Chapter 361 — Wei Zhao's Birthday Gift

"So disloyal! You're all talk and no follow-through — kneeling on a CPU, was it? We'll just see who ends up kneeling later!" Seeing Shen Yushu flatly deny everything with such disloyalty, Gu Mengyao glared at her and spoke in a fury.

"Heh heh..." Shen Yushu pretended not to have heard, grinning as she rose from the sofa and ran over to Wei Zhao. "Brother Arrowbrand, how did you teach An Liwen and Su Taizao their lesson? Come on, tell me!"

Though Gu Mengyao was privately annoyed at Shen Yushu's behavior, hearing her ask how Wei Zhao had taught An Liwen and Su Taizao a lesson, she could not help but widen her eyes and look at Wei Zhao as well.

"Heh, see for yourselves." Wei Zhao handed his phone to Shen Yushu.

Earlier, when An Liwen had been recording with his phone, Wei Zhao had also started recording on his own — only at first it had been in his pocket, so there was nothing but voices, no picture.

"Brother Lin, come quick, I've already told the hotel manager to find us a few lively girls!"

"Great... once we've eaten and drunk our fill, we can have some fun with the girls!"

Voices drifted from Wei Zhao's phone, and Gu Mengyao heard every word clearly. She shot Wei Zhao a glare. "Xiaoshu, you see? I told you this thing wasn't honest! Looks like tomorrow we'll have to play this recording for Tang Zhi, let her see just what sort of man Wei Zhao is!"

Shen Yushu looked at Wei Zhao in puzzlement too. "Brother Arrowbrand, are you really that kind of person?"

"Heh... just keep watching and you'll see." Wei Zhao shrugged and offered no explanation.

Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao kept listening to Wei Zhao's phone, and when Wei Zhao named Xuexue and Huahua specifically, Gu Mengyao's brow furrowed once more. "Wei Zhao, what do you even know about these Xuexue and Huahua?"

"..." Wei Zhao said nothing and gestured for her to keep watching.

Seeing that Wei Zhao did not answer, Gu Mengyao assumed his conscience was pricking him. She gave a hmph and kept watching the phone. When she heard An Liwen and Su Taizao go to fetch the girls and saw Wei Zhao's timid manner, Gu Mengyao understood that Wei Zhao was starting to play tricks!

A man who feared neither heaven nor earth — would he be afraid of going to make trouble?

When they heard Wei Zhao hurl a wine bottle into the private room, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu understood his scheme! They figured the people in that room were no pushovers! Wei Zhao was using someone else's hands to deal with An Liwen and Su Taizao!

Sure enough, the people in the private room flew into a rage and began to beat and kick An Liwen and Su Taizao. By then the picture was visible — it was Wei Zhao's footage...

"Haha! Brother Arrowbrand, you're amazing — killing without a trace!" Shen Yushu watched the recording of An Liwen and Su Taizao getting pummeled with great relish. "Those two really did lift a rock only to drop it on their own feet — they wanted to find you a girl, and instead got a vicious beating!"

"A little trick like that would only fool these two idiots." Gu Mengyao gave a hmph, with no intention of praising Wei Zhao — never mind that she had been the one doubting him moments ago.

"Haha, I can't take it, I'm going to die laughing, these two are such fools!" Shen Yushu was laughing uncontrollably. "Brother Arrowbrand, copy this for me in a bit — when I'm bored I'll watch it again!"

"Sure." Wei Zhao nodded...

After returning to his room, Kang Xiaofeng called. It turned out the kid was fretting over a birthday gift for his second grandfather that weekend.

"Boss, what do you think I should bring? This time I'm bringing both Xiaofen and you along, after all — if the gift is too shabby, I'll lose face too."

"Heh... your second grandfather, the divine doctor Kang, really lacks for nothing. Whatever you give, his family won't think much of it." Wei Zhao smiled. "It depends on their attitude toward your family. From what you've said, the relationship between your two families is only superficially passable — if in truth it isn't good, then give too little and they'll think you a pauper; give too much and they'll think you're putting on airs!"

"Ah, you're right!" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Kang Xiaofeng nodded in wholehearted agreement. "If it were Kang Jingming and the others, even a calligraphy scroll they wrote themselves would have my second grandfather treating it like treasure and beaming for ages — they're his own flesh-and-blood grandsons, after all. But me..."

"All right, Xiaobo. Since you call me boss, I'll take care of this for you! I'll prepare a special, generous gift for him — though whether he believes it is up to him." Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then said.

"Oh? Boss, you have something good over there?" Kang Xiaoyinbo was overjoyed the moment he heard Wei Zhao's words. "Boss, do you have some grand gift that will let us hold our heads high?"

"I do. That is exactly what I am preparing for you. But I am afraid they will not believe it is anything good," Wei Zhao said.

"If they do not believe it, then let them not. It does not matter. What counts is that the thought is there!" Kang Xiaoyinbo nodded. "Boss, no matter what, I believe in you!"

After hanging up, a faint smile traced across Wei Zhao's lips. So, Divine Doctor Kang... once my own Doctor Guan brand grows big, there is no guaranteeing he will not become an enemy. To keep him from entertaining any unrealistic notions, I may as well put him in his place at this birthday banquet!

After the last round of acupuncture on Liu Zhenhu, Wei Zhao had hit upon an idea: to produce a Marrow-Washing Bone-Refining Pill. Not the genuine article, of course. A true Marrow-Washing Bone-Refining Pill required vast quantities of precious Chinese herbs; not only was the cost frighteningly high, but the yields of those herbs also meant such a pill could never be mass-produced.

This was a pill Old Man Wei had once given him in childhood to temper his constitution, one that could expel impurities from the body and thereby achieve the effect of washing the marrow and refining the bones.

Naturally, Wei Zhao would not bring out such a treasure. What he meant to make was merely a substitute, one that could only expel the impurities left behind by incomplete metabolism and the toxins accumulated in the body. It could not truly remake one's constitution.

Even so, that alone was enough to extend a lifespan by several years, even ten. That is, provided the body had no major ailments. This was no elixir, only something akin to a detoxifying medicine; even taken, it could not cure illness.

The acupuncture Wei Zhao had performed on Liu Zhenhu last time had already achieved a similar effect, and that could be replicated with a Chinese patent medicine. This time, attending the birthday banquet of Kang Xiaoyinbo's granduncle, what Wei Zhao meant to present was precisely one such Marrow-Washing Bone-Refining Pill — though he had renamed it the "Life-Extending Longevity Detox Pill."

The name was rather more precise.