Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 443: Chapter 108: Longyan! Advancing to Heavenly Human Realm_2

Gu Hanyu took a deep look at Wang Shouzhe, sighed, and said: “Family Head Shouzhe, let’s speak frankly.”

“Everyone can see the changing landscape of Changning Guard City. The Wang family, and several of the Wang family’s in-law families, now all look up to you as their leader. This prestige and influence has even superseded the Celestial Lei Family.”

“If Family Head Shouzhe does not nod his head in agreement, those exiled clansmen of the Huangfu Clan wouldn’t even dare to step outside of Changning Guard City. Not even the City Lord can protect them.”

Wang Shouzhe took his time sipping the Spiritual Tea, thought for a moment, and said: “If Immortal Gu is willing to tell the truth, then I will briefly mention a few things.”

“The Huangfu Clan has greatly wronged my Wang Clan in the past. Although all the principal criminals have met their end, the damage inflicted on my Wang Clan has never been compensated.”

Gu Hanyu nodded and said: “Family Head Shouzhe is absolutely right. It is only fair the Huangfu Clan compensates accordingly. Could you please provide a suitable plan, Family Head Shouzhe?”

“If that’s the case…” Wang Shouzhe pondered, “a compensation of one million Qian Gold, and I will let bygones be bygones.”

“One million Qian Gold?”

Gu Hanyu was visibly taken aback. Could this be the famed lion opening its mouth?

She hesitated and asked, “Family Head Shouzhe, isn’t that a bit much?”

Even at the peak of the Huangfu Clan’s prosperity, they would have to raise funds from various sources to produce one million Qian Gold at once. And now, many properties of the languishing Huangfu Clan had been pawned off.

After deducting confiscated assets, auction discounts, etc., the leftover Huangfu Clan members can only muster up tens of thousands of Qian Gold at most.

“One must take responsibility for one’s actions,” Wang Shouzhe’s eyes became icy. “Has Immortal Gu ever considered the situation of our Wang family back then? How many people sympathized with us? If they can’t come up with so much Qian Gold, the Huangfu Clan has techniques from their family that could be used as compensation, like the ‘Red Dragon True Verses’, as well as some mid-to-low grade techniques.”

Gu Hanyu now understood.

The Wang family’s businesses were thriving, Qian Gold was not particularly important to them. Instead, it was the lack of backbone in their family such as the inheritance of Top Grade techniques and the storage of some mid-to-low grade techniques.

Wang Shouzhe’s demand was undoubtedly targeting the Huangfu Clan’s family techniques.

Gu Hanyu considered for a moment and said: “I will convey this message. However, I cannot guarantee Huangfu Chengpeng will agree. Regardless of his decision, I have fulfilled the favor I owed. The future of the Huangfu Clan will be their own decision.”

“In that case, why don’t you stay here in the Wang family and study the Bridal Clothes Blood Gu?” Wang Shouzhe suggested with a meaningful smile. “Huangfu Chengpeng is an intelligent person; I believe he will make a wise decision.”

“That will be all from me then,” Gu Hanyu stood up and bowed gracefully.

She understood how frightening the phrase “forced by circumstances” could be.

As the saying goes, “everyone pushes a falling wall.” The Huangfu Clan was being pushed into a dead end. She had already done what she could by mediating for the Huangfu Clan during this crucial period. The rest was beyond her control.

…

In the following days, rumors swirled around Changning Guard City.

All revolved around the Huangfu Clan’s collaboration with the Yinsha Sect to plot against other clans and harm the interests of Da Qian. The members of the Huangfu Clan involved were naturally arrested or executed.

The Huangfu Clan’s properties were also set for auction, most of it being confiscated for the city treasury, only a small portion being left for the remaining members of the Huangfu Clan.

This was the fate they shared with the previous Ma Huangfu Clan.

It was just that due to the vastness of the Celestial Huangfu Family’s property, and many of those properties had been pawned away, the situation was much more complicated than before.

Furthermore, during the Huangfu Clan’s mortgage of their properties, they mortgaged to noble houses from other cities such as the Xiao Clan of Anyuan City, while the noble houses of Changning City were unwilling to let the noble houses from other cities set up in Changning City. As such, the situation became very complicated, and the handling process extremely lengthy.

The major families of Changning Guard City, including the Wang family, decided it was best to preemptively redeem those properties.

Those other city noble families who accepted the Huangfu Clan’s pawned properties saw the unity amongst the native noble families of Changning City and did not wish to stir up the hornet’s nest. Properties were just properties; if they were squeezed by the noble families of Changning City, these properties would become more of a liability.

In this mutually beneficial situation, those pawned properties were quickly evaluated and redeemed.

The only thing that caused Wang Shouzhe a headache was that in order to defeat the Huangfu Clan and increase chances of winning, he had not only completely invested all of the Wang family’s profits from recent years, but he also became indebted of over one million Qian Gold.

It would now be difficult for the Wang family to come up with a large sum of Qian Gold without cashing in their painstakingly acquired top-grade Spiritual Artifacts and Feiyu Spirit Treasures.

Therefore,

Wang Shouzhe had to once again set his sights on Qian’s Bank.

Wang Shouzhe’s courtyard welcomed a new guest – Qian Xuean.

Qian Xuean’s cultivation base hadn’t grown much over the years, but his body had become more prosperous, a sign that he had been raking in quite a bit of profit these years.

It was already summer, and even in the cool pavilion, the temperature was not low.