"I'll take thirty sets too. Ten for my father, and all the rest for my darling." Li Kongfan of the Thousand Arms Pavilion spoke.
"Fifty sets," Cui Qiu said.
"Say, Cui Qiu, did you strike it rich lately? Fifty sets in one go?" Xiao Gai asked with a grin.
"Not bad, not bad. Two groups were fighting recently and asked my father to mediate. We pocketed quite a bit of silver," Cui Qiu said.
"True enough. Your father is the local tyrant of our Jiangzhou. The Green Gang gets called on to mediate plenty of disputes every year.
"Some people even say the Green Gang is a second government office.
"But if you've pocketed quite a bit lately, it definitely can't be a small sum. Who exactly was fighting whom?" Sun Tianjun asked.
"Aren't there two villages on Blackrock Island? One's called Heavenly Dragon Village, the other Earth Tiger Village.
"Haha, the heavenly dragon fought the earth tiger, and neither would let up.
"Once they started, it got out of hand. Both sides suffered hundreds of casualties. If they kept fighting like that, even more would die.
"They reported it to the authorities, but with the Sun Kingdom invading recently and pirates running rampant, how could the authorities have time for a little matter like villagers fighting?
"In the end, they had no choice but to turn to my father," Cui Qiu said.
"When villages fight, it must be over either water or farmland," Zheng Feng said, shaking his head.
"No." Cui Qiu shook his head.
"Then why were they fighting? And hundreds died? Those two villages must be pretty big," Zheng Feng asked.
"Of course they are. They're practically two towns, with several thousand people in each village.
"It was because a landslide a while ago sent a lot