The Time Traveling Prince Consort Plans to Rule the World for Me

In the central hall of the general's mansion, Mu Jin had someone serve tea.

Mu Jin thought to himself that Li Yansong showed up just in time this time, and he must be in cahoots with Zhang Zheng, the salt and iron historian of Heyang.

Mu Jin pretended not to know: "What is the matter with Li Zhizhou coming to my general's mansion?"

Li Yansong said: "It is really rude of me to disturb Miss Mu today."

"Li Zhizhou is polite."

Li Yansong smiled and said, "Half a month ago, the Sishui County Magistrate reported to me that ten vicious bandits had escaped from prison and were running to the capital. Sishui is under my jurisdiction, and I am to blame for this incident. I immediately followed the trail of these bandits to the capital, but I didn't expect that these bandits actually ran to the General's Mansion and frightened Miss Mu. It was really my fault."

Mu Jin pretended to be surprised and asked, "Then how did Li Zhizhou know that the bandit was in my general's mansion?"

Li Yansong said with a smile: "I just arrived in the capital and saw people from the general's mansion searching the whole city for the assassin. The description of the assassin by the searchers was consistent with the description of the bandit who escaped from Sishui."

Li Yansong picked up the tea, took a sip, and looked at Mu Jin.

"I also heard that a man in black was kidnapped and left at the gate of the general's mansion. I wonder if Miss Mu can hand him over to me? Otherwise, the vicious and hungry bandit might accidentally hurt Miss Mu, and I would be guilty of an even greater crime."

Mu Jin pretended to be surprised and said, "Even Li Zhizhou knew that the bandit was left at the gate of my general's mansion. This is actually more efficient than the government offices in the capital."

When Li Yansong heard Mu Jin say this, a hint of embarrassment appeared on his face, and he smiled.

"Maybe I'm lucky. When a yamen runner passed by the general's mansion, he saw the gatekeeper carrying a man in black who was tied up. He looked like the bandit lost in Sishui, so he reported to me to come and capture him. Miss Mu, can you return the bandit to me now and take him back to Sishui for detention?"

Li Yansong spoke tactfully, but he was afraid that if he arrived too late, the assassins would reveal their affairs.

Mu Jin lowered his eyes with a nonchalant look, holding a cup of tea in his hand. He used the lid to gently scrape the tea leaves in the cup. He did not drink it, nor did he answer Li Yansong's words.

Li Yansong saw that Mu Jin did not reply to his question, and he could not help but feel anxious: "Miss Mu?"

Hearing Li Yansong's call, Mu Jin raised his eyes, but his eyes passed by Li Yansong's hand holding the teacup.

Li Yansong was wearing an imperial green ring on his hand. It was very watery and obviously worth a lot of money.

Mu Jin did not answer Li Yansong's words, but raised his eyes to meet Li Yansong's eyes and said with a smile.

"Li Zhizhou's ring is really beautiful. I was shopping with my father in a jade shop before and saw one that was more than half as beautiful as yours. When I asked, it cost three thousand taels. My father didn't even want to look at it and dragged me away. If you didn't know, you would think that he, a first-rank official, didn't have a salary as high as a sixth-rank prefect."

When Li Yansong heard what Mu Jin said, her face changed. Did Mu Jin mean that he liked her ring, or did he mean that she accepted bribes and made ill-gotten gains?

This ring is from Nanyang. It was given to him by Zhang Zheng. It is worth ten thousand silver coins and is not available in Dongyue Kingdom. However, he has always loved it very much. Mu Jin's words left him speechless for a moment.

"Li Zhizhou, can you tell me where I can buy a ring with such good water head? Daddy is far away at the border, and he has worked hard for the people and the country of Dongyue all his life. As a daughter, I just want to buy a better ring to honor him."

Li Yansong couldn't help but smile awkwardly after hearing what Mu Jin said.

"My wife once encountered a famous merchant being robbed, and she asked the guards to save her. To thank her for saving his life, the merchant gave her this ring. My wife is ignorant and doesn't know whether this thing is valuable or not. The merchant said it was only worth a few dozen taels of silver. Seeing that she couldn't refuse, my wife spent a hundred taels of silver to buy it for the merchant."

Hearing what Li Yansong said, Mu Jin couldn't help but smile and asked, "Is this Governor Liu always so lucky?"

When Li Yansong heard Mu Jin's question, he answered irrelevantly: "Miss Mu, it's already this hour, I don't need to bother you anymore, can the bandit...?"

Seeing that Mu Jin just smiled without saying anything and didn't respond to him, Zhao Yansong thought that Mu Jin wanted the kickback. He gritted his teeth, took off the ring from his hand and handed it to Mu Jin.

"Since Miss Mu likes this ring, just take it. Such a nice ring is indeed much more suitable for General Mu than for me."

"How can I feel embarrassed about that?" Mu Jin said, and immediately took the ring that Li Yansong handed to her, covering her mouth which was smiling so hard that she couldn't close it.

Although Li Yansong said that he wanted to give the ring to Mu Jin, he thought that a woman from the harem like Mu Jin would not have the courage to accept such a valuable item from an official.

However, Mu Jin exceeded his expectations. Not only did he accept his ring, but he was also so happy to accept it. He felt really pained. Such a good ring might not be available again even if he had money. However, a gift once given away is like water spilled.

Li Yansong was so angry that he gritted his teeth and smiled: "Miss Mu, you have accepted the ring. Can you take me to bring back the fugitive?"

Mu Jin smiled and said, "Of course."

After Mu Jin finished speaking, he stood up, asked Eleven to lead the way, and made a gesture of invitation to Li Yansong beside him.

"Li Zhizhou, please!"

Looking at Mu Jin's playful smile, Li Yansong suppressed his anger and followed Mu Jin and Eleven to the front yard of the general's mansion.

When Li Yansong arrived at the front yard, he saw nine dead bodies covered with white cloth neatly laid on the ground. His heart trembled and he walked over immediately.

When Li Yansong opened the white cloth covering the nine men in black and confirmed that they were the people who assassinated Mu Jin, he couldn't help but feel relieved. Then he suddenly thought of something, stood up immediately, turned around and asked Mu Jin.

"No, there were ten bandits in total. Even if they were all killed by the guards of the general's mansion, where is the other one? Where is the bandit who was taken into the general's mansion by the guards this morning?"

"What did Li Zhizhou say? There were nine assassins who came to my general's mansion last night. Eight of them were killed by my general's mansion soldiers. The remaining one was sent to the general's mansion by that unknown knight this morning. When I wanted to torture the assassin to ask why he wanted to kill me, I didn't expect that the assassin had poison in his mouth. Before I could ask him why he wanted to assassinate Wuwo, he foamed at the mouth and died. That scene really scared me to death."

Hearing Mu Jin's hypocritical words, Li Yansong realized that he had been played around by Mu Jin since he entered the general's mansion. The woman in front of him was not a cowardly woman in the back house. She was clearly a vicious woman who devoured human flesh and blood.

Even King Yun was divorced by the woman in front of him, how could he think of her as an ordinary woman?

Thinking of this, he was getting angry when he heard the gatekeeper of the General's Mansion come to report that the Yamen Prefect Zhao Wude had received a notice from the General's Mansion and came to capture the assassin and bring him back to the Yamen for interrogation.