護花近衛 - 第236章 我找林大盜 - 清風書屋

Once inside the villa, Wei Zhao meant to hurry straight up to his room and change his clothes, but Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were both sitting in the living room watching television. When they saw Wei Zhao walk in dressed in nothing but strips of cloth, they were dumbstruck.

"Wei Zhao, what are you doing? Playing the thug?" Gu Mengyao stared at him, utterly baffled. "Weren't you invited to dinner with Zhong Yongliang? How did you end up like this?"

"Don't even ask. Let me change first!" Wei Zhao said as he walked briskly toward his room. "That little bastard tried to set me up, hired someone to teach me a lesson, and this is what I got for it..."

Wei Zhao's account was half true and half false. He naturally did not want to say much about the business with Tang Zhi; he merely said that Zhong Yongliang had wanted to send someone after him, and pinned the state of his clothes on that as well.

Shen Yushu watched Wei Zhao's retreating figure, and a flicker of doubt crossed her eyes. Gu Mengyao, watching television, did not notice him at all.

Wei Zhao took off Tang Zhi's school uniform. He had meant to throw it straight away, but after a moment's hesitation he casually tucked it into the wardrobe. It was Tang Zhi's clothing, after all. Wei Zhao did not share the peculiar tastes of certain madmen who collected things women had worn, but he thought that if his relationship with Tang Zhi grew closer in the future, this piece of clothing might carry a bit of sentimental value.

He showered in the bathroom, then changed into a fresh set of clothes and came out of his room.

"Gum Brother, come on, tell me — what fun things happened today?" Shen Yushu was a bundle of curiosity, always itching to get to the bottom of everything. The moment she saw Wei Zhao she peppered him with questions.

"Nothing much. Zhong Yongliang has always had it in for me and wanted to teach me a lesson but never got the chance. Then Black Panther escaped and got in touch with him, and he figured he'd use Black Panther to give me a beating." Wei Zhao explained briefly.

"Black Panther?" Gu Mengyao was startled. "Wei Zhao, you're saying Zhong Yongliang went to Black Panther again to deal with you?"

"Yes. Why?" Wei Zhao noticed something odd in Gu Mengyao's manner.

"I heard my dad say that Black Panther's strength suddenly shot up, and that he even put a ** special forces veteran who'd been transferred back to civilian work ** in the hospital..." Gu Mengyao said. "You... you're all right, aren't you?"

But no sooner had the question left her mouth than Gu Mengyao regretted it. From the look of Wei Zhao now, plainly nothing had happened to him at all; asking him was as good as asking nobody.

"Ha, it's nothing. Black Panther's strength did shoot up, but the moment he ran into me it suddenly dropped a level again," Wei Zhao laughed. "I gave him another beating and sent him off to the police station."

"What?" Gu Mengyao found this hard to believe. How could such a good thing happen? Black Panther just happened to drop a level? Did Wei Zhao think he was playing an online game?

Shen Yushu, however, would not let Wei Zhao off so easily and pressed him for details. "Gum Brother, tell me — how exactly did you *** Black Panther this time?"

***? Wei Zhao glanced at the excited Shen Yushu. So this little girl had a taste for that sort of thing, did she?

Naturally Wei Zhao could not tell her the details, but who couldn't spin a yarn? He improvised a scene of combat at random, and Shen Yushu listened, dumbfounded.

"All right, Xiaoshu, time for bed. Don't keep listening to all this violent stuff — it's bad for the growth of your soul!" Gu Mengyao was not much interested in what Wei Zhao was saying. She was not as curious as Xiaoshu, and whether Black Panther lived or died had nothing to do with her.

"But Yao-yao, I like listening to it. It's like a storyteller's tale," Shen Yushu said.