Chapter 2935 — A Friend in Need?
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Sitting on the sofa, Wei Zhao started making calls one by one, beginning with the Wu family, to which Wu Chengtian belonged, to borrow money. No single family could lend him much—for a clan like the Wu family, a hundred million was easy enough, but anything beyond that was difficult.
Fortunately, Wei Zhao had quite a few underlings these days; small sums added up, and it was barely enough to pull Fatso Lai through the crisis...
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu did not dare disturb Wei Zhao either. The matter had come so suddenly that even the ever-curious Xiaoshu refrained from asking Wei Zhao about the fun and games of his latest trial.
When trouble struck Guan Dafu Pharmaceuticals, the Hidden Zhao family naturally got word of it too! Old Master Zhao laughed heartily, over and over declaring that Heaven was on his side!
Old Master Zhao went straight to find Zhao Qilei. These past two days, Zhao Qilei had had his former treatment as Young Master Tan restored within the Hidden Zhao family—only, every time Zhao Qibing laid eyes on him, his face would flush crimson with fury, and with a cold snort he would turn and walk away.
Zhao Qilei actually understood Zhao Qibing's behavior well enough. Since returning from the trial, he had seized the identity of the young heir and first-in-line successor. Anyone in that position would hardly wear a pleasant expression. It was just that Zhao Qibing probably still thought he had a chance, and was unwilling to burn his bridges with Zhao Qilei inside the family; so although the two were locked in a cold war, they kept a peaceful truce.
"Grandfather, you wanted to see me?" Zhao Qilei was just about to call Wei Zhao and report the good news when, to his surprise, his grandfather came looking for him first thing in the morning.
"Qitan, have you called Mr. Wei Zhao yet?" Old Master Zhao asked, coming straight to the point.
"Not yet, Grandfather. What's the matter?" Zhao Qilei was a little puzzled—why would his grandfather come asking about this first thing in the morning?
"Ah, then you probably don't know yet. Something's gone wrong with Mr. Wei Zhao's company!" Old Master Zhao said. "I thought you already knew, and was just about to bring it up with you."
"What?! Something's gone wrong with the leader's company? What kind of trouble?" Zhao Qilei was briefly stunned. He had joined Wei Zhao rather late, so he did not know much about Wei Zhao's pharmaceutical company.
"It's like this..." Old Master Zhao told Zhao Qilei the news he had received.
"Ah? Then the leader... must be in a terrible spot right now?" Zhao Qilei was startled at once. "Then can we... do something to help?"
"Qitan, that's exactly why I came to talk with you. Since our Hidden Zhao family has already chosen Wei Zhao as our leader, then as a subordinate family, we must do everything in our power this time to help Mr. Wei Zhao through this crisis!" Old Master Zhao nodded and said, "So I wanted to tell you: our Hidden Zhao family may not have much money, but after more than half a year of doing business, we have quite a bit of capital on hand. If we pool it together, we can put up two hundred million! Call Mr. Wei Zhao right now—we'll give him these two hundred million. It may be a meager contribution, but it is the most our Hidden Zhao family can do!"
"Ah?" Zhao Qilei was dumbfounded. He had not expected his grandfather to go this far in his unreserved support of Wei Zhao! The formal banquet to acknowledge Wei Zhao as leader had not even been held yet, and already things had come to this—clearly his grandfather had made up his mind about Wei Zhao!
Zhao Qilei could not say how delighted he was. He had worried before that his grandfather only wanted to acknowledge Wei Zhao as leader to obtain Wei Zhao's protection. But if, while receiving someone's protection, one did nothing and simply took and took, then even if Wei Zhao said nothing out of consideration for him, he would surely be uncomfortable in his heart.