The big bandit in the Red Mansion robbed Lin Daiyu at the beginning

Lin Ruhai waved his hand modestly.

Mother Xue thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and asked,

"I just don't know, later..."

Lin Ruhai understood what Xue's mother meant and said,

"At that time, I paid a lot of money to redeem my daughter and I from the mountain."

"Although Qingfeng Village is powerful, they do have some sense of justice. They have saved my daughter and my reputation. All they ask is silver."

Hearing this, Xue's mother's heart instantly sank.

Even a fourth-rank court official like Lin Ruhai had to pay money to redeem his daughter.

The Jinling Xue family has long been in decline now, so why would Lin Ruhai help them?

When Lin Ruhai told her about this, it was obviously a tactful way of rejecting her, and he advised her to pay the ransom.

But when Xue's mother thought of the two hundred thousand taels of silver and her son's life,

Suddenly, I could no longer control my emotions and burst into tears.

Lin Ruhai also sighed and shook his head and said,

"There's no need for this, sister-in-law. For now, we should quickly gather enough money and send it to Qingfeng Village to redeem the person. As for revenge, the imperial army will come to encircle and suppress them when the time comes!"

Then he gave earnest advice,

"But don't worry, Qingfeng Village, although a group of bandits, they do have some martial ethics."

"We exchange money and people, and we have a good reputation for fairness and impartiality."

"As long as you give me enough silver, my nephew will be able to return safely."

Xue's mother also understood Lin Ruhai's meaning.

I was speechless. What reputation? Wasn't it accumulated bit by bit by kidnapping so many people?

She took up the handkerchief and wiped her tears, then said in a deep voice,

"Your Excellency, you may not know that if it were tens of thousands of taels of silver, I could still find a way to scrape it together. But those damned bandits actually asked me to bring over 200,000 taels of silver before they would release me."

Then he looked up at Lin Ruhai with a look of sorrow and said,

"The Xue family has been running the business for several generations now, but it has become a declining business since my late husband passed away."

“Although there are some businesses with a million in them, most of them are just industries.”

"Where can we get so much cash? Not to mention that we can't take it out now, even if we did, I'm afraid the 'Feng Brand' that the Xue family has spent countless generations of effort on would collapse in an instant."

"By then, how will I be able to face my late husband in the afterlife?"

"Master Lin, I hope you can give me some advice for the sake of our parents and us orphans and widows."

Lin Ruhai was also slightly surprised.

The breeze was in Yangzhou in the past.

No matter whether it was the family of an official or a businessman, the maximum reward for kidnapping a person would not exceed 10,000 or 20,000 taels of silver.

For the officials and salt merchants in Yangzhou, this amount of silver was neither too much nor too little.

This will not only prevent the kidnapped family members from being unable to accept the situation and avoid a desperate situation, but also give them the opportunity to use the same old trick again, slowly cutting the meat with a blunt knife and boiling the frog in warm water.

But why did they ask the Xue family in Jinling for two hundred thousand taels of silver?

If it was thirty or fifty thousand taels, the Xue family might have given it.

Even in Lin Ruhai's opinion, two hundred thousand taels of silver was really digging up the Xue family's roots.

This is clearly a fight to the death!

But Lin Ruhai didn't know.

This was not what Qingfeng Li meant at all.

Instead, it was Zhao Dagou, who went to Jinling on business, who made some extra money on his own initiative.

After returning to the mountain, Qingfeng Li didn't care at all.

But he didn't expect that,

Just this small extra income could bring the Xue family to ruin.

But Lin Ruhai was not a cold-blooded person.

After all, the Jia family and the Wang family have their reputation.

After thinking for a while, he looked at Xue's mother and said,

"If my sister-in-law doesn't mind, I can give you some of the spare money in the mansion..."

The original intention was to lend his money to the Xue family for a while so that they could make some money temporarily.

But at this moment, the laughter of her daughter and another niece, Xue Baochai, came from the side hall next door.