Chapter 413 — Changing Tactics
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"The... the brain-dead girl is begging you — isn't that enough?" Qiu Lingshan clenched her jaw and forced the words out. She had Wei Zhao figured out now: he yielded to soft words and defied hard ones. The nickname "brain-dead girl" made her want to die — and to drag Wei Zhao down with her — but to get him to act, Qiu Lingshan endured it. Inwardly she swore that if one day Wei Zhao fell into her hands, she would never let him off easy.
"Heh. I'll give it a try." Wei Zhao was a little resigned. With Qiu Lingshan putting it that way, he really could not refuse. "But my medical skill isn't up to much right now. I can only wake him, and I can't guarantee how long he'll live. There are too many things wrong with him."
"You mean you still have hope of curing him, rather than just waking him briefly?" Qiu Lingshan caught the implication in his words.
"I can't. But my old man back home more or less could," Wei Zhao said. "Only my old man won't come. So if you want him dead, I'll wake him up for you right now; if you want to save his life, then leave him alone for the time being and let him lie there."
"That..." Qiu Lingshan was caught in a dilemma. It was true she wanted to find a lead as quickly as possible, but if Wei Zhao had hope of healing Liu Bojia's injuries, she would rather forgo the lead for now.
Before, there had been no way; getting Liu Bojia to say a few words had been good enough. But now that Wei Zhao did have a way, she could not let an innocent man be sacrificed for nothing.
"Call me when you've made up your mind. I have to get back." Wei Zhao knew what she was thinking and smiled. "The lunch break is limited."
"No need to think it over. Treat him when you have a way." Qiu Lingshan shook her head.
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was rather surprised. He had not expected Qiu Lingshan to be so decisive; he had underestimated her before. Her sense of justice and responsibility were stronger than he had thought. "All right, I'll do my best. I'll get you an answer as soon as I can."
This time it was Qiu Lingshan's turn to be surprised. She had not expected Wei Zhao to say such a thing. In the past, whenever she went to him, he either put her off or found one reason or another; but this time, he had volunteered to do his best, and soon!
Qiu Lingshan could not adjust all at once. Wasn't this change too sudden? Could it be the effect of her soft approach earlier? It must be — sure enough, he yielded to soft words and defied hard ones!
"Then the brain-dead girl will wait for your call..." Though saying it felt awkward and humiliating, at least her subordinates were all outside and no one could see; she might as well treat it as a private word between the two of them. As long as the boy really agreed to help, she did not mind being a little brain-dead. Who told him to be genuinely better than her?
Wei Zhao looked at her as though he did not recognize her. In that short span she had called herself the brain-dead girl three times. To beg a favor, she was even willing to curse herself?
Still, it would not hurt to take her pride down a notch, so Wei Zhao did not bother to correct her. "All right, I'm off."
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