Chapter 1867 — Pondering Martial Techniques, Part One
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As for those minor shareholders, Gu Pengzhan did not take them to task either. Currying favor with the newly arrived chairman was only natural conduct; if blame was to be assigned, it belonged solely to Gu Pengzhan himself for not having cultivated a few true friends.
Guan the Divine Physician's Pharmaceuticals had not resumed business. Once Wei Zhao had handed over to Lai the Fatso the flaws in those several products of Kang the Divine Physician along with the methods for testing them, Lai the Fatso began quietly seeking professional institutions to issue inspection reports, and just as quietly started using the two billion that Wei Zhao had recovered to slowly buy back the factories and land he had previously sold off at low prices. Though the repurchase price was higher than the selling price, with the vigorous backing of the Wu and Sun families, it hardly amounted to anything.
Toward the conduct of Wu Gonggao and the Sun family patriarch, Wei Zhao merely laughed it off without offering any comment. He only told Lai the Fatso that if they were willing to lend the money, then take it for now—merchants chase profit, and Wei Zhao viewed Wu Gonggao and the Sun patriarch purely through the lens of businessmen. After this affair was settled, he would naturally repay them with some benefit, but to open his heart to them as he had with the Liu family was out of the question.
Of course, Wei Zhao had never expected Wu Gonggao and the others to become friends in the first place; the ones he was truly close to were only Wu Chengtian and Sun Jingyan.
As for the prescriptions to counter Kang the Divine Physician's pharmaceutical company, Wei Zhao had also written them out for Lai the Fatso. Guan the Divine Physician's Pharmaceuticals began quietly resuming operations, though no products were yet pushed onto the market.
Everyone around Wei Zhao knew that Lai the Fatso was waiting for a fitting opportunity—once the inspection reports came out, he would stun the world with a single brilliant feat!
School would soon begin, and he would have to report to East Sea City. These past few days, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were busy packing their luggage for East Sea City, while Wei Zhao remained in his room pondering that baffling martial technique and the second-layer cultivation method of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art.
Though this martial technique's cultivation method contained no substantive moves, in Wei Zhao's view, since it had been retrieved from the cave, even as an auxiliary method it must have some rationale. He had to complete this auxiliary method before finishing the second layer of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art—who knew, there might yet be even more formidable martial techniques waiting for him inside that cave.
As for the materials needed to refine the jade pendant, Wei Zhao had also made inquiries through Lai the Fatso's connections, but the results left him deeply disappointed. Of the blue crystal powder, pure yellow jade, and colored steel, Lai the Fatso said he could only try to track down the blue crystal through his connections; the other two were another matter—pure yellow jade was a thing one could not seek but only encounter, a matter of sheer luck, and as for colored steel, he had never even heard of it!
Guan Xuewen, however, knew a person of great prestige and moral stature, renowned in both collecting circles and the world of jade carving, who might possibly possess pure yellow jade. This news heartened Wei Zhao somewhat, and he resolved to pay that eminent figure a personal visit when he had the time, to see whether he might obtain some pure yellow jade.
As for colored steel, Wei Zhao could only leave it to fate. No one around him knew what it was, and colored steel—he had never laid eyes on such a thing in his life. How could steel ever form naturally in color?