Before dawn the next day, the Liu family’s gate was packed with fellow villagers from Xishan who had heard the news.

Yesterday, the wealthy families spread the news, and the common people in all the villages and alleys did not sleep all night. They came early with their land deeds and house deeds in Xishan to line up, fearing that they would miss the opportunity.

Over the years, they have all settled down on the shore and no one will go back to Xishan. It is really a blessing to be able to exchange the useless barren mountains and abandoned houses for some money.

Liu Zhengqi has already prepared the silver.

He sat at the door of the sedan chair hall and waited for the steward to check the land deeds and house deeds and draw up the sales contract before signing and stamping it.

After the seller signs and stamps his seal or uses his fingerprint, he can take the money and leave.

Liu Zhengqi worked like this, going from house to house for the entire morning. His wrists were sore from signing and stamping non-stop.

"How many households are there?" he asked the manager while flexing his wrists.

"The line is still long, we can't finish it in one day." The manager stretched his head to look, but saw a commotion outside. "Master, it seems there are guests."

Liu Zhengqi also stood up and looked at a group of servants in brocade clothes surrounding a sedan chair carried by eight people. They rudely drove away the fellow villagers who were queuing and stopped at the gate.

"Go away, go away, everyone go away!" Hao Nu drove everyone away.

The sedan bearer lowered the pole, the attendant lifted the curtain, and helped out an old man in his forties, with a pale face, dark circles under his eyes, and a face full of kidney deficiency.

"Oh, Second Master, you're back so early?" Liu Zhengqi hurriedly walked around the table and stepped forward to greet him.

This second master is not that second master, but Xu Jie’s second son Xu Kun.

The old man with kidney deficiency manages the Xu family's large assets in Suzhou and spends most of his time in Suzhou. Last time, because his father returned to his hometown, he hurried back to Songjiang. He originally said that he would accompany his father well and come back next month.

"Didn't you send a letter saying that you were bullied by the kid named Zhao?" Xu Kun walked into the sedan chair hall in a bad mood, took a look at the silver in the room, and couldn't help but sneered: "You have been forced to this point?"

Liu Zhengqi hurriedly whispered to the steward, saying that it was time for lunch and asked his fellow villagers to go back first.

Then Xu Kun was invited into the flower hall for tea.

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In the flower hall, Xu Kun sat cross-legged, leaning back in the armchair, listening to Liu Zhengqi crying about what had happened in the past few days.

"...He said that if I don't give him Xishan Island within three days, I will have to pay him 500,000 taels of silver, otherwise my property will be confiscated and I will be beheaded." Mr. Liu wagged his tail and begged for mercy at his master like a bullied dog.

"What do you believe in what others say?" Xu Kun picked up the teacup, skimmed the foam with the cup lid, and sneered, "You are the president of Dongting Chamber of Commerce."

"It's the vice president..." Mr. Liu shrank his neck and whispered, "Butler Wang knows too much about me."

"Look at your courage. There are so many people who have reported me, but I haven't been brought in for questioning by the Suzhou government?" Xu Kun pouted and said, "I'm here to protect you, so what are you afraid of?"

"He said that he would file the complaint directly with the Minister of Justice and the Grand Secretary in Beijing. If that doesn't work, he would file a complaint with the Emperor." Mr. Liu said with lingering fear.

"Listen to his nonsense, he is just bluffing you!" Xu Kun laughed, "He is a kid who hasn't even grown all his hair yet, and he wants to file a complaint with the emperor? He is just dreaming."

"After all, he still has some connections in Beijing." Mr. Liu said softly.

"Can you compare it to my family?" Xu Kun tilted his neck, puffed his beard and glared, "Who among those people he brought up was not promoted by my father? As long as I say a word, who among them would meddle in other people's business?"

"That's true." Mr. Liu nodded.

"So..." Xu Kun nodded proudly and said to Liu Zhengqi in a low voice: "To tell you the truth, my eldest brother hates that guy to death. He heard that you were going to deal with Zhao Hao, so he followed you."

"Oh?" Mr. Liu was surprised, "Master is here too?"

"Well, I went to visit Lin Zhongcheng." Xu Kun sneered and said, "There's nothing to be afraid of now, right? Just fight him to the end!"

"What does Second Master mean?" Liu Zhengqi felt a headache coming on. This was really the case of the tree wanting to be still but the wind does not stop.

"Aren't your fellow villagers all outside? Tell them that the kid surnamed Zhao wants to steal your ancestral property and dig up your ancestral graves! I don't believe that this won't provoke them."

"As the saying goes, a powerful dragon cannot overthrow a local snake. Besides, that kid is not a dragon that has crossed the river. He is more like an eel that has crossed the river. Tomorrow you can call all the people from your West Mountain, and my brother will also bring a few hundred people to support you." As he said this, he slapped the teacup on the table and gritted his teeth and said:

"Let's go to Dasheng Bay and fuck him!"

"Hiss..." Liu Zhengqi sucked in a breath of cold air, and said timidly, "That would be a big fuss."

"I'm just afraid that the situation won't get any bigger. We are here to protect our homeland, and it's not against the law to kill them!" Xu Kun curled his lips and said indifferently:

"You just need to take the person with you, and I will take care of everything else!"

"Uh..." Liu Zhengqi looked constipated and asked, "Second Master, can this be resolved peacefully?"

"Bullshit!" Xu Kun jumped up, hit Liu Zhengqi on the head with a fan, and scolded him fiercely:

"But you called me here, and now you want to back down? What do you think of me?!"

"My son is still in their hands." Mr. Liu said with a bitter face.

"What are you afraid of? You've already said that they are government officials. How can they kill your son?" Xu Kun didn't care. He grabbed Mr. Liu by the collar and said viciously, "If you back down, I will kill you! Do you hear me?"

"I heard it, I heard it." Liu Zhengqi responded with a trembling voice.

Only then did Xu Kun let go of Liu Zhengqi and walked away staggeringly.

Liu Zhengqi once again slumped in his chair, his eyes wide open, as if he were seeing the horrific scenes of himself being ransacked and tortured to death...

"Master, master." The steward called out a few times from the side.

"Ah!" Liu Zhengqi was startled and asked palely, "What's wrong?"

"Are you still going to buy the land?" the steward asked quietly. He had heard the conversation between the two. "Or do you want to do as Mr. Xu said?"

"Let me think about it, let me think about it..." Mr. Liu stood up with the help of the armrest, paced back and forth in the hall, and began to think hard.

Even a blind man could see that Xu Kun was not here to support him, but to use this incident to settle accounts with Zhao Hao.

In Mr. Liu's opinion, Zhao Hao's power is naturally not as great as that of the Xu family.

But the boy had already said that no matter how the Xu family dealt with him, he would only fight against Mr. Liu.

Liu Zhengqi's surname is not Xu, and he is the main culprit. If the matter really gets out of hand, he will probably be the first one to be dragged out to take the blame.

Besides, Zhao Hao didn't push him into a desperate situation after all, and still gave him a way out.

I have already made up my mind to cut my losses and get ashore, do I really want to go back and wade into this muddy water?

When gods fight, the one who dies in the end is bound to be a mortal like me...

With this thought in mind, he finally made a difficult decision and said, "Let's continue buying land."

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