Chapter 1437: Receiving Guests

Chapter 1437: Chapter 1440: Receiving Guests

“Xiuyue, tomorrow you call all the brothers back to the Martial Hall to assemble… take out all the cash I won today… tomorrow night, our Longfeng Martial Hall will hold the year-end meeting and profit-sharing!”

As soon as Lin Feng gave this order, it meant the first hall gathering after he won the Sect Leader’s seat was about to begin. This wasn’t a small matter—setting up the venue, arranging food and drinks, entertainment equipment, and the agenda of the meeting were all very tedious things.

One day to prepare, that was really tight!

The next day, Lin Feng, Zhu Xiuyue and the others were basically running around non-stop the whole day, and only just before dinner did they finally get everything that needed to be prepared in place. In order to give the Hong Sect brothers a surprise, he, Zhu Xiuyue, Xie Nan and the others even deliberately hid all that cash properly; during the transfer, they never let the ordinary brothers spot it!

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On the evening of the twenty-fourth of the twelfth lunar month, in front of Longfeng Martial Hall, it was brightly lit. All kinds of luxury cars were parked in the lot in front of the Longfeng Martial Hall. Every man and woman getting out of the cars looked refreshed and spirited, clearly very excited…

Tonight was the Longfeng Martial Hall’s annual meeting. Those invited to watch the ceremony were all Lin Feng’s relatives and friends, plus the families of the Martial Hall staff, etc. The one in charge of overall reception and service, Zhu Xiuyue, clearly hadn’t expected there to be so many guests tonight. It wasn’t even seven yet, and the Martial Hall’s eighty dedicated parking spaces had already been used up, while many more guests were still waiting to drive in.

“Sister Xiuyue, a convoy of ten cars just arrived. They say they’re under Long Xiaoyun, a good friend of Brother Feng… but all our parking spots are already taken!”

The walkie-talkie at Zhu Xiuyue’s waist crackled, and the brother in charge of parking relayed the message.

“What do we do now… Brother Feng never said he had so many friends coming!” Zhu Xiuyue pulled a bitter face, muttering to herself in some distress. Then she turned her head, glanced at the Xinhai International Building beside them, and spoke directly into the walkie-talkie, “Little Tiger, hurry up and contact the property management at Xinhai International. I don’t care what method you use, get them to coordinate at least a hundred spots for us. Go get this done, quickly…”

The person on the other end of the walkie-talkie was none other than Lin Feng’s newly recruited little brother, Qian Hu. After hearing Zhu Xiuyue’s order, he didn’t hesitate in the slightest and immediately replied, “Okay, Sister Xiuyue, I’ll take care of it right away!”

Not long after, Zhu Xiuyue saw that the newly arrived convoy was already being directed by Qian Hu toward the Xinhai International Building… At the same time, cars were also steadily driving out from the parking lot exit of the Xinhai International Building. Clearly, these were the cars Qian Hu had managed to free up space from…

“This Little Tiger actually has some capability. I don’t know how he talked to them, but he managed to sort it out this fast…” In her heart, Zhu Xiuyue was quite pleased with Qian Hu’s performance.

“Xiuyue… everything okay over here? Need any help?”

Just as Zhu Xiuyue finished solving the parking issue, Lin Feng suddenly appeared behind her, asking with a cheerful smile.

“Brother Feng, why did you come out? There’s nothing wrong here…” Zhu Xiuyue gave Lin Feng a little giggle, smiling nervously. “This small reception stuff, you’re not going to say you don’t trust me with it, are you?”

“Don’t joke around, how could I not trust you…” Lin Feng laughed and shook his head, saying casually, “I came out to pick up a few friends…”

“Pick up friends?” Zhu Xiuyue’s eyes rolled, a curious smile spreading across her face as she asked mischievously, “Su Zi, Aoxue, Tang Rou, those beauties are all already inside, aren’t they? What other friends need Brother Feng to personally come out and pick them up?”

Lin Feng was made a bit embarrassed by her question. This girl was usually obedient and sensible—how come she suddenly turned so annoying today… Talk about hitting the sore spot!

“Ahem, my business isn’t something you need to ask about… just do your job properly! Manager Zhu!” Lin Feng straightened his face, fixing her with a serious look as he spoke.

Zhu Xiuyue knew she’d once again poked at Lin Feng’s sore point. She felt a bit awkward, but also secretly smug… Brother Feng’s good in every way, just a little too much of a flirt…

Lin Feng didn’t bother with Zhu Xiuyue. He walked straight to the entrance of the parking lot. A very inconspicuous black Mercedes slowly drove up and stopped right in front of him. Then the rear door opened, and two beauties in evening dresses, draped in long shawls, stepped out of the car and appeared before him.

“Ladies, good evening…” Lin Feng gave the two women a wry smile, greeting them with a hint of helplessness.

These two very formally dressed beauties were none other than the sisters Cao Ying and Li Liping.

“Lin Feng… so this is your Martial Hall? It’s huge!” In the chilly breeze, Cao Ying’s cheeks were a bit flushed, as if she were a little excited. She lifted her head, looking at the Longfeng Martial Hall behind Lin Feng, where a large LED screen billboard had been mounted above the gate, and spoke with some excitement and thrill.

“It’s so-so…” Lin Feng smiled modestly.

“Sis, let’s hurry inside, I’m freezing to death…” Li Liping’s voice trembled slightly as she complained, “I already said, coming to Lin Feng’s place to hang out, there’s no need to dress this formal. I’m about to freeze to death…”

For some reason, Li Liping seemed to be deliberately avoiding greeting Lin Feng. But even so, her gaze clearly hadn’t left Lin Feng’s body. Obviously, it wasn’t that she wasn’t paying attention to him…

Lin Feng vaguely guessed the reason for Li Liping’s behavior. After all, he had basically turned down her goodwill to her face. It was only normal for her to feel awkward… Even Lin Feng himself hadn’t expected Li Liping would show up with Cao Ying tonight—he thought Cao Ying would be coming alone!

Lin Feng glanced at Cao Ying and saw that, in the cold wind, her face quickly turned pale. His heart tightened with a bit of pity. He reached out both hands, one on each side, and without any attempt to avoid suspicion, grabbed Cao Ying and Li Liping’s delicate hands, saying softly, “I’ll walk you two inside—then you won’t feel cold.”

As he spoke, Lin Feng directly stirred the abundant Inner Strength in his body and passed it into Cao Ying and Li Liping.

After that Inner Strength circulated once, Li Liping and Cao Ying miraculously felt as if an invisible, tangible protective membrane had formed around them, blocking all the biting cold wind a few centimeters away from their bodies. They suddenly felt warm all over, not cold at all!

“This is amazing, Lin Feng, how did you do that?” In an instant, Li Liping seemed to forget her original plan of deliberately not speaking to Lin Feng, and the question just slipped out.

“Is this Inner Strength?” Cao Ying also looked at Lin Feng curiously, asking with a smile.

Neither of them showed any objection to Lin Feng suddenly holding their hands.