kidnapping
In her daze, Jiang Yi seemed to hear someone calling her, but the voice was sometimes near and sometimes far and she couldn't hear it clearly.
"Miss, Miss, wake up!"
"Miss……"
Jiang Yi's eyelids were so heavy, comparable to the bite force of an adult hyena. She tried for a long time but couldn't open them even a little bit until the system gave her an electric shock. Jiang Yi shuddered and woke up.
"Ah, hiss—"
I moved slightly and felt an indescribable, sharp pain in my right shoulder and neck, as if my bones were broken.
"Waaaaah, Miss, you're finally awake! You scared me to death..."
Jiang Yi endured the pain and slowly sat up. Looking down, she saw that her hands and feet were tightly bound with hemp rope, and she couldn't break free.
"Xia Zhi, what exactly is going on?"
Xia Zhi shook her head: "I don't know either. I was here when I woke up."
"Oh my god, how unlucky are we? We've been kidnapped!"
"What? Kidnapping? What, what should we do, miss?"
"It's alright, don't panic. Since it's a kidnapping, it means we're not in immediate danger. Besides, He Lin and the others will definitely come looking for us once they find out we're missing."
Xia Zhi bit her lip and nodded.
"I'm sorry, Xia Zhi. If I had firmly stopped you from coming with us, perhaps you wouldn't have been kidnapped."
"What are you saying, Miss? As long as I'm with you, Xia Zhi has nothing to fear."
Jiang Yi gave a very faint smile, while involuntarily gasping for breath.
"Miss, are you injured? How serious is it?"
"It's okay, it's just that my shoulder hurts a bit. They must have been rough when they knocked me out. It's nothing serious, I'll be fine after a while."
As the two were talking, the wooden door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and the slanted sunlight immediately streamed in, so bright that it was hard to open one's eyes.
After Jiang Yi recovered, she saw a man dressed as a bandit, carrying a large knife and with a full beard, standing at the door. He said fiercely, "Our boss wants to see both of you!"
After saying that, he waved his hand forward, and two people came from behind and immediately untied the ropes binding their feet, roughly pushing them out.
Jiang Yi looked around and immediately confirmed that this was a bandit's den, just like in the TV series. The entire village was patrolled and guarded by bandits, and there was even a watchtower set up at the gate for sentry duty...
"Brother, I've brought them here. Should we cut off their hands or their feet?"
Jiang Yi's eyes widened immediately. What? Chopping off hands and feet? No negotiation, no bargaining?
"Wait, wait a minute!"
Jiang Yi looked up in horror at the man who was drinking and eating meat. He was a one-eyed man with a black eye patch over his left eye. He was so engrossed in eating and drinking that he didn't care about Jiang Yi and the others at all. He didn't even lift his eyelids, as if he didn't care whether they lived or died.
This situation is not good.
Logically, kidnapping should have a motive, whether it's robbery or sexual assault. Once there's a motive, everything is negotiable, and at the very least, it can delay the time of death. But this one-eyed bandit doesn't look like a robber at all; he seems more like someone who went out for a stroll and kidnapped them as an incidental item while committing a robbery.
This is outrageous! They don't even take them seriously!
Jiang Yi chuckled awkwardly twice: "Hey, boss, right? Don't chop, don't chop! It's so pitiful if people lose their hands and feet! We'll definitely still be useful! You can name your price, and my family can chip in and send it to you."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the one-eyed man finally reacted. He wiped his mouth with his hand and then wiped it on his clothes, then tilted his head back and took a big gulp of wine, letting out a burp.
Jiang Yi tried to hold her breath, as if she could smell the stench even from where she was standing.
While Wang Dahu was eating and drinking, he raised his chin at the bearded man, and then the ropes binding Jiang Yi and Xia Zhi's hands fell to the ground.
"I remember you."
"Huh? Me?"
"That's right, it's you. Last time, my brothers and I went to Wangyun Valley to visit Qinglong Village. On the way, we encountered a group of caravans. We originally planned to rob them, but we never expected that there was a highly skilled martial artist in their group who was guarding a carriage. I thought there was some treasure hidden inside, but when I got closer, I found that there was a person in the carriage. He shot out one of my eyes, causing me to lose many brothers. And the person in that carriage was you."
Jiang Yi choked up. Her first reaction wasn't that she was doomed and had run into an enemy, but rather that she was shocked that bandits would actually visit each other like relatives...
"Hahaha, what a coincidence! Boss, this means we're destined to meet! You can't kill me now."
"Yes, last time you were dressed as a man, but this time you're dressed as a woman and you're quite pretty. Since we're so destined to be together, why don't you stay and become my wife?"
Holy crap, are all bandits this sharp-eyed? They can even spot a woman disguised as a man. Just last time, when she was dressed as a man, how could he be so certain that she was the person in the carriage?
Jiang Yi continued to dodge his questions: "Haha, well, thank you very much for your kindness, Boss, but I'm already married, I..."
"What does it matter? We roughnecks don't care about those complicated formalities. What's important is that we're happy. It's settled then, we'll get married tonight! Li Er, give the order: I'm marrying this girl tonight. Tell the brothers to be smart. If anyone delays my important matter, don't blame me for disregarding brotherhood!"
"Yes, brother!"
Hu Luosai gave Jiang Yi and Xia Zhi a deep look, then laughed and stepped out the door.
Jiang Yi's lips twitched: "May I ask your name, Chief? Now that we're married, I can't keep calling you Chief, can I?"
"My name is Wang Dahu, remember that well."
As he spoke, the one-eyed man walked towards her. Although Xia Zhi was scared, she still stood in front of Jiang Yi. Unexpectedly, he reached out and pushed Xia Zhi to the ground.
Xia Zhi screamed and curled up, clutching her ankle. Jiang Yi looked closely and saw that he had hit Xia Zhi's ankle hard with a pebble.
Jiang Yi was about to run over to help her up when Wang Dahu stopped her. He grabbed Jiang Yi's chin and said, "Beauty, if you dare to run away, it won't be as simple as having her hands and feet chopped off, you know?"
Jiang Yi's expression immediately changed. She slapped his hand away, her eyes sharp and cold: "What are you doing, Chief? She's just a lowly maid. Why are you making things difficult for her? Besides, this is your territory. Where can a woman as weak as me run off to?"
"I don't care who she is, just wait for our wedding tonight." Wang Dahu leaned close to Jiang Yi's ear: "From now on, if you don't know what to call me, you might as well call me husband, hahahaha..."
Ugh, Jiang Yi felt like throwing up.
After Wang Dahu left, she quickly helped Xia Zhi up.
"Xia Zhi, are you alright?"
"It's alright, Miss."
"That Wang Dahu is too hateful. He robbed me, and now he wants to force me to be his wife? I wonder if He Lin and the others know we've been kidnapped. No, we can't just sit here and wait to die. We have to find a way to escape."
"Miss, have you thought of any ideas?"
Jiang Yi rubbed her wrists, which were sore from being tied up, and shook her head slightly.
...
After dark, Jiang Yi changed into the red wedding dress they had brought in, and then had Xia Zhi do her hair and makeup. It's best to go all the way when you're putting on an act.
She originally wanted to learn the methods of drugging bandits from TV dramas, but unfortunately there wasn't a doctor in the entire village, let alone any drug, so Jiang Yi had to give up on this plan.
After an unknown amount of time, the door was pushed open.
Wang Dahu, reeking of alcohol, staggered in.
"My wife, I'm here, hiccup~"
Jiang Yi sat on the edge of the bed with a red cloth covering her head, mentally cursing his ancestors for eighteen generations.
"What are you standing there for, you little maid? Don't you know any manners? Tonight is my and your mistress's wedding night. Are you going to stay here all the time? Guards, take her out!"
Before Xia Zhi could speak, someone came in through the door and pulled her out.
"Miss! Miss..."
Xia Zhi's voice faded into the distance. Wang Dahu seemed impatient and lifted Jiang Yi's veil, pulling her up.
"Beautiful lady, you really are quite attractive."
Jiang Yi's eyelids twitched: "Haha, well, since it's our wedding night, we should at least have a toast together, right?"
"Yes, you're right. Let's drink the nuptial wine before consummating our marriage!"
Wang Dahu grabbed her hand and pulled her to the table, while pouring wine into a glass with his other hand.
"Drink up, my wife."
Jiang Yi's lips twitched a few times. She took the wine glass and crossed arms with him. Taking advantage of the moment when he looked up and couldn't see her, Jiang Yi quickly poured the wine in her hand behind her back. When he looked over, she pretended to wipe her mouth and forced a fake smile.
"Come, my wife, a moment of passion on this night is worth a thousand pieces of gold!"
"Ah—put me down!"
Wang Dahu scooped up Jiang Yi and threw her onto the bed, then immediately pounced on her and began tearing at her clothes.
"Help! Help—"
In the midst of her struggle, Jiang Yi seized the opportunity and kicked him hard in the groin.
Wang Dahu cried out and clutched his groin in pain.
"you……"
Taking advantage of the moment when he was distracted, Jiang Yi raised her leg as if to kick again, but Wang Dahu seemed to be prepared and directly raised his hand to press down on her knee.
Before Jiang Yi could even see his fierce face, everything went black. She instinctively felt something striking her, a sharp gust of wind emanating from the palm. She closed her eyes involuntarily, and sure enough, the next second, "slap—" a hand struck her directly, making half her face numb...
She instantly covered half her face, her eyes wide: "You dare hit me?!"
"Wife, once is enough, twice is not enough, but I'm petty. You've made a fuss once, that's enough. There can't be a next time, understand?"
"Go to hell!" Jiang Yi roared inwardly.
On the surface, she remained calm and composed, pretending to have given up and stop struggling, but in reality, she secretly reached under her pillow and gripped the hairpin she had prepared beforehand.
Damn He Lin, if she doesn't come soon, she'll go on a killing spree!
Seeing that she had stopped struggling, Wang Dahu pouted and leaned in to kiss her. Jiang Yi had nowhere to avoid it, so she could only turn her face away in disgust and shrink back as far as she could.
At the crucial moment, when the two were only two fingers apart, Wang Dahu suddenly groaned and fell onto the bed. Immediately afterwards, Jiang Yi heard a lewd whistle.
"Tsk tsk tsk, if He Lin saw this scene, he would probably kill him on the spot."
Unable to push Wang Dahu away, Jiang Yi couldn't help but roar, "What are you standing there for? Help me!"
Qi Junxu chuckled and said, "You'd better beg me!"
"I……"
A wise man doesn't fight a losing battle, so Jiang Yi forced a fake smile: "Please help me, Second Prince!"
Qi Junxu was in a great mood. He grabbed Wang Dahu by the back of his neck with one hand and threw him to the ground. He even clapped his hands in disgust, as if afraid of getting himself dirty.
Jiang Yi stood up and wiped her face several times. Wang Dahu's breath had just sprayed on her face, making her feel nauseous.
"My God, it stinks! Why did it take you so long? Do you want me to die?"
"It's already a miracle that I condescended to save you at such a critical moment. Enough talk, I'm leaving."
"Wait a minute!"
Upon hearing this, Qi Junxu stopped and turned to look at her, only to see Jiang Yi walk over and kick Wang Dahu twice.
"That damn bastard dared to hit me and even tried to kiss his mother! I'll kick him to death!!"
"Alright, someone will take care of him for you. Why bother getting your hands dirty with someone like him?"
Qi Junxu found it amusing, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her away.
"By the way, why are you here? Where is He Lin?"
"Why don't you go out and see for yourself?"
"..."
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