Chapter 3804 — The Little Senior Sister's Message
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Piecing this together with how Little Curly Bear had clung to Wei Zhao back at the rear-mountain hall and refused to come down, Xiao Che quickly worked it out: the little thing had most likely come looking for their leader. Without a word, he ran straight to Cave Dwelling One at the foot of the mountain and fetched Wei Zhao out, and only then was Little Curly Bear caught and brought back halfway.
It was just as well the little creature's legs were short and its speed poor; otherwise, with night already fallen, had it been left to run off in blind panic, heaven knew what great mess might have ensued.
Having accompanied Wei Zhao in chasing Little Curly Bear back, and seeing the little thing perched on Wei Zhao's neck in such intimate fashion, Xiao Che could not help asking in puzzlement, "Leader, didn't you say this little thing's master is at odds with you? So how come it—?"
That the eldest Miss Shangguan disliked Wei Zhao was, thanks to the embellishments of interested parties, virtually common knowledge throughout the Welcome Pavilion; and judging by how Shangguan Lan'er had appeared to look on from the sidelines several times before, she did indeed seem to hold no fondness for Wei Zhao—which only cemented the rumor further.
Wei Zhao smiled faintly. "This is a tacit understanding her master and I deliberately put on, to lull that young master Xu into complacency. Xiao Che, it's enough that you know—don't go telling anyone else."
"Rest easy, Leader, I understand." Xiao Che was enlightened at once, and then filled with solemn respect. His own leader Wei Zhao could actually be on familiar terms with a noble personage as lofty as the eldest Miss Shangguan—and could even get her to cooperate of her own accord in putting on a show. Truly, he was unfathomable.
Bringing Little Curly Bear back to his present Cave Dwelling One at the foot of the mountain, Wei Zhao watched as the little creature fumbled and fidgeted before finally fishing a small envelope out of its little shorts. One could tell the envelope had originally been quite exquisite, but after being pulled from the little thing's shorts, its appearance was crumpled beyond all compliments.
A word more: though Little Curly Bear was a spirit pet, Shangguan Lan'er had specially designed a pair of shorts for it, nicely described as being to spare it from running about bare.
Wei Zhao unfolded the letter, torn between laughter and tears. The handwriting on it was delicate and fresh, yet the one matter it spoke of made Wei Zhao knit his brows slightly.
Shangguan Lan'er's message said that recently an inner-sect disciple of the Soaring Heavens Pavilion named Yu Jiang had been going about asking everywhere after the latest doings of the Welcome Pavilion, paying particular attention to the formidable newcomers who had risen of late. Word had it that Nantian Yong, the Soaring Heavens Pavilion's supervisory deacon—and this fellow's master—had previously gone to the Hong Clan Merchant Guild to kick up a fuss, only to come away with a face full of dust. After returning to the Soaring Heavens Pavilion, he seemed to be helping with the same business, and making no small stir of it.
Shangguan Lan'er had originally taken not the slightest interest in such rumors, but the moment she heard the phrase "formidable newcomers," she suddenly thought of Wei Zhao. After all, if one spoke of the most dazzling newcomer in the Welcome Pavilion, then even setting all the Tri-Pinnacle Pavilion newcomers together, it could only be Wei Zhao.
After all, he had consecutively scored divine-tier perfect marks in the first two rounds of the newcomer assessments—something no other newcomer would even dare imagine. The Tri-Pinnacle Pavilion newcomers were scored separately, true, but the difficulty of the first two rounds' assessments had been identical; on that point alone, the other newcomers had no choice but to concede.