Chapter 118: An Unexpected Discovery
It was dark, the female assassin couldn't think of a way, and Ji Ning himself didn't have a comprehensive plan, so he had to twist the female assassin to the yamen as planned.
Walking out of the ruined temple, Ji Ning looked around and found that he saw the outline of Jinling City in the left rear direction of the ruined temple.
"She knocked me out in the middle of the night and kidnapped me, and in less than half a night, it is reasonable that she is not far from Jinling City." He thought to himself.
"It's a bit of a hassle how to bring her back to Jinling City. If I had left directly and returned to Jinling City to report the case, maybe after a long time, she would have broken free from the rope and escaped, or someone would have passed by and helped her untie the rope without knowing it. If she escapes on her own, it will definitely not happen to me. ”
As he pondered, he walked a few feet and was surprised to see a road ahead, and at this time there were already people walking or driving carriages and ox carts past.
He immediately turned back to the ruined temple, looked at the female assassin and asked, "Where's your money bag?" ”
The female assassin refused to speak, and threw her face to the side.
"If you don't want to say it, Ji will search it directly." Ji Ning said lightly, "Don't think that Ji is a humble gentleman......
"You are a despicable, shameless, insidious and cunning bad scholar!" The female assassin scolded angrily, but still obediently told Ji Ning where her money bag was.
Ji Ning took the female assassin's money bag and said, "Before Ji sends you to the yamen, you still have a chance to find a way to persuade Ji not to give up easily." ”
After speaking, Ji Ning walked out of the broken temple, walked quickly to the road in front of him, stopped a coachman who seemed to be more loyal and honest, and gave Yinliang a coachman and asked him to bring a message to Ji's house.
After completing this, Ji Ning immediately returned to the ruined temple and found that the female assassin was trying to break free from the rope again, and even the person moved most of the time.
Ji Ning didn't say anything, and walked over silently to recheck the binding of the reinforcing rope.
"You're still honest, hurry up and find a way to convince me." Standing up, Ji Ning said lightly, "It is estimated that there will be half an hour." ”
The female assassin scolded angrily: "You are so suspicious and distrustful, even a saint can't convince you!" ”
"Humph! Don't think I don't know your tricks! Deliberately make me spend time thinking of ways that are impossible to convince you, distract me, and make me not think of a way to escape on my own! ”
"Phew! I'm not going to fall for you anymore! ”
The female assassin scolded angrily and struggled with all her strength to break the rope in front of Ji Ning.
"Don't move!" Ji Ning frowned, pulled out his sword with a "Zheng", and shouted in a deep voice, "Otherwise, Ji Mou will be welcome!" ”
The female assassin paused and struggled, stared at Ji Ning with her eyes dead as if she were home, and scolded: "I just move, that is, I break the rope by myself, if you have the ability, you can kill me with a sword now!" ”
With that, she continued to struggle desperately, moving her body.
For her, she would rather be killed by Ji Ning immediately than be sent to the government.
Ji Ning clenched his sword, although he boasted that he had killed a thousand people, he had never killed anyone, not even a dead person.
Therefore, until the female assassin showed no signs of breaking free, he really couldn't kill someone.
The female Assassin struggled with all her might, feeling that her own strength alone was not enough to break the rope and that she had to use her strength.
So, she rolled towards the stone steps under the clay statue of Taishang Laojun.
Ji Ning was worried that the female assassin had used the edges and corners of the stone steps to break the rope, so he hurriedly walked over and took the female assassin back into the open space in the center of the ruined temple.
The female assassin wanted to provoke Ji Ning to kill her on the spot, so when Ji Ning blocked her from going back, she struggled fiercely.
Under the fierce struggle, the black mask covering her face inadvertently fell, and the pretty face of the female assassin came into Ji Ning's sight.
When Ji Ning saw the pretty face of the female assassin, he was obviously stunned, and shouted in a lost voice: "You are Miss Mi?!" ”
The female assassin didn't know what Ji Ning was talking about, and continued to struggle fiercely, Ji Ning pointed out loudly: "Be quiet, I have something to ask you!" ”
The female assassin was yelled at by Ji Ning, but she reluctantly stopped.
Ji Ning took a closer look at the pretty face of the female assassin for a while, and sure enough, he found that the female assassin was very beautiful, and she was six or seven points similar to Miss Mi.
However, the temperaments of the two are completely different, the Mi girl is gentle and elegant, and the female assassin is full of frost and murderous energy, and the two willow eyebrows are erected.
"If you dare, dare ...... I won't let you go! Being stared at by Ji Ning's pretty face, the female assassin thought that Ji Ning had a lustful heart and wanted to defile her, so she hurriedly shouted in fear.
Ji Ning retracted his gaze, pondered, and asked, "Your surname is Mi?" ”
"Why should I tell you?!" The female assassin snorted, and finally said, "No! ”
Ji Ning frowned and said, "Ji knows a good friend who is similar in age to you and looks very similar to you. ”
"Cousin?" The female assassin said suspiciously.
Ji Ning asked, "You mean you have a cousin who looks similar to you?" ”
The female assassin twisted her cold face to the side, but in a moment she had to turn back and say, "I do have a cousin surnamed Mi who looks more alike. ”
This gave her hope that if the cunning and suspicious bad scholar in front of her was really good friends with her cousin, she had a good chance of being rescued. After all, she and him don't really have a life-and-death feud.
Although it was roughly certain that the female assassin was Miss Mi's cousin and an acquaintance, Ji Ning did not immediately let go of the female assassin.
Seeing hope, the female assassin did not struggle anymore and waited quietly.
About half an hour later, He An hurried over with a carriage, and Yu Ling also followed.
It turned out that just after dawn, when Yu Ling entered Ji Ning's room and was about to wait for Ji Ning to get up, she found that Ji Ning's figure was missing, and she was so frightened that her mind was blank, her hands and feet were cold, and she hurriedly called He An.
He An was relatively calm, although he was very, very worried about Ji Ning's sudden disappearance, but he did not immediately go to the government to report the case.
After all, Ji Ning is such a big person, it is entirely possible that he will suddenly go out for a walk alone early in the morning on a whim.
Fortunately, they didn't wait long before a loyal and honest coachman knocked on the door and told them that Ji Ning asked them to drive the carriage to pick him up.
When he saw Ji Ning in pajamas standing in front of him, He An finally breathed a sigh of relief, saluted Ji Ning and shouted, "Young Master." ”
"Huh. Uncle An, it's hard for you to drive out of the city early in the morning to pick me up. Ji Ning smiled calmly.
“…… Woo, young master-" Yu Ling couldn't help crying anymore, and threw herself into Ji Ning's arms desperately and cried.
Ji Ning comforted Yu Ling with a smile, and then worked with He An to carry the female assassin into the carriage, and finally took the carriage back to Jinling City.
After entering Jinling City, returning to Ji's house, and locking the female assassin in the house, Ji Ning asked He An to go to the Poetry Pavilion to find Miss Mi, and he washed in an orderly manner under the service of Yuling, changed into scholarly Confucian clothes, and finally ate breakfast.