Chapter 1253 — There's a Lead!
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"Let's set that aside. Tell me about you and the Yu family — since you're betrothed to the Yus, then what of Wei Zhao...?" Yang Huaijun was still rather worried about Wei Zhao. The Yu family was powerful and wealthy, after all; if a conflict broke out over this, it would be bad. "The Yus carry themselves like tyrants. If they learn of Wei Zhao's doings, I fear they'll move against him."
"Move against him?" Qiu Lingshan's expression turned somewhat strange, and she smiled bitterly. "Brother Yang, you're a man of the great families yourself. Haven't you heard of the great affair that shook Songshan City a while back?"
"What great affair?" Yang Huaijun was taken aback. "I've been buried in cases these days, busy from dawn to dark, dizzy with it. I haven't followed what the great families are up to. And our Yang family, at every gathering of the great families, does no more than hold on to a seat among the Five Minor Families. So long as our Yang family's old ancestor lives, our standing won't be shaken. So I haven't paid it much mind..."
"Wei Zhao and the Yu family are already bound by a deadly feud. Wei Zhao crippled the Yus' Yu Kun and killed Yu Kun's father, Yu Bide... He and the Yu family have long been irreconcilable, sworn to mutual destruction..." Qiu Lingshan smiled bitterly. "Do you think that even without this business, there was ever any chance of a reconciliation between the Yus and Wei Zhao?"
"You can't be serious!" Yang Huaijun rose from the bed in astonishment. He had never expected Wei Zhao to be so fierce. In only a few days since arriving in Songshan City, he had taken out two of the Yu family's finest — and the Yus were the foremost of the nine great families. That was a touch too formidable.
Earlier, Yang Huaijun had worried that Wei Zhao would come off the worse in a clash with the Yus — who could have imagined that it was the Yus who had come off the worse! Yang Huaijun could not help sighing. "A captain is a captain. If anyone else had taken out two of the Yus, he'd be dead by now — and the man leading the whole thing walks away without a scratch. Truly a man of force!"
"Yes!" Qiu Lingshan could scarcely believe it either. But it was a man like this who suited her taste. Were he timid and cowering, dodging the moment trouble came, she would not care for him at all.
"Forget it, I'll keep out of it. Your affairs are far too tangled..." Yang Huaijun smiled bitterly. "Will you stay here tonight? Let me treat you to dinner."
"No need. I'm already itching to get back and set to work on this case!" Having found a direction for the investigation, Qiu Lingshan was naturally impatient.
"All right, next time, then. Time's tight on my end as well!" Yang Huaijun sighed. "Next time you come, bring Wei Zhao if you can. We'll have a proper talk — I have something to discuss with him... Never mind. I'll call him about it myself!"
"All right!" Qiu Lingshan had no idea what Yang Huaijun wanted with Wei Zhao, but she did not press him. She left the hotel quickly.