Chapter 622 — Who Is Prettier, Sister Yaoyao or Tang Yun?

Her brother was just as foolish, and he had the nerve to call Shen Yushu silly — she thought him the sillier by far! For the sake of one woman, was it worth it? A year of special training, two years of hard seasoning, and it seemed he still could not best that vixen Qiu Lingshan. Otherwise he would have carried his fair lady home long ago, and would not be keeping himself so very low-key!

Though it was a dinner party — and a rather formal one at that, since it was to welcome her brother home — Shen Yushu's dress and makeup were still of the cute, heavily lolita sort, while Gu Mengyao leaned toward the pure and innocent look, which made her seem a little older than Shen Yushu.

"Xiaoshu, are you ready? We're leaving!" Gu Mengyao knocked on the door of the dressing room.

"Oh, just a moment, I'll be right out." Shen Yushu rarely dressed up so formally; this time it was only because her brother was coming home that she took such care. Though she acted coldly about his return, deep down she had missed him badly — after all, it had been more than a year since they last met, and he had not even come back for the New Year.

"Oh." Gu Mengyao was in no hurry. Since it was An Jianwen's dinner party, her sense of time was very loose; early or late, she did not much care.

Wei Zhao brought Gu Mengyao's Audi 5 out of the garage and parked it at the villa's entrance, then sat quietly in the car waiting for Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.

A cell phone rang. Wei Zhao assumed it was An Jianwen calling to hurry them along — An Jianwen did not dare rush Gu Mengyao, but he could call Wei Zhao to ask how they were coming along.

But a glance at the caller ID surprised Wei Zhao: it was Qiu Lingshan.

"Hello? Brainless Girl, what is it now?" Instinct told Wei Zhao that Qiu Lingshan would not be calling him at this hour for anything good, so his tone was far from polite.

Qiu Lingshan's expression froze. It had been a long time since she had heard that pet name, Brainless Girl — so long that she had nearly forgotten she was one. Yet she was not annoyed. She drew a deep breath and tried to make her voice sound sweet: "Yes, Brainless Girl has a little favor to ask of you!"

"Heh... what favor?" Every time Wei Zhao heard Qiu Lingshan call herself that, he wanted to laugh. Was this what lovers' flirting sounded like?

"Since one of the kidney-harvesting ring's transfer points was destroyed last time, we haven't found any other leads." Here Qiu Lingshan sounded somewhat helpless. "But the criminals haven't stopped; they've shifted their target to the villages around the city. In the past week there have been two kidney-harvesting cases — one in Gayazi Village east of the city and one in Shenbu Village west of it. My superiors have given me a death order: crack the case within two weeks, or go home..."

"Oh. I see." Wei Zhao answered flatly.

"Hey, you're not going to just watch Brainless Girl lose her job, are you? Be a dear and pity her, help her think of something, get her through this?" Even as she said it, Qiu Lingshan felt the words were sweet enough to rot teeth — yet they came out perfectly naturally, without a moment's hesitation.

Since when had she come to feel that being meek before Wei Zhao was only natural?

"What can I do?" Qiu Lingshan's plea sounded pitiful, but Wei Zhao truly had no solution. He could hardly abandon Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to go solve her case — the young lady would throw another fit.

"You wouldn't just stand by and watch me die, would you?" Qiu Lingshan was genuinely anxious now. She had just been reprimanded by her superiors today; if she failed to crack the case within two weeks, she might not lose her job as gravely as she claimed, but at the very least she would have no face left to serve as captain of the criminal investigation unit.

"I'll keep an eye out for you." Wei Zhao hesitated, then agreed. Qiu Lingshan in this state was hard for him to refuse — whether for Yang Huaijun's sake or because of his personal ties with Qiu Lingshan, he could not simply do nothing.

"Mm-hm, then call me the moment you hear anything. Brainless Girl's phone will be on for you twenty-four hours." Hearing Wei Zhao agree, Qiu Lingshan was instantly delighted.

Wei Zhao said nothing more; he smiled faintly and hung up.

As for Qiu Lingshan, an indefinable feeling welled up in her heart. Was she still the person she had once been? Why should she humble herself before Wei Zhao? Where had the proud, forceful Qiu Lingshan of old gone?

If the friends who had known her before learned that she actually cooed at a man and called herself Brainless Girl, they would laugh their teeth out. No — this must never be known to anyone!

The reason Wei Zhao agreed to keep an eye out for Qiu Lingshan was that he had roughly found a point of entry: An Jianwen. He had barely told An Jianwen that he meant to deal with Zhong Yongliang when, the very next day, Zhong Yongliang had his kidney cut out. A beating would have been one thing, but a kidney — that was sensitive.

Zhong Fabai had not called the police, but Wei Zhao knew about it. Even if An Jianwen had not cut out Zhong Yongliang's kidney himself, he was certainly closely connected to whoever did. An Jianwen was probably in contact with the kidney-harvesting ring.

It was precisely for this reason that Wei Zhao had agreed to Qiu Lingshan's request. Pitiful as she sounded, Wei Zhao disliked doing things he was not sure of. Today he happened to be dining with An Jianwen, so he could sound him out and see just what relation An Jianwen had with the kidney-harvesting ring.

Not long after he hung up on Qiu Lingshan, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu came out of the house.

The moment the two girls appeared, Wei Zhao felt dazzled. They were already beautiful without dressing up; today, going out to a formal dinner, they had made themselves up, and Wei Zhao could not help but stare a moment.

"What are you looking at?" Seeing Wei Zhao's eyes fixed on her, Gu Mengyao scolded him — yet inwardly she was rather pleased. So he finally realized there were two pretty girls in the house?

"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled faintly and withdrew his gaze.

"Sister Yaoyao is prettier than Tang Yun, isn't she?" Shen Yushu asked with a grin once she was in the car.

"Heh..." That was a question Wei Zhao could not well answer. If he answered wrong, the young lady would throw another fit. Such a difficult question was beyond the reach of ordinary men!

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