Following Lin Qi out of the teleportation array was his entire household.
Blackbeard, Uncle Iron Hammer, Uncle Butcher Knife, Uncle Bal, Aunt Lili, and the rest were members of the Black Tiger Family.
Donkey, Day, Night, Alda, Bilibili, Barrel, and the others were a group Lin Qi had subdued himself.
The one with his great belly thrust out, smug and utterly full of himself, was naturally Lin Qi's friend through thick and thin, Xiong Wanjin, Young Master Xiong the Fifth. Beside him stood another man just as fat, with dark circles beneath both eyes and yawning incessantly—Xiong Qianjin, Young Master Xiong the Fourth, who had nearly been driven to collapse in both mind and body by Young Master Xiong the Fifth over the past few days.
Others who had come with Lin Qi included a large number of Hu Family accountants led by Hu Xinzhu. Lin Qi had asked Hu Tu to prepare them; he intended to thoroughly sort out the accounts of his fief. The previous tax revenues could be left aside for now, but not a single coin of all future taxes could be missing.
Naturally, Princess Qingli had also brought a large number of experts at auditing accounts. But Lin Qi could not possibly allow Princess Qingli's people to take complete control of his fief's finances—not because he distrusted Princess Qingli, but because too many matters concerning the Tiger Clan and Fox Clan simply could not see the light of day.
Until the old ancestors of Lin Qi's family had fully accepted Princess Qingli, he would not let her learn the foundations of his own clan. It would harm Princess Qingli—Lin Qi still remembered what Lin Po had told him amid that field of flowers. Lin Po had personally slain a woman he had once loved! Even