Then Wan Songbai added, "I was tricked into this boat by Yu Zhenqiang. This guy can abandon me today, and he can abandon you tomorrow!"
But Lady De'an is different. She's always been generous to her own people. If I hadn't been tricked into this situation by Yu Zhenqiang, I would never have gone against her. Everyone who followed her made money, and their whole family is living a good life!
Wan Songbai knew he was in grave danger and was thinking of tricking Yu Zhenqiang. He also wanted to take the opportunity to curry favor with Yang Cui, since his family of four was in her hands and he hoped she would show leniency.
Upon hearing Wan Songbai's words, Madam Wan immediately chimed in, "Yes, yes, yes! Lord De'an is very kind to his people. There is a bright future if we follow Lord De'an!"
"Further words are pointless!"
After saying that, Yang Cui had two boxes full of silver ingots brought out. "Brothers, you are all looking for wealth. A good bird chooses a good tree to perch on. This is two thousand taels of silver. Anyone who is willing to join my Yang family now can take fifty taels of silver back to spend first!"
This is my sincerity, Yang Cui!
From now on, your minimum monthly wage is five taels of silver, paid on the last day of each month! Absolutely no delays!
Everyone's eyes widened when they saw the two boxes of silver!
Why would you tuck your head into your belt?
Isn't that what we're after?
Following Yu Zhenqiang, they would only have one or two taels of silver a month to spend. It would take them twenty years to earn fifty taels of silver!
A tall man behind Zeng Dajiang was clearly tempted and whispered, "Brother, we shouldn't turn down money!"
Upon hearing this, Zeng Dajiang kicked him, saying, "You son of a bitch! Who got you out of jail? No matter how capable she is, she's still just a woman. You're going to listen to a woman? Don't you have any shame? Women are only fit to warm men's beds!"
Zeng Dajiang looks down on women!
They had no respect for Yang Cui, a woman, who was showing her face in public!
With so much money, wasn't Zeng Dajiang tempted?
He was tempted, but he felt it would be beneath him to take orders from a woman, and besides, this woman was a woman of her word! His superiors ordered him to follow Yu Zhenqiang, and he did so!
“Brother, I see the brothers are getting tempted. If we stay any longer, I’m worried Yang Cui will cause unrest among them,” said another tall, thin man.
Zeng Dajiang hesitated for a moment before saying, "Brothers, don't trust this woman. If we submit to her, we're doomed! Yang Cui, stop with the nonsense, or I'll kill him right now!"
An Xiaojiang trembled with fear. When Wen saw the knife pressed against the young general's neck, she screamed and fainted.
"Alright, alright, I won't say anything. Just don't do anything rash. If you hurt one of them, I'll kill Yu Zhenqiang and his son. You don't want to see both of us get hurt. I agree to release him! But Yu Mingjue isn't here. I've locked him up somewhere else. You can go back first, and we'll exchange him here tomorrow afternoon."
"Are you trying to pull some tricks?"
"My brother is in your hands, do you think I dare to do that? Or does Boss Zeng think he can't outmaneuver a woman like me?"
Yang Cui's provocation immediately fooled Zeng Dajiang: "I'll do as you say! But don't try anything funny, or your brother will be dead."
"You'd better not lay a finger on my brother, or else... you'll see corpses of Lord Yu and his son! Lord Yu doesn't want to die without an heir, does he?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Zhenqiang immediately instructed Zeng Dajiang, "Don't touch Young Master An." He was thinking that there would be plenty of opportunities to deal with him later.
After reaching an agreement, Zeng Dajiang led his men to withdraw.
Wen Shi had already woken up and was clinging to Yang Cui, refusing to let go: "Where's Xiao Jiang? Where's Xiao Jiang? You can't just leave him here, waaaah..."
“Xiao Cui, Xiao Jiang…” An Dafu’s eyes also reddened. “This child, we told him not to go out, but he still wants to go out.”
"Why are you blaming him? What did he do wrong by going out? If it weren't for..." Wen cried and hit An Dafu. After speaking, she looked at Yang Cui, her eyes and words full of resentment towards Yang Cui. If it weren't for Yang Cui, An Xiaojiang wouldn't have been arrested.
"Don't worry, Uncle and Aunt, I will rescue Xiao Jiang."
"How can we save them? If you hadn't been so stingy with money, and if you hadn't arrested the county magistrate, none of this would have happened!"
Xi Hongmei couldn't stand seeing Yang Cui being mistreated, so she immediately retorted: "You blame my township chieftain now that something's happened? Have you forgotten all the good fortune you enjoyed before? Every fortune comes with risk. If our township chieftain hadn't arrested them, we'd be in an even worse situation now!"
“Hongmei, that’s enough, stop talking,” Yang Cui said. “Uncle and Aunt, don’t worry, Yu Zhenqiang and Yu Mingjue are in my hands, so Xiao Jiang will be fine for the time being.”
Their target isn't Xiao Jiang, so he's safe for now, but who knows what will happen later.
Therefore, Yang Cui delayed the inevitable and used a stalling tactic.
She was initially worried about how to rescue the person unharmed, but...
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