After killing several bandits, several people went to the temple to search again, but no other bandits were found. Later, they learned from the rescued women that there were no other bandits in the temple, so they felt relieved.

The women finally confirmed that they were saved and were finally able to escape from the devil's cave. They all knelt down and thanked Ma Mingfeng and the others for helping them.

Ma Mingfeng asked these women, most of them were locals, and only one of them was from other places. Ma Mingfeng learned from this woman that her name was Liu Yuling, who was from Suzhou. She originally went to the north to do business with her parents, but unexpectedly she was robbed by this bandit. Her family was killed, and her goods and gold and silver were also robbed. Even she was kidnapped into this temple. However, because she was very beautiful, the leader of the bandits fell in love with her and planned to marry her on the verge of the matchmaker.

At that time, the bandit leader didn't know what he was thinking. Maybe he was really moved. Anyway, he hadn't touched her. According to the bandit leader's plan, he robbed a vote today and made a profit. He would marry Liu Yuling tomorrow. As a result, the marriage did not come true, so his head moved first.

Of course, this also leads to a benefit. Liu Yuling has always maintained her perfect body, which is the only one among all the robbed women.

However, most of these women are locals now. After they were rescued, they all went home, but only Liu Yuling was left alone and helpless.

"Think about it, are there any relatives and friends who can rely on?" Ma Mingfeng looked at Liu Yuling. He didn't want to carry this bag, but he couldn't leave it alone. He could only hope that she had any relatives and friends who could defect to. At worst, he could find a way to send her away by himself. This was better than staying by his side.

Liu Yuling shook her head, and then she seemed to remember something, and said to Ma Mingfeng: "I have an uncle from Yixing, named Zhou Yanru..."

"What? Zhou Yanru?" Ma Mingfeng was shocked after hearing this. Zhou Yanru is just a civilian now, but he will come back soon and be respected as the chief minister of the cabinet. The reason why his father Ma Shiying made a comeback was because Ruan Dacheng used 10,000 taels of silver to bribe Zhou Yanru to recommend Ma Shiying and saved his niece himself. In the future, he would be a big favor.

But I think that Zhou Yanru should not be in the capital at this time. After all, he has not made a comeback yet. If he wanders in the capital at this time, he will definitely cause disaster for himself.

It seems that I can only bring Liu Yuling back to Yixing after the exam.

So Ma Mingfeng explained the situation to Liu Yuling, telling her that she was going to Beijing to take the exam, so she could not send her home. Now there are two ways: one is to give her a sum of money and let her take a boat to Yixing to find her uncle Zhou Yanru, and the other is to follow her people first, and then send her to Yixing after the test is finished.

Liu Yuling was frightened when she heard that she had to go back alone. After this incident, how could she dare to do this? So she fell to Ma Mingfeng and expressed that she was willing to follow Ma Mingfeng to the capital to participate in the imperial examination, and then asked them to escort her to Yixing when it was convenient.

In fact, Ma Mingfeng could send a few people to send Liu Yuling away directly, but there are many problems in doing this. First of all, how many people are sent to escort? With more people sent, there will be insufficient staff here and fewer people sent. What if you encounter similar things on the road? For another reason, sending people to escort is definitely better than escort yourself.

Just as Ma Mingfeng sent the robbed women away, Yu Zhenlong and Liu Zhaolin brothers had already begun to search for the stolen goods robbed by the bandits, but they had worked hard but couldn't find it. Finally, they found the entrance to the cellar under the guidance of Liu Yuling.

After entering the cellar, everyone, including Ma Mingfeng, was shocked because the cellar contained thousands of taels of gold and more than ten thousand taels of silver. In addition, there were silk and porcelain, and other goods that had not yet been sold. The total value of these goods was estimated to be several thousand taels of silver.

Ma Mingfeng and others were ecstatic when they saw this scene. This time they were really rich. One thousand taels of gold can be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. In addition to other things, the total price should be more than 25,000 taels of silver.

You should know that Ma Mingfeng worked hard to travel to Guizhou and only earned 5,000 taels of silver. This time the income is equivalent to going to Guizhou five trips!

"This is really a fortune!" Ma Mingfeng was ecstatic, but he did not really go crazy and quickly calmed down.

He gave the goods to the Liu Zhaolin brothers and gave an additional two thousand taels of silver.

The Liu brothers tried their best to refuse, but in the end, they accepted the things under the persuasion of Ma Mingfeng and Yu Zhenlong, and decided to wait until it was dark before transporting them home secretly.

The remaining gold and silver were naturally divided by Ma Mingfeng and his men, but this degree must be grasped well. If you get too much, it is probably not good if someone just takes the silver and goes away. Isn't it good to take the silver directly to retire? Why do you have to work hard for others? But if you get less, it will cause dissatisfaction among these people, and even for gold and silver, they may even murder Ma Mingfeng.

In fact, loyalty is difficult to quantify. When playing games, you can use loyalty to consider the relationship between characters. However, in reality, some people are originally loyal to you, but they are likely to betray them because of some trivial matters or interests in the next moment.

For example, the people under Ma Mingfeng's command are definitely much more loyal to Yang Sichang than to him now, but they will still choose to leave when they should.

So Ma Mingfeng discussed with Yu Zhenlong and decided to hide the 1,000 taels of gold first for great use. The remaining silver will be rewarded with each of these subordinates with 500 taels of silver, and then 10,000 taels, dressed up as bandits and went to the local rich households to buy food to help the local people who were suffering from disasters, and the rest will be loaded with a car and taken away.

Of course, buying grain is the market price, but if the rich people don’t sell it, since they pretend to be bandits, they don’t mind teaching these rich people some lessons.

When Ma Mingfeng told the others about his decision, none of them opposed it. This was mainly because they all saw with their own eyes what kind of life the people who were affected were living. Ma Mingfeng was able to use a huge sum of money to help the people. They only admired and did not have any complaints.

What's more, they can get 500 taels of silver, which has been a comfortable life for them for several months, not to mention that they basically don't have to spend money on Ma Mingfeng, and the 500 taels of silver can be fully subsidized for the family.

The families of these people were originally taken hostage by Han Daoba. Later, as Han Daoba died, the threat was naturally gone. They secretly took their families back to Nanjing, and Ma Mingfeng arranged a residence to live a very stable life.

So if it weren't for the huge wealth and extremely unexpected situations, these people wouldn't be willing to betray Ma Mingfeng.
Chapter completed!