Chapter 1101 — Some Rejoice, Some Lament
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Pi Zhitao was a martial fanatic with little guile, yet the more so, the happier Pi Zhifeng was. To have a younger brother with no scheming at heart and only thoughts of raising his strength, with no one to contest the seat of family head, and who could moreover add to the family's power, why not rejoice?
The moment Pi Zhifeng and Pi Zhitao left, Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben burst into hearty laughter! The Xiao family had hope again! All their former worries vanished in that instant, and the Pi people had not even gone to glance at Uncle Pi in the hospital, from which one could see they felt nothing for him at all. At that, the Xiao brothers breathed easy!
Xiao Ben had feared the Pi family still bore a grudge over Uncle Pi and might one day rake up the old account and drag the Xiao family in, but now it seemed there was no need to worry. Only Xiao Ben felt a touch of unwillingness, for he had meant to avenge himself on Wei Zhao. After the Pi people came, the first thing he had meant to do was lead men back to Gu Pengzhan to press the debt, but now it seemed the Pi family cared nothing for Uncle Pi, and the chance they would help Uncle Pi settle scores was slimmer than slim...
But whatever else, the Xiao family's soaring rise had become certain. Xiao Ben turned to Xiao Ji and said: "Elder brother, in your name as head of the Xiao family, send word out at once that our Xiao family has won the backing of the hidden Pi family and is now seeking commercial partners on all fronts!"
"Good, leave it to me!" Xiao Ji thumped his chest and agreed roundly. Bragging was his favorite pastime, and besides, this time it was not mere bragging, but solid fact!
The news that the Xiao family had won the backing of the hidden Pi family spread like wildfire under Xiao Ji's deliberate trumpeting, and soon the great families had all got wind of it! Yet among these families, some were glad, some were gloomy, and some chose to look the other way at what did not concern them...
None were gladder than the Wu family. Wu Gonggao felt that his grandson Wu Chengtian had always been on good terms with Xiao Wangdao and Xiao Wangba, and now that the Xiao family was in power, the Wu family would in future share in some fitting benefit!
But after all, the glad were few and the gloomy were many!
The gloomiest houses were the Liu family and the Chen family!
The Liu family and the Chen family were both rather feeble houses. With the Xiao family propping up the bottom before, they had felt a sense of crisis yet still had room to breathe. But now the Xiao family had shot to the skies in one bound and become a house to rival the Yu family, so were not the Liu family and the Chen family left to bring up the rear?
The Liu family had no cultivators, while the Chen family had only Chen Yuxuan, a cultivator of the early Yellow stage. Though the old masters of the two houses held high standing in both business and political circles, they were after all old. While they lived it was all very well and they could trade on old ties, but once they passed away, the strength of the two houses would plummet in an instant!