Upon hearing this, the man immediately covered his mouth with both hands and nodded frantically.
"What's your name? How many people live in the valley? What's your relationship with them?" Su Yi asked slowly to the man kneeling in front of him.
"My name is He Si. The people in the valley and I are all slaves of the Yunwang Mansion, a total of 18 people." He Si answered Su Yi's question with trembling.
Su Yi raised an eyebrow, thinking to himself, "I didn't expect them to be from the Yun Prince's Mansion." He then continued, "Since you are a slave of the Yun Prince's Mansion, how could you escape to this valley on your own? Aren't you afraid of being punished as a runaway slave?"
He Si was so frightened by Su Yi's mention of "escaped slave" that he trembled all over.
Not only was he short, but he was also timid and lacked initiative. He had used up all his courage by following a group of criminal slaves and Mu Jin to this valley to make a living. In fact, he was very afraid that if he escaped from Hanshan Village, he would be captured by the government and beaten to death.
However, staying in Hanshan Village, lacking food and clothing, would inevitably lead to death sooner or later. Since death was inevitable anyway, she decided to follow Mu Jinbo and see if she could survive. That's why she made up her mind to come here with the group.
For the past year, following Mu Jin's plan, they had lived very comfortably, so comfortably that they had forgotten they were still slaves of the Yun Prince's Mansion. Upon hearing Su Yi's words, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
“It’s not that we’re running away. Princess Yun brought us here. She said that she is a princess and she ordered us to come. We can’t disobey our mistress. This doesn’t count as running away. It’s just that we’re being held in a different place.”
Su Yi was stunned by He Si's answer and wondered if the woman who saved him was Su Yuntian's woman's maid.
"What's the name of the woman here who's dressed as a man?" Su Yuntian continued to ask.
"A woman dressed as a man?"
He Si thought for a moment, then patted his head and said, "The one you're talking about should be our Princess Yun. Among the women in this valley, only Princess Yun likes to wear men's clothing, which makes it convenient for her to go hunting in the mountains with everyone."
Su Yi frowned, and his eyes twitched slightly. He couldn't believe that the woman who saved him during the day was actually Xiao Yuntian's woman.
What was Su Yuntian's woman's name again? He vaguely remembered that her surname was Mu, and she was the daughter of Marquis Mu Wei. Mu something? He couldn't remember for a moment.
When Su Yuntian got married, he was not in the capital. After returning to the capital, he was used to various banquets. He was not interested in the delicate and weak young ladies of the capital, so he probably didn't remember them.
Su Yi glanced at Ling Feng, who understood Su Yi's meaning. Ling Feng then picked up He Si again and scolded him.
"Speaking nonsense! How could Princess Yun possibly live in this desolate wilderness with such lowly people as you? If you dare to spout any more lies, I'll chop you down right now!" With that, she drew half a sword.
He Si kowtowed repeatedly, begging for mercy, saying, "I wouldn't dare, I didn't utter a single lie. I heard that Princess Yun went to Hanshan Village alone back then..."
He Si hesitated for a moment and said, "I overheard Granny Lai and Li Fugui gossiping by chance. I don't know if it's true or not. They said that the princess had harmed the young lady of the royal family and was sent by the Prince of Yun to Hanshan Village to reflect on her mistakes. However, Hanshan Village was too harsh, so the princess brought us to live in this mountain with abundant resources."
After listening, Su Yi pondered for a moment, then looked up at Ling Feng. Ling Feng, having received the instruction, knocked He Si unconscious with the hilt of his sword. He Si instantly fainted and collapsed to the ground.
A ray of morning sunlight shone into Mu Jin's bamboo house.
With a creak, it sounded like, "Your Highness, it's time for breakfast!"
Mu Jin was woken up by Granny Lai. She yawned, got out of bed, and walked to the mud-baked washbasin to wash up.
After washing up, she took the second antidote with warm water.
Her mouth still tasted sweet and sour after taking the antidote. She raised an eyebrow and muttered, "This antidote tastes really good. Did they put hawthorn in it?"
After finishing her breakfast, Mu Jin went to Granny Lai's kitchen and found some yams.
Peel off the yam peel, put it in a clay pot and crush it into juice. Then go to the back mountain and find a poisonous spider to mix with the yam peel juice. This will create a medicine that causes unbearable itching.
Mu Wan planned to go to the cave in the afternoon to get the last antidote from the man, and then kindly apply it to the man's wound when she changed his dressing. She thought that this would teach the man a lesson.
As Mu Jin pondered this, she walked happily toward the cave.
Inside the cave, Mu Jin looked at He Si lying on the ground and felt something was wrong. She went over to check on him and found that he had just been knocked unconscious and was otherwise unharmed.
Mu Jin stepped forward and pinched He Si's philtrum, at which point He Si slowly woke up.
Upon waking up, He Si saw Mu Jin and immediately knelt down in front of her, weeping bitterly.
"Your Highness, last night I was captured by two men and brought to a cave to be threatened. They even said they would kill me."
Mu Jin hated people crying, especially men crying, and frowned involuntarily.
"Alright, stop crying. Get up and answer me. How did you get here?"
He Si glanced at Mu Jin before slowly stopping his crying.
"I went to bed early last night. When I woke up, I found myself thrown into this cave by a man in black. There was also an injured man inside the cave, who seemed to be the master of the man in black who had captured me. The injured man asked who we were. I thought that if I said we were from the Yunwang Mansion, he wouldn't dare to kill me. But as soon as I finished speaking, I was knocked unconscious!"
He Si finished speaking in one breath.
"Didn't you ask anything else?" Mu Jin asked, frowning.
He Si's eyes flickered slightly as he said, "That's all, that's all," before he was knocked unconscious by the blow.
Looking at He Si's expression, Mu Jin guessed that he had probably also found out her identity.
Thinking it wasn't anything shameful, and considering that the man had highly skilled martial arts personnel by his side and was able to find him, he must not be an ordinary person.
If he really wanted to kill her and the people in the valley, it would have been easy. Since he didn't, it proves that their identities didn't pose any threat to him.
Mu Jin said to He Si, "Okay, I understand. You can go back to the valley now." Upon hearing this, He Si acknowledged and took his leave.
After He Si left, Mu Jin looked around the cave and found that someone had written a few words on a nearby rock with a burnt wooden stick.
Upon closer inspection, the large rock clearly displayed the inscription: "Leave three hawthorn candy pills, see you later."
At this moment, Mu Jin was as angry as she had been on her way to the cave. So, she had been played by that man all day yesterday?
"Fine, fine, fine~" Mu Jin laughed, secretly vowing that if they never saw each other again, that would be fine, but if she ever ran into that "liar" again, she would make him regret meeting her and being tricked by her!
Mu Jin sneered, forcefully smashed the medicine bottle containing the special medicine against the stone with writing on it, and turned to leave the cave.
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