A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 408 Don't Bother Asking Us to Stay

"That's right, Grandpa, persuade Mu-Cheng against this. Otherwise the Qiu family is really going down," said Qiu Mu-Ying hurriedly to her grandfather. She was in a terrible panic and couldn't be bothered about her pride now.

Old Master Qiu had a really nasty expression on his face when he watched his family members start persuading him to plead with Qiu Mu-Cheng.

His expression kept looking worse and worse as he was put in a dilemma.

All this while, he had treated Qiu Mu-Cheng as a disgrace to the family, and the entire family looked down on her.

Back then, Old Master Qiu was the one who chased Qiu Mu-Cheng and her family out too.

And now, his family wanted him, an old man, to plead with a daughter he threw out?

That was like roasting him over an open fire!

How did they expect the old man to put his pride away?

In the end, Old Master Qiu merely snorted angrily at the rest of his family. "What's there to plead for?"

"If they want to investigate, so be it! I've always been above board and I've never done anything to let the country or our ancestors down. I'm not afraid of a check. If they want to check, let them go ahead. It's a little embarrassing for now, but once they're done with the investigation and we turn out clean, then it won't be embarrassing anymore!"

"And what's this about the Qiu family going down? What nonsense! We've not done anything illegal, so why would we collapse? You want me to plead with a woman I threw out? You want me to beg a family of useless trash? You can dream on! There's no way I'm doing anything so embarrassing! Humph!" declared Old Master Qiu coldly. His voice was prideful and his eyes were icy.

He even glared angrily at Qiu Mu-Cheng.

After that, he snorted angrily and turned to leave.

Old Master Qiu was a very proud man, so there was no way he was going to bow to someone younger than himself in front of so many people. And worse still, the other party was the one he condemned and threw out of the house, so that was even worse than killing him.

On top of that, Old Master Qiu was very confident that Qiushui Logistics' operations were clean and so he didn't need to fear an investigation by the authorities.

So of course he wasn't going to plead with Qiu Mu-Cheng even if he ended up offending Wu Wei-Tao.

"What a stubborn old man!" Jiang Hong and Wang Qiao-Yu spat out quietly as they watched their father-in-law storm off.

But there was nothing they could do now.

They couldn't force the old man to plead with Qiu Mu-Cheng.

The only thing they could do now was to try and clean up the company accounts so that the authorities wouldn't find anything.

"Qiu Mu-Cheng, you ungrateful woman. You're worse than an animal! How could you be so heartless towards your grandfather and your relatives! Excellent! Just you wait!"

Now that things had come to this stage, Qiushui Logistics was now at loggerheads with Mufan Real Estate.

Qiu Guang and his family didn't care anymore and yelled at Qiu Mu-Cheng as her elders.

After that, they didn't stick around and went back to Yulong Hotel as well.

Even though this had happened, the Qius had no intention of cancelling their ribbon cutting ceremony.

They were going to continue their ceremony after returning to the hotel.

After the Qius left, it was much quieter within Mufan Real Estate.

Qiu Mu-Cheng and her staff were released on the spot, and Wu Wei-Tao went around to make sure they were alright.

Wu Wei-Tao was of high status, but he didn't put on any airs as a governor and apologized very sincerely to Mufan Real Estate's staff. Compared to how Old Master Qiu threw his weight about just because he was older, Wu Wei-Tao was clearly a different sort of person.

He was the mayor of the city after all, so he was more broadminded and humbler than most people.

While Mufan Real Estate had finally calmed down, the atmosphere within Yulong Hotel was heavy and oppressive, and the joyous feeling in the air had disappeared.

After all, Wu Wei-Tao was going to send the authorities to check Qiushui Logistics. Of course Qiu Guang and the rest were panicky.

If the authorities found anything, the ones who would take the rap were management executives like himself.

"Wen-Fei, doesn't your father know Mayor Wu? Why don't you get your father to put in a good word for the Qiu family?" Qiu Guang felt more and more uneasy after they returned to the hotel.

He was the CEO of Qiushui Logistics now and legally represented the company. If anything happened, he was the first one to be thrown into jail.

"Well...that..." Chu Wen-Fei slumped his shoulders and didn't know how to explain the situation to Qiu Guang.

His father had never agreed to let him marry Qiu Mu-Ying in the first place.

Chu Wen-Fei wanted to just sign the papers and get married first, then after some time, his parents would eventually give in and accept Qiu Mu-Ying as their daughter-in-law.

Butthen Qiu Mu-Ying did something stupid the other day, and any bit of good impression his parents had of her was gone.

In such a situation, he wasn't even sure if his parents still cared about him as their son or not, never mind pleading for the Qiu family.

Chu Wen-Fei could only guarantee that he would definitely be scolded badly if he tried to call his father!

"What nonsense! Wen-Fei, no need to call. That woman wants to use Mayor Wu to crush the Qius? She can dream on! Qiushui Logistics hasn't done anything embarrassing or illegal, so the authorities can check all they want. Once they can't find anything, they'll go away eventually. The Qiu family doesn't have to fear!" Old Master Qiu was still very confident and believed that the company was clean and could hold up against an investigation.

There was nothing else that Qiu Mu-Ying or Qiu Guang could say.

Surely they couldn't tell the old man that they had done illegal things behind his back, right?

He would probably die from a heart attack on the spot.

So they all remained silent since Old Master Qiu was so confident.

"Alright now, we'll continue with the ribbon cutting ceremony and enjoy ourselves. We can continue no matter what happens.

Yingying, call our guests over and tell them that the banquet will begin now."

Old Master Qiu didn't want to dwell on this topic anymore. After they returned to the hotel, he sat back down on his high chair and waved to get Qiu Mu-Ying to bring their guests back

All their guests had left the hotel earlier because Wu Wei-Tao had turned up, and they hadn't returned.

Qiu Mu-Ying really didn't want to go back across the road to embarrass herself, but she didn't dare to defy her grandfather's orders, so she went out of the hotel again to call the guests back. But just as she reached the hotel entrance, their guests came back.

"Oho, Mr Wei, Mr Du, you're all just in time, my grandfather asked me to call all of you back. Our banquet is about to start, so do take your seats quickly," said Qiu Mu-Ying with a smile.

But the guests all waved their hands about. "Manager Qiu, don't bother asking us to stay, we won't eat here."

"What?" Qiu Mu-Ying was instantly shocked.

Qiu Guang was even more anxious. "That won't do. You've come to congratulate the Qiu family, so we must return the favor by treating you to dinner. Mr Wei, don't stand on ceremony. Did you think that the Qius can't afford this dinner?"