After My Death, The Villain Blackened Again: Chapter 20
ARC 1: THE EMPEROR SCHEMES TO GRAB A MAN’S WIFE (17)
As they went up the mountain, Yan Ge was spared the fate of being shut in a firewood room due to her rare ‘looks’.
She was imprisoned in their leader's bedroom. When the bandits saw that she was a weak scholar, they didn't not make things difficult for her and only threatened to kill her if she stepped out of the room.
Oh, the leader of the mountain bandits was not on the mountain. It would seem that he took a team of people to go plunder. Yan Ge waited for the people to leave before she nimbly snuck out through the window. Not only did she make a full circle around the mountain, but she also managed to capture a bandit. Under all kinds of torture, the man explained where every trap was located and what the arrangements were on the mountain.
She learned that a book boy was sent up the mountain along with her and was lying unconscious in the firewood room. The book boy was the weakest guy in the Ming Army nicknamed ‘Sima'. He earned the nickname because his nagging was dreadful.
After handing over a map of the mountain to Sima and appointing a time to attack, Yan Ge returned the bandit leader’s bedroom.
They had probably scored a large haul. That night, the mountain bandits had a celebration party with meat and wine. By the time the leader returned to his room, he was already drunk.
His eyes brightened at the sight of Yan Ge sitting on the bed and immediately threw himself at her.
Yan Ge saw a few shadows of the figures outside the door and didn't stun the bandit leader right away. Instead, she played a giggly cat and mouse game with him for a while before snapping his neck.
A knock on the door sounded at this time.
Yan Ge was startled and hurriedly dragged the body under the bed.
She had no time to reach the door before it was opened.
The lights in the room were snuffed out as early as the time Yan Ge snapped the leader’s head.
She couldn't see who the person in the dark and assumed it was a mountain bandit. Imitating the bandit’s leader’s voice, she scolded in a low voice: “Roll out.”
The person did not roll out but threw themselves towards Yan Ge’s voice instead.
The cold light of the dagger flashed in the darkness. Fortunately, Yan Ge hid in time or she would have been killed.
Her heart was shaken. Not knowing if this person was a friend or foe, she unconsciously kept evading the attacks.
She had dispensed medicine in the kitchen earlier. While it was a success on those bandits that feasted, a fish must have escaped the net. Yan Ge was worried that the signal to attack would be released while the bandits were growing suspicious. As she took on the attacker, Yan Ge decided to cut the gordian knot.1
Her hand came up empty when she wanted to pull the dagger from her shoe and belatedly remembered it had been gifted to the emperor.
Neither person wished to alarm the people outside. They silently attacked the other with fierce moves meant to end the fight as soon as possible.
Yan Ge became slightly agitated once she noticed that the bandits at the door had disappeared. She might have slowed down for the other person managed to grab her hand. She immediately retreated and spoke in a low voice: “For what reason has Xiongtai come here?”
The other person was startled: "Yan Ge?"
This voice was too familiar.
Yan Ge was stunned. Is this guy Emperor Yuan?
Why has the esteemed emperor come to a mountain bandits’ den?
Not waiting for her to respond, Emperor Yuan’s look turned fierce as he interrogated her: "Are you the bandit leader? What about that scholar tied up in your room?"
- Cut the gordian knot (快刀斩乱麻 — kuài dāo zhǎn luàn má)idiom that means to make a swift and ruthless decision in a complicated situation↩︎
Hahaha,,,,move out,MOVE OUT! ~How to clear this up~?~ QwQ
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