Inside a luxurious, extra-large private room at the Crown Holiday Hotel, 15 people sat around a table. The Long Family's Clan Leader was among them. The other 14 were the heads of the Long Family's various branches throughout Hexia Road, collectively known as the 'Fourteen Branches of the Long Family'.
Originally, there were 16 branches, but the Xu Family of Han Jin City and the Long Family of Guoyang had been wiped out by Ye Xiu, so the number was reduced to 14. Although they were branches of the Long Family, all 14, much like the Xu Family, had changed their surnames.
"Clan Leader, Shi Yan invites us to dinner, orders this magnificent feast, and then makes us wait from 6:00 until 11:00. What is the meaning of this?" Meng Haishan, head of the Meng Family from Yancheng, said with displeasure.
