護花近衛 - 第182章 當頭棒喝 - 墨香閣

None of this was any use to Wei Zhao. He closed the page and looked up Miracle Doctor Kang instead. Since he meant to make his mark in the medicine business, this Doctor Kang was someone he had to understand. What he had not expected was that the man turned out to be Kang Xiaobo's grand-uncle... That was quite a coincidence.

A man could not do without money. Although the old man at home was harsh with him, Wei Zhao had never complained about it. For one mission the pay was tens or hundreds... not even as much as the expenses for the mission itself!

His master was not a stingy man. For every mission, apart from the share the organization had to withhold, the rest of the reward should have been wired to the old man's account.

But each time the old man gave him only tens or hundreds, and Wei Zhao was too lazy to haggle over it. The only possibility was that the old man had pocketed the rest, but to Wei Zhao the old man was much like his own father, who had raised him from childhood. If he took the money, so be it. Wei Zhao could only pretend not to know. After all, he never wanted for food or clothes...

What puzzled Wei Zhao was that, having taken the money, the old man still lived so shabbily. Could he really be a modern Grandet?

Now he drew a monthly salary from Gu Pengzhan, but having no income of his own still left him uneasy. Who knew what this mission was really about? Even now Wei Zhao could make no sense of it, so he had to keep something in reserve...

What if he lost his job? By now Wei Zhao had truly fallen in love with his present life, going to school and coming home like any other high school student, with good brothers of his own and a girl he secretly admired...

Judging by the reviews online, Miracle Doctor Kang had a good reputation, only the medicine sold so well and was in such short supply that it was hard to buy, a case of money unable to buy goods. Yet the more it was so, the more it proved how miraculous the medicine was.

Although Wei Zhao had never seen Miracle Doctor Kang's golden wound medicine with his own eyes, he was confident that his old man's prescription would be no worse. If he brought it out, the market would likely be split in two.

The next day Wei Zhao had nothing to do and naturally did not drive himself to school. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came yawning down the stairs, clearly having stayed up late watching the concert. Wei Zhao felt the big star had no real charm at all. She might look a little prettier than Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, but that was makeup and stage effects. In terms of natural looks, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu lost nothing to her, so Wei Zhao thought that instead of watching the star, he might as well look at his own two girls...

"Yesterday's live concert was so great! I wonder when Xiaohan will come to Songshan for a concert?" Shen Yushu was still savoring last night's show.

"Well, Songshan is neither a provincial capital nor a special economic zone, so it will probably be difficult," Gu Mengyao said. "I must buy a Blu-ray of the concert to keep. Yesterday was not enough."

"Yes, yes, let's go buy it at noon and see if the video shops near the school have it," Shen Yushu nodded. "But there do not seem to be many genuine copies near the school. To buy the real thing, we will have to go to the bookstore area..."

"Wei Zhao," Gu Mengyao called to the idle Wei Zhao beside them. "You have nothing to do at noon, so go buy us the Blu-ray of Xu Shilan's concert. The first show was a month ago, so it must be on sale by now."

"Uh... all right." Wei Zhao looked at the two star-chasers chattering back and forth and nodded. It was a small matter, just buying a disc, and Wei Zhao did not think much of it.