Chapter 167: Selling Personal Favors
In the past two days, Liu Yifeng has been busy.
Although they defeated Xia Jie's attack, their losses were too great, so big that even if they defeated Liu Yifeng, they couldn't be happy.
"Big Chief, the bodies of the brothers are all arranged." Song Xiance took an account book and looked at it and said, "In addition, according to your intentions, the pension of the victim is probably so much, you can take a look." ”
Regarding the pension of the sacrificed people, Song Xiance was opposed. They are people's husbands, not free people, and in the event of a natural and man-made disaster such as bandit attack and death, they will not be forcibly asked for a pension by the imperial court. But Liu Yifeng insisted on doing it, and he couldn't help it.
Liu Yifeng took the account book and signed it without looking at it.
On the surface, this behavior is to let one's conscience pass, but in essence, it is to buy people's hearts. What is bought is the hearts of the living, such as Li Yunrui and others who are very valued by Liu Yifeng.
"Brother Li, thanks to you, if it weren't for you, we would have died more."
Li Yunrui hurriedly returned the salute, he felt ashamed, after all, he also belonged to Xia Jie's people at the earliest.
Because of Xia Jie's direct capture, Cui Yongzhi is still alive, Li Yunrui knows that he can't hide this from Liu Yifeng, so he generously admitted it directly. Of course, on the surface, he also said that Xia Jie used the excuse of "dealing with the business house that unites with Zhang Bandits" to fool them, and Liu Yifeng came down this step and directly characterized Li Yunrui as law-abiding citizens who were deceived.
"Shopkeeper Liu, how serious is the loss?"
Hearing the word loss, Liu Yifeng's heart was blocked.
More than half of the people were lost, and almost all of the rest of the ordinary people were injured, but fortunately, only a little more than one-third of the total number of people died.
Compared to the people who were not strong in battle, his early team of 30 people was basically the most desperate part of the battle, and the result was the heaviest loss.
Now counting the seriously injured and lying on the bed, there are only 9 people left, of which Kim Seungwoo and Khorge are still in a deep coma. In this environment and the medical ability of this era, the two can only rely on their own bodies to resist, and if they can't resist, it's a dead word.
Liu Yifeng is still leading a team for the first time, and he has the same common problem as countless people who lead a team for the first time, that is, he can't see major losses in the team.
This is something that many people show when they play the game: once someone on the team dies, the first instinct is to read the file.
But in reality, there are no files to read......
Looking at Liu Yifeng's extremely uncomfortable expression, Li Yunrui, who was also leading the team, was very sympathetic, and he remembered that the first team he pulled up was all folded in the primeval jungle of the Nanyang Islands.
"Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood."
After comforting Liu Yifeng, Li Yunrui remembered his real purpose of coming to Liu Yifeng today: "Shopkeeper Liu, I want to ask, what are you going to do with those explorers?" ”
Liu Yifeng knew that Li Yunrui was also the same identity as those explorers at the earliest, and he estimated that Li Yunrui had some rabbits and foxes that hurt them, and wanted to mention them to strive for a good result.
In the final stage, there were 23 explorers who were captured, and it was they who stopped Liu Yifeng and Li Hongji's character assault. There is a blood feud between them and Liu Yifeng, and both sides have relatives and friends who died at the hands of each other.
"According to the original plan, it will be handed over to the Maritime Safety Bureau for processing, and I think the Maritime Safety Bureau is also about to arrive."
Hearing that it would be handed over to the Maritime Safety Bureau for processing, Li Yunrui's mouth opened, but he still didn't say anything. In the end, 4 of the 23 people who were captured had a good relationship with him, and these 4 people were also lone travelers, and they were all good hands. Li Yunrui has known them for a while, and has always wanted to pull them into his team, but he didn't have the opportunity or capital to talk to them before this incident.
Although he has the opportunity to have capital now, the result of testing Liu Yifeng is that he clearly does not want to let go of these people who have a blood feud with him, and Li Yunrui really can't open his mouth to protect those 4 people.
Thinking about it from another perspective, if his brothers lost more than 70% of the losses in the hands of this group of explorers, it is estimated that he would not let them go. Liu Yifeng did not choose to hand over the death penalty to the Maritime Safety Bureau, which is already magnanimous, at least the Maritime Safety Bureau will not betray them to the death penalty.
Liu Yifeng glanced at Li Yunrui, who had a complicated expression, and probably guessed that he wanted to protect some people. He values Li Yunrui very much now, not their ability, no matter how strong his ability is, he can't become his subordinate, Liu Yifeng is not interested.
His own identity is very sensitive, and when the Maritime Safety Bureau comes, he will inevitably pursue his own identity, and he is not ready to consider accepting a free man like Li Yunrui before he completely gets rid of his identity as a minfu. Because even if they find a way to take in these freeman explorers, as long as they wait for the Maritime Administration to start pursuing their identity as people, they will leave decisively.
When the time comes, when he relies on the gold mine to clear his identity again, there will be a gap between the two sides, and it will be difficult to subdue them, so it is better to put them there first, and then find a way to recruit them after he has completely cleared his name.
The real reason why he values Li Yunrui is that this explorer who doesn't know why he chose to betray Xia Jie is the most important witness, who can help him confirm the attack on him by Dongshan Qianzhuang.
Of course, there is also a little gratitude in it, after all, it is not Li Yunrui's defection in the end, they can only retreat, and their side is entangled, Xia Jie has plenty of time to blast the camp gate with the Fran machine cannon. When the time comes, only Song Xiance's camp will not be able to hold it at all.
"Brother Li, but do you have relatives and friends among those 23 people?"
Li Yunrui looked back at Liu Yifeng fiercely, seeing that his eyes were clear, he didn't want to test but asked directly, and sighed a little at Liu Yifeng's character, nodded and said: "Yes, there are 4 people who have been friends for a long time, and these 4 people are not very capable of being evildoers, I think if you can, protect them." ”
These words are proposing a deal to Liu Yifeng.
"Advice, you take Brother Li to meet those captives, and hand over those 4 people directly to him, but be a hidden point, don't let the brothers see it."
"Shopkeeper Liu!"
Li Yunrui was shocked by Liu Yifeng's arrogance, and directly stood up straight and bowed his hand.
Those 4 people are good hands, and they definitely have Liu Yifeng's blood on their hands, but Liu Yifeng said that he would let them go, all because they were the people he wanted to protect. Even if he has a favor that saved Liu Yifeng, but he is at a loss in his heart, he knows very well that this favor is not as heavy as it seems, after all, he was Xia Jie's person from the beginning.
"Brother Li, to be honest, I definitely don't want to let go of those 4 people, but Brother Li's life-saving grace is here, and I have to let them go. I only hope that Brother Li can convince them to take a stand when the Maritime Safety Bureau arrives and not say things that should not be said. ”
"Don't worry, Shopkeeper Liu, it is an indisputable fact that Xia Jie colluded with the remnants of the bandits to attack Shopkeeper Liu. Like me, they were also deceived by Xia Jie at the beginning, and after we found out the truth, they decisively abandoned the darkness and turned to the light. ”
Liu Yifeng nodded, and let the two of them go to catch people.
Two quarters of an hour later, Song Xiance and Li Yunrui came back with 4 people, these 4 people are estimated to have communicated with Li Yunrui in place, and immediately made a big salute after seeing Liu Yifeng, and said in unison: "Thank you for the grace of Shopkeeper Liu not to kill!" ”
Liu Yifeng found that there was an acquaintance among these four people, that is, Ling Huzhong, the "Linghu Hero" who had a relationship when he first arrived in Jinshan City.
"I remember you, senior brother of the Huashan faction."
Linghu Zhong's face was red, including the guilt in the face of Liu Yifeng, and the embarrassment that he had always advertised that he wanted to be the Linghu hero in "The Legend of Huashan Heroes", but he did things to help and abuse him for money, and Liu Yifeng was embarrassed in front of Li Yunrui, his friend and benefactor.
Liu Yifeng didn't know how widely this "The Legend of Huashan Heroes" was in Daming, but everyone else present knew it very well, and they all cast joking glances.
How dare you call yourself a fox hero?
Ling Huzhong couldn't wait to find a crack to get into, but after Song Xiance moved to his ear and whispered, Li Yunrui saw that Liu Yifeng still had important things to do, so he took the four of them to salute again and left first.
After sending the five people away, Liu Yifeng turned his head to look at Song Xiance: "What does that bastard want to talk about?" ”
"He didn't say it, he said that he would only say it if the big boss led you away."
Liu Yifeng narrowed his eyes, nodded to Song Xiance, and the two walked to the room where the prisoners were held.