Chapter 1829 — An Liwen Pays a Visit
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"Never mind, let me think of another way. You've only just gotten back, so rest a while first!" Qing-bo rose to his feet. But though he said so, where was he to find another way? The words were nothing but self-consolation.
When the sect had been swallowed up all those years ago and **, his wife, and his daughter had vanished without a trace, Qing-bo had taken a false name—Li Fu—and attached himself to Gu Pengzhan's side. Apart from Gu Pengzhan, what other connections did he have left in this world?
"I want to go to the hospital and see Daddy..." Gu Mengyao said.
"That's fine too. Let's go!" Qing-bo nodded.
Once Wei Zhao was settled, Gu Mengyao led Shen Yushu and Qing-bo quietly out of the villa. Instinctively she moved to get in the car, but Qing-bo stopped her. "Yaoyao, don't drive. Refueling costs money—save it for when it's really needed."
"All right." Gu Mengyao let go of the car door with an apologetic air, and walked out of the villa together with Qing-bo...
Songshan City First People's Hospital.
A pale, delicate-featured young woman with a somewhat haggard expression stood quietly outside a thick pane of glass, gazing through it at the man on the white hospital bed within—tubes and wires running in and out of his body, his face strangely serene.
Beside her stood a middle-aged man and a young woman a head shorter than she, somewhat plump in figure.
"Yaoyao, I just asked the doctor. Barring any mishaps, Mr. Gu should be past the critical stage by tonight..." Qing-bo said. "You shouldn't worry too much."
"That's good..." Gu Mengyao let out a long breath of relief. "Qing-bo, I've put you to so much trouble these past days."
"What nonsense is that? Mr. Gu and I have been old friends for how many years." Qing-bo waved a hand. "Let's be off. There's no point in standing here..."
"Mm..." Gu Mengyao took one more reluctant look at her father on the sickbed, a bitter ache welling in her heart.
Why did it have to be now? Why had the people closest to her all met with misfortune one after another?
Her own father, her good friend Tang Zhi, her ma—her male friend Wei Zhao—all of them, as if by prior agreement, struck down at the same time!
What it meant for misfortunes never to come singly, for troubles within and threats without—Gu Mengyao now knew it all too well.
But at least, thank heavens, everything was moving in a better direction. So long as her father could pull through this month, so long as Wei Zhao woke up, then everything would be all right! Yes, surely everything would be all right!
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu returned to the villa. Qing-bo had gone out to look into the matter of the medical fees.
But neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu could settle their minds, for when they got home and went to check on Wei Zhao, it suddenly struck them—Wei Zhao also needed money for his medicine!
The prescription Elder Zhang had given them called for any number of rare and precious herbs. They could be bought at the pharmacy, true enough, but the price would be nothing short of exorbitant. For the Gu Mengyao of before, this would have been nothing at all—a quick swipe of a credit card and it was done. But now...
Her father's medical fees, Wei Zhao's medicine—where was the money for all this to come from?
Was she to go back to the Snow Valley and ask Tang Zhi for it?
Little Shu watched Gu Mengyao standing there with the prescription in hand, her face somewhat stiff, and naturally the same thought occurred to her. "Yaoyao-jie, is it that there's no money to buy medicine for Arrow-bro?"
"Mm..." Gu Mengyao nodded and sat down heavily by Wei Zhao's bedside, worn and dispirited, gazing at the somewhat gaunt lines of his face, a thousand feelings surging up in her all at once.
"If only there were some way to reach Xiaoxiao—borrowing a little from her would be better than nothing..." What Shen Yushu had in mind was her old partner in crime.