護花近衛 - 第485章 訴說委屈 - 墨香閣

Had it been Wei Zhao, he certainly would not have been so courteous about it! Wei Zhao would never have asked her for some written undertaking — he would have beaten the man until his hands and feet were crippled and he could never write one again.

Zou Tiandi not only drew up a written undertaking declaring that from now on he would never cause Xiaowei, Diao, or Dan any trouble whatsoever, but also handed back to Xiao Dan, exactly as it was, the contract she had signed with him earlier — in other words, from that moment on Xiao Dan and he would have nothing more to do with each other.

Only once she had the written undertaking and the contract in hand did Tang Yun breathe a sigh of relief. She had no wish to stay a moment longer in Zou Tiandi's house; she nodded and said to her mother, "Let's go, then."

"Wait a moment!" Zou Tiandi called after Tang Yun and her family.

Tang Yun's heart gave a sudden lurch. Could Zou Tiandi have seen through something? Did he know that she was all bluster on the outside and rotten with fear within?

"Mr. Zou? You are going back on your word?" Even so, Tang Yun turned around, forcing her voice to sound as composed as she could manage. Mother Tang, Xiaowei, and Xiao Dan, meanwhile, had gone white with fright — though they had not yet recovered themselves, and Zou Tiandi could not see it anyway.

"No, Sister Tang, you have misunderstood me!" Zou Tiandi jumped, and hurriedly explained, "I meant that I will have a car take you home... It is late, and you are carrying money. It isn't safe!"

One could hardly blame Zou Tiandi for meddling — he had no choice but to meddle! With all that money on them, plus the two hundred thousand still to come, the family was carrying seven hundred thousand in all, and going out at night was undeniably risky. If something should happen and they were robbed, and Wei Zhao assumed he had sent men to do it — that would be a bloody disaster!

So, in order to prove his own innocence, Zou Tiandi had no choice but to send a car and personally escort them home. Once they were safely at their own door, his mind would be at ease.

"Is that so? In that case, very well." Mother Tang thought it over and agreed — at such an hour, with that much money on them, it really wasn't safe.

Seeing Mother Tang agree, Zou Tiandi hurriedly called his driver and told him to bring the company's business car back around; then he pulled on his coat, ready to see Tang Yun and her family off together.

"Mr. Zou, you rest — we have no need of you." Tang Yun did not want Zou Tiandi tagging along; it would be disastrous if he spotted too much. "What if Wei Zhao saw you and flew into a rage again?"

"Eh?" At Tang Yun's words, Zou Tiandi started in alarm. She was right, he thought — if Wei Zhao never laid eyes on him, the whole business would blow over in a few days; but if Wei Zhao did see him, and beat him up for good measure, what then? So Zou Tiandi said gratefully, "Thank you, Sister Tang! I wasn't thinking straight! In that case, I won't see you out — it isn't that I am being remiss in my manners, I simply don't dare!"

Mother Tang, Xiaowei, and Xiao Dan all breathed a sigh of relief at that; and Mother Tang, turning back, drawled with great swagger, "No need — just look at the spine you've got! I'll say a word to my son-in-law later and tell him not to frighten you any more!"

"Ah! Then thank you ever so much, Auntie!" Zou Tiandi was overjoyed on the spot — this was precisely the sentence he had been waiting for Mother Tang to utter.

Zou Tiandi's driver arrived shortly. Zou Tiandi gave him a few instructions, telling him that he must treat Tang Yun's family with even more respect than he showed Zou Tiandi himself, and only then did he let the driver start the car and pull away.