Chapter 622 — Who Is Prettier, Sister Yaoyao or Tang Zhi?

Her brother was a fool as well, and he even said Shen Yushu was silly — but in her eyes, he was the sillier one by far! All for a woman — was it worth it? A year of special training, two years of tempering experience, and in the end it seemed he still could not best that sly vixen Qiu Lingshan. Otherwise he would have won his fair lady long ago, and would not be keeping such a low profile now!

It was a dinner party, and a rather formal one at that, held to welcome her brother home — yet Shen Yushu was still dressed in her cute style, heavy on the lolita look, while Gu Mengyao leaned toward the pure and innocent style, which made her seem a little older than Shen Yushu.

"Xiaoshu, are you ready? We're leaving!" Gu Mengyao called out, tapping on the door of the dressing room.

"Coming, just a moment, I'll be right out." Shen Yushu seldom bothered with formal makeup and dress, and this time she had gone to such lengths only because her brother had come home! Though her words had shown indifference to his return, deep down Shen Yushu had missed her brother very much — after all, it had been more than a year since they last met, and he had not even come home for the New Year.

"Mm." Gu Mengyao was in no hurry; since the occasion was An Liwen's dinner party, her sense of time went rather slack — early or late, she felt it made no difference.

Wei Zhao brought Gu Mengyao's Audi 5 out of the garage, parked it before the villa's entrance, and sat quietly inside the car waiting for Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.

A cell phone rang. Wei Zhao assumed it was An Liwen calling to hurry them along — An Liwen would not dare press Gu Mengyao, but he could call Wei Zhao to ask how they were coming along.

But a glance at the caller display left Wei Zhao rather surprised: it was Qiu Lingshan calling.

"Hello? Brain-dead girl, what is it now?" Instinct told Wei Zhao that Qiu Lingshan would have no good news for him at this hour, so his tone was anything but polite.

Qiu Lingshan's expression froze. She had not heard that pet name, brain-dead girl, for so long that she had almost forgotten she was one herself. Yet she was not annoyed; she drew a deep breath and tried to make her voice sound sweeter: "Yes, brain-dead girl has a little favor to ask of you!"

"Heh... what favor?" Every time Wei Zhao heard Qiu Lingshan call herself that, he had to fight back a laugh! Was this what passed for flirting between lovers?

"Since the last time one of the kidney-harvesting ring's transfer points was smashed, we haven't found any other leads." Here Qiu Lingshan sounded rather helpless. "But the gang hasn't slowed down — they've shifted their targets to the villages around the city. In the past week there have been two kidney harvestings, in Gayazi Village east of town and Shenbu Village west of town. My superiors have handed me a death order: solve the case within two weeks, or they'll send me home..."

"Oh. I see." Wei Zhao answered flatly.

"Hey, you wouldn't just watch brain-dead girl lose her job, would you? Come on, have a little pity on her, help her think of something, get her through this?" Having said it, Qiu Lingshan herself felt the words were sour enough to rot teeth, yet they had come out quite naturally, without a moment's hesitation.

Since when had she come to feel that being humble before Wei Zhao was simply the natural order of things?

"What can I do?" Qiu Lingshan sounded pitiful, but Wei Zhao truly had no way to help — surely he could not abandon Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to go solve her case for her? The young lady would fly into a rage again.

"You wouldn't just stand by and let her die, would you?" Qiu Lingshan was genuinely anxious now. She had just been dressed down by her superiors today; if the case went unsolved in two weeks, it might not be as dire as losing her job, but at the very least she would have no face left to serve as head of the criminal investigation unit!

"I'll keep an eye out for you." Wei Zhao hesitated a moment, then agreed. Qiu Lingshan like this was hard for him to refuse outright — whether for Yang Huaijun's sake or because of his personal ties with her, Wei Zhao could not simply do nothing.

"Mm-hm, then if you get any leads, call me — brain-dead girl's phone is on for you twenty-four hours a day." Hearing Wei Zhao agree, Qiu Lingshan was instantly overjoyed!

Wei Zhao said nothing more; he smiled faintly and hung up.

As for Qiu Lingshan, a hard-to-name feeling welled up in her heart. Was the woman she was now still the woman she had been? Why did she humble herself before Wei Zhao? Where had the proud, domineering Qiu Lingshan of old gone?

If the friends who had known her before ever learned that she had been cooing at a man and calling herself brain-dead girl, would they not laugh their teeth out? No — absolutely no one must ever find out about this!

The reason Wei Zhao agreed to keep an eye out for Qiu Lingshan was that he had roughly found a point of entry: An Liwen. No sooner had he told An Liwen about dealing with Zhong Yongliang than Zhong Yongliang had his kidney cut out the very next day! A beating would have been one thing, but a kidney harvesting — that was sensitive!

Zhong Fabai had not gone to the police, but Wei Zhao knew about it. Even if An Liwen had not been the one to cut out Zhong Yongliang's kidney, he was certainly closely connected to it. An Liwen, in all likelihood, had dealings with the kidney-harvesting ring!

And that was exactly why Wei Zhao had agreed to Qiu Lingshan's request! Pitiful as her pleas were, Wei Zhao did not like to attempt things he was not sure of. Today he happened to be dining with An Liwen, so he could sound him out and see just what relation An Liwen had with the kidney-harvesting ring.

Not long after hanging up on Qiu Lingshan, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came out of the house.

The moment the two girls appeared, Wei Zhao felt a jolt of dazzled admiration. They were already pretty enough without ever dressing up, but today, going out for a proper meal, they had made themselves up, and Wei Zhao could not help but stare for a moment.

"What are you looking at?" Seeing Wei Zhao's eyes fixed straight on her, Gu Mengyao snapped at him, yet secretly she felt a small thrill of delight. So he finally realized there were two pretty girls in this house after all?

"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled faintly and withdrew his gaze.

"Yao Yao's prettier than Tang Zhi, isn't she?" Shen Yushu asked with a grin once she was in the car.

"Heh..." That was a question Wei Zhao would rather not answer. One wrong word and the young lady would fly into a rage again. This kind of high-difficulty question was not one that ordinary people could handle!