Chapter 165 — Threat and Counter-Threat: "I Am a Spokesman Pushed to the Front." Li Cihua Said with Some Pride: "My Standing and Prestige in Songshan City Should Be Very Clear to You! From That Alone You Can See How Powerful the Boss Behind Me Is."
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But Wei Zhao had not even asked the price and had refused outright! Li Cihua did not know whether he had overestimated Wei Zhao or underestimated him.
Had he overestimated him in thinking him too loyal, or underestimated him in thinking he merely coveted Gu Mengyao's beauty?
"Since that is how it is, Mr. Lin, you had best look out for yourself." Li Cihua knew that more talk now would be useless. He could no longer change Wei Zhao's mind. This was a man who could never be put to his own use.
"I will. But I also hope you will look out for yourself, Brother Cihua, and not do anything unwise." With that, Wei Zhao turned, pushed open the door, and left Li Cihua's office. He had now basically nailed down one fact, that the one moving against Gu Pengzhan was the man behind Li Cihua. As for who that man behind him was, Wei Zhao for the moment still had no idea.
And the bank affair had been carried out by men Li Cihua had hired. Yet judging by his present air of fearless assurance, the police were hardly likely to hold any solid evidence that could do anything to Li Cihua.
In other words, at best they would catch those few robbers, and the case would stop there.
Wei Zhao was not a man who did things by the book. It was only that Li Cihua had not yet crossed his bottom line, and Gu Pengzhan's side had not yet made its response, so Wei Zhao let Li Cihua off for the time being.
To move against Li Cihua would be an easy matter. Just as Li Cihua himself had said, if he killed him, he would leave no evidence behind.
At the doorway, Li Yao and Su Jiaonang made no move to stop Wei Zhao and let him go. Without orders from Li Cihua, the two would presumably not act on their own.
Wei Zhao walked straight out of the bar, climbed into Shen Yushu's yellow Beetle, and drove away from the Geili Fuyun Bar.
The Audi Gu Mengyao had come in was already gone, presumably driven back by someone sent by Uncle Qing.
"Damn it, and he dares threaten me right back?" Only after Wei Zhao had fully left the bar did Li Cihua beckon to the skull-faced man behind him. "Zhang Long, go with Li Yao and finish him off. Since he cannot be used by me, keeping him alive will sooner or later mean trouble."
"Yes!" Zhang Long was a man of few words. He gave a flat assent and walked out of the room.
This Zhang Long was the crack fighter of peak late Huang-stage strength newly assigned to him by the boss, the one Li Cihua had spoken of. He even bore a swaggering name, Zhang Long, the same as Zhang Long and Zhao Hu of the Seven Heroes and Five Gallants.
Though Zhang Long said nothing, he still felt that to handle Wei Zhao he alone would be more than enough, with no need for Li Yao to tag along. But since he now answered to Li Cihua, Zhang Long agreed as ordered.
With Zhang Long and Li Yao together, Li Yao naturally took the driver's seat. It could not be helped. Who told Zhang Long to be the stronger of the two?
Wei Zhao's route home was fixed, so with hardly any searching Li Yao had already tailed Wei Zhao's Beetle.
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