"Yang Tou, Xu Ju's servants have returned from the mountain." One of Yang Yuan's subordinates raised his finger and pointed at the people in front of him and said, "It seems that their young lady has not been rescued."
Not far from them, several men wearing linen clothes came walking down the mountain.
These people were all servants sent by the Xu family to redeem people in the village. There were no people dressed as women among them, which showed that the bandits did not release Miss Xu's family.
Soon, these servants of the Xu family came to Yang Yuan and the others. One of the middle-aged men held up his hands and said, "Shopkeeper Yang, are you waiting for us? Or are you going up the mountain?"
Yang Yuan did not answer, but said: "What? Your lady didn't come back?"
Before the middle-aged man could speak, a young servant next to him said angrily: "Those goddamn bandits took the ransom my master asked us to send, but they refused to let my young lady come back. They even said they would have to double the ransom before releasing her." people."
"I don't think they plan to release him at all. The idea of doubling the ransom is just an excuse. Maybe something has happened to my young lady." Another young servant said.
The middle-aged man standing opposite Yang Yuan said with an unsightly expression: "This time I failed to redeem my lady, and I lost a lot of property. We have to bring the news back quickly, so we won't disturb Shopkeeper Yang. Farewell."
"Steward Xu, please wait a moment." Yang Yuan raised his hand to stop him and said, "I wonder if the jars of wine I gave to Steward Xu were sent to the village together?"
The middle-aged man said: "Sent it, along with the ransom of our Xu family. Those bandits thought it was our Xu family who sent the wine."
"Thank you so much, Butler Xu." Yang Yuan cupped his hand.
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Farewell."
Yang Yuan said: "If Butler Xu is not in a hurry, you can go to the village five miles away and wait. Maybe your lady will come back soon."
The middle-aged man who was about to leave paused for a moment and then said, "Shopkeeper Yang, is there any way to save my young lady?"
Yang Yuan smiled and said: "If Miss Youjia is still alive, maybe I can bring her back."
"If I can really save my young lady, I will kowtow to Shopkeeper Yang." As he said this, the middle-aged man really wanted to kneel down and kowtow.
Yang Yuan stretched out his hand to support the middle-aged man who was about to kneel down, and said: "Butler Xu, it's better to go to the village down the mountain and wait. If your lady is still there, I will definitely send him back to Butler Xu."
"Thank you so much, Shopkeeper Yang."
The middle-aged man couldn't kneel down, so he bowed deeply.
Yang Yuan took a few men around him and walked towards the bandit's stronghold on the mountain.
The middle-aged man said to several servants of the Xu family beside him: "Let's not go back to the city yet. Let's go to the village ahead and wait."
"Steward Xu, we met this shopkeeper Yang by chance. We don't even know what he does. Can his words be trusted?" A young servant asked worriedly.
"I think so." Another young servant said, "Why don't we go back to the city early and tell the master about our failure to redeem the young lady? If the bandits won't let her go, what can we do?"
The middle-aged man scolded: "You are talking too much nonsense. What can you do by waiting a little longer? If the young lady can come back, I am willing to wait even for a few days. Come on, follow me to the village ahead to wait for news from Shopkeeper Yang." "
Although several young servants were reluctant, they did not dare to disobey the middle-aged man's order and pushed the cart down the mountain.
On the road at the foot of the mountain, not far away, the Xu family saw a convoy of tiger-character flags coming from a distance.
One of the young servants of the Xu family said: "Look, the four-horse cart of the Tiger Character Flag, the goods contained in this cart can be lifted up to the three large carts of our Xu family's ox cart."
"I heard that the ordinary guards of the Tiger Flag get one or two taels of cash every month, and they are responsible for food and housing. Every meal is a well-oiled meal."
"How do you know their food is good? Have you eaten with them?"
The servant of the Xu family who spoke swallowed subconsciously.
They, the servants who work in a wealthy family like the Xu family, live a pretty good life, but if they want to eat anything rich, they can only wait until the holidays. What they usually eat is similar to that of ordinary people, and they can barely eat it. full.
"The last time someone from Guangling came to visit our master, he talked about something about the Tiger Flag, and I happened to overhear him."
With these words, the scene became quiet for a while.
Many of them, the Xu family's servants, can't even get a salary of one tael a month, let alone eat oily meals every day. Usually they eat coarse grains and pickles, but during the holidays, they might be able to eat it. The leftovers may be a bit fishy.
However, such a meal needs to be eaten together, and one person can only eat one or two bites at most.
The housekeeper of the Xu Mansion said: "Okay, hurry up and get on the road. If you can rescue the young lady, I beg you to kill a pig and eat it."
The road is not very wide and can only accommodate a large car.
When the convoy of Tiger Character Flag came over, the people of the Xu family consciously stopped on the side of the road and gave way to the convoy, leaving it for the convoy of Tiger Character Flag to pass by first.
In the envious eyes of the Xu family's servants, the guards of the Tiger Flag gradually walked away with the large cars.
One of the servants of the Xu family said: "Do you think that if I go to Datong, can I join the Tiger Banner? As a guard, I can also get one tael of silver as salary every month."
"Fuck you." The middle-aged man on the side said angrily, "The contract you signed with the Xu family means that you will have to work for the Xu family for the rest of your life."
Hearing this, the servants of the Xu family looked lonely.
Not only him, but several servants of the Xu family who were with him all signed a contract to be sold to the Xu family for the rest of their lives. Because of this, they had to do the dangerous job of going to the village to pay the ransom in exchange for the lady. on the head.
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"Master Chen, let me toast you." Yang Yuan held up the wine bowl with both hands.
"Okay, do it."
The bearded man picked up the wine bowl, bumped it with Yang Yuan in mid-air, then raised his head and drank the wine in the bowl.
"Master Chen has a good capacity for drinking." Yang Yuan put down the wine bowl and praised him.
"Ha ha!"
The bearded man laughed heartily.
The second master of the cottage on the side put down his wine bowl and said, "I wonder if Shopkeeper Yang has received the waist badges sent by our cottage?"
"I got it, I even brought the money." Yang Yuan said with a smile, "Come here, show the money to Mr. Chen."
A young and strong man standing aside took down the luggage made of cloth from his shoulders and placed it on the table in front of several people.
The contents of the suitcase were extremely heavy. When I put it on the table, the wine in the wine bowl on the table was shaken and rippled several times.
"Five hundred taels of cash, Mr. Chen, please count them!" Yang Yuan waved his hand and pointed at the luggage on the table.
The bearded man winked at the second master on the side.
The second master pulled the luggage towards him, reached out and unfastened the buckle on the luggage, revealing a bunch of white silver inside, which was so bright that it was dazzling.
Several of the bandit leaders in the village swallowed saliva subconsciously.
Five hundred taels of silver ingots, weighing a full thirty kilograms, one ingot of twenty taels, a total of twenty-five ingots, were spread flat on the table, occupying less than half of the table.
