Courtyard House: Drunk and barging into the Xu family's house, I woke up numb.

Lou Wanshan shook his head and didn't say anything more. He walked out of the house with his hands behind his back.

"Alright, stop banging. It's not like we can't hear you."

Lou Wanshan complained as he opened the door.

"Knocking on the door so loudly in the middle of the night, aren't you afraid of scaring someone sick?"

As he spoke, Lou Wanshan opened the courtyard gate, and his face immediately darkened.

"Xu Damao, what are you doing here? You're not welcome in our home!"

Lou Wanshan had no good feelings towards his former son-in-law, Xu Damao, who was opportunistic and liked to scheme.

Most importantly, this guy is a heavy drinker, and when he's drunk, he likes to talk nonsense, which is one of the reasons why he looks down on him.

In his eyes, such a person is not someone to be entrusted with anything; otherwise, after a few drinks, he might just spill all his secrets.

When Xu Damao saw Lou Wanshan about to close the door, he quickly reached out to stop him.

"Dad, don't close the door yet."

Lou Wanshan said coldly.

"Who's your dad? Don't shout nonsense like that."

"Xu Damao, you and Xiao'e are divorced. Our two families have nothing to do with each other anymore. You'd better leave now, or don't blame me for being impolite!"

Although Xu Damao was already used to Lou Wanshan's attitude, he still felt very uncomfortable hearing his words.

"Alright, then I'll call you my former father-in-law."

"Don't close the door yet. I'm here today to discuss a business deal with you."

Lou Wanshan turned his head and said.

"I'm sorry, I retired from the business world a long time ago, and now I'm just an old man living at home."

"Talking business? Haha, you've come to the wrong place."

After saying that, Lou Wanshan shoved Xu Damao away and slammed the courtyard gate shut.

"You're not worthy to talk business with me!"

Just as he was about to leave, Xu Damao's voice came from outside the door again.

"Lou Wanshan, this concerns the life and death of your Lou family. You should think this through carefully."

"I'm leaving now. Don't regret it when your whole family goes to jail."

Lou Wanshan reopened the courtyard gate, staring intently at Xu Damao, and said in a deep voice.

"Xu Damao, what do you want to do?"

"Threaten me?"

"Or do you think I, Lou Wanshan, am someone who can be easily intimidated?"

Xu Damao said without fear.

“Former father-in-law, no matter what, I was your Lou family’s son-in-law for four years.”

“I know quite a bit about your family situation. If I were to report you to the authorities, do you think you and your beloved daughter would still be able to eat here?”

A glint of light flashed in Lou Wanshan's eyes as he glared at Xu Damao.

"Tell me, what do you want?"

Xu Damao smiled and pulled out a cloth bag about the size of a schoolbag from behind him.

"Then I'll trouble my former father-in-law to go back and look for the things in the house, like money or other valuables. Just fill this bag for me."

“I don’t care if you’re putting gold, silver, or cash in there, as long as you give me the same things I deserve as other sons-in-law, I naturally won’t report you.”

"Oh right, I remember your brother-in-law gave you a pure gold Maitreya Buddha statue last year. Give it to me too."

"My mother is a Buddhist, I'll take this back so she can share in your good fortune!"

"You wouldn't begrudge such a small thing, would you? It's just a drop in the ocean for you."

Lou Wanshan immediately understood what Xu Damao meant; Xu Damao's so-called negotiation was an attempt to extract benefits from him.

After figuring it out, Lou Wanshan looked at Xu Damao outside the door with a gloomy face and said angrily.

"Xu Damao, you're utterly shameless! You're a despicable person, a completely vile and utterly despicable scoundrel!"

Chapter 200: The scheme fails; a thorough search is launched! [Please subscribe]

Xu Damao accepted Lou Wanshan's insults without question, and raised his head to speak.

“My former father-in-law, you understand better than I do that when you are in a weaker position, you have to learn to back down.”

"If you had just given me a helping hand back then, I might not be doing what I'm doing today."

Lou Wanshan said coldly.

“I don’t think so. I think the best thing I ever did was not to support you.”

"Otherwise, what you came to ask for today wouldn't just be a bag of money; you would probably want my entire Lou family!"

"Alright, you can leave now. I, Lou Wanshan, will not do business with disloyal, unfilial, unkind, and unjust people."

Seeing that Lou Wanshan was so stubborn, Xu Damao went straight for the drastic measure.

"Lou Wanshan, don't be ungrateful. This is your last chance."

"I'm not afraid to tell you, our factory's deputy director has already had his home raided for embezzling gold and silver."

“If you don’t agree to my conditions, once I leave this door, your Lou family will face the misfortune of having your property confiscated.”

"Can you really bear to let your wife and daughter eat free cornbread with you for such a small amount of money?"

Lou Wanshan pointed contemptuously at the door.

"Xu Damao, Lou Wanshan has always acted with integrity and has never violated the law."

"If you want to sue me, then go ahead and sue me."

"You can sue the steel mill, the district, the city, or the ministries—go wherever you want."

"If I, Lou Wanshan, even frown, I'm not a real man who grew up in Beijing!"

Lou Wanshan emphasized this point.

"Xu Damao, you better remember this: the Lou family has done right by you."

“My daughter has never spent a single penny of your family’s money since she married into the Xu family.”

"I'm furious about what you did today, so you'd better go ahead and sue me right now, or I'm afraid you won't have the chance!"

With a bang, the Lou family's door was slammed shut, and Xu Damao, unable to dodge in time, was hit on the head.

"Hiss..."

Xu Damao covered his forehead, which had been bumped, and pointed at the Lou family's gate, cursing.

"Fine, Lou Wanshan, since you're so heartless, don't blame me for being ruthless too. I'll call people to ransack your house right now!"

After saying that, Xu Damao covered his head and walked away into the distance.

Damn it, is this old man so confident that he's invincible, or has he seen through my plan?

Xu Damao originally planned to threaten Lou Wanshan by reporting the Lou family, and extort a bag of things from them.

These things that were knocked out would become evidence to take down the Lou family, but unfortunately the old man didn't fall for it.

Since this plan didn't work out, we can only proceed according to the original plan.

Lou Xiao'e looked at Lou Wanshan, who was walking in angrily, and asked him a question.

"Dad, who's knocking on the door?"

"I just heard arguing outside. What happened?"

Lou Wanshan snorted.

"That bastard Xu Damao, I'll teach him a lesson! He dares to bully me like that, he's got a death wish!"

Although Tan Yali was a second wife, she had been married to Lou Wanshan for nearly thirty years, so she naturally knew his temperament.

His current frustration and anger must mean he's truly upset.

Was that Xu Damao who knocked on the door just now?

Upon hearing this name, Lou Xiao'e immediately put down her chopsticks.

"Dad, what's Xu Damao doing here?"

"He's the one who made you angry, isn't he? I'm going to settle the score with him right now."

Lou Wanshan saw his daughter get up to leave and stopped her.

"Alright, sit down. Don't make things worse!"

"Do you really need to deal with him?"