Chapter 929 — Yet Another Uninvited Guest!

Though in his heart Wei Zhao was likewise reluctant to part with Guan Xin — this girl had, without his realizing it, already carved a deep impression there — he could not stay, for one simple reason: he had to find a way to restore his strength!

Guan Xuemin's words were not wrong. His strength might be gone, but his medical skill remained, and with it he could at least obtain a measure of standing; yet he had always held that medicine was merely an auxiliary — only strength was true capital.

What Gu Pengzhan had never in the least expected was that, that very evening, just as the workday was ending, two more uninvited guests arrived at the company!

Work was over, and nearly all the company's employees had gone. Gu Pengzhan had not gone; grinding his teeth, he had arrived at a very difficult decision — to satisfy the demands of the Xiao family and of Zhao Qibing!

The Xiao family's demands could not be fully met, but the Pengzhan Commercial Plaza and the Pengzhan Business Hotel could be handed over! As for the two hundred million yuan in start-up capital, Gu Pengzhan was not prepared to give it. He was a shrewd businessman too, and from the tone of the Xiao brothers he could tell that this sum was open to bargaining!

With Zhao Qibing, however, there was no bargaining at all. The man had opened his mouth and demanded a branch company — and one of the most valuable of them! A real estate company was worth little in itself, but the several plots of land it held and a number of unsold units were priceless; among those units were no few luxury villas of the very highest grade, a single one of which was worth tens of millions!

Still, Gu Pengzhan knew that this was precisely what the man had his eye on, and that he could not refuse to give it!

Now the only thing Gu Pengzhan prayed for was that once he had satisfied the Xiao family and Zhao Qibing with these benefits, they would trouble him no further! And though the Gu Group would have few assets left, it could still barely keep operating!

But just as Gu Pengzhan made this decision, the office door was pushed open.

Gu Pengzhan had grown used to people bursting in on him today — first Wei Zhizun, then the Xiao family, then Li Cihua and the Medicine King, and now two more had suddenly forced their way in.

"Yu Haitian?" Gu Pengzhan knew one of the two — Yu Haitian — and knew he was the man in charge of business for the Yu family of Yanjing; as for the middle-aged man beside him, Gu Pengzhan did not know him at all!

"Chairman Gu has sharp eyes indeed, to recognize this Yu!" Yu Haitian laughed heartily, though his brow was steeped in arrogance! He was a businessman too, but to manage business for the Yu family was something Gu Pengzhan could never compare with!

Gu Pengzhan's expression darkened. No one comes with good intent, and no good ever comes of him who does. At such a moment, for someone of the Yu family to burst in here suddenly gave Gu Pengzhan an immediate, ominous foreboding. Could it be that they too had come to make trouble for him?

Gu Pengzhan could hardly be blamed for such a guess. After all, two groups of troublemakers had already come today; and back at the villa, Wei Zhao had clashed with Yu Kun of the Yu family over the Mighty General and had wounded him. That the Yu family should come here now — their purpose was self-evident!

"I wonder what business Master Yu has here..." Before Gu Pengzhan could finish, the middle-aged man beside Yu Haitian cut him off!

"So you are Gu Pengzhan? What audacity you have — that cheap daughter you spawned actually had someone beat and cripple my son!" Yu Bide had come looking for trouble, and with the grief for his son weighing on his heart, he could scarcely hold himself back; the moment he laid eyes on Gu Pengzhan, he erupted!

Had it not been for the Yu family's interests, Yu Bide would have liked nothing better than to slap Gu Pengzhan dead on the spot and then go settle accounts with his daughter and Wei Zhao!

Gu Pengzhan's heart tightened. So they had indeed come to make trouble — and over that matter!

"Correct, I am Gu Pengzhan. I wonder what instruction Master Yu has for me?" Gu Pengzhan smiled a bleak smile, knowing that today's calamity could not be avoided!

"Instruction? Hmph! My son is ruined now, a good-for-nothing who cannot rise from his bed — and you ask what instruction I have?" Yu Bide raged. "Even if I killed your entire family, it would not quell the fury in my heart!"

"Third Uncle, please restrain your anger. We are respectable businessmen; we cannot go about killing and fighting," Yu Haitian said with a smile. "Besides, we have come to discuss compensation with Mr. Gu Pengzhan. Of course, if the compensation does not work out, then killing his whole family will not be too late either!"

Fury! Gu Pengzhan trembled from head to foot with rage! Yu Haitian's words were fair enough on the surface, but every line and every hint was a threat! If the compensation failed, he would kill his whole family? Was this not going too far?

Yet before the Yu family — foremost of the four great families and the five lesser families — Gu Pengzhan had not the least temper left to show! He did not doubt for a single instant that the Yu family's words were mere bluff; for the Yu family to kill him was little different from stepping on an ant!

At most, when the investigation came, there would be countless people ready to take the blame!

Back then Yu Kun had plainly trespassed into another's home, and now that he was hurt, the blame was pinned on Gu Pengzhan. He felt deeply wronged! But with the Yu family there was no reasoning to be had! By their present posture, it was plain as day that they had come to make trouble for him!

You reason with them, and they play the rogue with you — and you have not a shred of temper to show for it!

"That is true as well!" Yu Bide nodded. "Haitian, you had best do the talking. Tell him the Yu family's terms; if he does not agree, I will kill his whole family then!"

"Mr. Gu Pengzhan, my Third Uncle has a quick temper, and Xiaokun is his only son, so please do not take offense," Yu Haitian said with a smile. "So long as you satisfy the Yu family's terms, he will not kill your whole family!"

Gu Pengzhan's face was mottled purple from holding it all in. Never in his life had he been so stifled, and he had not the slightest power to resist! Whatever the other side said, he had no recourse, for the two of them were not standing on any level ground at all — he was being bullied one-sidedly, through and through!

"What terms?" Gu Pengzhan drew a deep breath and asked.

From the Xiao family to Zhao Qibing to the Yu family, every one of them was a formidable power, and not one of them was someone Gu Pengzhan could afford to provoke! He did not know whether even more formidable people would come knocking after this, but as for the ones before him now, he was already helpless against them!

"Give your daughter to my cousin Yu Kun as a concubine, and let your Gu Group go to my Yu family as her dowry!" Yu Haitian pronounced the Yu family's terms, word by word.

"What!" Gu Pengzhan was startled on the spot, his expression changing at once. The Yu family's terms surpassed even those of the Xiao family and Zhao Qibing — they had reached an unbelievable extreme!

The Yu family was simply trampling him beyond all endurance! Such terms — how could Gu Pengzhan possibly agree?

"What, does Mr. Gu not wish to agree?" Yu Haitian looked at Gu Pengzhan and asked in a low, sinister voice.

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