Chapter 925 — Stirrings in the Yu Household

"Exactly. At a time like this, even if he knows it's a forgery, caught between troubles at home and threats from abroad, he won't dare offend us lightly! We can threaten him — if he dares to make a fuss, we'll kill his daughter! I trust he won't resist!" Jin Gubang nodded, his voice vicious.

He loathed Gu Pengzhan with every fiber of his being, and now that a chance for revenge had come, he had naturally leapt at it without a moment's hesitation.

"What do you two think?" Zhao Qibing nodded and looked toward Li Cihua and Zhong Fabai.

"A fine idea, Young Master Bing. We'll have the Medicine King tag along as well, give Gu Pengzhan a good scare — he'll have no choice but to acknowledge the debt!" Li Cihua said with a nod.

"Good, then it's settled!" Zhao Qibing cackled and sent Jin Gubang off to forge the documents.

In Yanjing, inside the Yu family mansion, Yu Shuixing and Yu Bide sat side by side, with Yu Feng seated in the place beside them.

By now Yu Kun had awakened. Grief-stricken beyond measure, he recounted to Yu Shuixing and Yu Bide exactly how he had come to be injured.

True, Yu Kun had been reckless in this affair, going after Wei Zhao without any thorough investigation beforehand — but though the Yu family privately knew they were at fault, they would never admit it! They laid every last bit of blame at Wei Zhao's feet.

"Second Brother, you must see justice done for little Kun! Now that we know it was Wei Zhao who struck the blow, if our Yu family makes no response at all, won't the other great houses look down on us?" Hatred burned in Yu Bide's heart — it was Wei Zhao who had ruined his son, ruined all his hopes!

Yu Bide's own strength had essentially stalled where it was for the rest of his life, and he had pinned all his hopes on his son — never expecting calamity to fall from a clear sky and leave the boy crippled! How could he possibly swallow such a grievance?

"According to little Kun, this Wei Zhao is nothing more than an early-stage Mystic-rank fighter. Killing him would be a trifling matter!" Yu Shuixing said. "The only question is, what background does this Wei Zhao have? To reach the early Mystic rank at such a young age is exceedingly rare even among the scions of the great houses. Could he have come out from some hidden clan to temper himself?"

"Hm?" Yu Bide's heart gave a sudden start at Yu Shuixing's analysis. Before, he had thought only of revenge and had overlooked Wei Zhao's origins and background. Now that Yu Shuixing had pointed it out, a measure of worry crept in! If Wei Zhao truly had come from a hidden clan to temper himself, then for the Yu family to move against him would be no different from poking a hornet's nest.

"But little Kun's vengeance..." Yu Bide sighed, a note of sorrow in his voice.

"Wei Zhao's background is mere conjecture, unconfirmed as yet. There's no need to rush," Yu Shuixing said. "We'll stick to the original plan: send little Feng to probe Wei Zhao's origins and see just what background he has. It won't be too late to decide once we know."

"That will have to do!" Yu Bide nodded, though unwillingly. "If we can't touch Wei Zhao, then what about moving against that Gu Pengzhan? If his daughter Gu Mengyao hadn't ordered Wei Zhao to strike down little Kun, little Kun would never have come to such an end!"

Wei Zhao could not be touched for the time being, yet Yu Bide still had fury with no outlet, so he shifted his hatred onto Gu Pengzhan and that little slut Gu Mengyao. In his view, Wei Zhao might be the killer, but Gu Mengyao was the one who had plotted it — he absolutely could not let her off!

"Hm... from what we can see of the situation, Wei Zhao was hired by Gu Pengzhan as a close guard, charged with protecting them. If we move against Gu Pengzhan or Gu Mengyao, Wei Zhao will surely step forward to help, and we'll have fallen out with him directly — that doesn't fit our plans!" Yu Shuixing hesitated, then shook his head. "Until we've clarified Wei Zhao's background, it would be unwise to openly antagonize him! If we move against Gu Pengzhan and Wei Zhao really does jump in, the Yu family's position becomes rather awkward — caught between advance and retreat. Advance, and we risk harming the Yu family's interests; retreat, and we lose face!"

"That's true enough... Ah, I never thought that dealing with a mere Wei Zhao would be so troublesome!" Yu Bide sighed.

Just as they were speaking, Yu Feng's phone rang. He glanced at the number and answered.

Ordinarily, when the Yu family held a meeting, neither Yu Shuixing nor Yu Bide carried a phone — they rarely kept one on them at all — so if something urgent came up, the call would be placed to Yu Feng.

The fact that Yu Feng would answer a call during a meeting suggested the caller was someone from within the Yu family.

"Hello? Brother Haitian, what is it? Father and Third Uncle are in a meeting!" Yu Feng said. Had the call been from anyone but Yu Haitian, he would not have picked up — but Yu Haitian was in charge of the Yu family's outside business and intelligence network, and if he was calling Yu Feng at such a moment, something must surely be up.

"It's like this — word has come from Songshan City. Li Fu, the man at Gu Pengzhan's side, has been beaten gravely and his life hangs in the balance. Wei Zhao, too, was wounded — his martial arts are utterly destroyed and his strength is gone. The Xiao family has already gone to make trouble for Gu Pengzhan, and Zhao Qibing looks to be about to make his move as well..." Yu Haitian laid out the latest intelligence he had gathered. He had previously been instructed to keep a constant watch on Wei Zhao and all related parties in Songshan City.

"Oh? What's happened?" Yu Feng was startled at Yu Haitian's words. "What great event has struck Songshan City?"

"The details are like this..." Yu Haitian recounted to Yu Feng, in full, the whole affair of Zhen Yingjun kidnapping Gu Mengyao.

"I understand. I'll report this to Father and Third Uncle at once!" Rain Maple was beside himself with joy at the news, for it swept away all the misgivings and worries that had been plaguing the Rain family. Not daring to delay, he hurriedly relayed every word Rain Sea Sky had said to his father and Third Uncle.

"This is a gift from heaven itself!" Rain Water Star's eyes lit up at once, and he drummed his fingers on the tea table before him, lost in thought, as though already working out a strategy.

"Indeed! Wei Zhao's martial arts are completely ruined now, so this is the perfect moment to deal with him!" Rain Maple nodded excitedly as well. "This time, once I go, I can kill Wei Zhao with no effort at all!"

"Childish!" Rain Water Star shot his son a glare. "Wei Zhao may have lost all his martial skill, but we still have no idea whether he has any backing. How can we just charge in blindly?"

"That... but he was beaten crippled, and still no one has come forward to stand up for him. Doesn't that just prove he has no formidable backing?" Rain Maple retorted, somewhat unconvinced. "If he were truly well connected, could the powers behind him simply sit by and let him be bullied like that?"