Chapter 75 — Gu Pengzhan's Analysis
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"All right, no need to go on. I understand well enough." Hearing Uncle Qing's account, Gu Pengzhan shook his head with a bitter smile. In the end, this whole business had been stirred up by his own precious daughter. "Xiaoyi, Yaoyao loves to make mischief—do not indulge her. She ought to have someone keep her in line. Next time, do not go along with her games. This time it nearly came to something serious; if not for your skill, who knows how it might have turned out."
"Ha ha, Uncle Chu, I am fine." Wei Zhao was speaking the truth; he had never taken Brother Black Panther seriously. A small fry like that was cannon fodder on the front lines—utterly useless.
"This Zhong Yongliang—it seems I will have to speak with Principal Ding Binggong. A student of such character should not be kept at the school." Gu Pengzhan was furious at the very mention of Zhong Yongliang.
"Mr. Gu, this Zhong Yongliang is Director Jin's nephew…" Uncle Qing kept records of all such trivial details and immediately offered a reminder.
"Oh?" Gu Pengzhan frowned. He had not expected Zhong Yongliang to have that kind of connection. Gu Pengzhan might be chairman of the Gu Group and its largest shareholder, but the board still had many other shareholders. Their stakes were smaller than his, yet they still carried considerable weight, so Gu Pengzhan could hardly afford to offend other directors over trifles like this.
The Gu Group was one of the shareholders of First High School, and so Director Jin was naturally one of its shareholders as well. That being the case, Ding Binggong really would be in a difficult position. Gu Pengzhan thought it over; graduation was not far off anyway, and so he let go of the idea of doing anything about Zhong Yongliang.
"Uncle Chu, you need not put yourself out. I imagine that after this business, Zhong Yongliang will keep his tail between his legs at school from now on." Wei Zhao had never taken the man seriously at all.
"Yes. Xiaoyi, I am truly sorry about this… I may steer a conglomerate, but there are many things beyond my power." Gu Pengzhan sighed.
"Uncle Chu, I was just about to bring this up with you." Seeing that Gu Pengzhan had steered the conversation toward company management, Wei Zhao seized the opening without having to invent one. "Uncle Chu, have you figured out what was behind that bank robbery the other day?"
"For now we can only suspect that something unusual lies behind it; we have not sorted out the thread yet." Gu Pengzhan did not hide anything. "One thing is certain, though: their people were after Yaoyao. The bank robbery was merely a pretext. They did not move against Yaoyao earlier, nor later, but chose the very moment I was out of the city negotiating business—that motive alone is worth suspecting."
Wei Zhao praised him inwardly: Gu Pengzhan really was the helmsman of a great conglomerate, to be able to reason so much from such faint traces was no small feat. His suspicions were not far off from the truth of the matter.
"My first reaction was that someone was trying to extort us, but then I felt that was not right either. Thinking back on the strange attitude of the other side when we went to that other city to discuss business, I had a vague feeling that the whole thing might be connected to them." Gu Pengzhan did not conceal anything from Wei Zhao; after all, Wei Zhao was now one of the people around his daughter, and telling him his suspicions would let him prepare his response in advance, just in case.