"Hu, Mr. Hu, I, I really don't know that the money belongs to you, Mr. Hu, otherwise you wouldn't dare to cheat me if you gave me ten guts!" Chen Dafu's body was shaking even more, and he was stammering when he spoke.
"Master Tiger?" Liu Heng frowned. He didn't know what Master Tiger was, and he didn't know what Master Tiger was. It must be that Chen Dafu recognized the wrong person.
Yang Yuan grabbed Chen Dafu's hair and asked: "Where is the money? Don't tell me that you have spent all the money in the past few days."
"No, no, it only cost less than fifty taels." Chen Dafu shrank his neck.
"Where are the remaining six hundred taels? Where are they hidden?" Yang Yuan held Chen Dafu down with one hand and put the knife on his neck.
The cold wind blade stuck to his skin. It was clearly the dog days of June, but Chen Dafu felt like he was in the cold winter. Cold hairs stood up, and the area around his lower abdomen felt even hotter, and a stream of heat flowed out.
"Fucking peed again." Yang Yuan looked disgusted.
The smell in the room was not pleasant. The smell of blood mixed with the smell of urine was more pungent and unpleasant than the smell of horse manure in the stable.
"Hu, Mr. Hu, please forgive me, I really only have so little money." Chen Dafu asked Liu Heng for help, knowing which of these people's words would be useful.
Although he was not a tiger man, Liu Heng did not explain, and said coldly: "You swallowed me a thousand taels of silver. If you want to survive, this little money is not enough to buy a life."
"Xu, Butler Xu took it away." Chen Dafu stammered, "Please Hu, please spare my life for the sake of the Xu Xu family."
Hearing the words Xu family again, Liu Heng's heart sank.
The Xu family, which even the county magistrate had to shun, was obviously the top gentry in Lingqiu County. There would be no lack of servants to protect the house, and they would not let people into the house easily.
When the money came into the hands of the Xu family, Liu Heng knew that he had little hope of getting it back.
"Since you can't get enough money, you can't blame us." Liu Heng made a hand gesture towards Yang Yuan.
Chen Dafu's eyes must have been fixed on Liu Heng, so he naturally saw this action and shouted desperately: "I have it, I have it, I have money."
"Wait." Liu Heng called to Yang Yuan.
"It's true that I can't shed tears until I see the coffin." Yang Yuan patted Chen Dafu's cheek with the blade of a knife and said, "Since we have the money, why don't we take it out as soon as possible? Where is the money hidden?"
Chen Dafu didn't dare to move. He only moved his mouth and said, "There is a wooden box inside the cabinet. They are all there."
After Zhao Wu heard this, he walked directly towards the cabinet in the room.
In addition to a box in front of the wall opposite the kang head, there was also a standing cabinet next to it. Zhao Wu opened the cabinet door and saw a wooden box. He picked it up with his hand, but found that the wooden box was very light and did not contain six hundred taels. The weight of silver.
Zhao Wu handed the wooden box to Liu Heng and said at the same time: "The weight is wrong."
After receiving it, Liu Heng also felt that the wooden box was too light and there might be no silver in it.
Chen Dafu, who was on the kang, hurriedly explained: "It's not silver, it's documents and land deeds, but it's worth more than six hundred taels."
There was a copper lock hanging on the wooden box. Liu Heng used a dagger to pry open the lock, opened the wooden box, and asked Zhao Wu to light the oil lamp in the house.
There is indeed a land deed and documents inside. The land deed is for Chen Dafu's house, and the document is for Dongshan Iron Works. It clearly states that Chen Dafu has an iron yard in Dongshan.
"These two things are not worth six hundred taels." Liu Heng threw down the wooden box and put away the land deed and documents.
It can be seen that Chen Dafu has no money anymore, and the most valuable things are probably these two. For Liu Heng, they are better than nothing. Although he can't use them now, he might have the opportunity to use them in the future.
I bought a comforter for more than 600 taels.
"It's worth, it's really worth six hundred taels." Chen Dahu said eagerly, "The yard is not worth much silver, but the mine is valuable. An iron furnace costs more than a thousand taels, and an iron yard of this size is at least four to five thousand taels."
Liu Heng smiled. He had asked who Chen Dafu was before he came. If the iron yard worth four to five thousand taels would still be there, it would have been sold out for people to eat, drink, and gamble.
The document is correct. The iron yard is also in Dongshan, but that iron yard has been abandoned for a long time. The iron furnaces in the iron yard are all useless. It will cost at least 1,000 taels to build a new furnace. If you want to build a big furnace, it will cost at least 2,000 taels. For such a small iron yard It's not worth investing so much money at all. Nowadays, Jin Iron is severely suppressed by Fujian Iron and can never sell at a high price. There is not much profit, and even fewer people are willing to buy the iron yard.
"I'll leave it to you, hurry up." Liu Heng said to Yang Yuan, walked out of the east room and came to the yard.
Not long after, Yang Yuan walked out of the main room.
Liu Heng didn't say anything, and led the people over the wall back to the yard next door.
It wasn't until several people returned to the house that Liu Heng asked, "Has everything been solved?"
"Solved." Yang Yuan nodded.
Liu Heng turned to a few people in the room and said, "Take the time to rest. We will leave the city as soon as daybreak."
This was not the first time for these people to kill and see blood, and they would not feel any discomfort after the killing, so they dispersed and found a place to rest.
It was more than an hour before dawn. Liu Heng was resting against the wall near the door with a knife in his arms. When the cockcrow sounded, he suddenly opened his eyes and jumped off the kang.
Several other people in the room also opened their eyes and stood up.
Liu Heng ordered: "Feed and drink the horses, put on the saddles, and let's leave the city through the west gate."
Lingqiu City is divided into east and west cities, and the city gates are also one on the east and west sides.
The sun rises relatively early in the summer, and the morning sun shows its first light before midnight, lighting up the earth.
Last night, Zhao Wu deliberately bought some more flatbreads and mutton, and now he took them out. Liu Heng ignored the cold and rolled up a piece of mutton with a flatbread and ate it.
Several other people started eating in the same way.
After they had almost eaten, and the horses had almost eaten the fodder, several people each led a horse and left the yard.
Just after Mao hour, the morning bell in the west city of Lingqiu rang, reminding the people in the city that the city gate was open.
There were not many pedestrians on the street at this time, most of them had just woken up and were preparing breakfast.
Liu Heng increased his horse speed and led the people to leave Lingqiu County through the west gate. As soon as they left the city, they whipped and galloped until they were more than ten miles away from Lingqiu County before slowing down to give the horses a chance to rest.
During these ten miles, Yang Yuan, who couldn't ride a horse, almost buckled his buttocks into four parts. He grinned in pain. When he saw that the speed slowed down, he had the opportunity to say: "Master, when we were in Lingqiu City before, we were at the East City Gate. It’s closest to us, so why go all the way around to the West City Gate?”
"Hey, please dismount and let the horse regain its strength." Liu Heng pulled the reins, stopped the horse, turned over and dismounted.
Zhao Wu and others also dismounted their horses and let the horses eat some green grass around them. Only Yang Yuan was helped down when he dismounted.
"Ouch, it hurts me so much." Yang Yuan said while rubbing his butt. "I must learn to ride a horse in the future. Riding a fast horse with someone else's back is so uncomfortable. My butt is so bumpy that I almost lose feeling."
Zheng Tie and others couldn't help laughing when they heard this.
"Go, go, go, why are you laughing? It's a virtue when you don't know how to ride a horse." Yang Yuan laughed and cursed.
Liu Heng settled the horse and then said: "I'll tell you why we don't go through the east gate. There is a tooth row at the east gate. They will see us as soon as we appear in front of the city gate, and they will guess that we are attacking Chen Dafu at night." Let’s do it, money and silk attract people’s hearts, and for a thousand taels of silver there is no guarantee that they won’t have other thoughts.”
After listening, Yang Yuan nodded understandingly, and of course he didn't say anything stupid about only getting back more than three hundred taels.
"Where is that mountain in front of the official road?" Liu Heng suddenly raised his hand and pointed in a direction a few miles away.
Several people looked in the direction of the finger.
