"May I ask if you are Xu Yang?"
With Qian Jiaxing there, this was clearly asking a question he already knew the answer to.
Xu Yang frowned slightly. "Who are you?"
The scholarly-looking man cupped his hands. "I am Guan Xiaojie, leader of the Great River Gang. I imagine you already know that our gang has established a branch here, Brother Xu. I came to invite you to join us in pursuing a great undertaking. What do you think?"
So this was Guan Xiaojie. He looked nothing like a gang leader.
Xu Yang had thought Qian Jiaxing had become a guard for some wealthy household. He had never expected him to join a gang, just like Xu Zheng.
"Thank you for thinking so highly of me, Brother Guan, but I am already an Attendant of the Liu Family in the Inner City."
Xu Yang sneered inwardly. Guan Xiaojie had no small ambitions if he wanted to recruit him. He probably wanted more than just the Four Rivers Gang's territory.
Otherwise, the little blood-and-sweat money squeezed from the common people in that territory would not be enough to support two Martial Artists.
"You are mistaken, Brother Xu," Guan Xiaojie said with a smile. "Being an Attendant of the Liu Family doesn't stop you from joining the Great River Gang. I wouldn't ask you to leave the Liu Family, either. You would only need to lend a hand when the Great River Gang needs you.
"An extra source of income would help you advance faster in martial cultivation. I imagine a talented man like you wouldn't want to spend his whole life working under someone else, would you?"
So he had already investigated him. He probably knew Xu Yang had refused to marry into the Liu Family, assumed he had ambitions of