The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife

Mu Shaoling turned his head to look at the distant forest and didn’t seem to want to talk.

After a while, the leader came back.

"Have you finished negotiating?" Commandery Princess Dongyang chuckled.

The leader felt a bit embarrassed; he had really overplayed his hand just now.

He touched the big beard on his face, coughed lightly twice, and then said, "Well, little girl, seeing as you’re poor, I won’t rob you." He paused for a moment and then changed tack, "But I will rob him! He’s got to be rich, look at how fine his clothes are, this outfit must’ve cost more than a hundred taels of silver."

"No way!" As soon as his words fell, Commandery Princess Dongyang spoke up, "He’s my fiancé; robbing him would be like robbing me."

The leader paused and agreed, "Well, what should we do then?"

"Let us go, and wait to rob the next person who comes along," Commandery Princess Dongyang blurted out without thinking.

And Su Ma and others, who were some distance from her and Mu Shaoling, all sneezed in unison. Commandery Princess Dongyang had forgotten that they were the next to pass by.

"That won’t do!" This time, not waiting for the leader to speak, one of his men spoke up directly.

He thought to himself that if he let the boss do the talking again, this girl might actually persuade him to let them go.

"Brothers, get ready, this young master looks rich; take him and make him cough up the money. As for this girl..."

Another subordinate said, "The girl might look a bit plain, but she’s pretty charming. It wouldn’t be bad to have her as a wife for our boss." As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a sudden chill and a whiff of cold wind blowing through.

"Mhm, right, you’re right. Let’s do this!"

The group moved quickly and suddenly swarmed over the two. As she fought, Commandery Princess Dongyang shouted, "Bastards, you have no honor!"

Embarrassed, the leader scratched his head and chuckled, "Who says I’ve got no honor? We’re robbing this pretty boy, not you."

And sure enough, Commandery Princess Dongyang noticed that indeed, there were a lot of people surrounding Mu Shaoling.

Looking at her own side, which was barely defended, it seemed these people were preventing her from helping him.

"Why aren’t you coming out to help!"

Just when Dongyang thought he was calling her out, three hidden guards appeared out of nowhere.

With skills beyond the ordinary, the fight was quickly over.

"Hey, hey, hey, you wench, I didn’t rob you just now, you can’t tie me up," the leader shouted while trying to flee, but was quickly caught by more servants rushing to the scene.

Commandery Princess Dongyang innocently spread her hands, "I’m not tying you up, he is!"

"He’s your fiancé; if he’s tying me up, it’s the same as you doing it." Commandery Princess Dongyang, touching her own pigtail, realized this sounded very familiar.

Oh right, weren’t these her words just a moment ago?

"Ahem, I don’t want to tie you up, but I’m not in charge," she then added, "Weren’t you also not in charge just now?"

"Shut up!"

Listening to her chatting away with the bandit leader, back and forth as if they were having the time of their lives, just short of calling each other brother, Mu Shaoling got impatient.

He then turned to the servant, "Handle this! If you don’t handle it well, the consequences of not reporting what you knew earlier... you decide for yourself!"

Then he watched as Mu Shaoling climbed back onto his horse. However, after the horse took a few steps, it stopped again, and he turned to look at Commandery Princess Dongyang, "Not leaving? Want to stay and have tea in jail with him?"