"Ah Qiang, what's wrong? You look rather agitated."
After Li Dingguo returned to the Wang Family Courtyard in the county town and finished dinner, he had just washed up and returned to his room when Tang Guangqiang came knocking, his face dark and gloomy.
Seeing that this fellow, who had always been carefree and boisterous, now looked so wrong, Li Dingguo asked curiously.
"Boss, I heard some bad news, and it's been weighing on my heart."
Tang Guangqiang shed his usual indifferent expression, his face turning solemn as he said to Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi in the room, "This afternoon, with nothing better to do, I went over to the nearby Veteran Camp for a stroll. That's where I heard something."
"I heard two Martial Soldiers from the Veteran Camp say that guests suddenly arrived in our Rebel Army this morning!"
"There were two of them, representatives sent by Wang Jiayin, the strongest force among the Rebel Armies in Qin and Jin Provinces."
"These two envoys were Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, Wang Jiayin's trusted and fierce generals."
"I also heard that Purple Golden Beam, Wang Ziyong—the strongest Rebel Army leader in the Qin Territory—had recently gone over to Wang Jiayin as well."
He looked at the puzzled expressions on Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi's faces, then continued, "According to those two Veteran Camp soldiers, Wang Jiayin—the man known as the top boss of the Rebel Armies under heaven—sent two Qi Refining Realm envoys to summon every notable Rebel Army leader in the two provinces to Hequ for an alliance conference, so they could face the bandit-suppression army that Living King Yama Hong Chengchou was preparing to dispatch!"
"This summer, Hong Chengchou was appointed Yansui Governor. The moment he took office, he wiped out Wang Zuogua's force, which had