Chapter 332 — Safe Return
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Wei Zhao felt nothing in particular, but Xie Jinbiao was overcome with emotion, trembling all over with excitement...
"Withdrawal symptoms?" Wei Zhao glanced at him.
"No, it's just that I got a bit worked up. The addiction's already beaten..." Xie Jinbiao said, somewhat embarrassed.
"Beaten it?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. This fellow could actually kick drugs?
"I've been locked up two months. With no money, who'd supply me? At first it was hard to bear, but after a while I got through it..." Xie Jinbiao explained, a little ashamed.
Wei Zhao nodded and said nothing. In a case like Xie Jinbiao's, as long as he never touched the stuff again, a complete break was possible — the worry was that he might touch it again later, and one taste would pull him right back.
But that was none of Wei Zhao's concern. Bringing him back counted as fulfilling his promise.
At the airport, Qingbo's car was not there to meet them; Wei Zhao had not told him the exact time of their return. The tickets could be changed, so the date of return depended on how smoothly Wei Zhao's mission went.
Outside the airport, Wei Zhao flagged down a taxi, and he and Xie Jinbiao got in together.
"Take us to Qianhua Waterside," Wei Zhao instructed the driver.
"Right you are!" The driver nodded and started the car, though he found it rather odd — Wei Zhao was plainly dressed, while the fellow in the back looked as though he had run out of a refugee camp, in rags and thin as a opium skeleton. These two, going to Qianhua Waterside? That was where the wealthy lived!
Still, he asked no more. He was collecting a fare, after all — what business was it of his where they were headed?
Xie Jinbiao had not been back in the country for years. Gazing at the streets of Songshan City, his eyes brimmed with emotion, and at the thought of being home soon, his excitement grew beyond measure...
When they reached Qianhua Waterside, Wei Zhao paid the fare and got out with Xie Jinbiao, and the two set off on foot toward District F...
Xie Guangbo had not gone to the company these past two days. He had announced to the outside world that he had a bad cold and needed to rest at home — which left Jin Gubang, already braced to move against Gu Pengzhan, thoroughly vexed...
Why fall ill now of all times, just when the board meeting was about to convene?
Jin Gubang had paid a visit to Xie Guangbo's villa to see him. Xie Guangbo did indeed look haggard and worn, and Jin Gubang had no suspicion that he was feigning illness.
In truth, Xie Guangbo had no cold at all; his haggard look came from worry over his son's safety. He had witnessed Wei Zhao's skill, but as the saying goes, two fists cannot beat four hands — especially in an unfamiliar foreign land, entirely on another's home ground. To bring his son back looked, by any reckoning, a very difficult task...
So he had slept poorly for nights on end — how could he not look haggard? Jin Gubang happened to arrive and, seeing Xie Guangbo's sickly, frail appearance, found it awkward to say anything more; he merely urged him to rest well and recover quickly...