Chapter 920 — High-Handed Accusations
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Where is Gu Pengzhan? You have some nerve—even the Xiao family dares not provoke you?" The moment Xiao Ji entered, he seized the initiative with a thunderous shout!
Gu Pengzhan had met Xiao Ji before and knew he was of the Xiao family. The Gu Group and the Xiao family had done business together in the past. He knew a thing or two about the Xiao family's recent troubles as well, and he knew they were investing in Songshan City. He simply had no idea why the Xiao family would suddenly appear in his office, seemingly to settle accounts!
"Mr. Xiao, might I ask how I have offended your Xiao family?" Gu Pengzhan looked at the murderous Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben in some bewilderment. Had these two made some mistake? The Gu Group's recent business had nothing to do with the Xiao family, let alone any offense given to its people.
"Your daughter humiliated my wife, Gou Huli!" Xiao Ji sneered. "We of the Xiao family have only just arrived in Songshan City, and already you mean to give us a show of force? Do you take us for a family in ruin, now that our old master has just passed? A tiger fallen to the flatlands is bullied by dogs!"
"Mr. Xiao Ji, what do you mean by that? When did my daughter ever humiliate your wife?" Gu Pengzhan frowned. "And as for a show of force, that is even more baseless. The Gu Group has done business with the Xiao family before. I cannot welcome your investment here soon enough—why would I bully you?"
"Hmph! Fine words! A lean camel is still bigger than a horse, and we of the Xiao family are still that camel. You, one of the largest groups in this city, are simply afraid we have come to steal your business, are you not?" Xiao Ji snorted. "And so you set your daughter on my wife, heaping humiliation upon her, all to strike down the Xiao family's standing in Songshan City!"
"Mr. Xiao Ji, the more I listen, the more confused I become. Business is business, and where there is business there is buying and selling. It is only when there are many players that you can call it a market. Why would I fear you coming to steal my business?" Though doubt filled Gu Pengzhan's heart, Xiao Ji had spoken with such apparent conviction that Gu Pengzhan could not shake a faint sense that something was badly wrong. It looked very much as though the Xiao family had come deliberately to make trouble.
"Enough, Mr. Gu. We are all sensible people here, so let us not waste words!" Xiao Ben, who had stood silent at the side all this while, now spoke up. "Whether it happened or not, just ask your daughter and you will know. She and someone called Xiao Shu ganged up to bully and humiliate my sister-in-law, Gou Huli. Do you think we would invent such a thing out of thin air?"
Gu Pengzhan was taken aback. Since Xiao Ben said his daughter had been with Xiao Shu, then clearly this was likely no fabrication. Could Yaoyao really have offended this Gou Huli again?
"Very well. Since Mr. Xiao insists so firmly, I will first verify this with my daughter..." Gu Pengzhan had no choice but to nod and say.
"Be quick about it. Our patience has its limits!" There was a note of command in Xiao Ji's voice.
Gu Pengzhan sighed inwardly. Misfortunes truly never came singly to his household of late. For no apparent reason he had provoked a certain Zhen Yingjun, who had not only abducted his daughter but extorted a huge sum of money from him, and worst of all had left both Xiaoyi and Li Fu badly injured!