護花近衛 - 第148章 八成沒戲了 - 翰墨軒

"No, nothing like that — he just gave me a barbecue recipe!" Tang Zhi hurried to explain, then pulled the recipe Wei Zhao had given her out of her pocket. "Here, this is it. Take a look?"

"Just this?" Liu Xinlan took the draft paper from Tang Zhi's hand doubtfully and unfolded it. "Why would he give you this?"

"It's my mother's doing, isn't it? I don't know how he managed to charm her too. She heard him say he had a barbecue recipe, and that once we improved it, our family's business would pick up!" Tang Zhi explained. "And then my mother believed him and told me to go get the recipe from Wei Zhao..."

"That works too?" Liu Xinlan stared at her wide-eyed. This didn't seem like the way a rich young master went about wooing a girl, did it? When did those pampered rich kids ever have the spare energy for something like this? Wei Zhao's method was novel enough — "ingenious," really — going straight for Tang Zhi's mother. This wasn't the sort of thing students their age should be capable of, was it?

"Yeah, I had no choice, so I just took it," Tang Zhi said helplessly. "That's how it is between me and Wei Zhao. He chases me, and I'm not going to say yes to him. Who knows whether he's just playing around?"

"Yunyun, the way you're talking... sounds like you've actually started to waver?" Hearing this, Liu Xinlan fixed her eyes on Tang Zhi's pretty face, as if trying to read something from it. "If he wasn't just playing around, but was serious — would you say yes to him then?"

"Wenwen, what are you talking about!" Tang Zhi's face flushed red, and she realized she had misspoken earlier. "I just meant — people like them never mean it. Why would I ever fall for him?"

"All right, all right. Whatever you feel, as long as you don't say yes to him, that's fine!" Liu Xinlan said. "Of the three of us sisters, you've been the best since we were little — good grades, and pretty too. You can't afford to stumble! Xiaofen and I will be counting on you from now on!"

"Mm..." Tang Zhi nodded and agreed, but inwardly she was turning something over: how on earth had word of her and Wei Zhao gotten out? Could that villain Wei Zhao really be the one who spread it?

If that were really the case, she ought to go and give him a piece of her mind. He might not care, but she did — what did he even mean by it?

Still, Tang Zhi only thought about it. Going to confront the great villain herself — wasn't that just walking into the tiger's mouth?

After handing the recipe to Tang Zhi, the afternoon passed uneventfully. When school let out, Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaofeng were walking down the corridor of the teaching building when people started pointing and whispering behind their backs.

At first Wei Zhao paid it no mind, but then he began to feel as though eyes followed him wherever he went. Even back when he'd beaten up Black Panther, there hadn't been this much attention, had there?

"Boss, what are these people staring at?" Kang Xiaofeng was just as baffled at being looked at.

"I don't know either. Why don't you go ask?" Wei Zhao was equally at a loss.

"You — come here!" These past two days, following at Wei Zhao's side, Kang Xiaofeng's confidence had swelled. He might not be one of the Four Great Young Tyrants of the campus, but at least he was the henchman of one of the Four Great Young Tyrants, and his status had risen accordingly. He even dared to curse out Zou Ruoming — to say nothing of some random student who was pointing and whispering.

The boy Kang Xiaofeng was pointing at had been talking animatedly with a few students beside him, gesturing and grinning as he told his story. At Kang Xiaofeng's shout, he froze, dumbstruck. He didn't know who Kang Xiaofeng was, but anyone who ran with Wei Zhao had to be a tough customer. His face went white with fright; he knew he was in trouble — that mouth of his, he shouldn't have run it loose!

"Brother... you called me?" the boy asked timidly, looking at Kang Xiaofeng.