Chapter 183 Confrontation
Before the sound of the music faded, Liao Chuan and Liao Hai had already carried the depressed Li Lao Hu into the Zen room.

As soon as he entered Shaolin, Li Lao Hu's legs began to weaken and his heart began to feel weak. He had been in Yingchuan for many years and had always been a bit scheming. He knew that he would not live long after seeing the Qin family today. Therefore, before confronting the Qin family face to face, Li Lao Hu had already lost his confidence. At this moment, he was sweating profusely and his face was as pale as wax.

"Qin Ming, do you know this person?" Pan Chuba pointed at Li Lao Hu who was lying limp on the ground and asked angrily.

Qin Ming slowly stood up and looked at Li Lao Hu suspiciously. However, after looking back and forth for a long time, he still couldn't figure out the clue, so he asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"

"I……"

"Qin Ming, you still dare to act so pretentiously at this point?" Before Li Lao Hu could speak, Pan Chuba shouted coldly, "The Qin family promised this bastard many benefits, letting him plot to persecute our Pan family. Don't you know him?"

Qin Daqi gnashed his teeth, pointed at Pan Chuba, and cursed: "Old man, you just picked a low-class person and dared to frame us. Do you think the Hexi Qin family is vegetarian? Who knows where you found this person and conspired with us to act together?"

"Asshole!" Pan Chuba said sternly, "I am an upright person, and everyone in the world knows it. How could I deliberately frame someone? Since you won't say it, let him say it himself!" After that, Pan Chuba glared at Li Lao Hu and ordered, "Tell me everything you know!"

"What are you doing? Are you putting on an act?" Qin Da sneered with disdain in his eyes. "You brought the person here, so of course you can say anything. You can just make up a story and say that we colluded with him to kill your son. Why don't you say that we colluded with him to dig up your ancestors' graves?"

"you……"

"Is it a made-up story or is it true? Why don't you listen to what he has to say first?" Liu Xunyi saw that Pan Chuba was getting angry and his face was getting uglier. He was worried that he was old and weak and would get angry again. So he stepped forward and said bluntly: "He hasn't said anything yet, why are you so anxious to shirk responsibility?"

"That's right!" Lin Fangda sneered, "Is he guilty? Are you afraid to let him speak?"

Facing Qin Ming, whose face was uncertain, Liu Xunyi turned to the trembling Li Lao Hu and asked, "Tell me yourself, who ordered you? And how did they order you?"

“Yes…” Under Qin Ming’s gloomy gaze, Li Lao Hu felt as if a huge rock was pressing down on his heart. He didn’t even dare to raise his eyes to look him in the face. He could only hang his head and said timidly, “Yes…it’s Qin Tianjiu…”

"Uncle Jiu?" Qin Da was stunned, then cursed, "That's nonsense, be careful or I'll tear your mouth apart..."

"Let him speak!" Qin Ming shouted coldly, "Don't interrupt him."

"It's really Qin Tianjiu..." In order to have a chance of survival, Li Lao Hu could only strengthen his faith and place his hopes on Liu Xunyi and Luo Tianjin. He then told them everything that happened in Yingchuan.

Seeing Li Lao Hu come forward to correct him, Pan Chuba's expression eased a little. Luo Tianjin and Xuan Ming stared at Qin Ming with deep meaning. On the other hand, Qin Ming's expression became more gloomy with Li Lao Hu's "confession", but due to the current situation, he did not lose his temper on the spot.

Qin Ming could bear it, but Qin Da could not. He was so angry that his whole body was shaking, veins popped on his forehead, and he drew his sword out of its sheath with a "swoosh", pointed at Li Lao Hu in anger, and cursed: "You bastard dare to spit blood at me, I will chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs..."

"Boom!"

Seeing Qin Da drawing his sword, Lin Fangda, Liao Chuan, and Liao Hai drew their weapons at the same time and stared at Qin Da with eager eyes.

Lin Fangda quickly stood in front of Li Lao Hu, raised his knife and confronted Qin Da, and said coldly: "What? Seeing that the matter has been exposed, you want to kill people to silence them?"

"Bullshit!" Qin cursed, "This man is full of nonsense, accusing Uncle Jiu like this, how can I not kill him?"

Li Lao Hu was intimidated by Qin Ming and Qin Da, and quickly retreated behind Liu Xunyi. He said in a hurry: "What I said is true. Qin Tianjiu ordered me to do everything. If you don't believe it...if you don't believe it, call Qin Tianjiu to confront me face to face? After all, my brother also died tragically at the hands of Qin Tianjiu, so even if he turns into ashes, I will admit it..."

"Master Xuanming, Lord Luo, do you believe this man's crazy talk?" Qin Ming suppressed his anger and turned to ask Luo Tianjin and Xuanming, "Do you really want to let him mess around here?"

Xuanming hesitated for a moment and replied, "This person's words are very convincing, and he made everything clear, not like he was just trying to be mysterious." After that, Xuanming seemed to realize that Qin Ming was unhappy, and added, "But I also trust Mr. Qin very much. Therefore, I guess there may be some misunderstanding. Mr. Qin, why don't you call Qin Tianjiu out and let the two of them confront each other, I believe everything will be clear."

"Master Xuanming's words make sense." Luo Tianjin agreed, "I heard that Qin Tianjiu came to Shaolin with Palace Master Qin. Why not call him out to confront him?"

Upon hearing this, Li Lao Hu's face suddenly changed, and he quickly kowtowed to Luo Tianjin and begged: "Lord Luo, Qin Tianjiu will definitely kill me if he knows that I betrayed him. Please save me..."

Luo Tianjin said with a smile: "If what you said is true, you don't need me to protect you. I believe that Lord Qin will never let anyone hurt you." After that, Luo Tianjin smiled slightly and turned to Qin Ming: "Lord Qin, am I right?"

"Hmph!" Qin Ming snorted lightly and did not respond. Instead, he ordered Qin Da, "Go and ask Uncle Jiu to come over."

Qin Da glared at Li Lao Hu fiercely, then left the Zen room angrily.

Qin Ming stared at Pan Chuba with a stern expression and said, "If this is true, I will definitely give you an explanation from the Pan family. But if there is no such thing, what will Senior Pan do?"

"Impossible, my son's body is still warm..."

"What if?" Qin Ming pressed Pan Chuba before he could finish his words. "What if there is no evidence of this? Senior Pan, shouldn't you give me an explanation? After all, our Hexi Qin family is well-known in the martial arts world. How can we allow someone to be wronged like this?"

Pan Chuba's eyes turned fierce, and he said fiercely: "If you find out that I framed you on purpose, you can take my life at any time!"

"Master Pan..."

"Lord Luo, there is no need to say more." Pan Chuba waved his hand to interrupt Luo Tianjin's dissuasion, and muttered to himself with a sad face, "I must give Wu'er an explanation, and I must not let him die in vain..."

At this moment, everyone in the Zen room was silent, each with their own thoughts.

The more Liu Xunyi thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He thought to himself, "I once chased him out of Yingchuan and heard the lame man introduce himself. Besides, in the martial arts world, there is really no other family that can persecute the Pan family by any means other than the Hexi Qin family. What Li Lao Hu said should be true. But the reactions of Qin Ming and Qin Da don't seem to be acting. Could there really be some twists and turns in this matter?"

While he was thinking, Qin Da led a man back to the meditation room. The man was about fifty years old, with gray and white hair, a thin body, and a dove-shaped face. His pair of sinister eyes seemed to contain endless murderous intent, making people dare not look at him.

The man was wearing a loose cloth robe, with an old short knife slanted across his waist. He walked with a limp, looking like a cripple.

As soon as he showed up, Qin Ming quickly stepped forward and called out respectfully in front of everyone, "Uncle Jiu!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Liu Xunyi's heart sank, his mind went blank in an instant, and a deep sense of shock lingered in his heart.

It was because the man in front of him, called "Uncle Jiu" by Qin Ming, was not the "Qin Tianjiu" that Liu Xunyi had met outside Yingchuan City.

Although they are all ugly, dressed in plain clothes, have short knives on their waists, and are lame, but... they are not the same person.

"He... who is he?" Li Lao Hu looked at Qin Tianjiu with a confused look on his face.

"What? You don't know him?" Qin Ming asked back in a bad tone.

Li Lao Hu was stunned and shook his head slowly. Before he could ask, Qin Dayi sneered and said, "He is the Qin Tianjiu you just said threatened you in Yingchuan. How come you don't recognize him now?"

“What?” Li Lao Hu’s face changed. He looked at Qin Tianjiu in front of him carefully and shook his head repeatedly, “Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could he be Qin Tianjiu? No, no, absolutely not…”

"It's the truth!" Qin Ming said coldly, "Didn't you want to confront Qin Tianjiu just now? Now that Qin Tianjiu is here, do you dare to repeat what you just said?"

"This..." Li Lao Hu was completely confused. He looked around with flickering eyes, as if he wanted to find a savior among this group of people. But no matter how much he looked around, he still didn't know who to ask.

"What are you afraid of?" Pan Chuba urged, "Didn't you hear what Palace Master Luo said just now? Just point out Qin Tianjiu, and I will ensure that you are safe!"

"No..." Li Lao Hu said incoherently, his face full of grievance, "He is not the Qin Tianjiu I have seen..." After that, he quickly turned his gaze to Qin Ming and asked anxiously, "How many cripples named Qin Tianjiu are there in the Hexi Qin family?"

"What did you say?"

Seeing Li Lao Hu's rude words, Qin Da dared to call Qin Tianjiu "crippled". He immediately became furious and kicked Li Lao Hu hard in the abdomen, kicking him several times, and yelled: "Don't say that the Hexi Qin family, even in the whole world, there is only one Qin Tianjiu!"

"This person is not Qin Tianjiu!" Liu Xunyi said solemnly, "Or... he is not the 'Qin Tianjiu' who appeared in Yingchuan..."

"What do you mean?"

At this moment, Pan Chuba was completely confused. He looked at Liu Xunyi with puzzled eyes and asked, "Is he Qin Tianjiu?"

"There are only two possibilities!" Liu Xunyi said, "Either the Qin Tianjiu in front of me is a fake, or the Qin Tianjiu who appeared in Yingchuan is a fake."

"It seems that someone really pretended to be Qin Tianjiu and went to Yingchuan to do shameful things." Luo Tianjin said quietly, "The Qin Tianjiu in front of us is the real thing, Master Xuanming and I can both testify to that. If the 'Qin Tianjiu' you saw in Yingchuan is not him, then someone must be pretending to be him."

"You mean... someone pretended to be Qin Tianjiu and wanted to frame the Hexi Qin family?" Pan Chuba said in surprise.

Qin Da's eyes turned cold, and he shouted angrily: "Old man, now that the truth has been revealed, you want to change your story? Make it up! Keep making it up! I want to see how many more stories you can make up."

"If Mr. Pan Ba ​​wanted to frame us, why would he let Li Lao Hu change his words at the last minute?" Liu Xunyi said indignantly, "In Yingchuan, someone did use the name of Qin Tianjiu to use the East Lake Gang to deal with the Pan family. He obviously did this to stir up trouble."

"If you say so, then so? Who the hell do you think you are…"

"Shut up, Mr. Qin!" Qin Ming's face was gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "Senior Pan, since what happened in Yingchuan was not done by my Hexi Qin family, shouldn't you give me an explanation now?"

"This……"

Pan Chuba was still immersed in the surprise of the sudden change in the situation. He was unable to react for a while and was speechless when asked by Qin Ming. He didn't know how to respond.

Seeing this, Luo Tianjin took the initiative to step forward and said with a faint smile: "Yes, this matter has insulted the reputation of the Qin family. Someone should give an explanation to the Hexi Qin family. We can't just let it go like this."

"Lord Luo finally said something fair!" Qin Ming responded sarcastically.

"Lord Luo, this matter... I..."

"Master Pan, you don't have to say anything!" Without waiting for Master Pan to explain, Luo Tianjin waved his hand slightly, signaling him to calm down. Then he slowly walked to Qin Ming and chuckled, "But Master Pan lost a son after all, how could he hurt himself? So in Luo's opinion, the Pan family and the Qin family, one lost someone, and the other lost their reputation. They are both innocent victims and should be explained."

"What do you mean by this, Lord Luo?" Qin Ming asked back.
"It's very simple. Find the culprit of this incident and use his life to give an explanation to the Pan and Qin families! And this person... is him!"

Before he finished speaking, Luo Tianjin suddenly waved his hand and a sharp aura shot out from his fingertips, instantly piercing the throat of the unprepared Li Lao Hu. Immediately, his tendons and veins were broken, blood splattered, and with a faint wail, Li Lao Hu fell to the ground and died on the spot.

Li Lao Hu died with his eyes wide open. Even until his death, there was still a trace of desire for "life" in his eyes.

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(End of this chapter)