Seeing this, the others rushed forward and asked, "What's going on?" What's written on this? ”

Chen Youyi didn't care to answer their questions and hurriedly asked the village chief, "When did you send this note?" ”

"Just now, it was brought to the door by a thief on horseback, and the man ran away." The village chief said with a frown.

As soon as they heard that it was the bandits, a woman fainted in fright on the spot, and the others also cried, "What can I do, the child was taken away by the bandits." ”

Chen Youyi frowned tightly, anxious, but she knew that it was useless to be anxious and sad, what she had to do now was to quickly rescue Qin Huai from the hands of those bandits.

"Where can I get the ransom of one thousand taels!" Chen Youyi said.

Now the women wept even harder.

The village chief sighed, "If we need a total of 1,000 taels of ransom, we can still think of a way, but each child needs 1,000 taels, where can we get this." It's a total of 5,000 taels! ”

Chen Youyi bit her lower lip tightly, regretting why she let Qin Huai come out alone at that time, but it was useless to regret it. A thousand taels, even if she wanted to take it out immediately, it would be very difficult.

Almost all the money in the family has been invested in the restaurant, and even if it takes a while to return the capital, it is impossible to come up with a thousand taels immediately.

She squeezed out of the crowd, hurriedly ran back to Zhang Zishou, and explained the situation to him, "Mr. Zhang, what can you do to save these children?" ”

Zhang Zishou was much calmer than Chen Youyi thought, he stroked his beard, and said with a calm face, "This matter still has to be handed over to the government to do, the thieves proposed a ransom of 1,000 taels for each child, but those villagers can't take out even 1,000 taels of silver." ”

When Xu Linfeng first came here, the bandits were rampant and domineering everywhere, he came to rectify it, the bandits were a lot less, and the people could finally live and work in peace and contentment, who knew that the bandits had begun to run rampant recently.

"Even if you go to find someone from the government, it will take time to go back and forth. By that time, the bandits would have long since stopped being able to settle down, and I was afraid that they would be bad for the child. Chen Youyi frowned, and then stood up, "I'll go and bring a letter to my family, no matter what, let Ziheng know what happened here." ”

After saying that, she left here and ran to the monastery to ask a little master to run to her house to carry a letter.

When Qin Ziheng arrived here, it was already dark and he couldn't see his five fingers, "Can you tell our mother when you come?" ”

"I said, I only said that there was something in your town, and I went to help you, and I didn't say anything about Qin Huai. I asked Wang Da to take care of our mother, the family is fine, you can rest assured. ”

Hearing this, Chen Youyi breathed a sigh of relief, and then told Qin Ziheng what happened here before and after.

"Where's that note?"

"It's still with the village chief, and they're also thinking about how to deal with it." Chen Youyi glanced at him, Qin Ziheng's eyes were cold under the candlelight that she had never seen before, and her tightly knit brows looked as if she was thinking about something, "But no matter how they try to figure it out, they can't come up with so much money." ”

He nodded, "For the common people, the only thing they can rely on is the government, if the government doesn't come forward to deal with this matter, what can they do?" ”

Chen Youyi sighed, "It's so late now, even if there is anything, we have to wait until tomorrow." The people in the village are afraid that someone has already reported to the official, and if Lord Xu knows, he will definitely send someone to deal with it. ”

She turned her head to look at him again, but he kept his head down and did not speak. Chen Youyi didn't know what he was thinking.

That night, the two of them stayed in the monastery.

When Chen Youyi woke up in the middle of the night, she found that there was no one around, she was a little worried, she hurriedly put on her clothes and went out, and saw Qin Ziheng standing outside the door, standing with his hands in his hands, and only then did he turn around when he heard the footsteps behind him, "Lady, why did you get up?" It's cold at night, so you go back and rest. ”

"You can't sleep, how can I sleep, now Qin Huai doesn't know what to do." Chen Youyi said anxiously, "It's all my fault, if I don't let him go out to play, this kind of thing won't happen." ”

"Don't blame the lady, those bandits should have been disposed of a long time ago." Qin Ziheng said in a low voice, he was like two people in peacetime.

"If we make it together, we can make up a thousand taels of silver, but what about the other children? We can't leave this thing alone. Chen Youyi also said that she was worried about those children, "I don't know what their parents are worried about." ”

"Lady, leave this matter to me to deal with, don't think about it." Qin Ziheng helped her pull the clothes behind her back and said, "It's windy outside, let's go inside." ”

But Chen Youyi stood here and refused to leave, and she didn't go back until he returned to the house with him.

Yamanaka.

In the bandits' stockade, several young boys were tied hand and foot, and knelt on the ground in a row, and one of the bandits was turning back and forth in front of them, and the older one knelt there silently.

The young ones were already frightened and cried non-stop.

There were a few other bandits around staring at the children and smiling.

The bandit who was circling around suddenly stopped in front of Qin Huai and raised his chin with the back of his knife, "This kid is wearing a good outfit, it looks like the family should have money." ”

Qin Huai stared at him without crying or making trouble, without the slightest fear, "Boy, where are you from?" The bandit asked.

Qin Huai pursed his lips and didn't speak.

"Ask you something, hurry up!"

"My family lives in Xinghua Village."

"Xinghua Village?" The bandit thought for a moment, "It's some distance from here, why are you in this mountain?" ”

"Come and read!"

As soon as these words came out, some people coaxed the thieves next to them, "Two, if you can come to this mountain to study, you must be a child of a rich and noble family, I think this is a fat job!" Ask him which landlord his family is. ”

"My family is not a landlord and has no money." Qin Huai said without changing his face.

Just as he was talking, two more people walked in from outside, the leader was the leader of the village, and behind him were the three masters of the village.

"Who told you to catch some kids! What can they have? The boss glanced at the few little children in front of him and said sharply.

In order to please him, someone stepped forward and hurriedly said, "Boss, there is a child from a rich family here, you see!" ”

The eldest and third looked at Qin Huai at the same time, and saw that the clothes on his body were indeed much better than those of ordinary people's children, "Well, it seems that he is a fat master, ask where his home is!" ”

"I've asked, it's Xinghua Village under the mountain, not in this mountain village, and the family must have money."