Chapter 960 — Troubles for Every Family
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Crying, always crying! What good does crying do?" The very sight of his wife enraged Xiao Ji. How had he ever married such a creature? The more he thought, the angrier he grew. "And still you cry? This whole mess is your doing! If you hadn't gone provoking the Gu Pengzhan family, why would we have made enemies of them? And if we hadn't made enemies of them, how would Pi Bo have been dragged into it? Even if Pi Bo was hurt, couldn't you at least have kept your eyes on the road?"
"That's enough, eldest brother!" Xiao Ben waved a hand. "This is no time to squabble. What good would beating sister-in-law to death do? What problem would that solve?"
"Then... what are we supposed to do?" Xiao Ji sighed. It was precisely because he did not know what to do that he had vented his temper on Gou Huli.
"First, to secure the Xiao family's interests, I suggest we arrange the marriage alliance with the Kang family as quickly as possible. Otherwise the Xiao family's position truly will not hold! With a financial power like the Kang family backing us, though, it still works in our favor—at the very least it will carry us through this crisis." Xiao Ben said. "Second, we try to contact Pi Bo's sect. Pi Bo has been beaten into this state—surely his sect cannot simply stand by and do nothing?"
"Mm... the alliance with the Kang family does need to be hurried along!" Xiao Ji nodded. "But as for Pi Bo's sect, we don't even know where he came from. Besides, wasn't Pi Bo hit by Gou Huli's car?"
"You don't tell, I don't tell—we say Wei Zhao did it. Who else would know?" Xiao Ben waved a hand. "Even if they learn it was sister-in-law who hit him, that's a secondary matter. How could a mid-Mystic-rank master of the external arts possibly be killed by a car? It isn't plausible, is it?"
"True enough! But what Pi Bo's background was, Father never explained to us either—he simply passed away..." Xiao Ji nodded. "And we ourselves never got around to asking Pi Bo."
"Just so." Xiao Ben frowned. "Then do this: put the word out that Pi Bo was beaten into a vegetative state by Wei Zhao..."
"Second brother, but if we do that, might the Kang family not withdraw from the marriage once word reaches them?" Xiao Ji said worriedly.
"Do you imagine this can be kept hidden?" Xiao Ben waved a hand. "My guess is it won't be long before everyone with a good information network knows that something has happened to the Xiao family."
"True—there's no hiding this, however we try." Xiao Ji nodded, and went off to contact the Kang family on one hand while spreading the news of Pi Bo's vegetative state on the other...
The Yu family of Yanjing.
Yu Shuixing looked at the body of his third brother, Yu Bide, laid out in the hall, tears streaming down his face, beside himself with grief: "Third brother, how could you leave us like this? Eldest brother isn't home—only we brothers remain in the Yu family. How could you abandon me and go?"
Yu Haitian stood to one side, not daring to speak. The Yu family had run rampant through the secular world for years, yet such a tragedy had never befallen them. Now every last member of the Yu family was at a loss.
Yu Kun sat in his wheelchair, staring blankly at the body that had been his father. He could scarcely accept the fact—his own wounds had not yet healed, and now his father was dead! Wei Zhao—how could he be so ruthless?
"Father, please let me go and cut down Wei Zhao with my own hands, to avenge Third Uncle and Eldest Brother!" Yu Feng's eyes too were filled with hatred. Though the Yu family had always harbored its petty internal rivalries, now that an outside enemy had appeared, the Yu family stood as one against him.