Qian Feng was Tao Ran's carefully chosen kidnapping target.
He is the grandson of Qian's eldest family, and the favorite of Mrs. Qian. Only he is the most important to the Qian family.
Especially after Qian Xiang was burned and disabled.
Of the two grandsons in the eldest son's lineage, now there is only one Qian Feng left. There must be no mistake. Mrs. Qian must give an account to her eldest son.
Therefore, only by tying him up can we maximize our benefits.
As for the price of two thousand taels of silver, Tao Ran made it after careful consideration... To her, Qian Feng was worthless, but to Mrs. Qian, this price was nothing compared to her grandson's life. However,
The Qian family's financial situation is not very good recently, and this amount of money is not a small amount for them now...
Time was too tight. In order to get the money together quickly, Mrs. Qian could only choose two shops as mortgages.
However, she was in desperate need of money, so the banker lowered the price of the shops. In the end, she pledged money to three shops and pawned two calligraphy and paintings collected by the old man, and was able to scrape together the money temporarily.
Mrs. Qian is not an ordinary person. She has marked all the two thousand taels of silver notes and made backups. She also reported it to the bank through communication. As long as the banknotes are within the scope of the prefecture, they cannot be redeemed.
Come out. And as long as the gangster dares to cash in, he will be arrested immediately.
Soon, someone came to deliver the letter.
When she opened the letter, Mrs. Qian's heart sank.
As expected, the bandits were quite experienced. They actually asked the Qian family in the letter to exchange all the banknotes they had prepared for gold ingots and pack them into boxes...
"..." Mrs. Qian was so angry! How cunning! In this way, her plan to catch the gangsters using the bank would be impossible to realize. Two thousand taels of silver are hard to get, but they can be exchanged for gold, which is only a small box.
What can be done?
Redeem it!
I sent people around to collect the gold, and found two banks, a pawnshop and several relatives to get the gold together.
Mrs. Qian had not slept well for several days and was already in low spirits. She depended on tonics and sat in the front hall anxiously waiting for news.
Increasingly westward.
A little beggar came to Qian's house, saying he had a message.
The little beggar did not enter the door, but stretched out his hand in front of the door.
"Give me fifty taels of silver, and I will tell you news about the transaction."
"what news?"
He only said: "Time and place."
When the housekeeper heard this, he immediately came to catch the beggar.
"Help!" the beggar screamed, immediately attracting passers-by to watch.
"Forget it if you don't give it to me. Let me go."
The Qian family could only grit their teeth and pay fifty taels of silver.
Only then did they get the news: Half an hour later, at the east intersection of Da'an Street, a person was handed over with one hand and money was handed over with the other. The Qian family could only go with one car and two people at most. Otherwise, they would bear the consequences.
After the beggar explained this, he took the money and ran away.
The housekeeper wanted to ask a few more questions, so he had to chase after him.
On the street, they finally stopped the beggar and asked who had delivered the news? How many people were there? What did they look like and what were they wearing?
The beggar stretched out his hand again.
This time, he asked for thirty taels.
After the unjust money was taken out again, the little beggar told them that it was a man in black who asked him to deliver the news. The man was wearing a bamboo hat and could not see his face. That was all he knew.
Is this information worth thirty taels? Is there any difference if we have this information or not?
"Little beggar! Get the money back!" The butler found nothing, so naturally he was not willing to be fooled. But he also wanted to take the little beggar back for questioning, and gave the old lady an explanation. With a wave of his hand, the servants on the left and right went up to arrest him.
The little beggar turned around and ran away, but the servants were still quick and blocked his way.
As a result, the little beggar was kicked by the housekeeper and rolled to the ground.
The housekeeper went to arrest him, grabbed the little beggar by the back and dragged him towards Qian's house.
Unexpectedly, the next second, a large group of beggars and some passers-by surrounded them, shouting:
"The Qian family is beating people again!"
"Is there any law against beating someone in the street?"
"You can kill even a little beggar, he is nothing!"
"Since the Qian family is so powerful, Yancheng should just change its name to Qian!"
There were scoldings coming one after another, and the housekeeper was a little panicked. Thinking of the Qian family's recent reputation, he was hesitating whether to let go...
His hesitation lasted only half a second, because someone made the choice for him.
Numerous fists and kicks hit him, knocking him to the ground.
The housekeeper and the servants were rolling around on the ground and yelling, attracting more onlookers...
At this time, Tao Ran was also mixed in with the crowd of onlookers.
Naturally, she was the one who found the little beggar and sent a message, she was the one who gave guidance to the beggar to make money, and she was the one who led people to stir up public opinion.
It cost money to find someone to deliver the letter, but she couldn't afford a penny. Naturally, the money had to come from the Qian family. It could not only be used to make people sick, but also help these beggars get out of poverty, and it could also ruin the reputation of the Qian family.
No, it has happened again.
In this way, the Qian family paid out another eighty taels of silver without any reason, but what they got in return were fists and curses. The housekeepers limped back to return to their lives. When the Qian family was busy preparing to redeem the person, "The Qian family
The incident of "many people beating up a ten-year-old beggar in the street" has slowly spread again.
Being rich and unkind is also a point of hatred for many people.
The Qian family's reputation has become a bit bad without realizing it.
On the other side, the Qian family arrived at the designated intersection two-quarters of an hour early.
But they waited for a full hour, and no one came to hand over the matter.
Instead, someone from the Qian family sent a letter, saying that since they failed to follow the instructions, the transaction was cancelled...
Mrs. Qian was so angry that she pushed away the porcelain on the table. Then she became so angry that she fainted again.
It turned out that she had indeed planned the plot secretly.
After knowing the location of the transaction, she asked the powerful servants in the mansion to leave the mansion under various pretexts and found an opportunity to ambush near Da'an Street.
Once the young master comes back from the transaction, they will attack together and vow to take down the robbers in one fell swoop. They must keep the people and money, and they must also punish the bugs in the sewers.
Mrs. Qian thought that their people were very careful and had already disguised themselves and ambush them everywhere, so there was absolutely no chance of being discovered.
But this trading location was carefully chosen by Tao Ran.
Tao Ran arrived at the destination earlier than her people.
The largest private room on the third floor of the tea house at the intersection of Da'an Street has been reserved by Tao Ran for a long time.
Jin Gui and Tao Ran had lived together in the Qian family for a long time, and they had met almost all the servants in the backyard. Jin Gui escaped several times that day, and the group of servants in the front yard of the Qian family who captured her also knew each other.
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So when Tao Ran's telescope searched through the window and found familiar faces at several points on the street corners, she naturally would not take any more risks.
The letter sent again not only canceled the transaction, but also added that since the Qian family failed to carry out the transaction as required, this time the ransom had been increased to 3,000 taels of silver. The transaction would be resumed tomorrow.
She also made a note: Young Master Qian has fallen into a coma. If the Qian family does anything wrong again, even if they pay, they may only receive a corpse.
