Chapter 621 — I Have a Shield Bro Now

"All right. The first matter concerns you!" Gu Pengzhan wasted no courtesies. "Li Cihua came to see me today. Between the lines, he was fishing for information about your injuries and your background. I didn't tell him anything, but I can't say whether he guessed something from my vague answers. I think Zhao Qibing won't let this go this time. He's bound to come after you, and you had better be ready!"

"Asking about me?" Wei Zhao smiled faintly. "It's nothing. Let him ask. If they want to deal with me, they're welcome to come find me!"

Wei Zhao was somewhat wary of the people around Zhao Qibing, but he was certainly not afraid of them! Though he had been badly hurt in this exchange, he had the cultivation space of the jade pendant! Wei Zhao did not believe that old Zhu possessed any treasure of the kind. Even if the man consumed heavenly treasures in vast quantities, as Elder Jiao had said, he would not recover in anything less than half a year to a year!

So Wei Zhao was not in the least afraid of Zhao Qibing's revenge. Send as many skilled hands as you like — after we batter each other half to death, I'll run! I'll run back, recover the very next day, and go on hunting your best men! I refuse to believe your experts are endless. By the time every one of your fine fighters is laid up in bed, we'll see whether you can still laugh!

With the jade pendant space, unless he ran into an exceptionally formidable expert, Wei Zhao was utterly without fear.

"Be that as it may, you still need to be careful." Hearing Wei Zhao speak this way, Gu Pengzhan knew he had some confidence, and he was less worried than before. "I don't want anything to happen to you either."

"Don't worry, Uncle Chu. If I can't win, I'll still run..." Wei Zhao did not think there was anything shameful about running when you could not win. What was shameful about it? To fight on stubbornly when you cannot win — that is what's truly insane!

"Then I'm relieved." Gu Pengzhan nodded and went on, "The second matter: I'd like you to help me find out why Yaoyao went with Zhong Yongliang to that place, Shuangyan Mountain. Things were rushed before, so I didn't ask. I meant to ask yesterday, but then you had your trouble, so I didn't bring up those unpleasant matters again. So I'm asking you to look into it for me..."

"That, I really don't know about." Wei Zhao said. "I'll find a moment to ask around, and then call you?"

"No hurry. Don't go out of your way to ask. Do it when the chance comes." Gu Pengzhan did not want to intrude too much on his daughter's private life. She was grown up now, after all, and not so easily fooled. There must have been a reason she went up the mountain with Zhong Yongliang.

"All right, I'll ask when I get the chance." Wei Zhao nodded. He too felt that abruptly questioning Gu Mengyao about this would be inappropriate.

After Chen Yutian passed through the highway toll station, he still could not give up, and dialed Qiu Lingshan's number again.

But Qiu Lingshan's tone was cold. "Chen Yutian? You're back? Is something the matter?"

Qiu Lingshan had saved this number in her phone yesterday, but clearly, as far as Chen Yutian was concerned, it was purely a matter of friendship.

"Nothing much. Just letting you know I'm back." In front of Qiu Lingshan, Chen Yutian always felt stifled. Her forcefulness made him uncomfortable, yet he could not summon the will to resist.

"Oh, I see." Qiu Lingshan said indifferently. "Anything else? If not, I'm hanging up."

"You really have no time tonight?" Chen Yutian hesitated, then asked.

"No. I'm very busy. Hanging up!" Without giving Chen Yutian a chance to speak, Qiu Lingshan ended the call.

Chen Yutian put away his phone with a self-mocking smile and dialed An Jianwen's number. "Number Two, where are you?"

"Taizao and I got to the Starlight Splendid Hotel long ago — VIP Room One on the fifth floor! Xiaoshu and Yaoyao are coming tonight too." An Jianwen said with a laugh.

"All right, I'll be there soon." Chen Yutian sighed. An Jianwen was indeed using him as a pretext to get close to Gu Mengyao — how could Chen Yutian not know it?

Still, it seemed his own sister had rather few suitors? In the past Chen Yutian had feared that someone would harass his sister and disrupt her studies and her life. But now she was eighteen, about to enter university, and still no one pursued her — wasn't that a little abnormal?

Then again, thinking of his sister's personality, Chen Yutian broke into a cold sweat. With a personality like hers, probably few men could keep pace with her, could they? All day long it was either catching people or catching people; otherwise she was simply being silly. That Wu Xiaocan back then had merely been bewitched by Shen Yushu's looks. Had he known her personality, he probably would not have dared make a move so easily!

If someone took Shen Yushu home and the sister liked him, fine; but if she did not, he would probably be toyed to death.

After thinking it over, Chen Yutian called Shen Yushu as well.

"Xiaoshu, where are you? Did you miss your brother?" Chen Yutian sighed with feeling. In the year and more he had spent at the border, he had not once returned to Songshan City, and he had no idea how his sister was doing! Back when he was in Songshan City, he had been his sister's guardian angel. He wondered whether Shen Yushu still relied on him the way she once had...

"Oh, Yaoyao and I are just about to set out!" Shen Yushu had received her brother's call just as she was leaving. "I used to miss you. Not so much now. I have Shield Bro, so I don't need to miss you!"

"Shield Bro?" Chen Yutian was startled. "Who's Shield Bro?"

"Oh, he's Yaoyao's follower and personal guard!" Shen Yushu was rather resentful that her brother had run off for the sake of a woman — going for special training, even to the border to temper himself. So her attitude toward Chen Yutian was somewhat grudging, and now that she could needle him, she certainly was not going to pass it up.

What was so good about that vixen Qiu Lingshan? She had actually bewitched her brother head over heels, and she still would not even give him the time of day. Shen Yushu found it embarrassing! Look at how formidable Shield Bro was — he had Qiu Lingshan completely under his thumb, so that she did not dare go west when he told her to go east! So by comparison, Shield Bro was the more formidable one!

"What?" Chen Yutian was so angry his teeth itched. Where had this inexplicable follower popped up from, stealing his thunder? His sister had always adored him, and whenever she ran into trouble, he was the first person she thought of. How had it suddenly become Shield Bro?

It was humiliating enough that Chen Yutian had failed to get Qiu Lingshan to come out. And now some Shield Bro had appeared out of nowhere to take his place in his sister's heart — how could that not enrage him? Chen Yutian wished he could slap this Shield Bro flying!

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