Chapter 921 — A Top-Tier Lion's Mouth
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Gu Pengzhan turned and went into the rest room attached to his office. The Xiao family's people did not follow him in; they simply stood where they were, sneering coldly.
Inside the rest room, Gu Pengzhan dialed his daughter's number, but after a moment's thought he hung up. At this hour she was probably still in class, so he called Wei Zhao directly instead.
"Uncle Chu!" Wei Zhao was at Guan Xuewen's house at that moment, together with Kang ** and Fatty Lai. Before leaving, he had a few matters to settle properly.
"Xiaoyi, I want to ask you about something — it concerns Yaoyao and a person named Gou Huli..." Gu Pengzhan said.
"Oh? Gou Huli?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback, then remembered the woman, and recounted the whole affair to Gu Pengzhan. Then he asked, "But that business was a while ago now. Why does Uncle Chu suddenly ask about it?"
"Gou Huli is the wife of Xiao Ji, the eldest young master of the Xiao family. And now they have come knocking at my door..." Gu Pengzhan sighed.
From what Wei Zhao had said, Yaoyao and Xiaoshu had indeed been at fault at the outset, but it had been a trifling dispute at most — nothing more than splashing water on Gou Huli's clothes. After Yaoyao and Xiaoshu apologized and offered to pay for the damage, Gou Huli had been the one behaving unreasonably...
But now the Xiao family was using the incident to claim that Yaoyao had insulted Gou Huli. It looked very much as though the Xiao family had not come with good intentions.
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was startled. "They are from the Xiao family of Yanjing? They have come to your door?"
Wei Zhao had not expected his enemies to arrive so quickly. Some time had passed since the quarrel between Gu Mengyao and Gou Huli, yet the Xiao family had made no move at all. They had waited neither early nor late, but chosen the very moment when Uncle Qing was injured and his own powers were gone — there had to be some scheme behind it.
Yet there was nothing Wei Zhao could do. His acquaintance with the two younger members of the Xiao family amounted to no more than a single meeting, and in terms of strength he held no advantage whatsoever.
"Ha, it is nothing. I can handle it. I only wanted to verify the facts with you. Do not worry." Gu Pengzhan sighed, secretly counting himself lucky that Wei Zhizun had arrived; otherwise the Xiao family would surely have had him at their mercy today.
After hanging up on Wei Zhao, Gu Pengzhan turned and left the rest room. He looked at the Xiao brothers, then at the old man beside them, and his gaze could not help but sharpen.
He had not noticed the man before, but now, on closer inspection, there was a heavy aura of murderous intent hidden about him. Gu Pengzhan might be an ordinary man, but in the presence of such an expert he still felt a faint chill.
Could this be Pi Bo, the legendary guardian expert of the Xiao family? If it truly was him, then the Xiao family's visit this time must surely have some design behind it.
"Mr. Xiao, I have made my calls. But this matter hardly seems to be my daughter's fault alone, does it?" Gu Pengzhan said, neither haughty nor humble. "If we are to speak of fault, then your wife's attitude was a trifle impatient as well, I think."
"What the hell did you say?" Xiao Ji flew into a rage at Gu Pengzhan's words. "How the Xiao family conducts itself is none of your business to teach!"
Before the old master of the Xiao family passed away, Xiao Ji had been a good-for-nothing spoiled young master, brawling all day and running with a pack of equally spoiled idlers, stirring up trouble wherever he went. But in those days the Xiao family had been at the height of its power, so it hardly mattered.
In recent years Xiao Ji had restrained himself somewhat, but the hot temper and the spoiled-brat nature in his bones had not changed. Hearing Gu Pengzhan prattle on and shift the blame this way and that, he flew straight into a fury.