(I'd love to write about the small climax of the chef's part as soon as possible, but Qi Linya is to Ding Qiliang, just like Hawkeye is to Zoro, is a very powerful and important character, and it deserves a chapter for it.) ）

After the rain, the sky will eventually rain again.

After the defeat of the Dragon King, although Qinzhou City became the focus of the entire Jianghu topic for a while, Qinzhou City did not seem to have changed much. All are afraid, afraid of what is going to happen, or what is likely to happen.

Defeated the Dragon King, then what? Will the heavy rain come again? Will the flood come again? If the dragon king's subordinates come to collect black taxes again, will they give it or not?

That's what scared you are.

But the people of Qinzhou City also have expectations. That is the first knife in the world to get out of the customs. But there aren't too many expectations. In fact, many people in Qinzhou City, and even most people in the rivers and lakes, believe that Qi Linya acquiesced to the actions of the Dragon King, so there will be more than ten years of dark rule in Qinzhou City.

Only a very few people know that Qi Linya is really in retreat, and he is bent on understanding the sword in the Ghost Knife Building and ignores the world. Because those who know Qi Linya will know how proud this world's first knife is, so much so that the seven kings in the rivers and lakes who make people talk about it, even if there is his younger brother among them, he is disdainful and looks down on him very much.

More than ten years is a long time, enough to make the city we are familiar with no longer familiar.

At this moment, Qi Linya vaguely remembered that the tables and chairs in the hall did not seem to be what they are now. At this moment, Qi Tianhe was sitting beside him, very close to the position of his family master, so close that it seemed to be together.

He silently listened to the people in his family tell about the events of the past ten years.

After talking and listening for a long time, his expression has never changed. It wasn't until he heard that the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance had been killed three years ago, and the news came from the other side of the dark sea in one year, that he was slightly moved, but he was also curious and did not show surprise.

Qi Tianhe saw all this in his eyes, as always, his eldest brother was still only interested in big things.

Once the things of the past ten years are talked about, it will naturally be very long, and after a long time, Qi Linya waved his hand, stopped the narrator in the hall, and said: "The rivers and lakes are still the same rivers and lakes, and these things that happened are still so boring and boring, I thought that the nine major factions would become the seven major factions, but now it seems that there is none." ”

When these words were heard in Qi Tianhe's ears, they had other meanings.

Nine factions become seven factions? Doesn't the eldest brother know some other secrets? Qi Linya did not stop at this topic.

"It's also a boring thing for me to go out this time, but it's a big deal for our family. In the past ten years, the Qi family's family business has become bigger and bigger, and even many people in the Jianghu martial arts use behemoths to describe our Qi family. It can be seen that Ah He has done a lot of things. “

Qi Linya looked at Qi Tianhe with a smile, but the meaning of the smile was a little difficult to understand, Qi Tianhe knew that his eldest brother had always been like this, but he still felt a little uneasy.

"The Qi family is a martial arts family after all, and Tianhe has done a good job of achieving today's achievements in the rivers and lakes."

"When the Ding family was still alive, although my Qi family was already the first family of martial arts, its strength was far inferior to that of the nine major factions. And now, even if the Ding family and the Qi family are combined, it is like now, Tianhe is indeed good. ”

Qi Tianhe didn't know why, and the eldest brother praised him three times in a row, which was extremely rare.

"For more than ten years, I haven't asked about family affairs, Tianhe hasn't mentioned it to me, and even the elders don't seem to have explained anything to me. Looking at the arrangement of seats in this hall, Tianhe is already the head of my Qi family. ”

When he said this, Qi Linya smiled again, Qi Linya's clothes were very simple, dressed in green clothes, the knife never left his body, and his face was even different from the rough Ding Ku kitchen back then, he was like a talent in Tsing Yi, he looked extremely elegant, but he had a heroic spirit, all from his eyes, like the sharpest knife in the world.

He was laughing, but many people in the hall, even Qi Tianhe, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Qi Tianhe pretended to smile freely: "Big brother said that he was joking, the head of the Qi family is you, I just take care of everything for you." ”

Qi Linya shook his head, stood up, and walked slowly down the hall.

"The moment you decided to annex the Ding family, I was no longer the head of the family. Tianhe, I always thought that you were timid by nature, but I didn't expect that you would be quite bold when you did great things. Or is that what the elders mean? ”

Qi Linya walked past several elders, and those elders' eyes suddenly widened, and their faces were full of incredulity and horror.

"Ding Ku is very strong, if the Ding family is still there, our Qi family can actually make friends with the Ding family, even if the power is not as good as now, but the two families are both families who use knives, in terms of knife techniques, the two families must be better than me in retreat. It's a pity. ”

Qi Tianhe said with a strong smile: "Big brother, things at that time were indeed a little unauthentic, but in exchange for the prosperity of my Qi family, it is not a good thing, now, big brother, you have changed from a sword ghost to the first knife in the world, isn't it also thanks to the destruction of the Ding family." ”

After all, Qi Tianhe has been very cautious and worried over the years, because after his brother defeated Ding Xuchu, after discovering his intentions and the elders, he closed the retreat, and this retreat is more than ten years later. He had always felt that this was not like his brother's doing, if his brother had done his best to stop ......

Qi Tianhe didn't continue to think about it after all, even if his brother tried his best to stop it at that time, I am afraid that it would be meaningless. The Qi family's Ding family was originally in the middle of the world, and the eldest brother naturally understood why the Qi family was able to exterminate the Ding family so quickly.

"The first knife in the world?" Qi Linya's contempt for these words was not concealed in the slightest.

"Tianhe, your contribution to the Qi family is here, don't worry, the eldest brother is not trying to embarrass your unrighteous actions back then, since the matter has happened, then so be it."

Qi Tianhe didn't dare to relax, he was waiting for the follow-up.

"From today onwards, I, Qi Linya, will pass on the position of head of the family to my younger brother Qi Tianhe. Tianhe, in the future, the Qi family will be handed over to you. ”

The originally quiet hall was now quieter, silent.

Qi Linya's words no one expected that after ten years of retreat, instead of pursuing the affairs of that year, he would even give up the position of head of the family.

The corners of Qi Tianhe's mouth twitched, he wanted to laugh, but he still held back, Qi Linya turned his back to him at the moment, even if he smiled, he couldn't see it. Qi Tianhe was very happy, but he still pretended to be surprised and said, "Big brother, what do you mean by this?" ”

Surprise was pretended, no, he really couldn't guess the intention of Qi Linya's words. Although he has been the de facto head of the Qi family in the past ten years, he is still afraid of his brother. In the past ten years, he has also taken good care of his brother's family. He didn't deliberately hide his ambitions, but many details were handled so that people had nothing to say.

That's why he dared to be happy.

Qi Tianhe was not happy because he had won the position of head of the family, he felt that he had proved himself. The eldest brother is obsessed with knife skills, and his attitude of not looking down on everything once made him very distressed, what is more important than the Qi family? He has always felt that being the head of the family by himself will definitely make the Qi family go further than the eldest brother as the head of the house.

Soon, however, he was not happy. Because Qi Linya's words made him understand why the eldest brother no longer cared about the identity of the head of the family.

"What do you mean? Back then, the Ding family was a guest from afar, what I mean, all the elders here know it, but you still risked the world's disapproval to do something to the Ding family. I think about it, but in addition to the interests, it is probably that you feel threatened. ”

Qi Tianhe was stunned.

After the Ding family incident, the eldest brother did not ask for any news, but at this moment, the eldest brother's inference is infinitely close to the truth.

In this Jianghu, there is also a mysterious force, and for some reason, the people of this force have found the Qi family. They want the Qi family to cooperate with them to destroy the Ding family. There is no need to say much about the benefits, but if Qi Tianhe refused at that time, then the Ding family would do this to the Qi family.

And the other party also seemed to know that the head of the family, Qi Linya, would not agree, and this seemingly impossible thing to complete was done without the knowledge of the head of the family, Qi Linya.

It is very difficult to destroy a martial arts family. But the Qi family did it, and the Qi family's ability at that time, the head of the family, Qi Linya, naturally knew. Therefore, being able to destroy the Ding family shows how powerful that force is, if the Qi family did not resist at that time, there may be no Qi family now.

The Qi family didn't know why Qi Linya suddenly retreated. Because the answer couldn't be simpler. It's just that the simpler the reason, the harder it is sometimes to do it.

"So, what's the use of the head of the family, Tianhe, you can disobey me, the head of the family, to destroy the Ding family, naturally it only means one thing, the person who is looking for you is stronger than me."

Qi Tianhe suddenly shuddered, and thought of some possibility.

Qi Linya said: "So, Tianhe, you are not timid, just cautious, and even after you judge the situation clearly, you can do things that others can't imagine, this is one of the reasons why I want to pass on the head of your family, the Qi family has you, and naturally can go far." ”

"Big brother, I ......" Qi Tianhe suddenly felt that his obsession over the years was a little ridiculous, it turned out that the eldest brother knew that the eldest brother identified with him.

Qi Linya waved his hand, not letting Qi Tianhe interrupt him, and continued: "The second point, since the words of the head of the family can be disobeyed by the Qi family, then I naturally don't need this family master, I just need to become stronger, and become stronger than the people who could threaten my Qi family back then." ”

He turned around, his elegant face had a smile like a breeze and a bright moon, and he simply stood there, but there was an aura of thousands of troops attacking.

"Now that I can no longer be threatened by anyone, so is the Qi family."

Qi Tianhe was stunned, and then he saw the expressions of several elders, and he suddenly understood.

I don't know how long it took for the silence of the hall to be broken, and Qi Tianhe smiled bitterly. It doesn't matter who the head of the family is, the status relationship of the Qi family has not changed, even if he gets the head of the family, he will never be the head of the family in the real sense, and the status of his brother Qi Linya will be even more transcendent.

But this is a good thing for the Qi family. So he was finally relieved. Standing up, he congratulated his brother:

"Congratulations to the eldest brother, he is still in the age of confusion, but he has broken through the realm of extreme intention."