Widow Liu glanced at the sky outside, stood up, and said, "Yuanbao, it's so late now. I'll go back and rest first. You should go to sleep early."

"Sister-in-law, be careful on the road." Chen Yuanbao saw her to the door.

After taking a few steps, Widow Liu turned around and looked at Chen Yuanbao, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping herself.

"Sister-in-law, is there anything else?"

"No...it's nothing." Widow Liu blushed slightly and waved her hand. "You should get some rest."

After saying that, he ran away.

Chen Yuanbao stood at the door, touched his nose, and then smiled.

After returning to the house, he closed the door, put the money and bank cards in the kang (heated brick bed) hole, and then sat cross-legged on the kang to cultivate the [Taiqing Xuanyuan Gong].

The spiritual energy continuously flowed into his body, making him feel very comfortable.

……

Sanshui Village, Li Fugui's home.

Li Fugui sat in a grand chair in the living room, holding a cup of tea, his face grim, like a rainy day.

Li Dazhuang, Li Ergou, and the other members of the Li family were all sitting opposite him, not daring to utter a sound.

"Did you hear what I said?" Li Fugui put down his teacup and said slowly.

"Yes, village chief," the group replied in unison.

"So, may I ask, why did that idiot Chen Yuanbao suddenly become rich?" Li Fugui squinted at everyone.

Li Dazhuang coughed and said, "Village chief, that idiot must have done something he can't let anyone know about. Otherwise, how much money could an idiot make?"

"No!" Li Ergou suddenly said, "The way Chen Yuanbao looked today didn't seem like someone who would do bad things. He had a lot of money, and he even gave Xiao Hu's father two hundred yuan. He acted like a big shot, more like a boss in the city!"

Li Fugui looked coldly at Li Ergou and said, "What do you know?"

Li Ergou was startled and immediately stopped talking.

After a moment of silence, Li Fugui said, "You've all heard about what happened on Chen Yuanbao's land, haven't you?"

The group exchanged glances and nodded.

There's a saying circulating in Sanshui Village that Chen Yuanbao's ancestors were no ordinary people; they fled from elsewhere and buried many treasures under Chen Yuanbao's land.

This rumor has been circulating for decades. People don't know if it's true or false, but they always treat it as a story.

"You guys think," Li Fugui said, looking at the group and emphasizing each word, "could it be... like the legend says? Did that kid Chen Yuanbao dig up some treasure?"

As soon as the words were spoken, the room fell silent.

Li Dazhuang's eyes lit up, and he said, "The village chief means..."

"That's exactly what I mean," Li Fugui said coldly. "We must get Chen Yuanbao's land back. We tried to take it back under the pretext of road construction, but that idiot didn't agree."

"This time... we'll have to go head-to-head."

"So how do you tell if it's hard?" Li Ergou asked.

Li Fugui said with a sneer, "We still need to use the pretext of road construction, but we need to do something bigger. Tomorrow I'll go to the town and get the permits for the road construction."

"Road construction encroached on residential land, which is a legitimate reason, and no one can say anything about it."

"Then we'll demolish his house, kick him out, and that land will belong to the village."

Li Dazhuang nodded repeatedly: "Village chief, you really have a way!"

"But..." Li Fugui changed the subject, "Chen Yuanbao is rich now, and he will most likely hire people to deal with us. Therefore, before the approval is issued, we need to find out about his background."

"How do I touch it?"

"Tonight, have two of you go and take a look around Chen Yuanbao's house," Li Fugui said with a sinister glint in his eyes. "Find out how much money he has hidden there, and hopefully bring some things back with you."

Li Dazhuang understood; this meant sending someone to steal it.

"Don't worry, village chief, leave this to me."

Li Dazhuang patted his chest and said, "I have two henchmen who specialize in this kind of thing."

"Be careful not to cause any casualties."

Li Fugui said, "We just wanted to scare him and make him back down."

"Understood, understood!" Li Dazhuang nodded repeatedly.

After discussing their business, the group dispersed one by one.

After Li Dazhuang returned home, he called the two thugs over.

Wang Ermao and Zhao Siyan were local thugs who usually ran errands and did dirty work for Li Dazhuang.

"Brother Dazhuang, what's the matter?" Wang Ermao asked.

"You two go to Chen Yuanbao's house tonight," Li Dazhuang said. "He definitely has a lot of money. Go in and feel around; whatever you find is yours."

Wang Ermao and Zhao Si's eyes lit up when they heard this.

"Brother Dazhuang, don't worry, my skills in walking in the dark are top-notch."

Zhao Siyan patted his chest and assured him.

"Remember, don't make a sound, especially don't disturb that idiot," Li Dazhuang instructed.

"Brother Dazhuang, that's a fool, what could he possibly cause trouble for?" Wang Ermao said dismissively.

"That idiot has been acting a bit different lately, so we need to be careful." Li Dazhuang remembered what Li Ergou had told him during the day and couldn't help but give him another word of advice.

"Okay, got it." The two gave a perfunctory reply and then turned to leave.

……

The night was already very late, and Sanshui Village was quiet, except for the occasional barking of dogs.

Chen Yuanbao sat cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed), currently engaged in cultivation.

After several days of cultivation, the spiritual energy within his body had become much denser than before. Furthermore, he had gradually begun to grasp some of the intricacies of the "Taiqing Xuanyuan Gong".

Just then, he suddenly opened his eyes.

His hearing became extremely sharp.

He had just heard soft footsteps outside the courtyard.

The sound he made while walking was so faint that most people couldn't hear it at all, but he could hear it clearly and distinctly.

Two people arrived.

Chen Yuanbao's lips curled into a cold smile.

He already knew in his mind that old man Li Fugui wouldn't let things go so easily.

He didn't stand up; he kept his eyes closed and pulled out a few small pebbles from his sleeve.

He picked up a few pebbles from the back hill today.

These stones are ordinary pebbles.

But once in his hands, he infused these stones with spiritual energy, turning them into simple array points.

Based on the knowledge of formations included in the "Taiqing Xuanyuan Gong", Chen Yuanbao has devised a simple "bewitching formation".

Although this formation is only the most basic, it is more than enough to deal with a few ordinary people.

He quietly got off the kang (a heated brick bed) and looked out through the crack in the window.

Two dark figures stealthily climbed over the fence and jumped into his yard.

Chen Yuanbao didn't say anything, but simply threw some stones in his hand into the yard in a certain order.

After he threw out a few pebbles, they landed in several corners of the yard, forming a simple array.

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