"Could you maybe do a few fewer of these idiotic things?" Gu Mengyao sounded a little exasperated.

"All right... Sister Yao, then what kind of tree should we buy?" Shen Yushu shrank her neck and asked timidly.

"Let's buy one that looks nice, and not too unusual?" Gu Mengyao didn't know much about this sort of thing either. "Or how about a fruit tree... hey, what did you bump into me for?"

A young man coming the other way knocked Gu Mengyao staggering, and she nearly fell to the ground. The young man hurried to apologize: "Sorry, I didn't mean to, I'm in a rush to go move some goods..."

"Oh, it's nothing..." Gu Mengyao frowned slightly. Since he had said it was unintentional, she was not inclined to make a fuss about it.

"Wait!" The young man was about to leave, but Wei Zhao caught him by the arm.

"You... what do you want?" A flicker of wariness crossed the young man's eyes. Gu Mengyao too looked at Wei Zhao, puzzled. She had already let the matter go, so why was Wei Zhao making an issue of it?

"Hand over the phone," Wei Zhao said mildly.

"Phone? What phone..." The young man looked flustered, but then suddenly he began shouting at the top of his voice: "Robbery! Someone's stealing a phone! Help, somebody!"

At his shout, the people around them immediately took notice and crowded in to watch the excitement.

"What's going on here?" A few men in security uniforms walked over and asked the young man.

"He's robbing me, he's demanding my phone..." the young man said to the security captain, all innocence.

"That's right, I can testify. This fellow, without any rhyme or reason, just demanded his phone!" At that moment someone in the crowd suddenly spoke up.

"Oh? In that case, all of you come with me to the security office!" The security captain at their head glanced at Wei Zhao, but his gaze came to rest on Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu behind him, and a lecherous gleam flashed in his eyes.

"Wei Zhao, what on earth is going on?" Gu Mengyao was getting angry. They had come out to buy saplings. Why was Wei Zhao stirring up trouble for no reason, stopping a stranger and demanding his phone?

"Your phone was stolen by him." Wei Zhao shrugged, looking at the young miss.

"What? My phone?" Gu Mengyao felt at her pocket, and her expression changed at once. The phone that had been in her pocket was nowhere to be found. "You mean he stole my phone?"

"Yes. Otherwise why would I have stopped him?" Wei Zhao nodded.

"Hey, you'd better not sling mud at people. Who took your phone?" The young man puffed out his chest and shouted self-righteously. "If you say I took your phone, then call it and see!"

"You turned it off long ago..." Wei Zhao glanced at him and said mildly. That little trick of his, Wei Zhao had seen through clear as day.

"All right, that's enough from everyone. Come with me to the security office. Once we're there, who is right and who is wrong will naturally be made clear." The security captain plainly did not want Wei Zhao to say any more, and with that he moved to push him away.

Wei Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly and more or less guessed what was going on. This security captain and the thieving young man were in it together?

"You two go back to the car and wait for me... no, never mind, stay with me." Wei Zhao had meant to have Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu wait in the car, but then he thought of that lecherous look from the security captain and felt uneasy about it. Keeping them at his side would be safer.

Bu Ruoming did not return to school until it was nearly dismissal time. He asked a few of his underlings and heard that Wei Zhao had not come looking for him, nor had he asked about him, and only then did he relax. So Wei Zhao could not be bothered to hold a grudge against him after all!

Bu Ruoming had originally thought that Wei Zhao's failure to wipe him out meant Wei Zhao did not want to tear the mask off and had scruples. Only today did he truly understand: Wei Zhao simply did not regard him as worth noticing at all. If Wei Zhao had wanted to crush him, he would have crushed him long ago, just like Uncle Yan today. So what if he was a Yellow Rank expert? Had his face not been ground into the dirt by Wei Zhao all the same?

So once he had thought this through, Bu Ruoming actually grew less afraid. As long as he did not offend Wei Zhao in the future, there should be no problem.

"Brother Ming, there's tree planting at school tomorrow. Are we joining in too?" The speaker was Bu Ruoming's number-one lackey, Yun Lingxi.

"Join in? Of course we're joining in!" Bu Ruoming was quite proud whenever tree planting came up. Look at the woods behind the school, at least three or four of those trees had been planted by him, Bu Ruoming. One tree a year, and when you thought about it, he had spent three or four years in senior year and repeat year combined.

Other people planted one tree; Bu Ruoming had several. Who could match that, who could compare? Every time the tree planting came around, Bu Ruoming felt especially proud.

Even as they were talking, Bu Ruoming's phone rang again. It was his father, Bu Tiandi. After returning to the company, the more Bu Tiandi thought about it, the more frightened he became. Earlier he had discussed it with Bu Ruoguang for a while and comforted himself for a while, but the moment he thought of it again, he felt uneasy.

So he decided to find his younger son, Bu Ruoming, and question him carefully about what had happened, to see just what Wei Zhao meant by it all. It is easy to invite a god in but hard to send him away. Having offended a great deity like Wei Zhao, it looked like this really would be hard to settle.

"Where are you?" Bu Tiandi asked.

"Dad, I'm at school, just out of class. Is something the matter?" Bu Ruoming asked.

"Come over to my company for a bit, I have something to ask you. I'll come pick you up at school now!" Bu Tiandi said. Earlier, in order to cultivate in Bu Ruoming a spirit of hard study, he had not sent a car to fetch him each day, never imagining that this only gave Bu Ruoming more freedom. With no one watching him do his misdeeds, he grew all the more unbridled.

"I want to go to our family's flower-bird-fish market. Our school starts planting trees again tomorrow, so I'm going to find a sapling!" Bu Ruoming said.

"Then wait for me at school, I'll be right over," Bu Tiandi said.

About ten minutes later, Bu Tiandi drove up to the school in that BMW whose headlight Wei Zhao had smashed. The car's appearance depressed Bu Tiandi greatly, but having provoked Wei Zhao depressed him even more.

Bu Ruoming got into the car, and Bu Tiandi asked, almost unable to wait: "You know Wei Zhao?"

"Know him? He slapped me across the face a few times at school. He's my sworn enemy!" Bu Ruoming nodded. "Earlier I took a fancy to his woman. Who knew he would be that formidable?"

Bu Tiandi nearly rolled his eyes when he heard this. So the whole family were Wei Zhao's enemies? Bu Tiandi had an urge to cry.

"We're finished. What do we do now? How is that kid so formidable? Even Uncle Yan is no match for him?" In the past Bu Tiandi had been full of confidence and domineering in his dealings in Songshan City, all because Uncle Yan had his back. Although there was only one chance left to call on him, no one could be sure whether Bu Tiandi would have Uncle Yan act, so people gave way to Bu Tiandi and did not dare offend him.

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