Fighting Against the Wind begins with the Dragon Flame

Chapter 84 Xiao Family Elders

Under the tall eaves, the vermilion door was closed, leaving only a thin gap. Faint sounds of conversation could be heard through the gap, and it was obvious that the house was very noisy.

Xiao Zhan's face froze, and he hurried forward and pushed open the door of the reception room. At the same time, he bent down and made a gesture, shouting loudly:

"Mr. Lin, please!"

As the door opened, the noisy sounds in the reception room disappeared instantly and it became unusually quiet. Everyone was staring at the door with different expressions on their faces.

Lin Yang walked into the reception room and looked around first. The hall was very spacious and there were quite a few people. There were five chairs at the top. The two in the middle were empty, and three old men were sitting on the others.

Compared to the curious expressions of the younger generation of the Xiao family sitting nearby, the three old men had fiery faces and looked at Lin Yang with burning eyes.

"Welcome Mr. Lin to the Xiao family."

When Lin Yang stepped into the reception room, the three of them looked at each other, then stood up together and bowed, with their uniform voices echoing in the hall.

"Ahem~ You don't have to be so polite, please sit down first."

Lin Yang coughed twice, feeling a little choked by the scene of these old guys, and quickly waved his hand to let them sit down.

"Mr. Lin, please don't blame us. We are all grateful to you for saving our Xiao family from danger."

Seeing that Lin Yang was feeling a little uncomfortable, Xiao Zhan spoke awkwardly. As a new patriarch, he was not used to the behavior of the elders.

"Yes, Mr. Lin, my Xiao family has suffered heavy losses recently. Those people are simply robbing us. You have to take charge of us!"

As soon as Xiao Zhan and Lin Yang sat down, the eldest elder of the Xiao family who was sitting next to them hurriedly started talking to them, describing the identities and various behaviors of those people in an indignant tone, as if he wanted to eat them alive.

Those thieves never concealed their actions when committing their crimes. They even deliberately made noises to attract members of the Xiao family to come over and kill them. They said it was stealing, but in fact it was robbery.

Not to mention after Xiao Lin broke through to Dou Wang, even when he was still a Dou Ling, the Xiao family had never suffered such treatment.

Now that Xiao Lin is dead, the forces that used to be polite to the Xiao family are now trying to make trouble. This situation makes the three elders, who have always been enjoying the courtesy of others, very uncomfortable.

Listening to the Xiao family's eldest elder's words, Lin Yang was speechless.

The Xiao family's great elder was telling me all this? He even told me the forces those people belonged to. Was he trying to get me to fight them back one by one?

This is really a dream. It is already good enough that I can protect the Xiao family. How can I waste time helping them to take revenge one by one?

And even if I help them to take revenge, I can't stay in the Xiao family forever. When I leave, if there is no Dou Ling in the Xiao family, the remnants of those forces will make the Xiao family feel the pain.

Therefore, there is a reason why the Xiao family declined instantly after Xiao Lin's death. The great elder actually wanted to rely on outsiders for revenge, which was really short-sighted.

While thinking, Lin Yang glanced at Xiao Zhan out of the corner of his eye, wanting to see the attitude of the new head of the Xiao family towards these remarks.

Xiao Zhan's face flushed slightly, his chest heaving, but he waited patiently until the Xiao family's elder stopped chattering, then he took a deep breath and slowly said:

"Great Elder, a good blacksmith must be strong himself. If we want to take revenge on those forces who took advantage of the situation, we have to do it ourselves. Let's not bother with these things."

"Xiao Zhan, don't think that you can dominate everything just because you are the head of the family! If it weren't for your cowardly policy, how could the loss of my Xiao family be so great!"

Before Xiao Zhan finished speaking, he was interrupted by the old man next to the Great Elder, who was the Third Elder of the Xiao Family. The reprimanding words echoed in the wide hall, and the younger generations of the Xiao Family looked at each other in bewilderment, not daring to say anything. Lin Yang also turned his head to look.

The third elder of the Xiao family had a twisted expression on his face, as if he had suffered a great injustice. When he saw Lin Yang's eyes moving towards him, he quickly forced a smile and said:

"I'm sorry, Mr. Lin, I lost my composure. It's really Xiao Zhan who is so outrageous!"

"As the new head of the Xiao family, he should have led our Xiao family to resist foreign enemies, but he has always been cowardly. During this period, our Xiao family has suffered heavy losses, all because of his order to the clan members not to resist!"

"As a good friend of Xiao Lin, the previous head of my Xiao family, I request that you, on behalf of Xiao Lin, abolish Xiao Zhan's position as head of the family!"

"Third Elder, you are short-sighted!"

Xiao Zhan's face flushed red, he was filled with anger, his words were interrupted repeatedly, and in the end he just uttered four words in rebuttal. He really didn't expect that these three elders would take this opportunity to impeach him.

He had put so much effort into the survival of the Xiao family, and even carried the infamy for promoting the policy of non-resistance, but now he was faced with impeachment. It was truly pathetic.

And this was nothing more than the fact that he took over the position of the head of the family, which made the three elders dissatisfied.

After all, he had just recently entered the realm of Grand Fighter, his strength was not as good as any of the three elders, and he had little experience. If he didn't have his father's order, he would not have been able to suppress them.

Originally, the one with the greatest hope of becoming the new head of the family was the third elder.

He was the youngest among the three elders and was very ambitious. Now that he was about to take the position of the head of the family by me, he must be holding a grudge against me, which is why he became the main force behind this impeachment.

Lin Yang didn't say anything, just sat quietly aside, watching the farce in front of him, the corners of his mouth twitching constantly, and he was extremely speechless.

Resist? If your Xiao family dares to resist, it will not only lose resources and finances. If you try to resist a random Dou Ling, I'm afraid the whole family will be gone.

What's more, there are many Dou Lings eyeing the Xiao family. They just want to provoke your family. If you dare to resist, that gives you a reason. Then the Xiao family will be really destroyed, and those strong men of the same level who support the Xiao family because of Xiao Lin's friendship will be helpless.

In a world where the strong are respected, if the weak offend the strong, it is a way to death, and there is no need for any other reason.

If this policy of non-resistance was really implemented by Xiao Zhan alone despite the opposition of the three elders, Lin Yang would not punish Xiao Zhan as the three elders said, but would instead look up to Xiao Zhan.

The Xiao family is truly blessed with great fortune as it was able to have a talent like Xiao Zhan emerge to protect its real vitality when it suddenly fell into decline.

"Xiao Zhan, what do you mean? If it weren't for you..."

When the Third Elder saw Xiao Zhan scolding him, he immediately interrupted him, prepared to refute back, and continued to tell Lin Yang about Xiao Zhan's "crimes".

"okay!"

"No need to say more, Patriarch Xiao's decision was not wrong. It is you, as Xiao Lin said, who are indeed short-sighted."

Lin Yang suddenly spoke, interrupting the Third Elder's anger. At the same time, he attracted the attention of several people and spoke without hesitation.

With your own strength, you don't need to indulge these people. Just say what you want to say. If you, the three elders of the Xiao family, dare to refute one of them, just see.

(End of this chapter)