Chapter 1301 — A Covert Investigation
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"Ruining my good business!" Zhao Qibing gnashed his teeth in fury.
"Young Master Bing, she is only a celebrity. If it cannot be done, just let it go." Li Cihua was feeling somewhat cowed himself by now. With the matter entangling Wei Zhao, he did not dare resist head-on, and could only grit his teeth and give up.
"What else can I do?" Zhao Qibing felt utterly pathetic. "I don't know what my father is thinking over there. He is just a measly Wei Zhao—sending someone to wipe him out would have settled it, yet he has let him live on until now!"
"The family head has his own difficulties. Though he is now the family head in name only, the former head still stands above him, so..." Li Cihua said obliquely. That the former head favored Zhao Qibing little was hardly a secret.
"That old fossil—I am his very own grandson, and he cannot even stand me!" Zhao Qibing knew the reason well enough too, and let out an displeased snort.
The celebration banquet drew to a close in its plainness, thanks to the little episode of conflict between Wei Zhao and Zhao Qibing. Those who had hoped to claim Xu Shilan's favor lost all such inclination.
Seeing Xu Shilan surrounded by a crowd, Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao simply waved to her from afar and left the venue.
Zhao Fafa had spent these past two days making inquiries about Tang Zhi. He had hired several housewives—the sort with nothing better to do than trade gossip with their neighbors around the compound—and had them find out where Tang Zhi lived and all about her family!
Having been humiliated, Zhao Fafa was naturally disgruntled. In his view, he was already the number-one young master in Songshan City; how could he fail to handle one little girl? After all, the backing behind the Zhao family these days was rock-solid!
Before long, Zhao Fafa had obtained the complete family records on Tang Zhi from these housewives. After all, in the compound, pretty teenage student girls were few and far between; with these women poking about, it was easy to lock the target onto Tang Zhi.
And so Tang Zhi's full dossier came together. Given Tang's mother's fondness for showing off and boasting, when she chatted with these housewives she naturally poured out everything about her own family, never realizing in the least that others were extracting information from her.
Tang Zhi, eighteen years old, a third-year senior at Songshan City First High School. Both her parents were unemployed; they had once been workers at an electronics plant in Songshan, but after the plant was restructured, Tang's mother was laid off, while Tang's father had been confined to his bed at home ever since an industrial injury.
It was only this year that Tang Zhi's family had the good fortune to meet a wealthy benefactor, and only then had their lives begun to improve!
Looking over Tang Zhi's file, Zhao Fafa's face was cold and sinister. He had taken her for some rich man's daughter, when in truth she was nothing but a Cinderella—only one whom someone else had got to first!
"You are still just a cheap piece of goods, and here I thought you were so pure!" Zhao Fafa sneered. "Once I have dug up your man's background, I will come back and play you to death! Daring to pull a face at me? You might want to consider who I, Zhao Fafa, am!"
Since he now had Tang Zhi's information, her boyfriend's was hardly a difficulty either. Zhao Fafa directly enlisted a friend studying at First High School to make the inquiries, and he was confident that results would come soon.