Chapter 332 — Safe Return

"I need to confirm something with you. There is a man who claims he bought a car from you today, and he is wearing one of our Water Blue Gang logo baseball caps. Do you know this man?" Lazi asked.

"Oh? There is such a man, an Oriental tourist. I sold him an old-model Santana. If it is him, then there is no problem!" York thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you give him the phone, and I will confirm it again?"

"That works!" Lazi thought it was better to be careful, so he handed the phone to Wei Zhao: "You talk to York."

"Brother York, it is me!" Wei Zhao said with a beaming smile: "Here is the thing, after I bought the car I was about to drive it back, but I got stopped at the exit out of town, and I have no idea what is going on..."

"It is you, all right, no problem, give the phone back to Lazi and I will talk to him!" Having confirmed that the man on the phone was indeed the one who had bought the car today, York felt reassured.

"All right!" Wei Zhao returned the phone in his hand to Lazi: "Brother York wants to speak with you!"

Lazi took the phone, said a couple of words, nodded, then said to Wei Zhao: "All right, you can go. I am Lazi, you can come to me next time you want to buy a car!"

Lazi was already trying to steal business.

"No problem, Brother Lazi!" Wei Zhao nodded in agreement. Buy a car from you? In your next life.

Back in the car, Wei Zhao was waved through smoothly and drove speeding out of the little blue town.

Xie Jinbiao, sitting in the passenger seat, was a little stunned. That was it? They were letting them go? So many cars beside them were held back, yet Wei Zhao said a few words, took a phone call, and that was enough?

Of course, this time Xie Jinbiao had learned his lesson and did not dare ask questions recklessly.

Wei Zhao offered no explanation. When he had seen Water Blue Gang members searching for someone back at the hotel, he had anticipated there would also be Water Blue Gang men at the town exit, so he had put on the Water Blue Gang cap directly and prepared his story, borrowing York's name to get smoothly out of town.

Once out of town, Wei Zhao took the cap off his head and tossed it away. The thing was no longer of any use, and outside Water Blue Gang territory it carried no weight. If he were mistaken for someone else, it would only bring more trouble.

They drove without a hitch all the way to the airport, where Wei Zhao simply abandoned the car in the parking lot, without even pulling out the key.

"Let's go, do you still want to stay here?" Seeing Xie Jinbiao staring blankly at the airport, Wei Zhao snapped at him.

"N-no... Brother, I was just looking at this heartbreaking place. Who knows if I will ever come back again?" Xie Jinbiao sighed, then hurried after Wei Zhao into the international departures passage...

The plane roared down the runway and soared into the sky... All the way Xie Jinbiao was silent, and no one knew what he was thinking. When they changed planes in Yanjing, however, Xie Jinbiao asked carefully: "Brother... how much did my dad pay you..."

"All his property." Wei Zhao answered flatly: "Once you go back, he will have nothing left."

"Oh..." Xie Jinbiao nodded. Though a little dejected, he said nothing more. In his view, the price was fair enough. With Wei Zhao's skills, he was worth it! And all his family's assets put together did not amount to a hundred million US dollars. If anything, they had gotten off cheaply, otherwise his father would have had to sell everything down to the last pot and still be left drowning in debt.

Xie Jinbiao's attitude rather surprised Wei Zhao. No tears, no fuss, as if he had accepted the fact. Could this fellow have actually turned over a new leaf?

In fact, after this hair-raising ordeal, Xie Jinbiao had thought through a few things. When he had money, he was a young master. With no money, he was nothing at all...

The plane landed safely on the ground. They were home.

Wei Zhao himself felt nothing much, but Xie Jinbiao was overwhelmed with emotion, trembling all over with excitement...

"Having a craving?" Wei Zhao glanced at him.

"No, I am just a little excited. I have already kicked the habit..." Xie Jinbiao said, a little embarrassed...

"Kicked it?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. This kid could quit drugs?

"I was locked up for two months. With no money, who would give me drugs! It was awful at first, but I pulled through..." Xie Jinbiao explained, rather sheepishly.

Wei Zhao nodded and said nothing. In a case like Xie Jinbiao's, if he never touched the stuff again, a complete recovery was possible. The fear was that he would touch it again. One touch and he would be hooked once more.

But that was none of Wei Zhao's business. Bringing him back was fulfillment enough of his promise.

At the airport, Uncle Qing's car had not come to meet them. Wei Zhao had not told him the exact time of his return. The tickets could be changed, so the time of their return depended on how smoothly Wei Zhao's mission went.

Out of the airport, Wei Zhao raised a hand to flag a taxi, and got in with Xie Jinbiao.

"To Qianhua Waterfront Estate." Wei Zhao instructed the taxi driver.

"All right!" The taxi driver nodded and started the car, feeling a little puzzled. Wei Zhao was dressed very ordinarily, while the kid in the back looked as if he had escaped from a refugee camp, ragged and thin as an opium addict. These two going to Qianhua Waterfront? That was where rich people lived!

But he asked no more questions. After all, what he collected was the fare. What they went there for was none of his business.

Xie Jinbiao had not been back in the country for several years. Looking at the streets of Songshan, his eyes filled with excitement, and thinking he would soon be home, he grew even more excited...

When they reached Qianhua Waterfront, Wei Zhao paid the fare and got out with Xie Jinbiao, walking on foot toward District F...

Xie Guangbo had not gone to the company these past two days. He had announced to the outside that he had a bad cold and needed to rest at home, which left Jin Gubang, who was already prepared to move against Gu Pengzhan, deeply frustrated...

Why fall ill sooner or later, but precisely at this critical moment when the board meeting was to be convened, Xie Guangbo fell ill?

Jin Gubang had visited Xie Guangbo once at his villa, but Xie Guangbo indeed looked haggard and worn. Jin Gubang did not suspect that Xie Guangbo was feigning illness!

And in fact, Xie Guangbo did not have a cold. The reason he looked haggard was worry over his son's safety! Although he had witnessed Wei Zhao's skills, as the saying goes, two fists are no match for four hands, especially in a strange foreign land that was entirely the other side's territory. Bringing his son back, no matter how you looked at it, seemed a most difficult task...

So, he had not slept well at night. How could he not look haggard? Jin Gubang happened to come, and seeing Xie Guangbo sickly and feeble, he could hardly press him further, only urging him to rest well and recover soon...

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