When the middle-aged man heard this, his face was full of black lines, his hands were clenched, and the green tendons on the back of his hands jumped wildly.

"Wang Fu! Where is the death! Hurry up and roll over to Lao Tzu!" The middle-aged man finally resisted the urge to beat his son violently, the big thing is important!

Hearing the roar of the old man from the study, an old man who looked like a housekeeper quickly came.

"Go, call Lao Tzu from the house just now!" the middle-aged man shouted.

"At home...... Who is here?" the butler had been near the study just now, and he really didn't know that there was anyone in the house.

"The person sent by Li San!" The middle-aged man's words almost popped out word by word, followed by an inkstone on the desk, which happened to smash into the butler's head.

Wang Fu also knew that the old man was angry, and he didn't dare to pick up the good inkstone, so he rolled and crawled, and ran out bleeding all the way.

After a while, Wang Fu came to the study again with a man who was almost out of strength, his head was still bleeding, the time was urgent, the master was still waiting, Wang Fu didn't dare to bandage the wound leisurely at the moment when the old man was angry.

"Master, it's not good! something happened on Changshan Island!" the man saw the old man and quickly knelt down and said.

"Get up, don't worry, speak slowly!" The middle-aged man who had vented once also recovered from his rage. Things must have happened, and it's useless to be in a hurry, you still have to understand the situation before making a decision. is worthy of being the patriarch of a big family, but he is not a simple person.

So, the man told everything that happened on Changshan Island, including Li San's speculation that Li Wei was dead, but Xu Chen hadn't come when he left, so he naturally didn't know what happened next.

"Wang Fu, go and invite the heads of several other families to the mansion to discuss matters, I think they should also get the news. After listening to the man's report, the middle-aged man thought for a moment and ordered to the housekeeper.

"Yes, sir!" Wang Fu bowed down after receiving the order......

In the same study, Wan An, the old man who appeared in the small building next to Chongren Fang last time, was reporting to his master, the head of the Wan family.

"Master, there is news from Changshan Island, Taishou Wang Xian sent a Xuanfu envoy to the island to recruit an yesterday, it is a disciple of Xu Fanxin, a doctor of literature, named Xu Chen, and the master behind the Chongrenfang Fish Market. This morning, Xu Chen arrived at Xiashan Island to start the negotiation between the big boss and the three masters on the island, named Peng Ze and Geng Yanqiu, and then Li Wei, who was on Changshan Island, arrived, and this Li Wei was sent by the Wang family. I don't know the content of the conversation, the people in it are Peng Ze's cronies, our people can't get close, and then the two sides fought a big battle on the island, but I don't know, and then there was a loud noise on the island, I don't know what. Wan An still had that indifferent expression, and then said: "Later, Xu Chen led people to Changshan Island, which should have started to attack the island, and then Li Wei never appeared again. Later, there was another loud noise on the island, and finally the battle should have ended, and Peng Ze and the others then arrived with people. Later, Xu Chen never came down again, thinking that Xu Chen had won. We have too few spies on Changshan Island, and that's all the news we got. ”

"Got it. Wan An said so much, but the head of the Wan family only had these three faint words.

In Yuzhang City, another big mansion.

"Father, Huang Sheng is back!"

The man surnamed Huang, who rushed home from Guishan Island, was being led into the study of the head of the Huang family by a slender young man at this moment.

"Oh, Huang Sheng is back!" the head of the Huang family put down the book in his hand and said with a smile at Huang Sheng.

"Family master!" As soon as Huang Sheng entered the door, he pushed the golden mountain and bowed down.

"Excuse me! I've worked hard for you all these years!" said the head of the Huang family with a smile still on his face.

"Huang Sheng is ashamed! he didn't fulfill the great trust of the head of the family!" Huang Sheng still knelt on the ground with his head down.

"It's okay, I sent you to Changshan Island just to prevent trouble, it doesn't matter what happens, it's good that people come back!"

"Get up, always speak clearly, look down at you, I'm tired too. The head of the family's ridicule made Huang Sheng's face blush.

Huang Sheng stood up and told all the qiē that happened on Changshan Island, focusing on the two loud noises, and Huang Sheng, who was immersed in the scene, could naturally feel the importance of those two unusual loud noises.

"Xu Chen, it seems that Brother Xu has accepted a good disciple this time!" The head of the Huang family was more concerned about Xu Chen's pacification of Changshan Island in one day, but he didn't care about the loud noise, which is also the norm for all people who have not heard it with their own ears, and they will naturally not pay attention to it if they are not deeply impressed. Moreover, in the eyes of these great families, the role of man is more reflected in his intellect than in those gadgets.

"Oh, you're tired too, let's go down and rest first!" said the head of the Huang family to Huang Sheng.

After Huang Sheng retreated, he asked his son, "Is there any news from Wanjia?"

"Father, no!" the young man said lightly, but there was a hint of unhappiness in his eyes.

The head of the Huang family grasped the slightest unhappiness, and asked with a smile: "If you have anything else, don't hold it back, just say it!"

The young man saw through his father, and fortunately he told the doubts that had been hidden in his heart.

"Father, why do we have to look at Wan Jia's face and act?" the young man was indeed a little excited, and he actually said such an over-the-top word.

"Hehe, it's good to be able to endure it for so long, I remember when your father asked your grandfather about this, he was not as old as you. The head of the Huang family didn't care about the young man's tone, but said with a smile.

The young man on the other side was stunned by his father's answer.

"Don't be stupid and look at it, this matter will wait for a few years for my father to tell you slowly. The head of the Huang family was very satisfied with his son's attitude, the same as he was back then, and then saw that his son was still standing there, shook his head again, and sighed: "You are also the same as your father and me, you are a person who breaks the casserole and asks the end, but your father really can't tell you now, you will know in two years, you just need to remember one thing now, you must not be disrespectful to Wan Shijun, the second son of the Wan family, remember!"

"Yes!" the young man said to his father, and although he was still full of doubts, he still agreed.

The head of the Huang family looked at his son, and was also a little relieved, his son learned well, his temperament was also stable, and there was no restlessness of young people, so he could rest assured that he would be able to hand over the burden to him at that time.

Similar conversations are taking place in several counties around Poyang Lake, with Changshan Island at the center of the conversation. The reactions of the interlocutors were also very different, some were excited, some were angry, and some were calm.

In the blink of an eye, it was evening, and most of the people sent out by Wang Fu came back, and some of the family patriarchs who were close to each other came to Wang's house in Xiyuan Town after a while.

Wang Yuan, the head of the Wang family, had recovered his former indifference at this moment, and was sitting upright in the living room of his home to entertain several family masters who had come early.

"Brother Wang, this matter of Changshan Island ......" a housemaster who couldn't sit still said loudly, and several houseowners on the side also stopped greeting and looked at him with concern. The people who came so early were naturally some of the most breathless guys.

"Don't worry, let's wait until the big guys are all here. Wang Yuan said lightly.

"Hehe, it's okay to wait for everyone to talk about it, it's okay!" said the head of the family who spoke out just now with a wry smile. Although he was in a hurry, he couldn't show that he couldn't hold his breath in front of everyone, so he had to hold his mind and wait quietly. Seeing this, the others didn't say much, and they all fell silent.

It was in this strange atmosphere that the seats in the living room were filled one by one.

The last one to arrive was also a middle-aged man named Wu Rui, the eldest young master of the Wu family.

"Brother Wu has finally arrived, and the younger brother has been waiting here for a long time. Wang Yuan saw that the last person had also arrived, so he spoke up.

"I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed, there is something at home that has been delayed, so it's too late, and I hope you will forgive me. As soon as Wu Rui came in, he found that he was indeed the last one, and hurriedly apologized to everyone.

No way, only he has the lowest status among everyone, and the rest of the people are all heads of various families, and he is just ...... Gentleman. His father is almost eighty years old, but he still strictly abides by the ancient patriarchal precepts, and he will never pass it on to future generations until the day he dies.

Their Wu family moved to Yuzhang from Shandong in recent decades, Wu Rui left his hometown in Shandong when he was very young, and his impression of there was far less profound than Yuzhang City, and he also regarded himself as a Yuzhang person from the bottom of his heart.

But his father didn't think so, although his father was amiable on the surface, Wu Rui knew that his father looked down on these southern barbarians in his bones, and his father had the pride of a thousand-year-old family in Shandong that he couldn't understand. Under the influence of their father, their family has also been strictly adhering to their family's ancestral teachings.

For example, when the sacrifice is made every year, the family here in Yuzhang County is more relaxed in terms of etiquette, and women can also enter the ancestral hall, and the whole process is relatively casual, just like the family gets together for a meal. This kind of atmosphere has always been longed for by Wu Rui when he was a child, but his father still strictly adheres to the original set, and denounces the people here as barbarians and uneducated, which makes Wu Rui helpless for a while.

For another example, many families in Yuzhang County will pass on the position of head of the family to their young sons when the head of the previous generation is just over sixty, and they will retire behind the scenes to retire to live their old age. And his father will be eighty years later, but he still doesn't mention it, which also makes it so that when he was a child, he and his partner who played together have long become the head of a certain family, and he can still only be called "Wu Gongzi" like his son.

In order to make it easier to distinguish, the world is subdivided into "Da Wu Gongzi" and "Xiao Wu Gongzi", and his little grandson is nicknamed "Xiao Xiao Wu". As soon as you hear these titles, you know that they are not respectful words.

As for coming late this time, it was because his father demanded that the whole family must finish the dinner every day, and the rest of the people could not retreat until the father had withdrawn from the table. Even this time, Wu Rui came here to hide from his father, his father's old-fashioned temperament was absolutely desperate, and he would not let him participate in such a dirty thing as fighting for a bandit's den.

"But Dad, you don't want to think that our family is originally an outsider, the foundation is thin, if you don't do something, sooner or later you will be marginalized, can you rely on your identity as a Confucian to keep so many people in our family?" Wu Rui thought in his heart.

"Brother Wu, I must have eaten something rare and delicious for today's dinner, right?" a mocking voice pulled Wu Rui back from his reverie.

"That's it, we people in the wild land have really not tried this delicacies of the Shandong wealthy family, why don't we bring some to Brother Wu too, after waiting for so long, everyone hasn't eaten dinner!"

It can also be seen from here that Wu Rui's embarrassing position in Yuzhang County is due to the asymmetry of identity, and more importantly, the Wu family is flaunted by the wealthy family of Shandong everywhere, which is incompatible with the local family.

"Hehe, you guys laughed, laughed. Wu Rui has long been accustomed to this kind of ridicule, and his temper has long been worn off.

"How is Old Wu lately?" After Wang Yuan saw this, he was busy playing a round for Wu Rui.

"It's okay, my dad's body has been quite strong lately. Wu Rui said with a smile.

"That's good, I'm going to pay a visit another day. ”

The greetings officially ended, and as Wu Rui sat down, the conversation between the heads of the families began. In fact, as long as people who are familiar with Yuzhang County and the surrounding family forces come to take a look, they can find that in addition to the strength of the Wang family, the rest of the people sitting in this room are all the heads of small and medium-sized families. If Xu Chen had a deeper understanding of these family forces, he would be able to find that the people in this room were almost the people behind the people he buried with firecrackers.

"You must know what happened here, so Wang won't be verbose here, let's just talk about your own opinions!" Wang Yuan picked up the topic.

"What else is there to say, of course, we just send someone over and snatch Changshan Island back, we have been working hard for so many years, we can't finally let outsiders pick peaches, right?" a tall middle-aged man shouted in a loud voice.

"Yes, it's time to teach them a lesson, our people are not easy to bully. Another middle-aged man chimed in.

"But, that's someone sent by the government! can we kill him too?" said the other head of the family hesitantly.

"What kind of official sent person! Isn't it just that Wang Xian sent a Lao Shizi Xuanfu envoy named Xu Xu, he doesn't even have a serious official body, and if he kills him, he will be killed! As for that Wang Xian, who is not at home to compose poems and go to this Poyang Lake to make trouble with the wind and rain, I don't want to be an official by him!" The tall middle-aged man still muttered in a loud voice, as if what Wang Xian had suffered over the years was caused by their small and medium-sized families.

"I heard that Xu Chen is Xu Fan's disciple?" asked a family head to Wang Yuan.

"That's right, Xu Fan's new disciple last month is known all over the city. Wang Yuan replied.

"Isn't it just a petty official from the eighth grade! It's still a matter of being a guilty person, whether he can get out of Yuzhang City alive, what's the matter!" said the loud man again.

"Brother Wang, why didn't the people from the Luo family and the Huang family come?" Wu Rui observed the people in the hall and suddenly asked.

"Alas...... Not to mention, the two of them withdrew from Changshan Island early in the morning, and all the people sent back without a single drop. Another family owner who was good friends with Wu Rui replied.

"What about our people?" Wu Rui asked again.

"It's still unclear, according to the news that came back, the people from the government should be attacking Changshan Island, there are still more than 300 people on the island, and the cottage is also strong, and Li San should still be able to support it. Wang Yuan sighed and said, Li Wei's death is a big loss for the Wang family, after all, every foundation building master can occupy a high position in the family's worship, not to mention that Li Wei, a family born and raised, is loyal to outsiders who can't compare.

"Then what are we waiting for! Wait until the officers and soldiers break through the cottage and then collect the corpses?" the tall man had already begun to get impatient.

"Brother Wang, it's better for you to get an idea, we all listen to you. A head of the house who sat at the top said.

"Now that everyone has decided. Wang Yuan spoke slowly, and he didn't know what this group of people had decided, Wang Yuan paused and said: "Then let's send some people to bring back our own people, since Wang Taishou has intervened, we also have to give him a face, and everyone will sit down and talk about the affairs of Changshan Island in the future." ”

The boss has already spoken, and the others are not good at saying anything, and besides, we are going to pick up the people back, can the people from the government agree? There will definitely be some disputes at that time, and at that time, a few people will be injured by mistake, presumably Wang Taishou can't say anything......