Chapter 2525 — Wang Xinyan Is Sick
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Having read this far, Wei Zhao set aside "Jade Pendant Cultivation" and put the fine things he had obtained on this excursion into a drawer. The drawer was by now quite full of treasures—three fragments of the map, the Ten-Thousand-Year Spring Wood box, five spirit-beast inner cores, pure yellow jade, blue crystal, and colored steel, worth a fortune. As for the Heaven-and-Earth Net and the Thousand-Silk Mask, Wei Zhao kept those on his person.
That done, Wei Zhao sat cross-legged on the bed and continued cultivating. Unbidden, his thoughts turned to Wang Xinyan. He could not tell whether he missed her simply because he missed her, or because he missed her help with his cultivation.
After a while, the sound of a car came from outside the villa. Wei Zhao had not expected Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to have driven back ahead of him.
"Arrow Brand Bro, Xiaoshu brought you something nice!" The moment Shen Yushu stepped through the door, she pulled out the mid-grade golden cicada undergarment and held it up before Wei Zhao's eyes as though claiming credit. "It's Zhong Yongliang's mid-grade one!"
"Zhong Yongliang's mid-grade one?" Wei Zhao was taken aback for a moment before he understood what Xiaoshu meant, and could not help exclaiming in surprise, "Xiaoshu, are you saying this is Zhong Yongliang's golden cicada undergarment?"
"That's right—I swapped it out for a low-grade one, and that idiot still doesn't know!" Shen Yushu said smugly. "Well? Isn't Xiaoshu impressive?"
"Mm, impressive indeed," Wei Zhao said with a nod.
"So is there a reward?" Shen Yushu asked. "Like rewarding Yaoyao with a loving kiss, maybe..."
"Pfft... what does that have to do with me?" Gu Mengyao was startled to hear this and nearly gave Shen Yushu a kick.
"Of course it has to do with you! Actually, the credit is all Sister Yaoyao's. If Sister Yaoyao hadn't pretended to be sick to lure Zhong Yongliang to the door, Xiaoshu wouldn't have had the chance to swap it!" Shen Yushu said. "So the credit is all Sister Yaoyao's."
"Then... I don't want a reward. Give it to yourself," Gu Mengyao said, a little embarrassed.
"Great, then come on, Arrow Brand Bro. Kiss Xiaoshu..." Shen Yushu said happily.
"Heh heh..." Of course Wei Zhao could not actually kiss Xiaoshu. True, through a series of mishaps the two of them had kissed, and that night Xiaoshu had even confessed her feelings to him, but Wei Zhao knew very well that Xiaoshu only seemed bold; in certain respects she was quite conservative.
Otherwise, given Xiaoshu's temperament, he would have been pushed down onto the bed long ago. That it had not happened yet proved the point.
"Then I'll put it on record for now—you'll have to pay it back later!" Shen Yushu did not press the matter. Instead, she solemnly picked up a pen and wrote a line on the wall calendar in the living room: On such-and-such date, Arrow Brand Bro owes Xiaoshu one loving kiss. To be repaid double in the future.
Wei Zhao was briefly stunned, then glanced at Xiaoshu thoughtfully, feeling that her actions today carried some hidden meaning—though he could not quite figure out what. He had a premonition that this might actually come true one day. Otherwise, why would Xiaoshu bother writing it down?
But before Wei Zhao could think further, Xiaoshu handed him the mid-grade golden cicada undergarment and said, "Arrow Brand Bro, wash it before you use it."
Wei Zhao nodded and said, "Actually, without this thing, Zhong Yongliang has nothing to rely on. I can beat him even without wearing it."
"That won't do! Zhong Yongliang has a... what's it called, anyway something like the Golden Cudgel—it seems able to break through a person's true-qi protective barrier and wound them directly with the staff. What if he hits you with it?" Shen Yushu said worriedly.
"Oh? Then that's a fine thing too, isn't it?" Wei Zhao nodded and said, "All right, I'll wear it, and tomorrow I'll go settle him."