Chapter 764 — Tang Yun's Sense of Loss

"Heh, I understand." Wei Zhao smiled.

Gu Mengyao dragged Shen Yushu out of the kitchen. Wei Zhao shook his head. These two really were not cut out for cooking — though it was already rare enough that the young mistress had the thought at all. This was probably the first time in her life she had set foot in a kitchen. Shen Yushu too, most likely.

Because before Wei Zhao arrived, the rice cooker and the rest still had their manuals tossed inside — clearly they had never been used at all.

Making breakfast was second nature to Wei Zhao. He set the rice porridge to its timer first, then briskly fried a few eggs, dressed a dish of pickles with sesame oil, and soon had it all on the table.

Shen Yushu watched Wei Zhao finish all this so effortlessly and was astonished: "Sister Yaoyao, why are we so useless?"

"You're the useless one, not me." Gu Mengyao was also a little surprised at Wei Zhao's speed.

Gu Mengyao helped Wei Zhao ladle out the porridge, and Shen Yushu heated milk for the three of them.

"Wei Zhao, you didn't sleep well last night — why don't you skip driving? Let Uncle Qing take us to school?" Gu Mengyao was afraid of him driving while tired.

"I'm not sleepy. And I won't be going to school just yet — I have a bit of other business." Wei Zhao smiled.

"Other business? What are you going to do?" Gu Mengyao asked instinctively.

"Today Qibing Real Estate says they want Tang Yun's family to come to their company to discuss the compensation for the demolition." Wei Zhao said.

"Oh?" Hearing that it was about Tang Yun's family again, Gu Mengyao felt somewhat displeased.

"Oh, is it a negotiation? I want to go too." Shen Yushu swallowed the egg in her mouth in a hurry and took a sip of milk.

"What would you go for?" Wei Zhao found it rather amusing.

"My nickname is Negotiation Shu. Brother Shield, let me come, and I guarantee your negotiation will succeed." Shen Yushu said.

"Xiaoshu, how many nicknames do you have? Spy Shu and the like?" Gu Mengyao kicked Shen Yushu, not wanting her to go meddling.

"Oh, that's only the tip of the iceberg. I'm actually omni-capable." Shen Yushu said: "Brother Shield, take me along, and I guarantee certain success."

Wei Zhao looked at the eager Shen Yushu and could only smile wryly: "You really want to go?"

"Mm!" Shen Yushu nodded.

"Then come along..." Wei Zhao didn't mind; it was just one more person.

"Sister Yaoyao, Brother Shield agreed. Let's go together?" Shen Yushu was thrilled.

"We're seniors now, and studies are intense. We can't keep skipping class!" Gu Mengyao said.

"It'll be fine, just for a little while?" Shen Yushu said: "If I don't go to school, it's no fun for you to go alone either, Sister Yaoyao. We do everything together, inseparable every day."

"All right then." Gu Mengyao hesitated a moment before nodding, then said to Wei Zhao: "Us tagging along really won't be a problem?"

"Not at all." Wei Zhao saw no issue — after all, they weren't going to do anything sneaky in a moment, but to collect money at Qibing Real Estate's headquarters.

After breakfast, Wei Zhao called Tang Yun, arranged to pick her up at the hospital shortly, and mentioned in passing that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were coming too.

Tang Yun was not a petty person. Though she found it a bit bizarre that Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu would tag along today, if the two of them wanted to come, then let them. The relationship among the three was strange — they saw each other constantly, and while there was no great hostility, there was certainly no friendliness either.

Ever since the declaration of war at Fatty Lai's house and the cafeteria incident, the relationship among the three girls had become this awkward, neither-fish-nor-fowl thing.

On the surface it seemed passable enough, but inwardly they were very much on guard. Tang Yun was no fool; the threat posed by the young mistress and Shen Yushu had always left her uneasy.

Since Tang's mother would be coming along with Tang Yun, Wei Zhao couldn't drive Gu Mengyao's Audi 5 — the space would be too cramped, with no room for so many people — so Wei Zhao had no choice but to drive the van.

This time Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu didn't fuss. They obediently climbed into the battered van. It was a bumpy ride, but the young mistress could endure it.

Wei Zhao first went to the hospital to pick up Tang's mother and Tang Yun. Tang's mother was rather surprised at the two beauties in Wei Zhao's car. She glanced nervously at her daughter and asked in a low voice: "Who are those two? Do you know them?"

"I know them. They're Wei Zhao's classmates." Tang Yun had not told her mother the specifics of the young mistress's relationship with Wei Zhao; it was too complicated, not something that could be explained in a few words.

"So pretty. You'd better be on your guard. What does their family do?" Tang's mother asked worriedly.

"We'll talk when we get home." Tang Yun frowned. It wasn't good to discuss such things in the car — what if Wei Zhao overheard?

Tang's mother glanced at Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu and felt that these two girls were no less lovely than her daughter; and judging by their clothes and bearing, they were clearly not girls from ordinary families — more like daughters of great houses?

Seeing that Tang Yun wouldn't answer her question, Tang's mother simply asked Gu Mengyao herself: "Hello, you two are...?"

"Auntie, we're here to help Wei Zhao negotiate with Qibing Real Estate." Gu Mengyao didn't know how to put it. She hesitated, then remembered Shen Yushu's earlier excuse.

"Here to help us negotiate?" Tang's mother was taken aback by this answer.

"Yes. My father runs a company too, so I know a little about this sort of thing." Gu Mengyao could only say that.

She couldn't very well say that Shen Yushu was just making mischief and insisted on coming along, could she? If that silly girl opened her mouth and started going on about first wives and second wives, that would be truly awkward.

"I see. Then thank you so much!" Hearing that they had come for this reason, Tang's mother brightened at once. So long as it wasn't a threat to her daughter's position, everything was easy.

"It's nothing." Gu Mengyao shook her head.

Tang Yun also felt an inexplicable relief. She didn't want Gu Mengyao to say something out of place and worry her mother. As for how she would explain it to her mother once they got home, that was a matter for after they got home; for now, so long as appearances were kept up, it was fine.

Casting Gu Mengyao a grateful look, Tang Yun lowered her head again, not knowing what to say.

Suddenly, a sense of loss rose in Tang Yun's heart. From the very beginning, ever since Wei Zhao had entered her life, he seemed to have been helping her family without pause.

Whether it was driving off the trouble Zou Ruoming brought her, or settling the bullying of those vendors for her mother, or her father's surgery fees, her little brother Xiaowei's affairs, and the whole series of troubles stirred up by the demolition — all of it had been solved with Wei Zhao's help!

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