Otoharu

Chapter 565
The sharp whistle sounded, scaring away a flock of birds in the nearby woods.

The leader and his group waited with bated breath, and finally, a group of people came slowly from the opposite forest.There were eight men in that line, the leader was a man around 40 years old, wearing a blue gown with a piece of cloth tied around his waist. These days, rich families are very particular about their clothes. Although the servants can wear silk, the waist But the cloth silk scarves that can only be tied during the day, the silk ribbons and other belts can only be worn by the master, so the person in charge should be just a manager.And those who followed that man were just men dressed as ordinary servants.

Li Meier could see the identity of the person, and a look of disappointment flashed in her eyes. Could it be that it was only servants who came?No, there should be people, but they didn't come here. These people couldn't have come here on foot. There should be a carriage. The master behind him should be in the carriage now.

Before the group of people entered, Li Meier took a step back indiscriminately, blocked herself with the leader's tall figure, and whispered behind him: "The lord didn't come, the one who came was a steward, you try to make things difficult for them later, bite Dead cannot 'deliver'."

At this time, the leader was trying his best to suppress the anger in his heart, trying not to show hatred on his face, when he heard Ye Xi's words, he nodded slightly to show that he understood.

As soon as the two finished communicating, those people also approached, and stopped three or four meters away from the leader.

The leading middle-aged man fixed his gaze directly on Li Meier who was among the group of people. He seemed to know Li Meier's appearance. After examining her eyes for a while, he nodded and said, "Very well, it's the person we want."

As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately changed the topic and said with displeasure: "Why is it so late, we agreed to trade at noon, right?"

"There were some accidents in the temple, the bamboo forest suddenly caught fire, and we encountered some troubles, so it was too late." The leader tried his best to keep his tone normal, and replied.

The middle-aged man nodded and didn't continue to dwell on the matter. He gestured to the servants behind him and ordered, "Bring me the man."

The servants took orders and were about to step forward, but the leader snorted coldly, and said in a bad tone: "It is agreed to pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand. You want to send people away before I see the money here. Take it away?"

The middle-aged man frowned, as if he didn't want to get entangled with bandits like the leader, took out a bulging kit from his arms, threw it in front of the leader, and said coldly: "There are 500 taels of silver in here, you You can exchange it for cash at any bank in Beijing.”

The leader didn't even look at the bag, and raised his voice dissatisfied: "Didn't I say that I only want gold and silver? If you give me a broken silver ticket, I don't know if I have a chance to exchange it in the city." As for the silver, you must bring the cash here today, otherwise it will be worthless compared to buying and selling, and I will take it away, and when you bring the silver over, we will continue the transaction."

The middle-aged man's frown suddenly became tighter. He knew that the group of thieves on the opposite side were not easy to fool, so after thinking about it for a while, he softened his tone and discussed with them: "Look, we really didn't bring so much cash today. Silver, how about this, you first hand over the person to us, and then you follow our people to the ticket office to exchange for silver taels..."

"Don't talk about it!" The leader yelled angrily, and interrupted him directly, "Don't talk about anything unless you bring the money. If the king of heaven comes, I won't even think about taking people away."

The middle-aged man's face darkened when he saw the leader's arrogant attitude. Although he was just a manager, but according to the Song family's status in the capital's wealthy family, few people would not give him face on weekdays. Today, a bandit Shouting like this, there is also anger in my heart.

He only heard him snort heavily, and said in a cold voice: "Boss Xing, you should think clearly, you know who is behind me, if you are sensible, just obediently hand him over to me, otherwise..."

Before the middle-aged man finished speaking, the threat was already very obvious.

The leader who was originally called Boss Xing was also suppressing his anger and hatred. How could he stand the threat of the middle-aged man at this moment, sneered, didn't say anything, just pulled out the long knife hanging from his waist.

This move of his seemed to send out a signal, and after him, all the bandits showed their weapons, and the bright light of their knives shone under the sun, which was extremely dazzling.

The middle-aged man obviously didn't expect these bandits to be so bold. He seemed to have completely ignored the Song family, and he panicked.

He immediately changed his face again, took a few steps back, and said with an apologetic smile: "Boss Xing, let's have a good talk, why bother to use swords and guns, it's not impossible for you to cash in cash, but I'm here today It's true that I didn't bring that much cash here, and you know that 500 taels of silver should be packed in at least two boxes..."

"Ask her for jewelry of equivalent value." Li Meier, who had been standing behind Boss Xing with her head down, suddenly said in a low voice.

Boss Xing's eyes flickered slightly, and he immediately said in a vicious voice: "If you don't have money, you can use jewelry instead. It's better than your light silver bills."

The middle-aged steward struggled for a while, and subconsciously wanted to refuse, but seeing the big knives shining in the hands of the bandits, he still compromised and said: "Then you wait here for a while, and I will come as soon as I go."

"Hurry up, my time is very precious." Boss Xing stared at the middle-aged steward and threatened impatiently.

The middle-aged steward left quickly with the two servants.But he didn't realize that the thin-looking servant girl in the bandit team had left the team at some point and followed them secretly.

The middle-aged steward walked through the mountain path for a while, and soon came to a clearing by the river, where a carriage was parked at the moment.

The carriage looks very low-key, it is a felt-covered carriage with a blue roof, but the horses pulling the carriage are all very handsome, obviously they are one of a thousand good horses.

There were four burly men standing around the carriage. All of these men had bright eyes and long knives around their waists. They looked very extraordinary.

When they heard the movement coming from the woods, they all looked over with vigilant faces, and put their hands on the handle of the knife at the side of their waists. It was obvious that as long as they saw a suspicious person, they would immediately draw the knife.

When they saw clearly that the person who came was a middle-aged manager, their vigilant eyes finally eased, and they whispered something to the person in the carriage.

Soon, a female voice with a somewhat cold voice slowly asked: "Song Yi, why are you the only one coming back, what about you?" The middle-aged manager Song Yi looked respectful, and immediately replied: "Auntie, the villain is not good at things, That bandit leader is really difficult to deal with, he doesn’t want silver bills, he insists on giving us cash, he won’t let go of what the villain says, and he’s willing to replace it with gold and silver jewelry after the villain has exhausted his saliva.”

The people in the carriage were silent for a while, and then said coldly: "Hmph, I'm still cautious, thinking that our Song family will renege on their debts."

(End of this chapter)