Chapter 74 The Marquis Arrests the Person Personally
Now he had some idea of what was going on. The woman hadn't left before because she was planning to take advantage of him to have her body, so that she could get close to him, a rich and powerful lord, and then plan to become his legal wife.
But with my reminders and warnings, plus what happened a few days ago, she completely gave up the idea of marrying me, so she chose to escape.
But she deceived herself like this and wanted to get away with it, without even asking herself whether she agreed or not?
Mu Xingci was not the kind of man who was easy to talk to. No woman had ever deceived him seriously. This made him feel that he was a fool in the eyes of that woman before. She must have been laughing at him secretly at that time. Just thinking about it made him feel embarrassed.
He thought he was in control of everything, but he didn't expect that he was the one being controlled. He fawned over others when he needed them, and threw them away when he didn't need them, without even saying hello. How could he get rid of the depression in his heart?
He must get the woman back.
The wind was cold and the mountain road was rugged. Yun Wansheng didn't dare to take the main road and could only choose small roads and mountain paths. She didn't know when she could get out of this southwestern area.
One day, she came to a small mountain village. Hunger made her walk to the door of a house, hoping to get something to eat.
Looking at the fenced yard of this family, she could see the whole appearance of the house at a glance: it was simple!
"Is anyone in the house?"
"Who is it?" A middle-aged woman came out and when she saw someone at her door, she walked over.
"Sister-in-law, please be kind and give me some food, just a little bit." Yun Wansheng said gently and politely.
The woman saw that he was wearing dirty clothes and had a dirty face. She knew at first glance that he was a beggar, which made her look contemptuous and disgusted: "No, my family is so poor that we can't even afford to eat. How can we have any extra food to give to outsiders? Why don't you go to the front and take a look!"
Seeing this, Yun Wansheng didn't bother to argue: "Sorry to bother you."
If you have the intention to do good, you will not speak or act badly. Since this woman has shown ill intentions, she will not give it to you even if you try to please her and ask for it.
She went to two houses in a row, but no one gave her any food, and no one was friendly to her, as if she was really an unlucky beggar.
During these three days, in order to avoid being hunted by the Marquis, she did not dare to take the official road or enter any town or city, because there were people everywhere on the road looking for strangers, forcing her to disguise herself as a beggar and hide.
She tore and soiled her clothes on purpose, and she didn't dare wash her face for a whole day, leaving it that dirty.
Fortunately, no one suspected her after visiting several villages, which made her feel a lot more at ease.
Just as I was muttering to myself that the people in this village were not as kind as those in other villages, I suddenly saw two strong young men walking towards me.
She saw that their clothes were neat and clean, and it was obvious that they were not from this village. This made her alert, and she bent her body slightly, trying to be humble.
The two people opposite him also saw him at this time and stopped him in a few steps: "Little beggar, have you seen any strangers? Male or female is fine."
When Yun Wansheng heard this, she knew that these two people were asking about her. She didn't expect that Mu Xingci would actually send people to the village and was really chasing her closely.
"Brothers, I was only looking for food while walking around the streets, but I didn't notice any strangers entering the village." Yun Wansheng said in the voice of a young boy.
"Which village are you from, beggar?" someone asked.
"I'm from Zhang Village in front. My parents died when I was young, and I grew up eating food from many families."
The man looked him up and down for a moment and saw that he was in tattered clothes, unkempt, thin, and looked like he really was not full.
"Go away!" he said, and went to the front.
Yun Wansheng cursed inwardly, "You're the one who's leaving!" Then she quickened her pace, turned a corner, and ran out of the village at full speed.
If she didn't run away, those two people would ask others and her identity as a beggar would be exposed, because she would be a stranger in the eyes of the people here. If she didn't run away now, when would she run away?
Sure enough, after she ran away, the two men asked a family, and the family told them that a beggar they had never seen before came to their house to beg for food. The two men felt cheated when they heard this, so they turned around and chased after him. However, after chasing for a while, they still couldn't see the beggar, so they released a flare.
Yun Wansheng was running towards the mountains when she suddenly heard a sound coming from high up in the sky, which made her stop and look in that direction.
"Mu Xingci, why do you have to catch me? Isn't it better to separate peacefully?" Yun Wansheng said angrily, and then went into the mountains.
The weather in the mountains was even colder, and even though Yun Wansheng was wearing a thick cotton coat, her face turned pale from the cold.
Although it was cold, she did not stop. She wanted to go over the mountain and go to the other side, hoping to get rid of the dog marquis's men.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Yun Wansheng, who was cold and hungry, felt a little uncomfortable and couldn't help but slow down her pace. This made her look for food while walking, hoping to find something edible.
But in this winter the mountains and forests are full of dead branches and rotten leaves, so there is no fruit.
Just as she was thinking of looking for it again, she suddenly saw a hare running past from not far away. This made her excited. She followed the hare and quickly took out the pistol from her bag.
After chasing for a while, I saw the hare finally stopped not far away.
Hunger made Yun Wansheng point her gun at it, and with one shot, the hare was killed.
Seeing that she had successfully killed the rabbit, she felt a little excited and ran to pick it up.
But she had just run two steps when she suddenly heard the sound of fluttering clothes above her head, which really scared her. She instinctively raised her gun and pointed it at the person who had just landed.
When she saw the man opposite her holding a sword towards her, she froze in place with only one thought in her mind: Is it necessary to come in person to capture a woman?
The person who came was Mu Xingci. At this moment, he looked at the black object in the woman's hand with a pair of cold eyes: "Yun Wansheng, I haven't seen you for a few days. You have become more capable."
His tone was full of mockery, and his eyes glanced at the dirty woman.
"You...can't you just let me go? We are already living in harmony but not together, why are you still chasing me back?" Yun Wansheng said angrily.
"Yun Wansheng, if you had been more forthcoming with me, I might have let you go, but you chose to run away. This has really embarrassed me.
Later I learned that you also know martial arts and have some very lethal hidden weapons in your hands. This made me realize that you have been pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger in front of me.
I think you already knew how to ride a horse; no wonder you were so proficient in it so quickly. The wound on your leg that day was definitely not caused by a young leopard, but by an adult one.
At first, I was wondering how you managed to climb the high walls of the General's Mansion. Knowing you didn't have the ability, I didn't suspect much, assuming you were using something.
Now it seems that you wanted to jump up. If there weren't nails on the wall, you might have run away by then.
"I, a great general, was deceived by a teenage girl like you. This is a great shame for me. Tell me, why should I let you go?" Mu Xingci said coldly.
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