Chapter 2330 — The Wounds Are Healed
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
Although Wei Zhao had promised that both his grandfather's and his brother's injuries could be treated, Pi Zhifeng had no real confidence as to whether they could be treated at all, or healed once treated. Even though Wu Chengtian appeared perfectly calm, Pi Zhifeng had never seen it with his own eyes, and he was still uneasy.
And now Wei Zhao had returned; the moment of witnessing a miracle was at hand. Pi Zhifeng hurried to open the door, and sure enough, there was Wei Zhao, weathered and travel-worn, standing beside a Grand Cherokee and pressing the villa's doorbell.
"Boss, you're back!" Pi Zhifeng strode out to meet him, opened the iron gate of the villa's courtyard for Wei Zhao, and said, "Boss, you rest first—I'll park the car in the courtyard for you."
"All right, I'll leave it to you, then." Wei Zhao nodded, without standing on ceremony. "How are your grandfather and Wu Chengtian doing?"
"Their injuries have been holding steady. Will you go and take a look in a bit, Boss?" Pi Zhifeng got into the car, drove it into a parking space in the villa's courtyard, and said.
"Let's go now." All the way here, Wei Zhao's thoughts had been on Wu Chengtian's and Old Master Pi's injuries. Both men had been wounded trying to rescue Wang Xinyan; by any measure of feeling or reason, Wei Zhao could not leave them be.
Never mind that they had gone to save Wang Xinyan for his sake—even if they had not, and had acted purely to rescue Wang Xinyan, then given how much Wang Xinyan had done for him, Wei Zhao could not sit by and ignore the wounds of her benefactors.
"All right!" Pi Zhifeng's heart leapt with joy. He had assumed Wei Zhao would rest a while after getting home, but never expected him to rush straight into healing his grandfather and Wu Chengtian without pause.
Inside the villa, Granny Sun smiled and nodded to Wei Zhao. "Mr. Lin, you're back. Shall I make you something to eat?"
Wei Zhao turned and looked at Granny Sun's smiling face; the more he looked, the more she resembled Sun Jingyan, and the suspicion in his heart grew all the firmer. Before, he had also thought Granny Sun and Sun Jingyan looked alike, but he had not read much into it—after all, Granny Sun was of the Sun family and Sun Jingyan was of the Sun family too; they were relatives, and a close resemblance was only natural. But things were different now. Having guessed at Sun Jingyan's parentage, Wei Zhao found Granny Sun's face all the more familiar.
"Granny Sun, just call me Xiaoyi from now on—no need for 'Mr. Lin.' Being so formal makes me uncomfortable." Now that Wei Zhao knew Granny Sun's true background, he naturally dared not have her call him Mr. Lin any longer. If something were to happen between him and Sun Jingyan someday, Granny Sun would be his mother-in-law, and Wei Zhao was hardly used to such formality from her.
"Heh, how many times have you told me that? It's hard for me to change the habit," Granny Sun said with a laugh. "It's only a form of address, after all..."
There was nothing Wei Zhao could do, and no point saying more. He only said, "Granny Sun, give Uncle Qing a call and have him find time to come over as soon as he can. I have something very important to discuss with him."
"Oh? All right, I'll call him in a bit." Seeing how grave Wei Zhao was, Granny Sun nodded and agreed at once.
Meanwhile, Wei Zhao and Pi Zhifeng went together to the room where Old Master Pi and Wu Chengtian were recovering. The old man and the young one lay in the same room day after day, chatting and exchanging views. Both were external-school cultivators; Old Master Pi was moreover a Heaven-rank expert. Wu Chengtian took the attitude of a learner, and Old Master Pi that of a friendly mentor—one eager to learn, the other glad to teach—and every day they talked away in high delight.