Chapter 310 — The Bodyguard Appears
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Xie Guangbo started, then seemed to grasp where Wei Zhao had come from. His expression turned stern. "So Gu Pengzhan sent you? Hmph. You can leave. Go back and tell him there is nothing to discuss."
"Have you been eating too many idiot pills? Could he have sent me? I'm helping of my own accord this time!" Wei Zhao curled his lip. Did this fool really think himself such a small potato that he warranted a messenger? Ridiculous. Gu Pengzhan might treat him well, but Wei Zhao had come to Songshan City purely because of the old man at home. Apart from Old Man Wei and his assassin master, no one could order Wei Zhao about.
"Then what are you here for..." Xie Guangbo was rather surprised by this. It seemed this fellow truly was not one of Gu Pengzhan's men. Then what did he do?
Wei Zhao frowned with some impatience. "I am Gu Mengyao's bodyguard!"
"What?" Xie Guangbo was dumbfounded. Gu Mengyao's bodyguard had come looking for him? Was this not sticking his nose where it did not belong? "You're Gu Mengyao's bodyguard. Shouldn't you be protecting her? What are you doing here?"
"I called you an idiot and you still don't believe it," Wei Zhao glared at him as though at a fool. "Gu Pengzhan is Gu Mengyao's father. If he loses his job, who's going to pay my wages?"
Wei Zhao said this only to distance himself from Gu Pengzhan, so that if things truly came to light, Gu Pengzhan could wash his hands of the whole affair. Word getting out that he had intimidated shareholders would do his reputation no good.
Xie Guangbo was left speechless. Which of us is the idiot here, really? You're a bodyguard, and you come meddling in company business? But then something seemed to dawn on Xie Guangbo, and he said, "You've come for money, haven't you? Go on then—how much do you want?"
No wonder Xie Guangbo took Wei Zhao for a man after money; his position and the business he had come to stick his nose into did not match up in the slightest.
"Why do you have so much useless chatter? Do you want to die?" Wei Zhao lashed out with his foot at the safe beside him, sending the several-hundred-catty iron safe flying clean up into the air. With a thunderous crash it landed right in front of Xie Guangbo, a single centimeter from the tips of his toes.
Xie Guangbo was caught completely off guard. Cold sweat broke out instantly on his forehead. Was this even human? Was he really just a bodyguard? How could he be this formidable, kicking a several-hundred-catty safe into the air with one foot? Then he looked at the safe again, and a chill ran down his back.
There was a great hole in the side of the safe—kicked clean through by Wei Zhao! A vault safe like this was thick iron plate on all four sides, and he had kicked a hole right through it? A thief would strain to cut one open with an electric saw, and this man did it with his foot?
Of course, none of that was the main point. The main point was that if the safe had flown a little higher or a little farther, his old life would likely have been over.
"I want you to stay a little farther away from Jin Gubang. Understand?" Wei Zhao could not be bothered to ask why the fool had gone to help Jin Gubang. So long as the fellow feared death, he would do well to keep his distance from Jin Gubang.
"..." Xie Guangbo's face was ashen, but he said nothing. He could not answer Wei Zhao. If he kept his distance from Jin Gubang, what would become of his son? So though Xie Guangbo was afraid, he could not bow his head. "Tell me—how much money will it take for you to let me off?"
"Money? Are you very rich?" Wei Zhao walked over with contempt, and Xie Guangbo instinctively shrank back.
But Wei Zhao did not lay a hand on Xie Guangbo. Instead he walked to the safe, dented by his kick, reached out, and gave a hard pull—and the whole door of the safe came off in his hands.