Chapter 926 — Bullying Step by Step
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"Exactly. Asking me to serve as someone's bodyguard — no amount of money could buy that, unless it were a trial of some sort!" Yu Feng nodded at his father's words and sighed. "My experience is still too shallow. I failed to grasp that principle!"
"But your Third Uncle and I, at our age, if there's no hope of a breakthrough, and the Yu family's fortunes are declining, might well end up as bodyguards for some rich man. Even so, at the very worst we'd never let you take such a post, because you are the future hope of our Yu family!" Yu Shuixing said. "So Wei Zhao's present predicament may well be a trial inflicted on him by the power behind him, a tempering hardship! As the saying goes: when Heaven is about to confer a great charge upon a man, it first torments his will, wearies his sinews and bones, starves his body, strips his resources bare, and thwarts his every undertaking — so it stirs his heart, hardens his nature, and supplies his deficiencies! This too is a kind of training and cultivation!"
"Then the heaven-sent opportunity you mentioned, Father — what do you mean by it?" This time Yu Feng was rather puzzled. Since his father did not approve of moving against Wei Zhao, why call it a heaven-sent opportunity?
"We don't touch Wei Zhao, but we can move against Gu Pengzhan!" Yu Shuixing said with a smile.
"Oh? Second Brother, didn't you say before that once we moved against Gu Pengzhan, we'd be at open enmity with Wei Zhao?" Yu Bide was taken aback and could not help asking.
"That was before Wei Zhao lost his martial arts. If we had moved against Gu Pengzhan then, Wei Zhao would undoubtedly have leapt to his defense!" Yu Shuixing said. "But now that his martial arts have been stripped away entirely, what would his leaping out accomplish?"
"True enough. But what if the power behind Wei Zhao loses its patience and shows itself?" Yu Bide asked.
"If it shows itself, so much the better — it gives us the perfect chance to sound out Wei Zhao's true background. In fact, I'm rather hoping it won't show itself!" Yu Shuixing laughed. "Even if the force behind Wei Zhao does step forward to help, it still can't do anything to our Yu family! Everything must have a reason — it's Gu Pengzhan we're moving against, not Wei Zhao. If they come, we need only do them the courtesy of backing off. They won't go so far as to vent their anger on the Yu family, and besides, the power behind our Yu family is not one to trifle with either!"
"Brilliant! Truly brilliant!" Hearing Yu Shuixing's words, Yu Bide could not help exclaiming in admiration. "That way, whatever the outcome, the Yu family loses nothing. If the power behind Wei Zhao doesn't step forward, we can use the occasion to punish the Gu family and squeeze some profit out of him — the trip won't be in vain! And if it does appear, we will have found out exactly what Wei Zhao's background is!"
"Precisely — that's exactly the idea!" Yu Shuixing said. "Next, we need only work out what demands to make of Gu Pengzhan. The Zhen family has already demanded the moon; if our Yu family doesn't make some outrageous demand of its own, how could we do justice to this opportunity?"
"Father, I propose we make Gu Pengzhan hand over his shares to our Yu family, and then send his daughter to us to serve my cousin Yu Kun!" Yu Feng suggested. "Just leave this matter to me!"
"A good proposal, but for now you had best stay out of sight. You are our Yu family's last card, the one meant for dealing with Wei Zhao!" Yu Shuixing said. "Let Bide handle this affair. You'll accompany Yu Haitian on the trip and lay our terms before Gu Pengzhan."
"Yes, Second Brother!" Yu Bide nodded. He was filled with hatred for Gu Pengzhan, and on this trip he was determined to teach them a lesson!
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In Songshan City, in Gu Pengzhan's office, two uninvited guests had arrived once again!
These two were the Medicine King and Li Cihua!