Volume 1 Chapter 40 Ruthless Means

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  "Master, master, something's wrong."

  Inside the Li mansion, Wang, the housekeeper, rushed into the main hall in a fluster. Li Shilin was busy fawning over General Akdun's son, who had calmed down somewhat after Li's persuasion, but became even more arrogant and condescending towards the Li family, pointing fingers at everyone from top to bottom during his conversation with Li.

  Li Shilin did not dare to make a move, at this time the Li family was in decline, if it continued like this, it would be ruined, and could only flatter on one side.

  "Can't you see I'm in the middle of a conversation with the governor's son?" Li Shilin scolded, his brow furrowed. Wang, the steward, stammered: "T-t-that... that... sir, Xia Jun has arrived at the county town and surrounded us..."

  "What?" Li Shilin was startled and asked urgently: "What's going on?"

  "The old slave doesn't know what's going on, the security team has at least 500 or 600 people, and they've already surrounded our Li Mansion so that not a drop of water can get through." Wang the steward said anxiously, ever since he went to Xixiang last time, Wang the steward had been deeply impressed by the strength of the security team, but this time it immediately turned into fear.

  "What's going on?" Akdun asked slowly and with great arrogance.

  "This is the local Jianzhou Security Team, and they are very powerful." Li Shilin's heart was like an ant on a hot pot, feeling anxious and sensing that something was going to go wrong!

  "Damn it, a small gang dares to make trouble at my father-in-law's mansion, they're asking for death!" Akdun said angrily, then patted his chest and comforted Li Shilin: "Don't worry, Father-in-law, I'll help you settle this."

  Akuto stood up and snorted a few times, saying with an air of superiority: "Let me go meet him."

  It's not that Akdun is too confident, but as the son of the Governor of Min and Zhe, ordinary civilian groups don't dare to move against him, moving against him would be equivalent to rebellion.

  Li Shilin hastily chased after him.

  The gate of Li's mansion slowly opened. As soon as the gate was open, Aketon saw a group of fully armed men with rifles pointing at him.

  Hungry...

  Akuto's momentum from just now suddenly dissipated, he was humming and hawing just a moment ago, but now he couldn't say a word, as if something was stuck in his throat.

  Xia Jun held a whip in his hand, pacing back and forth in front of the Li mansion gate. His military boots clicked on the stone slab, and his military uniform made him look extremely majestic.

  "Oh no! Xia Xian, what's going on..." Li Shilin, seeing that Akdun was not cooperating, hastily walked up from behind and asked Xia Jun with an innocent tone.

  "It's nothing, nephew. This time I came to propose a marriage to uncle." Xia Jun smiled and waved his hand: "Bring the betrothal gifts up."

  Soon, dozens of soldiers carried more than 30 large red boxes up and opened them. Inside the boxes were silver coins and other necessary items for the betrothal gifts, all of which had been prepared by You Zhengbin.

  Xia Jun bowed to Li Shilin and said, "To be honest with you, uncle, I and Shi Jing have mutual feelings for each other. The other day, we exchanged tokens of our affection, and as soon as I heard you were back home, I came immediately to propose."

  Li Shilin heard this and was momentarily confused, on the one hand he felt relieved that this guy wasn't here to cause trouble for the Li family, but on the other hand, it was possible that this guy wanted to use force to coerce him into marrying his daughter off to him.

  "Xian nephew, in our Chinese wedding customs, it has always been the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. This time you've brought a large army to surround my Li Manor, are you trying to break the rules and forcibly take a civilian woman?" Li Shilin questioned Xia Jun, since this guy was here to propose, no matter how difficult his words were, he shouldn't be able to do anything to him.

  "Do you know who I am? You dare to compete with me for a woman, I am the son of the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. If you continue to entangle in this unclear situation, tomorrow my father will send troops to destroy your small security team." Akdun couldn't bear it anymore, Hormon suddenly came up and jumped out directly.

  Xia Jun's smile on his face gradually cooled down, and the whip in his hand suddenly swung.

  "Bang!"

  With one sound, Xia Jun's whip struck Aketon's face.

  "You... you... dare to hit me?" Akdun was shocked, let out a miserable howl in extreme pain, and hastily retreated two steps. Xia Jun stepped forward two steps, the whip in his hand fiercely lashing at Akdun's face.

  "It's you who is being beaten." Xia Jun's whip lashed down on the flesh, whipping fiercely, and Aketon was whipped like a slaughtered pig, rolling around frantically on the ground.

  After whipping him more than a dozen times, Xia Jun stopped and shouted to the people behind: "Bring someone over, take this scoundrel away, and soon the commander will personally drag him out and shoot him."

  Two guards rushed up and dragged Akdun away like a dead dog, who was crying in pain.

  Li Shilin was stunned, and Xia Jun bowed his fist to him at this time, saying: "Uncle's words are too serious, the rules of parents' orders and matchmakers' words, although I don't agree with them, but when entering a village, follow the customs, naturally dare not break the rules, grabbing people is definitely not possible, Uncle can rest assured."

  Xia Jun's tone suddenly changed, and he said: "Before the young nephew came to propose marriage, I heard that there was a Qing dog in Uncle's mansion. This is why I brought soldiers here. Uncle can rest assured, Hua Xia has always been the Hua Xia of the Han people. As for this Qing dog, I will take him to the vegetable market and shoot him later. The betrothal gift has been given, the Qing dog has been caught, and now the young nephew is waiting quietly for Uncle's good news. Farewell."

  Many people are not technical, just get rid of that Qing dog, unless Li Shilin finds another one, Xia Jun can still kill another one, if it goes on like this, he won't be able to marry his daughter to Xia Jun.

  "Good nephew, no!" Li Shilin came back to his senses, let out a mournful cry, and directly threw himself onto the ground, tightly hugging Xia Jun's feet, shouting: "Good nephew, you can't die! You can't die! He is the son of the Governor-General of Fujian and Zhejiang!"

  Xia Jun didn't pay any attention to him at all, and with a swift kick, he patted his clothes and walked away!

  He had only taken a few steps when he turned back to Li Shilin, who was wailing, and said: "I forgot to tell Uncle, from today on, Jian'an County will also be under my management, and Jianzhou will be fully autonomous starting today."

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  A loud gunshot rang out, and Xia Jun personally shot and killed Aketon in the vegetable market. Li Shilin heard Wang Guan's report and fainted directly onto his chair.

  "It's all over, it's all over." Li Shilin felt like crying but had no tears to shed. Xia Jun's move was even more ruthless than directly using force to snatch someone away. If he had snatched his daughter, the governor would not have been able to vent his anger on him, only on the security team.

  But now...

  Xia Jun had Akdun shot, and the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang would inevitably vent his anger on him. In that case, wouldn't he have no choice but to rely on Xia Jun for survival? Isn't this forcing him onto a pirate ship?

  "What shall we do now, Master?" Wang asked cautiously.

  Li Shilin said weakly: "What else can we do? Everyone has boarded this pirate ship. If we jump down, I'm afraid we'll all die and there won't be a whole corpse left!"

  "You go and tell him immediately that we have accepted the betrothal gift. He can hold the wedding banquet whenever he wants." Li Shilin said helplessly.