Chapter 1097 — Visitors from the Pi Family

"Where am I supposed to look for that?" Wei Zhao frowned and said, "Are you getting dependent on me or something?"

"That's not it..." Qiu Lingshan felt a little embarrassed by Wei Zhao's remark. It was true, she had indeed grown somewhat dependent on him now, feeling that Wei Zhao was a man who could do anything, and that whenever she asked him for something, he would always agree.

"All right, anything else?" Wei Zhao asked flatly.

"No... nothing else..." Qiu Lingshan always felt she lacked confidence in front of Wei Zhao.

Wei Zhao said nothing more and hung up the phone directly.

Qiu Lingshan held the receiver, feeling rather helpless. She had wanted to ask Wei Zhao whether raising her strength had caused him any trouble, but judging from his tone just now, he did not seem to have been affected at all.

Although she had told Wei Zhao about the matter, Qiu Lingshan still felt uneasy at heart. After all, her past cases had all come with concrete details, while this case remained shrouded in mystery, and Wei Zhao did not seem to mean to help, which left her somewhat disappointed.

The Xiao family had sunk into a low and subdued mood these past days.

Without Uncle Pi to back them, the already declining Xiao family had been driven to the end of their road. All their old connections kept their distance one after another, and even their in-laws, the Kang family, decisively broke with them!

Xiao Ji sat in the hall of the villa sighing heavily, and Xiao Ben was also at his wits' end. The Xiao family's present condition was going from bad to worse by the day, and they still owed Wei Zhao an enormous sum. Although Wei Zhao had not come to demand it, their situation was no better for it!

"Second brother, it looks like the Xiao family's great legacy is going to be ruined in my hands! I cannot accept it!" Xiao Ji's eyes were bloodshot red, for he had not slept well for days. "It is all that bitch Gou Huli's fault! She brought this enemy upon our Xiao family for nothing, and then blindly ran Uncle Pi down with her car! I will kill her right now!"

As he spoke, Xiao Ji stood up, ready to go find Gou Huli and fight her to the death.

"Big brother! Calm down a little!" Seeing his elder brother in such a frenzied state, Xiao Ben quickly rose and held him back. "Big brother, what are you doing? Since you know the Xiao family has reached a moment of life and death, why are you still fighting among ourselves? Going to settle accounts with sister-in-law? What good would that do?"

Xiao Ben was a clever man. Although he had striven hard to seize the seat of family head while the old master was still alive, after the old master's death he had realized the crisis facing the Xiao family. Any infighting now would only make the Xiao family perish all the faster!

Besides, his elder brother was not very bright, and had to consult him on everything and rely on him for plans and counsel, so Xiao Ben was already much like the actual head of the family, and there was no need to fight for it! Moreover, in the Xiao family's present state, who had the leisure to squabble over the headship?

"Second brother, I would like to calm down, but how can I? The conference of the noble houses is about to convene, and I reckon that this time the Yu family will surely drive us out of the ranks of the great houses! From now on the Xiao family will no longer be a noble house..." Xiao Ji said with a miserable face, and sat back down.

"Big brother, things are already like this. Even if you killed sister-in-law, what would it change?" Xiao Ben waved his hand and said, "The only ones we can count on now are probably the Wu family, but I do not know whether those two boys, Xiao Wangdao and Xiao Wangba, are truly solid with Wu Chengtian. I have heard that Kang Zhaolong of the Kang family is very close to Wu Chengtian, and I fear he may stir up trouble between them!"

"Then what should we do now?" Xiao Ji had completely run out of ideas.

"No matter what, life has to go on! Tomorrow I will go out and take a look. If nothing else works, we can first open a small business like a restaurant to cover the Xiao family's expenses, and slowly look for opportunities later!" Xiao Ben felt that he was now the de facto head of the Xiao family, yet at this moment he felt none of the joy of being head. He was worried sick.

Just at that moment, the doorbell of the villa rang.

"Who would be visiting at a time like this?" Xiao Ji was taken aback.

The Xiao family was now utterly deserted, with no one likely to call at all, while Xiao Wangdao and Xiao Wangba both had keys and would never ring the bell to come in.

"Could it be Wei Zhao coming again?" Xiao Ben started in alarm and stood up to go out.

Whether it was Wei Zhao or not, he had to brace himself and face it. Yet the men at the villa gate surprised Xiao Ben greatly. They were two strangers he had never met!

"Who are you..." Xiao Ben asked in puzzlement, not knowing who the visitors were.

"This is the Xiao family, right?" One of the young men spoke up, though his manner was most arrogant.

"Yes, and you are?" Seeing the young man's insolent bearing, a flicker of displeasure crossed Xiao Ben's eyes, but as the saying goes, a tiger fallen to the plain is bullied by dogs. The Xiao family was far from what it had been, and could ill afford to make new enemies! So Xiao Ben did not lose his temper, but asked patiently instead.

"Where is Uncle Pi?" the young man asked directly once he had confirmed this was the Xiao family.

"Uncle Pi?" Xiao Ben froze for a moment, then quickly caught on, his heart tightening as he asked, "The one you mean is Uncle Pi, right?"

"Yes, where is he? I heard someone beat him into a vegetative state?" A flash of anger crossed the young man's eyes! Although Uncle Pi had been expelled from the Pi family by Grandfather years ago, he was still a man of the hidden Pi family, and now that he had been beaten into a vegetative state, the Pi family could not simply stand by!

Of course, this decision was not the young man's own, but the result of deliberation at a Pi family council, and one Grandfather had approved.

The young man was called Pi Zhishan, the eldest son of the eldest line of the Pi family, while the silent man beside him was his cousin Pi Zhihai, the child of his second uncle. This trip was mainly for him to gain some experience, and Pi Zhishan was the one in charge.

In truth, he had never even met Uncle Pi, and when all was said and done, Uncle Pi was merely a steward of the Pi family who had made a mistake. Even so, the children of the Pi family were raised proud and haughty from childhood, and how could they tolerate anyone bullying their own?

Moreover, he had come this time not only to avenge Uncle Pi, but also with another mission to fulfill!

"You... you are Uncle Pi's family?" Surprise spread across Xiao Ben's face, and at the same time, hope ignited in his heart! Perhaps this time the Xiao family might truly be saved!

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