Chapter 366 — Tit for Tat
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Xiaobo, did your father not tell you? The resort is fully booked — there is no room arranged for you and your classmates!" Kang Jingming put on a look of great innocence. "How about this: you and your classmates go stay at the little inn next door? There is a small inn, only thirty or forty yuan a night. Rough it for one night, and I will reimburse you tomorrow?"
"Oh, Zhaoming, you need not trouble yourself. We have already booked rooms here," Kang Xiaofeng said mildly. "No need for you to arrange anything."
"Hm? What?" Kang Jingming was taken aback. "You booked rooms here? Impossible! I have reserved every single room open to the public in this place — who are you trying to fool?"
"Why would I fool you?" Kang Xiaofeng shrugged. Watching Kang Jingming come apart at the seams, he felt thoroughly delighted.
"Xiaobo, I know you do not want to lose face in front of your classmates, and I understand how you feel!" Though his tone was earnest and weighed with concern, Kang Jingming deliberately raised his voice so that Wei Zhao and the others in the car could hear him too. "But you should know that the people who come to congratulate my grandfather on his birthday are mostly the great and the grand — even they cannot find lodging. How could there be rooms left for your classmates? Besides, you are not the old man's own grandson, so when the rooms were arranged, there was even less chance of anyone looking out for you!"
"Then you need not trouble yourself." Kang Xiaofeng showed not the slightest anger. "You have reserved everything open to the public — but are there not places not open to the public as well? What we booked is precisely one of those."
With that, Kang Xiaofeng said no more to Kang Jingming. He simply raised the barrier bar in front of the car and got back in.
"You..." Kang Jingming was choking with fury. He told himself that perhaps Kang Xiaofeng knew someone on the resort staff and had been given a staff rest room — but to let him through just like that still rankled.
"Let it go, Zhaoming!" Kang Jingming's father waved a hand. Though he too looked down on this nephew's family, as an elder there were things he could not do too excessively.
"What trash! Thinks he is somebody, does he?" Watching Wei Zhao's beat-up car drive into the resort, Kang Jingming could not hold back a curse. "Driving a pile of junk — has he no shame?"
"Enough, Zhaoming. Your grandfather still sets great store by face — do not be so rude before outsiders. He is, after all, a relative we have not dealt with in years. Let him show off if he likes; he will gain no real advantage from it!" Kang Jingming's father, Kang Cuipu, shook his head, then turned with a smile to greet an Audi sedan just driving into the resort. "President Wang, you have come too..."
After entering the resort, Wei Zhao contacted Uncle Tian. Because Wei Zhao had declined again and again and given strict instructions, Uncle Tian did not come out to receive him in person but sent a trusted man instead.
Yet even this trusted man did not know Wei Zhao's true identity.
Wei Zhao had wanted to keep a low profile from the start. If he were seen to be so familiar with the owner of the resort, it would inevitably draw the attention of the Kang family.
This time, Wei Zhao had meant to stand to one side as a mere onlooker, keeping Kang Xiaofeng company. The chief purpose was to let Xiaofen see clearly the ugly faces of Kang Jingming and the rest, and erase him from her memory once and for all.
If Wei Zhao revealed how close he was to Uncle Tian, Kang Jingming might well change his tune and deliberately cozy up to him with flattery — and then the aim of letting Xiaofen see his true colors would be lost.