flstandardbreds Chapter 126 Bad News
Chapter 126 Bad News
Upon hearing this, Yu Bai was also furious.
"That's a full 16 million! Did the Ma family just embezzle it?" She turned around and asked Yu Chang, "Have they entered the southern border?"
She wondered if she could get the person back.
Although the 16 million was just a deposit, it was also saved from everyone's teeth. If the horses at home were not old and they were afraid that they would not be able to run during the war, they would not be willing to spend money to buy new horses.
"Give up. I've asked around and the Ma family has already entered Southern Xinjiang."
Yu Chang punched the motorcycle with her fist in anger. She didn't feel anything, but Tong Yuanpeng beside her quickly grabbed her hand and said distressedly: "If you are angry, just be angry. Why are you torturing your hand? It's swollen and it must be painful!"
As he spoke, he lowered his head and blew on Yu Chang's hand.
Yu Chang waved her hand impatiently, "Alright, don't worry about this little injury."
Tong Yuanpeng looked helpless.
Ge Fu was stunned, but others were used to it.
"Mom, what should we do about this? We can't just suffer such a huge loss like this, right?" Yu Bai's third sister Yu Wan said.
"That's right. That's 16 million. We may not be able to save that much money in a year. Besides, without this money, we will definitely not be able to buy enough horses this year. In the short term, I'm afraid we won't be able to buy a strong horse at all."
"That's right. It's okay if we can't get the money back, but we must get the horse back."
"Yes, we paid the money and signed the contract."
"We have to get the same thing, money and goods."
……
All of a sudden, members of the Yu family expressed their opinions one after another.
Yu Bai calmed down now and asked Yu Chang, "Mom, do you know why the Ma family betrayed the country?"
Yes, Southern Xinjiang belongs to Jinglong, and their act of migrating the entire tribe is actually treason.
Most people were puzzled by this. After all, although the northern border was hard, it depended on who they were compared with. Compared with the southern border, they were better off. The only bad thing was that the southern border came to plunder every year, and everyone had no peace.
And that's Jinglong. The women in the Ma family are usually the masters of the family. Can they adapt to the life of male dominance over there?
Stop joking, okay?
Therefore, the Ma family's migration must have some inside story that they were unaware of.
"I know." Yu Chang's expression suddenly became solemn. "About ten years ago, the Ma family was lost and all the children in the family were snatched away by Nanjiang in one go. Do you know about this?"
"I know." Yu Wan nodded. "The Ma family was distracted that time. They managed to keep the horse farm, but something went wrong with the child, who was taken away by the people from Southern Xinjiang. We were just adults at that time. I remember that our tribes helped intercept those people from Southern Xinjiang and wanted to help the Ma family get the child back, but we failed in the end. They used a diversionary tactic to transport the child back to the Southern Xinjiang Mirror."
Yu Chang nodded and said, "In that battle, not only were all the children of the Ma family robbed, but the population loss was also very large. The elderly were wiped out, and thousands of women who were in charge of the family died. In order to get their children back, many men were also killed by Nanjiang. It can be said that they were seriously injured. Because of this, although the Ma family has had newborns in the past ten years, the total number so far is less than one-fifth of the children who were robbed that year."
"After investigation, several clans in the north speculated that the children who were robbed from the Ma family back then secretly sneaked into the Ma family after they grew up and recruited them."
Hearing this, everyone in the Yu family fell silent.
They could roughly guess what would happen next.
If you think about it carefully, it seems reasonable. Because of the sharp decline in population, the scale of the Ma family's horse farm has been getting smaller and smaller over the years, and it is already a bit exhausted. In fact, whether the Ma family is now a top clan or a large clan is already ambiguous.
If this continues, the Ma family will be removed from the top clans within a year or two.
But if they went to southern Xinjiang, with the grown-up descendants of the bloodline that were robbed in the early years, plus the large number of horses and money they brought with them, the Ma family might still have hope of prosperity.
——In the northern border, survival is too difficult. Even the top clans are at risk, let alone becoming a large clan. Given the current situation of the Ma family's lack of successors, it is possible that before the next generation grows up, it will be reduced to a small clan, and life will be even more difficult at that time.
When Ge Fu heard this, he thought of one thing -
Since Nanjiang was able to win the hearts of those children who were snatched back, he must have his own outstanding qualities, but no one knows what these outstanding qualities are.
"We can't let them cheat us out of our money." Yu Bai made a prompt decision and asked Yu Chang, "Mom, it shouldn't just be our Yu family that got cheated, right?"
“You don’t mean to…” Yu Chang widened her eyes.
To be honest, she had thought about this, but...
"We have always had spies in southern Xinjiang. It's time to put these spies to work." Yu Baidao.
"You're crazy!" Yu Chang frowned and said, "Those spies are only investigating the movements of southern Xinjiang. Don't expect more!"
"But..." Yu Bai retorted, "We can't afford to lose 16 million!"
Yu Chang and Yu Bai argued for several days about whether or not to take the risk of entering southern Xinjiang to recover the losses.
These days, Yu Wan took Ge Fu and his group to visit other clans and sightseeing places. Even so, when they came back, they could feel that there was a lot of tension between the mother and daughter.
Just when Ge Fu was curious about who would be the winner between the mother and daughter, bad news came back.
When they came back that day, they found that the atmosphere in Yujiabao was particularly depressing. Yu Qian was usually silent, but today he was almost gloomy.
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Jingjing pulled Chen Shan over and asked.
Chen Shan glanced at Yu Qian, then replied in a low voice: "We can't contact any of the spies in southern Xinjiang."
"Could it be..." You Rong looked incredulous.
There is no such thing as a coincidence.
"It should be the Ma family who sold us out." Chen Shan said with a bad face: "As a top clan, although we may have conflicts on weekdays, we know each other very well. They know too many things."
This is...
"Who are those spies in southern Xinjiang?" Ge Fu hesitated.
"He was also the child who was kidnapped." Chen Shan sighed and said, "There are always people who are loyal to the bloodline family. The clan will never accept them, but they will be happy to report the movements of the southern border. Over time, the major clans have their own spies in the southern border. Now I can't contact any of these people, and I don't know... if they are still alive."
More importantly, without these spies, they would have no way of knowing in advance when Southern Xinjiang would be invaded and taking precautions.