Chapter 5 — Why Does This Feel Like Looking for a Partner? Wei Zhao Smiled Faintly and Nodded, Shaking Hands Naturally with Gu Pengzhan. Such Ordinary Social Etiquette Came Easily to Wei Zhao: "Mr. Gu, Hello!"
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After ushering Gu Pengzhan and Wei Zhao into the office, Uncle Qing withdrew and told Xiao Yu, the secretary in the outer office, to come in and pour tea.
"Mr. Lin, what would you like to drink?" Xiao Yu had already learned Wei Zhao's surname from Uncle Qing.
"Plain boiled water." At home Wei Zhao drank mostly plain boiled water, and abroad it was the same.
Xiao Yu froze for a moment, but still said with a smile, "Very well, please wait a moment." As for what Chairman Chu drank, she did not need to ask, for it was the same every day.
"Mr. Lin, starting tomorrow, Uncle Qing will arrange for you to enter Senior Three Class Five of Songshan First High School as a high school student, in the same class as my daughter Gu Mengyao. You will go to and from school with her every day, look after her life, and tutor her lessons when you return home... To put it plainly, you will simply keep her company... All these years I have been busy with business and have neglected my daughter, and I feel guilty for it. I want to find someone she can talk to, someone to give her more care... That is the true reason I asked you to come... You are about the same age, both young people, so you should have topics in common, no?" Gu Pengzhan said with a faint smile.
Wei Zhao was a little stunned. What was this about finding someone she could talk to? Giving her care? Topics in common? No way? Was this the so-called mission that could feed him for a lifetime? The more he listened, the more it sounded like looking for a partner. Could it be that this girl had some hidden ailment that kept her unmarried, and he had been found to make up the numbers?
"Mr. Lin, what is wrong?" Gu Pengzhan saw the look of astonishment on Wei Zhao's face and seemed to guess what he was thinking. "I had assumed Old Master Lin had already told you what you would be doing this time, but now it seems that is not the case?"
"Mr. Gu, just call me Wei Zhao. Mr. Lin sounds awkward." Wei Zhao gave a bitter smile. "To tell the truth, I really did not know what I was coming to do. The old man only said this was an important mission, and that if I did it well I could live off it for a lifetime..."
"Live off it for a lifetime?" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Gu Pengzhan froze, then burst into great laughter. "Ha ha ha ha, quite right. Old Master Lin did not lie to you. If you do this well, the reward you receive will indeed feed you for a lifetime!"
"But..." Wei Zhao still did not understand what Gu Pengzhan wanted him to do. "What exactly is my mission?"
"Did I not just say it? You will accompany my daughter to and from school and study with her. Of course, you must also be responsible for her safety and not let anyone bully her." Gu Pengzhan explained.
"A study companion? A nanny?" Those were the only words Wei Zhao could think of.
"Er... you may understand it that way. In fact, that is what it is." Gu Pengzhan nodded, and without waiting for Wei Zhao to say more, handed him a file. "This is material on Songshan First High School. You can familiarize yourself with it first."
Wei Zhao nodded helplessly and took the file. So this was the old man's so-called top mission? Damn it, could he have been fooled again?
Just like last time in South America, when the old man told him to go rescue a person... In the end, where was it one person? It was a whole crowd...
But whatever was said, there was a high reward to be had, and the danger of this mission was rather low. It only had something of the nature of being a lackey to a rich family's young miss, but that did not matter. He would treat it as a rest.
Although Songshan City First High School was called First High School, it had long since become a private school. It had only kept its name when it was bought out, and Gu Pengzhan's Gu Group was one of the school's three major shareholders.