Chapter 74 — The Man in the Restroom (Please Bookmark, Please Recommend, Please Give All Kinds of Support, Thank You)
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Coming out of the hospital, Wei Zhao had meant to buy some Chinese medicine at a pharmacy nearby, but hospital pharmacies were usually pricey, so on second thought he let it go. He had some money on hand, plus the bank card Gu Pengzhan had given him, yet the herbs he needed were no common goods, where a few grams could easily run into the thousands.
"Mr. Lin, Mr. Gu just called and said if you are free, he wants me to bring you to see him." Once in the car, Uncle Qing said to Wei Zhao.
"Oh? Uncle Chu wants me? Then take me to pay Uncle Chu a visit. Uncle Qing, you know I have nothing to do besides school." Wei Zhao had no idea what Gu Pengzhan wanted from him, perhaps there was a lead on the bank robbery, or perhaps it was about yesterday's clash with Black Panther at school.
"Very well, I will contact Mr. Gu right away." As he spoke, Uncle Qing took out his phone, dialed Gu Pengzhan's number, and told him over the phone that he and Wei Zhao were on their way over now.
The guards in the underground parking lot of the Gu Group knew Uncle Qing's Bentley, and before the car even drew near, they lifted the barrier. Toward such fawning behavior, Wei Zhao made no comment.
Uncle Qing's car was expensive enough that to find an identical one and clone its plates to slip in would take some effort, but those men who robbed the bank that day were clearly no ordinary characters, and there had to be other people behind them.
Fortunately, even getting into the underground lot would have little effect on the Group, so Wei Zhao said no more about it.
They rode the elevator up and came to the door of Gu Pengzhan's office, where Uncle Qing knocked and first pushed the door open for a look. As the man closest to Gu Pengzhan, he could naturally come and go in the office as he pleased, even if there were others inside.
After one glance, however, Uncle Qing closed the door and said to Wei Zhao, who was waiting beside him, "Mr. Lin, Mr. Gu is talking business with someone. Shall we wait a moment?"
"All right." Wei Zhao nodded. As chairman of a top group, Gu Pengzhan could hardly sit idle waiting for him to come calling, and in the gaps he could fit in plenty of business. "I am going to the washroom. You can call me if anything comes up."
"Of course, Mr. Lin, the washroom is over there!" Uncle Qing pointed in the opposite direction from the chairman's office.
This floor was almost entirely senior leaders of the Group, each with a private washroom in his own office, so no one needed the public washroom, and naturally the public washroom was placed as far from the chairman's office as possible.
Wei Zhao walked briskly toward the washroom, and just as he reached the door, he heard a man inside speaking in a low voice, as if on the phone.
Wei Zhao had no wish to eavesdrop on others, nor did he have any such prying taste for private matters, but his hearing was so keen that a name from the man's mouth suddenly caught his attention!
"I waited so long for this chance, that little girl Gu Mengyao goes to the bank to get a card, and what kind of people did you find? How did you handle it?" The man seemed furious as he shouted at the other end, though afraid of being heard, he still forced his voice down.
If Wei Zhao's hearing had not been so sharp, and if he had not been standing at the washroom door, anyone else passing by would never have made out what he was saying.
The man's repeated mention of the name "Gu Mengyao" had already put Wei Zhao on alert, and now, reaching the doorway and hearing him bring up the bank, Wei Zhao felt another chill in his heart!
Without showing anything, Wei Zhao stood before the sinks in the outer washroom, listening to the man inside.