護花近衛 - 第1682章 嚇了一大跳 - 清風書屋

"You must have been waiting forever. Get in, we'll talk on the way!" Wei Zhao pulled the car up beside Little Ken, opened the door, and called out to him.

"Ah! Big Brother Wei Zhao, you came!" At the sight of him, a flicker of joy lit Little Ken's face, and he scrambled nimbly into the car.

Once Little Ken was aboard, Wei Zhao pulled into a parking space by the roadside and said, "Now you can talk. What's so urgent that you had to send for me?"

"Mm..." Little Ken nodded hurriedly. "Big Brother Wei Zhao, something has happened to Sister Xiaoke. Can you help her?"

"Xiaoke? What's happened to her?" Wei Zhao was struck blank for a moment, and then a sudden tightness seized his heart... Yu Xiaoke. He had not seen her since the tomb robbery, and yet at this instant her lovely, bashful face rose before him with perfect clarity.

The moment Yu Xiaoke had bared her heart to him might have been yesterday; he could see it all still. He had even come to feel a certain fondness for the girl, but the two of them were fated never to cross paths again. The Male Thief's identity had passed forever into history; that face could never again be shown to the world.

Still, at the news that something had happened to Yu Xiaoke, his heart clenched. He did care for her, a little. True, she was someone he had known under another identity, but just like Eagle in Yu Ning's day, the Male Thief was one of Wei Zhao's selves.

"Sister Xiaoke means to ambush the convoy and snatch a prisoner free. Won't you help her? If you don't, she'll never come back alive!" Little Ken said in a rush.

"Ambush a convoy?" Wei Zhao blinked. "Snatch who, from what? She hasn't been watching too many dramas, has she?"

"No, it's like this..." Little Ken dared not hold anything back, and recounted to Wei Zhao, point by point, everything Yu Xiaoke had told him. His memory was good; he passed it on almost word for word...

"What! You're telling me Yu Xiaoke means to rescue the Male Thief?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide, and for a moment he had no idea what to say. Yet those few words of Yu Xiaoke's left a sour ache in his chest...

There is a kind of love that shares life and death, that flings caution to the winds. Love at first sight; the moth's headlong charge into the flame.

That was the very portrait of the love between Yu Xiaoke and the Male Thief. The two of them had passed through death together in the ancient tomb; his protection of her had made her fall for him at first sight, and that was what now drove her to this recklessness, this moth's charge into the fire.

Knowing full well it could not be done, she went and did it anyway, and that alone proved what lay in Yu Xiaoke's heart...

"Yes, Big Brother Wei Zhao, could you go and help her..." Little Ken was uneasy. He feared that Wei Zhao might be fond of Yu Xiaoke too, and that on learning she loved another man he would take offense and wash his hands of the whole business. But he could not bring himself to lie to Wei Zhao either.

"That foolish girl, honestly..." Wei Zhao gave a wry smile. "Ambush a convoy? Does she think she's in some costume drama? Easy enough to say!"

"I know... so... what do we do?" Little Ken could not tell what Wei Zhao really meant, so he could only ask cautiously.

"All right, leave it to me. I'll help her. But you're not to breathe a word about my part in it. I may be helping her from the shadows." Wei Zhao mused a moment, then said to Little Ken.

"Ah... all right!" Little Ken was taken aback. What did Wei Zhao mean by that? Doing a good deed and leaving no name behind? Or was it that he did love Sister Xiaoke after all, and had no wish for her to know he was helping her run off to rescue his own rival?

Be that as it may, Wei Zhao had agreed, and that was good news. Whatever he asked, Little Ken would agree to without a moment's hesitation.

"Good, then it's settled!" Wei Zhao said. "You go on back. I give you my word, I'll see your Sister Xiaoke safely back to the orphanage."