Chapter 361 — Wei Zhao's Birthday Gift

"So much for loyalty! You're all talk and no action — 'kneel on the CPU,' huh? Who knows who'll be the one kneeling in the end!" Seeing Shen Yushu shamelessly deny everything, Gu Mengyao shot her a glare and said furiously.

"Hehe..." Shen Yushu pretended not to hear. She rose from the sofa with a grin and ran over to Wei Zhao: "Brother Arrow, how did you teach An Jianwen and Su Taizao a lesson? Tell me, quick!"

Gu Mengyao was secretly annoyed at Shen Yushu, but when she heard her ask how Wei Zhao had dealt with An Jianwen and Su Taizao, she could not help but widen her eyes and look at him too.

"Heh, see for yourselves." Wei Zhao handed his phone to Shen Yushu.

Earlier, when An Jianwen had been filming with his phone, Wei Zhao had started filming too — only at first the phone had been in his pocket, so all it captured was their voices, no image.

"Brother Lin, come quick! I've already told the hotel manager to find us a few hot girls!"

"Great... once we've eaten and drunk our fill, we can have ourselves some fun with the girls!"

The voices spilled out of Wei Zhao's phone, and Gu Mengyao heard every word. She could not help but glare at him: "Xiaoshu, see? I told you this thing isn't honest. Tomorrow I'm playing this recording for Tang Yun, and letting her see just what kind of man Wei Zhao is!"

Shen Yushu looked at Wei Zhao doubtfully as well: "Brother Arrow, are you that kind of person?"

"Heh... just keep watching and you'll find out." Wei Zhao shrugged and offered no explanation.

Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao kept listening. When Wei Zhao named Xuexue and Huahua, Gu Mengyao frowned again: "Wei Zhao, how do you even know about Xuexue and Huahua?"

"..." Wei Zhao said nothing, only gestured for her to keep watching.

When he gave no answer, Gu Mengyao took it for a guilty conscience. She snorted and went on watching. And when she heard how cowardly Wei Zhao had acted when An Jianwen and Su Taizao went to fetch the girls, she understood that he had been playing a trick from the very start!

A man who feared neither heaven nor earth — would he be afraid of going to make a little trouble?

When they heard Wei Zhao smash a liquor bottle into the private room, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu understood his scheme! Whoever was in that room was surely no pushover! Wei Zhao was using someone else's hands to deal with An Jianwen and Su Taizao!

Sure enough, the men in the room flew into a rage and set upon An Jianwen and Su Taizao with fists and feet. By then the image was visible — it was Wei Zhao's footage...

"Haha! Brother Arrow, you're amazing — killing without leaving a trace!" Shen Yushu watched the recording of An Jianwen and Su Taizao being beaten with great relish: "Those two really did shoot themselves in the foot — they wanted to find you a girl, and got a savage beating instead!"

"A cheap trick like that only fools those two idiots." Gu Mengyao snorted, with no intention of praising Wei Zhao — never mind who had been doubting him a moment ago.

"Haha, I can't take it, I'm dying of laughter — those two are such fools!" Shen Yushu laughed helplessly: "Brother Arrow, copy this for me later. When I'm bored, I want to watch it again!"

"Sure." Wei Zhao nodded...

After returning to his room, Kang Xiaobo called. The kid was fretting over what to give his second grandfather for his birthday that weekend.

"Boss, what do you think I should give him? This time I'm bringing Xiaofen and you along, after all — if the gift is too shabby, I'll lose face.

"Heh... your second grandfather, Divine Doctor Kang, actually lacks nothing. Whatever you give, his family won't think much of it." Wei Zhao smiled: "It all depends on their attitude toward your family. From what you've told me, the relationship between your two families only looks passable on the surface but is actually poor. If your gift is too cheap, they'll think you're a pauper; if it's too expensive, they'll think you're putting on airs!"

"Ah, you're right!" Kang Xiaobo nodded in deep agreement: "If it were Kang Zhaoming and the others, even a calligraphy scroll they wrote themselves would have my second grandfather treating it like treasure and smiling for ages — after all, they're his own grandchildren. But me..."

"All right, Xiaobo. Since you call me boss, I'll take care of this for you! I'll prepare a special, generous gift for him — though whether he believes it's a good thing is up to him." Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then said.

"Oh? Boss, you've got something good?" Kang Xiaobo was overjoyed at his words: "Boss, do you have a gift that can make us hold our heads high?"

"I do. That's exactly what I'm preparing for you — but I'm afraid they won't believe it's anything good." Wei Zhao said.

"If they don't believe it, so be it. It doesn't matter — as long as the sentiment is there!" Kang Xiaobo nodded: "Boss, no matter what anyone says, I trust you!"

After hanging up, a faint smile crossed Wei Zhao's lips. Divine Doctor Kang, was it... once his own Doctor Guan brand grew big, the man might well become an enemy. To keep him from entertaining any unrealistic ideas, he might as well put him in his place at this birthday banquet!

After the last time he had performed acupuncture on Liu Zhenhu, Wei Zhao had had an idea: to make a Marrow-Cleansing, Bone-Tempering Pill. Not the real thing, of course — the genuine pill required vast quantities of rare and precious Chinese herbs, and not only was the cost terrifyingly high, but the yield of those herbs meant such a pill could never be mass-produced.

It was a pill Old Man Wei had given him as a child to temper his constitution — one that could expel impurities from the body and thereby cleanse the marrow and temper the bones.

But such a treasure Wei Zhao would naturally never give away. What he meant to make was merely a substitute: it could expel only some of the impurities the body's metabolism had failed to clear, along with toxins accumulated within, and could not truly remake a constitution.

Even so, it could extend a person's life by several years, even ten — provided, of course, that the body had no major ailments. It was no elixir, only something akin to a detox medicine; even taken, it could not cure disease.

Wei Zhao's earlier acupuncture on Liu Zhenhu had achieved a similar effect, and that could be replaced with a Chinese patent medicine. This time, for Kang Xiaobo's second grandfather's birthday banquet, what he planned to present was exactly one such Marrow-Cleansing, Bone-Tempering Pill — though Wei Zhao had renamed it the "Life-Extending Detox Pill."

The name was rather more accurate.

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