Not far from the main entrance of the City Lord's Mansion.
Li Jie suddenly laughed, and his laughter attracted everyone's attention.
"Since Brother Huang An is busy, we brothers should go get ready first!"
"Then we can meet again later and advance and retreat together?"
Mashan smiled and asked for everyone's opinions.
"Okay! Let's move forward and retreat together."
A smile flashed across Yang Chao's eyes and he agreed.
He glanced at his friend Ma Shan, and the four of them said goodbye to each other. After saying a few polite words, they dispersed.
As for the other three followers who witnessed their conversation, they were not qualified to participate at all.
Before Huang An and the others arrived just now, Li Shui and the others were discussing the matter in private, but they were not allowed to participate.
What's more, when Huang An and Lord Ding come?
They feel a genuine sense of frustration and loss.
No one in the family is without money. When it comes to the rise and fall of the family, or even the survival of the family, they are still like duckweeds in the wind, without any possibility of making their own decisions.
It's so uncomfortable to be controlled by others.
They looked at each other and sighed in unison.
"Brother Zhao, Brother Zhang, why don't you go sit with me?"
The head of the Zhao family and the head of the Zhang family looked at each other and nodded at the same time:
"good!"
The three of them finally looked back at the half-opened main entrance of the City Lord's Mansion and left together.
Although I didn't go into the city lord's mansion today to meet Zhao Yan.
But these seven people still feel that they have gotten what they want.
That is the attitude of the city lord Zhao Yan!
This attitude refers to the extent to which Zhao Yan wants to extract benefits from them, and also refers to the extent to which Mr. Zhao Yan wants to suppress them.
Although the situation is still not good, overall it is still controllable.
Huang An's performance just now was quite obvious, he wanted them to spend money to buy "evidence" of their crimes to protect his own safety.
As long as you don't die, everything is fine.
Huang An's disguise was more than half successful. He successfully confused these wealthy families.
Besides, Huang An and his party were walking in a hurry with their account books in hand.
Although it was only after eight o'clock in the morning, the temperature had already started to heat up at eight o'clock in the hot summer season.
Everyone was sweating on their foreheads, especially the eight ordinary soldiers walking at the end. All of them felt sore and numb in their arms.
However, after persisting for a while, they soon arrived at the Zhao Family Martial Arts Hall.
Without stopping, Huang An took the lead and walked towards the half-open door of the martial arts hall.
The gatekeeper today is still Liuzi.
Seeing that Huang An, who had just gone out not long ago, appeared again, he was shocked and thought something had happened, so he hurried over.
"Brother Huang!"
He shouted, and then he felt relieved when he saw the smile on Huang An's face.
"Liuzi, take us to the backyard!"
Huang An greeted Liu Zi, and then said to the people behind him:
"Follow me! Hold on!"
Without further ado, let’s step into the martial arts gym first.
They quickly arrived and stood outside a small courtyard in the backyard.
This courtyard is exactly the courtyard where Huang An has always been in the martial arts gym.
At the beginning, he paid the "rent" to the little money fan, but since he left, no one has lived in this small courtyard.
But Zhao Yan would come every half month to sweep the dust.
After Zhao Yan and Xiaocai Mi left with their master Zhao Dun and took a large number of people to Youzhou City, the servants and servants of the Zhao Family Martial Arts Hall never came in again.
After cleaning up last night, he slept in this courtyard.
He still has some feelings for this yard.
However, for my own plan, this yard will still suffer the fire it deserves.
Next door is the courtyard of Senior Sister Zhao and Little Senior Sister. It is now empty and no one lives there.
This was good news. What he was most afraid of was burning down the yard of Senior Sister Zhao and Master, which would be troublesome.
Huang An's hands were not idle. He glanced at Luo Feiyao and shook his head in disgust, his heart full of disgust.
However, he didn't say anything to Luo Feiyao. Instead, he turned his head to look at Liu Zi's face and gave instructions to Liu Zi.
"Liu Zi, open the door!"
"Hey, Brother Huang!"
Liu Zi quickly stepped forward and opened the courtyard door.
"Everyone come in!"
With a word of instruction, Huang An stepped directly into the courtyard.
The yard is not big, just three rooms, with a small yard covered with low grass.
Last night, we tidied up three rooms and made certain improvements to two of them.
On the stone floors of these two rooms, a layer of wooden boards was laid overnight.
These wooden boards are specially prepared for placing account books.
Huang An led the people straight to an empty room that had been packed up.
He turned slightly sideways, pushed open the ajar door with his shoulder, and then entered the house directly.
Putting the account book directly on the wooden board on the ground, Huang An moved his arms and gave orders to everyone.
"Put all the ledgers here! Once you've put them away, go out to the yard and wait, and relax your arms!"
When everyone heard this, they were overjoyed and stepped forward one after another and entered the house one by one.
Huang An directed from the side, asking everyone to put all the ledgers in the same order as before.
After placing the account books, these people did not stop, but went straight out of the house and went to the yard to stand under the shade of the trees to rest and enjoy the cool air.
Including Luo Feiyao and Liu Zi, there are sixteen of them in total, and this room cannot accommodate them.
After the account books were put away and everyone went out, Liuzi rolled his eyes and quickly followed.
He was very discerning, and he saw everyone sweating on their foreheads, and many elder brothers panting rapidly in their chests, panting like cows, looking tired and overheated.
He quickly called someone and took a bucket to fetch cold well water.
Most of these soldiers were ordinary people, and their physiques were not much stronger. Although it was only about nine o'clock in the morning, they were all very tired in the hot summer weather.
Everyone went out except Huang An.
However, there is an eyesore in the house.
It's Luo Feiyao.
She stood by the wall inside the door, staring at Huang An.
His eyes were like looking at a prisoner, and he didn't feel that his behavior was rude at all.
She was also very unconscious. Even if Huang An deliberately showed disgusting eyes many times, she turned a blind eye and still followed him her own way.
Huang An secretly sighed and didn't rush to urge anyone.
He had to think of a way and use a suitable reason to keep her away for a while.
I briefly checked the placement of the ledger and found that there were no errors.
Huang An breathed a long sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.
Sudden.
"What on earth are you going to do?"
A crisp sound sounded in the house.
Luo Feiyao finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Huang An frowned slightly and glanced at her lightly. He was about to explain, but something moved in his heart and he continued to carefully check the account book and ignored her.
His current behavior is as if he didn't hear Luo Feiyao's words.
Luo Feiyao saw Huang An's indifference, bit her silver teeth, snorted, and walked out.
So stingy.
However, even though she was angry, she still didn't go far and stood outside the courtyard, staring closely at the door of the house.
The smell in the house is not pleasant. She is not a masochist. She still knows the difference between staying in a smelly house and standing outside in the courtyard to enjoy the cool breeze.
She stood two or three steps away from the door, staring into the house.
Anyone can clearly see the expression on her face, her brows are furrowed and her eyes are full of doubts.
Obviously, this woman, who has always been arrogant and arrogant, does not allow herself to fail to see even the slightest bit of Huang An's operation.
She can't stand her own stupidity.
For a moment, she even suspected that what she saw was just Huang An's pretense. He had no way to deal with the big families in the city, he was just holding on.
However, this idea was rejected by her as a mere overthinking.
The changes in Xialin Village are not fake.
Huang An must be planning something, but she was too stupid to see it.
Thinking of this, she became even more depressed.
Inside the house, after checking the last batch of ledgers, Huang An breathed a sigh of relief.
He glanced at Luo Feiyao and his thoughts about getting rid of her became more intense.
After thinking for a moment, Huang An judged whether the plan was feasible. After about two or three breaths, the corners of Huang An's mouth curled up, and then he immediately returned to his normal expression.
He stepped out of the house.
He reached out and closed the door, then turned around.
Liuzi was very discerning. When he saw Huang An coming out, he immediately put down the porcelain bowl he was raising to prepare for his own drink.
Then, as he stood up, he held up the large porcelain bowl that was placed on the side stone table with both hands, filled it with cold well water, and walked straight towards Huang An.
"Brother Huang, drink water!"
Holding the bowl in both hands, he smiled and looked like a bitch.
When Huang An saw this, he laughed and reached out to take the big porcelain bowl.
"Hey, you are quite clever!"
He also complimented him casually, which made Liu Zi grin from ear to ear with joy.
The water in the bowl was extremely clear and had just been fetched from the deep well in the front yard. Even if you haven't drank it yet, just holding it in your hand is ice cold.
Huang An took the big porcelain bowl, raised his neck, and drank it.
The coolness that surged up in his chest made him feel refreshed.
He handed the bowl back to Liu Zi, and reached out to wipe the water stains from the corners of his mouth. Seeing that the sweat on the foreheads of the brothers had disappeared a lot, and the rise and fall of the chests were not visible, Huang An knew that the brothers had almost rested.
He coughed, attracting everyone's attention.
Huang An issued the second order today.
"Go to the City Lord's Mansion now and get all the case files and evidence from the past three years!
Just put it in that room!"
While Huang An was speaking, he pointed to the empty room next door where the account books were stored.
The slate floor of this room was also paved with flammable pine boards.
When everyone heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then they all agreed.
The leader of the team was about to go out in front of Huang An to assure him that he would be able to accomplish what he asked.
However, Huang An stopped his behavior with a look.
He suddenly smiled and asked Ding Zhi, who was at the back of the crowd:
"Master Ding, how about you take them with you?"
This old guy still wants to be lazy?
After years of extorting money from him, this time he found an opportunity to test and win over him while at the same time venting the depression in his chest.
Looking at the smiling Huang An, Ding Zhi was speechless and choked up, knowing that Huang An was targeting him.
He pursed his lips and finally nodded in agreement.
He saw clearly that Huang An was clearly trying to embarrass this old man.
What else can be done?
Can only be appointed.
Fortunately, he was mature enough to know that Huang An didn't have much ill will towards him, otherwise he would definitely not be so submissive now.