護花近衛 - 第1887章 想到了什麼 - 翰墨軒

"Doctor Lin! Miss Gu, Miss Chen—you're back!" Granny Sun was overjoyed at the sight of the three of them. "I've got the meal all made, just waiting on you!"

Granny Sun was well content with her life these days. No more foraging through rubbish; food and clothing came without worry. Apart from cleaning the villa and cooking, she had no work at all, and in her idle hours she could watch a little television—it was an easy life.

"I've told you, just call us by our names. None of this 'Divine Doctor' business..." Wei Zhao said with a wry smile.

"Then how about Mr. Lin? On television, that's what all the butlers call them," Granny Sun said.

Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. Granny Sun was set on it, and there was nothing he could do.

He had to admit that Granny Sun's cooking was really quite good. She might not reach Wei Zhao's own heights, but at the very least her dishes beat the takeout Uncle Qing brought back from restaurants, and they were tastier than the school canteen's fare besides—so Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu ate with enormous relish.

After dinner, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu watched a bit of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf," with Wei Zhao keeping them company.

When it was over, Gu Mengyao glanced at Wei Zhao and said, "From now on you come home every weekend. If something comes up, you ask for leave in advance. And during the week, you come when you're called."

"Uh..." Wei Zhao gave a wry smile. This was probably the fallout of today's business, then? He rather suspected that the young lady of the old days had come back.

But after saying her piece, Gu Mengyao went on: "I'm keeping an eye on you for your girlfriend. I may not be your employer anymore, but I promised her..."

Gu Mengyao had thought it over carefully and decided she must be stricter with Wei Zhao. Otherwise, with no leash on the fellow, he would turn right around and go chasing girls—and how could she ever answer Tang Zhi's parting request? Yes, she was doing this purely for Tang Zhi's sake; there was no selfish motive in it, Gu Mengyao told herself.

"Xiaoxiao, she..." Wei Zhao smiled wryly. Surely Xiaoxiao didn't concern herself with such things? And he seemed to recall that Xiaoxiao had never taken any interest in his philandering—otherwise she could hardly have sat by while Shen Yushu called herself his little wife.

But before Wei Zhao could finish, the young lady had dragged Xiaoshu upstairs, leaving him nothing but two retreating silhouettes—graceful, swaying silhouettes... Couldn't these two girls wear a little more at home? Wei Zhao thought...

They had moved into the new villa: Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu still on the upper floor, Wei Zhao below—except that downstairs now had one more guest of honor, Granny Sun.

General Mighty and the Sky-Thunder Pig had made their home behind the villa, doing their part to guard it.

"Sis Yao, you were so commanding! Are you getting ready to exercise the duties of the first wife?" Shen Yushu asked.

"First wife? What are you talking about?" Gu Mengyao frowned. "I'm just watching him for Yunyun, keeping him from getting up to anything."

"But Sister Yunyun said they'd never meet again!" Shen Yushu said. "What's the use of watching him? And didn't Sister Yunyun entrust him to us? We could step right up and take our place, as if by rights!"

"If you want to, you go ahead. I won't," Gu Mengyao said—then regretted it. Did she really not want to? Or was she holding back for some reason?

Whenever Gu Mengyao thought of the selfless, reluctant look in Tang Zhi's eyes, her heart ached. If she took Wei Zhao for herself, would Tang Zhi be heartbroken?

Gu Mengyao realized that she seemed to care about Wei Zhao a little... or perhaps more than a little?

Shaking her head, she pressed down all those tangled thoughts and went to take a shower, while Shen Yushu sighed and followed quietly behind her...