161 It's really pitiful (three watches)
Song Ning opened the letter and read it. It is still the handwriting of the Song and Yuan dynasties: one million taels of silver will be placed tomorrow according to the following requirements.
Song Shi'an ran around the carriage twice bare-chested, and he was not allowed to wear a single piece of clothing.
Song Shi'an personally went into the water and sank the silver into the water.
After the silver is in the water, they are evacuated, and no one is allowed to enter the water, let alone watch, and the hostages will be released in the afternoon.
If one is not done, the hostage will die!
She sent the letter to Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi looked at Wang, his eyes swept around her, and then continued to look.
Song Ning clearly saw the corners of his mouth, revealing a hint of schadenfreude and expectation.
"Lord Wang?" Song Ning propped up the table, looked down at him, and asked word by word, "Are you really not behind the kidnapping?" ”
Zhao Yi also leaned forward, raised his eyebrows and said, "How to say?" ”
"I can't think of anyone else in this world who would think of such a dirty way to torment me."
This kidnapping, obviously one million taels of silver is the second, and letting her out of the embarrassment is the key.
"Then you're wrong," Zhao Yi patted her on the shoulder and said, "If it's me, I'll let you ride from the capital to Tongzhou." ”
Song Ning faced his face: "Thank you for your compassion and didn't let Weichen run." ”
"Then run."
Song Ning was speechless and forcibly dragged back the topic: "Lord Wang, I don't want to be naked, and I don't have money to ransom people, do you think you can borrow a little money from the treasury for emergencies?" ”
"It's up to you."
"You dare to borrow?"
Song Ning nodded: "I don't dare, my father, the king of Baoding and the prince dare." ”
"So, you're in charge of the bare feet, and we'll take care of everything else?"
Song Ning knocked on the table and reminded him: "Lord Wang, can we stop talking, this is not in line with my elegant character." ”
"There is not so much silver in the treasury."
"Then borrow as much as you can." Song Ning replied.
Zhao Yi laughed angrily at her: "You think this is borrowing money from your friends, how much do you want to borrow?" ”
"Don't think about it, it's not going to work." Zhao Yi said.
Song Ning sighed and said, "Then I can only single-handedly save Ermei as a hero." ”
"Lord, goodbye." She was carrying her own burden and was about to go out, Zhao Yihu looked at her back suspiciously, and asked Feng Yuan again, "What is he going to do?" ”
Feng Yuan replied respectfully: "Lord Xiao Song should go to Tongzhou Wharf. ”
"Looking for the kidnapped slender man?"
Song Shi'an doesn't know how many slender men are on the dock over there?
"Yes." Feng Yuandao.
Zhao Yi rubbed his eyebrows, brushed his sleeves and said, "You settle everyone in the yamen, and stand by." ”
"Lord Wang, our yamen...... There is no one left. Feng Yuan was embarrassed.
Zhao Yi looked at him, his face darkening.
The bastard's arrangement, even he didn't reveal.
Defend him.
"Done!" Zhao Yi said, "You guys work hard." ”
It's good to follow Song Shi'an to die.
Feng Yuan was so frightened that he knelt down, shrinking his neck and not daring to move.
Lord Xiao Song is too capable, even Prince Qi is not afraid.
As soon as Song Ning went to the street with her burden, she always felt that someone nearby was staring at her, but she had to look for it seriously, but she couldn't find anything.
There was a carriage behind him, and the door was open to you, and Song Ning saw Zhao Yi lying down, looking at her with a cold gaze.
"The prince walks slowly."
Zhao Yi stared at her: "Go to the dock alone?" ”
"Yes, Lord Wang."
Don't need to help? Insolent! Zhao Yi snorted, slammed the car door shut, and said, "Then you work hard, hoping to find people, not corpses." ”
The car went away in desperation.
Song Ning was inexplicable, did she offend the prince again?
Hypocritical man.
Song Ning carried the burden and began to miss Xiaotian and Lu Miaomiao, if they were there, would they be able to find someone if they sniffed Bai Jiaojiao's clothes.
"Xiaotian, you weren't there when I had to use you, and it wouldn't be fragrant to come back another day."
At this moment, on Xuanwu Avenue, many people were crowded on the roadside to watch the excitement, and they saw a little beggar wearing a hood under the eaves of a pen and ink shop.
The little beggar showed only one eye, and cried.
On either side of him, guarding a few people in the yamen, they shouted at the people on the side of the road with a fierce look: "There is an order from the Holy Lord, this little beggar is related to the kidnappers who kidnapped the county lord, and he will be chained here from today onwards, and no one is allowed to approach or save him." ”
"If anyone violates, they will be killed."
The two catchers said quickly, shook their hands and left.
The onlookers were buzzing and discussing, there were vague rumors yesterday, but I didn't expect it to be confirmed today.
"Which little beggar is this, why is he still holding his head?" Someone in the crowd asked.
Everyone shook their heads: "Looking at your age, can you be a kidnapper?" ”
"Little beggar, are you really a kidnapper?" Someone asked the little beggar.
The little beggar just cried and didn't say anything.
"I can't see my face, why does Lord Xiao Song carry his face?"
"Go uncover it."
Someone was pouting on the side.
The little beggar sat on the eaves, crying and looking at the person who was talking in front of him, Lord Xiao Song said that the other party should not see his specific appearance, so when he saw him being put on his head, he would definitely find a way to confirm.
When circumstances permit, it is normal for people to want to confirm the unknown.
Therefore, Lord Xiao Song said that as long as he saw a suspicious person, he would quietly point it with his finger, and naturally someone would follow the other party.
……
Song Ning did not hide from it, and rode directly out of the city and went straight to the canal wharf.
As soon as she left, there were two people wearing hats and scarves on the side of the city wall, and whispered, "Did he find out about us, do you want to inform the boss?" ”
"Let's underestimate this little Song." Another said, "However, even if she guesses where we are and where we are, she can't find anyone." ”
"This morning, King Baoding and Song Ge Lao, are they still raising money?"
"I heard rumors that I went to borrow money from the emperor." The man said, "It's good to be an official, and you can borrow money from the emperor when you don't have money." ”
How rich the emperor is, the whole world is his.
"One million taels means less, it should be said ten million taels."
"That's it, the boss shouldn't listen to those people, everything has been done, and his mother doesn't ask for more money, it's not cost-effective."
"I'll go and tell the boss, you go into the city and keep an eye on it. Xiao Song's past, I think I still have to tell the boss. ”
The two separated, one rode a horse and chased Song Ning away, and the other turned back to the city, and as soon as he entered, he saw one of his brothers coming up, the person was full of leprosy on his head, and his appearance was extremely ugly, he stepped forward and suppressed his voice, "There is a little beggar tied to the mouth of the pen and ink shop, and he can't see clearly with his head covered." ”
"Second brother, did you say that little beggar? I searched for a morning, but I couldn't find the kid. ”
"Let's go, let's see, just tear off the mask and see. How much does the little beggar know? ”
The leper replied, "I don't know much, but you can recognize me." ”
"Then find a way to talk to him and warn him not to talk nonsense."
It's too simple to want the life of a little beggar.
Song Ning hurried to the dock at noon.
The dock here is much more lively than she imagined.
The canal is the north-south traffic artery, the boats come and go in an endless stream, the water flow is turbulent during the flood season, and the slender man is in urgent need of the slender man to stabilize the ship, if the water level drops in winter now, there is often a large ship with more draught of loading goods and draught is stranded, and at this time it is necessary to pull the boat to walk.
The terrain on both sides of the canal is not dangerous, although the money for a trip is not as much as that of a dangerous place, but you can live more.
Therefore, there are more slender men on both sides of the strait than elsewhere.
These people rent a yard on the shore or a few families and live together, or they build a thatched hut on the shore to make do.
As soon as she reached the shore, many pairs of eyes fell on her, looking.
Most of them are middle-aged men between the ages of twenty and forty, and there are also women who cook on the shore. When a boat pulls a boat, they pull it, and when a boat docks, they are boatmen, carrying goods and even rowing with the boat.
It was lunchtime and many people sat on the side of the road, smoking shisha and chatting.
"Little owner, do you want someone to do the work?" A man in his thirties wearing a thin padded jacket stepped forward and handed him the hookah, "Smoke?" I have a lot of people here, as many as I want. ”
Song Ning glanced at his cigarette stick and smiled: "I'm here to find someone at the dock, not someone to do things." ”
The other party is a perennial wanderer at the dock, smoking a hookah, while grinning: "It's okay to find someone, as long as you give money, we can do any work." ”
"I'm Song Shi'an, the magistrate of Shuntian Mansion." Song Ning said to the other party, "Yesterday I received a letter from the kidnappers, someone kidnapped my wife, the county lord of Pingyang, and my brother-in-law, and asked me to take money to ransom people. ”
The other party was stunned, but he didn't expect Song Ning to be an official, and he told him such a big thing directly.
He was really surprised: "My lord...... Is this coming to the dock to find them? ”
This Song Shi'an is not sick in the brain, right?
"yes. One million taels is too much, and even if you borrow money from the treasury, you can't borrow it. ”
The person on the other side didn't spit out a mouthful of hookah, but came out of his nose and mouth, and put his whole stunned and frightened face in the smoke: "One, one million taels." ”
"Yes. and silver. Song Ning said, sitting on the side of the road, and the man also squatted down, and listened to Song Ning continue, "Let me sink the silver in the water by the Makeup Pier, which side is the Makeup Pier?" ”
"Well, over there...... It's not far, it's close. The man stopped smoking the hookah and stared at Song Ning, "My lord, why did you come to the dock to find someone?" ”
"I calculated that this group of kidnappers is likely to be the portman."
As she spoke, she began to cry anxiously.
As soon as she cried, everyone saw her crying as a big man, so they all came over and had a lot of fun.
She cried for a cup of tea and didn't speak, three circles around her for dozens of slender men and boatmen, you looked at me and discussed why he was crying.
"It's the pusher, the six-grade official. His father was the second assistant of the dynasty, and his daughter-in-law was also the daughter of the king of Baoding, the lord of Pingyang. ”
Everyone looked at the thin and helpless young man, and thought it was a poor man who had lost his money, but who knew that it was so big.
"I can't take out a million taels, I can't save the county lord and my brother-in-law, I'm so anxious and I'm sad."
Song Ning cried.
When the surroundings fell silent, someone blurted out, "What is it, a million taels?" ”
I've never heard of it, and I've never thought about so much money.
"Hmm. It's hard for me to find a place this big. ”
Everyone looked at each other, Lord Song was so pitiful.
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