Chapter 2673 — Out for a Spin

This is also why both the hidden Han family and the hidden Zhao family built their estates on the outskirts of the city.

The town was no tourist attraction, and though the old castles on the hill were handsome to look at, they were private property; no visitors came here. After Zhao Qibing and Uncle Zhu arrived, they found a hotel and checked in.

Uncle Zhu was rather baffled. He had no idea what Zhao Qibing had come here to do. They had already stayed a full day with no word and no assignment. When he asked Zhao Qibing, the man only smiled without answering and told him to wait patiently.

Afraid of arousing Zhao Qibing's suspicion, Uncle Zhu did not dare press further. He could only sit in the hotel room and wait in silence—though in the meantime he secretly made a phone call to Wei Zhao.

"Boss, it's Old Zhu here!" Uncle Zhu said in a lowered voice. He did not really need to guard against Zhao Qibing: a man who had climbed to the early Earth rank on pills, with no painstaking effort spent consolidating his strength, could never hear what was being said in the room. Zhao Qibing's perception was simply no good—worse than Old Zhu's own!

Though Old Zhu had been elevated with Wei Zhao's help, he had spent every moment since then diligently consolidating his strength. To him, decades of hard cultivation were the norm; not cultivating was what felt abnormal. Moreover, the strength Wei Zhao had raised him to was far easier to consolidate than what pills gave. Uncle Zhu needed only to carefully stabilize the portion of strength that the Small Qi-Gathering Pill had added.

"Oh? Uncle Zhu, is something the matter?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Boss, Zhao Qibing has brought me to Tianyu Town, and I have no idea what for. We have been here a whole day already, and when I ask him, he will not say what he wants to do," Uncle Zhu told Wei Zhao.

"Oh? What sort of place is Tianyu Town?" Wei Zhao did not know that the hidden Yu family made their home in Tianyu Town.

"This is where the hidden Yu family is based. Zhao Qibing obtained his Thousand-Leg martial technique from the hidden Yu family before, so I suspect he has come to beg for some other technique or the like," Uncle Zhu guessed.

"Oh? So it is the hidden Yu family's seat..." Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised, but he still could not guess what Zhao Qibing was up to, so he could only say, "Old Zhu, then keep a close watch on Zhao Qibing's movements, and report to me if anything comes up."

"Understood, boss. I will see whether he is about to produce some new trump card," Old Zhu said with a nod.

Zhao Qibing was in fact waiting for a call from Yu Shan. It was not that he distrusted Uncle Zhu; he simply feared complications, and so, following Elder Yu's instructions, he had kept even Uncle Zhu in the dark.

At last, toward evening that day, Zhao Qibing's wait came to an end—Yu Shan called!

"Brother Yu Shan, how goes it? Any news?" Zhao Qibing asked excitedly the moment he saw Yu Shan's name on the phone.

"In a little while the hidden Yu family is holding a family dinner. After it ends, I will try to bring Yu Ning out. If I make it out, I will send you a text message. Be ready—any problem with that?" Yu Shan asked briskly.

"No problem. I am fully prepared. Rest easy, Brother Yu Shan—I will definitely catch Yu Ning. Just tell me where to wait," Zhao Qibing pledged, thumping his chest.

"In a bit, I will find a way to get Yu Ning to come out with me. It should be at the back hill near the hidden Yu family estate. Just go there and wait," Yu Shan instructed.

"All right, I will head over now," Zhao Qibing said, nodding in agreement.

After hanging up, Zhao Qibing went and knocked on Uncle Zhu's door, giving Uncle Zhu—who had just finished his call to Wei Zhao—a great fright. "Who is it?"

"Uncle Zhu, it's me. Open up!" Zhao Qibing said urgently.

From Zhao Qibing's tone, Uncle Zhu thought the man had overheard his conversation with Wei Zhao. His heart nearly exploded with fright, but he still opened the door without betraying anything and asked carefully, "Young Master Bing, I was just playing on my phone. What is it?"

"Oh, then stop playing for now and come out with me to handle something. Hurry!" Zhao Qibing did not care in the least what Uncle Zhu had been doing.

"Ah? All right!" Uncle Zhu breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What is it, Young Master Bing? Let me get ready."

"We are going to seize someone!" Zhao Qibing said. "Hurry, no need to prepare. We are leaving straight away!"

"Oh, all right!" Uncle Zhu nodded and quickly followed Zhao Qibing out of the room, asking as they walked, "Who are we seizing?"

"You will know when we get there," Zhao Qibing said with a wave of his hand, saying no more.

Uncle Zhu had no choice but to go along with Zhao Qibing...

At the hidden Yu family estate, tonight was the evening of the Yu family's family dinner. Every so often, the hidden Yu family held such a banquet, and all the direct descendants of the Yu family would attend. Yu Shan and Yu Ning, as the younger generation of the family, were naturally no exception.

In the past, Yu Shan would never have attended such an occasion. He had already given himself up for lost and no longer cared about standing in the family; he was a cripple anyway, so he could not be bothered to attend such family gatherings.

But today was different. He had a mission, and so he came to the gathering.

Yu Xiaochen was rather surprised that Yu Shan had come. Though he did not much care for Yu Shan in his heart, as the family head he still nodded to him and said with a smile, "Yu Shan, you have finally deigned to attend the family dinner? I thought you only came out when outsiders were present."

"Heh, Uncle, I have come around. A cripple is a cripple; even if I cannot recover my strength, I can still do my part for the family. I cannot go on decaying like this forever," Yu Shan said.

"Oh? It is naturally for the best that you can think that way," Yu Xiaochen said, slightly taken aback, then offered his encouragement.

This dinner was no different from any other. The Yu family's old ancestor also came down the mountain to attend, though he said little; even when he saw that Yu Shan had come, he merely nodded and said nothing more.

The dinner ended quickly, and just as everyone was preparing to leave, Yu Shan spoke up: "Xiao Ning, it is rare that your brother is in good spirits today. Push my chair and take me for a spin outside, how about it?"

He was a cripple now and had to get around in a wheelchair. Yu Ning was a little surprised that Yu Shan would say such a thing—since his injury, had he not always kept his distance from the family?

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