Outside the window was the street, which was already surrounded by soldiers.
Gu Hui took direct action, grabbing Peng Mu and charging out. These soldiers were all good-for-nothings; they were just numerous, but they couldn't compare to the soldiers in the army.
Gu Hui led Peng Mu on a frantic run, but they were quickly caught up by Peng Mu's men.
"Gu Hui, oh no, I should call you sister-in-law now!" Peng Mu laughed as Gu Hui carried him. "Didn't expect that, did you? I had this trick up my sleeve. Don't try to escape, you can't."
"Is the Prefect of Fuzhou one of Prince Qu's men?" Gu Hui asked.
"Even King Qu knows about this, so it seems you have quite a bit of information! But so what? Apart from me, everyone who knows about this is a dead man," Peng Mu laughed arrogantly.
"Aren't you afraid of dying from the poison?" Gu Hui asked while fending off Peng Mu's men's attacks.
"Hahahaha... He died from the poison..." Peng Mu laughed maniacally, as if he had heard a funny joke.
Gu Hui's kung fu is the best among the four Gu sisters. Coupled with her innate superhuman strength, she is capable of defeating Peng Mu's henchmen, even while carrying Peng Mu himself.
Peng Mu wasn't nervous at all. He watched as his men were killed one by one by Gu Hui, but he remained calm.
Gu Hui was somewhat puzzled.
But this wasn't the time to think about all that. She guessed that they couldn't get out of the city gate either, so she found a secluded place to hide, then took off Peng Mu's smelly socks and gagged him.
Now she can only wait for Princess Jinghe and He Sanniang to come to her. Since Peng Mu's men have already found Peng Mu, she definitely can't go to Cheng Huaiyu's place.
She was a little confused as to how they had identified this inn as the correct one.
Princess Jinghe was quite certain that the person who had been following her had stopped following her. He Sanniang, Gu Sishu, and the other two had disguised themselves, and the four of them had secretly entered the city from another place, so they shouldn't have been discovered.
So where exactly did the problem go wrong?
Peng Mu looked at Gu Hui with a smile in his eyes.
Gu Hui got angry just looking at him and punched him right in the eye.
Peng Mu's eyes turned angry again.
"Search! Search everywhere, every house, search everything!" The sound of searching could be heard from not far away.
"Sir, what happened? It's not even dawn yet!" a gatekeeper asked cautiously.
"A notorious bandit has arrived in Fuzhou City. Our yamen is making arrests. Everyone, listen up! If you don't want your homes to be burgled, cooperate obediently!" the officer replied.
In this way, everyone cooperated.
"Damn it!" Gu Hui cursed under her breath.
Peng Mu has indeed taken control of the Fuzhou prefect. It's true that the emperor is far away, and the Fuzhou prefect is not afraid of death!
Gu Hui remembered that not long after her family arrived in the capital, the rebellion of the Prince of Qu occurred. The Prince of Qu was sent to a temple for spiritual practice after the petition of ten thousand people. All of the Prince of Qu's descendants, including those of the Prince of Qu's faction, were either killed or exiled. Yet, there were still some who escaped the net in Jiangnan.
Gu Hui saw that the streets outside were ablaze with fire, indicating that the entire government office had been mobilized!
In places like Jiangnan, if the prefect has enough money, he can have hundreds of yamen runners. And let's not forget that this prefect is a man of the King of Qu, so who knows how many people he secretly supports.
"Over there, go in and search!" Soon, they found the place where Gu Hui was hiding.
She lifted Peng Mu up, placed a dagger against his neck, and threatened to kill him if they were discovered.
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