Chapter 27 Yun Fu was worried about them

The guards at the city gate saw that Yun Fu and her group were wearing official uniforms. After asking about their identities and the purpose of their entry into the city, they let them in.

"Once you finish your business, leave quickly. I'm afraid the situation in and around the city will be even more chaotic in a few days." The old guard kindly reminded them because they were all working for their superiors.

Yun Fu followed up his question and asked, "What about the Lord of Black City? With so many disaster victims blocking the city gates, doesn't he do anything about it?"

The old guard sighed, "Care? Our city lord doesn't have the energy to care about the lives of these disaster victims right now!"

"Brother, what do you mean?" Jiang Cheng's burning curiosity was also aroused.

"Our city lord has encountered a more difficult problem." The old guard looked around and said in a low voice.

Seeing that he was about to expand on his speech, everyone pricked up their ears.

"We have a river here called the Black Sand River. On this Black Sand River, there is a bandit group called the Black Sand Village! The bandits in the Black Sand Village have been taking advantage of the chaos to rob people and have committed several crimes."

Yun Fu couldn't understand: "Just some pirates, how could they stir up such a big storm and cause such a headache for the lord of a city?"

Jiang Cheng continued, "I've also heard of Black Sand Village. I heard it has five leaders, known as the 'Five Dragons.' These five are all highly skilled in martial arts and adept at naval warfare. They command nearly ten thousand followers and hundreds of modified warships. They are truly a formidable force."

The old guard nodded and said, "You're right. The people in Black Sand Village are not ordinary pirates. Each of those leaders is responsible for hundreds of lives."

Yun Fu frowned and said in a deep voice, "If that's what you said, they should have been committing crimes continuously for years. Why didn't the city lord try to eliminate the bandits earlier, but chose to deal with those pirates at this critical moment? Is there something else going on?"

"This young man is really amazing!" The old guard gave a thumbs up and lowered his voice even more. It seemed as if he was going to tell Yun Fu and the others a huge secret.

"Because, a few days ago, this Black Sand Village kidnapped a big shot!"

"How big a person is he?" Yun Fu was curious. How big a person must he be to give the lord of a city such a headache.

"The most aristocratic family in the northwest—the Cui family, the third son of the Cui family, Cui Lin!"

Cui family? Cui Lin?

Yun Fu, oh, no, it should be that the original owner seemed to have some impression of this person in his memory.

The Cui family is one of the ten great aristocratic families in the Five Kingdoms.

Cui Lin is the only legitimate son of the current head of the Cui family. He was designated as the successor to the next head of the family at birth.

This Third Master Cui has been extremely intelligent since he was young. It is said that he has a handsome face and extraordinary appearance. He also has a nickname, called "Master Linfeng". He was once compared with Qi Hanzhou by the noble ladies in the capital.

Therefore, even though the original owner had always stayed in Shengjing and had never been to the northwest, he had heard of Cui Lin.

The Cui family had some friendship with the Lord of Black City. When a large number of refugees appeared around Black City, the Lord of Black City sent letters to both the Emperor of Shengjing and the head of the Cui family.

Before the emperor received any reply to the urgent letter of 100,000 yuan, the Cui family had already sent Cui Lin with people and supplies to provide disaster relief.

However, no one expected that the bandits from Heisha Village would rob the Cui family’s disaster relief supplies on the waterway and kidnap Cui Lin.

When the pirates found out that Cui Lin was the third son of the Cui family, they demanded a ransom of 10,000 taels.

"It's not silver! It's gold, ten thousand taels of gold." The old guard became more and more excited as he spoke.

Jiang Cheng and several other accompanying yamen runners also listened excitedly.

"I've never seen a fortune in my life!"

"Ten thousand taels of gold, that must be very heavy!"

"So, the city lord is worried because he can't come up with 10,000 taels of gold?"

Yun Fu, on the other hand, remained calm.

She really couldn't get excited about ten thousand taels of gold.

"Even if the city lord can't come up with the ransom, the Cui family can still come up with it. What they're worried about is whether the pirates will really release Cui Lin after getting the ransom."

This is indeed the case. Let alone ten thousand taels of gold, even one hundred thousand taels can be afforded by the Cui family with their strength.

However, they were familiar with the behavior of the pirates in Heisha Village.

In the kidnapping cases that Heisha Village had committed before, no matter whether the families of the kidnapped people paid the ransom or not, basically no one was left alive.

The Lord of Black City was afraid that they would be led by the pirates, and even if they paid a huge ransom, Cui Lin would be killed.

So, now the two sides are still in a stalemate.

At least, in this way, Cui Lin can save his life temporarily.

But it can't be delayed too long. If it is too long, the bandits will lose their patience and may kill Cui Lin in anger to vent their anger.

After listening to the whole story, Jiang Cheng finally came to a conclusion: "After all, the third young master of the Cui family can't escape death. Now it's just a matter of dying sooner or later. What a pity."

Yun Fu's mind moved slightly. She didn't think that the Lord of Black City and the people of the Cui family would just sit there and wait for death.

They must be trying to find a way to rescue Cui Lin.

What if she went to rescue Cui Lin?

Afterwards, the Cui family and the Lord of Black City can focus on disaster relief.

Does that mean that she can indirectly solve the problem of the victims without having to move gold and silver out of the space?

It’s not that Yun Fu was reluctant to move the gold and silver. The gold and silver in the national treasury were originally the wealth hoarded by the dog emperor, so she had no reason to feel bad about using them.

The main thing is that this matter is not that easy to handle.

First of all, the money in the national treasury was marked as official silver. It was impossible for her to take out the gold and silver directly and openly purchase food for disaster relief.

She was afraid that as soon as she took out the gold and silver to spend it, someone would target her.

When the dog emperor saw that silver had been lost from his treasury, anyone with a common sense would have connected the two things together.

Isn't she getting herself into trouble?

She is used to being free and easy on her own, playing however she wants, but that was the Yun Fu of the past. Now, doesn’t she have Qi Hanzhou and three little dumplings by her side?

Yun Fu regained her composure.

Start thinking seriously about rescuing Cui Lin.

Behind Cui Lin is the entire Cui family and the huge network of power behind the Cui family.

The Cui family has deep roots in the northwest. To put it bluntly, even if a dog emperor comes, it may not be better than the Cui family's face.

The place of exile they were going to, the Ghost Prison, was just in the northwest.

In this world, more friends mean more paths.

I'm doing the Cui family a favor. In the future, if Qi Hanzhou and the three little kids encounter any trouble in the Ghost Prison, they might be able to use the Cui family.

No wonder Yun Fu was so worried about them.

After all, Qi Hanzhou doesn't have much else to offer, but he has a lot of enemies!