Mu Jin glanced over and saw several burly men dressed in coarse cotton-padded coats and with ugly appearances surrounding the front of the carriage. Qing'er was lying on the snow, seemingly knocked unconscious, her life hanging in the balance.
The man who held the knife to Mu Jin's throat was none other than the coachman who had driven Mu Jin's carriage earlier that day. He had a cunning smile on his face and his eyes were gleaming with greed. Like the others, he was staring intently at Mu Jin like a wolf.
Mu Jin did not show any fear. She just stared coldly at the group and suddenly sneered, "Were you invited by Guangfu?"
Upon hearing Mu Jin's words, the group was startled. The coachman who was holding the knife to Mu Jin was so nervous that he pushed the knife a little further into Mu Jin's throat, and a trickle of blood instantly oozed from Mu Jin's neck.
The coachman, nervous, stammered and said to Mu Jin, "You...you...how did you guess that?"
Mu Jin remained calm and composed, saying, "What's so hard to guess? He had someone try to attack me last time at Baishi Mountain, but my coachman was highly skilled in martial arts, so they couldn't do anything to me and even lost their lives."
Hearing Mu Jin say this, the thugs revealed their true colors. Those five men were all their brothers, and they had all fallen into the hands of Mu Jin's coachman that time.
They were careless that time. Even Guangfu didn't know that the coachman was so skilled in martial arts. They wanted to avenge the five bandits who died, but Eleven was also skilled in martial arts and they couldn't afford to offend him.
Because Zhao Dahu, the bandit leader, had not dared to come forward to find Eleven and avenge the dead bandits, he had gradually lost prestige among the bandits recently.
Last night, Guangfu suddenly sent a letter, offering another two thousand taels of silver, and informing me that the highly skilled coachman had been poisoned and was unconscious. This time, only Mu Jin and a maid were present, and he demanded that they take Mu Jin's life.
The fact that Eleventh Prince wouldn't appear would eliminate Zhao Dahu's worries. He thought that capturing and killing the noble Princess Yun would further solidify his authority.
Anyway, the master said that Princess Yun is not favored, and Prince Yun has long wanted to get rid of her. Killing Princess Yun would not only be harmless, but would also bring him two thousand taels of silver and prestige. Why not do it?
Therefore, upon receiving Guangfu's letter, Zhao Dahu personally led a team to wait at the city gate overnight. As soon as the city gate opened today, he went straight to the Yunwang Mansion to easily pick up Mu Jin and head directly to the outskirts of the city.
The bandits originally intended to kill Mu Jin after bringing her here, but Zhao Dahu, seeing how beautiful Mu Jin was, decided to take her back to his stronghold for a while before making any further plans.
Filled with lewd and depraved thoughts, Zhao Dahu immediately ordered, "Tie her up!"
Two bandits, upon receiving the order, took ropes and burlap sacks and went over. Just as they were about to tie Mu Jin's wrists, Mu Jin bent her elbow and struck one of them in the chest.
She struck one of the men unexpectedly, causing him to stumble. Then she turned and grabbed the arm of another man, forcefully shoving him backward.
The bandit was thrown to the ground so heavily by Mu Jin that he let out a miserable scream, but Mu Jin didn't even blink.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Dahu, who was in charge, was surprised that Shen Xian actually had martial arts skills, and immediately swung his knife at her.
Mu Jin looked up, intending to kick the bandit, but because she had been kneeling in front of the carriage for a long time, her knees were sore and numb. She stumbled and fell to one knee, losing the initiative.
Seeing this, several bandits rushed forward together. In the end, Mu Jin was no match for them and was struck hard from behind. He felt a numbness in the back of his neck and instantly lost consciousness.
The bandits acted swiftly, quickly tying Mu Jin up, stuffing a rag into her mouth, and stuffing her into a sack.
As they turned around to drag the unconscious Qing'er into the carriage, they heard someone riding a horse rapidly approaching from not far away. In a panic, they abandoned Qing'er and quickly boarded the carriage.
The bandits whipped the horses hard, and the horses, frightened, ran wildly and disappeared from the spot in no time, leaving only deep wheel tracks.
Ling Feng and several guards had just returned to the capital from another region after completing their mission. Suddenly, they discovered a woman lying in the snow.
Whoosh~~~ Ling Feng pulled his horse back, and he and the others dismounted. They helped the woman lying on the ground to her feet. When they turned the woman over, Ling Feng was stunned. The woman was actually Mu Jin's maid.
Ling Feng was surprised to find Qing'er unconscious in the snow on the outskirts of the capital, with no one else around. His eyelids twitched involuntarily as he wondered if Mu Jin had also been in trouble.
Ling Feng stepped forward and checked Qing'er's pulse on her neck. He found that Qing'er was not dead, but had been knocked unconscious and left in the snow.
He shook Qing'er, but she was still unconscious. For now, he could only pick her up, mount his horse, and head back to the capital to make further plans.
Ling Feng tied Qing'er up in front of him, wrapped her in his cloak, and then, along with the other guards, whipped their horses and quickly headed towards the capital.
When Ling Feng and his group of secret guards were about ten miles away from the capital, they saw Eleven, pale-faced, riding a fast horse toward them.
Ling Feng usually followed Su Yi around, and he had seen Mu Jin a few times by chance. As Mu Jin's coachman, Eleven knew this.
Ling Feng stopped his horse and called out to Eleven, "Brother Eleven~"
After drinking the bowl of medicine brought to him by a servant last night, Shiyi developed a high fever and his wounds were in excruciating pain. He knew then that the medicine was wrong. When he tried to get up, he felt dizzy and fainted.
When he woke up again, it was not long after the servant of Cuizhu Courtyard fed him Mu Jin's pills. The first thing he did after waking up was to ask where Mu Jin was. When he heard that Mu Jin and Qing'er had been invited by the Sixth Princess to Yuexiang Manor in the suburbs of the city early in the morning, he was extremely anxious. He felt a pain in his chest and suddenly vomited a mouthful of black blood.
Seeing Eleven in such a state, Xiao Si was terrified and immediately went out to call a doctor, but Eleven grabbed him.
Eleven said he was fine. He picked up the medicine Mu Jin had given him from the table, swallowed a few pills, and then, ignoring Xiao Si's attempts to stop him, went to the stable, picked up a fast horse, and galloped towards the city gate.
Based on the various unusual things that happened to him last night, he had a premonition that something had happened to Mu Jin, and his blood was boiling with anxiety.
He didn't know where to look for Mu Jin; he only knew that he had to find Mu Jin. Suddenly, not long after he left the city gate, he encountered a group of people on horseback. One of them called out to him; that person was Ling Feng from the Yi King's Mansion.
When Shiyi heard someone calling him, he went closer and saw that the man who had called him was actually Qing'er, who had fainted. His heart tightened.
Seeing that Eleven had stopped his horse, Ling Feng raised his hand and bowed.
"Eleventh Brother, my name is Ling Feng, and I am from the Yi Prince's Mansion. Is this your Yun Prince's Mansion's maid?"
Eleven also raised his hand and returned the bow to Ling Feng.
"Thank you, Brother Lingfeng. Qing'er is Princess Yun's maid. Have you seen Princess Yun along the way?"
Ling Feng then told Eleven where he had found Qing'er who had fainted.
Eleven was extremely anxious because he was worried about Mu Jin. After asking Ling Feng to help send Qing'er back to the Yun Prince's Mansion, he rode his horse at full speed to the place Ling Feng had mentioned.
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