Chapter 85: The Vacant Hall Master's Seat

"As expected, you didn't disappoint me."

This matter, Ye Tian had handed over full authority to Mei Yongning to handle, and now it seemed, the effect was quite good. This book is first published on Tiantian Kan Xiaoshuo, super smooth reading, ttks. tw at your service, providing you with an error-free chapter, no out-of-order chapter reading experience.

It's only been such a short time, and Sēn Lǎo is already gone.

"What are people outside saying?"

"Lei Tang did a clean job, but I left a contingency in advance. A servant in Lei Tang's residence personally identified him, the person has already been dealt with. Lei Tang has now fled Linshui City, and I believe it won't be long before he's caught."

Killing a Hall Master — you don't really think running away will make everything fine, do you?

"Well done!"

Lei Tang? Lei Yan hadn't heard of any Sēn Lǎo, but she had heard of Lei Tang — after all, he was her own uncle.

So, now Lei Tang had run into trouble, and the one who caused all of this was precisely Ye Tian?

Her drinking motion paused slightly, but she still didn't speak up to interrupt.

"Go down and make the arrangements. Now that the Hall Master's seat is vacant, my position as Head Boss should also be moving up."

"Understood!"

Mei Yongning's expression was excited; he had no doubt whatsoever that his own Boss would become Hall Master.

After Mei Yongning left, Ye Tian picked up the water Little Grass had prepared and took a sip, then only afterward looked toward Lei Yan.

"Can't accept it?"

Don't be fooled that Lei Yan left home very early to join the Yue Mountain Sect — in truth, Lei Yan's experience in the jianghu really wasn't that extensive; her understanding of the treacherous hearts of people in the jianghu was still far too shallow.

"Just a little surprised."

Can't accept it? Not quite to that extent.

"Since it's not that you can't accept it, then go back and prepare."

Ye Tian didn't offer much explanation, but simply said one sentence.

"Prepare?"

Hearing this, Lei Yan was stunned for a moment, unable to grasp for the moment what Ye Tian meant by "prepare."

"Naturally, to prepare for the wedding."

A smile at the corner of his mouth, he glanced sideways at Lei Yan.

"After all, before long, I'll be a Hall Master of the Black Water Gang, and that will naturally be the day of our wedding."

When saying this, Ye Tian's tone was full of confidence.

This Hall Master's seat, he was bound to claim.

"..."

Ye Tian's words made Lei Yan instinctively blush, not knowing what to say.

"Hahahaha!"

That change in expression was rather amusing. After setting down the water cup, Ye Tian left directly — for a period of time to come, there would be plenty to be busy with.

Little Grass carefully tidied up the tea cup.

Lei Yan's mood gradually settled. Seeing Little Grass, her eyes rolled, and she suddenly asked.

"By the way, what kind of person is your family's master?"

"Young Master?"

She hadn't expected Lei Yan to ask that.

If it were about other things, Little Grass probably couldn't say anything coherent, but when it came to questions involving Ye Tian, it was completely different.

"Young Master is of course a good person, a great, great good person."

In Little Grass's view anyway, Ye Tian was a great, great good person.

That look of worship — anyone could tell she was utterly devoted to Ye Tian.

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When returning to the Lei residence, Lei Yan was still somewhat weighed down with thoughts — not that she couldn't accept what Ye Tian had done.

She just somehow felt that her understanding of this jianghu was still a bit too shallow; many things were completely different from what she'd imagined.

She felt that this trip back had already broadened her horizons quite a bit.

"Dead? Hahahaha! That Lei Tang dog of a man is finally going to die — wonderful! Hahahaha!"

Just as she stepped into the front courtyard, Lei Yan heard her own father's excited, booming laughter.

Lei Yan had originally thought that if she told her father about Lei Tang's incident, her father would surely be very upset — after all, Lei Tang was Lei Yushan's own elder brother.

But in reality—

Lei Yushan was so happy he could jump up.

"You dog of a man, swindled so much money from me — serves you right that you die."

Thinking of the money Lei Tang had taken from his own hands, Lei Yushan not only felt no regret in his heart, but praised Lei Tang for dying well.

Although the money given away in the past certainly couldn't be recovered.

But it wasn't as if there wasn't any benefit at all.

"Not bad, at least before dying he did one good thing — he took Sēn Lǎo with him."

With Sēn Lǎo gone, one of the eight Hall Master seats of the Black Water Gang was now vacant.

And Ye Tian, as a Head Boss, certainly had the qualifications to compete for this Hall Master seat.

Once Ye Tian truly became Hall Master and married his daughter, when that time came, would the Lei Ji Money House still need to worry about the future?

Thinking this way, the smile on Lei Yushan's face grew even wider; he was already impatient to see such a scene.

"..."

Lei Yan's footsteps halted, and she stood in place for a long while.

After quite a while, he finally set his steps in motion again and walked toward the inside of the courtyard.

"Yan'er?"

Seeing that it was Lei Yan who had returned, Lei Yushan hurriedly tucked away the excitement on his face and looked over.

"What did Yù Gōngzǐ say on his side?"

He knew perfectly well that his own daughter had been running off to Ye Tian's side every other day lately — in fact, it had been Lei Yushan himself who had put her up to it.

"Ye Tian told me to get things ready. Once he becomes Hall Master, we'll be married."

"Good, good, good! Wonderful!"

After getting a definite answer, Lei Yushan laughed even more happily.

At last he could set his mind completely at ease.

Watching Lei Yushan so worked up, Lei Yan felt her mood turn a little complicated for the moment.

"Father, is money really that important?"

He hadn't expected his own daughter to ask him such a thing.

Seeing the complicated look on Lei Yan's face, Lei Yushan knew at once that his daughter still had too little experience of the world.

"I told you long ago not to go off to that whatever-it-is Yueshan Sect. If you'd stayed a few more years inside Linshui City, how would you still have worries like this? What is it — you can't accept it? You think that Yu Gongzi isn't really some good man?"

Lei Yushan had, of course, heard of a title like "Peerless in Benevolence and Righteousness."

Apart from a few greenhorn lads just starting out in the jianghu, anyone who had knocked around the jianghu for a few years and had a bit of experience wouldn't take it too seriously.

"You can go out and ask around. Yù Gōngzǐ's territory is called the most stable patch of pure land in all of Linshui City — heaven knows how many common folk want to move there. Judging whether a person is good or not isn't about looking at how he does things, it's about looking at the result he brings after he's done them."

No matter what methods Ye Tian had used.

But one thing could not be denied.

In the hearts of countless common folk, Ye Tian was simply a great good man, a great sage — and that was enough.

"I understand now!"

Lei Yan wasn't the sort who refused to listen to advice. Perhaps, truly, it was her own problem.

One could only say that when everyone is rotten, the one who appears not quite so rotten instead seems perfectly normal.

"Set your mind at ease. You're my daughter — I won't cheat you. These next few days I'll get the dowry ready, and I'll see you married off in grand style."

Lei Yushan truly did think highly of Ye Tian.

He had ability, and he had ambition.

In an era like this, if you have nothing at all, you only make others think you're easy to bully.

Besides, Ye Tian has no in-laws above him either. Once Lei Yan marries over, she'll be the lady of the house straight away, without a single grievance to suffer. What more is there to pick at?

"Father!"

Those words inevitably brought a touch of girlish shyness to Lei Yan's face.

Lei Yushan laughed even more happily.

"Hahahaha!"

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