A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 442 What Confidence

"A countryside louse from a tiny city dared to injure my younger brother and insult the Xue family! If we don't make him pay dearly, then all of Yanjing will laugh at the Xue family!" Xue Ming-Zhi clutched his palms tightly as he spoke coldly and murderously.

"But Ming-Zhi, don't you think you should let Old Master Xue know about this? After all, he said that the Xue family should remain low profile during this time, and we should watch our temper so that we don't act rashly," Xue Ming-Xin continued to advise Xue Ming-Zhi.

Old Master Xue was referring to Xue Ming-Hua and Xue Ming-Zhi's father.

Even though the current head of the family was Xue Ming-Zhi, there were still important matters that had to go through Xue Ren-Yang first, since he was the one who was truly controlling the family. During this time, the Xue family had run into a fair bit of problems, and many of their business had been attacked by rivals.

Everyone else thought that the Xue family was advancing well and becoming wealthy, but they didn't know that the Xue family was actually facing a crisis internally.

But of course, nobody knew that a storm was already brewing beneath the calm looking surface of Yanjing!

"He's right."

"There is a fierce undercurrent in Yanjing right now, so we should be careful because anything could happen."

"Making any large or sudden moves is certainly unwise!"

Many family members started to advise Xue Ming-Zhi against doing this and hoped that he could think through things more carefully first.

But Xue Ming-Zhi just waved his hands about and bellowed, "There are other things that we can suffer silently about, but I will not take this lying down, and neither should the Xue family!"

"An arranged daughter-in-law of the Xue family has been taken away by someone else, and my own brother's legs have been broken. What is this? This is a slap in the Xue family's face! If we just remain silent about something like this, how are we going to stand tall in Yanjing?"

"But..." Someone tried to persuade him again, but Xue Ming-Zhi cut him off fiercely.

Tve already decided on this matter, so all of you can stop trying to persuade me otherwise. There's no need to check with Old Master Xue, I'll report this matter to him after I return tomorrow. Don't worry, I know what to do and I will not let this matter get out of hand." Xue Ming-Zhi had already made a decision.

Since the head of the family had already said so, everyone else decided not to persuade him further. But they all still felt uneasy inside.

Xue Ming-Zhi's phone suddenly started ringing.

It was a call from the Xu family. Xue Ming-Zhi quickly picked it up.

"Mr Xue, you already know about what happened during my daughter's birthday celebration, right?" came a low and grim male voice over the phone.

The person on the other side was the head of the Xu family, Xu Lei's second uncle, Xu Feng-Liang.

"Yes," Xue Ming-Zhi nodded.

"I'm calling to ask what you're going to do tomorrow. The Xue family is the leader of the three new up and coming families in Yanjing, and the whole city has their eye on both our families now. If we don't deal with this matter properly, both our families will become the laughingstock of Yanjing," continued Xu Feng-Liang.

Xue Ming-Zhi replied, "Mr Xu, you don't have to worry about this. I already have a plan for tomorrow." "That's good to hear." Xu Feng-Liang's tone of voice calmed down and he continued, "Mr Xue, I'm not in Yanjing now, and I will have to count on you about tomorrow. I hope that you will be able to get my niece, Lei, back from that crazy man."

"You don't have to worry about that. Miss Xu Lei has not married into the Xue family yet, but she's considered half a family member already. Our family has failed in protecting her well, and that's how she ended up getting snatched away by someone else. I promise you that I will bring Miss Xu back safely, and the wedding will proceed as planned next month," said Xue Ming-Zhi confidently.

He wasn't sure if his own younger brother could recover from his two broken legs. So Xue Ming-Zhi quickly did his best to assure the Xu family so that they wouldn't go back on their word and not let Xu Lei marry his brother.

"Excellent! I will wish Mr Xue success tomorrow! When I come back, we can sit together and attend Ming-Hua and Lei's wedding banquet," laughed Xu Feng-Liang heartily. Xue Ming-Zhi also laughed in reply and agreed to go for a drink once Xu Feng-

Liang returned.

After hanging up, Xue Ming-Zhi sent Xue Ming-Hua to the hospital to be treated while he started to make use of his various connections to prepare for the showdown at Wolong Hotel the next day.

After Xue Ming-Zhi went to the hospital with his younger brother, his cousin, Xue Ming-Xin as well as the other senior members of the family began to feel even more worried than before. "He's even going to send our best bodyguards. Looks like he's really going all out tomorrow."

Besides having those standard bodyguards that cost a few thousand a month to stand guard outside the house, all powerful families would also keep their own private army of martial artists. These men would be the ones in charge of protecting any important family members when they went out of town to settle matters or if they had to attend any banquets.

The Xue family was no exception.

And because the Xue family had connections to the army, the ones they hired were all the best from the special armed forces, and their annual salaries were more than a million. They could smash anything in their way!

Xue Ming-Zhi said that he wanted to make use of this private army, and so it was clear how much importance he placed on avenging the attack on his younger brother.

"Ming-Zhi and Ming-Hua are really close brothers, so it's not surprising that Ming-Zhi is so angry," said Xue Ming-Xin as he shook his head.

"Ming-Xin, should we really not tell Old Master Xue about this?"

Xue Ming-Xin thought about it for a while, then nodded. "Let's keep it a secret first. If we tell him, he might get angry too. So before any of this, we should check exactly where this Ye Fan comes from first." "He has behaved so audaciously, and actually went up against the Xu and Xue families all by himself. Apparently, the Xing family of taijiquan experts also conceded defeat. Is he really from some powerful family? Or is he just a reckless youth? We have to check this carefully."

Xue Ming-Xin couldn't help feeling worried.

The Xue family wasn't afraid that Ye Fan was capable. They were more afraid that he might have a powerful backer.

To the Xue family, no matter how capable Ye Fan was, he was all by himself, so there was no way he could make that much trouble.

But if someone powerful was behind Ye Fan, then the Xue family had to be wary.

A few hours later.

Xue Ming-Xin and the rest looked at the information on Ye Fan and burst out laughing. "So it's just a punk from some village? And he's even a useless live-in son-in-law?" "We've overthought this."

"I thought he might be some truly big shot, but he's just some lousy idiot after all."

The Xue family was chortling away in the living room.

All the worry and wariness they felt earlier dissipated.

"But that's really interesting too."

"A countryside louse and cowardly live-in son-in-law actually dared to come to Yanjing all by himself?"

"He dared to go up against powerful families in Yanjing all by himself?"

"I really don't know how he is this confident of himself..."