Chapter 903 — Come Home and Take Shelter
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At that, Gu Mengyao felt a little embarrassed: "You're a guest — how could you sleep on the sofa? If anyone sleeps there... it should be Xiaoshu!"
"Huh? Why me?" Shen Yushu asked foolishly.
"Heh..." Tang Zhi knew Gu Mengyao was only being polite; how could she let Shen Yushu sleep on the sofa? So she smiled and said, "Do you have a guest room? I could sleep there."
"We do — it's upstairs, next to the master bedroom. I'll go and tidy it up for you." Only then did Gu Mengyao remember the house had a guest room, and she said so hurriedly.
Shen Yushu had meant to slander it as Brother Arrowhead's room upstairs, but Gu Mengyao was quicker of tongue and said first that it was a guest room, and that she would tidy it — clearly no one had stayed there in a long while. Shen Yushu could not help feeling deflated; her plan to fool Tang Zhi had failed after all.
Wei Zhao waited until the three girls had gone upstairs, then waited a while longer before coming out of his room into the living room. The Mighty General glanced at him with some curiosity; it seemed to have sensed the change in Wei Zhao's strength as well. But it could not speak human speech, and after two woofs, to which Wei Zhao paid no heed, it could only lie back down on the floor.
Wei Zhao used the landline in the villa to call the old man at home.
"Xiaoyi?" Old Man Wei had been in the outhouse when the phone rang, and nearly dropped it into the cesspit. "What do you want? Can't you call later?"
"You're not in the toilet again, are you?" From the old man's tone, Wei Zhao guessed what he was up to.
"..." Old Man Wei snorted. "Is something the matter?"
"Old man, I've lost my rank... I'm an ordinary person now..." Wei Zhao wasted no words and came straight out with the trouble he was in.
"An ordinary person? What happened?" Old Man Wei was startled, and forgot all about scolding Wei Zhao for calling at such an hour. He asked at once.
"All my meridians are damaged. There's no way to cultivate true qi..." Wei Zhao smiled bitterly and recounted the whole sequence of events to Old Man Wei, exactly as they had happened.
"So you're saying you blew up your own meridians?" After hearing Wei Zhao out, Old Man Wei's voice had changed its tone.
"Yes..." Wei Zhao said, a little helplessly. "Old man, you're a divine physician — is there anything you can do?"
"No!" Old Man Wei said flatly. "What were you thinking? That was careless of you. Forget it... from what you've told me, it's not your fault. Hurry up, pack your things and come home to take shelter. Then devote yourself to training external martial arts. I don't think you can stay in Songshan City any longer — staying there is just waiting to die..."
"..." Wei Zhao was speechless at the old man's words. "Old man, that sounds a bit too defeatist, doesn't it? Aren't you a divine physician? You really have no way?"