Chapter 137 — So It Was You
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The car entered Songshan Medical and Pharmaceutical University and headed straight for the faculty villa district.
"The person treating you is from this university?" Something sparked in Wei Zhao's memory—Guan Xuewen, the man at the bookshop who had given him his card. He seemed to be the dean of one of the departments here. He wondered whether Yang Huaijun would know him. "Yes, a formidable old gentleman, highly reputed at home and abroad. But when he saw the prescription you wrote me—especially when he heard my condition improved after taking your herbs—he was beside himself with excitement. He cleared his whole morning and is waiting at home for you to arrive... Made me feel like some big shot." Wei Zhao smiled at that. "Then let's hurry. We shouldn't keep the old gentleman waiting."
Wei Zhao held the elderly in considerable respect. Even if the man's medical skill might not match his own, that was only because he had never met the right person to guide him. His own grandfather, Old Wei, was practically a treasure trove of Chinese medicine—word had it he had spent most of his life among the Miao in Yunnan, weaving together Gu sorcery, Chinese medicine, and bacteriology. It was during those years, too, that he had met Wei Zhao's master...
The old man rarely spoke of that chapter of his past. Only when he was drunk would he mutter a few words about it, but even so, one could tell that he and the master had shared a bond of life and death. So the fact that he himself knew medicine and could fight so well... was nothing short of a windfall. Were it not for this old man, and not for such a formidable master, he would have been nothing but an ordinary person.
After the same careful registration, the car entered the residential compound and pulled up in front of a villa.
"We're here, this is the place." Yang Huaijun got out first and rang the villa's doorbell.
Wei Zhao followed behind, sizing up the villas all around. It seemed that anyone who could live here must be of no low rank and no small achievements!
Before long, the villa's door opened. Although the door could be controlled remotely and no one needed to come in person, the master of the house had come downstairs himself this time to open it, standing there with great solemnity, his face deferential and grave.
"Huh?" Wei Zhao stared at the master of the villa in surprise... and the master, upon first setting eyes on Wei Zhao, was likewise taken aback, then an expression of disbelief spread across his face!
"You... you're..." Guan Xuewen stared at the young man before him in disbelief.
"Heh... Elder Guan, it's me. We met at the bookstore!" Wei Zhao said with a polite smile. "Elder Guan, hello. I'm sorry to put you to the trouble of coming to meet me in person..."
"So it was you... I thought as much..." Guan Xuewen looked at Wei Zhao and said in shock, "Back then, this old man underestimated you... I'm truly embarrassed. As for my College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, whether you attend or not hardly matters anymore..."
"Grandpa Guan, what's this... you and Wei Zhao?" Yang Huaijun was dumbfounded as well. What kind of act were these two putting on? From the looks of it, they had known each other long ago!