Chapter 606 — Ruining His Reputation

"Hmm..." Li Cihua sank into thought. "We should pick the place where Gu Pengzhan is weakest, the place easiest to strike at. That way we can quickly sound out his bottom line, and at the same time see whether Wei Zhao has recovered his strength..."

"Damn it, if only we could deal with Gu Pengzhan and Wei Zhao together, I've just about had all I can take!" Zhao Qibing had been in a foul temper lately; after all, lying in bed with a broken leg is no small misery.

"The Gu Group has holdings in a great many industries. We should find one that's relatively weak, the one most likely to go wrong, and strike there!" Li Cihua began to mutter to himself.

Young Master Bing did not interrupt him. After all, Zhao Qibing knew far less about the Gu Group than Li Cihua did — he did not even know what businesses the Gu Group had under it — so for now he could only wait, eyes wide, for Li Cihua to come up with an idea.

"Su Jiaonang, get in here!" Since thinking alone was getting him nowhere, Li Cihua called Su Jiaonang in as well.

But Su Jiaonang was not much of a man either; when it came to playing dirty, he was no match for Li Cihua.

The two of them racked their brains for a long while and still came up with no plan, which made Zhao Qibing furious: "You two useless trash! You can't even manage a little thing like this! Keep thinking — I refuse to believe we can't handle one Gu Pengzhan!"

"Calm yourself, Young Master Bing!" Su Jiaonang said cautiously. "Brother Cihua, why don't we send for Jin Gubang and Zhong Fabai? Jin Gubang used to work for the Gu Group — he knows far more about it than we do! And Zhong Fabai seems a rather treacherous sort as well. More hands make light work! What do you say, Young Master Bing?"

"Fine. Li Cihua, call Jin Gubang and Zhong Fabai right now and tell them to get over here!" Young Master Bing agreed without a second thought. He could not wait a moment longer; he wanted revenge on Wei Zhao.

When Jin Gubang and Zhong Fabai heard that Young Master Bing wanted to see them, the two of them rushed over at once, frantic with haste. They knew that Wei Zhao had wounded Uncle Zhu and crippled Young Master Bing's leg, but they did not believe Wei Zhao could live much longer.

Who was Young Master Bing? Wei Zhao had actually broken his leg — how could Young Master Bing possibly let him off?

So when Li Cihua told the two of them that Young Master Bing meant to deal with Wei Zhao and the Gu Group, they knew their earlier guess had been right.

"Dealing with Gu Pengzhan — that's my specialty!" Jin Gubang said at once. "If you want something that will catch the media's eye and drag the Gu Group's name through the mud, then among all their holdings, we can start with the school!"

"The school? The Fourth High School?" Li Cihua was slightly taken aback.

"That's right, the school!" Jin Gubang said. "These days, when something happens to students at a school, it's a major affair! The media will hound it to the death, and public opinion will swing all one way, cursing Gu Pengzhan as a black-hearted businessman who dared to set his sights on students! By then, even if they want to make amends, it will depend on what the incident was. What we need to do is stage an accident they can neither remedy nor recover from — and then we'll have achieved our aim!"

"Right!" Hearing Jin Gubang's words, Li Cihua's eyes lit up. Yes — if something happened at Gu Pengzhan's school, how could the students' parents let it go? It would be a real headache for them then! Only, what sort of incident could bring a school to ruin?

"Go on, what should we do?" Zhao Qibing nodded in appreciation as well. It seemed Jin Gubang had not been recruited for nothing.

"To make trouble for a school, naturally you make trouble with the students inside it!" Jin Gubang said. "For instance, a building collapses and crushes a few students to death; thugs from the underworld come onto campus and hack a few students; or a monstrous teacher appears who beats or even molests students — any of these can bring a school's name down in ruins overnight!"

"But none of what you're describing is very realistic, is it?" Zhao Qibing frowned. "A building collapses? Would you dare do what Wei Zhao did and go push a building over? As for the underworld — are we supposed to send our own men? That would drag us into it, wouldn't it? And as for some monstrous teacher, forget it. That's basically impossible. No matter how much you pay a man, he won't risk his life to commit a crime!"

"Well..." Jin Gubang gave a dry laugh, somewhat embarrassed. "I was only giving examples. As for how to do it exactly, let's all keep discussing it!"

"Young Master Bing, I wonder — this Lord Medicine King, while skilled at saving lives, is he also skilled at poisoning?" Zhong Fabai, who had kept silent all this while, suddenly spoke up.

"Poisoning? Of course. The Medicine King is a master of every branch of pharmacology; poisoning would be easy as pie for him," Zhao Qibing said with a nod.

"Heh heh. Young Master Bing, why don't we use poison? Once students suffer food poisoning, that's no small matter!" Zhong Fabai said. "Food poisoning — you can call it the school's failure of supervision, or twist it into the Gu Group being so black-hearted that they sold expired, garbage food to the students, which is what caused the poisoning! And if by some mischance Wei Zhao or Gu Mengyao were poisoned to death, then we'd kill several birds with one stone!"

"Brilliant! Truly brilliant! Old Zhong, you're good — very good!" The moment Zhao Qibing heard Zhong Fabai's idea, he heaped on the praise. "That's an excellent plan. Let's do it that way! Medicine King, mix up a poison as quickly as you can, and then poison the cafeteria at the Fourth High School!"

"The poison is simple enough. The key is who's going to administer it — and after it's administered, will anyone find out? That's the crux," said the Medicine King. Poisoning was naturally his forte; that was not what concerned him.

"That is a problem. By the way, Old Zhong, isn't your son at the Fourth High School? Why not have him do the poisoning?" Zhao Qibing glanced at Zhong Fabai and said.

"Huh?" Zhong Fabai was stunned, and instantly frightened out of his wits. How could he let his own son do such a thing? If it came to light, it meant prison! He had only this one son, and the boy had already lost a kidney — how could he let him take such a risk? So he hurriedly said, "Young Master Bing, that's hardly appropriate... to have my son do such a thing..."

"What, you're unwilling?" Young Master Bing frowned. "Afraid I won't reward you well?"

"That's not it..." Seeing that Young Master Bing was angry, Zhong Fabai was startled at once. "It's just that, if things don't go smoothly and the police find out..."

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