At the inn, General Peng Si's display of his general's token was useless, and Princess Jinghe's jade token representing her status as a royal noblewoman was also ineffective.
The prefect of Fuzhou was surnamed Yang, and Lord Yang didn't buy into their act at all.
They either surrender or are arrested.
All of them were from military backgrounds and their skills were not weak, but Lord Yang had a total of twelve assassins who quickly subdued the five of them.
Lord Yang waved his fat hand, ordering his men to take these people back and lock them in the prison.
Princess Jinghe: "You surnamed Yang, you'd better kill me, or I'll exterminate your entire family!"
She was extremely aggrieved. She had never been mistaken for a bandit and arrested in her entire life. It was truly humiliating.
General Peng Si was still in shock. He never expected that the sickly Peng Mu would have such ability to make the prefects obey him time and time again, and even dare to arrest him, a general of the Peng family, without caring about the status of a princess of the Kangwang Mansion.
He couldn't help but think of what Gu Hui had said: "What if he weren't your son?"
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The next day, the Fuzhou government closed the city gates, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving.
The officers and soldiers continued searching for Gu Hui and Peng Mu, but found nothing.
After the second search by the soldiers, a person emerged from the lotus pond of a wealthy family in the east of the city, followed by another person being pulled out. It was Gu Hui and Peng Mu.
Peng Mu fainted, perhaps because he had drunk too much water.
Gu Hui didn't care about anything else and hid Peng Mu in the small Buddhist shrine of the house.
Gu Hui had seen Cai Xiaolian's design for a Jiangnan-style residence in her study before, and yesterday she visited the Song family's house, so she roughly knew which direction a Buddhist shrine was usually built in.
She hid in a family surnamed Long. The old lady of the Long family was a Buddhist, and outsiders were generally not allowed to enter the Buddhist hall. Only the old lady and the old nanny who served her were allowed in.
It just so happens that the old lady of the Long family is not at home right now because it is almost the second day of the second lunar month and she plans to eat vegetarian food at the temple for half a month.
She overheard the chatter of the maids and servants coming and going this morning.
She put Peng Mu into a wooden box in the small Buddhist shrine, then found a handkerchief to dry herself off.
Now her makeup has been completely washed away underwater, revealing her original appearance.
She killed several of Peng Mu's men, and she wasn't sure if any of them had seen her in Kuncheng.
She didn't paint her face the same way she did yesterday; she just made her eyes a little smaller, changed the shape of her eyebrows, and added two moles to her face.
He sneaked into the maid's room and changed his clothes.
After leaving the Long family home, she went outside to inquire about news.
"Oh my goodness, the person our Lord Yang caught last night was clearly a notorious bandit, yet he impersonated a princess and a general from the Peng family. Aren't you laughing at us?"
"Why would the Peng family's general come to our side? Doesn't Kuncheng need any defenses?"
"A princess, indeed! What would a royal princess do in Fuzhou, traveling all this way? Why not pretend to be a prince or princess?"
"These thieves are incredibly audacious! Impersonating members of the royal family is a capital offense."
"I heard there's still one person who hasn't been caught. That person caught a relative of Lord Yang, and it's a woman. Everyone be careful. If you see a woman from out of town, just point her to Lord Yang!"
Gu Hui clenched her fist. She decided to first smash that Lord Yang's head in.
She'll kill all those traitorous officials in Fuzhou and create chaos; she doesn't believe she can't get out then!
Damn it!
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