Chapter 804 — The Overbearing Heir
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Still, even if not Heavenly Rank, Earth Rank was frightening enough! Zhao Qibing was impatient to seize this orphanage, and he could not let himself be cowed by some Yellow Rank. He had no choice but to trot out his father's and grandfather's strength to intimidate the other side.
Otherwise, as a bastard son, recklessly bandying his family background about in public was taboo. If the Zhao family got wind of it, they would certainly have something to say to Zhao Qibing.
And if Uncle Zhu had not been injured, and if Zhang Long and Li Yao were not dead, Zhao Qibing would not have announced his lineage like this either. But now all his skilled men were gone, and he had not brought the Medicine King along on this trip. He could hardly slink away in disgrace, could he?
The old director had thought her strength would overawe these visitors, but she had never expected that the young man with the broken legs beside Li Cihua would claim his father was an early-stage Earth Rank expert and his grandfather a peak late-stage Earth Rank expert. The old director was stunned on the spot.
Earlier, the old director had paid Zhao Qibing no mind; she had only watched Li Cihua. But now it seemed that if this young man was not boasting, then he was telling the truth.
"Might I ask your father's esteemed name?" the old director asked after a moment's thought.
"My surname is Zhao. My name is Zhao Qibing!" Zhao Qibing did not carelessly give his father's name. He was not so foolish; he knew he was a bastard son, and that on some matters it was enough to hint and go no further. He knew that if the old director was also a woman of the jianghu, she could not fail to understand what his surname meant, and would surely guess the rest.
"Zhao..." The old director's expression changed at once, and she stared at Zhao Qibing in disbelief. "You are from the Hidden Zhao family..."
"Hmph! There are some things you'd be better off not knowing so much about!" Zhao Qibing sneered. "I'll give you two choices. My Qibing Real Estate has a plot of land in the suburbs twice the size of this one. If you agree, we'll trade it to you of equal value. Otherwise, we'll compensate you with a sum of money based on current land prices, and once you have the money, you can make your own way in the world!"
"You..." The old director was so furious at Zhao Qibing's overbearing words that she could not speak, yet she dared not act rashly. She was, after all, a woman of the jianghu, and she knew well the power the Hidden Zhao family represented — a colossal force that even the four great families and five lesser families of the mundane world dared not provoke!
Of course, what the old director did not know was that although Zhao Qibing's words were frightening enough, his status was merely that of an illegitimate son of Zhao Guangyin, the head of the Zhao family — one who had never even won much recognition from the old master of the Zhao household.
"I've said my piece. The rest is up to you to consider!" Zhao Qibing sneered. "Remember what I told you — don't refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit! Otherwise, you'll have only yourselves to blame for the consequences!"
"What kind of overbearing tyrant are you? Have you no sense of reason?" Yu Xiaoke had no idea what this Zhao family business was about, nor why the old director had suddenly given in, but she could not simply stand by and watch him be bullied.