What happened over in Peach Blossom Valley was really easy to find out about.
The elderly men and women doing square dancing had driven away Xu Leigang's tenants. That much was true.
As for the old folks regretting it afterward, that was artistic embellishment, a folk rumor—just like Crow King chasing someone all the way to Luohua Manor. It could all be regarded as hearsay.
But one thing could not be denied: when Feng Jun was in Peach Blossom Valley, a group of elderly men and women had been square dancing outside his door.
After he left, the square dancing stopped. Those old people had even come to Luohua Manor together, only to be denied entry. That was no rumor; many people had seen it with their own eyes.
Xu Ruofang did not even need to investigate. Elder Peng and Elder Wu had asked a few juniors to look into it, and they learned the same thing.
That night, Elder Peng angrily cursed Elder Wu. "What kind of rotten idea was that? If you really forcefully buy Luohua Manor, won't you offend Feng Jun beyond repair? Do you still want to come to Bamboo Forest in the future?"
"Even if I want to come in the future, I might not be able to," Elder Wu replied, not feeling that he had done anything wrong. "They already warned Old Yuan that if he brings us 'irrelevant outsiders' again, we won't be allowed in... It's such a good place. Is it wrong for me to want to come a few more times?"
His reasoning was not entirely without merit. When people grew old, they were bound to fear death... Who would not?
But Elder Peng was no ordinary man. He struck straight at the heart of the matter. "We are irrelevant outsiders,