Chapter 4327 — Their Separate Fortunes
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
"Mm. Master has always treated me very well, just like her own flesh and blood—indulging me and humoring me in everything. Wei Zhao, would you like to find a chance to meet her?" Wang Xinyan suddenly proposed.
In her heart, the East Sea Divine Nun was her family. If she was half a daughter to the East Sea Divine Nun, then Wei Zhao was half a son-in-law. A son-in-law and a mother-in-law ought to meet sooner or later—and besides, with the East Sea Divine Nun's strength and standing, Wang Xinyan felt that whatever trouble Wei Zhao had, she would surely be able to help.
"I will. But the time isn't right yet—wait until my strength is a bit higher." Wei Zhao smiled.
He had just barely managed to pull the wool over everyone's eyes; if he met the East Sea Divine Nun, that titan of the Mountain-Opening stage, face to face, who knew whether she might see through something? And if she took a liking to his talent, or if Ling Yuanqing and Wei Hebei and their like got wind of it, that would only breed complications.
"Well... all right." Wang Xinyan was briefly taken aback. She had dearly hoped that, seizing this rare opportunity, Wei Zhao might come along with her to the Morning Star Academy. After all, Huang Xiaotao had already taken the East Sea Divine Nun as her master, and to leave Wei Zhao alone in the chaotic Zhenduan sea region—she simply could not set her mind at ease.
"That's right. I still have a great deal left unfinished on the North Island, so for the time being I can't go to the East Continent. Once everything on my end is settled, I'll come to the Morning Star Academy to find the two of you." Wei Zhao nodded in pledge.
"Then... you must be extra careful on your own. As for me and Little Sister Xiaotao, whatever happens, Master will shelter us, and generally speaking we'll stay at the Morning Star Academy and not go out. You needn't worry." Though reluctant at heart, Wang Xinyan would not press him now that Wei Zhao had spoken so.
After all, Wei Zhao had said he would come to the East Continent to find them both, and come he would—it was only a matter of waiting a while longer. Better that than the past year and more, when she had not even known whether he was alive or dead, living each day in anxious dread.
"Mm. You two must take good care of yourselves as well. After you return to the academy, if conditions allow, find a way to write to me. Even if letters can't reach the Tri-Layered Pavilion on the North Island directly, you can still find a way to send them to the Hong Clan Merchant Guild—Xiaotao knows about it. I need only mention it to a friend, and no matter which branch of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild you send your letters to, they'll end up in my hands." Wei Zhao instructed the two girls.
Quite apart from the fact that Wei Zhao was himself an honorary vice-chairman of the Hong Clan Merchant Guild, even though Hong Zhong had earlier been jointly squeezed out at the Central Island headquarters, he was still, in solid fact, a vice-chairman. Even if he could not meddle in matters of vital interest, something as small as using the guild's internal channels to relay letters was no trouble at all—a single word to the East Continent side would suffice.
"Mm, mm." Wang Xinyan and Huang Xiaotao nodded again and again. Even if Wei Zhao had not said so, once far away at the Morning Star Academy in the East Continent, they would certainly have found some way to send him letters. Even if they had no connections of their own, at worst they could ask the East Sea Divine Nun to step in—and since the East Sea Divine Nun doted on Wang Xinyan so, she would surely agree to such a small request.