Several soldiers with tiger-shaped flags were busy weighing silver. Zhang Sanchao picked up his pipe and started smoking.

A ingot of silver was moved around and weighed the portion.

When the last wooden box passed the scale, the soldiers who weighed the silver returned to Zhang Sancha and said, "The deputy commander, the amount of silver is correct, and there is no black-hearted silver."

After saying that, he stood aside.

"Since the money is fine, I won't disturb Mr. Cao. Take the money with me and let's go." Zhang Sanchao stood up from the seat, walked out with a pipe in his mouth.

The Cao family master hurriedly got up from the bench, carefully accompanied him, and personally sent Zhang Sancha and others away.

Boxes of silver were moved out of Cao's house.

Zhang Sancha rolled over the horse, turned around and said to the Master Cao's master, "Mr. Cao doesn't need to send it away, go!"

As soon as he urged the war horse under his crotch, he left straight with the soldiers.

The Cao family master standing on the stone steps outside the Cao family's door watched Zhang Sancha and others leave before retracting his gaze.

"Master, these bandits are not bad. They are obviously money from several families, so why can we get the money from our family?" Mr. Cao said hatefully.

The Cao family master snorted and said, "I am a fish and meat for others. You can't see it today. If I don't give money, they will really dare to confiscate the master's house."

"A group of bandits who cannot be put on the table will sooner or later the imperial army will wipe out them." Mr. Cao cursed.

The Cao family's master said with a look of pain: "What's the use of saying this? Even if the imperial army recovered Datong City, I will lose 20,000 taels of silver, which is 20,000 taels!"

With a big family like the Cao family, it was very difficult to get 20,000 taels of silver at once.

Although the Cao family's family business is more than 20,000 taels, it is more about land deeds and house deeds. As long as you can buy land, you will exchange silver for fields. Only the silver that cannot be spent will be cast into large silver ingots and

Store the silver melons.

"We shouldn't pay this money for each family. Should we arrange for a small person to inform the other companies and ask them to make up for the money?" Mr. Cao comforted.

With so much money, he will never make any money in his lifetime.

Although he was just a servant of the Cao family, he also empathized with the Cao family's loss of 20,000 taels of silver.

The Cao family's master showed a sharp look and said, "You are right. At the beginning, they took the initiative to ask the master to discuss the purchase of peace among the merchants with silver. Now that the gangsters are asking for money, they must pay the money."

"Don't worry, Master, I'll go door to door and ask them for money." Butler Cao agreed solemnly.

The Cao family nodded and said, "Yes, go now, so that they won't admit their conscience if they are delayed for a long time. Bring more servants. The city is in chaos, don't let someone rob it, go and do it."

"Master, don't worry, I'll do it for you." Butler Cao responded and turned back to the yard to prepare for money to go to other gentry's houses.

The Cao family was helping her servants and was returning to the yard.

But when he saw the miserable situation of his two doors, he snorted angrily: "Look for the two best carpenters and repair the door of his home."

"I understand little." The servant next to me responded respectfully.

The Cao family master walked into the yard with satisfaction.

Not long after, Butler Cao left the Cao family with ten servants and servants, and accompanied them with a dozen horses and a cart.

There were no pedestrians on the street, and even small vendors who usually do business could not see them. There were no stalls on the street. Manager Cao and others walked on the road and felt desolate.

On the street where there are not many pedestrians, the servant Cao and the servants he brought were extremely conspicuous on the street, and they can be seen from a distance. More importantly, although there are no pedestrians on the street, there are soldiers with tiger flags.

Search for officers and soldiers in the city along the street.

"Everyone in front of you, stop!"

Manager Cao and others were rushing to go when they heard someone behind them calling them to stop.

If someone dared to shout like this in normal times, he would have been rude, but he knew that today was different from the past. It was no longer the government's decision in Datong City, but a group of bandits.

Turning around, he found that the rioters in the city were calling him.

"Several military officials, I wonder if there is anything wrong with calling the young man?" Mr. Cao smiled in front of the tiger flag fighter.

The sergeant among the soldiers of the Tiger Flag asked, "Which family are you from? Don't you know the street clean? Idiots can't wait to go to the street."

"The young one is from the Cao family. Go out to do something and help the military master to be friendly." Butler Cao poured out a few taels of silver from his cuff and stuffed it into the other party's hand.

The sergeant put his hands back, his face turned cold, and said, "What are you going to do? Put away the silver."

"I'll ask Jun Ye to be friendly." Butler Cao thought it was too little, so he poured out a piece of silver from his cuff and handed it over.

The sergeant pushed away the hand of Manager Cao and immediately said, "You guys go out privately and are temporarily detained. From now on, they will all follow me. If there is any resistance, they will be killed on the spot."

When I talked about the next two sentences, the murderous intent was terrifying.

Manager Cao paused.

Unexpectedly, Qiu Babai didn't even want to give money.

"Go away quickly." The sergeant saw that Butler Cao was the leader and pushed the other party with his hand.

Butler Cao's face became less beautiful.

This made him come out of the Cao family to help his master go to other families to ask for money. Unexpectedly, he walked out of the house without two streets and was detained by the gangsters in the city.

Faced with the muskets aimed at the rioters, Guanjia Cao and the subordinates of the Cao family did not dare to resist at all, and were escorted away honestly.

The Cao family master was waiting at home for the housekeeper to get the money back. He waited until dark and no one came back, let alone the money back.

He was so worried that the housekeeper would run away with the money.

The housekeeper has followed him for many years. From the previous generation, he has been a slave to their Cao family. Later, he married a maid from the Cao family and his son was also a slave to the Cao family's young master.

Now that the other party is in the Cao family, he doesn't believe that his housekeeper will be a fugitive slave.

One night passed.

It was bright outside and the Cao family master sat up from the bed.

When! When! When! When! When!

A soft knock came from outside the door.

"What's the matter?" the Cao family's master asked in a faint tone.

The person outside the door replied: "Master Qi, the housekeeper and the servants who went out yesterday have all returned."

"What? I'm back, bring the housekeeper to see me." When the Cao family heard the news that someone was back, they asked the maid waiting outside the door to serve him to wash up.

Not long after, the housekeeper was taken outside the bedroom door.

The Cao family rinsed his mouth, cleaned his face with silk cloth, handed the silk cloth to the maid to the maid, and then said to the butler outside the bedroom: "What did you do yesterday? Why didn't you come back all night?"
Chapter completed!