Chapter 925 — Stirrings in the Yu Family

"Yes. At a time like this, even if he knows it is a forgery, caught between troubles within and threats without, he will not dare offend us lightly! We can threaten him — if he dares make a scene of it, we kill his daughter! I trust he will not resist!" Jin Gubang nodded and said viciously.

He hated Gu Pengzhan to the bone. Now that a chance for revenge had come, he leapt at it without the slightest hesitation.

"What do you two think?" Zhao Qibing nodded and looked toward Li Cihua and Zhong Fabai.

"Young Master Bing, it is a fine idea. Have the Medicine King go along as well, to put the fear into Gu Pengzhan — I refuse to believe he will not acknowledge the debt!" Li Cihua said with a nod.

"Good, then it is settled!" Zhao Qibing cackled, and sent Jin Gubang off to forge the documents.

In Yanjing, inside the Yu family mansion, Yu Shuixing and Yu Bide sat side by side, with Yu Feng seated to one side of them.

By now Yu Kun had woken. Grief-stricken, he recounted to Yu Shuixing and Yu Bide how he had come to be injured.

True, Yu Kun had been rash in this matter — he had gone after Wei Zhao without any thorough investigation — but though the Yu family knew they bore some fault, they would never admit it! They laid every last bit of the blame at Wei Zhao's feet!

"Second Brother, you must stand up for Little Kun! Now that we know it was Wei Zhao who struck the blow, if our Yu family makes no response at all, will the other great houses not look down on us?" Yu Bide's heart brimmed with hatred — it was Wei Zhao who had ruined his son, ruined his hopes!

Yu Bide's own strength had long since stalled where it stood; he had pinned all his hopes on his son, only for disaster to fall out of a clear sky and leave the boy a cripple! How could he swallow such a grievance?

"From what Little Kun says, this Wei Zhao is merely an early Xuan rank expert — killing him would be a trifling matter!" Yu Shuixing said. "Only, I wonder what background this Wei Zhao truly has. To reach the early Xuan rank at such a young age is rare even among the scions of great houses. Could he have come out from some hidden clan to temper himself?"

"Hm?" Yu Bide was startled by Yu Shuixing's analysis. Before, he had thought only of revenge and had overlooked Wei Zhao's origins; now that Yu Shuixing had reminded him, he too began to worry. If Wei Zhao really had come out from a hidden clan to temper himself, then for the Yu family to go after him would be no different from poking a hornet's nest!

"But Little Kun's grievance..." Yu Bide sighed, somewhat pained.

"Wei Zhao's background is conjecture and nothing more; it has not been confirmed. We can afford to be patient," Yu Shuixing said. "Let us proceed as planned: send Little Feng to probe Wei Zhao's origins and see what background he truly has. There will be time enough to decide after that."

"Then that is all we can do!" Yu Bide nodded, somewhat unwilling. "If we cannot touch Wei Zhao, then why not touch that Gu Pengzhan? If not for his daughter Gu Mengyao having Wei Zhao kill Little Kun, Little Kun would never have come to such an end!"

For the moment they could not touch Wei Zhao, yet Yu Bide still had fury with no outlet, so he shifted his hatred onto Gu Pengzhan and that little slut Gu Mengyao. In his eyes, though Wei Zhao was the killer, Gu Mengyao was the mastermind — he would never let her off!

"Hm... From the current situation, Wei Zhao is the close guard Gu Pengzhan hired to protect them. If we move against Gu Pengzhan or Gu Mengyao, Wei Zhao will surely step forward, and we will have made an enemy of him outright — that does not fit our plans!" Yu Shuixing hesitated, then shook his head. "Until we have clarified Wei Zhao's background, it would be unwise to openly antagonize him. If we move against Gu Pengzhan and Wei Zhao really does leap out, the Yu family's position becomes awkward — caught between advance and retreat. Advance, and we risk harming the Yu family's interests; retreat, and we lose face!"

"That is true... Ah, who would have thought that moving against a mere Wei Zhao would be so troublesome!" Yu Bide sighed.

Even as they spoke, Yu Feng's phone rang. He glanced at the number and answered.

Ordinarily, when the Yu family held a meeting, neither Yu Shuixing nor Yu Bide carried a phone; they seldom kept one on them, so if something urgent came up, someone would call Yu Feng.

The fact that Yu Feng could answer a call during a meeting meant the caller must be someone from within the Yu family.

"Hello? Brother Haitian, what is it? Father and Third Uncle are in a meeting," Yu Feng said. Had the call not come from Yu Haitian, he would not have picked up — but Yu Haitian was in charge of the Yu family's outside business and intelligence network, and if he was calling Yu Feng at such a time, there must be something he needed to report.

"It is like this — word has come from Songshan City. Li Fu, the man at Gu Pengzhan's side, has been beaten gravely wounded, his life hanging in the balance. Wei Zhao, too, was injured and has lost all his martial power, his strength entirely gone. The Xiao family has already gone to make trouble for Gu Pengzhan, and Zhao Qibing seems about to make his own move..." Yu Haitian relayed the latest intelligence he had obtained. He had previously been instructed to keep constant watch on Wei Zhao and those connected to him in Songshan City.

"Oh? What happened?" Yu Feng was startled by Yu Haitian's words. "What great event has occurred in Songshan City?"

"The details are as follows..." Yu Haitian recounted to Yu Feng in full the affair of Zhen Yingjun kidnapping Gu Mengyao.

"I understand. I will report this to Father and Third Uncle at once!" Hearing the news, Yu Feng was secretly overjoyed — this news swept away the Yu family's earlier misgivings and worries! Without delay, he told his father and third uncle everything Yu Haitian had said.

"Truly a gift from heaven!" Yu Shuixing's eyes lit up at once. He tapped the tea table before him with his fingers, musing, as though working out a strategy.

"Indeed. Wei Zhao has lost all his skill now — the perfect time to deal with him!" Yu Feng nodded excitedly. "This time, when I go, I can kill Wei Zhao in an instant without any pressure at all!"

"Childish!" Yu Shuixing glared at his son. "Wei Zhao may have lost his martial skill, but we still do not know whether he has a background. How can we act rashly?"

"That... but Wei Zhao has been crippled, and still no one has stepped forward to stand up for him. Does that not just prove he has no formidable background?" Yu Feng analyzed, unconvinced. "If he had real backing, would the power behind him sit by and let him be bullied?"

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