Chapter 953 — Role Reversal
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"Someone call an ambulance, quick!" Xiao Ji was frantic too, glaring at Gou Huli. "What are you standing there for? Call an ambulance, now!"
"Oh, oh! Right!" Gou Huli nodded hastily, pulled out her phone, and dialed the emergency center...
Inside the villa, Wei Zhao was staring wide-eyed too, hardly able to believe the scene before him. This was absurd. How exactly had Pi Bo died? Had he been slapped to death by Wei Zhao's own hand, or run over by a car?
"Sister Yaoyao, that Gou Huli is really pitiful. She ran over one of the Xiao family's best men! Arrow-Brand Brother went easy on him for nothing!" Shen Yushu said with some regret. "I bet when she gets home tonight, she'll be strung up and beaten. I really want to go watch!"
Though the scene before them was a little gory, the dramatic ending still made Gu Mengyao laugh despite herself. "Yeah, that family is unlucky enough!"
Gu Pengzhan had not expected things to end this way either: one of the Xiao family's best men, run over and killed by the Xiao family's own daughter-in-law. Their household had sunk to a level of misfortune where Gu Pengzhan almost could not bring himself to bully them anymore.
"Go deal with the funeral first, and once that's done, send someone to discuss the four hundred million and the four properties with me!" Wei Zhao looked at the Xiao brothers and shook his head. "You saw it yourselves. Life is full of accidents. Who knows, the next accident might be you!"
Hearing Wei Zhao's threat, Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben shuddered violently. Only at this moment did they truly feel fear.
Wei Zhao's strength had never vanished at all. But that was not the crux of it. The crux was that Pi Bo was dead! Without their pillar of support, the Xiao family would be kneaded like dough by anyone who pleased.
Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben were shocked and furious. They had not expected that even with Pi Bo dead, Wei Zhao would refuse to let the matter drop, and would still extort a sum of money and the ownership of four businesses from them! This was going too far!
Yet in this moment it did not occur to them that when they had Pi Bo cripple Wei Zhizun, they too had pressed forward step by step, driving Gu Pengzhan nearly to his wit's end. But what property did the Xiao family even have? If they had businesses of their own, would they have needed to seize Gu Pengzhan's?
As for the four hundred million, the Xiao family could produce it, but only by selling off every asset they held in Yanjing; that money was meant to fund their grand expansion in Songshan City. How could they hand it all over to Wei Zhao just like that?
But the present situation was this: the Xiao family did not want to pay. Did they have a choice? Would Wei Zhao let them off?
Watching Pi Bo being carried off in the ambulance along with the whole Xiao family, Wei Zhao felt not the slightest sympathy. Perhaps this was what they meant by "self-inflicted sins leave no way to live."
"Time for the next family." Wei Zhao shrugged, turned to Gu Pengzhan, and said, "Uncle Chu, I'm going to make a trip to the Geli Fuyun Bar."
"Oh? Little Yi, you're planning to go after Zhao Qibing too?" Gu Pengzhan was taken aback.
"They came to my door bullying me. If I don't return the favor, how will they ever learn their lesson?" Wei Zhao shook his head. "Though it seems Zhao Qibing has a poor memory..."
"All right, then be careful!" Seeing Wei Zhao insist, Gu Pengzhan said no more. He knew the law of the jungle well enough: if you are bullied and do not strike back, others will think you fear them, and next time they will come bully you again.
Only when someone has bullied you, and you stomp back on them twice as hard and twice as viciously, stomping until they are truly afraid, will they learn to fear you.