In the afternoon, the Cheng’s soldone-third of they mystical animals to Zhu Bo. And Innkeeper Zhu had a.s.sumed hisnew role as the Cheng’s new steward of the servants. They would now all reportto him to learn about all the house rules and other knowledge.

After they have finished busyingthemselves with that. The Cheng’s father and daughter were invited to Willow bythe patriarch.

As for the reason, Cheng Xiao Xiao hadan idea, but she didn’t let it bother her and arrived at the Patriarch Liu’shouse with her father.

Taking a look around after they haveentered, they saw the place crowded with the villagers. A better way to put itwas that villagers of all ages who weren’t helping at currently at the Cheng’sattended.

“Mr. Cheng and Xiao Xiao are here. C’monover, have a seat!” Patriarch Liu stood up to greet them!

The others also followed suit and stoodup to greet Cheng Biyuan!

Cheng Biyuan returned the greetingsindividually. Then, as arranged by Patriarch Liu, Cheng Biyuan settled into aseat across from him and Cheng Xiao Xiao sat next to him.

Everybody was seated after them. Alleyes were upon Patriarch Liu. The villagers had already gotten used to lettingPatriarch Liu take care of all issues, large or small.

Under everybody’s keen look, PatriarchLiu fake coughed a few time and said to Cheng Biyuan, “Mr. Cheng, we haveinvited you over mainly because of a few young girls in town. And, more andmore villagers are now working for the Cheng’s so we would like to get someapprovals from you. We hope that is okay!”

“Patriarch Liu, you are so polite. Weall live in the same village, we are always open to discussing any issues!”responded Cheng Biyuan gently and cupped his hand at Patriarch Liu.

Upon observing Cheng Biyuan’s manner,Patriarch Liu nodded with satisfaction. The Cheng’s mannerism toward thevillagers did not change after the change of the family. Patriarch Liu waspleased with that.

Stroking his white beard, Patriarch Liusmiled and said, “Mr. Cheng, truth be told, the villagers would like to beemployed by your family. As you may know, we only grow limited crops in ourvillage and our main means were hunting in the mountains. Now everyone wish tohave a stable job. I know that you have already employed quite a few villagers,and providing them with very good compensation. The rest of the villagers wouldlike to be able to do the same. Do you think you might be able to arrange that,Mr. Cheng?”

“Patriarch Liu, I understand what you mean.I am pleased to hear that everybody would like to work for our family. It iscertainly an honor on our part, it’s just that…”

Cheng Biyuan paused for a little bit,then said, “Patriarch Liu, we have just started expanding our family house. Wedo need some help, but I am afraid I will not be able to provide work foreveryone in the village. For now I can only hire basing on my needs. I hopePatriarch Liu and the fellow villagers can understand where I am coming from!”

“What, Mr. Cheng? Are you saying no to us?”

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jumped up for her seat and interjected. Then said straight atCheng Biyuan, “Let me tell you something, Mr. Cheng. Pardon me for being blunt,you guys were the ones who said you wanted to hire some girls from the villageto go help out. We sent our girls over, but you only took some of them and sentthe rest back. Are you looking down on us? You either take all of them or noneof them. Otherwise, you are just looking down on us!”

“Wife of Sanzhen, shut up! This is notyour place!” scolded Patriarch Liu with a low voice!

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wasn’t going to let him shut her up, “Patriarch, I am tellingthe truth. Don’t you be defending them because the Cheng’s took your two girls!I want justice!”

“How care you!” Patriarch Liu was trulyangry now. Pointing straight at An Hung

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,he said, “Wife of Sanzhen, you are becoming more and more ridiculous. What doyou mean that Mr. Cheng was playing favoritism? Have you forgotten that yourhusband Liu Sanzhen was one of the first employed by them? Why are you tryingto cause trouble here? Must they support your entire family before you said hewas not playing favoritism?”

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