Chapter 72 Escape and Being Recognized
"Who knows, maybe Miss Yun offended the Marquis again last night?" Aunt Wang was also suspicious.
Yun Wansheng left home smoothly, hired a carriage in the market and headed straight for the north city.
After arriving in North City, she bought a set of men's clothes like last time and went to the inn. After dressing herself up as a young and thin man, she came to the Niu family blacksmith shop with some nervousness.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw the shopkeeper Niu greeting guests. Yun Wansheng waited for a moment, and the shopkeeper came forward enthusiastically: "Young man, you are here?"
"Well! Shopkeeper Niu, is my thing ready?" Yun Wansheng asked expectantly.
"It's ready. I'll get it for you." Shopkeeper Niu said and went to the back hall.
Yun Wansheng followed him in with her eyes, and when he came out, her heart was always hanging in the air, fearing that she had not done it well.
"Brother, are you satisfied with the inspection?"
Yun Wansheng opened the wooden box and saw that the parts of the pistol were neatly arranged one by one, in accordance with the requirements of her own drawing. She also painted the drawing black, and at first glance it looked exactly like a real modern gun.
He picked up the cloth bag beside him and saw that it was full of heavy bullets. He didn't know how it was made.
"It looks okay." She couldn't assemble it now, so she could only take her chances. "Boss Niu, where are my drawings and molds?"
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Niu gave a dry laugh and said, "Young man, why don't you sell those to me? I'll give you two hundred taels less this time."
"I'm sorry, this thing is very important to my eldest brother. The drawings and molds must be destroyed. Please, Shopkeeper Niu, abide by the rules of your shop."
"Well... okay! Please follow me." Seeing him say this, Shopkeeper Niu had no choice but to take him to the backyard and let him see the destroyed molds and drawings with his own eyes.
Since the things were destroyed, Yun Wansheng took the remaining silver and left with peace of mind.
After leaving the blacksmith shop, they rode in a carriage directly out of the city gate. As the carriage moved forward, Yun Wansheng assembled the pistol in the carriage.
When the silencer was finally installed, a complete pistol appeared before his eyes.
When the carriage passed through a small forest, Yun Wansheng asked the driver to stop for a while, and she went deep into the forest on the pretext of going to the bathroom.
After looking around to make sure there was no one around, Yun Wansheng took out his pistol, pointed it forward and fired a shot.
As the bullet was fired, with the help of the silencer, the sound was not loud, just slightly louder than modern sounds, but this made Yun Wansheng very satisfied.
After testing the gun, Yun Wansheng finally felt completely at ease and continued on her journey. It was noon when they arrived at a small county town.
Yun Wansheng paid the driver and let him go back. Then she bought some buns and went to the horse market to buy a black horse.
The natural way to escape is to get away from the man as quickly as possible. She can't guarantee that Mu Xingci will catch her if he finds out that she is gone.
They rode at full speed all the way and ate the buns on horseback. They were running away without stopping.
She escaped here, and Mu Xingci came to the villa just after noon. When Xiaoqing saw her master, she hurried forward to greet him: "Greetings, Lord Marquis!"
"Yeah!" He responded lightly, glanced at the hall, and then went into the dormitory.
Seeing that the woman was not in the room, he couldn't help but frown: "Xiao Qing, where is Miss Yun?"
Xiaoqing was slightly stunned when she heard this: "My Lord, isn't Miss Yun with you?" She thought Yun Wansheng didn't come back with him.
"Who said she is with me?" Mu Xingci turned around and asked after hearing this.
Xiaoqing received the extremely sharp gaze from her master and was so scared that she knelt down immediately.
"My Lord, Miss Yun said this morning that she wanted to go to the General's Mansion to see you. I offered to follow her, but she said you told her to go alone and didn't let me follow. So I thought Miss Yun had been staying in the General's Mansion the whole time."
When Mu Xingci heard this, his eyes darkened, but he didn't think that the woman had escaped at first. After all, her grandfather was still here, how could she run away?
The reason why he was so sure was that before he came, his subordinates reported to him that Yun Dashan was ill, and he even asked someone to invite a doctor. He came here to tell the woman, but she was not there.
But if he went shopping, he should have been back by now.
He pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought about why she lied in the morning. He didn't restrict her freedom. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel anxious.
He quickly ordered, "Hurry and search her room to see if anything is missing."
Xiao Qing also realized the seriousness of the matter. She quickly stood up and opened the wardrobe. After searching for a while, she said anxiously, "My Lord, except for the one she was wearing, all other clothes are intact. But the new cotton-padded shoes and new short cotton-padded jacket that Miss Yun bought a few days ago are missing."
Upon hearing this, Mu Xingci's handsome face darkened, and he quickly walked out of the room: "Qi Yi, quickly send troops in four groups to bring that damned woman back to me."
"Yes!" Qi Yi's expression was also panicked, and he responded and ran out of the courtyard.
Mu Xingci stood in the courtyard with a cold look in his eyes: "Yun Wansheng, you are so brave. I have let you go many times, but you have always ignored me. You'd better pray that I don't catch you, otherwise, I will show no mercy."
No wonder she was so obedient that day. It turned out that she had been thinking about escaping from him for a long time. He, a marquis, had not yet despised her, a singing girl, but she had abandoned him first.
Yun Wansheng ran for over a hundred miles. Even when it got dark, she didn't dare to stop. The horse was tired, so she let it eat some grass before continuing. She decided to run as far away as possible first.
Mu Xingci in the general's mansion was sitting at the table, drinking tea slowly, as if nothing had happened.
At this time, Qi Yi walked in and said, "My Lord, there is no news from the people I sent out."
Mu Xingci paused for a moment as he held the tea tray. "Tell Zhang Yu to send out carrier pigeons to surround them. I don't believe she can grow wings."
"Yes!" He responded and was about to leave, but he had just taken two steps when Mu Xingci's voice came again: "Don't hurt her." There was a hint of helplessness in his tone. Even after he calmed down, he still couldn't bear to hurt her.
"I understand, My Lord!" Ming turned around and replied, then left.
Mu Xingci sneered at this time: "Yun Wansheng, I didn't expect you to be so good at running, but have you thought about the consequences of being caught?"
At dawn, Yun Wansheng entered a county town. She figured that she had been running for a day and a night, and the man would definitely not catch up with her for a while, so she found a noodle stall and sat down.
"Boss, give me a bowl of noodles." Yun Wansheng was so tired that she barely spoke.
"Yes, sir." The boss was a middle-aged man who looked very down-to-earth.
Yun Wansheng glanced around. Since it was early in the morning, there were not many people walking in groups of three or four on the street.
Just as she was planning to eat and continue on her way, she saw the boss coming over with a bowl of noodles: "Miss Yun, please have some!"
This short sentence startled Yun Wansheng so much that her expression changed and she instinctively wanted to run away.
"Miss Yun, you can't run away. We have people all around you. I advise you to surrender." The boss chuckled.
Sure enough, as soon as he said this, more than twenty people gathered around him, both openly and secretly.
"How do you know I'm Miss Yun?" She was really puzzled that her masculine attire was exposed so easily.
"It's simple. At first I thought you were a man, but when I hit you, I saw the fragility of a woman in your every move.
This made me conclude that you were a woman, so I tentatively called you Miss Yun, but I didn't expect you to be one." The boss said with some complacency.
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