護花近衛 - 第366章 針鋒相對 - 墨香閣

"Xiaobo, did your father not tell you? The resort is full. There is no room arranged for you and your classmates!" Kang Zhaoming said with a look of injured innocence. "How about this: you and your classmates go stay at the little inn next door? There is a small inn, only thirty or forty yuan a night. Rough it for one night, and I will reimburse you tomorrow?"

"Oh, Zhaoming, you need not trouble yourself. We have already booked rooms here." Kang Xiaobo spoke indifferently. "No need for you to arrange anything."

"Hm? What?" Kang Zhaoming was startled. "You booked rooms here? Impossible! I have taken every room in this place that is open to the public. Who do you think you are fooling?"

"Why would I fool you?" Kang Xiaobo shrugged. Watching Kang Zhaoming's frantic expression, he felt thoroughly pleased.

"Xiaobo, I know you do not want to lose face in front of your classmates, and I understand how you feel!" Though Kang Zhaoming's tone was earnest and heavy with meaning, he deliberately raised his voice so that Wei Zhao and the others in the car could hear. "But you must understand, most of the people who have come to congratulate my grandfather on his birthday are dignitaries and men of consequence, and even they cannot find rooms. How could there be rooms for your classmates? Besides, you are not my grandfather's own grandson. When the rooms were arranged, there was even less reason to take you into account!"

"Then you need not trouble yourself." Kang Xiaobo showed not the slightest anger. "You have taken everything open to the public. But what is not open to the public — is there none of that either? What we reserved is precisely what is not open to the public."

With that, Kang Xiaobo said no more to Kang Zhaoming. He opened the barrier in front of the car and got back in.

"You..." Kang Zhaoming was choking with rage. He thought to himself that perhaps Kang Xiaobo knew someone on the staff here and had been given a staff rest room. Still, to let him in just like that — he could not swallow it.

"Let it go, Zhaoming!" Kang Zhaoming's father waved a hand. Though he too looked down on this nephew and his family, as an elder there were things he could not carry too far.

"What a piece of work! Still thinks he is somebody?" Watching Wei Zhao's beat-up car drive into the resort, Kang Zhaoming could not help cursing. "Driving that wreck, and not even ashamed of himself?"

"Enough, Zhaoming. Your grandfather still sets great store by face. Do not be so rude in front of outsiders. He is just a relative we have not kept up with for years. If he wants to show off, let him. He will get no real advantage from it!" Kang Zhaoming's father, Kang Cuipu, shook his head, then smiled and went to greet an Audi sedan just about to drive into the resort. "President Wang, you have come too..."

After entering the resort, Wei Zhao contacted Uncle Tian. Because Wei Zhao had declined again and again and given strict instructions, Uncle Tian did not come out to welcome him in person, but sent a trusted subordinate instead.

Even that trusted subordinate, however, did not know Wei Zhao's true identity.

Wei Zhao had wanted to keep a low profile from the start. If he were seen to be so familiar with the owner of the resort, it would be hard to avoid drawing the attention of the Kang family.

This time, Wei Zhao had come purely to stand at the side as an observer and keep Kang Xiaobo company. His chief purpose was to let Xiaofen see clearly the ugly faces of Kang Zhaoming and his kind, and to erase him utterly from her memory.

If Wei Zhao revealed how close he was to Uncle Tian, then Kang Zhaoming might well change his tune and deliberately cozy up to him with flattery — and that would defeat the purpose of letting Xiaofen see his true face.