As soon as he finished speaking, Yao Yao's eyes lit up and he suddenly realized: "Oh, it was the hundred or so girls he brought that caused the trouble. The water bandits robbed his girls and tied him up the mountain by hand. , I think you want to use this to blackmail Master Han."
Leng Linjiang smiled happily. This was the Yao Yao he knew. He was the best at knowing the autumn leaves and the subtle details. He nodded: "You guessed it right. The water bandits sent Han Changyun's autographed letter to Jiuchao, asking him to Bring five hundred taels of gold to redeem the man."
"How much, five hundred taels?" Yao Yao snorted, looking at her hands in shock. She raised her hands and gestured, but she still couldn't imagine how big a pile of five hundred taels of gold was, just like she couldn't imagine how big a pile of five hundred taels of gold was. One million dollars in cash is the same size as a pile.
From her previous life to her time travel, she had never imagined that she could have so much money, or that she could never imagine that she could see so much money.
Even the last time she went to Longyou Road, she couldn't see what those hundreds of thousands of taels of silver looked like.
She regretted this for a long time.
When Leng Linjiang heard the news at first, he was shocked for a long time. He nodded: "Yes, you heard it right, it's five hundred taels, gold."
Yao Yao frowned slightly, a little puzzled by the water bandit's unbelievable request: "Not to mention whether Mr. Han has so much gold, it is not that easy to bring so much gold out of the capital."
Gold, like silver, was the currency in circulation in ancient times, but gold was obviously more valuable and rarer than silver.
The mining of gold mines and the circulation of large gold ingots are all restricted and controlled by the imperial court. Most of the things ordinary people use are silver ingots and copper coins.
Gold ingots are a rare thing. The gold ingots rewarded by saints must be offered in ancestral halls. The most common items in ordinary people's homes are red gold jewelry. Although it can be used as money, five hundred taels of gold is a lot of jewelry.
However, whether it is gold ingots or gold jewelry, it is not an easy task to transport such a large amount of five hundred taels out of the capital.
Han Changmu must give a valid reason, then Han Changyun's matter will no longer be hidden.
Regardless of whether he can be saved or not, Han Changmu will never get a good reputation.
Yao Yao didn't know whether the request to redeem someone with five hundred taels of gold was made by the water bandits or by Han Changyun. If it was Han Changyun who made the request, then his thoughts are worthy of further investigation.
She lamented: "This is such a big hole."
Leng Linjiang quite agreed with this statement: "I also think that Han Changyun is not a simple person. He has already set a trap for Jiuchao before he even entered Beijing."
Xie Mengxia's face darkened, and he sat upright and sighed: "I think that guy is just like me, timid, greedy and lustful."
Yao Yao and Leng Linjiang looked at each other. They didn't dare to say such things. Only Xie Mengxia dared to say it.
Leng Linjiang looked at Xie Mengxia thoughtfully and said: "Whether he is really stupid or pretending to be stupid, we will talk about that later. The most important thing now is to find the whereabouts of Han Changyun first and ensure his safety. If he has someone Three are long and two are short, and it will take a long time to catch up."
Xie Mengxia felt a little guilty when he said whether he was pretending to be stupid or really stupid, and he laughed twice.
Yao Yao responded solemnly: "Master Shaoyin is absolutely right. After dark, I will go out to find out where Han Changyun and Qing Qian are being held, and then find out what kind of dragon and tiger's den this bandit's den is."
Hearing what Yao Yao said, and what he said with great confidence, Leng Linjiang said with relief: "Ah Yao, just check and save the person. Let him suffer here for a few more days. It's best to be cruel." It’s better to scare him so hard that he turns around and leaves, and doesn’t dare to enter Beijing.”
Yao Yao raised his eyebrows and said "Okay" clearly and brightly. His beautiful apricot eyes were full of excitement, and he was very excited at first sight.
Seeing Yao Yao gearing up, Xie Mengxia smiled, patted her on the shoulder and said narrowly: "He is very timid. Your attack is a little heavy-handed, but don't be frightened out of your mind and go crazy."
Yao Yao pursed his lips and smiled enigmatically: "I don't dare to scare him. He is more courageous than me. I don't have the courage to dig a trap for Mr. Han."
Xie Mengxia snorted: "It sounds like you didn't dig enough holes for Jiuchao."
Yao Yao's almond-shaped eyes curled up, and he curled his lips and smiled: "It's as if you were not the one who took off Mr. Han's pants."
Xie Mengxia: "..."
The sky was getting darker inch by inch, there were no lights in the room, and only a tiny window let in the faint sunlight. In the misty dim light, among the sleeping girls, someone's fingers moved slightly. The tightly closed eyelids also trembled.
Cheng Chaoyan turned his head and hissed: "Someone is about to wake up."
Leng Linjiang hurriedly added one last sentence: "Jiuchao said that Gu Chen is back."
Yao Yao's face was filled with confusion. Gu Chen was back. He was back when he was back. How could he go straight to the village and annihilate all the water bandits by himself?
Cheng Chaoyan retreated among Leng Linjiang and the others, leaning on each other with Yao Yao, and pretended to be asleep.
After a while, the girls across from them woke up in twos and threes and looked at each other sleepily, but they didn't think much about it. They just thought that they were extremely tired and that's why they slept so deeply.
"It's so cold. There are no beds or quilts here. It's freezing to death." A girl with a delicate face tightened her collar, shivering from the cold and looking very uncomfortable.
A thin girl with a sallow complexion coughed twice and said weakly: "I'm not afraid of the cold, I'm just afraid of not having anything to eat. I'm hungry."
A tall girl looked around: "I'm hungry too, it's so late, why hasn't anyone brought food?"
The twilight was dim outside the window, and the cold mountain wind blew suddenly, whimpering and wandering in the yard, just like the cries of these girls when they first arrived, it sounded tragic and creepy.
The chaotic footsteps broke the peace of the yard and reached everyone's ears deafeningly.
The girls stood up one after another, rushed to the windows and doors, and looked out in horror.
Yao Yao raised his head and looked out the window.
A dozen water bandits were carrying several wooden buckets, and hot steam came out from the gaps between the lids and the edges of the buckets.
She sighed. She didn't even need to look at the smell to know what was in the barrel.
Just like the situation when delivering meals a few days ago, the water bandits did not open the door, but shouted loudly from under the window: "Eat, eat, come and get the food."
Having been scared and hungry all night, the girls, who had already been weak and exhausted, suddenly became energetic and rushed to the window in a swarm. They didn't care about their appearance and appearance, and they all stretched out their hands to ask for a bowl. meal.
The water bandits passed the plate of rice into the house through the window and placed it in the outstretched hands.
Sure enough, as Yao Yao expected, it was still the same bowl of wild vegetable buns with clear soup and little water.
Xie Mengxia held the bowl, looked at his own figure reflected in the bowl, and sighed: "How can you eat this! Is this for human consumption..."
Leng Linjiang picked up a bamboo chopstick, shook his head and sighed: "If you don't eat it, you will die, if you eat it, you will die of nausea." He poked Yao Yao with his elbow: "Hey, which way to die is more beautiful?"
Yao Yao snored after finishing the bun in his hand, then took the bowl in Leng Linjiang's hand and said seriously: "Starve to death, lose weight."
Leng Linjiang pressed his hungry belly, snatched the bowl back, and tapped Yao Yao's forehead with his finger: "You are stupid, isn't it good to live? Why do you have to choose death!"
While he was talking, Xie Mengxia had already finished the bowl of buns with a long sigh, his face looked full of food, and he was full of regrets.
When he saw that the bowl in Leng Linjiang's hand was untouched, he reached out to grab it: "If you don't want to eat, give it to me."
Leng Linjiang ate the bun with lightning speed and smiled: "You are so beautiful."
Leng Linjiang and Xie Mengxia were not the only ones to find this bun unpalatable. Although not all the girls in this room were pampered, they also looked sad when faced with such a bowl of bun, and it was extremely difficult to eat one bite after another.
Half an hour later, the water bandits came again and brought in a bucket of purified water.
Naturally, Leng Linjiang and Xie Mengxia used such a rare bucket of water first. Several blind girls were eager to try it, but Cheng Chaoyan glanced at them and turned pale with fear. escaped.
Cheng Chaoyan felt a little surprised and raised his hand to touch his cheek.
Is he really so scary that he can scare everyone with just one look?
The place was very simple, and washing up was particularly inconvenient. Leng Linjiang and Xie Mengxia didn't care about being so particular. After eating, they just rinsed their mouths hastily, wiped their faces with clean water casually, and spread their hair. Bun, lying lazily on the straw pile.
Cheng Chaoyan sat with her back to the group of girls. She took off the silver hairpin from her head early in the morning, took out the slender dagger hidden inside, and slowly peeled off a bamboo chopstick. When she entered the village, she was afraid that her identity would be exposed. She didn't bring any weapons. After entering this stronghold, there was bound to be a fierce battle. She wanted to sharpen a few hidden weapons before the fight started.
She kept her hands on her hands, looked up at Yao Yao, and asked in a low voice: "Don't you want to prepare some weapons, Miss A Yao?"
Yao Yao raised his hand, lifted his sleeves up, revealing the transparent soft silk wrapped around his wrist, and smiled lowly: "I've been carrying it with me, no need to prepare."
Cheng Chaoyan had never seen Yao Yao take action, and she didn't know what kind of weapon Yao Yao used. When she saw the transparent soft silk, she was stunned for a moment, and whispered in surprise: "Shadowless silk? Are you a disciple of General Li?"
Yao Yao nodded as usual: "I'm not really a disciple. I just studied with General Li for a few days and have the ability to protect myself."
Cheng Chaoyan's eyes flickered, his expression changed several times in a complex manner, the corners of his lips twitched twice, but in the end he said nothing.
Xie Mengxia lay on the straw pile with a sigh, feeling that she had never suffered such a sin in her three lifetimes. She couldn't get up after falling down, and she only felt the pain in the bones.
He rubbed his waist and eyes and groaned: "Ah Yao, come and rub your waist for me."
