As he spoke, Lu Chen leaned over to the old man of the Qiao family and whispered, "In this world, everyone has the surname Li, not Qiao. You're going too far!"
A look of horror immediately appeared on the face of the old man of the Qiao family. He said in disbelief, "Yes... yes... yes, Your Majesty..."
Having said this, the old man of the Qiao family rolled his eyes and died.
Lu Chen glanced at the corpse on the ground, then turned to Guo Bei and ordered, "The old man of the Qiao family committed suicide out of fear of punishment. Capture the rest of the Qiao family and keep them under strict supervision. Don't let them have the chance to commit suicide again!"
Guo Bei took the order and went down, but Mou Ping came up and said, "Grand Master, you have been away from the capital for a while, and a lot of things have happened there. Now that things here are over, we should go back early."
Lu Chen had already read the letters between the capital and here last night, and he had a general idea of what had happened in the capital.
He was really angry, but as an adult, Lu Chen knew very well that being angry was useless, so things still had to be done step by step.
So Lu Chen patted Mou Ping on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry. It was the people from Yangzhou who treated me to a banquet yesterday. According to etiquette, it's my turn to treat them back today. I also want to invite the Buddhist and Taoist sects, as well as those people from the Jianghu who came to help this time."
It is understandable to entertain the official Mou Ping, but why entertain those monks, Taoist priests and people from the underworld? Logically speaking, their identities are not presentable.
Lu Chen looked at Mu Ping's hesitant expression and said, "Go ahead. We're going to do some big things in the future, very difficult things, so I'm going to start uniting all the forces I can unite!"
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