mily was on their knees. From Xu Changqing, the patriarch, to his wife, Liu shi, his elderly mother, down to the servants and guards, they all knelt together in the main hall of the mansion.When the...Chapter 1164: Speak While Kneeling >

Before the person arrives, their voice reaches first.

Li Chen looked up in the direction of the voice. He saw a middle-aged man in silk clothes, glittering with jewels and adorned with gold, silver, and jade, walking out of the rice shop.

This man was thin, but he liked to adorn himself with extravagant decorations, making him look like a clothes rack strutting around with a pile of jewels on it.

This man had a sneer on his face, standing at the door of the rice shop and sizing up Li Chen. "Judging by your accent, you're also from Beijing"s back my father wanted to reopen the Imperial Academy. Well, of the other seven banners, four of them immediately opposed it, excluding our two loyal ones. They made my father so angry he smashed his...