A few people walked into a side hall of the family temple.
In the center of the side hall, about twenty or so relatives of the Xue family were gathered, along with five or six loyal house-born sons.
Before Prime Minister Xue Xie Jiexi rose to prominence, the Xue family had already been a well-known warlord family in Dengzhou, naturally expanding and flourishing over the centuries.
But like the Yifan clan, they were not good birds at all.
Further out was a circle of officials including the Magistrate, Deputy Magistrate, Judge, Commanders... including Zheng Wan, the Water Patrol General within, none of the prominent figures of the Dengzhou officialdom were missing.
These people were more dutiful to Young Master Xue than to their own fathers.
The man wasn't dead yet, but they were all already making bitter faces, ready to mourn at any moment.
