liang coughed lightly: "According to our investigation, Fang Dashi is near the capital. They are most likely to be..."
Having said this, he deliberately slowed down his speech.
In fact, they were not quite sure where Fang Dashi was, but because Fang Dashi and his gang had killed too many officials, the emperor had ordered their Jinyiwei to close the case quickly, so they had to ask Mu Nanjin for help again.
Originally, the case was handled by the Six Gates to arrest Fang Dashi, but the Six Gates could not spare any manpower, so they transferred the task to the Embroidered Uniform Guards.
[In Chenhua Village, 400 miles away from Beijing, there were 50 of them, disguised as villagers and living in Chenhua Village.]
Captain Liang said quickly: "In Chenhua Village, let's go find him now."
He rode away first, followed by the others.
Walking behind, Zhong Yu winked at the other general flags and Mu Nanjin in front: "When the fight starts, everyone knows what to do, right?"
The generals smiled in agreement: "Understood."
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