At the entrance of the ancient mansion, a car was parked. The butler, Lü Hong, was carrying incense, candles, and other items to the trunk. Gu Yuanbai and Jiang Yichun then came out. Just as Wan Yunting arrived on his motorcycle, Gu Yuanbai said, "Little Wan, park your bike here."
"Okay, I'll drive."
Wan Yunting parked his motorcycle by the main gate. Without further pleasantries, he drove Gu Yuanbai and Jiang Yichun to the cemetery outside the city. An hour later, they reached the entrance at the foot of the cemetery hill. After parking the car, Wan Yunting carried the incense, candles, and paper money, leading Gu Yuanbai and Jiang Yichun up the mountain directly to their master's grave, which was beside his parents' tomb.
Seeing the tombstone inscribed with "Tomb of Gongsun Xiuliang," with a smaller line at the bottom reading "Wan Yunting," there were no other words.
"Mr. Gongsun..."
For a moment, Gu Yuanbai's eyes welled up. He even knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Gongsun Xiuliang's tombstone...
Witnessing this scene, Wan Yunting and Jiang Yichun sighed, filled with emotion. Then, they watched as Gu Yuanbai, with tears streaming down his face, recounted their past stories to Gongsun Xiuliang's tombstone...
Wan Yunting and Jiang Yichun squatted beside them, burning paper money and listening to Gu Yuanbai's stories. It was already three o'clock in the afternoon. As they still had to return for a meeting, Gu Yuanbai had to conclude.
"Little Wan, these are your parents, aren't they?"
Gu Yuanbai's emotions had stabilized. He looked at Wan Yunting's parents' tomb next door. He and Jiang Yichun offered a stick of incense. Wan Yunting thanked them and then led the two elders down the mountain. The three of them reflected on the drive, returning to the city by a little past four o'clock, heading straight back to the office building of the Chinese Medicine Association.
"What's going on?"
As soon as they got out of the car, they saw a crowd gathered at the entrance, which made Wan Yunting, Gu Yuanbai, and Jiang Yichun raise their eyebrows. They quickly walked over and saw Dong Yuanlang leading a group of people, moving all the items from Gu Yuanbai's office out. Meanwhile, the onlookers were protesting and scolding Dong Yuanlang and his group.
"Chairman Gu is here..."
Someone saw Gu Yuanbai, Wan Yunting, and the others approaching and made way, greeting them.
"Dong Yuanlang, what are you doing?" Jiang Yichun pointed at Dong Yuanlang and his group and berated them angrily.
"Heh heh..."
At this moment, Weng Dehai and Chen Xingwang came out, their old faces showing playful expressions. They said to Gu Yuanbai and Wan Yunting, "Gu Yuanbai, you traitor, you still want to occupy our association's office building? Take your things and get out quickly. This is the office of our Huadu Chinese Medicine Association, not yours. Understand?"
After all, this building was rented by the Beijing Chinese Medicine Association to provide office and meeting space for members of the Huadu Chinese Medicine Association. Now that Gu Yuanbai and Wan Yunting had established the Lingnan Chinese Medicine Association and broken away from the Beijing Chinese Medicine Association, Weng Dehai naturally had the right to expel Gu Yuanbai.
"Also, my master is now the president of the Huadu Chinese Medicine Association!"
Dong Yuanlang's face was full of arrogance. He cast a contemptuous glance at Gu Yuanbai and Wan Yunting, saying triumphantly.
Gu Yuanbai narrowed his old eyes. Wan Yunting, Jiang Yichun, as well as Ding Huixiang and Meng Kang, who were coming for the meeting, along with the association's elders Song Chengqi and Zhang Fenglin, Song Sinan and Wei Renxin, Huang Jingshan and Shen Yingrui, all looked at Gu Yuanbai. He didn't say anything to Weng Dehai. Instead, he told his disciple Du Hua and the others, "Move the things to the car, we're going back to school."
"Okay..."
Wan Yunting also went to help, moving all of Gu Yuanbai's belongings that Dong Yuanlang's group had moved out, into the car.
"Let's go..."
Gu Yuanbai's expression was unreadable. He turned to leave, but Weng Dehai sneered and said, "Gu Yuanbai, with just you lot, you can't fight us!"
Gu Yuanbai, Jiang Yichun, Song Chengqi, and others turned their heads, looking coldly at the triumphant Weng Dehai and Chen Xingwang, and said, "Then we'll wait and see!"
After speaking, Wan Yunting and the others left, returning to the Chinese Medicine University.
"Overestimating yourselves. We'll see how you handle it then."
Weng Dehai watched Gu Yuanbai and the others leave, his old face darkened, and he snorted coldly.
Back at the Chinese Medicine University, Gu Yuanbai asked everyone to gather in the school's auditorium for a meeting to plan the association's next steps...
Of course, Gu Yuanbai and Wan Yunting knew that the Beijing Chinese Medicine Association would not let this matter rest. Weng Dehai and their group's actions just now were a formal provocation and declaration of war against Gu Yuanbai and Wan Yunting's Lingnan Chinese Medicine Association.
Therefore, the theme of this meeting was also centered on how to face the suppression from Beijing!
The conference ended at half-past six in the evening. As Gu Yuanbai and Wan Yunting walked towards the university gate, Gu Yuanbai said, "Little Wan, Weng Dehai and the others will definitely use their connections to pressure our education department. So I'll have to trouble you to get closer to Mayor Hu."
"I understand."
Wan Yunting nodded and said, "I'll visit Mayor Hu later and talk about this matter."
Gu Yuanbai nodded and said, "Another thing is the association's membership recruitment. Now that Weng Dehai has taken over as the president of their association, and Sima Wentang is suppressing us, they will certainly change some restrictions in their association and increase their efforts to recruit more members to suppress us. So we need to do a good job in this area, which is of utmost importance!"
"So, Little Wan, you need to speed up your work in this regard. In the future, I will have you organize speeches and give them in various cities to attract more young people to join us."
"Okay, I'll start preparing for this." Wan Yunting nodded. It seemed that establishing the association was a weighty and busy task, and he had to take it seriously.
"Little Wan."
Gu Yuanbai patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are now the Vice Chairman of the association, so you need to lead our young people in this work. You need to become their leader, understand?"
Wan Yunting nodded and smiled, "I know what to do."
"Yes, it's good that you know."
Gu Yuanbai, Jiang Yichun, and the others smiled and said, "Let's go, we're going to have dinner."
However, Wan Yunting shook his head and said, "Old Gu, you guys go ahead. I have to go to the gymnasium to practice basketball now."
"Practice basketball?"
Everyone looked at him in confusion. Wan Yunting said helplessly, "I promised the coach of our Huadu City professional basketball team that we will play against the Guan City basketball team the day after tomorrow, so I have to go and practice with the players."
"I see. Then go ahead, don't be too busy."
Seeing this, Gu Yuanbai and the others didn't say much. After all, everyone had their own space and things to do; they couldn't be completely occupied with association matters all day long.
Without further ado, Wan Yunting bid them farewell and took a taxi directly to the gymnasium.
At this time, in the gymnasium, coach Feng Biao and the players like Luo Zhixiang and Zhou Mian had already been training for the afternoon. Seeing Wan Yunting enter, they quickly greeted him, "Yunting, you're here."
"Coach Feng..."
Wan Yunting hurried over and saw Huang Yuqing and a head-down Jiang Peipei sitting in the spectator seats. He gave a wry smile to Feng Biao and the others, "I'm sorry, I've been too busy lately and couldn't find time to come and train with everyone."
Luo Zhixiang and the others smiled, "Brother Wan, you don't even need to train. With your skills, you just need to get on the court. We just need to pass you the ball, and you can shoot directly."
"Yes, you just focus on shooting, and we'll handle the rebounds," Zhou Mian and the others also smiled.
Everyone had already experienced Wan Yunting's basketball skills, so they didn't care whether he came to practice or not.
Even Feng Biao and Zhang Ying acknowledged this point. After all, Wan Yunting was an all-around player; he could basically play any position.
Now that players like Luo Zhixiang and Zhu Li also respected Wan Yunting, Feng Biao and the others were confident that they would crush the Guan City professional team in the game the day after tomorrow.