Chapter 4919 — A Real Good Man
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Wei Zhao did not even spare the two of them a glance. He turned to Ni Caiyue, who was still desperately hiding behind his back, and said, caught between laughter and tears, "They ran off ages ago—what are you still hiding for?"
"Huh? They ran?" Ni Caiyue poked her head out for a look, and sure enough, the old owl and Old Li were nowhere to be seen. Only then did she finally breathe easy, patting her chest as she said, "Great, we scared them off after all. Those two are just like Chang Laiting—mean, really mean!"
Wei Zhao's eyes slid sideways again. Being around this little Ni girl, though her wits often left him speechless with laughter, also brought frequent unexpected delights—every so often she would strike some pose that made a man's nose bleed. The crucial thing was that the girl had no idea she was doing it, all adorably clueless.
"Thank you for rescuing me, young hero—otherwise I'd have been done for this time!" Ni Caiyue thanked Wei Zhao, still shaken. Thank goodness she'd known he and his companions were here; otherwise she wouldn't even have had anyone to call for help, and the consequences of falling into the old owl's and Old Li's hands did not bear thinking about.
"Mind telling me what this is all about? Didn't I just help you flatten Chang Laiting? How did you get chased down again?" Wei Zhao asked, somewhat at a loss for words.
"These two are called the old owl and Old Li. They're in with Chang Laiting—they came in together with him. But for some reason, when Chang Laiting came after me, it seems like he shook the two of them off?" Ni Caiyue said, tilting her head.
"That's normal. Chang Laiting was after the Nourishing Mystic Grass on you—that's the kind of thing you want as few people knowing about as possible. Bringing those two along to chase you would only mean splitting a share with them," Wei Zhao said, curling his lip.
Of course, it was also because little Ni was truly hopeless in a fight—scare her a little and she'd surrender on the spot. Otherwise, had she been more troublesome, Chang Laiting likely wouldn't have abandoned these two henchmen.
"Huh? So that's how it was—I thought the two of them had gotten lost!" Ni Caiyue wore an expression of sudden enlightenment.
"Apart from you, I doubt there's a single person who could make it here who'd just casually get lost. You can rest easy on that count," Wei Zhao said, unable to hold back a laugh.
"Is that so?" Ni Caiyue blinked, apparently failing to catch the teasing in his words—she nodded in agreement instead.
Wei Zhao shook his head, speechless. This little Ni girl really had perfected adorable cluelessness to an art form. He could only go on asking, "So just because they ran into you, they chased you like that? Don't tell me you've got some deep grudge with them—otherwise there'd be no call for such deadly enmity, surely?"
Ni Caiyue was, after all, one of the Three Fairies, and nominally Chang Laiting's dao companion. As Chang Laiting's lackeys, the two of them ought not to have dared move against her so rashly.
"Mmm… after they ran into me, they didn't try to grab me at first. They just asked where Chang Laiting had gone. But then I let something slip by accident, and they found out about the Nourishing Mystic Grass—that's why they chased me like madmen. It was terrifying…" Even now Ni Caiyue was still frightened by the memory.
Wei Zhao simply did not know what to say. This little Ni girl was a born friend-of-the-enemy—she could let slip even a thing like this. Truly, she had only herself to blame for being hunted.
Still, when you thought about it, like master, like lackey. Chang Laiting's two henchmen were just like him: profit-grubbing lechers and scoundrels. Running into those two really was little Ni's bad luck.
"All right, whatever—those two have been chased off for now, so you should be fine, right? I need to go." Wei Zhao glanced at Ni Caiyue and immediately made to set off in search of Wang Xinyan and the other two.