Chongfei Manual pt. 1

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Wei Luo tore off the cloth covering her eyes, and called out in surprise: “Ah Zheng?”

The little girl’s pupils were pure and clear like water, her confused and helpless manner was without the slightest hint of falsehood. She seemed to have gotten scared by the scene before her. Tightly grasping onto the hem of Song Hui’s clothes, she burrowed into his chest, preventing him from going to save Wei Zheng, “Big brother Song Hui, I’m very scared, how come Wei Zheng fell into the water? I didn’t know she was standing on the edge, she called me over to catch her…”

Song Hui gently patted her back to comfort her, signaling for Liang Yu to rescue the other girl, as he carried We Luo over to a safe spot by the pond, “Don’t be scared, don’t be scared, it’ll be okay. That area has always been wet and slippery, if one doesn’t pay attention, they could easily fall into the pond. It’s all my fault for not telling you all earlier…”

Liang Yu had practiced martial arts to build up his strength from childhood, and was even better at swimming. It didn’t take him long to carry Wei Zheng out of the pond. It was only for a few moments, but Wei Zheng had drunk a lot of water and was clearly scared silly. Having been placed on the ground by Liang Yu, she couldn’t regain her senses for a long time, shivering with cold as she hugged herself.

She had wanted to harm Wei Luo, she didn’t think she’d harm herself instead… After all, she was still a small child. Feeling that she had received a grievance, she couldn’t help but immediately cry, big round tears rolling down from her eyes. She was rubbing her eyes as she cried. On top of that, when she fell into the lotus pond, she had smacked her nose. Bright red blood was now flowing out of it. Since she was rubbing at her face, the blood had gotten smeared all over, making for a rather ghastly sight.

The several people at the side were also frightened by this appearance of hers. Song Ruwei was the first one to react and go over. She hurriedly took off a maidservant’s coat to drape over Wei Zheng’s shoulders, and took out a silk cloth to wipe off the bloodstains from her face: “Quickly lift your chin, don’t lower your head, or the blood flow will get worse… Younger sister Ah Zheng, how is it? Are there any other injuries besides this one?”

Wei Zheng stopped crying with great difficulty, and said through sniffles and sobs: “No, none…”

Seeing her like that, Song Ruwei felt sorry for her and turned her head to ask Wei Luo: “Ah Zheng fell into the water, but you, as her older sister, didn’t even realize. The both of you stood by the edge, why is it that only you are alright?”

Her words were too unreasonable. Even though Ah Luo and Wei Zheng had both been standing by the edge right then, who didn’t know that Ah Luo had been blindfolded? Moreover, at that time it was Wei Zheng, who had guided Wei Luo there. Once the accident happened, it was because of Song Hui promptly rushing over, that Wei Luo had narrowly escaped the disaster.

Song Ruwei’s partiality was rather too obvious.

Standing nearby, Liang Yurong got annoyed as she heard this, and immediately jumped in to refute: “Big sister Ruwei means to blame Ah Luo? Ah Luo was blindfolded then, but Wei Zheng could clearly see. She, herself, decided to go to the pond’s edge, but still wants to blame others when something bad happened. What kind of logic is this? If big brother Song Hui hadn’t saved Ah Luo, would Ah Luo be alright now? Or do you mean to say that big brother Song Hui should rescue Wei Zheng, but shouldn’t bother with Ah Luo?”

Those few derisive remarks rendered Song Ruwei speechless for a good while.

Liang Yurong and Wei Luo both had the same skill, namely their innate eloquence. Arguing with others, they would never lose. How else would they have become such close friends? After all, birds of a feather flock together, it was the same for people.