Aunt Fang gritted her teeth and said, "Of course I won't ask the Ren family for this money! My brothers from my mother's family left me a private sum of money at Guangli Bank, about ** hundred taels of silver, and I originally wanted to add to my daughter's dowry."
Aunt Fang took out a small seal from her purse and handed it to the man in black. "Take this seal to Guangli Money House and tell the shopkeeper, 'Old Madam Bian is ill. Third Bian is here to get some money to buy medicine for her.' The shopkeeper will then give you the money."
The man in black took the seal and examined it. It was an ordinary wooden seal with no words engraved on it, only a simple pattern. This pattern was very similar to the knot he had tied on the hemp rope he had untied from the crooked tree.
The man in black knew there was something fishy about the seal, but he didn't show it. He just raised an eyebrow and asked, "Mrs. Bian? Who is that? Neither your husband's family nor your mother's family has the surname Bian?"
Aunt Fang said, "My mother's surname is Bian. This is a code word agreed upon by my brothers. After all, it would be bad if others knew that a concubine like me had such a large sum of money in private."
The man in black nodded, put the seal into his lapel, and said, "Okay, let's go back to the car."
Aunt Fang said, "Just leave us here and we'll find a way back."
The man in black chuckled and said, "Who said I'm going to let you go?"
Aunt Fang's face changed when she heard this: "Didn't you just promise to let me go after I paid you the money?"
The man in black bared his white teeth and said viciously, "I promised? How could I not remember? Besides, you're trading your credibility with a bandit. Isn't that laughable?"
Aunt Fang refused to give up and said, "If I disappear, the old lady of the Ren family will send people out to look for me because of my family's reputation. You won't have a good time then!"
The man laughed and said, "You still want to threaten me now? You're really capable! But who said we kidnapped you? Even your maid said you ran away on your own? You yourself fled because you harmed someone and your crime was exposed. Why can't the Ren family explain it to the Fang family?"
Aunt Fang and Nanny Yu were both shocked when they heard this.
Nanny Yu pointed at the man in black and said, "You... are shameless!"
Aunt Fang opened her mouth to say something, but the man in black refused to give her a chance to speak. He slashed at her with his palm. Aunt Fang felt a sharp pain on the side of her neck, then her eyes turned black and she fainted.
The man in black showed no mercy to the woman, and Aunt Fang's head hit the door of the carriage hard.
Then Nanny Yu was also knocked unconscious by the man in black.
The three people who had walked away before ran over again.
The young man jumped over and surrounded the man in black, saying happily: "Brother, what did she say to you? Why did she send us away and not let us hear? I just saw her giving you something. What was it? What was it? Why didn't she tell me before?" As he said that, he was about to take something out of the man in black's arms.
The man in black avoided him and knocked him on the forehead: "Stop making trouble, go back first!"
The other two men continued to tease the boy, "Your hair hasn't grown out yet, so she naturally won't give you the good stuff! She gave it to Big Brother because he's the best looking!"
The young man retorted, "No wonder she said she would give me fifty taels of silver and jewelry, but gave you nothing and even refused to be knocked unconscious by you. Now you know how shabby you are?"
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