The rich merchant by the river was doing business with the Li Family, and fearing that Chen Shi would vent his anger, he hurriedly ordered his men to take care of it.
Just moments before, Chen Shi and Fu Leisheng had fought with such utter ruthlessness, leaving dozens of corpses that chilled the heart to the bone, and if they provoked them in anger, he feared even he himself would meet a bad end.
"To offend the Li Family to the death, these two are truly utterly heinous and desperate characters. Who knows how many ways there are to write the character for death?"
The rich merchant inwardly shook his head at home and instructed, "Collect Mr. Zeng's remains and have them sent to the provincial capital. Remember, find someone sharp-tongued to go."
The crowd gathered Mr. Zeng's remains, placed them inside a coffin, and then someone immediately led over an ox cart to send this coffin toward the provincial city.
Xinxiang County was quite a distance from Xinxiang Provincial City, and the ox cart traveled slowly, so it was already the next day by the time they reached the provincial capital.
Li Xiaozheng was the newly appointed governor, and currently Xinxiang Province was awaiting reconstruction with many official positions still vacant, causing the threshold of the Li Family's residence to be nearly trampled flat these days—mostly by those clinging to relations and connections who somehow always managed to find a remote tie to the Li Family.
Or perhaps there were influential backers behind them whom it was not easy to offend, leaving no choice but to grant them an audience.
Even the junior members of the Li Family had obtained no small benefits as a result, being stuffed with plenty of silver and jewelry by others.
Therefore, when the