Chapter 1413 - 1416: Parking Spot Snatched

Originally, Lin Feng felt frustrated when Zhu Xiuyue didn’t immediately think of him as the winner. However, after he clearly expressed his stance, Zhu Xiuyue hesitated and gave him another blow, making Lin Feng feel he lost all authority in front of her!

For a moment, Lin Feng didn’t know how to respond.

Fortunately, Zhu Xiuyue wasn’t entirely clueless. After smiling awkwardly, she said generously, "I understand what you mean, Brother Feng! You’re really something. You know I’m not that smart, yet you won’t tell me straight, isn’t this deliberately making it difficult for me! Since Brother Feng has a firm grip on the Sect Leader’s position, I surely want to follow you and make some money! Hehe!"

"In any case, just handle this matter properly in the next two days, keep things low-key, don’t draw too much attention, it would be best if more brothers come forward separately to spread the bets!" Lin Feng’s goal was to make money, not to make a scene, so naturally, he didn’t want Zhu Xiuyue to be too high-profile.

"I understand, Brother Feng, I will do as you say!" Zhu Xiuyue replied, but in her heart, she was thinking, Brother Feng, you’re too idealistic. Dropping over forty million might scare the bettors, not to mention trying not to alarm others...

Then, in the two days before the Hong Sect meeting, Zhu Xiuyue indeed followed Lin Feng’s instructions, having dozens of Hong Sect brothers, separately taking money to find the betting brothers, and gradually bet the forty million provided by Lin Feng, along with her own five million, on Lin Feng winning the final Sect Leader position...

During the execution, Zhu Xiuyue quickly discovered that the strategies of these Longfeng Martial Hall brothers weren’t particularly surprising, because the odds on the Hong Sect’s new Sect Leader had opened quite large. Each hall had brothers betting on their own leaders, hoping for an upset or to gain some face for their leaders. Even the twelfth leader Ling Feifan, who had the least hope for winning the leader position, had nearly two million bets, while as the hot favorite, the second leader Liu Shouyi had over eighty million in bets!

Originally, Lin Feng, as the fourth strong contender, only had about four million in bets. However, after Zhu Xiuyue’s maneuvering, the total funds betting on Lin Feng to win the Sect Leader position reached nearly fifty million, causing quite a stir. Even the Hong Sect brothers holding the odds were surprised. To prevent more funds from betting on Lin Feng’s win resulting in an inability to pay off, they nervously lowered Lin Feng’s winning odds, so the last few bets placed by Zhu Xiuyue had odds of only 1:2.

Zhu Xiuyue didn’t mind this much; even if the odds were slightly lowered, as long as Lin Feng won, Longfeng Martial Hall would still profit!

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On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the New Year’s Eve, many Hong Sect patriarchs, as well as various leaders and many Jianghu fellows attending the ceremony, gathered at the Zhongyi Martial Hall to hold this year’s year-end meeting.

Zhongyi Martial Hall, located in the old district of Jiangzhou City, is the Hong Sect headquarters, also known as the First Hall of the thirteen halls.

Zhongyi Martial Hall is a small European-style building built in the 1940s, with a sizable courtyard, covering nearly three acres. In the expensive old district, just the land value of this Zhongyi Martial Hall exceeds two billion!

Originally, the courtyard of Zhongyi Martial Hall had many facilities provided for Hong Sect brothers to practice martial arts, but that evening, to accommodate the numerous guests’ vehicles, the brothers of Zhongyi Martial Hall removed most facilities and put them back into the utility room, turning the entire courtyard into a temporary parking lot...

At six in the evening, as cold rain drizzled from the sky, Lin Feng drove a BMW, with Zhou Yang, Xiang Wang, Xie Nan, and Zhu Xiuyue, into the courtyard of Zhongyi Martial Hall. After identifying themselves, they were slowly led to the designated parking spot by a brother in a raincoat from Zhongyi Martial Hall... Five people in one car was indeed a bit crowded, but it wasn’t because Lin Feng didn’t want to bring an extra car, rather because parking spaces at Zhongyi Martial Hall were truly limited. Within the Hong Sect, only personnel at leader level or above had reserved parking spaces. If Lin Feng asked Zhou Yang to drive separately, Zhou Yang might not even get in!

"Lord Lin, Old Xu is very considerate of you. Just now, when he came over, he had already notified a few of our brothers responsible for arranging parking to reserve an uncovered spot for you..." This Hong Sect brother, who looked about seventeen or eighteen, spoke to Lin Feng with a very flattering tone, knowing well the legendary rise of Lin Feng after joining Hong Sect! In fact, when he mentioned Lin Feng to Xu Yishan, it prompted Xu Yishan to instruct his words of care for Lin Feng.

"Oh, really?" Lin Feng rolled down the car window and smiled at the young brother outside. Although it was a minor matter, since Xu Yishan mentioned it, he appreciated it, "I’ll remember this. I’ll thank Old Xu personally later! By the way, what’s your name, young brother?"

The teenager helping Lin Feng park smiled honestly and whispered, "Lord Lin, my name is Qian Hu, you can just call me Little Tiger!"

"Little Tiger! I’ll remember, thank you!" Lin Feng said to Qian Hu.

"Lord Lin, you’re too polite; your parking spot is right under that rain shelter corridor ahead, almost there..." Qian Hu said to Lin Feng, pointing at a small rain shelter made of steel structure a short distance away. Under the rain shelter, there was just enough space to park a car, and right next to it was the corridor leading directly into the house, quite considerate treatment.

Following Qian Hu’s guidance, Lin Feng was preparing to park the car there... Just then, a roar of an engine came from the front, and a black Range Rover approached fiercely, speeding nearly at forty kilometers per hour, then, with a screeching halt, it stopped right in the parking space under the rain shelter, leaving a long skid mark on the ground...

Qian Hu was momentarily stunned.

"Who... who is this?" Qian Hu asked instinctively and then, with a look of apology, said to Lin Feng, "Lord Lin, sorry, please wait a moment. I’ll go communicate with them first!"

Lin Feng nodded with an expressionless face; he also wanted to know who the other person was... If it was a free-for-all, it would be understandable if the other person took the parking spot first. But now, it was clearly arranged, and the other person forcibly took his parking spot, so this couldn’t just be ignored!