Chapter 603 — Followed Again
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"Uh..." Wei Zhao was a little suspicious. Had the young lady overheard yesterday that he meant to visit Tang Zhi in the hospital? Why else would she suddenly want to go buy materials? On weekends, after all, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu mostly stayed at home.
"What, do you have something to do?" Gu Mengyao truly had no intention of making things hard for Wei Zhao! Her father's words yesterday had only hardened her resolve to earn a good score — though under exam-oriented education, a good score was simply impossible without working through review materials.
However clever you were, you could not sidestep those brain-teaser-style test questions. Only practice made perfect, and only mastery let you meet every change with constancy.
"Nothing," Wei Zhao said, and could only accompany the young lady to the bookstore first.
"Then why aren't you hurrying up and getting ready?" In both tone and manner, Gu Mengyao had returned to normal; yesterday's strange mood was gone.
That set Wei Zhao's mind at ease. He had been overthinking it, it seemed — the young lady was the same young lady as before.
After getting ready, Wei Zhao set out with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu. On the way he sent Tang Zhi a text message, telling her he would come to the hospital to see her in the afternoon.
Tang Zhi thought nothing of it when she received the message. It had already been the middle of the night when she got back to the hospital yesterday, and it was only a little past ten in the morning now — she had not yet slept her fill, and assumed Wei Zhao would want to sleep in a while longer too.
"Which bookstore?" Wei Zhao asked the young mistress in the back seat as he drove the car out of the villa district.
"Let's go to Xuehai Bookstore — the one near the school," Gu Mengyao said after a moment's thought.
"All right." Wei Zhao nodded, but his gaze drifted to the rearview mirror. Ever since they had left the neighborhood, a black business van had been trailing them. Wei Zhao had seen this van before — who else could it belong to but that snake Li Cihua?
He had not expected Li Cihua, who had lain low for so long, to start playing at surveillance again. Did the man not know his vehicle had already been exposed once?
In truth, Li Cihua had no intention of hiding from Wei Zhao. Sending men to stake out the villa district was simply his way of checking on what had become of Wei Zhao.
Inside the black van, Zhang Yuzhou hurriedly dialed Li Cihua's number.
"Brother Cihua, it's me, Little Universe!" Zhang Yuzhou said urgently. "I've spotted Wei Zhao!"
"Oh?" Li Cihua had just finished his business, having hired a construction crew to redesign the wrecked tower and arranged to break ground the next day. He had returned to the Gelifuyun Bar and had barely stepped through the door when Zhang Yuzhou's call came in.
Zhang Yuzhou was the man he had sent to watch Wei Zhao. Li Cihua had no idea how Wei Zhao was doing now, and he had gotten nothing out of Gu Pengzhan either, so he had dispatched Zhang Yuzhou to keep the villa where Wei Zhao lived under surveillance.
"Where did you see him? How is Wei Zhao?" Li Cihua asked.
"Brother Cihua, right at the gate of Wei Zhao's villa! Wei Zhao drove out with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu in the car!" Zhang Yuzhou said.