"Luo Tang..."
Wan Yunting turned his head and saw Gu Luotang. A gentle smile appeared on his face, and his heart was even happier. If not for Gu Yuanbai and everyone else being present, he would have wanted to embrace this woman on the spot.
"Brother Yunting, you're back..."
The moment Gu Luotang saw the man, all her worries vanished. Her pretty face was filled with unconcealable joy, and her feelings were the same as his – she wished she could hug him, kiss him, and lift him high...
"Mm, you've worked hard."
Wan Yunting smiled at her. Seeing Liu He, Xue Xialan, and others also come out, he smiled and greeted them, "Vice Chairman Liu..."
Liu He saw Wan Yunting and showed a professional, polite smile, "Chairman Wan is back..."
"Yes."
Wan Yunting smiled apologetically at them, "I'm really sorry, something came up, and I was delayed outside for so long before returning. You all have worked hard during this time."
"Chairman Wan is too kind, this is what we should do."
Li Tianyi, the youngest daughter of Li Tiangui, said with a smile, her eyes full of Wan Yunting.
Wan Yunting nodded and smiled, "We'll have a meeting tomorrow morning at ten o'clock to discuss what we should do for the next period."
"Okay, then we'll get back to work."
Liu He nodded with a smile. Xue Xialan and Li Tianyi nodded to Wan Yunting and Gu Yuanbai with Lu Dashun and the others, then went downstairs to continue their work...
Wan Yunting also smiled and watched them go downstairs, then turned to Gu Yuanbai and said with a smile, "Elder Gu, I'm hosting a banquet at my home tonight to celebrate my father becoming the family head. I've specifically invited you all to my home as guests tonight, and I've also sent someone to notify Elder Gu to come over."
"Okay, then we'll go upstairs and sit for a while, and come over later," Gu Yuanbai said with a smile.
So Wan Yunting and Gu Yuanbai went upstairs. Gu Luotang and Qi Miaomiao naturally followed and arrived at Grandpa's office. Everyone naturally found seats. Wan Yunting asked, "Elder Gu, has anything happened in the association recently?"
Gu Yuanbai sat down, asked Qi Miaomiao to brew a pot of tea, took out a cigarette, and lit one with Wan Yunting before smiling, "Nothing has happened, everything is normal."
"That's good." Wan Yunting nodded, then asked, "By the way, how is Vice Chairman Liu?"
Gu Yuanbai paused, his old eyes glancing at him, knowing why Wan Yunting was asking about Liu He. He nodded and smiled, "Little He is a good person, very smart and capable. He does things pragmatically, and is perfectly qualified to serve as Vice Chairman."
"However, he's a bit too reserved!"
"Indeed."
Before Wan Yunting could speak, Qi Miaomiao, who had brought over a pot of tea, said, "I also think he's a scheming man!"
"Miaomiao, what nonsense are you talking about?" Gu Luotang chided the girl for interrupting.
"Senior sister, can't you see it?"
Qi Miaomiao, not realizing she was being impolite by interrupting, turned to Gu Luotang and said, "This kind of person is the most difficult to get along with."
Her words made Wan Yunting and Gu Yuanbai exchange glances. They smiled at Qi Miaomiao and said, "We can't see it. Our Miaomiao has the gift of physiognomy."
Qi Miaomiao poured them tea and said with a giggle, "Thank you, Master, for the compliment."
Wan Yunting smiled at Gu Luotang, "Miaomiao is right. Liu He gives me the first impression of being a bit difficult to get along with. I always feel he's putting on airs!"
"But he's capable and has leadership qualities. He can unite people around him, so you see Xue Xialan, Li Tianyi, Lu Dashun, and the others following him."
"Therefore, from this point, we can see that Liu He's ability to handle affairs and his personal business capabilities are very strong."
"Indeed."
Gu Luotang nodded in approval and said, "The day before yesterday, I went out with him to handle a medical case, and he gave me the impression of being very capable. As for him being difficult to get along with, I actually think it's quite good."
Qi Miaomiao rolled her eyes at her speechlessly and said, "That's because it's you, my naive senior sister. Liu He only has this attitude towards you. If it were someone else, try it?"
Gu Luotang was the least skilled at interpersonal relationships and didn't understand Qi Miaomiao's meaning for a moment.
Wan Yunting chuckled, and Gu Yuanbai waved his hand, saying, "Let's not worry about Liu He's personal matters for now. We value his personal capabilities. As long as he does his job well as Vice Chairman and earns everyone's approval, everything will be fine."
"Mm."
Wan Yunting nodded. The reason he mentioned Liu He was because he hadn't been in the capital for a while and wanted to ask Gu Yuanbai about Liu He's work during this time and whether he was capable of being Vice Chairman.
It seemed that Gu Yuanbai thought highly of Liu He.
"By the way, Xiao Wan, I heard that the White Sect Leader of Mount Heng Sect broke the law and was arrested, and the Emei Sect had a grand wedding and a power struggle. Is it all because of you?" Gu Yuanbai then changed the subject and asked curiously.
The news of the arrest of Bai Yihe, the White Sect Leader of Mount Heng Sect, and the Emei Sect's succession of the sect leader had spread among the various major sects. Gu Yuanbai had heard from friends that both these matters were somewhat related to Wan Yunting!
So Wan Yunting briefly recounted the incident of the White Sect Leader of Mount Heng Sect to Gu Yuanbai, Gu Luotang, and Qi Miaomiao, and then explained the process of Emei Sect's Grand Elder Jun Xuan's succession and Zhou Ruoxi taking over as sect leader...
Gu Yuanbai was surprised to hear that Sima Boyong was involved behind all this, "So, this wedding at the Emei Sect was actually aimed at you?"
"Mm, Sima Boyong was plotting behind the scenes and invited me to the Emei Sect to fall into their trap!" Wan Yunting nodded.
Gu Luotang nodded as she listened. Qi Miaomiao, however, caught a loophole and asked curiously, "But Brother Yunting, why did they use the wedding as a ploy to invite you to the Emei Sect, and why did they assume you would disrupt the wedding and snatch the bride?"
"Could it be that you have some kind of relationship with Zhou Ruoxi, the Sect Leader of Emei Sect?"
This question made Wan Yunting's expression freeze. He glanced at Gu Luotang and thought, how did this girl Miaomiao become so smart?
Gu Luotang's beautiful eyes also looked at Wan Yunting in surprise. This was a key point!
"Cough, they misunderstood that I have a relationship with Sect Leader Zhou!"
Wan Yunting dared not meet Gu Luotang's gaze. He turned to Gu Yuanbai and smiled, "When we were holding the ancestral worship ceremony at the Boundless Daoist Temple, Sima Boyong sent people to chase us. By chance, Senior Sister Zhou and I were trapped in the Kunlun Mountains together, so we have a life-or-death bond."
"As a result, rumors spread outside that the two of us had an ambiguous relationship. Sima Boyong probably seized this opportunity, so he colluded with the Emei Sect's Grand Elder, Nun Jun Xuan, and had Lin Xiaobao, the son of Celestial Master Lin of Longhu Mountain, marry Senior Sister Zhou and set up a trap to lure me to the Emei Sect to disrupt the wedding and snatch the bride, thus achieving Sima Boyong and Nun Xuan's goal of killing two birds with one stone!"
Gu Yuanbai nodded and said, "Understood."
Gu Luotang nodded thoughtfully and didn't inquire further about the specific relationship between the man and the Emei Sect Sect Leader Zhou.
"Xiao Wan, Sima Boyong is cunning and treacherous. You must be careful in the future," Gu Yuanbai said solemnly.
Wan Yunting nodded, raised an eyebrow, and said, "When I have the chance, I plan to go to the Korean Peninsula to meet Sima Boyong!"
Gu Yuanbai frowned and asked, "Didn't you suspect earlier that Sima Boyong was related to the Heavenly Eye Main God Cult? Has the investigation confirmed it?"
Wan Yunting said, "This matter is being investigated by Director Huang. I've also invited him to my home tonight, and I'll ask him then."
Gu Yuanbai nodded, as if remembering something, and said, "By the way, I recently heard that the Korean Peninsula is holding a traditional medicine exchange conference, and our Chinese Medicine Association might be invited to attend!"
"Oh?"
Wan Yunting's expression was astonished, and he asked, "Is that true?"
Gu Yuanbai shook his head and said, "That's news from the Health and Family Planning Commission!"
"But there has indeed been a visit from the Vice Chairman of the Korean Korean Medicine Association, so there should be news in the next couple of days."
Wan Yunting listened and nodded, his eyes narrowing slightly, "What a coincidence!"
"Coincidence?" Gu Luotang looked at him in surprise and asked, "Why do you say coincidence?"
Wan Yunting said to her, "It's just a feeling, as if they know I'm going to the Korean Peninsula!"
This also made Gu Yuanbai raise his eyebrows, thinking that the traditional medicine exchange conference held by the Korean Korean Medicine Association at this time was indeed a bit coincidental!
Speaking of this, Wan Yunting suddenly remembered someone, Chen Qiuyun!
—Korean Peninsula.
At this moment, in Sima Boyong's mansion, Sima Boyong, dressed in a black robe, was looking at a blueprint. It was the acupuncture chart of the Thirteen Needles of Guimen that Chen Qiuyun had stolen from Wan Yunting!
Just then, Sima Xuanyu walked in and reported, "Grandfather, the patient in the third bed is recovering very well!"
"Oh."
Sima Boyong raised his eyes and asked, "How many courses of treatment?"
"Three."
Sima Xuanyu said, "None of them required the thirteenth needle."
Sima Boyong's old eyebrows slightly rose as he looked at the thirteenth needle, Guifeng, on the Thirteen Needles of Guimen acupuncture chart. The heart is divided into four...!
Sima Xuanyu said, "To use the thirteenth needle, you need to find a severely ill patient to try it on."
"Then go find one."
Sima Boyong's triangular eyes widened slightly, "I always feel that this acupuncture chart of the Thirteen Needles of Guimen has problems, so I must conduct clinical trials. Only after confirming its accuracy can I present it to the Main God!"
"Okay, Grandfather, I'll go find a severely ill patient for clinical trials now." Sima Xuanyu turned and left.
Sima Boyong raised an eyebrow, looking at the acupuncture chart and incantation of the Thirteen Needles of Guimen in his hand. He always felt that the thirteenth needle's acupuncture point and incantation were not quite right!
To put it bluntly, he felt uneasy, thinking that Chen Qiuyun getting this acupuncture chart of the Thirteen Needles of Guimen from Wan Yunting was too easy!
It should be known that from the moment Sima Boyong entered the Boundless Daoist Temple, he had been plotting to obtain the Thirteen Needles of Guimen. However, to this day, he had not been able to obtain the Thirteen Needles of Guimen personally!
Although it was his scheme to let Chen Qiuyun deliberately approach Wan Yunting and steal the Thirteen Needles of Guimen, now that he had obtained it, the suspicious Sima Boyong felt that the acupuncture chart of the Thirteen Needles of Guimen was fake!
Therefore, Sima Boyong had been asking Sima Xuanyu to find patients for clinical trials during this period to verify whether the Thirteen Needles of Guimen were real!
Through three phases of clinical trials, the three patients treated with the Thirteen Needles of Guimen had all shown significant improvement.
However, the conditions of these three patients were still too mild. None of them had reached the thirteenth needle, Guifeng, of the Thirteen Needles of Guimen. The patients were able to recover after treatment.
But the thirteenth needle, Guifeng, of the Thirteen Needles of Guimen, one needle to decide the universe, if there was any mistake, it would be irreversible.