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Chapter 34 Negotiation
Ten minutes later, the Su family's carriage arrived at Jinfeng Building.

When Su Wan got off the carriage, the area near Jinfeng Tower was already crowded with people. Not only were there many people watching the excitement, but there were even more city guards.

A large group of city guards were distributed all around, looking as if they were facing a powerful enemy.

Su Wan lowered her eyes and, accompanied by the second clan elders Su Jingsong and Feng Ting, she went up step by step to the third floor and walked into the box.

There were already four people waiting in the room.

The head of the Mi family is Mi Ye, the head of the Zhou family is Zhou Gaoyuan, the head of the Yue family is Yue Zhongnan, and the head of the Wang family is Wang Zucheng.

Su Wan greeted everyone. Except for Yue Zhongnan who returned the greeting, the other three sat in their chairs with arrogant expressions, not moving, and looked her up and down with contempt.

"Why, are you alone?" Zhou Gaoyuan asked with half his eyes narrowed, "Where's Brother Xianwen?"

"My grandmother assigned something to my uncle. My uncle is very filial, so naturally he dared not neglect it. In addition, he doesn't like worldly affairs. He said that we have been friends for decades. Since Uncle Mi wants to discuss something with me, I just come here to listen to his instructions," Su Wan said with a smile, "but I didn't expect that all the uncles are here too."

In fact, Mi Ye didn't invite Su Xianwen at all.

Zhou Gaoyuan asked casually, and Su Wan answered casually, as if they were both serious.

Su Wan turned around, watched Su Jingsong and Feng Ting leave, closed the door, then sat down slowly and said with a smile: "It just so happens that my uncle asked me to tell all the uncles that he will come to have a drink with everyone later when he is free."

"Drink?" Zhou Gaoyuan sneered, "I hope that by then, Brother Xianwen can drink this wine." As he spoke, he looked at Su Wan with a pair of slender eyes, without concealing the cold light.

"Of course I can drink it," Su Wan said calmly, turning her gaze to Mi Ye, "Uncle Mi, I wonder if you have any advice for me by calling your niece here?"

"I won't waste my time talking nonsense," Mi Ye drank his tea without raising his eyelids, "Hand the person back to Qiutang Village. You can pay 20 large jade coins plus the half of the shops on Shangtong Street in the market city as compensation, and I will forgive you. And after the big meeting, we will guarantee that your Sujiabao will be safe for ten years."

Su Wan burst out laughing and covered her mouth, saying, "Uncle Mi is making no sense. Your niece doesn't understand. Is this a joke?"

Mi Ye's face turned cold, and he slammed the cup in his hand on the table. He burst out with fierceness: "I will only say this once, you'd better listen carefully. If you don't know your place, don't blame us for being ruthless!"

Su Wan looked at him indifferently, in silence, and glanced at the other three people.

"We?" Su Wan asked, "If my niece understands correctly, this is probably what the uncles from the Yue, Zhou, and Wang families meant, right?"

Zhou Gaoyuan sneered, Yue Zhongnan picked up the teacup and drank the tea, while Wang Zucheng said with a fake smile: "Miss Su, why do you have to ask when you know the answer?"

Yue Zhongnan shook his head and said, "Although this is a matter between your two families, after all, we all make a living in Yishan City, and we have to have an attitude. Otherwise, if it causes great suffering to the people, it will not benefit anyone. Niece of the Su family..."

Yue Zhongnan put down his teacup and sighed, "It is the general trend, and it is most important to recognize the reality. Don't harm your family because of a momentary anger."

Su Wan's heart sank suddenly.

In the corner of the second floor, Su Daoshan frowned as he listened.

Originally, Su Daoshan thought that Mi Ye was the only one who wanted to negotiate with Su Wan alone.

If it was a one-on-one fight, Su Daoshan would not find it strange no matter what Mi Ye said. After all, the dispute between the two families had already been put on the table, and it was nothing more than a threat or a deal.

But what Su Daoshan did not expect was that not only Mi Ye came, but the heads of the Yue family, Zhou family and Wang family also openly threatened the Su family together with Mi Ye.

As a noble family, even if they did not uphold the rules of the family, they should at least remain neutral and silent on the surface. What they are doing now is not only bullying the few with their numbers, but also openly tearing off their masks and trampling on the rules unreasonably!

This way of eating is really too ugly!

In silence, Su Wan said, "Aren't you afraid of breaking the family rules by doing this, uncles?"

"I don't know what the rules are outside," Zhou Gaoyuan said grimly, "In Yishan City, we are the rules. Let me make it clear, you were supposed to give up the position of this family, and there was no need to make it so ugly, but I didn't expect that you would jump out of something that your uncle acquiesced to..."

He stood up, put his hands on the table, and looked down at Su Wan: "Do you really think that you can turn the tables in the big meeting by arresting one person?"

Su Wan's face turned pale, and her mind was empty. In her field of vision, Zhou Gaoyuan's head was shaking, and his voice was cold and ferocious.

"You don't have this chance!"

If these three great families had not appeared today, Su Wan could be sure that Mi Xiang was the trump card in her hand. Although Mi Xiang had not been pried open until now, this person, as Mi Ye's confidant, knew too many secrets of the Mi family.

These secrets may not all be related to the Su family, but some of them, if brought to a large gathering, may even be more deadly than the evidence of the Mi family's attack on the Su family.

For example, in the south of Yishan City, there is a refugee settlement called Doghead Fort. There are thousands of refugees and a large number of bandits, led by the magic cultivators and alien species of the Ten Thousand Demon Sect and the Blood Sea Gang. For a long time, this settlement has been attacking from all sides, threatening the traffic arteries of Yishan City and several other surrounding cities, and causing many bloody incidents.

Maybe it just so happens that the Mi family has some kind of collusion with Doghead Castle?
And who knows, maybe by chance, one of the children of the Mi family has even joined the Demonic Sect?
In this era, with the emergence of more and more settlements and the growth of the demon sect, both the aristocratic families and the sects had to consider leaving an extra way. They might not be considered collaborators or betrayers, but some private transactions were inevitable.

Of course, such things can be done, but they must never be spoken of, and certainly not be used to allow others to catch them and bring them out in occasions such as large gatherings.

This was why Su Wan had dared to take action before. As long as she caught Mi Xiang, whether he spoke or not, she was sure that Mi Ye would be unable to sleep or eat.

This is the best solution she can think of under the current situation.

But now, when the three major families appeared in front of her and openly threatened her together with the Mi family, Su Wan knew that she was in trouble.

The people present are all old foxes. Under normal circumstances, they would definitely maintain their hypocritical neutrality and would not easily get their feet dirty.

Su Wan didn't know what reason the Mi family had used to persuade them to stand up at this time, even at the risk of breaking the family rules. But Su Wan knew that this must be a very important reason for the three major families, and even closely related to them.

If they are willing to come forward for this reason, then they may do anything beyond their expectations or even beyond their bottom line for this reason.

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Jinfeng Building.

The onlookers noticed that the negotiation time was very short.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the people from the major families had already left. The first to leave was Su Wan, who looked calm but the color of her face was not very good. The next to leave was Mi Ye, who also remained calm and silently got into the carriage.

The heads of the Yue, Zhou and Wang families came out after a quarter of an hour. The three of them greeted people they knew in a relaxed and casual manner. When asked, they shook their heads and said they didn't know what the Su and Mi families talked about. They just sighed that they were all from the same village, so why make such a fuss.

If Su Daoshan hadn't heard it himself, he would have thought that only Su Wan and Mi Ye were meeting. The three of them were drinking tea and waiting outside.

Su Daoshan paid for the tea and stood up.

As a person who has just come into this world for five days, his current situation is actually the most embarrassing. As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy will ensure victory in every battle, but he neither knows the enemy nor himself.

However, no matter whether Su Wan has a way to solve the problem or not, and no matter what is going on with the Su family, he only knows that he must continue to be a second young master who can live a comfortable and stable life by pretending to be a nerd, and the big tree of the Su family must never fall.

Even if he could go to Han Valley and stay away from all these troubles, Su Daoshan, who had a family foundation, was different from Su Daoshan, who was like a stray dog.

not to mention……

Su Daoshan sighed. Not to mention that he had inherited the memories of his original body and would inevitably be affected by emotions, he could not bear to watch the vivid faces around him disappear like shattered mirrors in just a few days.

Almost at the same time when Su Daoshan stood up, a short man hiding behind a pillar not far away turned around and walked out the door quickly.

The streets near Jinfeng Tower had been completely taken over by the city guards. However, with the departure of Su Wan and Mi Ye, the city guards were also evacuating. The pedestrians and vehicles that were originally blocked outside were gradually allowed in. In front of the shops on the street, many horse-drawn carriages were unloading goods.

Mi Lang, dressed in a second-class soldier's uniform, stood on the roadside with several of his men.

People passing by will involuntarily look over here, and if there are familiar people around, they will whisper and talk about it.

[Entered Leiyunmen with the first place in Yishancheng County Examination]

[Seventh-grade upper level]

[Second-class soldier of the city guard]

Any of these shining labels would be dazzling, let alone when they are concentrated on one person.

"Look at the Mi family. They have produced so many talented people over the years. What can the Su family do to compete with them?"

"The Su family only has Su Daoyu. But how can the Mohu Sword Sect compare with the Leiyun Sect? If the Leiyun Sect leans towards the Mi family, at least half of the nine major sects will have to follow the Leiyun Sect's stance."

"Well, I heard that Shi Songping and Liao Yunlei had a quarrel over this matter early in the morning."

"Tsk tsk, the Mi family has accumulated a lot of strength. In the city, there are the Yue family, Zhou family and Wang family, and the sect also has the support of the Thunder Cloud Sect. I'm afraid it will be difficult for the Su family to turn the tables at this big gathering..."

"In this year's county exam, Yue Shifeng from the Yue family should be able to take first place, right? The Zhou family also has Zhou Qinghe. Who is from the Su family? I heard that only Su Daolin from the side branch reached the lower level of the eighth rank..."

The sound of discussions reached Mi Lang's ears from time to time, but the young man with a stern face remained like a sculpture, without any fluctuation in his expression.

(End of this chapter)