Chapter 2572 — Ying Ziyu's Lie
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Ah!" Chief Zhu had not expected Wei Zhao to truly mean to heal his brother—and more than that, to raise him to late-stage Mystic-rank peak. What joyous news! To think that at the outset, Chief Zhu's fondest hope had been merely to mend Zhu the Second's meridians so that he could walk the path of a cultivator once more. Now Wei Zhao's promise far exceeded that hope, and for the first time Chief Zhu felt the impulse to follow Wei Zhao in true earnest. "Thank you, Mr. Lin!"
Wei Zhao waved a hand. "You've surely noticed by now—I've never shortchanged anyone who serves me in earnest. The Liu and Wu families of the mundane world, the Hidden Han and Hidden Pi families—all of them have reaped their due rewards."
"I understand. Rest assured, Mr. Lin—from now on, my brother and I will follow you through thick and thin!" Chief Zhu said excitedly.
"Ha. I still have some minor Spirit-Gathering Pills on hand. If he wants to break through to Earth-rank, that's not impossible either," Wei Zhao said with a smile. "It all depends on how you two brothers perform."
"I understand!" Chief Zhu said, his voice thick with excitement.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Ying Ziyu laid Chen Xi on the bed, and before long she began to stir. She had slept for quite a while, and her strength had long since returned. Drowsily she sat up, looked around at her surroundings with some puzzlement, and could not help but be surprised.
"Huh? What am I doing at home?" Chen Xi rubbed her eyes, made sure she was truly awake and not seeing things, and then called out, "Sister Ziyu? Are you there?"
"Xiao Xi, you're awake?" Hearing Chen Xi's call, Ying Ziyu hurried into the bedroom.
"Did I... fall asleep?" Chen Xi looked at Ying Ziyu with some suspicion. "Sister Ziyu, weren't we at school? How did we end up home all of a sudden? I remember... Brother Wei Zhao seemed to have come, and we went to the school gate to find him? Where is Brother Wei Zhao?"
"Uh..." Ying Ziyu's head ached. Looking at Chen Xi, she could not bring herself to tell her the whole truth—Wei Zhao clearly did not want Chen Xi anywhere near such violent business. So Ying Ziyu could only say vaguely, "Well, we did go to the school gate to find Brother Wei Zhao, but it wasn't really Brother Wei Zhao—it was Chen Xiaoba in disguise. He wanted revenge on the two of us, and when we opened the car door, his lackeys knocked you unconscious. So I fought them off. You know I used to be a gang leader, Xiao Xi—dealing with a few petty thugs is nothing to me..."
"Ah... I see..." Chen Xi was taken aback by Ying Ziyu's account, and disappointed too that Wei Zhao had not really come. "Those people really are awful. You're not hurt, are you?"
"Not at all—they were nothing before your Sister Ziyu!" Ying Ziyu said. "Then I drove them off, saw you'd fainted, and carried you home on my shoulder."
"Fainted? Carried me? Home?" Chen Xi's eyes went wide, and she found it hard to believe. "Sister Ziyu, why didn't you take me back to school or to the infirmary? Wouldn't that have been easier? Our neighborhood is a fair distance from the school—carrying me... all that way? Could you really manage?"