Chapter 3964 — The Birthday Invitation
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At that, Ma Jian's eyes rolled white and he passed out cold on the spot, and thereafter he was truly like a dead dog, not even able to howl, as the Black-Veiled Envoys dragged him away.
As for what fate awaited him in the end, no one could say; but fall into the hands of the Black-Veiled Envoys, and misery was certain to be part of it.
Watching this unfold, Wei Zhao felt a secret chill. Gongyang Jun was worthy of his world-shaking reputation—nothing that happened in this little patch of ground that was the Law Enforcement Hall could hope to escape his eyes and ears. The only difference lay in whether he chose to involve himself.
He had to count himself lucky that his reaction had been quick enough; in the heat of the moment he had thought to have Shangguan Lan'er step in and help. Otherwise, had the Soul-Search Art truly been used, all his secrets laid bare before Gongyang Jun's eyes, he would never have taken a single step out of the Law Enforcement Hall again.
"All right, the score's been settled, and this place is so gloomy and so foul-smelling—let's hurry up and get out of here." Shangguan Lan'er pinched her nose with a frown. If not for saving Wei Zhao, she would never have set foot in the Law Enforcement Hall.
The three left the Law Enforcement Hall at once. Shangguan Lan'er had some matter at home to see to, so she parted ways with Wei Zhao and Xiao Che right there—but before she went, she left them a parting word: "My birthday is in a few days. You must remember to come, young junior brother!"
With that, giving Wei Zhao no chance to reply, she waved her hand and went off skipping away.
"Birthday?" Wei Zhao shook his head with a bitter smile. He had heard word of this long ago; it was back then that Meng Jueming had used the pretext of preparing a birthday gift for someone to set the precedent of trading scrap jade with him for fine jade. He had never imagined that gift was meant for this young miss, his own senior sister.
Given the friendship between Wei Zhao and Shangguan Lan'er, such an important day could not be slighted in either courtesy or principle—especially since she had just done him a great favor today, which made it all the more fitting to seize the occasion to thank her properly.
Only, with Shangguan Lan'er's standing as the foremost young miss of the Chongtian Pavilion, whether she wished it or not, there would inevitably be a grand birthday banquet—and when the time came, whether Wei Zhao, a mere newcomer of the Qingyun Pavilion, could even gain admittance was a serious question indeed.
After all, this was essentially a banquet of the Sanjie Pavilion's upper echelons; ordinary nobodies could never enter such a circle. As for his own attendance as a new arrival from the Qingyun Pavilion, Shangguan Lan'er herself would of course be delighted—but others might not see it that way.
"Never mind. If it really comes to it, I'll just have to grit my teeth and go. No need to linger overlong in any case—so long as my good wishes are delivered, that's enough." That was the decision Wei Zhao reached, and fortunately he had never set much store by face; even if people pointed and whispered then, he would not take it to heart.
With Wei Zhao and Xiao Che's return to the Welcome Pavilion, the mine-collapse affair at last drew to a close, and the many Qingyun Pavilion newcomers who had been watching and waiting, or nursing their fond hopes, now had to adjust their thinking and prepare for the arrival of a new era. The age of Meng Jueming had ended.
However one looked at it, Meng Jueming's sudden death had left the Welcome Pavilion with a great vacuum of power, and the contest among the various factions had only just begun.
Meanwhile, word that Wei Zhao had walked out of the Law Enforcement Hall unscathed soon reached Xu Lingchong's ears, and what truly shocked this young master Xu was not that Ma Jian had capsized in a ditch, but the role Shangguan Lan'er had played in it all! R1152