護花近衛 - 第1949章 為什麼？ - 翰墨軒

Before this, Wei Zhao had filed her away in the category of people he suspected, and so he had never wanted much contact with her. But now it seemed things might be a little different? This Han Jingyi appeared to have no guile at all — on the contrary, she seemed to be missing a screw or two.

"All right, stop crying. Let me see how your head is." Wei Zhao bent down and gently moved Han Jingyi's hand aside, only to find a great goose-egg swelling on the back of her head. He thought to himself: thank heavens this girl is young; a few years older, and a fall like that would have given her a cerebral hemorrhage.

"Wuwu... it hurts so much..." Han Jingyi's face was a pear blossom drenched in rain, pitiable beyond words.

By now a good many students on their way to school were looking over — after all, everyone was curious: what was a girl doing sitting on the ground crying?

Some clueless but imaginative classmates began spinning theories, and as they spun them they scolded Wei Zhao on the side: "See that? The guy must have cheated on her, and then his girlfriend found out. Look how pitiful she is!"

"This guy's eyes must be stuck to the soles of his shoes. A girlfriend that pretty — if she were mine I'd treasure her, I'd enshrine her — and look, he's still making her cry like that!" Another boy spoke with righteous indignation.

Wei Zhao was far away, but he was at least an Earth-rank expert; his ears and eyes were naturally beyond ordinary men. He heard the two of them perfectly clearly, and was left utterly speechless.

He had to admit that Han Jingyi was a little beauty: a round face, big eyes, a porcelain-doll quality about her. Hers was not the classical beauty of the Eldest Miss, nor the pure, clever, elfin loveliness of Shen Yushu; rather, she had a sort of little-loli charm.

Especially now, weeping so pitifully, she could stir anyone's compassion; and so the commentary around them was almost entirely one-sided in her favor, while Wei Zhao became the heartless villain.

Wei Zhao did not care about such things, but if this jumble of talk reached the Eldest Miss's ears it would be trouble. He could only settle it quickly: he reached out and laid his hand on the swelling on Han Jingyi's head, swiftly circulating the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, and healed the swelling in a trice...

"There, get up, let's go quickly!" Wei Zhao said once she was healed.

"Huh? It doesn't hurt anymore?" Han Jingyi touched the back of her head and found the swelling gone. She stared at Wei Zhao in astonishment, then cried out in delight, "Wow, you're amazing! How did you do that? Can you teach me?"

Wei Zhao frowned, only then realizing that in his haste he had been a little rash — using true qi to heal a neighbor he had just met, and a curious little baby of a neighbor at that, one who seemed determined to get to the bottom of everything.

"Later! Right now we need to get to the classroom — people are watching!" Wei Zhao said.

"Oh, all right, all right!" Han Jingyi patted the dust off her trousers and trotted along after Wei Zhao.

"What's going on here?" Seeing Han Jingyi, who a moment ago had been crying without end, suddenly beaming and following Wei Zhao off as if nothing had happened, the onlookers were all rather baffled.

"I've got it — she must have asked her boyfriend for something outrageous, and he refused, so she cried; then he agreed, so she smiled!" one onlooker said.

"Ah! That does sound right. Maybe she wanted some cosmetics or clothes and her boyfriend wouldn't buy them, so she threw a tantrum?" another onlooker nodded.

"Very likely!" a third chimed in...

But whatever the case, the parties involved had gone, and so the rest dispersed... It was class time now; watching a bit of excitement was all very well, but missing class would be a loss not worth the gain.

"Wei Zhao, how old are you? What month were you born? How are you so amazing?" Han Jingyi asked, like a curious child.