When the words fell, Yao Qi's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized: "Oh, it was the hundred or so girls he brought who caused the trouble, the water bandits robbed his girls, and tied him up the mountain by the way, wanting to use this to blackmail Lord Han." ”

Leng Linjiang smiled comfortably, this is the Yao Qi he knows, the best to know the autumn, seeing the subtle knowledge, he nodded: "You guessed right, the water bandit asked people to send Han Changyun's handwritten letter to Jiu Chao, and asked him to bring five hundred taels of gold to ransom people." ”

"How much, five hundred taels?" Yao Qi snorted, looking at her hand with a shocked face, she raised her hand and gestured, but she still couldn't imagine how big a pile five hundred taels of gold was, just like she couldn't imagine how big a pile five million cash was.

From her previous life to after the time travel, she never imagined that she could have so much money, or that she never imagined that she could see so much money.

Even when she went to Longyou Road last time, she couldn't see what the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver looked like.

For this, she regretted it for a long time.

When Leng Linjiang first heard the news, he was also shocked for a long time, and he nodded: "Yes, you heard it right, it's five hundred taels, gold." ”

Yao Qi frowned slightly, and was a little puzzled by the water bandits' unbelievable request: "Not to mention whether Lord Han has so much gold, it is not so easy to bring so much gold out of Beijing." ”

Gold, like silver, was the currency of this ancient currency, but gold is obviously more valuable and scarce than silver.

The mining of gold mines and the circulation of large gold ingots were all subject to the restrictions and control of the imperial court, and most of the silver ingots and copper coins used by ordinary people were in their hands.

Gold ingots are a rare thing, the gold ingots rewarded by the saints should be offered in the ancestral hall, and the most common people in their homes are red gold jewelry, although it can also be used as money, but five hundred taels of gold, what a pile of jewelry.

However, whether it is gold ingots or gold jewelry, it is not easy to transport such a large amount of five hundred taels out of the capital.

Han Changyun is bound to say a valid reason, so Han Changyun's matter can't be hidden.

Whether he can be saved or not, Han Changwan will not have a good reputation.

Yao Qi didn't know if the request to ransom people with five hundred taels of gold was put forward by the water bandits or Han Changyun, if Han Changyun put it forward, then his mind was worth studying.

She sighed: "This is such a big pit." ”

Leng Linjiang agreed with this: "I also think that Han Changyun is not a simple person, and he has not yet entered Beijing, so he has set a trap for Jiu Chao first." ”

Xie Mengxia's face was slightly gloomy, and he sighed as he sat upright: "I think that product is the same as me, timid, greedy for money and lustful." ”

Yao Qi and Leng Linjiang glanced at each other, in this case, they didn't dare to say it, and only Xie Mengxia himself dared to say it.

Leng Linjiang looked at Xie Mengxia thoughtfully and said: "Is he really stupid or pretending to be stupid, let's talk about this later, what matters now is to find Han Changyun's whereabouts first and ensure his safety. ”

Xie Mengxia was a little weak by what he said about pretending to be stupid or really stupid, and he laughed dryly.

Yao Qi's expression was solemn: "What Lord Shaoyin said is very true, after dark, I will go out to find out where Han Changyun and Qing Qian are being held, and then find out what kind of Longtan tiger's den this bandit den is." ”

Hearing Yao Qi say this, and said it with great confidence, Leng Linjiang said with relief: "Ah Qi, you check and investigate, just save people, let him suffer here for a few more days, it is best to scare and scare him fiercely, so that he will turn around and leave, and dare not enter Beijing." ”

Yao Qi raised his eyebrows, and responded with a clear and bright voice, his beautiful apricot eyes were radiant, and he was very excited at first glance.

Xie Mengxia saw Yao Qi's appearance, smiled, patted her shoulder and said narrowly: "He is very timid, you are a little serious, don't be scared and crazy." ”

Yao Qi pursed his lips and smiled incomprehensibly: "I don't dare to scare him, he is more courageous than me, I don't have the courage to dig a hole for Lord Han." ”

Xie Mengxia sighed: "It's as if you dug less for Jiuchao." ”

Yao Qi's apricot eyes bent, and he pouted and smiled: "It seems that it is not Your Highness who picked off Lord Han's pants." ”

Xie Mengxia: "......"

The sky was getting darker inch by inch, there was no light in the room, only a very small window leaked in the dim and faint sunlight, and in the dim and dim light that flickered and flickered, among the sleeping girls, someone's fingers moved slightly, and the closed eyelids trembled.

Cheng Chaoyan turned his head and sighed: "Someone is going to wake up." ”

Leng Linjiang hurriedly chased after him at the end: "Jiu Chao said that Gu Chen is back." ”

Yao Qi's face was dazed, Gu Chen is back, he will be back when he comes back, he can still go straight to the cottage alone and wipe out all the water bandits?

Cheng Chaoyan retreated to Leng Linjiang and the others, leaning on each other with Yao Qi, and pretending to be asleep.

After a while, the girls on the other side woke up in twos and threes, and looked at each other sleepily, but they didn't think much about it, they just thought that they were all very tired, so they would sleep so deeply.

"It's so cold, there's no bed bedding or anything, I'm freezing to death." A girl with a delicate face tightened her collar and shivered from the cold, which was very difficult.

A sallow and thin girl coughed twice, and said weakly: "I'm not afraid of the cold, but I'm afraid that I won't have anything to eat, I'm hungry." ”

A tall girl looked left and right: "I'm hungry too, it's so late, why hasn't anyone brought food yet?" ”

Outside the window, the twilight was boundless, and the cold mountain breeze was blowing, whimpering and wandering around the yard, just like the cries of these girls when they first came, sounding sad and creepy.

The chaotic sound of footsteps broke the silence of the yard and reached everyone's ears with deafeningness.

The girls stood up one after another, threw themselves at the windows and doors, and looked out in horror.

Yao Qi looked up at the window.

A dozen bandits carried several wooden barrels, and hot air came out of the gaps between the lids and the rim of the barrels.

She sighed, she didn't even have to look at the smell to know what was in the barrel.

Just like the situation a few days ago when the food was delivered, the bandits did not open the door, but shouted loudly under the window: "After eating, come and get food." ”

After being scared and hungry all night, the girls, who had already lost their strength, suddenly came to their senses, rushed to the window in a swarm, and they didn't care about their manners or anything, and stretched out their hands to ask for a bowl of rice.

The bandits passed the meal through the window into the house and placed it in their outstretched hands.

Sure enough, as Yao Ji expected, it was still that bowl of wild vegetables with little water in clear soup.

Xie Mengxia held the bowl, looked at his own figure reflected in the bowl, and sighed: "How to eat this!" Is this what people eat......"

Leng Linjiang picked a bamboo chopstick, and also shook his head and sighed: "If you don't eat, you will die, and if you eat, you will die of disgust," he poked Yao Qi with his elbow: "Eh, which way to die is better?" ”

Yao Qi snorted and ate the glutinous food in his hand, took the bowl in Leng Linjiang's hand, and said seriously: "Starve to death, be thin." ”

Leng Linjiang pressed his hungry stomach, snatched the bowl back, and knocked Yao Qi's forehead with his fingers: "You are stupid, isn't it good to live, why do you have to choose death!" ”

As he spoke, Xie Mengxia had already finished the bowl of dumplings with a long sigh, and the dishes he ate were loveless.

He saw that the bowl in Leng Linjiang's hand had not been touched, so he reached out and grabbed it: "If you don't eat it, give it to me." ”

Leng Linjiang ate the dumplings clean with lightning speed, and smiled with a smile: "You are beautiful." ”

Not only did Leng Linjiang and Xie Mengxia feel that this gluttony could not be swallowed, although not all the girls in this house were pampered, they were also sad in the face of such a bowl of gluttony, and it was extremely difficult to eat one bite at a time.

Half an hour later, the bandits came again and brought in buckets of clean water.

Such a rare bucket of water was naturally used first by Leng Linjiang and Xie Mengxia, and a few girls who were not eye-opening were eager to try, but they were all swept by Cheng Chaoyan, and their faces turned pale with fright, and they cowered away.

Cheng Chaoyan felt a little surprised, and raised his hand to touch his cheek.

Is it really so scary to be born by yourself, you can be intimidated by a glance?

It's very simple here, it's extremely inconvenient to wash, Leng Linjiang and Xie Mengxia don't care about it so much, they finish their meals, they only rinse their mouths hastily, wipe their faces with clean water casually, scatter their buns, and lazily pour on the straw pile.

Cheng Chaoyan sat with his back to the group of girls, pulled out the silver hairpin on his head early in the morning, took out the slender dagger hidden in it, and slowly sharpened a bamboo chopstick.

She kept her hands in her hands, glanced up at Yao Qi, and asked in a low voice, "Miss Aqi, don't you want to prepare some weapons?" ”

Yao Qi raised his hand, lifted the sleeve up, revealing the transparent soft silk wrapped around his wrist, and smiled lowly: "I always have it with me, no need to prepare." ”

Cheng Chaoyan had never seen Yao Qi make a move, and she didn't know what kind of weapon Yao Qi had always used, when she saw the transparent soft silk, she was stunned for a moment, and whispered in surprise: "No shadow silk?" Are you a disciple of General Lee? ”

Yao Qi nodded as usual: "It's not a disciple, it's just that I have studied with General Li for a few days, and I just have the power to protect myself." ”

Cheng Chaoyan's eyes flashed, his expression changed a few times, the corners of his lips twitched twice, and finally he didn't say anything.

Xie Mengxia sighed and lay on the straw pile, feeling that he had never suffered such a crime in his three lives, and he couldn't get up when he fell, and he only felt that his heart hurt in the cracks of his bones.

He rubbed his waist and hummed: "Ah, come and rub my waist for me." ”