Chapter 1438 — Buy Another Villa
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
"Yes, yes—I told you, I'm Yushu the Prophet!" Shen Yushu nodded. "So you're not allowed to go back on your word!"
"But last time what we agreed on was that you'd stay in the villa. If you're going off to university in another city, then obviously it's not staying in the villa anymore," Wei Zhao said.
"The villa..." Shen Yushu thought for a moment, then hit on an idea. "When we go to another city, we can buy a villa there too, right, Uncle Gu?"
Gu Pengzhan was the one with the money here, so Shen Yushu naturally looked to him.
Gu Pengzhan was happy to have Wei Zhao stay as well, so he nodded. "Of course we can. That's no problem at all—it was my plan to begin with. Otherwise, when Uncle Qing and I go to visit you, we'd have nowhere to stay, wouldn't we? On weekdays you'll live at the school, and on weekends you can come back to the villa."
"Yes! See, Brother Arrow—what we said before was 'a villa,' but it never said which villa. So as long as it's a villa, it counts, right, Sister Yaoyao?" Shen Yushu took Gu Mengyao's hand and asked.
"How would I know what the two of you agreed on?" Gu Mengyao said. Though she acted as if she didn't care, she was secretly pleased. This little Yushu really did have foresight—every time, by some happy accident, she landed right on the mark.
"All right, then. Since it's a promise, I suppose it will have to be that way." Wei Zhao smiled wryly. "Uncle Gu, then I'll leave the matter of school to you."
"What's this about leaving it to me? You're the one looking after Yaoyao and Xiaoshu—if anything, I'm the one troubling you." Gu Pengzhan laughed. "By the way, when do you plan to set out? Is there anything you need to prepare?"
"Nothing much to prepare, really. I'll see how things look over the next few days—once I've settled the family business, I'll be off." Wei Zhao smiled. "The Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit doesn't have legs; it won't run away. So things at home have to be properly arranged first. I plan to have Wu Chengtian fill in for me for the time being, to protect Yaoyao and Xiaoshu."
"That's fine... but Wu Chengtian's strength..." Over this period, Gu Pengzhan and Uncle Qing had learned about Wu Chengtian too, and seeing how devoted and dutiful he was, they had come to accept him—only they were rather uneasy about his strength.
"His strength is no problem. I've already forcibly raised his internal power to the early Xuan rank. Right now he's an expert in both internal and external arts—not much weaker than I am. He's more than enough to protect Yaoyao and Xiaoshu!" Wei Zhao said.
Gu Pengzhan had already heard from Uncle Qing about Wei Zhao's ability to forcibly raise another's strength, so he was not surprised—but raising Wu Chengtian to the early Xuan rank gave Uncle Qing something of a shock. "You can... raise a person's strength to the Xuan rank now?"
Though the ambitions of Uncle Qing's youth, the pursuit of ever higher realms, had faded greatly with the passing of the years, being able to advance his own strength a step further would mean one more measure of assurance in protecting Gu Pengzhan and Gu Mengyao.
"I can. This time, while exploring the ancient tomb, I worked out a method for raising strength. After testing it on Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan, I've confirmed it's reliable and effective. So in a little while, Uncle Qing, if you've nothing else to do, come back to the villa and I'll help raise your strength!" Wei Zhao had seen through Uncle Qing's thoughts, and so he said.
"Good! Then I'll come back as soon as I've dropped Miss Gu and the others off!" Uncle Qing was truly impatient to raise his strength—after all, for a cultivator, this was an irresistible temptation!
Gu Pengzhan looked to Wei Zhao and settled the itinerary that would follow, then left the villa with Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, with Uncle Qing seeing them off to work and school.