Heroes of the Fantasy World

(5)

The battle on the front line is urgent, and Kuai Ma reported that Huang Yixiao led tens of thousands of soldiers and had successfully joined forces with Zhao Kuo, who was guarding the two towns of Huaihuang and Rouxuan. Therefore, the war has been delayed for half a month, but there is still no progress.

Soldiers and luggage were continuously sent to Yuyi Town, which was a huge waste every day for the gentry and nobles in the town who had been supporting them behind the scenes.

In front of such a group of out-and-out warmongers, the safety of Yuyi Town is not worth mentioning compared to his own property and life.Now they are still willing to support Yuyi Town, but only because Zhao Wei, the patriarch of the Zhao family, has promised that as long as their bets are in the right place, everyone's net worth will be multiplied several times after the war is over.

However, due to the current tense situation, the Yuyi army and the coalition army have been confronting each other for a long time. More and more gentry and nobles have shown their distrust. Answer, if the promises are not enticing enough, some people start to flee with their families.

Among them, no one is willing to watch the family property they have accumulated for many years wasted on protracted wars.

As a result, these gentry and nobles began to besiege the Zhao family and the Zhao family every day. They seemed to be loyal and admonishing, but in fact they were coercing Zhao Wei to agree to their unreasonable demands. If they could not win as soon as possible, they would not hesitate. Leave Yuyi Town.

Faced with the threats of these rats for several days, Zhao Wei, who was seriously ill, gradually began to appear helpless. Now he has few talented confidantes around him, and his daughter Zhao Xiaomei can't take care of herself...

"We can only rely on him." Zhao Wei murmured silently in his heart.

One day, after entertaining today's guests, Zhao Wei very rarely found his little sister and begged her to do something.

"Little sister, you secretly handed over this warrant to the master of Yuyi Academy, calling it an emergency military order, so don't delay for a moment!"

The little girl accepted the order silently, and rushed to Yuyi Academy overnight to submit the letter warrant.

When Bai Feng heard that the little girl had arrived, she naturally went out to greet her, and the two met in front of the school grounds.I haven't seen each other for many days, even though there are thousands of words to pour out in my heart, I still meet each other without words.

"Master Bai, this is an emergency military order!" The little girl took off the hat of the red cloak so that the other party could recognize her appearance.

Bai Feng took the warrant and quickly opened it. After pondering for a while, she replied, "May I ask Miss Zhao, how is Mr. Zhao doing recently?"

"Why do you ask these things? Tell me quickly, what is written in the letter?" The little girl blushed and said angrily, "There is no time for you to make fun of me now!"

Bai Feng's face turned livid, and he explained: "No, that's not what I mean...you read this letter first..." The little girl borrowed it to read it, and exclaimed: "Why are there no words?"

It was just a piece of ordinary letter paper, without any ink marks.

"Little sister, tell me the truth." Bai Feng's voice suddenly became low and sad, and said, "Mr. Zhao, is he..."

"Daddy, he hasn't been able to sleep well these days, and he does look weaker." The little girl said.

"According to my guess, this 'letter without words' means that Mr. Zhao wanted to summon me, because he was afraid that the contents of the letter would be seen by interested people, so he made such a bad plan." Looking at the letter paper knowingly, he suddenly asked: "Then what is in the letter?"

"If I'm not wrong, it should be Mr. Zhao's last words..." Bai Feng cupped her hands to apologize for her outspokenness, and said respectfully: "Mr. Come back to Zhao Mansion with me!"

"Okay!" The little girl couldn't stop sobbing in her mournful voice, but she quickly gritted her teeth and got over it.

The two returned to Zhao's mansion in a carriage, and went straight to Zhao Wei's bedroom.Sure enough, he still hadn't fallen asleep at this time, and had been waiting for news from his daughter Xiaomei and Baifeng.

"You guys are finally here." He wanted to raise his hand to greet the other party, but it was really hard to continue, so he could only make a movement so slight that only the little sister who took care of him day and night could detect it.

"Father!" The little girl threw herself on Zhao Wei, tears flooding her chest unconsciously.

Zhao Wei caressed his daughter's back and comforted him, "I think both of you know why I summoned you in the middle of the night, right?"

"Mr. Zhao, please express..." Bai Feng bowed his hands in respect.

"I want you to come today because I will entrust you with what you will do after I die." Zhao Wei sneered, and said, "Before that, I want to tell a story to Mr. Bai. And their mothers in the bag."

"Our Zhao family was originally a big family in a corner of the Central Plains. Just because our predecessors offended the pilgrims, we were arbitrarily accused of crimes and reduced to the point of exile. However, our Zhao family is so easy to submit? We rely on Running around for business, we slowly found a safe place in the Fortress, of course, at first we always had to move around to avoid unnecessary troubles, and it wasn’t until someone appeared that our Zhao family ended our wandering life.”

Zhao Wei paused, took a long breath, and continued, "That person is the mother of my younger sister and Nangzhi."

"Mother?" The little girl opened her teary eyes wide, with countless curiosity in her heart.

Zhao Wei said: "Baifeng, do you remember what I mentioned about the Holy Land before? Don't you want to know why I met Duguqi and became attached to each other?"

Bai Feng said: "I would like to hear the details."

"Actually, I was on the way to do business, and not only You Qi was rescued... but also her sister, Dugu Chao, the two sisters had exactly the same appearance." Zhao Wei wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said: "Originally, Dugu Chao, the eldest daughter, was supposed to go back to take over the position of the saint, but she unexpectedly fell in love with me during the journey... She doesn't want to go back, and I don't want her to leave. Pray, it's here Time stood up and chose to go back to the Holy Land for my sister and the clansmen... I remember that day, spring petals fluttered all over the sky like snow, and I couldn't stop her no matter what."

"Since then, in order to allow my wife to live a stable life, I have settled down in Yuyi Town, the easternmost town. This place is far away from the Holy Land and the Central Plains." Zhao Wei suddenly smiled secretly, and said: " I still remember that my father often taught me when I was a child that one day I must return to the Central Plains to rebuild my family! Now that I think about it, what a ridiculous fantasy this is? Hahaha..."

"Central Plains, I don't miss it long ago. This is my home." Zhao Wei looked at Bai Feng with deep meaning. Although his face was clear and pale, his eyes still retained the expression of the past: "Young Master Bai should have a deep understanding of this feeling." Right? Yuyi Academy was founded by you alone, Mr. Bai, don’t you want to see with your own eyes the students of the Academy succeed in their studies?”

Bai Feng replied without hesitation: "Of course I want to!"

"Although you have only been here for a while, you understand the meaning of Yuyi Town better than those nobles who are full of themselves." Zhao Wei said: "That's why I am willing to believe you!"

After speaking, Zhao Wei took out a blank letterhead from the secret letter. In the last period of his life, he treated his younger sister and Baifeng as devoutly as worshiping Buddha, confided his heart, wrote his will, and finally stamped the letter. Poke and separate the halves to be carried separately by the duo who delivered them.

"Let's go, I'm going to rest. You guys, step back first."

The little girl walked out of the door reluctantly, as if she had expected in her heart that when she closed the door, she might never see her father again, so she sat alone outside the door and waited for the whole night.

In the early morning of the next day, when the younger sister Fang wanted to enter the house to serve her father, she found that the Patriarch of the Zhao family had passed away peacefully while resting on the couch.