Chapter 127 Uninvited Guest

It turned out that a few brave mixed-race slaves tried to escape but were caught.

After listening to the report, the manager's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and he ordered directly, "If you don't listen, it will be a waste of food to keep it." He waved his hand, and the man saluted like a Tartar, turned around and walked out.

Yu Chaosheng knew that those slaves would most likely be in danger, so he turned his head and glanced at Pan Yingying.

Pan Yingying looked at him and nodded slightly.

Yu Chaosheng then stood up and said, "Wait a minute!"

The manager turned his head with a puzzled expression.

Yu Chaosheng stepped forward, smiled and bowed to the steward, "We have an old saying in the Central Plains, 'Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda', I will buy all those who are causing trouble."

The manager smiled wryly, and his calloused hands slowly stroked the scimitar at his waist.

Yu Chaosheng's eyelashes didn't even tremble, and his smile didn't diminish in the slightest.

The atmosphere in the small flower hall suddenly dropped to freezing point.

Pan Yingying took out a thick stack of banknotes from her bag, her expression even colder than the current atmosphere.

"Let's calculate how much it costs. We are in a hurry to go back."

The manager looked in the direction of the voice and was stunned when he saw so many banknotes.

At first glance, there are at least 200,000 taels.

"Okay, okay, I'll do it." He turned around and kicked the man who came in to report, and urged him, "Hurry up and count how many people there are. Don't keep the guests waiting for too long."

The man hurried out, and the steward went to the table next to him and took the abacus and account book. After a while of clacking, he raised his head and reported a number, "A total of 110,000 taels."

Without saying a word, Pan Yingying counted out the silver bills and asked Yu Chaosheng to pass them over.

The manager took the banknote with a smile and recorded it in the account book.

At this time, the man who had gone out to count the people came back and said in a particularly loud voice, "There are 17 guys making trouble outside."

The steward fiddled with the abacus for a few times, and his smile became even bigger. "Since you are undisciplined, I will give you two a cheaper price, 20 taels each, a total of 340 taels for these people."

Pan Yingying counted out 350 taels from her hand and handed them to Yu Chaosheng. Yu Chaosheng handed the banknote to the steward and lowered his voice, "The extra ten taels, please give the steward some tea."

The manager was even more satisfied and immediately took a bundle from the man next to him, which contained the slaves' indentures.

Yu Chaosheng didn't even open it to count, he just said he was leaving immediately.

"My family is waiting for me ten miles outside the city. I really can't delay any longer. Otherwise, I would like to have a good drink with the steward."

The manager now seemed amenable and personally escorted them out.

The waiter was standing beside the carriage, munching on a large pancake. When he saw the two of them come out, he wrapped the pancake, put it in his arms and came to greet them.

"Have you two finished your business? Do you want to go back to the inn?"

Yu Chaosheng casually threw out two taels of silver and said, "We are about to leave the city. Please go back by yourself."

The waiter nodded and handed the carriage back to Yu Chaosheng. "My two guests, if you come here again next time, remember to come to our Lai Fu Inn!"

Yu Chaosheng said "hmm", helped Pan Yingying onto the carriage, and drove the carriage to the back of the villa to lead the people.

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A large group of slaves followed the green-shed carriage out of the city, attracting a lot of attention.

Pan Yingying closed her eyes and became angrier the more she thought about it.

In the end, the 17 half-grown teenagers were beaten to the point where they were barely breathing. Without proper treatment, they would obviously not survive.

She bought a box of anti-inflammatory drugs from the space and asked Yu Chaosheng to give each of them a pill.

Each of the more than 5000 skinny people was given half a whole-grain steamed bun to fill their stomachs.

These people had no luggage, and their hands were tied with hemp ropes, and they were strung together. Once they left the city, Yu Chaosheng untied them.

It's not an animal, so what's the point of keeping it tied up?

It was already dark when the group had only walked about thirty miles. Yu Chaosheng found a place to rest and, using the cover of the carriage, took out a few bags of multi-grain steamed buns and distributed them.

"We came from Yaocheng and bought you to take you back to open up wasteland and cultivate the land. As long as you work hard, you won't starve. We will return the indentures to you in five years." Yu Chaosheng stood on the carriage, looking at these poor people who were so thin that only skin and bones were left, and sighed in his heart.

Pan Yingying took out the big pancakes and shared them among the 17 injured teenagers.

"When we get back to the village, let's have a good meal and warm up..." Yu Chaosheng raised his voice, looking at the numb and stiff eyes of these people, he couldn't say the rest of the words.

Pan Yingying came back and pulled him.

The two walked aside and took out the map they had drawn earlier.

"Let them follow the map, and we'll go back." Pan Yingying squinted her eyes and let the cold wind blow on her face.

Her voice was cold, revealing an emotion different from usual.

Each of these people had countless new and old wounds. She had asked a few children and learned that the slaves in Funing City only had one meal a day and had endless work to do.

Carrying stones to build the city wall, building houses for the Tartars, taking care of horses...

Yu Chaosheng couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He knew what Pan Yingying wanted to do when she returned.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" He bumped her shoulder.

Pan Yingying glanced at him, "Don't you want to?"

Yu Chaosheng chuckled and held her arm, "We are so in tune with each other, we are a perfect match!"

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At night, two dark shadows climbed up the city wall rapidly and entered the city soon.

He walked through the streets and alleys, heading towards the City Lord's Mansion at the eastern end.

It took nearly an hour for the two to reach the outskirts of the City Lord's Mansion.

After listening carefully to the noise inside and making sure that there was no one inside the wall, the two of them climbed over the wall and entered the City Lord's Mansion.

This should be the kitchen of the City Lord's Mansion. It's past dinner time and no one is here.

Pan Yingying noticed the well in the yard and took out the rat poison that she had bought but had rarely used from the space.

Before Yu Chaosheng could react, she opened the bags one by one and poured them into the well. She did this fifty or sixty times before stopping.

Then they went to collect the food and pots and pans in the yard into the space, and then they set off to other yards.

Yu Chaosheng was very good at finding things. He probably had a natural sensitivity to finance, and he found the warehouse in no time.

There were many things in the warehouse, and they were very miscellaneous. Pan Yingying put them all into the warehouse without even looking at them. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, the two of them evacuated quickly after putting away the things, and caught up with the group of slaves before dawn.

They left happily, unaware that a large number of people were poisoned to death in the City Lord's Mansion the next day.

Tu Su escaped the disaster because he rushed to the military camp early in the morning, but his several concubines and four sons were all poisoned to death.

What he could not accept the most was that his good brother actually died in the room of one of the concubines.

Tu Su was furious and personally ordered the city to be sealed off and the poisoning incident to be thoroughly investigated.

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A small group of uninvited guests came to Taoyuan Village, led by the captain of the city guard who had been stripped naked.

He searched for a long time and finally confirmed that the three women that day were from the newly settled Taoyuan Village.

(End of this chapter)