Chapter 99: Brothers

"Indeed, we misjudged him. Fifth brother is better at judging people than I am."

Huang Ping and his daughter eventually learned of Xu Yang standing up for the Qiu family and beating Hong Feng to death, and they couldn't help but sigh.

Now it was too late to say anything. His daughter had done such a thing, and Xu Yang hadn't stood up to explain, clearly wanting to use this to end the small favor the Huang family had shown him.

"Father, even if he is at the early stage of Qi Gathering, so what? His innate talent is still Grade C-low, and there is still not much hope for him to succeed in the Martial Scholar examination." Huang Linger pouted.

She admitted that Xu Yang had indeed exceeded her expectations, but that was all; she did not regret her actions.

Compared to her face and the Huang family's reputation, what was a martial artist with Grade C-low innate talent? As long as the Huang family was willing to spend money, they could soon cultivate a martial artist at the early stage of Qi Gathering from the new batch of people selected.

Huang Ping shook his head: "What I admire is not his talent, but his character. If Lu Ren had even half of his sense of gratitude, he wouldn't have betrayed the Huang family. This person is indeed worth cultivating; it is I who failed to recognize his worth."

"This time, thanks to Xu Yang, otherwise even if my Qiu family wasn't wiped out, we wouldn't have been able to keep our family business."

After sending off Xu Yang and Zhang Yong and the others, Qiu Yongjian felt a wave of relief.

Fortunately, his second brother didn't listen to him and was still secretly supporting Xu Yang, otherwise, the Qiu family would have been destroyed by his own shortsightedness.

Qiu Yongqiang shook his head: "That wouldn't have happened. Even if I had really listened to you, Big Brother, Xu Yang wouldn't have ignored this matter; he values loyalty and righteousness.

If it weren't for that, how could three taels of silver make someone with the potential to succeed in the Martial Scholar examination risk his life fighting a high-level expert of the same realm."

Qiu Wenjie nodded along. When he found Zhang Yong, he told Zhang Yong to ask for as much money as he wanted, but Zhang Yong simply wasn't willing.

Xu Yang taking action was not a matter of money at all.

Qiu Yongjian nodded: "It was my shortsightedness before. You go to the accounting office to draw twenty taels of silver, prepare some gifts, and personally deliver them to Xu Yang's house. We can't come up with much money, but we can't fail to show our appreciation.

Future support money will also come from the family's accounts.

After we annex the Hong family's business and the business grows, we will increase the support for Xu Yang."

Qiu Yongqiang nodded: "Leave this matter to me. Big Brother, you rest and recover; seizing the Hong family's business still requires you to preside over it."

With Xu Yang backing them, seizing the Hong family's business had become inevitable.

"Greetings, Senior Brother Xu!"

"Junior Brother Xu Yang!"

When Xu Yang returned to the Weiyuan Hall, everything had become different. Those senior and junior brothers who used to ignore him directly when they saw him began to greet him with smiles, their attitudes changing drastically.

"How realistic!"

He knew this was the change brought about by him beating Hong Feng to death.

At his age, being able to reach the early stage of Qi Gathering, even if he couldn't succeed in the Martial Scholar examination, he could at least reach the major success stage of Qi Gathering in the future, so these people began to associate with him.

Jiang Ping and those people could look down on him, but not everyone had the confidence of Jiang Ping and the others.

"Junior Brother Xu!" Sun Tao walked over with large strides.

Xu Yang cupped his hands and said: "Greetings, Senior Brother Sun."

Regarding Sun Tao, no one in the Weiyuan Hall dared to be negligent.

Although everyone called Lin Shi 'Master' and were nominally Lin Shi's disciples, only Sun Tao had truly kowtowed to Lin Shi and served him the apprenticeship tea; he was Lin Shi's legitimate disciple. ===== CHAPTER 100 =====