Chapter 55: A New Threat
Seeing that Jiang Chen didn't say anything for a long time, Lin Rou stretched out her slender five fingers and gave her price.
"As long as you do what I say, I will give you five thousand taels of silver when the deed is done, how about it?"
Jiang Chen shook his head indifferently.
"Okay, you're more greedy than I thought, so I'll add another five thousand taels to give you a total of ten thousand taels, right?"
"Of course not enough."
Jiang Chen explained: "Don't bother with this, I just said that the business I want to do with your father is not just 10,000 taels of silver, so I said that I have to talk to your father." ”
"Isn't it just a business? Don't give money for free, you have to do business, I really don't know if you are stupid, or too self-righteous! ”
Lin Rou became more and more incomprehensible to Jiang Chen, and she even doubted in her heart, had Jiang Chen seen with her own eyes what ten thousand taels of silver looked like?
After some haggling, Jiang Chen finally agreed, but he still had one more precondition, that is, Lin Rou had to say the reason why he didn't want to go home.
"It's not because my father forced me to get married, I told him that I don't look down on that gentleman, he has to go his own way, then it's no wonder I ran away from home!"
Lin Rou's answer surprised Jiang Chen, he knew that the marriage between the Lin family and the Shi family was the focus of the entire Ziyang City at present, but I believe that many people, like him, would not have thought that Lin Rou, one of the original protagonists, would resist this marriage so much.
If this is the case, the news of Lin Rou's sudden disappearance will inevitably cause shock to the whole city, and it is impossible to say what the Lin family will react to at that time.
I always feel that agreeing to Lin Rou is equivalent to stabbing a hornet's nest, and it is completely asking for trouble for myself, but Jiang Chen is also unhappy with Shi Guangjun, a child of an official family who has no one in his eyes, if he can use this matter to slap this kid's face, it would be a pleasant thing.
At dawn the next day, the Lin Mansion received a note, and they successfully found the three corpses in the dense forest and the mole tied to the tree according to the location marked on it.
After interrogation, Lin Xuesong, who was extremely anxious in his heart, only learned about what happened last night, and now they couldn't find Lin Rou and the carriage, and the entire Lin Mansion exploded.
"Yu Hong, where is the eldest lady, you'd better recruit from the truth, otherwise you should know what the fate will be!"
The housekeeper of the Lin Mansion not only threatened, but also planned to torture him, but Yu Hong really didn't know where Lin Rou had gone after he was beaten unconscious last night.
He truthfully confessed that there was a man with a mysterious identity who was with Lin Rou and didn't know anything else.
Lin Xuesong immediately mobilized the manpower in the house, even if he turned the inside and outside of Ziyang City upside down, he had to find his daughter back, but he didn't know that this night's work, Jiang Chen had already taken Lin Rou away.
Since the people of the Lin family could not be found, then Lin Rou naturally could not appear near Ziyang City, Jiang Chen simply took Lin Rou back to Guanshan Town, which was just an inconspicuous remote town, and no one would have thought that the eldest lady of the Lin family would actually hide here.
"The room has been cleaned up for you, and the bedding is also new, of course, the conditions here are not as good as the Lin Mansion, so you can be wronged for the time being."
Jiang Chen handed Lin Rou a set of simple clothes and told her to change them as soon as possible.
Lin Rou said with disgust on her face: "What is this, you let me wear this?" ”
"The girls in our town are all wearing this kind of clothes, and the brocade clothes on your body are too conspicuous here, a fool can guess that you are the eldest lady of a rich family, do you want to leak the news so soon?"
"Also, don't get dirty, this is our family Yue'er's clothes, and I'm reluctant to wear them for you!"
"You!"
Lin Rou bit her lip lightly, and was so angry that Jiang Chen jumped to her feet, although she was very resistant in her heart, she could only accept it helplessly.
At this moment, Jiang Chen's expression suddenly became alert, and his eyes were extremely cold, and then five people came from a distance, with some kind of unusual aura.
The man at the head was short and stocky, and the four companions standing behind him were all tall and burly.
Although the five of them were wearing civilian clothes, the straight knife tied around their waists was particularly eye-catching.
Jiang Chen saw that they were not from the Lin Mansion, but came for Wu Da and the others before, and he didn't know if they had any tangible evidence in their hands, so they suddenly appeared in front of the Wu family without warning, which made people feel uneasy.
"Who are you looking for?"
At present, only Lao Wu is at home, and as soon as he meets these people, the atmosphere suddenly becomes tense.
"Don't be nervous, I have several colleagues who died on Hutou Mountain not long ago, and they were tracking down the absconding traces of a felon, and happened to come to an abrupt end when they found you."
"Now that they are a hundred dead, this matter has fallen on my head, and I have to check it for them, and by the way, I have to help them take revenge, do you think this is the truth?"
Lao Wu said calmly: "Those military masters tortured me for no reason, and they really wronged a good person, so don't waste time on an inconspicuous butcher." ”
"Zhao Sili, there is no one else in this house, he should be at home alone."
Just as the two were talking, the others directly searched the Wu family, but fortunately, Wu Yue went to the river to wash clothes, and Wu Qingshan was not at home at this time, which saved unnecessary trouble.
Jiang Chen stared closely at what was happening in front of the Wu family's courtyard, but just now Old Wu glanced at him and signaled him not to act rashly.
Now Jiang Chen is worried that this short man may not be so easy to fool the past, Wu Da and the three of them died in his hands, of course he can't put Lao Wu in danger and sit idly by.
"Wu Kuishan, I also inquired with the people in the town before I came, and they said that you are an honest person. But you have been killing pigs and sheep all year round, and you are very angry, and you may learn to kill people by killing and killing. ”
"My lord said that I was just a timid and afraid of ordinary people, and I would never dare to do anything like a traitor."
This Zhao Sili walked slowly in front of Lao Wu, and when the latter bowed to him, he suddenly pushed Lao Wu to the ground from behind, and then pulled out the straight knife on his waist and slashed down.
Jiang Chen was shocked, and with a clear sound, the straight knife hit the grinding disc on the side, and finally did not fall on Lao Wu.
It's just that this knife can really scare people out of a cold sweat, the blade is only half an inch away from Lao Wu, and if it is a little bit higher, it will inevitably kill people.
"Wu Kuishan, if you fought back just now, you would be dead by now."