Chai Shijing's wound was not inflamed, so Imperial Physician Hang took out his own medicine and bandaged Chai Shijing again with a salute.
After applying the medicine and taking the pulse, Imperial Physician Hang gave a few instructions and left. He did not ask how Chai Shijing was injured. Firstly, this was not his business; secondly, he had lived in the capital for a long time and could probably guess who did it.
Chai Shijing did not ask anyone to investigate the assassination. He only ordered Yi Li to call the city guards to clean up the bodies of the men in black.
The partners of Heshun Trading Company were organized by He Yifan, so he became the contact person among the five people.
The He family had been operating in Anzhou for many years, and everyone trusted He Yifan's character. Therefore, the company's office address was chosen to be in one of the He family's houses.
After entering the gate, He Yifan introduced: "This house has three entrances, a back house at the entrance, three reinforced warehouses, and many rooms in the yard..."
The house is very suitable, without any fancy design, but it has high walls, a large warehouse, and quite a few rooms.
Everyone was satisfied. Zuo Bai said, "Master Kang, with so much silver stored here, we'll have to trouble the brothers from Qingping Village to guard it."
Kang Yueran raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Let my people guard it? Aren't you afraid that I'll take it for myself?"
Meng Dechang laughed heartily. "How could that be? Since we are partners, we should trust each other."
This was a decision made after the four of them discussed it. He Yifan was willing to guarantee Kang Yueran, and the other three felt that they couldn't afford to offend Kang Yueran, so they decided to make things more formal.
The partners all agreed, and Kang Yueran didn't refuse. "I'll send thirty people over to look after the door this afternoon. My brothers have strength but no brains, so I'll have to trouble you with the clerical and math work." Since they were a partnership, she couldn't take on too much.
The four masters are not short of people and are very willing to place their own people in the business.
After finding a good place, everyone went home to prepare manpower and money, and came back in the afternoon with them.
Kang Yueran's silver was in the space. She went to the foot of Qingping Mountain, took out five boxes of gold and asked Baihu to help her watch over them, and she went back to the mountain to call people.
The people were picked out by Niu Dayan. Kang Yueran looked at them one by one and found that there was no problem.
After counting everyone, she suddenly remembered one more thing, which was He Yifan's 30,000 taels of silver.
She went to Li Hu's residence and said to him lying on the bed, "Tu Da and his men kidnapped Mr. He and demanded 30,000 taels of silver. Where is the silver?"
Li Hu played dumb and said, "How would I know where the silver is? Since it was Tu Da who collected the silver, you can go ask Tu Da."
There were only the two of them in the room, so Kang Yueran didn't need to be respectful. "Tu Da is dead, so I can't ask him. But your treasure is still there. Do you want me to mobilize all the brothers in Qingping Village to help you find it?"
"I don't have any treasure, don't talk nonsense."
Kang Yueran thought to herself that you really don’t have any treasure now, “We’ll know if we look for it.”
She stood up and made to leave. "I'll go tell Mr. He that when I find your treasure, I'll pay him back double for you. You can rest now!"
"Stop! I told you I don't have any treasure. What on earth are you trying to do by mobilizing so many people?"
Kang Yueran looked Li Hu from head to toe and said sarcastically, "I'm here to pay off your debt! You've been robbing people your whole life, and now you're lying in bed unable to move. Isn't this retribution?"
Li Hu, don't be so stingy. You robbed so much money. If you gave more to your brothers, this disaster might not have happened.
I have things to do and don't have time to argue with you. Are you going to give me the 30,000 taels of silver, or let me go find the treasure? Let me make it clear, if the treasure is found, it will belong to Qingping Manor, not yours.
Li Hu was so angry that he was gasping for breath. It turned out that at least he still had Xu Chang's family loyal to him. Now, Xu Jiushi was in the same mind with Kang Yueran.
"I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. I did hide the gold. Kang Yueran, if you find my two sons, I'll give you half of the gold. How about it?"
Li Hu was willing to give half of the gold for his son, which moved Kang Yueran a little.
She sighed, "I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. After clearing the bodies from Qingping Mountain and Baitou Mountain and not finding your two sons, Xu Jiushi sent people to the capital to look for your sworn brother.
Your brother-in-law said that he had not seen your two sons or your experience. After hearing about it, your brother-in-law just told you to take care of yourself and sent you back.
Xu Jiushi was afraid you would be sad, so he didn't even tell his father about this. I only found out about it later. Li Hu, please do some good deeds for your two sons!
Li Hu suddenly lost his temper and turned his face towards the inside of the bed. He knew in his heart that his two sons were probably no longer alive. Otherwise, after so much time, there should be news.
Li Hu's tears flowed from the corners of his eyes to his ears. Although he gave gifts to his brother every year, they had not seen each other for many years and they had become estranged.
Not sure if he was speaking to himself or Kang Yueran, he roared, "My son must still be alive!"
It's good to have hope. "Okay, your son is still alive! Then I'll send someone to your storehouse to carry the silver."
Li Hu's voice trembled a little, "Get out!"
Since he didn't say not to lift it, that meant he tacitly agreed. "Okay, you can take a rest!"
After carrying the silver, Kang Yueran led his men down the mountain in a donkey cart, went to the place where Baihu was guarding, took the gold and went to the city.
She was afraid that the white tiger would scare people, so she let it go up the mountain to play with the wolf king.
When they arrived at the house, He Yifan was ordering people to replace the plaque at the door. The new plaque had two big words written on it: Harmony and Shun.
Kang Yueran smiled and said, "Master He, you are really quick!"
If you pay enough, of course it will be fast! "No, the plaque has been delivered, it will save you the trouble of hanging it up quickly!"
He gestured for invitation, "The other three are already here, and we're waiting for you. Come on, I'll take you in!"
The group arrived at the door of the largest warehouse in Heshunyuan, and the three masters were also there.
Kang Yueran asked someone to put down the silver and said, "I brought 10,000 taels of gold, and the other 30,000 taels of silver belong to Mr. He."
He Yifan explained, "It was the thirty thousand taels of ransom Tu Da demanded when he kidnapped Jin Yang and me. After Tu Da's death, Liao Changsheng kept pressuring us to donate. Miss Kang thought it would be better to leave it with Li Da's family and collect it later because it would have to be inspected by the yamen runners before being transported into the city."
When they first heard He Yifan praise Kang Yueran as a beautiful flower, Meng Dechang and the other two thought that He Yifan was deliberately glorifying his savior.
After hearing this, I realized that Kang Yueran is indeed good.
Thirty thousand taels of silver was no small sum, and with the Tu brothers dead, she was the head of Qingping Mountain. She could have swallowed the money with any excuse, but she still took it out.
The three of them exchanged glances, all with smiles in their eyes. In a partnership, not being greedy is indeed a good quality.
A steward brought a scale and started weighing the silver. It was tentatively decided that each family would first invest 100,000 taels of silver.
The other four are silver, only Kang Yueran is gold.
Now that the money is in place, the next step is personnel arrangements and food reserves.
Kang Yueran glanced at the crowd and saw that they all looked eager to try, so he decided not to say anything more.
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