These men are all quite skilled; they are not like the bandits from the previous two encounters.
Is this another attack targeting her? Could it be Su Yuntian? Yesterday, she publicly divorced her husband, humiliating Su Yuntian so much; it's not impossible that he might want to kill her. Mu Jin frowned, pondering.
"Miss, these people aren't carrying anything, but they all have the character 'evil' in the same spot on their faces."
Mu Jin and Eleven stepped forward, and the guards approached with lanterns.
“Miss, look…” The guard pointed to the spot on the black-clad woman’s face.
Mu Jin asked, "Who would tattoo words on their face?"
The guard replied, "For some serious criminals, the court fears they might escape, so they tattoo their faces and then apply charcoal ink as a mark of their crimes."
"So they were all serious criminals who were tattooed?" Mu Jin asked.
"Yes"
"Go check if any serious criminals have escaped recently," Mu Jin ordered, frowning.
“I stabbed the man in black who just escaped. I’ll have the yamen and our manor search the whole city except for the guards on duty. I don’t believe he can’t have gone far.”
After eleven finished replenishing his supplies, the guards received their orders and left Qingwan Courtyard.
At this moment, Qing'er and the maid from Qingwan Courtyard came out. When Qing'er saw the guards carrying the corpses out of the courtyard, she couldn't help but feel a chill.
"Is Miss alright? You scared me to death just now."
"It's nothing~" Mu Jin replied to Qing'er.
"Who dares to break into our General's Mansion and even try to harm Miss?"
Mu Jin snorted coldly: "Who cares who he is? We'll know once we catch that man in black!"
That night, the eldest daughter of the General's Mansion was assassinated. The search for the assassin became the talk of the town, known to everyone, including those with ulterior motives and those without.
At dawn, with a creak, two guards opened the gate of the general's mansion. But when the gate opened, they saw a man in black with his mouth stuffed with cloth and bound hand and foot lying on his side in front of the gate. The guards went forward and saw that the man's face had the same burn marks that the assassin had been burned the night before, and they were overjoyed.
The two guards looked around the gate, left and right, and found no one else. They figured some chivalrous person must have helped capture the assassin while watching the general's mansion hunt down assassins last night.
With that in mind, the two guards carried the black-clad man, who was bound hand and foot, into the general's mansion.
Meanwhile, at a street corner not far from the General's Mansion, the guard saw the man in black being carried into the man's mansion before turning away.
"I say, Master has been paying more and more attention to this Miss Mu lately. Could he really have taken a liking to Miss Mu, who has been married before?" Ling Feng asked Ling Yu.
"I mean, you're such a pig-brain, you're only realizing this now? From the moment Master asked me to take Mu Yan to that valley to bring back Miss Mu, I felt something was off. When did Master become so nosy?"
Ling Feng exclaimed in surprise, "Really? I heard that Miss Mu originally refused to help when she was dying, but the master tricked her with a silver needle with the poison removed, and only then did Miss Mu reluctantly save the master."
"So, you were forced to save your master, and your master then spent a lot of money to please that Miss Mu. Don't you see what's going on?"
Ling Feng then realized what was going on.
"No wonder when Zhang Guangfu hired someone to assassinate Miss Mu for the first time, my master asked me to investigate Zhang Guangfu and Shen Qianqian's background. That day, I brought Zhang Guangfu's wife back to the capital. When we returned, I only said that we encountered Miss Mu's maidservant fainting on the snow. My master even forgot to put on his cloak and called me to rush out of the capital with him. After returning from that bandit's den that day, my master caught a cold and didn't get better for several days."
Ling Yu scoffed: "That day when you came back, your master punished you for no reason, and you didn't know why either, did you?"
"Why? I almost forgot about it if you hadn't mentioned it. I clearly did my job well. Why did my master find fault with everything I did when I came back from the bandit's den that day? He even punished me by making me clean the stables for a month for no reason," Ling Feng said indignantly.
Ling Yu chuckled and said, "If I had encountered Qing'er lying in the snow first, I would have had two people take Wang Shi and Qing'er back to the capital, while I would have led the rest of my brothers to follow the wheel tracks, intercept the bandits, and rescue Miss Mu. Then, when I returned, I would have received a generous reward, unlike you who were punished by having to sweep the stables."
Ling Feng's eyes widened, and he tugged at Ling Yu's clothes, looking somewhat embarrassed and angry: "You, you, you, why didn't you tell me? You just stood there watching me get punished, and you were secretly laughing?"
"Hey hey hey~ Let go of my hand~ You're the one who's stupid, how can you blame others?" Ling Yu glared at Ling Feng with annoyance.
"No, no, Miss Mu was married before, and she married Master's third brother. How can that be?"
Upon hearing Ling Feng's words, Ling Yu quickly covered his mouth and gave him a hard knock on the head.
"So you want to go sweep the stables again? Is it any of your business to discuss the master's affairs? Besides, is that Miss Mu an ordinary woman?"
After saying that, Ling Yu sighed again and said, "It's a pity that even if that master shamelessly tries to get close to them, they might not even welcome him."
While Mu Jin was sleeping soundly in her room, Qing'er came in and woke her up, saying that the assassin had been caught.
Upon hearing this, Mu Jin immediately sat up in bed: "The assassin was caught so quickly?"
Qing'er smiled and said, "Yes, I heard from the guard that as soon as the gate opened, a man in black was found tied up and thrown at the gate."
"Wasn't it our people who caught him?" Mu Jin asked in confusion.
Qing'er said, "No, the guards we sent out last night to arrest the men in black haven't returned yet."
After a quick wash, Mu Jin and Qing'er went to the woodshed where the men in black were being held temporarily.
When he arrived at the woodshed, Eleven had already arrived. He saw Mu Jin walking over and bowed to her.
"Give the order: the assassin has been captured. Have all those who went out to search for the assassin last night return. Also, inform the yamen. In addition, everyone except Eleven, please leave now."
Upon hearing Mu Jin's instructions, the guard beside her obeyed and left the woodshed.
Eleven stepped forward and tore off the rag stuffed in the mouth of the man in black. Only then did the man in black gasp for breath and shout for water.
Mu Jin nodded to Eleven, and Eleven took a bowl of water from the side and fed it to the man in black.
Seeing that the man in black had finished drinking the water, Mu Jin asked, "Can you speak now? Who are you? What did you do before? And who sent you to kill me?"
The man in black, having recovered, said to Mu Jin, "If I tell you, will you let me go?"
Mu Jin sneered: "You tried to kill me last night, and now I've only given you a bowl of water. Do you think I'm that easy to talk to?"
The assassin said, "Miss Mu is kind-hearted and has helped those people without expecting anything in return. I just wanted to see if I could be as lucky as those people. Maybe if I'm lucky, Miss Mu will spare my life?"
"I haven't even had breakfast yet because of you. Please finish what you've got and don't waste each other's time. Perhaps you don't understand my personality. I have everything, but I just don't have that kind of patience."
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