Once those children are sold, the family will basically never see the children again, and naturally there will be no children to be redeemed, and then they will be implicated in pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud.

"Who's to say it isn't. According to Master Li, those abductors have been active with us for more than four years, and the children they have abducted and sold over the years are not 100 but 80. Yu Jiayan couldn't help but sigh as he spoke, "Lord Li has already asked his immediate boss, the prefect, and the prefect agrees to go to the relevant provinces and ask the local officials to help find the first few poor children who have been abducted and trafficked." ”

This is already the best result that Mingyue can think of, although there will definitely be some children who will never be recovered, and even some children may be long gone, but as long as there are abducted children who are rescued as a result, the efforts made by the government will not be in vain.

She asked Ming Xu and Yu Jiayan, "Is there anything else we can do to help?" ”

Ming Xu touched his nose, "Actually, the second uncle has already given Lord Li all the 1,000 taels of silver tickets we brought to the emergency, and he hopes that Lord Li can say that Lord Li will personally send a group of capable subordinates to search for people in Jiangnan as soon as possible according to the clues provided by those kidnappers." ”

"And the boss of the little baby we saved before, he is the top ten rich people in the Northern Hebei Chamber of Commerce. When he heard his son say that we had donated the carriage and horse fares and ransom money to the Yamen, he also personally sent 1,000 taels of silver to Master Li. ”

"Then there are other families in Fucheng who have lost their children before, and they have also come forward to donate money or voluntarily follow the people of the yamen to go down to Jiangnan together."

Mingyue frowned slightly.

Yu Jiayan patted her hand, "Don't worry, Master Li is a clean and good official who is close to Master Gu's temperament, and he immediately sent the two thousand taels of silver to the prefect's yamen with great fanfare." ”

"There are so many pairs of eyes inside and outside the yamen watching openly and secretly, and there are the bitter masters who have lost their children who are staring at people almost all the time, and those big and small officials in the prefect's yamen definitely don't dare to be too greedy."

"After all, if they look too ugly, the bitter masters will definitely make trouble, and their official reputation will be completely ruined. In order to get a future with tens of hundreds of taels of silver, those people will not do this kind of loss-making business. ”

Mingyue breathed a sigh of relief, "Then before you come back, the prefect has already made a decision?" ”

Ming Xu nodded, "The prefect has decided to send twenty officials to accompany the bitter lord to the south of the Yangtze River, and they will be accompanied by the prefect's master and secretary. These two people are responsible for the negotiation of the officials, and the officials are responsible for helping the sufferer find and ransom people. ”

"Then do you know how much money the prefect's yamen finally raised?"

Yu Jiayan bowed slightly, "More than four thousand seven hundred taels, even if you remove all kinds of expenses along the way, the remaining silver is enough for them to redeem all their children." ”

Of course, this is the ideal situation, based on the premise that they can find the home of these kidnappers as soon as they go, otherwise they will have to go through a lot of trouble if the children are sold by the buyer.

"I hope you can bring every child alive back to us safely." There is no place for them to contribute, and the only thing Mingyue can do now is to have a good expectation.

Returning to his house with Yu Jiayan, Mingyue asked Dong Solstice to put the things sent by Master Luo on the table of the Eight Immortals in the main hall.

The gift box was opened, and one of them contained two silver ingots of ten taels, two cans of fine Lu'an melon slices, two white muslins, two cyan Hangzhou silk, and the other one contained a box of excellent official swallows and a fifty-year-old ginseng.

Mingyue looked at it and was stunned, "This is too precious!" ”

Yu Jiayan smiled and bowed slightly, "Otherwise, how can I say that Boss Luo is a rich man." But this also has something to do with the fact that he only has a baby son. According to him, he became a relative at the age of seventeen, and the two worked hard for fifteen or sixteen years, giving birth to seven daughters in one go, until he was thirty-four years old, and he and his wife finally had such an only son. The two of them regard this son as if they were eyeballs, if they were abducted, they would have to collapse more than half of their family's sky immediately. ”

Mingyue was dumbfounded when she heard this, "This is too powerful!" ”

Yu Jiayan couldn't cry or laugh, "I thought you would feel that Boss Luo has never taken a concubine." ”

Mingyue glanced at him, "What do you mean?" If I don't give birth to a son, are you going to take a concubine and have a son? ”

Yu Jiayan didn't expect this fire to actually burn on him, he waved his hand again and again, "How can we be the same as Boss Luo?" We are childhood sweethearts who grew up together and fell in love with each other to form a loving couple. Even if I don't have children, I'm sure I'll be alone with you. ”

Mingyue snorted lightly, "You know the current affairs." ”

Yu Jiayan wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, "Except for the meeting gift that Boss Luo gave to each of us at that time, our father and eldest brother gave us half of the other things." Originally, I thought that the silver ingots, Guan Yan and ginseng would all be distributed to the Ming family, but our father and eldest brother refused to agree. ”

Mingyue touched the two finely carved gift boxes, "They should be to compensate you for the five hundred taels of silver." ”

This time Yu Jiayan and they went to Fucheng, Mingyue gave Yu Jiayan a silver ticket of 500 taels for emergency use, and the 1,000 taels of silver tickets given to the government by Mingcheng at the beginning, there was a silver ticket with a denomination of 500 taels that Yu Jiayan temporarily stuffed to him.

Now the Ming family directly divided half of the heavy gifts given by Boss Luo, obviously to make up for Yu Jiayan's "broken wealth" in Fucheng.

Yu Jiayan nodded, "Our father also said that these are very valuable, and he also said that even if we don't use them ourselves, it is extremely precious to give gifts and leave favors." ”

Mingyue nodded, and personally put the two gift boxes into the cabinet for proper storage, "Tea, Hangzhou silk and ginseng, you can take them to Master Gu tomorrow, and then there are the muslins, snacks and velvet flowers you brought back from Fucheng, and I also picked the good ones to help you put them in the gift box." ”

Ming Xu nodded, "Big brother, they also want to transfer the thank you gift from Boss Luo to the Gu family, but the tea they left behind is Biluochun, the material is makeup satin, and then our father plans to send Guanyan instead of ginseng." He wants to stay at home with ginseng, after all, our grandfather and grandmother are also old, and some things are more reassuring to prepare early. ”

Mingyue nodded, "Our dad did the right thing." ”

She asked Yu Jiayan, "Then do you know what other things the eldest brother has prepared for the Gu family?" ”

"There are also muslin and snacks, and there are also a box of pottery balls, nine rings and other knick-knacks. They chose a cyan one, which is more suitable for boys, and we might as well pick yellow or water red, which is suitable for the two girls in his family. Otherwise, you can pick a white one, which can be used as a middle coat. ”

"Then pick the yellow one, the two ginger muslin you brought back, I think it is very suitable for the little girl to wear."

The two of them agreed in a few words about the six gifts they would bring to Xie Shi tomorrow, and Mingyue then instructed the winter solstice to send the two baskets of clay instruments to the kitchen.