Chapter 67 (1/2)

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Chapter 67

Prefecture Chief

Three days pa.s.sed quickly.

During these few days, although Chengfeng was home, none of the people usually friendly with the Li family visited to check on them. Even their neighbours avoided them like they had the plague whenever they saw the Li family members out and about.

Everyone knew what happened.

The Young Master Li was not dead, and upon his return, he had murdered the arrogant monster You San, even driving away all the other gangsters circling the area to take advantage of the chaos. But that did not mean it was the end of everything.

The person behind all of this must be Young Master Zhan, perhaps even the prefecture chief, Zhang Junheng. Everyone was waiting to see what they both would do next.

No one expected the Li family to be alive after this whole ordeal, nor were they bold enough to interact with the Li family.

Early that morning, crowds stood along both sides of the road north of the city. All of them looked happy, at least on the surface.

Whenever their smile or joy was gone, a gangster would come forward to kick them. “Hey you, did someone die in your family? Why the frown? I'll actually kill your family if you don't smile now!”

The gangsters were all in regular clothing, mixed among the crowd as they maintained the celebratory atmosphere.

There was a large group carrying Wanmin umbrellas with many tiny paper strips hanging off the edges with phrases of wors.h.i.+p.

“Ah Qian!” Brother Bai, the one who previously swam in the icy river, sneezed. He wiped mucus off his nose and stood on his toes to look. “Eh, it's here, it's here! Get ready!”

Everyone turned to see a luxurious four-horse carriage heading slowly towards them at the end of the road. Next to the horse carriage was a human carriage lifted by four people.

Everyone knew these were Young Master Zhan and Cheng'an City's Prefecture Chief Zhang Junheng.

“Quick, quick!” Brother Bai glared at his subordinates and they gave orders immediately. The crowds suddenly erupted in pa.s.sionate cheers while an old man in front hobbled to the middle of the road knelt down and yelled, “Thank the heavens!”

The soldier standing in front of the carriage to make way shouted, 'What are you doing! Get out of the way!”

Zhang Junheng ordered the carriage to stop and walked down, shouting sternly at the soldier, “That's enough!” He then walked up slowly and regarded the man suspiciously. “Old man, what is this about?”

The old man looked emotional. “You personally led your soldiers into battle to kill the beast, with no regards to your own safety, just to protect all our lives! I represent the one hundred thousand citizens of Cheng'an to thank you, Sir!”

He then struggled to kowtow.

Zhang Junheng was red with pride, quickly helping the old man up as he yelled, “I may not be a very gifted man but as the chief of one hundred thousand people, if did not volunteer to protect you all against the beast, that would be betraying both the heavens and my people! Old man, get up. I cannot accept this!”

Brother Bai suddenly yelled amidst the crowd, “Prefecture Chief, you protected your people bravely, you can accept this!”

All the other gangsters quickly yelled, “Yeah!”

The filler crowds all showed a.s.sent. “Yeah!” Then they all fell to their knees.

Brother Bai secretly waved and the people carrying the Wanmin umbrellas rushed forward to surround the prefecture chief. Zhan Qisheng leaned against the wall of his horse carriage and opened the curtains, smirking as he watched. He whispered, “I have met shameless people but I've never met anything like that before.”