Chapter 925 — Stirrings in the Yu Household
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"Exactly. At a time like this, even if he knows it's a forgery, caught between troubles at home and threats from abroad, he won't dare offend us lightly! We can threaten him — if he dares to make a fuss, we'll kill his daughter! I trust he won't resist!" Jin Gubang nodded, his voice vicious.
He loathed Gu Pengzhan with every fiber of his being, and now that a chance for revenge had come, he had naturally leapt at it without a moment's hesitation.
"What do you two think?" Zhao Qibing nodded and looked toward Li Cihua and Zhong Fabai.
"A fine idea, Young Master Bing. We'll have the Medicine King tag along as well, give Gu Pengzhan a good scare — he'll have no choice but to acknowledge the debt!" Li Cihua said with a nod.
"Good, then it's 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 in the place beside them.
By now Yu Kun had awakened. Grief-stricken beyond measure, he recounted to Yu Shuixing and Yu Bide exactly how he had come to be injured.
True, Yu Kun had been reckless in this affair, going after Wei Zhao without any thorough investigation beforehand — but though the Yu family privately knew they were at fault, they would never admit it! They laid every last bit of blame at Wei Zhao's feet.
"Second Brother, you must see justice done for little Kun! Now that we know it was Wei Zhao who struck the blow, if our Yu family makes no response at all, won't the other great houses look down on us?" Hatred burned in Yu Bide's heart — it was Wei Zhao who had ruined his son, ruined all his hopes!
Yu Bide's own strength had essentially stalled where it was for the rest of his life, and he had pinned all his hopes on his son — never expecting calamity to fall from a clear sky and leave the boy crippled! How could he possibly swallow such a grievance?
"According to little Kun, this Wei Zhao is nothing more than an early-stage Mystic-rank fighter. Killing him would be a trifling matter!" Yu Shuixing said. "The only question is, what background does this Wei Zhao have? To reach the early Mystic rank at such a young age is exceedingly rare even among the scions of the great houses. Could he have come out from some hidden clan to temper himself?"
"Hm?" Yu Bide's heart gave a sudden start at Yu Shuixing's analysis. Before, he had thought only of revenge and had overlooked Wei Zhao's origins and background. Now that Yu Shuixing had pointed it out, a measure of worry crept in! If Wei Zhao truly had come from a hidden clan to temper himself, then for the Yu family to move against him would be no different from poking a hornet's nest.
"But little Kun's vengeance..." Yu Bide sighed, a note of sorrow in his voice.
"Wei Zhao's background is mere conjecture, unconfirmed as yet. There's no need to rush," Yu Shuixing said. "We'll stick to the original plan: send little Feng to probe Wei Zhao's origins and see just what background he has. It won't be too late to decide once we know."
"That will have to do!" Yu Bide nodded, though unwillingly. "If we can't touch Wei Zhao, then what about moving against that Gu Pengzhan? If his daughter Gu Mengyao hadn't ordered Wei Zhao to strike down little Kun, little Kun would never have come to such an end!"
Wei Zhao could not be touched for the time being, 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 view, Wei Zhao might be the killer, but Gu Mengyao was the one who had plotted it — he absolutely could not let her off!