Gu Junzhu exchanged a few pleasantries with Senior Master Wan before getting to the point: "Uncle Wan, yesterday I heard something from one of my people, and I'm not sure if you are aware."
"Oh?" Senior Master Wan asked, "What is it?"
Gu Junzhu turned to Wan Chong's stepmother: "Sister-in-law, I'd like to ask you a question first."
"What question?" Wan Chong's stepmother sat upright, her back stiff, her whole body in a state of extreme tension.
Wan Chong was tight-lipped; whether it was work-related or personal matters, he never spoke about them.
Not until he proposed to become Gu Junzhu's assistant did anyone in the Wan Family know that Wan Chong and Gu Junzhu were friends.
They knew that Wan Chong and Gu Junzhu had once been classmates, though.
But Gu Junzhu had left Beijing when he was just a teenager, and since then, they hadn't heard Wan Chong mention Gu Junzhu again.
