Chapter 607 — Getting Close to Guan Xin
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"Well... I do have a man, but he has no ties to the Gu Group whatsoever. Even if we send him to take the fall, the police might not buy it!" Li Cihua said, somewhat troubled.
"Young Master Bing, I happen to have just the man. He's a distant relative of mine. Offer him enough money and he'll gladly take the blame — he's the sort who cares for cash and not for his own life." Jin Gubang thought for a moment. "Best of all, he has a score to settle with Gu Pengzhan!"
"Mm, not bad. Then it's settled — the Medicine King will brew the poison, Zhong Yongliang will do the dosing, and if anything goes wrong, Jin Gubang's distant relative takes the fall!" Young Master Bing could barely contain his eagerness, and so in a few short words he had the whole plan laid out. "Medicine King, you'd best make it something rare, something hard to antidote, something the hospital can't trace. Only then can we bring ruin to the Gu Group's name. Otherwise, if it comes out that someone poisoned him deliberately, the blow to Gu Pengzhan won't be nearly so heavy!"
"Rest easy, Young Master Bing." The Medicine King spoke with confidence. "There are precious few people in this world who can neutralize the poisons I brew! Since folk call me the Medicine King, I have naturally made a deep study of pharmacology. In all my life I have lost to only one man — and he vanished more than ten years ago!"
The Medicine King had every right to his pride. Among all the famed physicians of the hidden families, if the Medicine King claimed second place, no one dared claim first! That was precisely why he had been able to save Uncle Zhu from injuries so grave.
"Mm, good." Young Master Bing knew well the Medicine King's prowess. "Once Zhong Yongliang is out of the hospital, we put the plan into motion! And Lao Zhong, don't brood over it too much — I won't treat you badly. Doesn't Pinliang need a kidney? In the next few days I'll find a matching donor and have one put in for him!"
"Many thanks, Young Master Bing!" Zhong Fabai was overjoyed. Zhong Yongliang's missing kidney had long been a weight on his heart, and for Young Master Bing to step in and find a donor was simply the best news he could have hoped for.
Wei Zhao, of course, had no idea that Young Master Bing had already begun moving against him — though even if he had known, he would have laughed it off. The Medicine King? A man who had to borrow Doctor Kang's common wound salve, and he dared call himself the Medicine King? Why were there so many shameless people in this world? Truly, the world was vast and shamelessness knew no bounds!
He parked the car beneath the Xuehai Bookstore, and Wei Zhao accompanied the two young ladies into the shop.
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu headed for the senior-high study-aid section. Wei Zhao had little interest in such things. Even if he failed to get into university, Gu Pengzhan would find a way to place him in the same school as Gu Mengyao. Wei Zhao was not Gu Mengyao; he did not much care how he got into university.
Compared with spending every day poring over books and reviewing, he would rather study something else. Wei Zhao was busy enough as it was.
"I'm going to take a look at the medicine section. Come find me there when you've finished buying your books," Wei Zhao said to Gu Mengyao.
"Oh..." Gu Mengyao was flipping open a newly published collection of the latest mock exams from the various provinces and cities. She answered him only absently and paid Wei Zhao no further mind.
Shen Yushu was the same, leafing through a workbook, but when she heard Wei Zhao she waved at him to show she had understood.
Wei Zhao smiled and turned toward the medicine section. It was here, after all, that he had first met Guan Xuewen. Nearly a month had flown by since then, and astonishingly, he and Guan Xuewen had gone on to found a pharmaceutical company together. The turns of a man's life were truly wondrous.