Chapter 1717 — So You've Figured It Out?
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"Oh no, what are we going to do? We can't have everyone crammed in here, can we? Every night we sleep shoulder to shoulder — we can barely even turn over..." Yu Xiaoke surveyed the squalid conditions with worry. "It's so hot — I'm afraid the children will break out in prickly heat..."
"Sister Xiaoke, why don't you go see Brother Wei Zhao again?" Little Ken hinted. "Last time, didn't he bring in a huge pile of donations for our orphanage?"
"That time was already pushing it. Most people have already donated — how could we impose on them again?" Yu Xiaoke shook her head. "Besides, my relationship with Wei Zhao isn't all that great. He seems to look down on me a little... I don't want to trouble him either..."
"Look down on you? I don't think so." Little Ken thought to himself, If he looked down on you, would he have gone to rescue you? As if. Ugh, this was really troublesome — he had promised Wei Zhao, and yet he couldn't say it outright to Yu Xiaoke. He could only hint, and she still didn't catch on...
"Xiaoke's right. When trouble strikes, we can't always be troubling others — we have to figure something out ourselves!" The old director nodded as well. "They helped us once already. How could we go impose on them again?"
"Oh..." Little Ken nodded, but inwardly he was thinking that he should find a chance to call Wei Zhao and ask if there was anything he could do. Anyway, it looked like Sister Xiaoke was bound to marry him someday, so it was only proper that he do something for the orphanage now — otherwise, how could he ever carry the heavenly Sister Xiaoke of the orphans' hearts back home?
Right now, the ones with the biggest headaches were none other than Zhao Qibing and Li Cihua. They no longer had the heart to go negotiate with the orphanage — negotiating at a time like this would be tantamount to looting a burning house, and it would leave the police a hold over them besides.
Of course, that was secondary. The main thing was that Zhao Qibing's new tower had burned down again — Zhao Qibing was crying foul! Ever since he'd gone into business for himself, he hadn't succeeded at a single thing! This real estate development had been a string of failures from the very start!
Fortunately, Elder Bi didn't care much for such external things, and Li Cihua had shouldered all the responsibility, so Elder Bi hadn't blamed Zhao Qibing at all. After all, in his eyes, Zhao Qibing was now devoting himself wholeheartedly to his cultivation and had handed the company over to his subordinates to manage — this was a case of Zhao Qibing's subordinates meaning well but bungling things, and it had little to do with Zhao Qibing himself.
After the Great Clans Assembly ended, Wei Zhao and Shen Yushu returned to Songshan City. As per his agreement with them, he was to take them back to Xixing Mountain Village for a trip in early August.
As for Chen Yuxuan, Qiu Lingshan, and Wu Chengtian, they had all returned to their respective clans for the time being. The landscape of the great clans had shifted, and everyone needed to go home to prepare and discuss countermeasures. In truth, as Wei Zhao's strength grew, so too had his horizons.
The great clans that had once seemed so lofty in his eyes now looked rather ordinary. So Wei Zhao wasn't all that enthusiastic about matters concerning the cultivators' association — he'd merely put up a name for show. In truth, the arms he relied on were still Wu Chengtian, Chen Yuxuan, Qiu Lingshan, and the like. As for the clans behind them, so long as they didn't make trouble for Wei Zhao, that was enough.
Wei Zhao received Little Ken's call on the way back, and only then did he learn that the orphanage had caught fire and was now reduced to a pile of ashes! And the ironic thing was that Zhao Qibing's tower had also been burned down to a skeleton — it would have to be demolished and rebuilt.