Entering Qingyang Town

685 Entering Qingyang Town

Zhang Yanye and Xu Fenglian led their troops toward Qingyang Town in a grand procession. By the time they arrived, dusk was already drawing near.

The streets in town had grown deserted and quiet.

They went straight to Lu Qianchen's residence in the middle of town. It had been expanded after Lu Qianchen and He Xi married, but the couple had barely lived there for a few days after its completion.

The Lü Family had already moved entirely to Haining City, but people from the Zhang Family were still managing affairs here.

"The situation here is more complicated than we imagined," Xu Fenglian said quietly, her wary gaze sweeping across their surroundings. During the journey, she had already read through a great deal of the latest intelligence.

Zhang Yanye nodded. "The situation with the Qingxi He Family is rather complicated. We have to be even more careful now."

The gates of the Lü Family residence were tightly shut. The servants went over and knocked them open. Someone had already tidied up the courtyards and rooms, so they could move straight in.

The courtyard was utterly silent, with only a few small birds perched in the trees.

"Replace everyone inside with our own people and reassign them all," Xu Fenglian instructed the steward beside her.

It was not only the people in the Lü residence who needed replacing. The Town Guard also needed to be reorganized. Those matters, however, belonged to Zhang Yanye.

The steward was an old retainer Xu Fenglian had brought from the Xu Clan. Over the past few years, the Xu Clan had gradually moved many people out, and quite a few had been settled within Guanyun County.

Old Xu Geng was her father's longtime sworn brother. He had seized the opportunity and moved