Chapter 1438 - 1441: Cao Ying and Li Liping

"So this is Inner Strength?" Cao Ying also looked at Lin Feng with some curiosity and asked with a smile.

As for Lin Feng suddenly grabbing both their hands, the two of them didn’t show any objection.

"Yeah... this is Inner Strength." Lin Feng nodded, thinking of Su Zi Ning Aoxue and the other girls bringing up learning at the Martial Hall, then said to Cao Ying and Li Liping with a grin, "If you want to learn, I’ll find a chance to teach you..."

Cao Ying gave a sweet smile, nodded a bit reservedly. Clearly, she felt this was just an excuse Lin Feng had come up with to spend more time with her... Using learning Martial Arts as a pretext sounded pretty good. In the future she could openly stay with Lin Feng without worrying about her mother nagging!

"Lin Feng, are you serious? I really want to learn Martial Arts... You’ve got to teach me properly!" Li Liping, on the other hand, had the strings in her heart plucked all of a sudden by Lin Feng, and said excitedly, "Once I’ve learned Martial Arts, I’ll be able to wear skirts even in the middle of winter, and always stay pretty. That’s just perfect..."

Lin Feng rolled his eyes. He hadn’t expected Li Liping’s purpose in learning Martial Arts to be this blunt and simple... But for women, this might actually be the best reason to endure hardship for training! After all, lots of women risk their lives for losing weight...

"Lin Feng, they... why are they all looking at us? Did we wear the wrong kind of clothes..." As Cao Ying walked along, she suddenly noticed that people along the way were all looking at her, Lin Feng, and Li Liping with half-smiles, and she couldn’t help feeling a bit awkward.

"Ahem..." Lin Feng glanced at the two little evening dresses on Cao Ying and Li Liping that could only be described as s*xy and s*ductive, and said, "Your clothes are basically fine. These guys just like watching my drama, that’s all. Don’t mind them..."

What Lin Feng said wasn’t exactly correct. A lot of the Hong Sect brothers along the way had never seen Cao Ying and Li Liping before. Suddenly seeing Lin Feng walking in holding both girls’ hands so "intimately," what they were most curious about was the identities of the two beauties...

In corners where Lin Feng couldn’t hear them, a lot of Hong Sect brothers were suspiciously discussing:

"Our Boss seems to have a ton of chicks. There were already three just now, and now he’s brought two more. So which sister-in-law is the real Sect Leader’s wife?"

"Yeah, I’m curious too. Back in the banquet hall when I saw those few beauties, I was already kinda stunned... I was thinking, no matter how awesome our Boss is, finding three girls like that already makes him a dragon among men! Who would’ve thought he’d bring two more... And these two look even closer to him. I’m totally confused..."

"Looks like our Brother Feng really is something else... Just on the ’beauty’ front, he completely crushes all the other Hong Sect leaders... If we follow him properly from now on, maybe we’ll get to score a beauty as a girlfriend too!"

"Don’t laugh, that might really happen... Look, every girl around the Boss is prettier than the last. The ones he’s not interested in are probably still top-tier. If we perform well, we might really get a chance to be ’marketed’ by the Boss..."

The few Hong Sect brothers were getting pretty worked up in their discussion, when a somewhat dejected voice suddenly cut in.

"The beauties are small stuff. I’m thinking about something else... Boss is going to hand out money later. Our Longfeng Martial Hall only opened this year. According to Hong Sect rules, we can only take half the dividends of other branches. But since Boss has already been promoted from leader to quasi–Sect Leader, he should show something, right? No idea how much we’ll get this year. I still want to bring some money home for New Year, hope it won’t be too shabby..."

The Hong Sect brothers present all froze for a moment. Of course they knew about this Hong Sect rule, which was why many people were unwilling to casually switch branches. Most of them had only transferred over when Longfeng Martial Hall opened because they weren’t valued in their original branch. Originally, if Lin Feng hadn’t done anything big, everyone would just peacefully accept half the dividends and get through the year. But since Lin Feng had won the Sect Leader contest at the Hong Sect conference, he ought to show something.

"Strictly speaking, our thinking is a bit greedy, but that’s human nature..." one brother nodded. "After all, Boss is the future master now; if he doesn’t show anything, it wouldn’t look right. But even though our Longfeng Martial Hall is newly opened, we’ve already got over a hundred brothers. Even if Boss wants to be generous, he can’t go overboard... I figure if Brother Feng can give us 60% of the other branches’ dividends, we’ll have enough confidence to talk in front of brothers from other branches!"

"Sixty percent? Wouldn’t Boss have to put in nearly two million himself... Well, let’s hope we get that..." another brother clearly didn’t have much hope, but he still said it half in prayer.

If Lin Feng knew his subordinates’ expectations were this modest, he’d definitely be annoyed...

...

This was Cao Ying’s first time coming to Longfeng Martial Hall. Tonight, Cao Tiannan had basically given her a special pardon, just having the driver drop her at the Martial Hall entrance and hand her over to Lin Feng, then sending the driver straight back. He wasn’t going to interfere in what she did at the Martial Hall. Cao Ying had truly gained her freedom, and tonight she was even allowed to spend the night outside...

Of course, while Cao Tiannan was being generous, he had also secretly threatened Lin Feng for a long time, telling Lin Feng he absolutely couldn’t let anything happen to Cao Ying, couldn’t keep taking advantage of her, and so on...

Although Lin Feng was annoyed that Cao Tiannan was using him to act the good guy, for the sake of coaxing Cao Ying into being happy, he could only grit his teeth and put up with it.

Cao Ying had never been to a place like a Martial Hall before and was extremely curious. She held onto Lin Feng’s arm, looking left and right all the way, never stopping for even a moment. Her stunning looks and noble, refined temperament instantly attracted the attention of quite a few street brothers who weren’t from the Hong Sect, but with Lin Feng present, no one dared recklessly come over to say hi.

Once they entered the banquet hall, it was already crowded and noisy, cups clinking everywhere. Although the actual banquet hadn’t officially started yet, Longfeng Martial Hall always kept a buffet ready, so a lot of people were eating buffet food while chatting.

"Lin Feng, where did you just run off to?"

As soon as Lin Feng and Cao Ying and Li Liping entered the banquet hall, Su Zi popped up out of nowhere, casually calling out Lin Feng’s name.

Then Su Zi naturally saw Cao Ying and Li Liping...

"Teacher Cao Ying... Senior Sister Liping... You, you came too?" Su Zi was stunned for a moment, then stared blankly at Cao Ying and Li Liping. When her gaze swept over Lin Feng tightly holding both women’s hands, her expression couldn’t help becoming strange, and she bit her teeth as she said, "Lin Feng, you never said they were coming..."

"Uh, Cao Ying came because there’s nobody at her place tonight, she suddenly got bored and contacted me... Heh, I didn’t tell you beforehand because I didn’t know she was coming either..." Lin Feng explained casually to Su Zi as he let go of Cao Ying and Li Liping’s hands.