Be a paranoid boss in Tianwen

Chapter 40 The Buddhist Layout of the World (10)

The servants of the Li family were also tightly bound and thrown aside. Seeing that their Patriarch was in a mess, but not injured, they all heaved a sigh of relief.

"What are you going to do to come at me, don't touch my master!"

Zhang Shifang's limbs were tied, and there was no cloth strip in his mouth. He struggled and threw himself in front of Li Maochun and the others, with a dignified posture of protecting the Lord.

Li Maochun was moved by Zhang Shifang's loyalty, fearing that this group of fierce spirits would really hurt this family member who had been with him for decades and was loyal like a brother, he hurriedly shouted:

"Heroes, if you want money, I will give it, as long as you don't hurt my family's life!"

The bandit leader was overjoyed, pushed Zhang Shifang away, and grabbed Li Maochun by the collar:

"really?"

"As long as you don't hurt the lives of my family members and servants, I will give you whatever you want!"

Li Maochun nodded heavily and answered in the affirmative.

When the bandit leader heard this, his eyes became more greedy:

"I didn't expect it to be such a big fish. Well, the people in Wuming Village and your family will cost 1000 taels per person, so I'll let you go!"

"1000 taels?!"

Li Maochun was stunned immediately, where did he get so much money, he thought a few hundred taels would be enough:

"Hero, I don't have so much money, why don't you guys do me a favor, I'll give you 500 taels of all my belongings, can you let us go?"

"500 taels? What about sending beggars? Let me tell you, no matter what you think of, you have to get this much money for me. If you lose one copper coin, I will kill you all!"

The bandit leader threatened viciously, and made a fierce gesture with a knife, which made Li's mother and Yanzhi scream in horror.

Their timidity and fear pleased the bandit leader who laughed. Having played enough, he left Li Maochun with a three-day deadline to raise money, and left laughing with a machete on his shoulder.

Nan Xing looked at the direction he was leaving calmly, not going to the village.

As soon as the bandit leader left, his subordinates pushed the Li family and several other people in the village who had survived the fire into custody in the Earth Temple not far from the village.

In the earth temple, Yan Zhi shrank beside Nan Xing in horror, Li's mother was also very scared, and Li Maochun kept comforting her.

Zhang Shifang's forehead accidentally fell while leading the Li family to find a way out, so he knocked out blood. Li Maochun was very worried about this:
"Shifang, is your head okay?"

His head hurt a little, but seeing that Li Maochun's attitude towards him changed greatly, like a relative, Zhang Shifang was secretly proud:
"Master, this old slave is not in the way. This old slave is useless. He can't even fight a few bandits. If you can save the old master and you guys, even if you lose the old slave's life, the old slave will be willing and never hesitate!"

Li Maochun's heart was even more moved, and there were tears in his eyes when he looked at Zhang Shifang.

Unexpectedly, he was so loyal: "Shifang..."

Zhang Shifang had tears in his eyes: "Master..."

Nanxing: "..."

What the hell is this plot development.

I don't know, I thought what Li Xiuyuan's father was going to do with this white-eyed wolf butler!
"Cough cough, excuse me, father, just now the bandit leader said that one person would pay 1000 taels. How much money does our family have?"

Nan Xing finally couldn't bear the development of this bloody plot at eight o'clock, and interrupted the nasty atmosphere with two dry coughs.

Li Maochun was in a dilemma:

"There are only more than 500 taels. Even if we sell all the cultural relics and antiques collected over the years, it is only 1000 taels."

At most, only one person can be redeemed.

As soon as he said this, before Nan Xing said anything, the villagers who had their rags taken from their mouths cried out in panic:
"Good man, save me, save me!"

"Save me, save me!"

"help me!"

Li Maochun's face was pale, and he didn't know how to respond.

At this moment, he actually had a heavy feeling that these dozens of lives were tied to him alone.

Lowering his head slightly, Nan Xing sneered silently, only Yan Zhi saw it.

Seeing that she noticed, Nan Xing gave her a gentle smile, then put away the sarcasm in his eyes, raised his head, his gaze passed Zhang Shifang lightly, and then asked:
"Why didn't I see the village chief, couldn't it be - died?"

His gaze was neither serious nor serious, and the three words "died" fell into Zhang Shifang's ears, with a vague sense of narrowness.

Zhang Shifang's heart jumped suddenly, his plan was discovered?

Frightened, he unconsciously looked towards Nanxing.

Can--

Nan Xing's gaze was no longer on him, his complexion was as usual, there was no abnormality, the glance just now seemed to be just a random glance.

Is he really thinking too much?
Only then did Li Maochun remember the village head, and seeing that there was indeed no village head among the tied villagers, his face was already pale, let alone a trace of blood.

Rouge, who had been hiding in Nan Xing's arms, heard that Li Maochun could only raise less than 1000 taels of silver, and just about to take the initiative to ask, she proposed to write a letter back to Lu's family to borrow money, and she could sell the dowry she brought at that time, such as several The shop was stopped by Nan Xing's gaze.

Although puzzled, he swallowed the words that came to his lips.

outside
The bandit leader returned to the mountain, playing with the two carts of jewels and silver that he had robbed at night, his fierce face was all smiles:

"Haha, I really got rich this time, Zhang Shifang really didn't lie to me!"

He was an imperial convict, and later fled to the big mountain near Wuming Village, and took in several villains who were also imperial convicts, and then developed his own power on the mountain.

Then, he lured young people from Wuming Village out of the village and killed them. Finally, he coerced and lured the only old and weak women and children left in Wuming Village to be his bait.

Because there were too many victims, everyone panicked, so the government sent people to investigate, but seeing that Wuming Village was full of old and weak women and children who were powerless, they shifted the direction of investigation and stopped suspecting Wuming Village.

After the excitement, the bandit leader remembered Zhang Shifang's words conveyed by his subordinates last night, and couldn't help but slapped the table angrily:
"Those old people, with a way of making money in front of them, have no conscience with me. Hmph, I will have to find someone to be a bait again!"

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On the other side, Li Maochun was still thinking about how to raise money with a sad face, but Zhang Shifang kept looking at Yanzhi.

He knew how rich Rouge's dowry was, and even more how much money those shops could sell, but he waited and waited, but he couldn't wait for Yanzhi to open her mouth.

Finally, Zhang Shifang couldn't hold back any longer, glanced at Yanzhi again, and said tentatively:
"Master, the young lady's natal family is in business, or—"

"Shut up, don't let those bandits hear such words!"

After Li Maochun let out a stern cry of fright, he glanced towards the door in horror, seeing that the bandits guarding outside seemed not to have heard him, so he lowered his voice and said:

"These bandits are vicious and greedy. If you let them know that the young lady's family is in business, they don't know what they will do!"

(End of this chapter)