After waiting for a long time, everyone finally saw someone open the door and come in, and everyone came out of their sluggish mood and immediately got up.

But it was not the Liu City Lord and his wife who entered the door, but a military servant, and he said apologetically: "The Liu City Lord can't come, I have something to do, he asked me to tell everyone, whatever you spend, everything is his, don't treat yourself as an outsider." ”

"Well, I know, you can go back. Xiao Tang frowned and explained to the martial servant.

Everyone once again entered the mood of loss, and sat down weakly.

Zhao Xun blinked, beckoned the waiter on the side, and ordered some delicious food, although the brothers and sisters were not in the mood, they finally got together, which was already more important than anything else.

While waiting for the wine and food to be served, Zhao Xun opened the topic and asked Jin Tan, "Little Jinzi, what do you plan to do in the future?"

Often such topics can open a person's conversation box, not to mention, Jin Tan is so able to say, this time, everyone gradually opened their minds, and the whole table was full of laughter, after all, they were good friends for many years, it can be said that they were born and died, and the topic must be indispensable.

After the food was served, the brothers and sisters first stood up and raised their glasses to drink.

If you drink with others, it will definitely not have such an effect, but Zhao Xun is in front of them, no matter how empty the words are, it is from the bottom of his heart. The same is true for the others, without the slightest inhibitions.

After Jin Tan drank a glass of wine, he put down the glass, looked at Zhao Xun, and then looked at Xiao Tang and the others, his eyes were simply telling others that he had something in his heart, but he pretended to say something and stopped.

Zhao Xun smiled bitterly for a while, and said, "If you have something to say, don't come to that set." ”

"Howler. ”

Jin Tan Tian smiled shamelessly, then poured another glass of wine, and said in a dark voice: "I sent my subordinates to investigate some news today, which is about the Liu City Lord and his wife. ”

Xiao Tang didn't think so, thinking that Jin Tan wanted to tell a joke and was using chopsticks to pick up vegetables, but suddenly the chopsticks froze in the air, and then he took it back and looked at Jin Tan with his hands on his chest.

"That's right, it's the Lord of Liucheng and his wife. ”

Jin Tan first affirmed what he had just said to Xiao Tang, and then explained: "The performance of these two people today is really a bit abnormal, not to mention anything else, the Liu City Lord quarreled with each other about a family patriarch, which is already a little suspicious, and I observed that Sister-in-law He seems to be in a very detached position, and even the priests of the temple are respectful to her, which is really a bit abnormal." ”

Zhao Xun frowned, what Jin Tan said happened to be what he observed today, and he had doubts in his heart.

The look on Vientiane's face did not change in the slightest, he stood up, walked to the door, opened the door with his broad palms, and went out to look twice, and only after making sure that no one was nearby did he come in and close the door tightly.

"My subordinates said that the reputation of the Lord of Liu City in Luoyan City is seriously bad, and he often oppresses the gentry and people here, and the patriarch of the big family here, he has already offended cleanly. ”

After Jin Tan finished speaking, there was not much doubt on everyone's faces, after all, what they saw and heard in a day today could already explain some problems.

Jin Tan continued: "The lord of Liucheng took advantage of his position to secretly collect money, and the patriarch of a big family said to my subordinates that the main money in Liucheng is very large, and it is often a price that ordinary families cannot afford, and if there is a family that is unwilling to give money, he will borrow land and not pay it back, which has caused many civilians in Luoyan City to have a hard time. Besides, some chambers of commerce, auction houses, and Liu City lords in Luoyan City took a fancy to their money, and directly forcibly collected money, and even directly adopted the method of extortion, not giving money, and directly asking others to get out. ”

Xiao Tang frowned, did not speak, and continued to listen.

"It's not surprising that most of the officials are greedy, but the strange thing is that Lord Liucheng is so greedy that he hasn't been defeated by the clerical leaders, which is a bit of a problem, because although the clergy is only about the world, there are really some things that go too far, and the clergy have the power to suppress them. ”

Therefore, this has to talk about Xiao Tang's sister-in-law, He Jinxiang. She is the goddaughter of Prince Kate of the Great Rock Kingdom, that is, the relative of the imperial family that we Liang Wuguo said, and she has a knighthood herself, and she is an earl, known as Earl Jinxiang. In this way, you can understand why, the lord of Liucheng City, a foreigner, dares to show off his might in Luoyan City, and he is not afraid of anything. ”

After everyone listened, they were all silent for a while, and they were all able to figure it out at this time, and after a while, Chen Yingsi said: "Isn't this very good, Xiaotang can have such relatives to help, and he will definitely go further in the future." ”

"Haha. ”

Jin Tan smiled, and then said: "It's hard to say, if my guess is right, the last inheritance left by Xiao Tang's father to him, maybe because of such a relationship, he shouldn't be able to get it." ”

Everyone's eyes were all locked on Xiao Tang, Xiao Tang frowned and blinked, it could be seen that he already knew the answer, but he didn't tell everyone.

Zhao Xun leaned back in the chair and looked at Xiao Tang with some sorrow in his eyes.

"What was the last inheritance that your uncle left you?"

"Falling Flame City. ”

After Xiao Tang finished speaking, the expressions in everyone's eyes changed.

The inheritance left by the patriarch of the Xiao family to Xiao Tang is the entire prosperous city, and today, Liu Chenghao's position as the city lord should have been Xiao Tang's.

"Did Liu Chenghao agree to his uncle's request back then?" asked Zhao Xun.

"Yes, he promised my father, as long as I came to Liang Wuguo, he would directly abdicate and give me the position of city lord. ”

After Xiao Tang finished speaking, he immediately added a sentence: "I don't want to be a city lord, I'm tired, I don't want only one of my relatives left, and I also become suspicious of each other." ”

After Zhao Xun listened, a smile appeared on his face, and there was endless contempt for Xiao Tang in his eyes. He then drank the wine off the table, then slammed the glass to the ground.

"Bump!"

The crowd changed color and their brows furrowed.

"What is the purpose of your father giving you this inheritance? Is it to let you revive the Xiao family and avenge him! Nothing! What do you use to fight with the royal family, what do you take revenge?"

Zhao Xun's whole face was red, and he roared at Xiao Tang.

Xiao Tang blinked his flushed eyes, turned his head away, and inhaled deeply through his nose.

"If you even give away the opportunity to avenge the murder of your father, you Xiao Tang will be a brute! I am deeply ashamed to be with you!"

Everyone didn't dare to speak, Chen Yingsi looked at Zhao Xun with her eyes, and then looked at Xiao Tang, who was sobbing and sobbing, and her heart was also full of sadness.

Reality is always cruel to the weak, and it is even more cruel to the weak who are burdened with a major mission.

If Xiao Tang came to Luoyan City for glory and wealth, and secretly survived, just be a dog with a tail. As long as his cousin and sister-in-law are served well, the rest of the food will definitely be rewarded to him in the future, and the life will be rich and expensive.

But!

He's not here for glory and riches!

He came to Luoyan City to avenge his father's murder in the future!

"Actually, I heard a piece of news today. ”

Jin Tan interjected: "Tonight, in a certain place, a city-wide meeting is being held in secret, and more than a thousand large and small patriarchs in Luoyan City, as well as people from various chambers of commerce, will all come. The main discussion was how to deal with the Lord of Liucheng and his wife. ”

After Zhao Xun listened, his eyes froze.

Jin Tan joked: "Do we still eat this wine and food?"

"It's still a fart!" Vientiane stood up straight, and then suddenly thought that this kind of thing was not something he could do, so he asked Xiao Tang, who was full of vicissitudes of life: "Xiao Tang, you say, go or not?"

Before Xiao Tang could reply, Zhao Xun said directly: "Go! Don't ask him, he still has his father in his heart." ”

Xiao Tang squeezed his fists and hurriedly caught up with Zhao Xun in front.

After a while, everyone found an extremely prosperous building according to the route said by the people under Jintan, which was actually an auction house in Luoyan City-Emgrand Auction House.

This is really clever, the auction house is full of people coming and going all the year round, and the people who come and go are also rich and noble, but it is difficult to find such a place to hold a secret meeting.

"I'm sorry, everyone, the whole venue has been wrapped up today, and you can't enter without an invitation. A waitress was at the door and stopped Zhao Xun and the others.

"We have invitations, you see. ”

Jin Tan took out a money bag, put it inside, grabbed a handful of purple gold, and released it again, making a crisp sound.

The waitress reluctantly looked away from the money bag and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm really sorry, we have a rule here......"

"Each of us has such an 'invitation'. Jin Tan leaned into the waitress's ear and exhaled softly.

The waitress was ashamed and ashamed, her ears were itchy and numb, and she was extremely nervous about Jintan in her heart, but after all, her ears were soft and she let everyone in.

Vientiane couldn't help but laugh as he watched from the sidelines, and asked, "Jintan, you said you, did you come in by selling your hue this time, or did you rely on money?"

"Ahem, this is the first time I've betrayed my hue, and my son didn't expect that his face is better than money. "Golden Beach is cheeky and authentic.

When everyone walked into the auction hall, they could hear the commotion inside, and they thought that it might be because of some problem, and they were arguing.

"Patriarch Lyle, you're a brute! You're a victim yourself, and you're still talking about it here!"

"President Hillary put away your arrogance, you and Patriarch Lyle are all the way, being bullied, and accusing people of resisting, you are really brutes!"

"You are the beasts! In ancient times, there was such a truth, as long as you work hard, you can make a lot of money, complain all the time, and complain all your life! You deserve your family to get smaller and smaller!"

"I see that the people who complain about the city lord here are all families that are about to go bankrupt, and those real big families are not as radical as you!"

"My Tower family is one of the top ten families in Luoyan City, and we still want to resist Liu Chenghao! If we are not united, we will always be oppressed by Liu Chenghao, do you want to be treated like this for the rest of your life?"

"Patriarch of the Iron Tower, your current family situation is so bad, do you know what the reason is? It's because you want to resist all day long, you want this and that, and you don't manage it well at all!"

"You people who resist, it's ridiculous, can you fight the goddaughter of the prince of the empire?"

......

There was a lot of noise inside, when Zhao Xun and the others walked in, there was a black miasma, everyone was arguing, more than a thousand people were all bigwigs from all walks of life in Luoyan City, and there was no authority recognized by everyone, and they came out to gather opinions, but they were arguing with each other like scolding each other.

But after Zhao Xun and the others came in, someone immediately discovered them, not because of anything else, but because their group of people were too young, and they knew at a glance that they were not the patriarchs of the family, the leaders of the Chamber of Commerce or the like.

"How did you bunnies break in? Didn't I say that no idle people are allowed to come in here!" A middle-aged man walked up to Zhao Xun and the others as he spoke, only to see that he was wearing a card on his clothes, which read: Patriarch Lyle.