Chapter 1136 — Tang Yun's Inferiority

"Of... of course not..." Tang Yun shook her head. Gu Mengyao had carried things this far - how could she possibly bring herself to refuse?

Wei Zhao came over to the Beetle and found the inside already piled high with every sort of goods! Some were packed in bags, some boxed up - in any case, a great, great many things!

"What is all this?" Wei Zhao asked curiously, jabbing a finger at random toward one of the bags.

"Face masks," Shen Yushu said.

"Hah? Face masks?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide.

"The internet says the wind at the seaside at night is very strong, so in order to protect the skin, you have to put on face masks," Shen Yushu said.

"..." Wei Zhao was rather lost for words, but he said nothing more and asked nothing further. Since Shen Yushu said they would be useful, then they would be useful - with the volume of the Land Rover's trunk, fitting all of this in would be more than enough!

Wei Zhao began taking the things out one after another and loading them into the trunk of the Land Rover.

Tang Yun gazed about the bathroom: the luxurious marble floor, the exquisitely white bathtub, and all manner of unknown skincare products. She could not help but marvel - she had always thought her family's new house was perfectly nice, but it was only upon coming into this villa that she realized their home was nothing out of the ordinary!

Still, these high-end bottles and jars could only be afforded by a pampered heiress like Gu Mengyao... At the thought, Tang Yun could not help feeling a little worried... She might be unbeatable in her youth now, but what about later? In ten years, twenty years, her skin would most likely be no match for Gu Mengyao's and little Shu's. They had been cared for over the long term, while she would have lost the race right at the starting line!

But with her family's present circumstances, Tang Yun could not afford such things, and she could only sigh. For the first time she felt how terribly important money was. She had never had money before, but never had she felt it so acutely.

The bathtub was spotlessly clean - plainly only Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had ever used it. Tang Yun did not mind in the least. Both of them were cleanly people; it would be more than good enough if they did not mind her.

She ran the hot water and lay back in the tub, thinking quietly to herself: university was about to begin, and once she was there she absolutely must not go on studying foolishly the way she had in high school. She had to become someone of use to Wei Zhao - at the very least, find a part-time job at his company, where she could earn a little money of her own and at the same time help him see to certain matters.

Feng Xiaoxiao had only just bathed that morning. Living alone, bathing was a simple business, and once she and Gu Mengyao had settled Tang Yun in, she went back out to the courtyard to help Wei Zhao load the car.

There was no small amount of stuff, but with four of them all pitching in, everything was loaded onto the Land Rover in no time at all.

Parked at the roadside, not far from the villa, was a Ferrari sports car, with An Jianwen and Su Taizao sitting inside.

"That Wei Zhao has it made - sitting pretty with all the blessings of four beauties at his side!" An Jianwen said sourly, staring over toward the villa's courtyard.

"Shen Yushu, that troublemaking girl, is hardly worth wanting. Brother Wen, if you brought her into the household too, you could forget about having a life - she'd torment you to death!" Su Taizao said consolingly.

"That's true enough. That girl is too fierce - I couldn't handle her. Bring her home and I might not live through it!" An Jianwen nodded, thoroughly convinced. "By the way, did you get everything bought? Once we reach the seaside, we'll put on a little show and draw Gu Mengyao's attention."

"I've already sent Yang Ganglou to buy them. You can rest easy about the way he handles things - the boy's plenty sharp!" Su Taizao said.

Wei Zhao naturally spotted An Jianwen's Ferrari at the curb, though he found it faintly comical. Driving a sports car on a self-guided trip to the beach? Were they sick? Could that chassis even manage the sand? Still, Wei Zhao was not good-natured enough to go and warn them.

Once Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu and Feng Xiaoxiao had finished carrying everything in, they went back into the villa's living room to wait for Tang Yun, and Wei Zhao followed them and settled down in front of the television as well.

He had barely sat down when the phone rang - Fatty Lai calling.

"Hello? Fatty Lai, the launch event went off without a hitch, I take it?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Boss, the launch ended smooth as could be - you can rest easy!" Fatty Lai said. "We were lucky you spotted Zhang Gongzi's problem at a glance today, Boss, or the launch would have been in trouble!"

"Have you found out who sent him?" Wei Zhao knew perfectly well who the mastermind behind the scenes was, but he had no intention of wasting too much thought on company affairs. After this, he planned to wash his hands of it and leave the running to Fatty Lai and Kang.

"We've got a bit of a lead - it should be our competitor, Dr. Kang Pharmaceuticals, who sent him. According to our staff on site, someone recognized Dr. Kang's grandson, Kang Zhaoming, at the launch, and he made contact with Mutilated Wolf afterward..." Fatty Lai said.

"So what do you intend to do about it?" Wei Zhao countered.

"Boss, our strength isn't yet enough for us to go after Dr. Kang Pharmaceuticals, and we don't have the energy either. My thinking is that we note this down for now and revisit it when the chance comes!" Fatty Lai ventured carefully.

"Mm. Do as you say." Wei Zhao thought Fatty Lai had the right idea. The company had only just been founded - where was there time to go fencing with competitors? Whatever time there was would be better spent on their own marketing.

"Right." Fatty Lai let out a breath, then said with a wry smile: "Boss, there's one more thing. After the new product launch, the number of orders we've received is far larger than we expected - and they differ enormously from our projections! We had originally projected stocking within the province only, with a small-scale rollout into the neighboring province as well, but people from large pharmacy chains and hospitals all across the country have come to us to negotiate and place orders... I'd guess it's the effect the auction produced..."

"Oh? Isn't that a good thing?" Wei Zhao had not expected the wound medicine to catch on so fiercely. He had assumed that the smooth resolution of the mass poisoning at No. 1 High School would have some impact within the province only, and that the initial stocking volume ought to be small.

"It is a good thing, yes, but first of all our production capacity is limited - the plant and equipment can currently supply only two or three provinces' worth of demand, and that's just the opening volume. If the market responds well, distributors will increase their orders, and our capacity will fall seriously short!" Fatty Lai explained.

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