Chapter 142 There is only one Marquis in Qingdong City, and that is my father, Qingdong Marquis!
Du Laihua's mental state was completely different from before. Although he walked to the front yard to greet Xu An, his long hair was disheveled, his eyes were dull, and he looked weak.
"What are you doing here?"
"Yan Xihou is very forgetful!" Xu An said with a smile: "Didn't you say you wanted to treat me well?"
Du Laihua said to the people around him: "Go and prepare food."
Seeing Du Laihua withered like this, Xu An suddenly felt like he punched the cotton, and said boringly: "You have bad feng shui, so you won't eat anymore. Go get the land account book of your Marquis Mansion."
Hearing this, Du Laihua became more energetic and asked: "Why do you want my land account book?"
"Does the land in Qingdong City belong to you? That is my family's fiefdom!"
"What you said is correct, but these were all bought with money from my family after Qingdong Hou left."
"I know, I didn't ask you for it, I just looked it up."
Seeing Du Laihua's hesitation, Xu An sneered and said, "Why, you can't check it? Let's not talk about the Marquis checking your land details. My father is now the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Sooner or later, this matter of checking the land will have to fall to the local government."
Du Laihua thought for a moment and ordered someone to bring the account book.
Xu An and Xiao Luomu looked at the account books and pointed: "This piece of land is good, this piece of land is also good... Mr. Xiao Shang, please see if you can do business with Mr. Xiao Xiang. If you can find anything useful, choose
A few pieces..."
Xiao Luomu's eyes lit up and he said, "How can you be so embarrassed!"
"We are all brothers, don't be polite to me!"
"You came all the way, how can I still want something from you?"
"Are you wrong? In front of me, you are not the host of Qingdong City, I am!"
"Yes, yes, the young Marquis is the big landowner of Qingdong City!"
"Choose."
"Then I won't be polite?"
Listening to the two people muttering as if no one else was watching, Du Laihua became more and more uncomfortable and said suspiciously: "What are you talking about? This is my family's land..."
"I know." Xu An said without raising his head: "But it won't be the case soon."
Du Laihua looked around, then looked at Yue Jiti, who was standing next to Xu An with a tiger's eye, and hesitantly said: "You... want to rob?"
"Why are we robbing you? I have nothing to do!"
Xu An continued to flip through the account book and said: "With all the things you have done, do you think you can still keep your title? Can you keep these lands? You are lucky to be able to save your life!"
Xiao Luomu sighed: "Old Yan Xihou has worked hard all his life, but in the end he was defeated by his descendants. Brother Du, you are really the number one prodigal in Qingdong City!"
Uncle Cheng looked around and said: "Master, if it's convenient, please leave me some land. If I want to go home in the future, I can have a place to retire."
"It's easy to talk about!" Xu An took out one of the account books and gave it to Uncle Cheng: "You have to choose on your own, so I will respect you!"
Du Laihua's lips trembled and he sat down on the ground.
There was so much glory and arrogance before, but now there is so much abjection and decadence.
Seeing that the fire was coming, Xu An walked to Du Laihua and squatted down, saying: "Let your housekeeper and accountant come over to meet me and build the land I want quickly. This will be good for you and me."
"If you are really desperate in the future, and the land is mine, I can still give you a few pieces. If you leave it all in your hands, you will get nothing in the future."
Du Laihua said: "If I don't give it to you, you won't get anything!"
Xu An slapped him heavily on the shoulder and said sternly: "I'm not scaring you. I'm afraid it won't be easy for you to die together. You have also seen the attitude of the Qingdong City Government Office towards me. When the time comes to check your house, what do you think?
Will they turn to me? Will they not take this opportunity to curry favor with me and my father? I can still get what I want!"
"I am coming to you now to give you a chance and to give them a chance."
Xu An glanced at the people in the Marquis Mansion behind Du Laihua and said: "If you want to continue to live a good life in Qingdong City in the future, just hold my and Mr. Xiao's legs tightly. With our two families here, you will not starve to death.
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"But if you persist in your stubbornness, Mr. Xiao and I will leave you to fend for yourself!"
Xu An asked Xiao Luomu: "Is that so, Brother Xiao?"
Xiao Luomu nodded and said: "As long as they can work, my Xiao family doesn't care about raising more people."
The Xu family and the Xiao family are the symbols of Qingdong City’s status and wealth. Now that these two families are together, they are Qingdong City’s biggest backers!
The people behind Du Laihua were not stupid. They immediately encouraged Du Laihua to come, and some even pushed him.
"Master Hou..."
"Master Hou!"
"Make a decision quickly, Lord Marquis!"
Du Laihua was helpless, knowing that there was nothing he could do to save his life, so he nodded.
The housekeeper and the accountant hurriedly walked out of the crowd and trotted up to Xu An and Xiao Luomu like dogs.
"It's fair to say you know the current affairs."
Xu An sneered, stood up, looked at everyone, and said sternly: "You all remember this!"
"There is only one Marquis in Qingdong City, and that is my father, Marquis Qingdong!"
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On the street, Zhou Chuan and Zhou Nuo were browsing the shops selling gadgets on the roadside.
"Brother, doesn't this dress look good?"
Zhou Nuo spread out the clothes on the shop floor and looked very happy, but Zhou Chuan on the side looked careless.
Opposite the shop is a stall selling snacks. There is a surprisingly thin man sitting drinking tea and playing with stones in his hands.
Zhou Chuan instinctively glanced at him and found nothing unusual, and his thoughts returned to his sister.
"Xiao Nuo, have you really decided not to go?"
"Not going."
Seeing his sister's decisive answer, Zhou Chuan reminded: "The message Xiao Luofeng passed on focused on your archery skills. The emperor and the others mainly want to see you, a master archer."
Zhou Nuo shook his head and said: "What is there to see the emperor? I don't like to be watched either."
As he said that, Zhou Nuo held up his clothes and compared them in front of him. Seeing Zhou Chuan frowning, he asked, "Brother, do you want to go?"
Zhou Chuandao: "You know I'm used to being undisciplined, and I have no intention of becoming an official. I'm just worried that if we don't respect the imperial edict, we will get you into trouble."
"Don't worry, Zhao Cheng has many ways, let him find a way." Zhou Nuo turned to the shop owner and asked, "How much does this clothes cost?"
Zhou Chuan sensed something from these words and asked, "Do you want to follow Zhao Cheng back to the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
"Yes, brother, don't you want to meet your benefactor?" Zhou Nuo chuckled and said, "That's wrong. Don't you want to accompany Sister Taozhi?"
"We are all children of the world. How can we have so much affection and love? Just appreciate each other."
"Tch, it sounds like what you said is true. Why didn't I realize that Sister Taozhi admires you?"
"Xiao Nuo, you've gone too far!"
Zhou Nuo suddenly frowned and looked towards the snack stall opposite.
Zhou Chuan asked: "What's wrong?"
"Suddenly I felt a terrible smell."
Zhou Chuan followed Zhou Nuo's gaze and found that the man who was sitting drinking tea and playing with stones was missing.
"I also noticed that he is a master."
"Are you here for us?"
Zhou Chuan thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "You are sharper than me, but you didn't even sense the danger before, which means he had the chance to take action against us, but he didn't."
Zhou Nuo was surprised: "No, he is looking for Zhao Cheng!"