Chapter 2062 — Word of the Colored Steel, Part One
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After a while, You Panhu came into the classroom with Huang Mao and Zi Mao, his face steeped in gloom. He shot Wei Zhao a venomous look and sat down in his own seat.
Watching Han Jingyi nearby fussing over those two pill cauldrons, You Panhu grew ever more certain: Wei Zhao had surely demanded those cauldrons for Han Jingyi, and that beginner's supporting mental method and pill-fire condensing chant for pill refiners had likewise been obtained from Old Bai to give to her!
Probably Wei Zhao did not want to spread his own mental method and chant, so he had gotten a generic bargain-bin copy from Old Bai—and by sheer bad luck, You Panhu had taken it for something precious and, by a strange twist of fate, had gift-wrapped two pill cauldrons for Han Jingyi for nothing!
Not long after You Panhu arrived, Old Bai showed up too, and today's lesson began...
At noon, just after class let out, Wei Zhao's phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was the number he had previously saved for Han Xiaohu.
"Hello? Han Xiaohu?" Wei Zhao answered the call.
"Senior Lin, it's me!" Han Xiaohu said. "You got my earlier text, right? I've got the colored steel ready!"
"I got it," Wei Zhao said.
Earlier, Han Xiaohu had said he would present the colored steel the very next day, but Wei Zhao had been busy with Xu Shilan's affairs and had little time to meet Han Xiaohu. Han Xiaohu, for his part—who knew how he had found out that Wei Zhao had invited Xu Shilan to perform—had sent a text saying Wei Zhao should first concentrate on the freshman gala, and to come find him after it was over.
"Yes, Senior Lin—congratulations on taking first place at the freshman gala!" Han Xiaohu said with a laugh.
"You knew about that?" Wei Zhao had been puzzled before; this Han Xiaohu seemed remarkably well informed about his affairs.
"Heh, it's like this: our Hidden Han family happens to have a few distant-branch juniors studying at Donghai Engineering University, and I can pick up a bit of news from them," Han Xiaohu said, making no attempt to hide it.
"I see." Wei Zhao was unsurprised. You Panhu came here to study, so it was only natural for members of the Hidden Han family to study here as well. Put plainly, the hidden great families were made of people too; though some of their top experts shut themselves away in seclusion, devoting themselves single-mindedly to cultivation, many of their descendants still trained and studied out in the mundane world.
"Senior Lin, are you free at noon? I'm right at the gate of Donghai Engineering University—I've brought the colored steel with me!" Han Xiaohu said.
"I've got nothing on at noon. Where are you?" Wei Zhao asked.
"I'm at the school gate. I didn't dare text or call ahead, for fear of disturbing Senior Lin in class," Han Xiaohu said.
"All right, then. Wait for me at the school gate," Wei Zhao said.
Wei Zhao hung up, said a word to Bai Weituo, and left on his own first.
Otherwise, they would basically all head to the cafeteria together at noon every day.
At the school gate, Wei Zhao spotted Han Xiaohu from afar. Today Han Xiaohu was keeping a low profile—he had brought no attendants, and he was driving a Mercedes S600 himself rather than a sports car.
"Senior Lin!" Seeing Wei Zhao walk over, Han Xiaohu hurried up to greet him with a smile.