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"Something has happened…" Ye Qing sat at the table, gasped for air, and said, "Old Master Tie... Old Master Tie has been killed!"
"What!?" The Lady Boss's eyes widened in shock to the extreme. She was well aware of Tie Yongwen's strength. With Tie Yongwen's strength and prestige, who would dare to kill him, who could kill him?
"What about Mr. Cui?" Ye Qing asked.
"Hold on a minute!" The Lady Boss hurriedly turned around and ran into the inner room, and soon, Cui Yu came out in a hurry with two disciples. When he saw Ye Qing like this, Cui Yu was also stunned, but White Impermanence sneered coldly. He had suffered in Ye Qing's hands, and although Cui Yu didn't let him take revenge, he still harbored some hatred towards Ye Qing.
As soon as Cui Yu came out, he rushed up to Ye Qing, grabbed his clothes, and demanded in a deep voice, "How did Old Master Tie die?"
Ye Qing was stunned for a moment; he hadn't expected Cui Yu's reaction to be so intense. Seeing his angry expression, Ye Qing wondered what the relationship really was between him and Tie Yongwen to make him so furious.
"Old Master Tie was killed with a gun..." Ye Qing briefly recounted what had happened before, and after hearing Ye Qing's words, Cui Yu fell into silence.
Cui Yu was neither Wei Hua nor from the Ding Family, so he naturally chose to believe Ye Qing. Moreover, he had also heard about the explosion at the orphanage. Since both incidents happened within such a tight timeframe, they were definitely related. With Cui Yu's years of experience, he immediately recognized that someone was framing Ye Qing while also targeting the Ding Family.
"Who would have thought, Old Master Tie, a hero of his time, would die in such a pathetic way!" The Lady Boss, Hu Momo, sighed and said, "The people from the Ding Family and Xingyi School are really foolish. They actually believed such simple tricks; the mastermind behind this must be laughing his head off!"
"The trick might be simple, but the key point is that it captured people's hearts." Cui Yu slowly shook his head and said, "The people from the Ding Family and Wei Hua both hold hostility towards Ye Qing. With someone scheming in the background, of course, they would suspect Ye Qing first. However, since this person dared to kill even Old Master Tie, it looks like this matter is really not simple."
Cui Yu looked at Ye Qing and asked solemnly, "Ye Qing, what do you plan to do about this?"
"If possible, I'd like my brothers to stay here for a few days." Ye Qing said, "I will rest tonight and once my injury is a bit better tomorrow, I will go out and investigate this matter. No matter who killed Uncle Tie, I will make them pay with blood for blood!"
"It's no problem to have your men stay here, but there are not many rooms in the teahouse; they might have to put up with some discomfort for a few days," Cui Yu said. "However, about your injury, it's unlikely to heal within a day or two. Ye Qing, you might as well stay here and recuperate. I can go out and investigate this matter for you!"
"Master, you can't go out!" The young girl said anxiously, "Ye Qing and his brothers are all at the teahouse. The teahouse is the target of that mastermind. If you are here, you can still protect the teahouse. Once you leave, the mastermind might take actions against the teahouse!"
Cui Yu slightly frowned; the young girl was indeed stating the truth. If the teahouse wasn't under his protection, it wouldn't be a safe place, which indeed was a problematic matter.
"The only solution now is to let Ye Qing personally go and investigate." The Lady Boss looked at Ye Qing and said, "Ye Qing, you should recuperate here for the time being. Once your injuries are almost healed, then you can go out and investigate this matter. What do you think?"
"My injuries are not a big deal, I won't die!" Ye Qing walked over to the table and slowly sat down, saying, "Resting for the night will be enough. Mr. Cui, your willingness to take care of my brothers is grateful enough for me. I still need to investigate Uncle Tie's matter personally!"
Seeing Ye Qing's determined face, Cui Yu did not insist and slowly nodded, saying, "Very well, let's do that!"
Lin Mengjie went out and spoke to the brothers outside, asking them to stay here temporarily. Luckily, the courtyard outside the teahouse was quite spacious. A few people took cars out, bought a bunch of tents, and set up camp temporarily.
Ye Qing lay down inside the house, and Lin Mengjie asked the Lady Boss for a medical kit to help him bandage his wounds. Actually, Ye Qing had mainly suffered internal injuries, and not many external wounds. After bandaging the wounds, Ye Qing found a quiet room, practiced the Breathing and Meditation techniques silently, and slowly drove the Internal Breath in his body to circulate, gradually dissolving the internal accumulated blood stasis.
While everyone outside was busy setting up tents, suddenly, a roar of motorcycles came from outside the courtyard.
The people looked up and saw six or seven cars speeding over. Standing at the entrance, Mad Dog's face changed, and he immediately turned around and bellowed, "Some folks are looking for trouble, brothers, grab your weapons!"
Those who were setting up tents immediately dropped what they were doing and took out machetes and steel pipes from the cars, lining up behind Mad Dog.
The cars rushed to stop outside the courtyard, and about twenty men stepped out, all from the Xingyi School. The man in the lead, the third elder brother of Xingyi School, took a long look at the situation, furrowed his brow, and said solemnly, "We are only here to capture Ye Qing. Those who are unrelated, step aside immediately. Otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless!"
Chen Jun, holding a baseball bat, shouted, "To hell with your mother, if you want to capture my big brother, you'll have to step over my dead body!"
The third elder brother's face turned cold, and he said firmly, "I'll say it once more, we are only here to capture Ye Qing. Those who are unrelated, get out of the way!"
"Stop the nonsense, let's fight!" Chen Jun roared, and the group of brothers behind him immediately charged forward to clash with the people from the Xingyi School.
The members of the Xingyi School also clenched their fists, ready to fight with Ye Qing's brothers when suddenly, the teahouse's front door burst open, and Lady Boss Hu Momo walked out, swaying gently.
"Oh, quite a crowd here!" The Lady Boss glanced casually at everyone and said, "What's going on here? Fighting, are you?"
Someone from Xingyi School shouted loudly, "Who's this nosy woman? Buzz off!"
"Hey, young man, you've got quite the tone!" A voice suddenly came from behind the crowd. The Xingyi School members turned around to look and saw a pale-faced youth squatting not far behind them on a courtyard wall.
The youth wore a cold smile, his face so pale it was somewhat frightening—to the degree of being alarming—it was White Impermanence, and no one knew when he had sneaked over there.
White Impermanence jumped down from the wall and walked leisurely into the crowd, heading straight for the man who had just spoken.
"Young man, do you know what they mean by 'trouble comes from the mouth'?" White Impermanence said with a light laugh, looking at him with a face that mimicked a father educating his son, yet unbeknownst to others, he was actually younger.
"Trouble? I'll give you trouble, jerk!" The man suddenly got angry and kicked at White Impermanence.
"Hehehe…" White Impermanence chuckled coldly, turned to dodge the man's kick, casually swiped his right hand across the man's neck, then turned and stepped back slowly, leisurely saying, "You dare to insult the Lady Boss, so I'll take your life on behalf of my Master!"
The crowd looked on in surprise. The two had exchanged moves so briefly that nothing seemed to have happened, and the words of White Impermanence seemed too arrogant.
Looking at the man, he was frozen in place, not moving or making a sound for quite some time.
"Ke Zi, what's wrong with you?" Someone next to him reached out to pull him, only to see a red line suddenly appear on the man's neck followed by a burst of blood, and then the man clutched his neck and collapsed weakly to the ground.
"What happened?"
"What's going on?"
The people from Xingyi School immediately panicked, rushing over to help the man, only then did they discover that his throat had been slit. Blood burst forth, and the man convulsed uncontrollably, clearly beyond saving!
Among the crowd, only the third senior brother had seen something clearly, vaguely noting a flash of cold light in White Impermanence's hand, probably a blade or something similar, which had quickly slit the man's throat, shocking him.
What they didn't know was that White Impermanence was an assassin, having trained for so many years under Ghost-faced Judge Cui Yu. He was highly skilled at killing. Facing someone head-on, his combat skills might not be up to the mark, but sneaky killing was easy for him. The man just then had been off guard, resulting in his immediate death, and in doing so, White Impermanence had managed to intimidate everyone present.
The people from Xingyi School pulled the man back, while those who had been standing next to White Impermanence also hurriedly retreated, each of them wearing a look of panic. The power demonstrated by White Impermanence commanded their wariness.
"You dare kill one of our Xingyi School comrades!" the third senior brother roared, "Everyone, together, kill him!"
This call drew several people who aggressively moved to surround White Impermanence. Just then, an iron awl suddenly whooshed through the air, striking the right arm of the person at the forefront, and then quickly withdrawn, leaving the man screaming in pain as he clutched his arm on the ground.
The third senior brother looked up, only to see that at some point a short girl had appeared behind the Lady Boss, holding the bloody iron awl, her face wearing a sinister smile.
The third senior brother inwardly gasped; he had long heard of the teahouse's reputation and knew it was filled with experts. He had not expected to encounter two skilled fighters so soon after arriving, realizing that capturing Ye Qing tonight would not be easy.
"Where is the Ghost-faced Judge?" the third senior brother looked up and shouted, "Let the Ghost-faced Judge come out and talk to me. Ye Qing killed my master, and he is hiding Ye Qing; does he want to be enemies with our Xingyi School?"
"My friend, you must be careful with your words," the Lady Boss said, "Whether Elder Senior Tie was killed by Ye Qing is still not determined, and you should not falsely accuse others. Also, this is a teahouse, and in the teahouse, we must act according to our teahouse's rules. Ye Qing is our guest here; anyone who wants to take him will be declaring enmity with our teahouse!"