The Qi family's courtyard was unlike the Qin family's villa: less luxurious but more elegantly grand, and it bore a more solemn and imposing aura, characteristic of a military family.
Inside the courtyard, many soldiers stood guard rigidly, each carrying a gun.
At a place furnished with a rockery and a pond, under an old pine tree, an old and a young man sat on stone chairs, playing Go.
The elder was named Qi Shihong, the helmsman of the Qi family, one of the four major families of Guangnan Province. His status was considerably higher than that of the helmsmen of the other three major families because the Qi family was not only the leading family of the four in Guangnan Province but also among the top seven families in the whole of Huaxia!
The young man was named Qi Chenghan, the eldest young master of the Qi family, known as the most prestigious young person in Guangnan Province nowadays.
