Chapter 1723 — I Believe in Him! And in the Painting, a Man and a Woman Sit Leaning Together on an Open Field Gazing at the Starry Sky — and the Woman in the Painting Is Yu Ning, Which Infuriates Yu Xiaoshen Even More!
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"I... how would I know!" Zhao Qibing thought of how he was now Elder Bi's direct disciple, and hardened himself again. Why should he fear Wei Zhao? He was now one of the candidates for the future head of the Zhao family; he was no longer the Zhao Qibing of before!
"Oh, actually, I'm here to break your legs." As he spoke, Wei Zhao stepped toward Zhao Qibing.
"You... don't you dare do anything rash!" Zhao Qibing was terrified. He wanted to call Zhu Lingtou out to help, but suddenly remembered that Li Cihua had taken Zhu Lingtou away to intimidate the orphanage's old director. In the whole bar, apart from the Medicine King — a Mystic-rank expert who was not much good in a fight — there was only Uncle Zhu, a cripple.
"All right, I won't do anything rash. You burned the orphanage, didn't you?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Me? How could it be? My own tower burned down — how could I have set the fire? I'm looking for the arsonist myself!" Zhao Qibing denied flatly, thinking to himself: so Wei Zhao really had come about the orphanage. Why did this fellow love meddling so much?
He had made little money from the shantytown redevelopment, having paid the residents the highest compensation standard, and then, just when he hoped to turn a profit from the orphanage, Wei Zhao had come poking his nose in again.
"Oh, no need to look. I've found him for you. It was you," Wei Zhao said.
"Me? Wei Zhao, don't talk nonsense." Though Zhao Qibing told himself he was not the man he used to be, he still felt an instinctive fear of Wei Zhao.
"I say it was you, so it was you," Wei Zhao said. "Or do you want your legs broken before you'll admit it?"
"I..." Zhao Qibing was speechless. If I don't admit it, you'll break my legs to force an admission? Who does that? But recalling Wei Zhao's domineering ways, he really might do exactly that. Wei Zhao's deeds had spread everywhere by now — he had even wiped out the secular Yu family — and Zhao Qibing had no doubt at all that Wei Zhao would dare break his legs.
Wei Zhao dared provoke even the hidden Yu family; what was the hidden Zhao family to him?
"Well? Is it or isn't it? I'll count to three. If you don't admit it, I break your legs... last time it was two, this time it'll be three," Wei Zhao said impatiently.
"I... fine, call it me who burned it, all right?" Zhao Qibing had no choice but to admit it.
Wei Zhao had beaten even Yu Shuixing to death after the man had taken his pills. Even if Zhu Lingtou were here, he would be helpless against Wei Zhao. Unless Elder Bi himself acted, nothing could hurt Wei Zhao. But bound by the rules of the Hidden Families Arbitration Association, Elder Bi could never move about in the secular world.
A wise man does not fight when the odds are against him; Zhao Qibing could only admit it for now, though he had no idea what Wei Zhao wanted.
"Since you've admitted it, that's easy. Pay up," Wei Zhao said. "You burned down an orphanage — I'd say that's worth thirty to fifty million at the very least. Add what you owed me last time, and just give me two hundred million in one go!"