"To save your sisters? What do you mean?"The woman who led the group explained quickly. "A rather prominent family has threatened one of our affiliated families here in the fringes of the Yang Kingdom. And from what we were told, is about to launch an attack on the same. Unfortunately, we are all that is available to rush to the scene. Hence we are appealing for the Second Ducal Prince"s a.s.sistance in this matter."
Lin Liushui exchanged a look with Li Changhai, before he turned back to face the woman in the Snow Swallow Palace robes. "This is far more serious than can be handled by just the three of us. As you can see, we are not here on any official mission, and are not accompanied by the hundreds of soldiers that you might expect to see, on some more formal occasion. Besides, the Second Ducal Prince is merely visiting friends here, and not in his official capacity.
"What do you expect the three of us to do for you? Surely not to mount a counterattack, and fight off all of your enemies?"
The one who had made the request looked a little awkward when he pointed that out. Qin Feng saw that she wasn"t really as old as he had initially thought, when he looked at her then. Clearly, the way that she had her brows furrowed, and her lips twisted earlier had given him the impression of a more mature woman. But looking at her now, he placed her in her early twenties at best.
Which meant that she might not be experienced in dealing with others outside her group, and was clearly far to junior to be talking about rescuing her sisters from a much more powerful, and obvious larger, force.
At least, that was what Qin Feng presumed the Alliance led by this Purple Serpent Sect to be. Otherwise, would they dare to make a move on the Snow Swallow Palace? From what he could remember of their brief interaction in the Shu Kingdom, the Purple Serpent Sect was not that arrogant that they would ignore the fact that the Snow Swallow Palace was much larger and more powerful than they were.
Lin Liushui was similarly curious, albeit about another angle:
"But I will admit that we are curious, as you can see. Which family would dare to make such a move, here in the Yang Empire? There are a great many of these so-called prominent families, but I have not heard of any of them daring to match their might against the Snow Swallow Palace," the handsome man asked, in his usual proud manner.
The woman merely shrugged then, and kept her eyes on the armored Li Changhai, as she answered. "The Ducal Prince may not be aware, but there are at least four families here in the Empire of Yang that are strong enough to match our reputation. And apparently, one of them has made its move.
"The Lin Family Clan of the Yang Empire Capital has claimed that we have secretly stolen away one of its cousins, and slain thirty-five of its outer clansmen. And is demanding the return of the young girl, along with reparations for the damages caused."
"What did you say? The Wuyang* Lin Family Clan? You mean that Lin Family?"
The pitch of Li Changhai"s voice had risen as he spoke, while Lin Liushui seemed to stagger backwards as soon as he heard his own family being mentioned. Qin Feng, however, frowned as he remembered something.
"Then those ... people that bothered us earlier? Do you think that they were part of the group that are headed to this ... where did you say this confrontation was taking place again? They were part of that group, perhaps?"
The young woman from the Snow Swallow Palace looked as surprised as the two older men. Which was probably why she didn"t ask them why they were so stunned. If Qin Feng read her correctly, she was probably thinking that they were affected for the same reason that she was.
"Then you have already met with members of the Lin Clan? They are already that close to where we are now? Doesn"t that mean that they already know that we would be sending reinforcements?" asked another of the Snow Swallow Palace disciples, drawing a stern gaze from the woman who was in the lead.
Qin Feng, naturally, ignored what she had to say. Wasn"t it already bleeding obvious? And a small group like this was all the "reinforcements" that the Snow Swallow Palace was sending? What were they hoping to do? Unless all of them had Xu Yanzhi"s standard of martial arts, wasn"t that simply smashing a rock with eggs?
Instead, he watched Lin Liushui carefully. This was supposed to involve his family, after all. Although he was rather certain that the gallant was not involved in this ... Well, at least not directly! But there was a small chance that there was some truth in the fact that the Snow Swallow Palace had stolen away one of his close relatives. Otherwise, why would the Lin Family be so agitated?
And as expected, the handsome man recovered quickly from his shock and was stepping forward once again. This time, he did shoot Qin Feng a look, before he addressed the Snow Swallow Palace disciples.
The only problem was, Qin Feng had no idea what that glance meant! He had certainly not arranged for any signals or codes within the group before!
"I believe that Brother Qin Feng here is motivated to help you, due to his ... connection with your Senior Sister Xu. However, the situation is rather complicated, and we cannot make any move that would put you into greater danger.
"So I think it would be best for you to find some what to hide away from your enemies first, while Brother Qin and the rest of us try to find out more about what is happening. Don"t you agree?"
Then he grinned at the group, with his devilishly captivating smile, and gestured at the town close by. "Perhaps we should head there, and take this conversation away from the open road? There might be prying eyes about, after all. We don"t wish anyone to learn too much about our plans, do we?"
The women from the Snow Mountain Palace were clearly less experienced than Qin Feng had expected them to be, and so fell under the spell of Lin Liushui"s captivating, and convincing, tongue within the next few moments. And all of them followed his instructions, and started back towards the town. Where they had presumably come from in the first place.
While they were doing so, the trio finally had an opportunity to discuss what they were going to do next. As well as how they were going to deal with the Snow Swallow Palace disciples.
Which was certainly something that Qin Feng wanted to know! How had he ended up becoming the leader of the trio now? And the person that these women were flocking to?
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