Chapter 1270 — What Is Grandpa Zhu's Purpose?

After dinner at Chen Xi's home, Wei Zhao and Feng Xiaoxiao took their leave. Mother Chen and Chen Xi saw Wei Zhao out with great warmth, urging him to come again whenever he had the time, and Wei Zhao agreed with a smile.

The moment he stepped out of Chen Xi's door, the smile fell from Wei Zhao's face all at once, replaced by a dark and somber look.

"Wei Zhao, darling, what's wrong?" Sensing something amiss in his expression, Feng Xiaoxiao asked at once.

"Mother Chen's cancer was caused by someone. That water purifier — there's something wrong with it!" Wei Zhao saw no need to hide it from Feng Xiaoxiao, and said it straight out.

"Ah! Something wrong with the water purifier... I get it, it's that Grandpa Zhu!" Feng Xiaoxiao was no fool. Back at the seaside, Wei Zhao had already said there was something off about Grandpa Zhu, and again today, when they met, Wei Zhao had put him through a round of probing — naturally she had realized that Wei Zhao suspected him.

"It's him. It's only that I can't quite figure out what his aim is. A peak late-stage Profound-rank expert — does he have nothing better to do? Poisoning a single mother? Is his head full of water, or was it truly an accident?" After all, Chen Xi had said the purifier was something Grandpa Zhu had picked up while collecting junk, and he had simply replaced the filter and kept on using it. As for whether there was anything else wrong with the machine, they were no experts and had no way of telling.

"Then why is Chen Xi fine?" Feng Xiaoxiao's thoughts went straight to Chen Xi.

"That's what puzzles me too. Either Chen Xi has taken an antidote, or she has a stronger resistance." Wei Zhao shook his head. "The harmful substances in a purifier wouldn't cause cancer in a single day — it's a long process. You'd have to drink it for a long time before it turned carcinogenic. So the fact that Chen Xi is unaffected is very strange to me."

"Maybe it's because she's young, and she doesn't often eat at home? Could that be it?" Feng Xiaoxiao asked.

"Possible. But either way, that Grandpa Zhu is highly suspicious." Wei Zhao said, "Only I don't know what he's plotting. For now I can only take it one step at a time and come to see Chen Xi often."

"Mm. That Grandpa Zhu gives me a bad feeling just looking at him!" Feng Xiaoxiao said. "We absolutely can't let him harm Chen Xi!"

In the blink of an eye, the day of the donation rally arrived — and before the rally came the singing competition. Having gone through the preliminary and semifinal rounds, the school had already selected its finest soloists and choral groups, and today, on the school's athletic field, the finals would be held!

Because outsiders would be attending, and to guarantee the students' safety and the smooth running of the donation rally, the school's leadership had contacted the police station in advance. Early that morning, Qiu Lingshan arrived at the school with a squad of officers to maintain order!

Xie Yufeng had originally not intended to donate a single cent at this rally, but he hadn't counted on Qiu Lingshan leading a team to keep order at the school — so now he really had no choice but to put on a show!

"Lingshan, I didn't expect to see you here too!" Xie Yufeng walked over with a smile and greeted Qiu Lingshan.

"Sorry, I'm on duty. I don't have time to chat with you, so please suit yourself." Qiu Lingshan glanced at Xie Yufeng with no intention whatsoever of saying more to him. Xie Yufeng wore her out. She had never imagined that on an occasion like this he would still come up to her of his own accord.

"The donation rally hasn't even started yet, has it? Surely Miss Song can spare a moment to talk?" Xie Yufeng seemed not to have caught the dismissal in her words at all, and stayed right where he was.

"Since it hasn't started, shouldn't Mr. Yu go and get ready? Make a rather larger contribution to charity in a little while? You're not planning to pinch every penny, are you, Mr. Yu?" Qiu Lingshan disliked Xie Yufeng, but she had no objection to making him play the sucker and cough up a sum of money.

"Heh heh, as a matter of fact, I've been ready for a long time! I support charitable causes wholeheartedly! I never expected Miss Song to be a patron of charity as well!" Xie Yufeng laughed, while inwardly turning over how much he ought to give.

Since Qiu Lingshan liked people with a heart for others, he ought naturally to give a bit more. Give too little, and she would surely think him stingy; give too much, and Xie Yufeng would feel wronged — why should his money go down the drain? If Qiu Lingshan weren't standing here, he wouldn't donate a single cent!

Seeing Xie Yufeng sidle up to Qiu Lingshan, Wei Zhao knitted his brows slightly. Did this brat know Qiu Lingshan? At this point Wei Zhao still didn't know Xie Yufeng's identity, nor of the marriage alliance between the Yu and Song families.

Qiu Lingshan hadn't told Wei Zhao, because Wei Zhao still had no feelings for her, and she did not want to humiliate herself — to have Wei Zhao seize the excuse and push her off onto Xie Yufeng. As for Yang Huaijun, when he spoke with Wei Zhao on the phone, he had assumed Wei Zhao already knew about it, so he hadn't brought it up much either. There was already the grudge over Pangolin, and Wei Zhao had no intention of letting the Yu family off anyway — so why mention the ties between Wei Zhao, Qiu Lingshan, and the Yu family? That would only make him look like a gossip!

So when Wei Zhao saw Xie Yufeng talking to Qiu Lingshan, he was immediately rather suspicious.

And Xie Yufeng, for his part, had no idea of the connection between Wei Zhao and Qiu Lingshan. Otherwise he would never have spoken with Qiu Lingshan right in front of Wei Zhao! He didn't know that his behavior was on the verge of exposing his identity.

Soon the grand final of the singing competition began. Tang Yun and Gu Mengyao, both splendidly dressed, walked out onto the stage.

The two were of similar height and similar beauty, and the moment they stepped onstage they set off an uproar in the audience!

Tang Yun already belonged to someone, while Gu Mengyao was a lofty young heiress. Though the boys below all knew their chances were slim, that did not stop their love of beauty! If they couldn't have her for themselves, surely they could at least look?

And the outsiders invited here for the donation rally now began chattering among themselves, inquiring after the backgrounds of these two girls!

Keeping a schoolgirl as a mistress was no secret among men of wealth. The moment Gu Mengyao and Tang Yun, these two peerless beauties, took the stage, they drew the attention of these rich men — and there was nothing surprising in that! Both were already ravishing, and with makeup applied they were even more dazzling and alluring. It would have been stranger still if these men hadn't been moved!

But once they learned that Gu Mengyao was Gu Pengzhan's daughter, they shifted their attention to Tang Yun.

Gu Mengyao could never be kept — the daughter of Gu Pengzhan, the foremost financial tycoon of Songshan City, was she someone who lacked money? Especially after certain events of late, the Gu family was at its zenith; who would dare keep the eldest daughter of the Gu family as a mistress? RO

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