Chapter 2698 — Tang Yuqi's Invitation
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Getting Yu Xiaoke to fall for Wei Zhao—now that would be a challenge of the highest difficulty. Wei Zhao thought it sounded like a rather good game.
To be honest, Wei Zhao really did like Yu Xiaoke quite a lot, and he worried about letting her go on the way she was. That little firebrand would do anything for the orphanage children, and she always threw herself into the most dangerous things. Wei Zhao was afraid that one careless moment and she would be gone like a wisp of fragrant smoke.
"Fine, then it's settled. I'll wait for you at the orphanage gate. Whoever gets there first waits for the other a while," Wei Zhao said.
"All right, be there or be square!" Yu Xiaoke said happily.
"Mm, be there or be square." Wei Zhao shook his head and hung up.
Having fixed a time with Yu Xiaoke, Wei Zhao called White Leader and told him they would set out Friday night, asking him to get ready in advance. White Leader had no problem with that.
Qiu Lingshan received another call from Tang Yuqi. Though she had been putting him off all along, covertly observing his character, Tang Yuqi was no ordinary man—he was a detective, and he had already noticed that Qiu Lingshan was hiding something from him.
Precisely because he was a detective, he did not act rashly. Drawing on the care and patience of his investigative work, he decided to first become friends with Qiu Lingshan, and only then slowly uncover the truth of the matter.
"Miss Song, are you free tonight? Let me treat you to dinner, as thanks for all your help. There's still no word of my second uncle, but you've been making inquiries and working things out on our behalf all this time, and I'm deeply grateful," Tang Yuqi said.
"This..." Qiu Lingshan hesitated. Tang Yuqi's words were so grand and proper that she had no way to refuse.
"Miss Song, you wouldn't deny me this small courtesy, would you?" Tang Yuqi said with a smile.
"Very well, then." Qiu Lingshan actually wanted to observe Tang Yuqi's character and get a closer look at his true aims and background, so she agreed. Tang Zhi's matter was no trifling thing, after all—she could not rashly tell Tang Yuqi about it.
The dinner was arranged at a Western restaurant near the police station. Western food here was generally synonymous with romance; most of those dining there were couples. For Qiu Lingshan and Tang Yuqi to eat at such a place would easily invite misunderstanding.
Qiu Lingshan had wanted to refuse, but considering that Tang Yuqi had returned from overseas and was a Westerner, eating Western food was for him as ordinary as eating at home, so she agreed after all.
Over dinner, the two only talked about some matters of Tang Yuqi's family. Qiu Lingshan did not breathe a word about Tang Zhi or Tang Jucheng, and Tang Yuqi did not press to ask, seeming simply to express his gratitude to Qiu Lingshan, which let her breathe a sigh of relief.
Still, through this dinner Qiu Lingshan found Tang Yuqi to be a decent enough person. But was it a surface put on for show, or was that truly how he was? Until she genuinely understood him, she could not easily speak.
In the blink of an eye it was Friday night. Wei Zhao, carrying a large backpack, rode in White Leader's car toward Songshan City.
Wei Zhao did not drive; if he had, Yu Xiaoke might easily have seen through him later. White Leader had a car anyway, so Wei Zhao simply rode with him.
In the backpack Wei Zhao had packed the Heavenly Thunder Pig and the Thousand-Silk Mask. He had left the Male Thief mask behind—there was no longer any need for it.
"In a bit I'll go with Xinxin to visit her grandfather Guan Xuewen. You go eat first, and call me when you're done," White Leader said to Wei Zhao.
"All right." Wei Zhao nodded.