After the court session ended that day, Mu Yan didn't even return to the General's Mansion. Instead, he ran to the entrance of the Prince Yun's Mansion and stopped Su Yuntian: "Prince Yun, my father and I have returned to the capital. May we take Ajin home for a few days?"
Su Yuntian was not surprised and said, "A few days ago, I discussed with her the matter of taking a concubine. She is jealous and ran away to travel. She has not returned yet, and I also want to find her."
Upon hearing this, Mu Yan immediately flew into a rage and grabbed Su Yuntian by the collar.
“Ah Jin is your princess. She has disappeared, and you are not worried, but instead you are making false accusations! Ah Jin loves you deeply. She would do anything you want. She would never do something like being jealous. Since you don’t treat her well, you should not have agreed to the marriage in the first place.”
Su Yuntian forcefully pulled away Mu Yan's hand from his collar and sneered, "General Xuanwei, is this an attempt to commit insubordination? I don't know who was so desperate to marry into the Yun Prince's mansion in the first place." After saying that, he flicked his sleeves, stepped into the gate of the mansion, and ignored Mu Yan.
Mu Yan immediately wanted to step forward to argue, but was stopped by a man: "Oh, isn't this General Mu?"
Mu Yan shook off the man and said, "Who are you? Do I know you?"
The man said, "General, you certainly don't know someone as insignificant as me, but everyone in Dongyue knows you. I was even waiting for you at the East Gate this morning!"
Mu Yan glared angrily at the man in front of him and said, "What do you want with me?"
The man leaned close to Mu Yan's ear and whispered, "General Mu, may I speak with you privately about Princess Yun?"
Upon hearing this, Mu Yan froze for a moment, grabbed the man by the collar, quickly walked into an alleyway, and held his sword to the man's neck, saying, "Speak! Where is Mu Jin? How did you know her whereabouts? If you dare to make up a single lie, I'll chop you down!"
Seeing Mu Yan's attitude, the man immediately begged for mercy, saying, "General Mu, please calm down and listen to me."
Mu Yan glanced at the man in front of him and figured he wouldn't dare to play tricks on him, so he immediately released the man.
Seeing that Mu Yan had stopped shouting and killing, the man said, "I just passed by the Yun Prince's mansion and heard General Mu calling out the name of the Princess Consort. It seemed that the Princess Consort had run away. At that moment, I remembered that not long ago when I was hunting in the Daliang Mountains, I met a group of people. Judging from the patterns on their clothes, they seemed to be servants of the Yun Prince's mansion. One of the servants even called a very beautiful woman next to him the Princess Consort. At that time, I wondered, why is the Princess Consort also out hunting with the servants? So the memory is particularly fresh."
Mu Yan immediately stepped forward and grabbed the man's collar, asking, "Is this true?"
The man cried out, "Oh dear, oh dear~ General, please be gentle!"
Mu Yan realized his lapse in composure and immediately put down the man, saying, "I am truly sorry, this general was just confused by concern. Could you tell me exactly where in the Daliang Mountains?"
The man said, "I was sleeping in the tree after I finished gathering herbs. They passed by my tree after they finished hunting, and it seems they went into a valley."
Mu Yan said, "If you can take me there, I will repay you handsomely."
The man seemed hesitant, but after thinking it over, he agreed to Mu Yan's request and followed Mu Yan out of the alley.
In a carriage at the street corner, Ling Feng watched with amusement as Mu Yan and the man disappeared into the alley. Turning back to Su Yi, he said, "Master, Ling Yu has picked up Mu Yan; everything is proceeding according to plan."
Su Yi raised an eyebrow, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
Ling Feng asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why do we need to help the Mu family find Princess Yun? We have no connection with the Mu family whatsoever."
Su Yi smiled, seemingly unconcerned, and said, "I suddenly remembered that I promised that woman that I would take her away from there after she saved me."
In the past year, Mu Jin has spent her time in the valley. Besides hunting, she has another hobby: making various medicines, including effective medicines for curing diseases and colorless and odorless poisons.
She majored in chemistry and minored in traditional Chinese medicine at a modern university, so the wildflowers and plants that covered the mountains and forests were extremely precious to her.
After having breakfast, Mu Jin went straight into her experimental pharmacy. Today she wanted to refine more anesthetics so that the slaves could hunt large animals in the mountains.
It was noisier outside the bamboo house than usual, but Mu Jin was focused on refining the medicine in her hands and didn't notice. Before long, Granny Lai hurriedly knocked on Mu Jin's bamboo door.
"Your Highness, come out quickly! Something terrible has happened! A group of people has come from the valley."
Mu Jin paused in her busy work, put down the tools she was using to refine medicinal herbs, grabbed a handful of powder, picked up the bow and arrows hanging by the door, and followed Granny Lai out of the bamboo house.
As soon as she stepped out of the bamboo house, she saw a group of people running towards it, with a man at the front.
The man had a distinct profile, with eyebrows that swept into his temples, making him very handsome and dashing. His long hair was styled in a high bun, with the ends falling over his shoulders. He wore a black brocade robe with gold trim, which accentuated his heroic spirit and imposing presence.
Mu Jin was immediately stunned. She felt that the original owner should know the person in front of her, because the man in front of her had a kind of innate sense of familiarity with her.
Before Mu Jin could figure out what the relationship was between the original owner of this body and the man in front of her, she saw the man quickly dismount and run towards her, embracing her tightly.
Just as Mu Jin was about to push the man away, she heard him suddenly say to her with red eyes, "Ah Jin, your brother has finally found you."
Mu Jin was taken aback. The way the man called her name was filled with obvious doting, as if he were treating her like a precious treasure, which made her heart flutter.
In the present world, she has no relatives, so she doesn't know what it's like for relatives to get along.
She had never experienced the feelings between family members before; so this was what it felt like. Mu Jin looked at him and smiled for no reason, replying, "Brother, you've finally come."
Mu Jin invited Mu Yan into her bamboo house. After looking around, he found that Mu Jin's clothes, belongings, and living quarters made his heart ache.
He, a grown man who was engaged in military campaigns, did not actually pay much attention to food, clothing, shelter, and transportation.
But his beloved younger sister, whom he had cherished since childhood, lived in this simple bamboo house. What difference was there between what she wore and what she used? He felt extremely guilty for not being there to protect Mu Jin when she was in trouble.
Mu Jin poured Mu Yan a cup of flower tea that she had picked from the mountain. The flower tea seemed to ask Mu Jin about the events that had happened in the past year.
Mu Jin simply described the events that happened in her valley over the past year, based on the memories left behind by the original owner of the body.
With a loud slap, before Mu Jin could finish speaking, Mu Yan slammed his palm on the bamboo table, causing the tea on the table to spill out.
"Su Yuntian dared to bully you like this for that bitch! When I return to the capital, I will risk my official position and my life to help you get justice."
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