Chapter 620 — Gu Pengzhan's Phone Call
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"Ha, you're a quick one after all — otherwise he'd have bored me to death." Gu Mengyao reflected that her best friend was not the least bit foolish; on the contrary, she was quite clever. It was only that the way she went about things was somewhat peculiar.
Soon Su Taizao returned, lugging in a pile of fruit and boxed meals. Shen Yushu invited An Liwen to eat while watching TV, but he declined with a sweat-beaded embarrassment. He truly could not take any more. If he could not talk with Gu Mengyao, what was the point of staying?
"Go call Wei Zhao and tell him to come eat with us." Once An Liwen and Su Taizao had gone, Gu Mengyao opened the boxed meals Su Taizao had bought and set them out on the coffee table.
Su Taizao had bought five boxed meals in all, and not of the cheap sort — clearly they had cost a fair penny. Evidently two of them had been meant for himself and An Liwen, but those two would not be eating them.
"Oh..." Shen Yushu stared at the savory boxed meals on the coffee table, mouth watering. She did not want to get up; she wished she could stuff it all into her stomach that very instant.
Seeing that Shen Yushu made no move, Gu Mengyao gave a helpless little snort and rose to fetch Wei Zhao. She knocked twice on his door. "Wei Zhao, come out and eat!"
Gu Mengyao could not say herself why she insisted on calling Wei Zhao. Perhaps because he cooked for her and Xiaoshu every day — when she sat down to eat, she could hardly leave him out. That would be far too ungrateful.
"They've gone?" Wei Zhao had been lying on his bed, texting Tang Zhi to tell her that he had already contacted Ergoudan, that the goods would be delivered in a few days, and that she need not worry about Tang Jucheng's injuries.
"Come on, Su Taizao bought boxed meals. Are you going to eat?" Gu Mengyao pointed at the lunchboxes on the coffee table.
"I'll eat. Saves me from having to fix dinner tonight." Wei Zhao followed Gu Mengyao out. On Saturdays Uncle Qing generally didn't deliver food, so most of the time Wei Zhao had to figure something out himself.
By the time Wei Zhao sat down on the sofa, Shen Yushu had nearly finished a whole box and showed no sign of stopping.
"Eat a little less, or you'll stuff yourself sick," Wei Zhao warned.
"No more eating!" Fearing Shen Yushu would make herself ill again, Gu Mengyao put away the two remaining boxes lest she devour them too.
"Oh, fine..." Shen Yushu looked a little aggrieved, but she didn't dare disobey — and she too was afraid of stuffing herself sick again.
After the meal, Wei Zhao cleared away the boxes and put the two remaining ones in the fridge; warmed up in the morning, they would do nicely for breakfast.
Once he was done, he unexpectedly received a call from Gu Pengzhan!
"Uncle Chu?" Wei Zhao answered. "Is something the matter?"
"Yes, two things," Gu Pengzhan said. "Yao Yao isn't beside you, is she? Is this a convenient time to talk?"
Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. Did this matter really need to be kept from Gu Mengyao and the others?