Kai Fu Han

Chapter 57 Redemption Part 2
After a short rest, the 14 people who went to Jinhua Mountain disembarked and headed northeast of Qinglinpu, waiting for the Wu family on the way from Qinglinpu to Jinhua Mountain.

He waited until 10 o'clock on November 20th, and stopped several waves of people by mistake, but still did not find anyone from the Wu family. Liu Xinqi was about to give up waiting, and planned to go there and spend money to redeem people, when he saw a group of people coming from the southwest. There are more than [-] people in the team, and the leader is Wu Hu, the head of the Wu family.

More than 20 people were guarding three carriages, all of which were pulling things. After entering, Wu Hu also spotted Liu Xinqi. He paused for a moment, and then continued to walk to Liu Xinqi.

"What are you doing here with people?" Wu Hu asked.

"I'll take someone with you."

The situation was stronger than the person, and Wu Hu couldn't refuse. He could only say: "If you want to follow, just follow. Don't talk nonsense then. I am familiar with the manager of the Jiao family and understand him. You messed up things by interrupting. Don't blame me then."

"I know the severity." Liu Xinqi replied.

The two teams merged into one and rushed towards Jinhua Mountain together.

The team was all young and strong, and the supplies were pulled by three carriages, so they traveled very quickly. By Youshi (18:30), they had arrived at a small town on the outskirts of the gold mine. This town is dedicated to providing services to the gold mine. The team of more than [-] people found a small shop and settled down, planning to go to the Jiao family early the next day to discuss redemption matters.

Early in the morning on November 14th, Wu Hu led ten people in a carriage, and Liu Xinqi led Liu Xinang and Zhao Liang, [-] people, to a small courtyard in the town.

"You go in alone with me, it's useless if there are too many people." Wu Hu said to Liu Xinqi.

Liu Xinqi nodded in agreement, and the two of them knocked on the courtyard door. After a while, an old man came over and opened the door. When he looked outside, he recognized Wu Hu.

"Wu Hu, are you looking for the master?" the old man asked.

"Yes, please report it." After Wu Hu finished speaking, he stuffed a piece of broken silver into the old man's hand.

"Okay, you guys wait here." After saying that, he retracted and closed the door.

"This is a steward from the periphery of the Jiao family, also surnamed Jiao. He belongs to a relatively outside branch of the Jiao family. He is mainly responsible for recruiting people for the mine. People will inevitably die in mining, and they have to be replenished frequently, so they arranged a steward to be responsible for it. At this time." Wu Hu introduced Liu Xinqi.

It was probably that Manager Jiao had just gotten up and needed to wash up before meeting the guests. The two of them waited outside the door for half an hour before they saw the old concierge coming over and opening the door, leading them to the living room.

When he entered the living room, Manager Jiao was already sitting there. He didn't get up when he saw the two people coming in. He was still drinking tea from a teacup and said casually: "Sit down."

The two found a chair on the side and sat down. Wu Hu began to be polite to Manager Jiao. After chatting for a few words, Manager Jiao became impatient and asked directly: "Tell me, what are you doing here this time?"

"It's really hard to say. I came here to redeem the fishermen surnamed Zhao that I sold to you last time." Wu Hu said.

"Hahaha!!! I heard about you. People from Zhaojia Village came to your door and killed more than 100 people." Manager Jiao said with a smile.

"Guanshi Jiao is really well-informed. That's true. That's why I want to bring peace to the people who bought Zhaojiacun back." Wu Hu said with an ugly expression on his face, barely holding on to a smile.

The Jiao family is really powerful. We can now know what happened in Qinglin Pu the day before yesterday. We probably received the news yesterday. It seems that the Jiao family has a rapid intelligence network throughout Laizhou.

"You were right not to act recklessly this time," Liu Xinqi thought silently in his heart.

"It's not that I'm taking advantage of the situation, and my Cui family is not responsible for bringing a bad reputation for this matter. It's just that I'm only responsible for buying people, and the people I buy are sent to the mine. There are mine managers in the mine, and I can't control them. Go over your head." Guanshi Jiao put his hand on the table and tapped it lightly.

"Of course I know this, but I don't know the other stewards of the Jiao family, so I still have to ask you for help." After Wu Hu finished speaking, he took out a 100-tael handout from the inner pocket of his chest, stood up and delivered it to Manager Jiao's subordinates knocked on the table: "There are rumors that you have always been upright. Please help me to help our Wu family survive this disaster. I will do my best whenever necessary in the future."

For this matter, Wu Hu not only gave people money but also drew cakes. It seemed that after a night of thinking, he had figured it out and wanted to know about it quickly.

Manager Jiao picked up Jiao Zi, rubbed it on his fingertips, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Okay, I trust you Wu Hu once, and this time I will risk my face to help you."

"However, this is not enough to buy people."

"Of course, of course, this is just a hard-earned fee for you. If it succeeds later, I will also thank you. All the expenses required to buy people will be paid by me." Wu Hu saw that Manager Jiao agreed and quickly answered.

Promising the later thanks will make Guanshi Jiao more serious and prevent him from joining with the steward of the mine.

"Okay, come with me, to the mine." He said, put away Jiaozi, got up and walked out the door.

After leaving the door, Manager Jiao rode his horse, and the others followed behind. It took half an hour to arrive at a mining area. The others were blocked from the mining area. Only Wu Hu and Liu Xinqi followed Manager Jiao in. Mining area.Arriving at a house that was supposed to be an office, there were three people sitting inside after entering. Manager Jiao walked directly towards a particularly fat man.

"Brother Six, how are you doing?" Manager Jiao greeted the chubby man.

"It's very good. Look at my figure, it couldn't be better."

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The two exchanged a few polite words before Manager Jiao explained the purpose of the trip, and then introduced Wu Hu to Brother Jiao Liu.

When Wu Hu was introduced, Wu Hu quickly took out a small account book from his chest pocket, stepped forward and handed it to Brother Jiao Liu. This should be a gift list, something that was pulled on the car outside.

Brother Jiao Liu took the gift list, opened it, looked at it, looked at Wu Hu and said: "You are quite sensible. Since you are Jiao Jiu's friend and encounter difficulties, of course I can't just sit idly by and do nothing. Tell me, I plan to spend the money." How much does it cost to buy it back?”

"I don't know how many people are alive now. I will buy everything that is alive. I am willing to pay 600 taels." Wu Hu didn't know how much Jiao Jiu paid to Jiao Liu here, so he couldn't say it was twice the selling price. Can give a specific number.Otherwise, if Jiao Jiu's settlement price is particularly high, and he claims to redeem it twice, it will be difficult to end the deal.

"Oh? These people have let us use them for more than half a month, and they can sell them back to you at a higher price. Doesn't it look like our Jiao family is bullying others?" said the fat manager Jiao Liu.

"How could it be? It's too late for me, Wu Hu, to be grateful." Wu Hu quickly answered.

"Gouzi, go to the mine and bring here all the people from Zhaojia Village who were sent here more than ten days ago." Manager Cui Liu said to a job in the house.

"Okay, Mr. Liu." The man took the order and went out to do something.

"Thank you! Thank you, Brother Six." Manager Jiao Jiu thanked him quickly.

"Thank you, Brother Liu." Wu Hu also thanked him, and then took out six Jiaozi from his chest pocket again and placed them on the table in front of Jiao Liu.

Unexpectedly, this trip would go so smoothly, and Liu Xinqi was also a little happy.

Jiao Liu put his big hand on the fold and said, "You don't have to thank me. I didn't agree because of your face. I only agreed because of this brother's face. I want to come to this little brother." It’s Liu Xinqi from Liujiabao.”

Jiao Liu said looking at Liu Xinqi who had been standing behind Wu Hu without saying a word.

"It's me, Mr. Liu." Liu Xinqi was young and the people in Zhaojia Village had not yet rescued him, so he called Jiao Liudao "nicely".

"I don't deserve you to call me 'Master'. Judging from your strong body and temperament, you can't be Wu Hu's subordinate. I know that at a young age, you led nearly a thousand tribesmen to migrate thousands of miles from Qizhou to Dengzhou, and wiped out several bandit villages along the way." Jiao Liu said: "You may not know it yet, but now all the families on Jingdong East Road who have some information channels already know about you."

"Guanshi Jiao is really well-informed. I actually didn't do anything. It was all about uniting the clan." Liu Xinqi flattered.

It's not yet known what Jiao Liu's purpose was in saying these words, and Liu Xinqi didn't expect that his fame had spread so widely, so he could only respond first and remain unchanged in the face of changes.

"I also know that you tamed a tiger and kept it at home. Now your nickname is 'Fuhu Luohan'." Jiao Liu said, stood up and walked to Liu Xinqi and continued: "Can our Jiao family To get to this point, I relied on being well-informed and discerning, and I, Cui, am willing to make friends with you, a true warrior."

"Before this, when we knew that there were bandits massacring good people at the foot of Yunfeng Mountain, and there were people who performed righteous deeds and killed bandits in Yunfeng Mountain and rescued these "Zhao" people in distress, I knew that this matter was not over. You will definitely come back. So I have never treated these Zhaojiacun people harshly, and arranged safe jobs for them. At that time, I bought 250 seven people from Wu Hu, and not one of them has died until now. "

"Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Jiao Liu. If you have something to do in the future, please ask someone to inform Liu. I will do my best." Liu Xinqi was sincerely grateful this time.

Regardless of whether Jiao Liu protected the lives of the people in Zhaojia Village out of utilitarianism, it was indeed a great help to Liu Xinqi and Zhao Liang.

"Hahahahahaha, from now on call me Sixth Brother. If you can do this for the people of Zhaojia Village who are strangers to you, I, Jiao Fan, am willing to make you your friend." Jiao Liu said.

"It turns out that you are the 'Fuhu Arhat'. You are so blind that you didn't recognize it. Wu Hu, you did not lose unjustly. Who let the word 'tiger' be in your name?" Cui Jiuye said with a smile: "My name is Jiao Sheng, you can also call me Ninth Brother from now on." The last sentence was addressed to Liu Xinqi.

"Brother Six, Brother Ninth." Liu Xinqi called.

Wu Hu stood beside him, but it was a bit redundant, his expression was very embarrassing.

(End of this chapter)