"Cai Mao, you!"

Cai Mao's words immediately made Qin Jie in the dungeon opposite not mention it in one breath, and he was almost suffocated to death.

"Hmph, Qin Jie is too guarded, don't blame me for being ruthless, this time the Yellow Turban Army was defeated, if you can leave alive, you will definitely blame me, so for the sake of my life, you'd better not go back."

Considering his results, Cai Mao had no choice but to make a move on Qin Jie.

It happened that at this time, Qin Jie took the initiative to provoke Liu Zheng, and gave Cai Mao a reason to speak.

"Ah, I can't see it, General Cai Mao, you are so ruthless, you deserve to be a masterpiece."

Liu Zheng himself did not have a good impression of Cai Mao, and abandoned Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Biao, and supported the second son Liu Cong to succeed him, and later Cao Cao called, and directly coerced Liu Cong to surrender to Cao Cao. He is only to protect his family.

In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the three brothers of the Cai family all died unexpectedly. It is conceivable that the people of the Cai family are not smart people.

Give up the huge Jingzhou. What can a person who does not resist at all be worthwhile?

So although Liu Zheng looked down on Cai Mao, he didn't expect that Cai Mao would be so ruthless, which made Liu Zheng look down on him a little before.

However, for Qin Jie, Liu Zheng also has no good feelings, although this guy is the crown of the imperial court and has some talents, but he is quite strict with the soldiers, and he ended up not very well.

If Liu Zheng is not mistaken, after he exterminated the Yellow Turban Army, he became the Taishou of Nanyang, but unfortunately within two years, he was killed directly by his soldiers who launched a rebellion.

"Qu Shuai, I can't help it, if you want to live, you always have to be ruthless to yourself."

Liu Zheng's ridicule, Cai Mao didn't take it seriously at all.

"Okay, yes, I appreciate a villain like you, but seven hundred gold can't buy Qin Jie's head, I want a thousand gold!"

"A thousand gold!?"

When Cai Mao heard Liu Zheng's lion open mouth, her face suddenly sank, and she seemed to have some hesitation, but when she finally thought of her future, she finally gritted her teeth and agreed.

"Okay, a thousand gold is a thousand gold!"

After Cai Mao agreed, the corners of Liu Zheng's mouth raised, revealing a hint of pride, and then said again.

"Your own ransom is counted separately. It's a total of 1,500 gold, and if you agree, send someone to your house now to have someone send money over. ”

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he looked at Cai Mao and waited for Cai Mao's answer.

Cai Mao had just made a difficult decision, but now when she heard that Liu Zheng, a profiteer, had raised the price to 1,500 gold again, she wanted to cry without tears, but there was no way to do it.

A thousand gold agreed, could it be that a thousand and a half would regret it, and it was not just gritted his teeth and agreed.

"Get me some pen and paper, I'll write a letter to my family, you rush to Xiangyang City in the starry night, find Cai's mansion, give this letter to my brother Cai He, and you'll be fine."

Cai Mao had already thought about all this, just waiting for Liu Zheng's people to prepare.

After listening to Cai Mao's words, Liu Zheng ordered Zhou Cang to hand over the things Cai Mao needed, and then in a few moments, Cai Mao had already written a letter to his family.

Wrapped it in an envelope and handed it to Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng was not so stupid, he took it out directly, and read it himself first, although he couldn't understand the words of this world, but it was no problem to ask Xu You to help read it.

After making sure that the envelope only wrote that Cai He should prepare 1,500 gold and immediately transport it to Runan City, and there were no other marks or the like, he wrapped it well, and then found a cronie and ordered him to take the letter to Xiangyang City.

Xiangyang City is not far from Runan.

To the west of Runan is Nanyang, and below Nanyang are Xiangyang and Jiangxia.

The journey, if you are fast, one day is enough for a round trip.

Soon, Liu Zheng received a reply from Caifu in Xiangyang.

After all, Cai Mao is the son of the Cai family, the Cai family is in Jingzhou, and it was originally not a famous family, and the reason why it was able to grow up quickly was mainly due to women.

Why do you say that, the Cai family was able to rise in Jingzhou, mainly because of Cai Mao's aunt, who is the wife of Zhang Wen, the current imperial court.

And Cai Mao's own two younger sisters, one married Huang Chengyan, a famous man in Jingzhou, and the other married Liu Biao, the future lord of Jingzhou.

Although Liu Zheng still doesn't know whether this matter is successful or not, most of Liu Zheng's impression of the Cai family is this.

If you really want to talk about it, Cai Mao is still the uncle of Zhuge Liang, who will be famous in the future.

Because, Zhuge Liang's wife is Huang Yueying, and Huang Yueying's mother is Cai Mao's sister.

Cai's reply was very simple, that is, to ask Liu Zheng not to hurt Cai Mao for the time being, they could not get together 1,500 gold in a short time, it would take two days to prepare, and on the third day, someone would be sent to escort the prepared money to Runan City.

Regarding this, Liu Zheng is not in a hurry, although he is quite poor now, he is not in a hurry for these two days, so he still has to wait.

However, if it was necessary to wait a few days, Liu Zheng simply asked them to prepare 5,000 catties of pig iron and send it over.

Pig iron, in this era, the price is not particularly expensive, a pound is about forty or fifty dollars, and copper coins are enough to buy dozens of catties.

Although Liu Zheng can buy it himself, the amount he needs is relatively large, and at the same time, his identity is not good for buying on a large scale, if the Cai family can buy it, he can save his effort.

Three days later, a convoy came from the direction of Xiangyang City, along Jiangxia County, all the way to Runan County.

They didn't go to Nanyang, after all, Nanyang is Zhang Mancheng's territory, if they are a little careless, the 1,500 gold in the convoy is robbed by Zhang Mancheng's people, it is not for fun.

The people of the Cai family, with more than a dozen boxes, came to Liu Zheng's Runan City.

In this box, half of it was the gold that had been agreed before, and half was the pig iron that Liu Zheng needed.

There were dozens of private soldiers of the Cai family who were in charge of escorting them to the outside of the city.

"Qu Shuai, the Cai family's ransom has been delivered, and it is now outside the city, let us go over and take over."

Zhou Cang, who received the news, quickly found Liu Zheng and asked Liu Zheng to go over to receive it.

After Liu Zheng heard the news, he immediately became interested and immediately brought people to the outside of Runan City.

Sure enough, I saw some people, escorting more than a dozen boxes, and appeared outside the city of Runan.

Liu Zheng took Xu Huang and Zhou Cang out of the city gate, and took the initiative to approach the Cai family who were escorting the money.

As soon as he saw that someone in the city finally came out, a little brother in the odds immediately came up.

"You're the Yellow Turbans here? I brought the money, my brother...... Where's my Lord Cai Mao? ”

This little brother was halfway through speaking, when he suddenly thought of something and hurriedly changed his words.