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Song Zhigang waited at home for news from his father, and with every passing minute his nerves twisted tighter and tighter like worms drying in the sun.
A little after eight o'clock, the quiet night suddenly exploded with a series of loud huffing snorts right outside his door.
What is that sound? Song Zhigang thought.
Two guards rushed in and shouted, "Oh no! Young Master, someone has driven a road roller right up to our gate."
"Who the hell is that? Who let a road roller rumble into the village? I swear…" Song Zhigang put on an angry expression, but in truth he wasn't angry at all. All he felt was fear.
Soon after, another guard rushed in to report. "Young Master, there is a lunatic outside. He says he will give us ten minutes. If we do not move out before then, he will ram the road roller straight into the courtyard."
"How are we supposed to move out in ten minutes? Do not bother with that lunatic. Shoot him!"
The guard answered at once and hurried out, but would he really dare to shoot? Even with a hundred guts stuffed inside him, he would never have dared.
Too many strange things had happened in the past few days. The chief steward had vanished, the master had vanished, the second young master had gone missing, and the eldest young master had even lost the bloodcall out in the fields.
Rumors were spreading like wildfire outside. People were saying that Blue Poplar Village would no longer belong to the Song Family.
The eldest young master was certainly anxious about it, but the guards felt no urge to panic with him. If the eldest young master of this family was not even willing to come out and risk his life, why should they, as the guards of the family, fight with their lives at stake?
The guard arrived at the...
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