Chapter 40

The exchange between the two could not be said to have happened in an instant, but it had only taken a few breaths of time for victory and defeat to be decided. This caused the jaws of the Evil Tiger Gang members to drop to the ground.

On the other hand, the six people from the Ten Thousand Swords Peak had normal expressions. From their point of view, this was completely normal.

Hall Master Xing sat on the chair with an ashen face, as if he had not yet recovered from the shock.

Situ Liang and the others did not go up to comfort him.

Their minds were also quickly turning. They originally felt that they had no choice but to accept the Ten Thousand Swords Peak sending someone to take over the Evil Tiger Gang, but when they saw that it was a youngster, they naturally wanted to give him a show of strength so that he would not look down on the Evil Tiger Gang. This way, when the authority of the gang leader was distributed, they would have an advantage.

So when Hall Master Xing raised his objection, no one stopped him and instead chose to watch from the side.

However, the result was too unexpected. In just three moves, Hall Master Xing was defeated. Thinking back to Qu Xiang Feng's three moves, the timing of the moves was very clever. Each move was something that Hall Master Xing had no choice but to take on. The positions of the moves were not too tricky and were even wide open. However, the most important thing was the strength of the moves and the power contained in the large sword. It was something that Hall Master Xing could not compare to. It was a great coincidence. If it had been anyone else from the Evil Tiger Gang that went up, they would also have had the same result.

No wonder the Evil Tiger Gang only sent seven people. These seven people were equivalent to half of the Evil Tiger Gang.

Seeing the Evil Tiger Gang members' uncertain expressions, Qu Xiang Feng did not give them too much time to think. He held the large sword in his hand and said loudly, "Everyone, if there is anyone else who has objections, please stand up and speak."

Situ Liang and the others exchanged glances. Elder Chu stood up and said, "Shaoxia Qu, please put away your sword. We do not have any objections."

Qu Xiang Feng saw elder Chu speak, so he put his large sword back on his shoulder.

However, he did not return to his seat. Instead, he looked at the Evil Tiger Gang members and asked again, "Does anyone have any objections to my Ten Thousand Swords Peak temporarily taking over the Evil Tiger Gang?"

Situ Liang and the others all said, "Yes, we will follow the gang leader's orders and listen to Ten Thousand Swords Peak's Shaoxia Qu."

Then, Situ Liang invited Qu Xiang Feng to take a seat, saying: "Clan Master Qu, please take a seat. We will listen to Clan Master Qu's orders."

Qu Xiang Feng wasn't polite. He walked to a chair in the front of the hall and sat down. He then said to the Evil Tiger Gang members, "Everyone, please sit."

Thus, everyone sat back down.

Qu Xiang Feng said, "Everyone, please do not have any misgivings. I am following my Sword Master's orders to temporarily take over the Evil Tiger Gang. All matters will be handed over to Clan Leader Situ once she returns. Moreover, before Clan Leader Situ returns, the matters of the gang will still be handled by Elder Chu, Hall Leader Situ, and the others. We will not interfere. We only ask that Hall Leader Situ give us an explanation before you do anything."

Situ Liang and the others were very puzzled. What was this?

Taking over the position of Clan Leader and not using the Clan Leader's strength, he did not care about the matters of the gang. Hall Master Xing even looked at his cracked palm in regret. If he knew this would happen, he would not have competed with this person and lost his face for nothing.

However, everyone had their own explanations. The Evil Tiger Gang was their entire world in their eyes and could not be violated. However, in the eyes of this person, they were nothing more than chicken ribs. This Qu Xiang Feng probably didn't want to come, but because of his master's orders, he decided to not interfere and let them develop on their own.

Thinking of this, everyone revealed expressions of relief.

Qu Xiang Feng saw that everyone understood his intentions, so he didn't want to stay in the hall for too long. He said, "Then I'll have to trouble everyone with the matters of the Evil Tiger Gang in the future. We will temporarily stay in the place arranged for us this afternoon. If there is nothing important, do not disturb our cultivation." After saying this, he cupped his hands and bid farewell to the Evil Tiger Gang members.

The group of people returned to their living quarters.

When they returned to their living quarters, Qu Xiang Feng had everyone enter their own rooms and left one person to guard the door. Looking at the five people in the room, Qu Xiang Feng said with satisfaction, "Today, the matters of the Evil Tiger Gang have been settled. From today onwards, we will guard this place and wait for the Sword Master's next orders. Two junior brothers Wang, you should rest well tonight. Tomorrow morning, you will go to Lu Town and watch over that place. If any Jianghu people appear, immediately inform us." Two of them cupped their hands and agreed.

Afterwards, Qu Xiang Feng ordered the rest of the people, "The rest of you will follow our habits in the Ten Thousand Swords Peak and continue to practice martial arts. Do not slack off."

Everyone agreed and went their separate ways.

Situ Liang and the others were in the hall. After a moment of silence, Elder Chu opened his mouth and asked, "Little Liang, where have you arranged for Young Hero Qu and the others to stay?" He did not address them as Sect Master Qu.

Situ Liang said, "Arrange for them to be in East Room 6 to East Room 2."

Elder Chu said, "It's better to let them stay in the VIP rooms."

Situ Liang replied, "Alright, I will immediately arrange for people to take care of it. At that time, it was because I read the letter that my heart was in a mess. That's why the arrangements were inappropriate."

Elder Chu then said, "How about this, everyone is tired today. Let's go back and rest first. If there is anything else, we can discuss it tomorrow morning. How about that?"

Everyone also left.

Situ Liang leisurely returned to his own room. The room was not lit up with an oil lamp, so it was completely dark. He walked into the familiar darkness and closed the door tightly.

He walked in front of his desk and just stood there. He looked at the moon covered by dark clouds outside the window and did not move for a long time. After a while, he seemed to have sorted out his thoughts. Only then did he light up the oil lamp. The bean-sized flame quickly filled the room with light. Situ Ping picked up a pen and paper and carefully wrote a letter with very small handwriting. Then, he carefully rolled it into a small paper stick and placed it into a metal ring. Following that, he took out two empty metal rings and placed two small paper sticks into them. Then, he placed the three metal rings into his pocket. Only then did he blow out the oil lamp and walk out of the room.

After Situ Liang walked out of the room, he did not walk far away. Instead, he walked into a slightly bigger room right next to his room.

When he opened this room, he could hear the "gululu, gululu" sounds of pigeons. So this was a place to raise carrier pigeons.

He walked to the innermost corner with familiarity. From a pile of pigeon cages, he found three slightly smaller ones and opened them one by one. He took out the metal rings from his pocket and very skillfully put them on the ankles of the three pigeons.

Finally, he took the three cages and walked to the window. He opened the window and opened one of the cages first. He then released a pigeon. That pigeon flew in the air and circled around a bit before landing on the windowsill. It seemed like it did not want to fly out. However, Situ Liang grabbed the pigeon and threw it into the air again. This time, the pigeon circled around a bit before flying out in one direction.

Situ Liang did not immediately release the second pigeon. He waited quietly for the time it took to brew a cup of tea. When he did not hear any movement, he released the second pigeon. After the second pigeon flew away, he released the third pigeon.

The three carrier pigeons all flew towards the same place. In the pitch-black night, they carried some sort of mysterious mission.

Qu Xiang Feng and the others' rooms were quite a bit of distance away from Situ Liang's room. They were in different parts of the hall, so they did not notice anything. The Evil Tiger Gang members were already used to the pigeons flying out, so the sound of the three pigeons flying out did not catch anyone's attention.

After Situ Liang finished doing all of this, he returned to his own room. This time, he did not light a lamp. Instead, he walked to the side of the kang bed and slept with his clothes on.

Everything in the Evil Tiger Gang fell silent under the moonlit night. Occasionally, there would be a gang member on duty who would walk past unsteadily with sleepy eyes.

Everyone had fallen asleep with their own thoughts.

In the Zhang family's courtyard in the Guozhuang House, everyone was also sleeping peacefully. Only waves of suppressed coughing could be heard from grandma's room.

Grandma was lying on the kang bed and using the blanket to tightly cover her mouth. Her ears were turned to the side, but she would occasionally listen in Zhang Xiaohua's direction. Although the moonlight outside the window was bright, the room was still very dark. There was no movement from Zhang Xiaohua's side, but grandma was worried that she would wake up her beloved grandson and disturb his sweet dreams. However, with her disappointing body, she felt very stuffy in her chest and could not help but cough. She could not walk out of the room, nor did she want to disturb her grandson, so what could she do?

What made her feel gratified was that Zhang Xiaohua was sleeping very peacefully. She thought that perhaps she should tell her child's mother to let her live in her relative's wooden hut tomorrow. Only then would she be able to feel at ease.

At this time, Zhang Xiaohua seemed to have turned over. Grandma quickly closed her mouth and suppressed the coughing that was already close to her throat. However, how could she suppress this kind of cough?

Grandma's throat was itchy and her face was red. When she heard that Zhang Xiaohua was no longer moving, she carefully coughed out. However, because she had suppressed it for a while, the coughing became much more intense. Grandma even felt that some liquid had been coughed out onto the blanket.

In the middle of the night, grandma did not fall asleep. After waiting for the rooster to crow a few times, she felt that it was already dawn. Grandma quickly got up and groped her way out.

The small courtyard was still very quiet. Grandma did not hear any other sounds. Presumably, Guo Sufei and Liu Qian had not woken up either.

Grandma did not walk to the center of the courtyard. She leaned against the wall outside the room and used a towel to cover her coughing.

After the time it took to eat a meal, grandma heard the door to the central room creak open.

Someone came out from inside. Then, she heard Guo Sufei's voice: "Mother, why are you up so early?

It's cold outside. "

Guo Sufei walked over and wanted to help grandma back to the room. However, grandma refused to go back and said: "I'm always coughing. I'm afraid that I'll wake Xiaohua up."

Guo Sufei's eyes immediately turned red and said: "Then, mother, come to the central room first."

She helped grandma to the central room. At this time, Liu Qian also got up. She was also very surprised to see Guo Sufei supporting grandma. She quickly opened the door to the central room and let the two in.

Listening to grandma's continuous coughing, she could not help but think: "I don't know if this spring water really works. Grandma's condition is getting worse."