Chapter 588 — The Eldest Miss's Phone Call
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"Wei Zhao, where have you run off to? Why aren't you back so late? My daddy is here!" Gu Mengyao would not normally ask about Wei Zhao's whereabouts, but today he had slipped away without a word to her, and she was naturally a little displeased — especially since her father had come and meant to have a meal with Wei Zhao, partly to thank him for saving her.
Gu Pengzhan had been swamped with company business, and only tonight had he found the time. He had told Uncle Qing to have some dishes prepared from the restaurant, intending to share a drink or two with Wei Zhao. But he had waited and waited, and Wei Zhao had not returned, so he had Mengyao call and ask after him.
At any other time, Gu Mengyao would have simply told Shen Yushu to make the call, but with her father at her side, she had phoned herself.
Hearing Gu Mengyao's tone, Lai Pangzi was startled. Who was this Eldest Miss, to dare speak to Wei Zhao that way? And who was her daddy? Why was he asking Wei Zhao to dinner? Could he be Wei Zhao's superior?
This tone left Fatso Lai somewhat bewildered; he had no idea who this "eldest young lady" might be.
"Uh, sorry, I'm not Wei Zhao..." Fatso Lai said cautiously.
"What? You're not Wei Zhao? Where is Wei Zhao?" Gu Mengyao, hearing that the person answering was not Wei Zhao, asked in some puzzlement.
"Um... might I ask who you are?" Fatso Lai wanted to establish the young lady's identity first before deciding whether to tell the truth.
"I'm Wei Zhao's... um, I'm... I'm his boss!" Gu Mengyao thought for a long while without arriving at any clear notion of what she and Wei Zhao actually were to each other, and so produced the word "boss": "And who are you?"
Hearing that she was Wei Zhao's boss, Fatso Lai gave a start. Wei Zhao's boss — was that not his own boss's boss? Fatso Lai hastily said, "Greetings, old boss!"
"Old boss? What is that?" Gu Mengyao found it thoroughly baffling.
"Wei Zhao is my boss, so you are my boss's boss — naturally you are the old boss!" Fatso Lai explained.
"Oh, I don't care what you are. I want Wei Zhao." Gu Mengyao was left somewhat muddled by Fatso Lai.
"Boss... he's injured..." Fatso Lai said. "He is healing his wounds right now..."
"What? Wei Zhao is injured?" Gu Mengyao's heart lurched at once. How had Wei Zhao come to be hurt? An inexplicable anxiety welled up in her, and she could not help growing urgent: "What happened? Is it serious?"
"That... I don't know either. He coughed up blood earlier... right now he is in his room healing, and I dare not go in..." Fatso Lai answered cautiously. Since the other party was Wei Zhao's boss, he naturally did not dare utter any falsehood.
Nor was Fatso Lai to blame for taking Gu Mengyao's identity on faith — after all, the name stored in Wei Zhao's phone was "eldest young lady"!
"Coughing blood?!" Gu Mengyao's heart clenched, and a worry such as she had never known surged up within her. She said urgently, "Where are you? I'll come over at once!"
"Uh... it's so late, shall I send a car for you?" Fatso Lai did not dare be negligent — this was, after all, his boss's boss.
"I have a car!" Gu Mengyao cut Fatso Lai off. "Where is it? Tell me quickly!"
"In the Qianhua Waterside community, villa A9-1..." Fatso Lai gave the address of his own home.