As the saying goes, money makes the devil grind. If you give enough money, you can even make a grinding ghost.

Tian Fu, who received a hundred gold, has a significant change in his attitude, at least Bilonglou has a professional ethic.

Cao Miao could understand Tian Fu's mood. After all, everyone is not very familiar with each other, and there is no reason to help for free. Tian Yu is not greedy for money, but he has to feed so many people, and his money is not loose. There is an edict, Cao Miao doesn't give money, and he has to do something. But with this 100 gold, the mentality is different, and it will be more positive.

Cao Miao believes that in order to make others work hard, it is not enough to talk about ideals, but also to give money. Not only to give money, but also to give enough. The Son of Heaven asked him to go to Jiangdong, and he asked for a billion when he opened his mouth.

If you don't give money, you only talk about ideals and feelings, and you are all hooligans.

One hundred gold hired fifty knights from northern Xinjiang, with an average of two gold and one horse, which was not expensive.

Cao Miao asked Tian Fu to send someone to visit the nearby counties to see if any suspicious people passed by. Zhong Miao never made a move, and even the rangers who were monitoring him withdrew, but Cao Miao didn't believe that Zhong Miao would let him go. Zhong Xuan couldn't bear it, but the Ruying family couldn't help it. was humiliated by him like this, and there will be more and more people who don't take the Ruying family seriously in the future.

He guessed that Zhong Xuan either didn't have time to mobilize manpower, or he didn't want to be too public, so as not to provoke himself. That being the case, it is undoubtedly a reasonable choice to get your hands dirty in Runan or even further afield. Not only do you have enough time to prepare, but you can also clear your suspicions and blame others.

Tian Yu had just arrived in Runan and had no foundation. If something happens in the jurisdiction, you can only admit that you are unlucky, and you can't blame others.

If you don't have a chance in Runan, then go to Yiyang and go to the Outuo realm of Wei Wu. All in all, there are plenty of opportunities.

After listening to Cao Miao's analysis, Tian Fu comprehended. This matter is not only related to the life and death of Cao Miao and Ah Hu, but also related to the future of their father and son. He couldn't let Zhong Miao succeed, especially not let Zhong Miao ambush Cao Miao in Runan.

Tian Fu immediately sent ten knights, in groups of two, to the nearby counties in the name of the Taishou Mansion to understand the situation, and sent people to the counties along the Huaishui River. The confrontation between Wei and Wu, the situation is tense, Runan is also considered the front line, and Tian Yu still holds the military post of General Yanyi, all of this is done logically and will not arouse suspicion.

Cao Miao gave Cao Su another task. His Majesty promised me only 300 million for 1 billion, and 700 million for Yangzhou Metropolitan District to pay, you go and get it for me, at least 400 million, I will use it when I go to Jiangdong. The remaining 300 million should also be prepared, and I will send someone to pick it up at any time.

Cao Su didn't say anything, and took twenty subordinates and went straight to Shouchun. In order to ensure speed, he also borrowed twenty war horses from Tian Fu, one person and two horses, day and night, and he could go back and forth in five or six days.

Without Cao Miao's 100 gold remuneration, Tian Fu would not have been so generous.

After arranging everything, Cao Miao traveled all the way south under the protection of Tian Fu.

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In Ancheng, Cao Miao met the female spy of Dongwu that Tian Fu said.

As Tian Fu said, this female spy is very arrogant, much like the people around the legendary Sun Shangxiang. She was tall, about seven feet three inches, with broad shoulders, strong arms, and two long legs. If it weren't for the tattered clothes that couldn't hide the scarred body, and the mouth was beardless, it was easy to be mistaken for a man.

When she saw Cao Miao, she raised her eyebrows and scolded angrily. "Lingnu, if you want to kill, you will kill, don't think you can hear anything useful from my mouth."

Cao Miao ignored her and put the seized prices in front of her one by one. A helmet, a suit of fine armor, a long knife, a short knife, a bow, and a pot of arrows are all well-made and high-quality goods, and they are by no means the equipment of ordinary soldiers. In addition, there is a round silver waist card, one side is engraved with a tiger head, and the other side is engraved with the three seal characters of "thirteen o'clock". The handwriting is clear, the outlines are smooth, and it is cast, not engraved.

Cao Miao picked up the waist card and looked at it for a moment. "Is this a cat?"

The woman took a sip. "It's a tiger."

"Jiangdong Tigers?" Cao Miao laughed silently. "Even if it's a tiger, when you cross the river, you have to lie on your stomach. You are so arrogant, where do you get the courage? ”

The woman turned her head with a look of disdain.

"As a woman, dare to go to the battlefield, I think you have put your personal life and death aside, and you are also mentally prepared for humiliation or something." Cao Miao threw her waist card, walked back and forth around the woman twice, and looked at the woman with a smile. The subtle changes in the woman's expression were all visible to him. When mentioning life and death, the woman looked disdainful, and when she mentioned humiliation, she was clearly a little short of breath, but she just held on and refused to show it.

"However, as Mrs. Sun's maidservant, you are greedy for life and afraid of death......"

When the woman heard this, she was furious, her eyes widened, and her face turned red. "You are greedy for life and afraid of death, if you have the ability, you will kill me, see if I will frown."

"If you are really not afraid of death, why don't you kill yourself while captured?" Cao Miao crooked her mouth, turned back to the case, and picked up the woman's iron armor. "You don't even have a scratch on your iron armor, which means that you weren't exhausted and captured." He drew the woman's long knife again. "There are no gaps in the long knife, and there are no blood stains, which means that your knife has not cut anyone. So how did you get captured? Scared out of your legs? Did you pee your pants at the time? ”

Cao Miao said, glancing at the woman's thighs intentionally or unintentionally.

The woman subconsciously clamped the originally separated thighs, and scolded with a red face: "You...... You're just peeing your pants. Husband, there's a kind of you and me fighting to see who pees their pants. ”

Cao Miao simply ignored her challenge. For him, this kind of character who thinks that if he comes from the side of a nobleman, he can be superior. They don't know what a battlefield is or what war is, but they dare to go to the front line to point fingers and gild. From this point of view, Mrs. Sun's influence in Soochow is indeed not small, and it can even be described as presumptuous.

"You say, if I strip you naked and send you back to Wuchang with this waist card, what will Mrs. Sun do with you?"

"You ......" the woman's face turned pale.

"Or, if I hang you outside, will there be any of your Dongwu spies desperately to save you?" Cao Miao smiled even more proudly, like a big bad wolf looking at the little white rabbit. "A noble man like you has been captured, the Relief Camp should be crazy, right?"

The woman was frightened, her face was red and white for a while, her mouth was flattened, and she cried out with a "wow". "Kill me, please, kill me......"

The corners of Cao Miao's mouth were slightly raised, and she sneered silently.

Tian Fu looked at Cao Miao in surprise. After this woman was captured, torture was inevitable, but her bones were very hard, and no matter how she beat her, she just wouldn't open her mouth. Unexpectedly, when Cao Miao met for the first time, a few words scared her into tears.

After waiting for a while, Cao Miao waved his hand and motioned for Tian Fu and the others to go out. Tian Fu went out very obediently and closed the door with him.

The room was dark, Cao Miao took the lamp on the side, turned it on, held it in her hand, and walked in front of the woman. "I won't kill you, and I can let you go back, but you have to bring a word to Mrs. Sun."

"What...... What words? The woman blinked, looking pitiful. Without waiting for Cao Miao to speak, she suddenly jumped forward, her two long legs kicked in a row like a butterfly wearing flowers, and her straight toes went straight to Cao Miao's throat.