"The Yuan family was wiped out by Cui Wuming, a swordsman who served Su Wansan. I was able to escape because of my excellent lightness skill. Cui Wuming did not notice my presence and thought that the Yuan family only had 173 people."
"I hate Cui Wuming and Su Wansan to the bone, but although I am good at light footwork, I am not good at martial arts. In front of Cui Wuming, I can only be killed by him with one sword. But just when I was thinking about how to take revenge, news came from Yanchuan City that Su Wansan's entire family had been executed."
"I went to Yanchuan City to inquire and used my lightness skill to investigate the truth, only to find out that the massacre of the Su family was orchestrated by you, Young Prime Minister!"
"Young Prime Minister is the benefactor of my Yuan family, and the benefactor of Yuan Fei!"
"Knowing that you were coming to Hannancheng, I kept a close eye on any activity in Hannancheng, which led me to discover Liu Da and his group's secret."
"I see..." Zhao Cheng nodded, not expecting that his actions against Su Wansan had left a seed in Han Nancheng. He asked, "Why didn't you show yourself before?"
Yuan Fei said, "The matter is not over yet. If I suddenly reveal myself, the young prime minister may not believe me, or at least not completely. In that case, I will be useless."
“Of course, there’s an even more important reason…” Yuan Fei lowered his head and thought for a moment before continuing, “I’m all alone now, and if I don’t want to be a lone wolf, I have to find someone to rely on. I’m considering whether or not to show myself because if I do, it will be like I’m surrendering. And I… also want to test you, young prime minister, to see if you will kill Liu Da and the others.”
"After the Yuan family was wiped out, only Liu Da wrote to the court to speak out for the Yuan family's injustice. I owe him this favor, so I don't want him to die. But... I can't mislead the young prime minister because of this, so I can only let the young prime minister make his own choice."
"If the young prime minister kills Liu Da, I will never show myself again, and we will be even."
Zhao Cheng said, "At such a young age, you already have a clear sense of right and wrong, and you dare to take responsibility for your actions. You are a talented person. So... now that you have shown yourself, does that mean you want to join me?"
Yuan Fei immediately knelt on one knee and said sincerely, "Please allow me to stay by your side and serve you, Young Prime Minister!"
Zhao Cheng laughed and said, "I need someone with good lightness skills by my side. I would be more than happy to have you join me."
"Thank you, Master!" Yuan Fei immediately changed his address.
Zhao Cheng asked, "Yuan Fei, you were there when we were rescuing people, right? Did you see clearly who the person who ran away was?"
Yuan Fei looked at Zhao Wu and Heng Wenhao with respect and said, "Actually, I also followed when these two brothers were chasing someone. The other party was a thin woman. Her lightness skill was more skilled than mine, but her speed could not pull ahead of me by much. Later, she stopped, and I was worried that I was no match for her, so I... didn't catch up."
After hearing Yuan Fei's words, Zhao Cheng's impression of him improved even more.
When Zhao Wu and Heng Wenhao were chasing someone, they didn't mention losing them, which was giving them face and showed that they had good emotional intelligence.
Later, he frankly admitted that he was worried he wouldn't be a match for his opponent, so he stopped pursuing them, which showed his honesty.
Zhao Cheng asked, "Did you get a good look at her face?"
"I've seen her. She's plain-looking and doesn't have any special features."
“Then I think I know who she is.” Zhao Cheng recalled, “I saw her when I went to the Left Prime Minister’s residence last time. She is Wen Hu’s personal maid.”
"At the summit of Yanshan, the Liu family cultivates lotus." Heng Wenhao pondered for a moment and said, "Her lightness skill reminded me of these eight words. I estimate that she must be from the Liu family of Yanshan."
Zhao Wu chimed in, "Very likely!"
Heng Wenhao said, "On the surface, Wen Tai is in charge of the Left Prime Minister's residence, but the real executor is Wen Hu. He likes to gather martial arts masters and extraordinary people around him."
Zhao Cheng laughed and said, "So what if he has the Liu family? I have Yuan Fei now!"
As he spoke, Zhao Cheng pulled Yuan Fei up and said, "This woman from the Liu family is your first target. You must surpass her."
"yes!"
Yuan Fei kept emphasizing that his martial arts skills were not good, but Zhao Cheng did not encourage him by telling him to practice martial arts properly. Instead, he told him to take Liu Ling as his role model and study lightness skills diligently.
With Yuan Fei's current lightness skill and speed, even Zhao Wu and Heng Wenhao can't catch up with him. So unless they are grandmasters, it would be difficult to kill him. Why waste time making up for his weaknesses? It would be better to focus on cultivating his strengths. Strengths are more useful when they are stronger.
The moment Zhao Cheng accepted Yuan Fei's offer, he already had plans for Yuan Fei's future work in his mind.
Yuan Fei is skilled at using his light-footed skills for reconnaissance and also possesses certain investigative abilities, which is exactly the kind of talent the Yiwen Society needs.
"Let's go, let's drink to celebrate Yuan Fei joining us!!"
Zhao Cheng was in a great mood, and with a wave of his hand, he pulled Yuan Fei away.
Little did he know that his actions against Su Wansan had not only planted a seed in Han Nancheng, but also, in a more distant place, completely altered the fates of two other people…
A forest somewhere.
The snow fell heavily, and many leaves were crushed by the weight of the snow.
The huge cave entrance was hidden by dense and complicated trees. On a huge rock outside the cave, Su Sheng, dressed in a white robe, sat cross-legged, ignoring the snowflakes falling on her head and body, and was focused on reading.
Because of the fire, his face and skin were burned, and his appearance was very ugly, but apart from snowflakes, there was not a single stain on his white robe.
He stared intently, motionless, barely blinking, like a sculpture outside a cave.
He was reading a book, and he was also waiting for someone.
He was waiting for the only living relative in his life.
rustling sound—
The trees behind her swayed, shaking off the snow, but Su Sheng didn't take her eyes off the pages of her book until an even louder noise came.
Su Sheng gently raised her head and turned her face to look. She saw gray wolves emerging from the forest, leaving paw prints on the snow.
Su Sheng was somewhat surprised, but not flustered. He looked around and counted carefully; there were eleven gray wolves coming towards him!
"With so many of you trying to capture just one of me, yet you're so cautious, even resorting to formations. Wolves are truly born tactical masters."
Su Sheng put down his book, ignoring the wolf pack, and glanced at the cave, sighing, "Uncle Cui, it seems I won't be able to wait for you to come out of seclusion."
"Awooo!!!"
The alpha wolf howled, and the pack immediately formed a line and charged toward Su Sheng.
Su Sheng's burned face showed no change in emotion, but her eyes were clear as water, clearly showing no fear of the impending danger.
Having experienced a sudden and dramatic change and faced life and death firsthand, he is no longer afraid of death.
The gray wolves running in front pushed off with both feet and pounced on Su Sheng on the boulder.
His eyes gleamed with a greedy, ferocious light, as if he were about to tear Su Sheng to shreds with his sharp teeth and claws at any moment!
Whoosh!
Just then, the trees at the cave entrance swayed slightly, but no one was seen coming out of the cave, as if they had only been disturbed by a gentle breeze.
Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh—
Su Sheng heard the sound of wind breaking in his ears. He couldn't catch the afterimage with his naked eye, but he could see that eleven gray wolves were bleeding on the snow at the same time.
Only when the afterimage stopped did Su Sheng see him and his sword amidst the swirling snowflakes.
"Uncle Cui, you've emerged from seclusion."
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