Chapter 427 — The Phone Snatching Incident
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"Could you please cut down on the ridiculous stunts?" Gu Mengyao said, exasperated.
"All right... Sister Yao, then what kind of tree should we buy?" Shen Yushu shrank back a little and asked timidly.
"Let's get something nice-looking, nothing too fancy," said Gu Mengyao, though she knew little about such things either. "Or maybe a fruit tree—ah! Why did you bump into me?"
A young man coming the other way had knocked Gu Mengyao off balance, nearly sending her to the ground. He hurried to apologize. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to—I'm in a rush to move some goods..."
"Oh, it's nothing..." Gu Mengyao frowned. Since he had said it was unintentional, she had no wish to make an issue of it.
"Wait!" The young man was about to leave when Wei Zhao caught hold of him.
"You—what do you want?" A flicker of wariness crossed the young man's eyes. Gu Mengyao looked at Wei Zhao, puzzled as well. She had already let the matter drop, so why was Wei Zhao making a fuss over it?
"Take out your phone," Wei Zhao said mildly.
"Phone? What phone..." The young man looked flustered, but then suddenly shouted at the top of his voice, "Robbery! Someone's robbing me of my phone! Help, somebody!"
At his cry, the attention of the bystanders was immediately drawn, and a crowd gathered to watch the spectacle.
"What's going on here?" At that moment several men in security uniforms came over and questioned the young man.
"He's trying to rob me—he demanded my phone..." the young man said to the head guard, all innocence.
"That's right, I can testify to it! This fellow, without so much as asking who's right or wrong, demanded his phone!" A voice from the crowd suddenly chimed in.
"Oh? Since that's the case, you can all come with me to the security office!" The head guard glanced at Wei Zhao, but his gaze lingered instead on Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu behind him, and a lecherous gleam flashed in his eyes.
"Wei Zhao, what on earth is going on?" Gu Mengyao was getting angry. They had come out simply to buy saplings—why was Wei Zhao stirring up trouble for no reason? Stopping a total stranger and demanding his phone?
"Your phone was stolen by him." Wei Zhao shrugged and looked at the eldest miss.
"What? My phone?" Gu Mengyao felt her pocket, and her expression changed at once. The phone that had been in her pocket was nowhere to be found. "You mean he stole my phone?"
"Yes. Otherwise, why would I have stopped him?" Wei Zhao nodded.
"Hey, you'd better not sling mud at people—who took your phone?" The young man puffed out his chest and cried indignantly. "If you say I took your phone, then call it and see!"
"You turned it off long ago..." Wei Zhao gave him a glance and said mildly. That little trick of his was plain as day to Wei Zhao.
"Enough, all of you, say no more. Come with me to the security office; once we're there, who's right and who's wrong will naturally become clear." Clearly the head guard did not want Wei Zhao to say any more, and with that he made to push him away.
Wei Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly and more or less guessed what the trouble was. This head guard and the thieving young man were in it together?
"You two wait for me in the car..." On second thought—no, stay with me." Wei Zhao had meant to have Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu wait in the car, but at the memory of the head guard's lecherous gaze, he felt uneasy, and having them close by his side was safer.
Bu Ruoming did not return to school until it was nearly time for dismissal. He questioned several of his men and learned that Wei Zhao had not come looking for him, nor made any inquiries about him, and only then did he relax. It seemed Wei Zhao could not be bothered to hold a grudge against him!