Two days later.
Xu Mingyuan arrived at the Immortal Registry Office in Qingjiang County.
"Go announce me. Tell him Xu Mingyuan of the Qingjiang Xu Household has come to pay Immortal Official Xiao a visit."
At the entrance to the Immortal Registry Office, one Yamen Runner's pupils contracted slightly at his words. He nodded and immediately went inside.
The other Yamen Runner studied Xu Mingyuan.
After all, he was a great figure whose slightest stamp of the foot could make all of Qingjiang tremble three times. Who wouldn't be curious?
Two years earlier, after realizing they could no longer do anything against the Xu Household, the Five Great Aristocratic Clans—Wu, Fang, Wang, He, and Cao—had come to apologize and offer compensation. Since then, they and the Xu Household had kept to their own waters, neither well nor river intruding upon the other.
Naturally, the fifty-percent share of the Drunken Cloud Residence's profits for ten years, gifted to the Wu Household at Xu Mingyuan's wedding, had all been reclaimed.
On top of that, they had paid considerable compensation.
Knowing they could not afford to provoke the Xu Household, the Five Great Aristocratic Clans were no fools. They had done everything they could to make amends.
Fortunately, their rivalry had been confined to business, and they had done nothing excessive against the Xu Household's direct descendants. Thus, after accepting their compensation, the Xu Household paid them no further attention and devoted itself wholeheartedly to its own development.
Before long.
Xiao Changyuan came out with a smile.
Xu Mingyuan had not expected him to come out personally to welcome him.
"You're far too courteous, Immortal Official Xiao. You could simply have had a Yamen Runner lead me inside to pay my respects. Why come out to greet me yourself?"
"Hahaha! You're Qingjiang's great