blogombal Chapter 1444: Meet Force with Force, Meet Water with Earth
Chapter 1444: Meet Force with Force, Meet Water with Earth
At noon, after Jiang Feng came back with the groceries, he saw that Nangong Qingcheng, Chu Feifei, Zhang Qinyao, and Liu Shiyuan had all already returned.
Besides them, Mu Yanluo had also been called over, and the girls were all sitting around the sofa, chatting and laughing together.
Only, he didn’t know if it was just his imagination, but from the moment he walked in, he felt that the way the girls were looking at him was a bit strange, and there even seemed to be a sour, jealous smell hanging in the air.
"Jiang Feng, I’ll help you."
Nangong Qingcheng got up as usual, taking the initiative to come over and help Jiang Feng.
"Uh, no need, just sit and chat with them."
Jiang Feng felt a guilty pang in his heart and quickly forced a smile.
Right now the person he was most afraid of facing was Nangong Qingcheng. After all, everything that happened last night had gone a bit overboard; he just felt he was in the wrong.
But there was nothing he could do about it. Each of the four girls, Bai Zhiqing and the others, was utterly devoted to him. Unless he was some kind of saint, how could he possibly always sit still with beauties in his arms and never have his heart waver?!
But in doing so, he was invisibly hurting Nangong Qingcheng!
What Jiang Feng was most worried about now was that if one day in the future Nangong Qingcheng found out that everyone had been ganging up to lie to her all along, would she be devastated, would she feel completely defeated?
"You can handle it all by yourself?" Nangong Qingcheng tilted her head and asked.
She had also noticed that Jiang Feng seemed a bit off today. Normally this guy couldn’t wait to drag her into the kitchen to have some alone time. That was their little married-couple secret—every time Jiang Feng would be all impatient to do some "bad things" to her. But today... Jiang Feng actually turned her down?!
Jiang Feng seemed to notice Nangong Qingcheng’s confusion, and immediately added, "Ahem, what I mean is, Zixun and Xiaoxiao are leaving after this meal. You should keep them company for now. I can handle this bit of work by myself."
Hearing this, Nangong Qingcheng finally let go of her doubts. With a faint sense of emptiness, she could only return to the sofa and continue chatting with the sisters.
Looking at Nangong Qingcheng’s slightly aggrieved expression, Jiang Feng opened his mouth but didn’t speak. A trace of guilt flashed across his heart, and he hurried into the kitchen with the bags.
...
In the kitchen, Jiang Feng used washing and cooking as an excuse to forcibly press down that guilt in his heart and threw himself fully into the work.
Who knew that just then, his phone suddenly rang. He took it out and saw it was Bai Touying calling!
Jiang Feng’s heart sank. Was it really this hard for him to enjoy two days of peace?
He knew that if Bai Touying called, there had to be something going on. The man would never call just to shoot the breeze.
"It’s me, what is it?"
Jiang Feng wiped his hands on a rag and answered calmly.
"Young Master Feng, where are you? So much noise..." Bai Touying asked in puzzlement.
"In the kitchen, I’m cooking." Jiang Feng casually turned off the range hood.
"Cooking..."
Bai Touying was speechless.
He really couldn’t imagine what the invincible, incomparably powerful Jiang Feng would look like turned into a stay-at-home cook.
But this also indirectly proved how blessed his young lady really was, actually getting to eat dishes cooked by Jiang Feng himself. No wonder she didn’t want to leave.
"Young Master Feng, I have something important to tell you. Our informants planted around the Capital City have observed that the Beijing Xiang Family seems to be making a move. They’ve sent quite a few people and cars, and they’re actually heading toward Jiangdong. They’re about to enter the region, and I’ve already had someone secretly tail and investigate them!" Bai Touying immediately got to the point.
"The Xiang Family?"
"Yes!"
Bai Touying’s tone grew heavy. "Ever since that incident with the Lian Family, my Old Master He has been paying particular attention to any important visitors from the Capital City! It’s very difficult for us to plant people inside the Capital City, but hiding them around the outskirts is still doable. That way, once there’s any stir inside, we can still know about it at the first possible moment!"
"As for this Xiang Family, although right now we can’t be certain whether they’re coming for us or for you, the fact remains that they used to be on good terms with the Lian Family. They rarely meddled in Jiangdong before, yet they suddenly decide to come at this sensitive time. The Old Master is worried it may still be related to what happened earlier."
The Xiang Family—of course Jiang Feng knew of them.
They were also a second-rate clan in the Capital City.
It seemed that a long time ago, members of the clan had racked their brains to latch onto Ying Zheng’s camp. The younger generation inside was probably just like Lin Zekai—already reduced to a bunch of lackey enforcers for one of Ying Zheng’s siblings.
This Xiang Family had no other particular advantage, except that practically the whole family practiced martial arts, which made them rather rare in the Capital City. Their Old Taishan was said to have served as one of Cixi’s Imperial Guard back in the day—old as a demon, unfathomable in depth. No one even knew whether he was dead yet.
"You mean their target might be me?" Jiang Feng chuckled.
The Capital City really was a tangled mess. Last time Lin Lianhai personally brought the ultimate Tributor, Dongfang Chi, down here and got utterly wiped out and cowed by him. Now that the Lian Family had quieted down, the Xiang Family was stepping in instead?!
"Young Master Feng, aside from what we already know, have you ever had any personal grudges with the Xiang Family?" Bai Touying asked.
"No." Jiang Feng shook his head.
But in his heart everything was crystal clear. Did that even need asking? The Lian Family themselves no longer had the guts to seek revenge, but the man that Lin Zekai served under wasn’t willing to lose such a useful lackey. So he’d ordered the Xiang Family to step up and wade into these muddy waters.
Looked like if he really wanted to solve this once and for all, then after he cleared out these small fry, he’d have to find time to personally make a trip to the Capital City!
"We’re not afraid of ten thousand, only afraid of that one freak incident! Anything that gets tangled up with the powers in the Capital City becomes a huge hassle. If the Xiang Family is actually coming for us, that’s still fine—a mighty dragon can’t crush a local snake. They’re not like the Lian Family; they don’t have a direct, justified excuse to move against us. But if their target is you—do you need our help this time?"
Bai Touying earnestly asked Jiang Feng.
According to the exact words of the Old Man Baili Xi, Jiang Feng was already "one of their own" now. Any trouble he ran into was equivalent to trouble for the entire Baili Family, and the Baili Family would spare no effort in offering their full support!
"No need. Just keep a close eye on their movements for me." Jiang Feng let out a cold snort.
Let alone a mere Xiang Family—even if Ying Zheng himself came down, so what?
If heaven wants to rain and people insist on courting death, there’s no stopping them.
"You’re really not worried at all?" Even though he’d already guessed Jiang Feng’s attitude, hearing it again still left Bai Touying full of emotion.
Ever since he met Jiang Feng, too many of his views had been overturned. Jiang Feng was definitely the first person he’d ever seen who didn’t put the Capital City clans in his eyes!
"If soldiers come, I’ll block them; if water rises, I’ll dam it. If the Xiang Family wants to follow in the Lian Family’s footsteps, then let them come. I’ll be waiting."
With that, Jiang Feng hung up the phone with a cold smile and went back to washing and cooking.
If people who knew the Xiang Family well learned that, in the face of the Xiang Family’s core forces bearing down on him with great momentum, Jiang Feng could still calmly cook in such an unhurried manner, who knew what they would think. Ding Feng and the others would probably be so furious they’d cough up blood!