Chapter 3388 — Please Lend a Hand
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"Ha! A grown man who can't even beat me—he's hardly good enough for my sister," Song Lingwei said, clearly eager for trouble to stir. "Even if he can't beat me, he should at least be able to fight me to a draw, shouldn't he?"
"Your sister's very busy right now—I don't even know if she'll have time to come back. We'll talk about it when she's free..." Song Xiangwen said, feeling a headache coming on. He knew all too well what a little hellion Song Lingwei could be. Qiu Lingshan had told him that Wei Zhao was now a mid-Heaven Rank expert, but there was no way he could stand up to a late Heaven Rank, peak strength, great consummation expert!
What Song Xiangwen knew of Wei Zhao was limited to the level of the great families—at most, he had picked up a few scraps at the hidden level. As for the ancient level, he truly had no channel for news there, and so he had no idea that Wei Zhao had already set the entire Chinese ** world ablaze with his prestige.
And so he feared that if Wei Zhao came, Song Lingwei would give him a beating—and that would never do! Wei Zhao was, after all, a benefactor of the Song family, and the man Qiu Lingshan had set her sights on. What would it look like if Song Lingwei beat him up?
So, afraid that Song Lingwei might go looking for trouble with Wei Zhao on her own, Song Xiangwen didn't even dare speak Wei Zhao's name. He simply fobbed her off, hoping that in a few days she would forget the whole matter.
"Fine, give me a moment and I'll call her myself!" Song Lingwei said, showing no intention of giving up.
"Ah, Second Miss, Second Master, I've already instructed the kitchen to prepare a sumptuous banquet—shall we take our seats?" Song Xiangda could see that Song Xiangwen didn't want to pursue the topic of Wei Zhao, so he too chimed in to change the subject.
"Wonderful! It's been so long since I've had home cooking! My mouth is watering—is there Yanjing roast duck?" Song Lingwei's mouth watered at the mention of a sumptuous feast.
"There is, Second Miss—the cooks downstairs are roasting it right now!" Song Xiangda nodded.
"Then what are we waiting for? I want to eat, I want to eat!" Song Lingwei promptly forgot all about going to make trouble for Wei Zhao, much to Song Xiangwen's relief.
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These days, the hidden Tang family was faring miserably indeed!
Among the hidden families, apart from the Zhao family, who were enemies with Wei Zhao, and the You family, who kept a measured distance from him, the worst off of the remaining families was the hidden Tang family.
The hidden Tang family's relationship with Wei Zhao was a delicate thing. Tang Lingtou's daughter, Tang Zhi, was Wei Zhao's girlfriend—yet Tang Lingtou had gone and severed their father-daughter ties, and had even driven out Tang Zhi's own mother, Xiao Ming!
As a result, the hidden Tang family had effectively cut itself off from Wei Zhao. Were it not for the friendship between Tang Yuyi and Wei Zhao, the Tang family's position would have been even more awkward.
It was true that Tang Lingtou had later gone to Snow Valley and obtained Tang Zhi's forgiveness, but forgiveness was all it was. At best, it meant that Tang Zhi—or Wei Zhao—would not make trouble for the hidden Tang family in the future. But actually expecting to gain any advantage from them was out of the question.
If nothing unexpected happened, maintaining this sort of relationship would have been good enough. The Tang family had its own businesses and assets, after all—so long as Wei Zhao and Tang Zhi didn't come causing trouble, they could live quite comfortably.
But now, someone had set their sights on the hidden Tang family!
Several of the Tang family's holdings near Tangjiabao had been plundered, and the robbers were a band of men akin to "death squads"—they communicated with no one, simply got straight to the looting, and their strength was exceptional, enough to contend with Heaven Rank experts!