Chapter 55 Protection Money

Before the contents inside the wooden barrel could even get warm, the barrel itself would have been burned into charcoal.
He voiced his worries to Lin Xiang.
Lin Xiang waved her hand dismissively and said, "It's fine, someone will bring over another barrel shortly."
She went back to the small room mentioned by the person in charge, paid one yuan, and exchanged it for a red ticket stub.
"Keep this receipt safe. If anyone causes trouble later, just bring this and look for us. But..."
Blue Fire Lotus proclaimed: To maintain a complete family, what right do you have to insult me? What right do you have to deceive me? What qualifications do you have to humiliate me?
This was a considerable length of time, quite enough to wear down an ordinary person's confidence until they had none left! Moreover, succeeding in body refining within thirty years was actually standard for children of prominent families; it could not be achieved without a certain amount of cultivation resources. For cultivators with lesser conditions, wielding a whisk could take several hundred years.
Changing into slippers and walking into the living room, she found the kitchen light still on, and approached it half-in-doubt.
"Go on, get out!" The Taoist priest personally pulled open the car door for Qian Qian and shoved her out unceremoniously.
Yet, the abrupt vertical jolt caught them completely off guard. Furthermore, the motion was excessively large, violent, and sudden, taking the two of them entirely by surprise. At the same time, they lost their balance and both were sent airborne together.
Before she could see clearly who it was, Bian Shengyi swiftly wrapped his arms around her like a shadow. This was not the speed a normal person should possess, was it?
With that, Yue Bai made a gesture of opening a door, but instead of grasping the doorknob, he imitated the motion of withdrawing his hand after a normal person finishes opening a door.
The Emperor finally appeared, though his complexion was not looking too good. He sat slouching on the dragon throne, eyelids drooping, lacking all vigor. Sitting in attendance beside him was Consort Ma, the biological mother of Prince An. She wore a tangerine-yellow dress adorned with sea-wave patterns that approached imperial yellow in shade, and on her head rested an eight-winged golden phoenix hairpin.
Zhuge Jun instructed Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying to maintain a certain distance from him, as long as they followed him from afar.
He had fled to Hong Kong precisely to have Situ Xuan leverage his overseas connections to acquire a legal film production company.
This Second Prince had always been the easiest to bully; although he wore a blank expression and looked icy cold, he was actually much easier to knead than a soft persimmon.
However, Wang Nanbei had already anticipated that after a moment of sluggishness, the opponent would launch a frantic counterattack. Therefore, right after finishing his sneak attack, he had once again relocated. Moreover, by this time, the front sight of his barrel was already zeroed in on the enraged enemy commander.
The crowd gasped in exclamation. One had to know that Senior Divine Calculator held a considerable status within the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, and his personal strength was not low either, let alone his rather foul temper. Ordinary people would never dare to impersonate him.
Ling Changfeng became even weaker at this moment; a massive amount of his vital life force had been stripped away, compounded by his recent battle with Ling Jiuxiao, making him appear profoundly exhausted.
To put it simply, Green Horn was constantly losing money. At best, because of their formidable core strength, they could utilize high-frequency trading, arbitrage hedging, and systematic market manipulation during their losses to minimize the extent of the deficit. Their reply to Tyrone International was: I believe variables exist, but I am uncertain when those variables will begin to erupt.
Mother Zhang wore a flustered expression, yet she remained somewhat composed, not admitting to it immediately. She met my gaze, her lips pressed tightly together, adopting the look of someone unwilling to acknowledge the truth of what I had said.
Before the sky had completely darkened, the main gates of the Prince's Mansion were smashed open from the outside by the Punishment Heaven Army. Massive throngs of Punishment Heaven soldiers poured into the mansion like a tide. By this point, the guards of the mansion had finally given up resistance, laying down their weapons one after another and kneeling on the ground to surrender to the Punishment Heaven Army.
"Find a clean place and let Lord Dugu lie down. Zhang Jiang, go behind the mountain and bring over a horse!" Seeing Dugu Lin vomit blood, Li旭 grew somewhat panicked as he shouted orders to the soldiers.