Chapter 3343 — Story
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Mr. Lin, I understand your meaning. But our Yu family's house precept was to find joy in helping others—that helping others is helping oneself. Young as I was, my parents taught me from childhood that one who walks the jianghu must have a chivalrous heart, that when others are in difficulty one must promptly lend a hand. How could a family like that go and bully anyone? We are utterly different from the secular Yu family or the Hidden Zhao family. They brought it on themselves—but we..." Yu Dake had of course caught Wei Zhao's implication, and hastened to explain.
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was a little surprised. He had not expected the Yu family to be like that—though it did bear some resemblance to Yu Xiaoke's temperament. Perhaps Yu Xiaoke had inherited something of the family character. Young as she had been then, some things are simply inborn.
So Wei Zhao found himself believing Yu Dake's words without quite meaning to. Besides, he did not think Yu Dake had any reason to deceive him—if the matter were truly looked into, at Wei Zhao's level he could still investigate it.
Wei Zhao's current level was different from Yu Dake's; his influence had been confined to the Hidden level, and even then limited to the Hidden You family. But Wei Zhao was different now—he was a name to be reckoned with even in the ancient strata, and he had an information broker like Ge Xian at his disposal.
"Dake, there is something I still must tell you—perhaps it is precisely because of this that your family was wiped out!" Harsh as Wei Zhao's words sounded, he had his reasons for saying them.
"Oh? Why? Did we do something wrong, then?" Yu Xiaoke was displeased. Her family had been wiped out—a deeply sorrowful thing to begin with—and for Wei Zhao to say such a thing now, was it not naked mockery?
"Yu Xiaoke, then let me ask you: why were you surrounded and attacked by a pack of fellow thieves in the first place? You stole money to do good deeds, but they didn't see it that way—they thought you had broken their guild's rules, so of course they came after you!" Wei Zhao said mildly. "Perhaps your family once went to help others, and in doing so became thorns in the eyes of those others' enemies."
"Ah!" Yu Xiaoke started. Yes—her own thinking had indeed been a little too simple. With Wei Zhao putting it that way, she understood: her family might well have erred precisely in the course of helping others.
"Mr. Lin, I understand what you mean. These are things I never considered before. Perhaps my family, in helping others, got in someone else's way, and so brought down unprovoked disaster upon themselves—one can hardly blame others for it." Hearing Wei Zhao's words, Yu Dake sighed somewhat gloomily. Unwilling as he was to believe it, Wei Zhao's reasoning was very sound; perhaps that was indeed how things had stood with his family. "This matter can only be put down to our family's meddling in others' affairs." (To be continued)