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Chapter 224 It's time to meet the creditor

Xuanfu town, Zhang Yan's mansion.

Today, Zhang Cheng has become the owner of this house. After days of vigil, and today's burial of Zhang Yan's remains, his mother and aunt have already fallen asleep.

Chen Zhong, Zhang Guangda, Wu Zhizhong, Wei Zhice and others were all in the house, while Lin Fangping and Liu Jinhai led people to patrol the courtyard.

"General, that stone pillar is indeed a soldier. In the past few months, he has been disciplined, and he has practiced the courage of the sixty men with a certain aura." Wu Zhizhong reported.

It turned out that Zhang Cheng arranged for him to go to the barracks of the Right Wing Battalion outside the town, firstly to check the settlement of He Shihui and Shi Zhuzi, and to see the effect of their drills;

Wu Zhizhong continued: "He Shihui and the others selected another 140 people from among the refugees who fled, and now they are forming a sentry with Shi Zhuzi's [-] people. They have practiced properly, which is very good."

Zhang Cheng nodded. He was very satisfied with the performance of He Shihui and Shi Zhuzi. In the past two days, he also asked the following village heads to learn about the situation of those refugees.

According to Zhang Chengxin's instructions, the refugees of more than a thousand people were distributed in four Zhuangzi, and used the method of work for relief, that is, to let these refugees survive the winter, and to repair the ditches in several Zhuangzi, and return them to the village. There are a lot of new fields in the wasteland.

"By the way, general, among the refugees transferred from Beijing, there is one person who always asks if the general is back, and seems to want to see the general very much!" Wu Zhizhong seemed to suddenly remember.

Now these people around Zhang Cheng, driven by Wei Zhice, all call Zhang Cheng as General, only Chen Zhong still calls him General, and everyone else has changed their name to General.

"Oh……"

Zhang Cheng was a little puzzled: "Want to see me? Who is it?"

Wu Zhizhong wanted to raise his right hand, but he shook it twice, then raised his left hand with an embarrassed face, scratched his forehead, and joked: "Oh, I'm still not used to the left hand, haha..."

Everyone in the room laughed awkwardly, and Wu Zhizhong continued: "The kid seems to be surnamed Su, a native of Gyeonggi, and he came to Mafang in the wasteland. He doesn't look very powerful, but he is quite strong enough to deal with it."

Zhang Cheng pondered for a while, and said, "Old Wu, pay attention to him first, Chen Zhong, how long has the surname Diao been waiting?"

Chen Zhong continued, "General, it's almost half an hour."

"Ha ha……"

Zhang Cheng laughed: "It's been so long, it's time to meet our creditor, we're here tonight, everyone should rest early, Zhongzi, prepare two thousand five hundred taels of silver, and ask that big monkey to bring someone to hold it I'm waiting outside the east side hall."

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In the hall on the left side of Zhang Yan's mansion, Diao Dacheng, the head of the Xuanfu town gangster, was sitting on a chair. He was alone in the hall, and he didn't even dare to vent his breath.

Since the day before yesterday, he had been kneeling outside the east gate of Zhang Yan's mansion, begging to see Zhang Cheng. He knew that with his own status, he was naturally not qualified to pay homage to General Zhang Yan's coffin.

He also knew that Zhang Cheng naturally had no intention of meeting him at this time, but he still did so, he just wanted to play a trick, and at the same time showed his sincerity, hoping that Zhang Cheng could understand his intentions.

Just now when Chen Zhong sent a message that he was asked to meet in the eastern hall, he was really excited for a while, but the longer he sat in the eastern hall, the more restless he became.

Every time footsteps came from outside the hall, he was extremely nervous. Although he guessed that Zhang Cheng would not make things too difficult for him at this moment, who could say for sure?
With Zhang Cheng's current status and power, he is not like an ant, and he can be wiped out with just any reason.

In his view, this is a gamble.

If you make a wrong bet, you will live again.

If the bet is right, it will be a fortune and glory!
There were footsteps coming from outside the door again. Different from the past, the footsteps were strong and orderly this time, and stopped abruptly outside the hall door.

"Squeak..."

The hall door opened, and ten armored soldiers approached the hall. They were all strong and strong, with solemn expressions on their faces, but their eyes were shining brightly. After entering the east hall, they stood separately on both sides.

"The general is here!"

There was a soft drink outside the hall door.

Another sound of orderly footsteps stopped outside the hall door, the hall door was wide open, Zhang Cheng stepped into the east side hall, went straight to the upper chair and sat down, followed closely by Chen Zhong, standing with his hand on his waist knife By Zhang Cheng's side.

After Zhang Cheng sat down, he didn't raise his eyes to look at Diao Dacheng. Chen Zhong couldn't bear to watch him, he quickly reminded him: "Diao Dacheng, don't pay a visit to my general!"

Diao Dacheng, who was in a daze on the seat, only realized at this time. He stood up in a panic, ran to the middle of the hall in two steps, knelt down in a hurry, and said, "Diao Dacheng, a military householder in Xuanfu, pays his respects to General Zhang, please ask Zhang My lord general doesn’t care about villains, I am willing to dedicate all my wealth to follow the general, and I hope the general will not hesitate to take him in.”

Zhang Cheng ignored Diao Dacheng who was kneeling on the ground, and said in a deep voice, "Chen Zhong, bring the money in."

Diao Dacheng, who was kneeling on the ground, was startled, what does this mean?
Following Chen Zhong's greeting, the door of the east side hall opened again, and the big monkey with a full face walked in front. There were five of them in total, all of them were full of vicious expressions, and they all held a large tray in their hands. 500 taels of silver.

They were all big and round, holding 500 taels of silver in both hands, and they didn't feel it was a burden at all. They stood in a row inside the east hall door, and they were silent.

"Diao Dacheng, get up!"

Zhang Cheng's tone was neither light nor heavy, but extremely intimidating. Diao Dacheng stood up in the middle of the east side hall without knowing why.

"You have something to say?"

Zhang Cheng looked at the bewildered Diao Dacheng with great interest and asked, his tone much softer.

"thump!"

Hearing this, Diao Dacheng knelt down again, knuckling his head like pounding garlic, and said in a panic, "General Zhang, spare your life. Xiaomin respects the general's loyalty and is willing to join the general's command and serve the general. I don't dare to mention it again..."

"Oh, you want to join this general?" Zhang Cheng asked.

Diao Dacheng raised his head slightly, and glanced at Zhang Cheng. His eyes met Zhang Cheng's, his whole body trembled, he lowered his head in a hurry, stuck it on the ground, and said in a low voice: "The villain's parents died since he was a child. The streets and alleys have been contaminated with bad habits, and now they are willing to change their past mistakes and join the general's command to serve, and hope that the general will be gracious and take him in."

"This general governs the army very strictly. If there is a slight violation, you will be punished with a baton, and if you are serious, you will lose your life. May you abide by it?"

Diao Dacheng was taken aback for a moment, and said as if he had made up his mind: "The villain can guard, the villain can guard..."

"Okay, you should step down first, in a few days, Ben will send someone to pass you on."

Diao Dacheng kowtowed his thanks, turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait, didn't you take the silver back?"

(End of this chapter)