Chapter 929 — Yet Another Uninvited Guest!
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Gu Pengzhan's heart clenched. So it was trouble after all—and over that affair.
"That's right, I am Gu Pengzhan. What instructions might Mr. Yu have for me?" Gu Pengzhan smiled a bitter smile, knowing that disaster could not be avoided today.
"Instructions? Hah! My son is ruined now, a useless cripple who can't get out of bed—and you ask what instructions I have?" Yu Bide raged. "I could kill your whole family and still not quell the fury in my heart!"
"Third Uncle, please calm yourself. We are respectable businessmen—we can't go around killing people!" Yu Haitian said with a smile. "Besides, we've come to discuss compensation with Mr. Gu Pengzhan. Of course, if the compensation doesn't work out, it won't be too late to kill his whole family then."
Fury! Gu Pengzhan trembled all over with rage. Yu Haitian's words were fair enough on the surface, but every phrase, inside and out, was a threat! If the compensation failed, he would kill Gu Pengzhan's whole family? This was going too far!
Yet in the face of the Yu family—first among the Four Great Houses and the Five Minor Houses—Gu Pengzhan had not a shred of temper to show. He did not doubt for an instant that the Yu family's words were mere bluster; for the Yu family to kill him was no more than to crush an ant beneath a foot.
At most, when an investigation was made, there would be countless people eager to take the blame.
Yu Kun had been the one who trespassed into another's home, and now that he was injured, the blame was being pinned on Gu Pengzhan—he felt deeply wronged! But with the Yu family there was no reasoning to be had. By the stance the Yu family had taken, it was plain as day that they had come to make trouble for him.
You reason with them, and they answer with thuggishness, and you cannot even summon a scrap of temper!
"That's true enough!" Yu Bide nodded. "Haitian, you had better do the talking. Lay out the Yu family's terms for him, and if he refuses, I will kill his whole family."
"Mr. Gu Pengzhan, my third uncle does have a bit of a temper, and Xiaokun is his only son, so I hope you will not take offense!" Yu Haitian smiled. "So long as you satisfy our Yu family's terms, he will not kill your whole family."
Gu Pengzhan's face had gone a mottled purple. Never in his life had he been so suffocated with rage, and he had not the slightest power to resist! Whatever the other side said, he was helpless, for the two parties were not standing on any level ground at all; he was being bullied pure and simple, with no chance to strike back.
"What terms?" Gu Pengzhan asked, drawing a deep breath.
From the Xiao family to Zhao Qibing and now to the Yu family, every one of them was a force to be reckoned with, and not one of them was someone Gu Pengzhan could afford to provoke! He did not know whether even more formidable people would come knocking in the days to come, but as for those already before him, he had no way left to deal with them.
"Give your daughter to my cousin Yukun as a concubine, and your Gu Group shall come to my Yu family as her dowry!" Yu Haitian pronounced the Yu family's terms word by word.
"What!" Gu Pengzhan was startled on the spot, his expression changing at once. The Yu family's terms surpassed even those of the Xiao family and Zhao Qibing; they had reached the point of the unthinkable!
The Yu family was simply trampling him into the ground! Terms like these, how could Gu Pengzhan possibly agree to them?
"What is it, Mr. Gu? You do not wish to agree?" Yu Haitian fixed his eyes on Gu Pengzhan and asked in a sinister, insinuating tone.