Yundian Marquis Mansion.

After Zhang Mazi received the news from a family who was running errands outside, he found Qianfeng in a hurry.

At this time, Qianfeng was being served by the maid to eat, and he saw Zhang Mazi walking quickly outside.

Swallowing the rice in his mouth, Qianfeng asked: "Zhang Mazi, if you don't eat at this point, why are you rushing to me here?" ”

Zhang Mazi bowed, and then replied: "Master Hou, just now when I was having dinner, a brother came back and told me that when he was out on errands, he saw Liang Cheng and Luo Zhengyan coming out of a teahouse!" ”

"Huh?"

Qianfeng was a little puzzled, he didn't know how these two people hooked up together, and it was not a good thing to think about it, so he said: "It's not a good thing for these two wastes to get together!" You can arrange for people to keep an eye on these two people for Ben Hou now, and come back and report to me if there is any trouble!" ”

"Okay, Master Hou, I'll go!"

Zhang Mazi saluted again, turned around and left, and went to do what Qianfeng instructed.

……

Following.

At noon, a subordinate came to Zheng Yun's room in a panic.

"Oh no! Master, the news just came back that the caravan of our Hou Mansion was attacked by bandits! The caravan was attacked in the area of Zijun Mountain, and the group of fifty people who went there lost nearly half!! ”

Hearing this news, Zheng Yun was extremely shocked!

There are serious bandits in southern Yunnan, so the Hou Mansion convoy always travels in large groups, and also makes conspicuous marks on the caravan to show that the caravan is under the command of the Yundian Marquis Mansion, and under this protection, the caravan of the Yundian Marquis Mansion is difficult to attack.

Zheng Yun never expected that there would be an accident!

After the shock, Zheng Yun hurriedly asked, "What about the rest of the people?" And what about the goods?? ”

The subordinate replied: "The caravan was attacked last night, but it happened that it met the soldiers of Yunnan Province, they came to the rescue, and all the people who are still alive are now in Yunnan Province, as for the goods, the bandits took a small part, most of them are in Yunnan Province." ”

Hearing this, Zheng Yun was even more worried, this person and goods are now in Yunnan Mansion, and it is not so easy to come back.

"I see, you go down."

Zheng Yun let out a long sigh and waved his hand to let his subordinates leave.

After a while, another maid came to report, saying that the soldiers of Southern Yunnan Mansion were coming and wanted to see Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun looked displeased, but when she thought that the Yunnan Mansion had saved the people of the caravan, she summoned her to come in.

"The villain Li Ergou has seen the county lord!"

The Yunnan Mansion soldier first saluted, and then said: "I saved your caravan from Yunnan Mansion last night, and I was ordered to come today!" ”

Zheng Yun's eyes were a little tired, and she asked, "Thank you Zhou Chaozheng for me, my caravan from the Marquis of Yundian, and the goods, when do you plan to send them back?" ”

Li Ergou was arrogant, and replied to the question: "Although my southern Yunnan government soldiers helped this time, this group of bandits was very fierce, resulting in very heavy losses to the government soldiers!" Many brothers in the southern Yunnan Prefecture were seriously injured, and several brothers were killed by gangsters, but they are pitiful for the old and ......the young."

"What do you mean by the Southern Yunnan Mansion?" With a wave of her hand, Zheng Yun had displeasure on her face, and she didn't want to hear the other party cry anymore.

"Hehe, what we adults mean is to ask the Hou Mansion to contribute a sum of money for the treatment of the injured soldiers, as well as a pension for the dead soldiers!"

Li Ergou was no longer subtle, and asked directly.

Hearing this, Zheng Yun had anger on her face, and guessed that this person from the Southern Yunnan Mansion must not be kind!

But being angry is angry, Zheng Yun is like a mirror in her heart, she knows very well that if she doesn't give this money today, it will be impossible for anyone in her team to come back from Yunnan Mansion.

Glaring at this Li Ergou, Zheng Yun turned his head and instructed the maid beside him: "You go to the account room, take a hundred taels of silver, and bring it back to this Li Ergou." ”

"Got it, master, slave and maid are going."

Before the maid took two steps, Li Ergou said with an embarrassed face: "County Lord, this hundred taels may not match the number ordered by the military advisor before I came, after all, the people in the Yundian Marquis Mansion are also injured a lot, and they also need to spend money on treatment!" ”

Zheng Yun asked with a dark face: "Then you say, it costs a few hundred taels?" ”

Li Ergou replied: "What the military advisor ordered was, one thousand taels of silver!" Otherwise, there may not be much left in the fleet? ”

"A thousand taels?! Why don't you go and grab it?! ”

In the face of this blatant blackmail, Zheng Yun was so angry that his teeth itched!

Li Ergou looked aggrieved, he said: "The county lord is angry, this is all the order of the military advisor, and the villain is just here to pass on a word." ”

Helpless, Zheng Yun had no other way but to make a compromise, he said to the maid: "Go and get a thousand taels!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Qianfeng, who also received the news, walked in, and he immediately stopped: "Uncle, I can't agree to this matter!" ”

"Luo Zhengyan wants a thousand taels! This is pure blackmail! Uncle, you can't say yes! ”

Immediately afterwards, Qianfeng glared at Li Ergou angrily and scolded: "You dog-legged, get out of the Hou Mansion immediately!" Tell the person who instructed you to come that the Hou Mansion will not give this money, and the people of the Hou Mansion will also send it back completely! ”

Qianfeng drank angrily. Li Ergou was also frightened, he was just a messenger, and after the letter was delivered, he didn't want to lose his life because of this.

was yelled at by Qianfeng, he quickly turned around and ran out!

As soon as the person left, Zheng Yun's face was gloomy, and she couldn't help but scold: "Feng'er, what do you want to do?" Do you know that if our Yundian Marquis Mansion doesn't come up with this money, the goods of the caravan will not be able to come back like people! Go and call me back, and if they want the money, give it to them. ”

Qianfeng shook his head and said, "Uncle, the more you indulge them, the more arrogant they will become, and they will slowly climb on your head!" Please rest assured, the goods and manpower of our Yundian Marquis Mansion will come back safe and sound, and I have a way to solve this matter without spending money! ”

"Resolved? How can you fix it? ”

Zheng Yun was a little curious, she didn't want to be blackmailed for a thousand taels of silver so aggrieved, if Qianfeng could find a way to solve it, she was willing to give it a try.

Qianfeng said calmly: "Uncle, how can this Yunnan Mansion pass by our caravan so appropriately, and then save our people just right?" ”

Zheng Yun thought about it carefully, and suddenly lost her voice: "You mean, these bandits were all arranged by their Southern Yunnan Mansion?!!! ”

Qianfeng nodded, yesterday the spies reported that Liang Cheng led people to travel at night and returned early in the morning of the next day, and they still had some blood stains on their bodies, obviously after a fight, and then the direction they went to was roughly the same as the place where the Houfu caravan was killed.

As soon as he received the news that the caravan had been attacked, Qianfeng concluded that this must be Luo Zhengyan's deliberate set-up, and as for the so-called bandits, it was very likely that Jin Wuwei led by Liang Cheng pretended to be!