Chapter 1107 — Er Goudan Is Here
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Send generals against their soldiers, raise earth against their flood. If they turn up, I won't necessarily fear them." Inwardly Wei Zhao had no confidence at all, but to give Uncle Qing heart he could say nothing else.
"I will keep a constant watch on their movements. As long as they don't come looking for trouble, we will let them be," Uncle Qing replied.
In truth, Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben did very much want to make trouble for the Gu family and Wei Zhao — they had their eyes on the Gu family's estate. Their little scheme had been worked out beautifully: the Pi family would certainly avenge Uncle Pi, and when that came to pass they would quite naturally go after the Gu family themselves. But now it appeared the Pi family could not have cared less whether Uncle Pi lived or died; neither Pi Zhifeng nor Pi Zhitao, nor the two experts who came afterward, had shown the slightest intention of visiting him in the hospital!
So though Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben harbored such thoughts, with the Pi family remaining silent they did not dare presume to act on their own. After all, Pi Zhifeng had spoken plainly enough back then: the Pi family's experts would lend a hand only when the Xiao family ran into trouble — they were not the Xiao family's hired fists. Thus Xiao Ji and Xiao Ben dared not order the Pi family's people to do anything.
"Second brother, why don't we discuss it with Master Pi and Brother Pi — go and make some trouble for the Gu family? It would at least bring in a tidy lump of capital!" Only once he had settled the two Pi family experts in did Xiao Ji join Xiao Ben in the study, where the two of them laid plans over the Xiao family's future.
"We can't. The two Pi family experts are nothing like Uncle Pi was. Young Master Pi was perfectly clear: they act only when our Xiao family meets trouble and obstruction — and it would not do for us to be ordering people about, would it?" Xiao Ben said.
"But when we go to the Gu family for money, it is to do business for the Pi family too! The Pi family's interests and ours are bound together now!" Xiao Ji said.
"That much is true. But we are not yet familiar with the two Pi family experts; we haven't got the measure of their tempers. Even if we mean to act, we should wait a while — wait until we know them, and then we can talk. By then, things will be far easier to arrange!" Xiao Ben said. "Right now our Xiao family has no shortage of start-up capital whatsoever. Whoever comes to partner with us will supply the funds!"
"Fair enough — once we know them, talking comes easy!" Xiao Ji nodded. "It is you who has the sharper eye, little brother!"
This was the first time Er Goudan had left home. On the train, he kept Grandpa Lin's words firmly in mind: he spoke not a word, and simply went about his own business.
A few swindlers on the train had their eye on Er Goudan, but seeing that he ignored every last person under the sun, they one and all gave up. There was nothing for it: to men like them, a country bumpkin such as Er Goudan was the hardest mark of all to work. He would not talk, would not sleep — there was simply no opening to exploit.
Thus the journey passed without incident, and he arrived safe and sound at Songshan City railway station.
Yu Xiaoke had been thoroughly wretched these past few days, so much so that she had very nearly turned from Yu Xiaoke into Gloomy Ke. The city police bureau had launched a special drive against theft, and Yu Xiaoke had expected it to be over in a few days; but half a month had passed and the drive was still going, with no sign whatever of stopping!