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Chapter 39 Something went wrong!
After listening to Ma Gui's words, Liu Sheng immediately thought of a Shanxi merchant family, the Fan family, that often appeared in later Ming novels.

So he asked: "What's the name of Fan Dong's family?"

Ma Guidao: "It seems to be called Fan Yongcheng."

'Fan Yongcheng, Fan Yongdou... It seems possible that they are from the Fan family. '

Muttering in his mind, Liu Sheng asked again: "Is there any other news?"

"I heard from people in the town that the largest family in Minggang is the Zhang family, followed by the Wang, Cao, Dou, Jin, and Jiang families.

But in terms of wealth and connections, the Fan family, which moved here decades ago, is still above these five families, and is the only second largest family in Minggang that can compete with the Zhang family.

They also said that the Fan family is the most honest in business and never deceives others.Master, is it possible that the Liu Dong family and the Fan family are keeping an eye on us?Or maybe the pawnshop owner acted on his own? "

Ma Jinliang looked at Liu Sheng.

Liu Sheng said: "No matter who is targeting us, it is right to be careful. In addition, you must be mentally prepared. There will probably be something unexpected in Hong Kong tonight or tomorrow, and we will seize the opportunity to leave."

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The next day, the Zhang family celebrated Dezhao's 65th birthday, and all the streets in Minggang Town were decorated with lights.

The Zhang family also set up 65 tables of running water mats on the street where their mansion is located, which were open from Chen hour to Wu o'clock and half past five o'clock, for six and a half hours.

The food is served without interruption, so anyone in the town can come and enjoy the meal without giving any gifts.

Hearing the news, the poor people in the town were very happy. Many of them didn't eat last night and wouldn't eat this morning either, so they planned to have a big meal on an empty stomach at Zhang's flowing water table.

Because of this, there were far fewer people on other streets in the town, and some shops were even closed.

Liu Sheng took Ma Jinliang and others to the streets to buy all kinds of materials needed for immigrants, except food.

Because although the prices of other things have also increased, the increases are not that exaggerated.Food prices have increased dozens of times.

Even if Liu Sheng uses all the money from selling his "treasure" to buy grain, he can only buy more than 30 shi, and they may not be able to transport it back.

Therefore, Liu Sheng did not want to buy grain this time, and planned to "borrow grain" from large households around Tianmu Mountain another day.

Ma Jinliang followed Liu Sheng, looking back frequently and looking left and right, trying to see where the person he was following was, but he couldn't find him at all.

So he whispered to Liu Sheng: "Brother Liu, I didn't see the person following me either. Did you see it wrong yesterday?"

Liu Sheng smiled after hearing this, "They already know where we live, so why do we need to arrange for someone to follow us?"

"Ah?" Ma Jinliang was a little panicked, "What should I do?"

Liu Sheng said: "When the soldiers come, we will block the water and cover it with soil. What are we afraid of?"

After that, continue shopping.

Not to mention, as a famous town in Zhongzhou, Minggang Town has a much more complete range of products than Xingji and Maojiaji.Liu Sheng only hated that he brought too few people and could not buy too many things.

Of course, money is also an important factor restricting his purchasing power.

After shopping, Liu Sheng and a few people returned to the B&B, preparing to wait for the suspected changes to occur before taking the opportunity to leave Minggang.

If there is an advantage to be taken, he doesn't mind taking advantage.

Neither the Zhang family, the grain merchants, nor the bandits were good people in his opinion.

Especially the Zhang family, a grain merchant.

Because when he was purchasing supplies today, he realized one thing through scattered news - the Huaihe River at this time is connected to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal!

Minggang Town is just over twenty miles north of the Huaihe River. If you buy grain from Huguang and Sichuan, you can transport it all the way by water, and the loss is much less than by land.

Even if there are disasters everywhere and more Likas are set up along the way, the price of food here in Minggang will not rise to more than 50 taels per stone.As the Zhang family that monopolizes the grain trade in Minggang, it must have played a very disgraceful role.

Hoarding and falsely raising food prices were definitely done.

This is eating steamed buns made of human blood to make a fortune.

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At noon, Liu Sheng and others were eating vegetarian noodles made by themselves at the B&B when they saw Ma Jinshui push open the door and come in, sweating profusely but looking excited.

"My boss is so good at predicting things, something big happened to the Zhang family!"

Everyone stopped their dishes and looked over.

Ma Jinshui continued: "I followed my boss's instructions and watched outside the Zhang family's mansion. When the sun was high, I heard panicked shouts coming from the mansion, and then I saw many guests running out of the mansion.

I stopped an old man to ask, but he said that the juggling troupe suddenly got into trouble during the performance and kidnapped Mr. Zhang and many Zhang family members. "Someone asked: "Then what? "

Ma Jinshui wiped his sweat and said, "I came back as soon as I got the news. How could I know what happened next?"

Ma Jinliang wanted to say something, but Liu Sheng spoke first: "Brother Ma, you, Wang Laowu, Shi Jincai and the others stay in this courtyard to guard the horses and supplies. I will take Ma Jinshui outside to see the situation.

We packed our things and got ready.When the time is right, I will ask Ma Jinshui to come back and inform everyone to evacuate. "

After Liu Sheng finished speaking, he took Ma Jinshui out.

When the two of them reached the street, they saw groups of archers running towards Zhang's house from the entrance of the town.

At the same time, a plume of thick smoke came out of the Zhang family, rising straight into the sky.

Seeing this, Liu Sheng shook his head and thought: Minggang Town is over.

Since the sideshow team dared to kidnap the Zhang family, there must be someone outside the town to help them, probably most of the thieves.

If the archers of the Inspection Department did not panic and guarded the town entrance, they might still be able to stop the bandits.But now that all these people are gathering at Zhang's house, doesn't it mean they have given up on the entrance of the town and allowed thieves to come in?

Liu Sheng knew that he could leave with his team at this time.But thinking that the Zhang family was a big grain merchant, he couldn't help but want to see the opportunity to take advantage.

So he took Ma Jinshui outside Zhang's house.

He was a talented artist and brave enough to let Ma Jinshui stay outside while he climbed over the courtyard wall and entered. Soon he saw the juggling troupe and the kidnapped Zhang family in the second courtyard.

I saw more than a dozen Zhang family members tied up with ropes, lying on the stage covered with a red carpet, surrounded by several men with knives watching.

There are two people in the Zhang family who are more eye-catching. One is a fat old man with gray hair, and the other is a middle-aged man wearing a cloth mask on a hot day.

There were several corpses lying on the edge of the stage, and the blood was mixed with the red carpet, which was not very conspicuous.

The middle-aged man wearing a cloth mask had gray marks on his body and a wound on his forehead. He must have been through a struggle before.

Looking at the dozens of archers in the courtyard confronting more than a dozen men from the jugglery team, but they were afraid of something and did not dare to rush over. Liu Sheng couldn't help but wonder: Could the man in the cloth mask be the inspector Zhang Debiao? Bar?

If that's the case, it's no wonder that all the archers at the town's entrance came after hearing the news.

The Savior is eager...

on stage.

Zhang Debiao struggled for a moment and was immediately kicked hard by the man holding a knife next to him.

"be honest!"

Zhang Debiao did not look at the man at all, but stared at the woman in red in front of the stage who was asking her companions to add donkey dung balls to the fire.

He shouted angrily: "Red Lady! Even if you kidnapped us, you couldn't even imagine how much food you took away from the Zhang family!"

Mr. Liu is stationed in the King of Chu City in the south. He will be here in a matter of seconds after getting the news. By then, you will only be dead!
If you are sensible enough to let us go now, kowtow and apologize, I might be able to give you a way out! "

Hearing this, the red lady turned around and jumped onto the three-foot-high stage. She stepped on Zhang Debiao's waist, causing Zhang Debiao to scream loudly.

"You want me to kowtow to you and apologize?" She leaned over and stared at Zhang Debiao, "Believe it or not, I'm going to stab you right now?!"

As she spoke, the red-tasseled sword in her hand poked the back of Zhang Debiao's neck.

Zhang Debiao was so frightened that he froze up and immediately did not dare to move or scream any more.

Zhang Dezhao also squirmed his fat body, looked here and said: "Red Lady, you only hijacked us for money and food, but as De Biao said, as long as you bring more money and food, Liu Xicai will definitely catch up with you.

If I had brought less money and food, I would be able to leave now, but is it worthwhile to work so hard and only have a little money and food?

It's better to let us go - I, the head of the family, can swear that as long as you let me go, I will send you five hundred stones of grain and three stones of coarse salt when you come back.how? "

Hearing this, the red lady's face covered with heavy makeup showed no expression, but the rest of the juggling team couldn't help but froze in breath, and immediately looked at the red lady.

There is a severe famine at the moment, and five hundred shi of grain would be worth 5000 taels of silver at the price of grain in Minggang Town.

These people have never seen so much money in their lives.

Even if not calculated in terms of money, five hundred shi of food would be enough for their group to eat for several months.

Therefore, after hearing Zhang Dezhao's words, almost no one was not moved.

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