Chapter 2363 — A Kidnapping Encountered on the Road
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Yes. Xiaochao is in your hands now," Father Han said. "All right, enough talk—I have business to discuss on my end. As for those medicinal herbs you asked me to look for, they're proving truly hard to find. As for the colored steel, blue crystal powder, and pure yellow jade—I've never even heard of them."
"That's fine. Keep looking, slowly. If you can find them, wonderful—I want to surprise him," Han Jingyi said.
"I'll do my best. That's enough—I'm hanging up." Something had come up on Father Han's end, so he naturally ended the call.
Han Jingyi set down the phone, picked up the tablet computer beside her, and reverted to her former bookworm demeanor.
Donghai City was a provincial capital, and its commercial street was utterly different from Songshan City's—more prosperous and far more orderly. Shops lined the street in dazzling variety, with specialty stores for nearly every international and domestic brand. In the parking lot, luxury cars were everywhere; by comparison, Wei Zhao's Grand Cherokee truly did not stand out.
Not far off, an Audi TT sports car had just pulled into the adjacent parking space, and Wei Zhao's expression grew somewhat distant, as though he had returned to Songshan City—accompanying Yaoyao and Xiaoshu out, meeting Feng Xiaoxiao for the first time...
The scene stirred old feelings—except that the driver who stepped out of the Audi TT was a fat woman, shattering Wei Zhao's reverie...
Shaking his head, Wei Zhao felt a certain bitterness in his heart. Feng Xiaoxiao... He had thought that once he mastered the Spring Rain from Heaven, he could help Han Jingyi refine pills. But now it seemed that dream had been shattered. When would he ever be able to refine a third-grade pill?
It seemed the only way was to advance to the Heaven rank himself, then raise Han Jingyi's strength to the late Earth rank's peak, and find a Qi-Gathering Pill for her to take. Only that was a viable path.
But he was still a long way from the Heaven rank, and Qi-Gathering Pills were not so easy to find...
This trial at the Xuandan Sect made Wei Zhao hesitate. Originally he had wanted the colored steel, blue crystal powder, and pure yellow jade—but a Qi-Gathering Pill seemed the better bargain? Wei Zhao sank into conflict, his head beginning to ache.
In truth, what the young miss and Xiaoshu enjoyed was mainly the process of shopping; they did not actually need to buy anything. Especially after entering university, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had grown even more low-key. Though they had been named the school's beauties, they competed for no spotlight—fearful of bringing Wei Zhao unnecessary trouble.
After all, there were far more people at university, drawn from every corner of the land, with backgrounds of every kind—unlike in Songshan City, at the private high school under the Gu Group, where the two of them had not needed to worry about much.
"Kidnapping! Help! Aaah—mmph—" Suddenly a scream cut through Wei Zhao's thoughts. He looked up to see that the fat woman who had just stepped out of the Audi TT had been seized by the scruff of the neck by a burly man who had leapt from an unlicensed Mercedes-Benz van. The man clamped a hand over her mouth and stuffed her into the van!
It all happened in an instant. Once the fat woman was shoved into the Mercedes-Benz van, the burly man climbed in after her, and the van sped away...
Wei Zhao frowned. If he wanted to stop it, he certainly could have—but he did not move. For one thing, the fat woman was a stranger to him, with no connection whatsoever; for another, he was out shopping with the young miss and Xiaoshu, and naturally would not let such a baffling incident delay them.
Wei Zhao had no burning sense of chivalry. He merely glanced indifferently at the departing Mercedes-Benz van and paid it no further attention.
"Huh? That black van—why does it look just like the one that kidnapped Wang Xinyan? No license plate, and the same model?" Shen Yushu said in surprise.