Chapter 758 — An Uninvited Guest in the Villa: Gu Mengyao's Personal Attendant? Normally Lives in Gu Mengyao's Villa? A Student at Songshan City's No. 1 High School?
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This outcome caught Yukun somewhat off guard. He had originally assumed that Wei Zhao must be someone with close ties to Guan Xuewen or Lai Changshan, but neither proved to be the case — instead, Wei Zhao was employed by Gu Mengyao, the young miss of the Gu family!
Yet the more he thought about it, the more suspicious Yukun found the matter. How had a young miss's personal bodyguard ended up in Yanjing City to attend the Yu family's auction? If Gu Pengzhan, as a business magnate, had shown up, that would have been perfectly understandable. But by what identity had Wei Zhao come?
What exactly was his relationship with Guan Xuewen and Lai Changshan? And why would men of their standing bother to cultivate ties with a young miss's personal attendant? This was flatly contrary to all reason!
And so, after leaving Fatty Lai's villa, Yukun fixed his sights squarely on Wei Zhao! He felt that Wei Zhao was even more suspicious than Guan Xuewen. If the fragment was not in Fatty Lai's hands, then it very likely lay with Wei Zhao.
Thus, Yukun's second stop was Gu Mengyao's villa. Fortunate it was — the place was entirely empty, save for a dog.
The dog, however, was well-behaved. Upon spotting Yukun, it obediently curled itself into a ball and paid him no attention whatsoever.
With the dog keeping its distance, Yukun couldn't be bothered to deal with a mere dog either — he went straight to his search!
Fortunate he was: no sooner had he begun searching the ground-floor rooms than he came upon one that looked very much like Wei Zhao's!
The room was full of a man's change of clothing, and according to his investigation, there was no other man living in Gu Mengyao's villa besides Wei Zhao! Yukun settled into that room at once and began rifling through it.
Wei Zhao had simply left the fragment in a drawer, so Yukun had to exert almost no effort at all — on his very first sweep he spotted the fragment and the Wannianchun wood box right there inside!
This box had been bought by Fatty Lai at the auction from members of the Kang family. What exactly it was used for, Yukun did not know, but now that he had seen Wei Zhao store it alongside the fragment, he naturally helped himself to it as well!
Truly a case of searching the world in iron-shod shoes to no avail, only to find it all without the slightest effort!
Yukun had not expected this mission to go so smoothly. And not only had he recovered the fragment he had come for — he had also gotten his hands on an extra fragment and a box of entirely unknown purpose!
Judging by the carelessness with which Wei Zhao had stored it, the man clearly had no idea what the fragment and the box were actually worth. Otherwise he would never have simply tossed them into a drawer — he would have hidden them somewhere far more secure at the very least!
From this one could infer that the reason Wei Zhao had bid on the fragment at the auction was that he already possessed one of his own, and he wanted to study the two pieces together. But what secret could two such fragments possibly reveal?
Yukun curled his lip in disdain. This Wei Zhao truly was a fool — didn't he understand that the fragment put up for auction had been deliberately offered by the Yu family as bait, meant to draw the snake from its hole?
The Yu family already held three fragments, and this had been one of them. In order to collect more, the Yu family had no choice but to employ this snake-drawing tactic — put it out there to lure those who possessed fragments or knew their secrets into acting, whereupon the Yu family would track them down and snatch away the fragments in their possession as well!
The method was somewhat dishonorable, but the Yu family's people were extraordinarily capable. Even if someone grew suspicious afterward, no evidence could be found.
Just like this time — Yukun himself had never imagined things would go so smoothly!