Chapter 2331 — A Good Solution
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Back when Wei Zhao had fallen on hard times—when Gu Pengzhan had his car accident—Wu Gonggao had, in most snobbish fashion, drawn a line between himself and Wu Chengtian, cut off his allowance, and told him not to associate with Wei Zhao anymore. If not for Wu Chengtian's stubbornness, which left Wu Gonggao with no recourse, the Wu family and Wei Zhao would long ago have broken off all ties.
It was rather like what had happened with the Sun family's old master. Sun Jingyan had sunk to quite a low point at the time: she and Wu Chengtian had just sold their company, and her bank accounts had been frozen by her family...
"Mr. Lin..." Wu Gonggao gave an obsequious laugh, not quite daring to look Wei Zhao in the eye.
He had gone to the hotel earlier to look after Pi Zhitao. Old Master Pi spent every day instructing his grandson in martial arts, so Wu Gonggao, having nothing to do, had volunteered to go to the hotel.
Wei Zhao nodded to him. He was Wu Chengtian's grandfather, after all, so Wei Zhao could hardly say much. Wu Chengtian had been utterly loyal to him, and Wu Gonggao had merely been looking out for himself, so Wei Zhao did not take it too much to heart. "Old Master Wu, Chengtian has fully recovered. Go and have a word with him first—I'll take a look at Pi Zhitao's injuries."
"All right." Wu Gonggao answered with some embarrassment, then lowered his head and went off to see his grandson.
Seeing his grandfather in that state, Wu Chengtian felt both exasperated and amused. But the man was his grandfather after all, and the one who had treated him best within the family, so Wu Chengtian could not very well turn sulky with him. He only said, "Grandfather, you see it now, don't you? My choice was the right one. Don't let the surface of things deceive your eyes."
"Chengtian, you're right. Your grandfather is old and can no longer see things clearly..." Wu Gonggao sighed. "The secular Wu family will have to rely on you from now on. I know the position of family head cannot hold you—given the pace at which you're advancing at Mr. Lin's side, sooner or later you'll reach the Heaven-rank, or even higher. I only hope that after I'm gone, you'll look after Wu Chendi a little more. The boy has some cleverness and a rather dark streak, but in the end your grandfather still has to put him in the position of family head..."
"I understand. Rest easy, Grandfather—I'll look after my brother in the future." Wu Chengtian nodded. In truth, the Wu family headship meant nothing to him anymore; his sights were set far beyond the secular aristocratic families.
Over on Wei Zhao's side, he had already begun healing Pi Zhitao. In fact, Pi Zhitao's condition could hardly even be called an injury—it was simply that true qi from the Gale-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast had been forced into his body. That true qi was in fact much like the true qi within Wei Zhao's own body: both belonged to the category of exceedingly pure heaven-and-earth spiritual energy. The difference was that Pi Zhitao was not an internal-school cultivator and could not refine the true qi within him; and even an internal-school cultivator would have to absorb true qi through the qihai acupoint—true qi forcibly driven into the body like this could not be refined either!