Chapter 943 — Tailor-Made: Though Gu Mengyao Knew That the Matter Was Not Her Fault or Xiaoshu's, It Was Merely a Pretext for the Xiao Family to Pick a Fight — Without This Pretext, the Xiao Family Might Well Have Found Some Other Pretext…
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In this way, no one would ever imagine that Gu Pengzhan, without taking a single coin, would spirit Gu Mengyao silently out of Songshan City!
"Good!" Gu Mengyao nodded and, delighted, agreed.
"Oh, take me along, take me! I want to go too!" Shen Yushu would have none of it. Sister Yao was leaving with Brother Shield — what would be the point of her staying behind alone?
"Fine, you're coming too." Gu Mengyao did not want to be parted from Xiaoshu either, so she nodded and agreed.
Gu Pengzhan glanced at Shen Yushu, opened his mouth as if to say something, and in the end said nothing at all. Never mind — this was her own choice, and how could he interfere? Recalling what his father had said, Gu Pengzhan let it go: it was the Gu family who had reached up to Wei Zhao, not Wei Zhao who had latched on to the Gu family!
An Liwen waited a whole day and got no call from Gu Pengzhan. He could not help growing anxious, and cursed inwardly: what were those enemies of Gu Pengzhan doing? Hurry up and keep squeezing him — if you do not squeeze him, he will not panic, and how is he supposed to come seeking my help?
An Liwen could bear it no longer, and quietly leaked word to Yu Shuixing of the Yu family: Gu Pengzhan was planning to flee, secretly shifting his assets — he had best go and take a look at once!
The reason he had not tipped off the Xiao family or Zhao Qibing was that they had only demanded money and businesses from Gu Pengzhan, and had not yet touched his bottom line. Only when someone tried to lay hands on Gu Mengyao would Gu Pengzhan truly think of resisting!
This was a pretext An Liwen had simply made up on the spur of the moment, for the sole purpose of making the Yu family bring pressure to bear on Gu Pengzhan! What An Liwen never expected was that his offhand words had actually hit the mark! Gu Pengzhan had not transferred any assets, but he truly was preparing to flee!
In such an extraordinary time, the Yu family too would rather believe it than not — they were afraid Gu Pengzhan would run off with the assets, and then tracking him down would be a nuisance! In a country this vast, he might even flee abroad, and then he would be all the harder to find!
So the Yu family decided to come knocking first thing the next morning! If Gu Pengzhan refused, they would simply take what they wanted by force! With no capable hands left in the Gu household, would he not be theirs to carve up as they pleased?
They would make him sign a share-transfer agreement, and then carry Gu Mengyao back to the Yu family in Yanjing — and the trip would not have been made in vain! Their only regret was that the force behind Wei Zhao had never once shown itself these past two days!
Could it be that behind Wei Zhao there was in fact no force at all, and that everything had been nothing more than the Yu family's own groundless guesswork? But that only made things better: the Yu family could deal with the Gu family with even greater impunity, and once the Gu family was finished, what remained was the day of Wei Zhao's death!
Wei Zhao was only an ordinary man — killing him would be like reaching out and snatching something up, wouldn't it? At the thought, Yu Bide could scarcely wait to cut Wei Zhao down with his own hands and avenge his son!
Yu Haitian and Yu Bide sat in the hotel spinning their fond spring-and-autumn dreams, never knowing that the four words "rushing to their own destruction" had been tailor-made for them!