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Today was Xu Taiping and his group's first morning in Crimson Flame Town.

Before dawn, the chickens were already crowing somewhere.

Xu Taiping woke up early, and Xia Jinxuan was still sleeping at the side. Xu Taiping locked the door and walked out of the room.

On the first floor, Emma and Guan He got out of bed and put a yoga pad on the floor. They practiced yoga in the direction of the rising sun.

"Morning!" Xu Taiping greeted the two of them. The two looked at Xu Taiping but didn't say anything.

Xu Taiping knew that sometimes one couldn't speak while practicing yoga, so he smiled and pointed outside, "I'm going to the street to buy breakfast."

With that, Xu Taiping left for town by himself.

The early morning in Crimson Flame Town was quite lively. On the way, many people came and went while carrying burdens.

Xu Taiping looked at the date and realized that today was February 6th. In his memory, the sixth of every month was the day of Scarlet Flame Town's market fair.

It was only a week or so away from New Year's. Xu Taiping really needed to buy more things to get home, or at least dress up his house so he could celebrate the new year.

There were people greeting Xu Taiping from time to time on the way. Some of them even had an impression of Xu Taiping, and some of them had never even seen him before.

Ever since yesterday's incident, Xu Taiping had become famous in the town. However, if Xu Taiping had the choice, he would rather not be known.

Xu Taiping strolled around and bought things that seemed useful to him. Not long after, he bought a lot of things.

"Peace!"

Zhou Jun was riding his bicycle as he stopped in front of Xu Taiping.

"You haven't taken a break yet?" Xu Taiping asked. Although Xu Taiping didn't agree with many of Zhou Jun's methods, he was still a classmate of Xu Taiping, so he was willing to talk to him for a bit.

"In three days, I will be twenty-six. There have been too many people coming back to town recently. This has brought quite a bit of pressure to the security! " Zhou Jun sighed.

"I was wondering why you weren't on vacation yet." Xu Taiping smiled and said, "Let's wait for the holidays before sitting down."

"En!" Zhou Jun nodded, then said: "Oh right, have you seen Chi Yun before?"

"Zhou Chiyun?" Xu Taiping asked.

"That's right, it's our old classmate too. I went back to our town to be a teacher at the primary school a while ago. It's been a holiday recently, and I've been in the town all this time. Did you not see that?" I remember that you two were admitted to the same university, right? " Zhou Jun asked.

"It's been a while." Xu Taiping said.

"I heard that Zhou Siyun got divorced. It seems like she left after not long after getting married. How pitiful. She looks so good, but her life isn't that good. Sigh!" Zhou Jun sighed.

"Does she live at her hometown now?" Xu Taiping asked.

"Yeah, she's by herself. I met her a few days ago and she lost a lot of weight, but she's still pretty!" Zhou Jun said.

"I didn't expect her to come back." In Xu Taiping's heart, Zhou Ziyun always had a place. Even though that place was no longer important, it still represented Xu Taiping's newly formed love affair from that year. Now that he heard that Zhou Zhiyun was in this town, Xu Taiping was a little touched, but Xu Taiping would not intentionally look for Zhou Zhiyun. After all, Zhou Qianyun had decided to start a new life here.

Xu Taiping chatted with Zhou Jun for a while, then he took his shopping to Ah Tu's restaurant.

Today, the restaurant was not open for business, Ah Tu was not in the restaurant, only Qiu Ying was there. Xu Taiping found out that Ah Tu's son was going to Jiang Yuan city to pick up his son for school holidays.

Xu Taiping didn't stay long in Tu's restaurant. He returned to his house around eight in the morning.

When he arrived at the entrance of the house, Xu Taiping was stunned.

There were quite a few people sitting outside their house. Many of them were carrying large and small bags.

At this time, Xia Jinxuan had already woken up and was calling out to these people. Seeing Xu Taiping come back, Xia Jinxuan hurried over, saying, "These people are all looking for you."

"Why are you looking for me?" Xu Taiping asked.

"I think I'm here to ask you for something." Xia Jinxuan said with a strange expression on her face.

Xu Taiping frowned and walked in front of everyone.

"Peace! You're back! Do you still remember me? I'm your Uncle Chen!" Our family's pillar of support, is a high school classmate of yours! " A middle-aged man said to Xu Taiping with a smile.

"Taiping, I'm your Auntie Zhou. That year, your dad and the others came to Crimson Flame Town, and I helped them find a place to stay!" A woman in her fifties patted Xu Taiping's shoulder.

"What's the matter?" Xu Taiping asked.

The group looked at each other, then a man stood up and said, "The situation is like this …"

Xu Taiping stood on the spot, listening as the other side explained their situation.

These people were previously all staff of the Immortal Mountain Resort, but now that the villa had collapsed and Su Jinlong had run away, their wages were not settled. Also, because the end of the year was approaching, their benefits were gone too, so this group of people came over to Xu Taiping to see if Xu Taiping could help them get the money back.

In truth, this had nothing to do with Xu Taiping. Su Jinlong was their boss, and the one who ran away was also Su Jinlong, although he had been chased away by Xu Taiping, Su Jinlong could have just paid him and then left. Now that Su Jinlong had run away without paying him, it was clear that he wanted to leave Xu Taiping with a difficult problem.

If Xu Taiping really did not care about this, then he would really be poked in the spine by someone. After all, in these people's eyes, Su Jinlong was kicked out by you, and with their wages gone, how could you not pay?

Although Xu Taiping's performance yesterday had shocked many people, but to these people, nothing was more important than money, especially the money they earned from their work. No matter how terrifying Xu Taiping's performance yesterday had been, these people had still come looking for them today.

Xu Taiping was troubled.

These people were indeed from the same village, and many of them still had an impression of Xu Taiping. Although these people had changed a lot over the years, they did help him and his family before.

If Xu Taiping did not pay, then they definitely would not do anything to him, but to Xu Taiping, being stabbed in the back was not just making him unhappy, but also letting down his parents. Thus, Xu Taiping really could not just let this matter go.

"How much is it?" Xu Taiping asked.

"Let's calculate it. For people like us, this month's salary, in addition to the year-end bonus of previous years, should total around five hundred thousand. "Someone's less than 10,000 dollars, I know this money is nothing to you, but to us, we only earn 30,000 to 20,000 dollars a year. Without this money, we won't be able to live this year well." One of them said to Xu Taiping.

Five hundred thousand was nothing to Xu Taiping. After a moment of silence, he said, "I'll give you that money."

"Oh, that's great!" The surrounding people said excitedly.

Xu Taiping picked up his phone and called Zhou Xiaoyu, telling her to go to the bank to withdraw the money.

Not long after, Zhou Xiaoyu came back with 500,000 yuan.

Xu Taiping directly gave the money to the person leading the group of people, then he said, "I'll first help Su Jinlong give this money to you guys, don't come to my house, I want to have a few days of peace."

"Alright!" We will leave now! " Everyone cheered in unison and then left.

"Why did you help Su Jinlong give him this money!" Xia Jinxuan asked in confusion.

"Don't tell me you want me to call Su Jinlong and ask him to give me money now? It's only five hundred thousand dollars, it's not worth me calling Su Jinlong. Moreover, he should already be in the provincial capital by now, and my people can't get hold of him, so if I let the people from the provincial capital make a move and it's not worth it, then I might as well pay for it. Firstly, to prevent these villagers from staying in our home, and secondly, to do some work for everyone. Xu Taiping said.

"People's hearts are always unsatisfied. It's not good for you to do this." Guan He shook his head.

"The method is not good, but it can temporarily solve the problem." Xu Taiping smiled, then raised the bag in his hand and said, "Let's decorate our home! I'll go cook. "

"Alright!"

The group of women quickly busied themselves. Some wrote and posted, while others hung lanterns. Meanwhile, Xu Taiping was making breakfast in the kitchen.

However, before he could finish his breakfast, a clamor came from outside.

Xu Taiping walked out of the kitchen and looked outside. He saw another group of people gathering in front of his house.

"What are you guys doing?" Xu Taiping frowned and asked.

"It's peaceful. I heard that you wanted to help Su Jinlong settle the bill. Coincidentally, a few days ago, this villa found me and put two hundred jin of pork in. It's still not settled yet, so settle the bill."

"I have over a hundred catties of goat meat, and I haven't paid the bill. Ping Ping, calculate the money!"

"I sent them 300 catties of food the day before yesterday, but I haven't received the money yet!"

Everyone said.

Xu Taiping didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Are you f * cking treating me as a good house?"

"Didn't you help them settle the bill? Several hundred thousand has already been paid, so why are you still lacking a few thousand!" Someone said.

"Yeah, you're so rich, what would happen if you settled our accounts? "It's not even enough for one bottle of wine. I heard that you drank tens of thousands of dollars in one bottle!" Another person said.

Xu Taiping frowned. Before he could make up his mind what to do, he saw another group of people walking towards them. There were old people and children, all of them talking and laughing along the way.

"What are all of you doing here?!" Xu Taiping looked at the people in the distance and asked.

"Didn't you say that you're here to receive benefits? We're here to collect money!" An old man said.

"It's peaceful. You're so promising, benefiting everyone in this town!" Another old man said.

Xu Taiping's face turned dark. Who the hell told this story? Mobile users please browse and read, better reading experience.