Chapter 73 — Free Chef (Please Bookmark, Please Recommend, Please Give All Kinds of Support, Thank You)

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It was not long before Uncle Qing's Bentley pulled up in front of the villa, and Uncle Qing froze for a moment when he saw Wei Zhao standing at the gate.

"Mr. Lin, what are you doing here?" Uncle Qing got out of the car and looked at Wei Zhao with some surprise.

"I came out for a breath of fresh air, and to have a look at who lives around here," Wei Zhao said.

Uncle Qing nodded. "Mengyao and the others have not come out yet? Shall I go and call them?"

Just as he spoke, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came walking out of the villa chatting and laughing with their schoolbags on their backs. Seeing Uncle Qing, they greeted him and got into the car.

Wei Zhao naturally took the front passenger seat, and Uncle Qing started the car and drove slowly toward the school.

Once in the car, the two girls kept whispering together in the back seat. The Bentley had plenty of room inside, and besides, Wei Zhao did not care to eavesdrop on their private talk, so he paid no attention to what they were saying.

After a while, Shen Yushu gave Gu Mengyao a nudge. "If you like it, why will you not say so yourself?"

"Like what? I will just have a couple of bites in passing. Forget it if you will not say it," Gu Mengyao snorted and ignored Shen Yushu.

Shen Yushu had no choice but to wrinkle her nose. "Fine, fine, I will say it, I will say it."

Those two remarks were spoken loudly and clearly enough that Wei Zhao heard them from the front passenger seat, though he had no idea what they were about.

"Uncle Qing, when you come over in the evening, could you buy some more fresh ingredients?" Shen Yushu said to Uncle Qing as he drove.

"Oh? Ingredients?" Uncle Qing was slightly taken aback. "You mean fresh vegetables and meat?"

"Yes, eggs, seasonings, buy a little of everything. Just make it a complete set," Shen Yushu said with a nod.

"All right." Uncle Qing was puzzled. He had prepared fresh vegetables and meat for them before, but much of it had ended up expiring, so afterward he had only kept a small amount on hand for emergencies. He had not expected Shen Yushu to suddenly ask him to stock up a whole lot.

Judging from what Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao had just been saying, Gu Mengyao was most likely in on it too, so Uncle Qing asked no more questions and agreed without hesitation.

"Yay! Sister Yaoyao, we will have good food from now on!" Shen Yushu excitedly held out her hand, wanting a high-five from Gu Mengyao.

Gu Mengyao shot her a glare. "Eat, eat, all you ever think about is eating. When you eat yourself into a fat pig, let us see who will still marry you."

Wei Zhao listened from the front passenger seat with metaphorical black lines all over his head. If he still could not figure out what this girl Shen Yushu was scheming, he would be a complete idiot. Buying all those ingredients, was she treating him as a free chef?

Damn it, how wronged was he? Waking up with a runny nose had been seized on as blackmail material. If word of this got out and his old teammates heard it, would they not laugh their teeth off?

Still, this was really not something he could explain, and the more he explained the worse it would get, so Wei Zhao could only swallow it. He would just treat it as carrying out a mission. For a reward big enough to feed him for the rest of his life, what he was putting up with now counted as nothing.

Compared with those days in the North African jungle, when even a spider could take a man's life, life now was wonderful. He could go to school and chase girls... well, chasing girls did not seem very reliable.

Watching in the rearview mirror as Shen Yushu made faces at him from the back seat, Wei Zhao could only close his eyes and pretend he had seen nothing.

Shen Yushu had spent ages contorting her eyes and had finally managed several highly difficult expressions, hoping to annoy Wei Zhao, only to find that Brother Arrow had actually shut his eyes. She instantly flared with anger, and in her excitement her face cramped up and would not go back to normal.

"Xiao Shu, what are you doing? What is wrong with your face?" Gu Mengyao noticed that something was off with Shen Yushu.

"N-nothing... my tooth hurts," Shen Yushu said through held breath. She certainly could not tell Gu Mengyao the truth, or Gu Mengyao would laugh her head off.

"So it is a toothache. I saw you squinting away there and thought something had gone wrong with your eyes," Wei Zhao remarked coolly, getting his petty revenge for being treated as a free chef.

Ha! Far from getting angry, Shen Yushu laughed instead. So this fellow had not really kept his eyes shut after all, and he had seen her funny faces. Then her cramp had not been suffered in vain.

At that thought, Shen Yushu cheered up again.

"Xiao Shu, your tooth hurts and you are still laughing?" Gu Mengyao was baffled, and seeing Shen Yushu baring her teeth and grinning made it all the stranger.

"It is nothing, nothing," Shen Yushu said, waving her hand.

Just then the car stopped in a small alley near the school, so Gu Mengyao asked no more. The two girls got out one after the other, while Wei Zhao stayed seated in the car. As they saw it, he had to keep his distance to avoid suspicion.

"Mr. Lin, let me drive you to the hospital to change your dressing?" Uncle Qing said as he started the car again.

"Change the dressing?" Wei Zhao only then remembered that the wound on his leg had not yet healed. That little bit of pain meant nothing to him, and if no one had mentioned it he would have forgotten it entirely. "All right."

Wei Zhao thought to himself that he would have to stop by a pharmacy later and mix up his wound medicine first, since ordinary drugs healed cuts far too slowly. While he was at it, he would also mix up the medicine for Yang Huaijun.

The car arrived at Songjiang City First People's Hospital. Uncle Qing parked in the lot, and Wei Zhao went in alone to have his dressing changed.

When he reached the surgical treatment room, Wei Zhao did not see Guan Xin, the pretty nurse from yesterday. On duty today was a middle-aged woman, and Wei Zhao felt instantly relieved. Luckily she was not here, or it would have been another embarrassing scene.

"Hello, I am here to have my dressing changed," Wei Zhao said, handing the treatment slip to the middle-aged nurse.

"Oh, sit over there," the middle-aged nurse said. She glanced at the slip Wei Zhao handed her, quickly got the fresh medicine ready, and said to him, "Take off your pants."

"Uh... should we not close the door?" Wei Zhao asked awkwardly when he saw that the treatment room door was still open.

"A big young man like you, what are you afraid of? Hurry up," the middle-aged nurse said gruffly. "This is a hospital. Who would care to look at your backside?"

"Uh... all right..." Wei Zhao was speechless. Thinking of the shy Guan Xin from yesterday, this middle-aged nurse had perhaps once been a green young girl too, but the years had turned her into a tough auntie. He wondered whether Guan Xin would turn out the same way years from now... At the thought, Wei Zhao felt both chilled and regretful.

To be honest, his first impression of Guan Xin had been quite good.

Still, he had to admit that this older nurse was far more skillful with her hands than Guan Xin. In no time at all she had finished changing Wei Zhao's dressing, tossed the used cotton into the trash bin, and said, "All done, young man. You are healing nicely. Come back once more tomorrow and you will be fine."

"Uh... all right... thank you..." Wei Zhao thanked her and hurried out of the surgical treatment room, thinking to himself that it was lucky no one had passed by.

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