Chapter 1255 — Pangolin's Sister

Yes, the Wei Zhao of old might have charged straight at the Yu family, but the Wei Zhao of today was far steadier than before. Revenge, too, demanded strategy. To rush in, fail to settle the score, and throw his own life away instead would be sheer folly.

"I am glad to hear you say that!" Yang Huaijun breathed a sigh of relief at once. "For now it is only speculation. I am fairly confident, but the evidence is still too thin! If the Yu family really is connected to the drug trafficking syndicate, even if you leave them alone, I will file a report to the Mysterious Investigation Bureau and have them sanction the Yu family!"

"Speculation is enough. I already disliked them. One more suspicion is just one more reason to kill them." Wei Zhao said flatly, "I have nowhere else to vent this, so this debt can be settled on their heads!"

"Well... do as you please." Yang Huaijun gave a bitter smile. "By the way, there is one more thing! Eagle, these past few days while sorting through the old cases, I pulled the files of the comrades who died back then. At the time I did not have the clearance, and after I transferred back I deliberately tried to forget because I did not want to recall those days. But when I pulled them a few days ago, I found that many of my comrades left behind parents and even young brothers and sisters. It broke my heart to see it, and I plan to visit each family one by one. Pangolin's side, I will leave to you?"

"Pangolin... he still has family?" Wei Zhao's expression softened, his memory returning to those years, to that young man who always wore a smile, who would often slip away to gaze at a photograph inside his pocket watch and never let anyone else see it!

Wei Zhao had teased him about it, saying he must be looking at a picture of his sweetheart, which always left Pangolin blushing to the ears...

For a moment, Wei Zhao was overwhelmed with emotion. My old comrade-in-arms, where are you now? Are you truly gone?

"Pangolin has a younger sister. By coincidence, she is also in Songshan City. I only just learned of it." Yang Huaijun said with feeling.

"A sister? He has a sister? In Songshan City?" Wei Zhao froze. Could it be that the photograph he used to look at was of his sister?

"Yes. His sister is sixteen this year, in the ninth grade. She should be taking the high school entrance exams this year!" Yang Huaijun said, "Her name is Ying Ziyu, and she studies in Class Six, Grade Nine at Fushan Middle School in Songshan City."

"Ying Ziyu?" Wei Zhao sighed inwardly, wondering how such a little girl had managed all these years. "Does she have no parents or family?"

"No. Pangolin's parents were also agents, and both died on duty during a mission. Pangolin raised his little sister from childhood by himself!" Yang Huaijun said, "To support his sister, Pangolin underwent special training at an early age and became an agent himself, only..."

"Say no more..." Wei Zhao felt an urge to weep, wondering how Ying Ziyu had survived. Both parents dead, and now her brother gone too. Did she even know the news?

"I found her through the household registration system. If she were not right here on my turf in Songshan City, she would not have been easy to find! She has already moved. Her brother's martyr's certificate and pension were never claimed and have been sitting in the lost-and-found at the police station." Yang Huaijun smiled bitterly, "If I had not looked into it, she could easily have been overlooked."

"So this Ying Ziyu still does not know her brother is dead?" Wei Zhao's heart grew heavier still. If he went to see Ying Ziyu, how was he supposed to broach it? To tell her with his own mouth that her brother was dead?

"Yes..." Yang Huaijun sighed, "That is also why I wanted you to go, Captain. You and Ying Ziyu are about the same age, so you should be able to talk to her more easily. If I went, I would not even know how to begin!"

"Stop talking nonsense. About the same as her? She is just a little girl... What am I supposed to say to her?" Wei Zhao said helplessly.

"If you really do not want to go, then wait until I return to Songshan City. We will go together and bring her the certificate and the pension along the way." Yang Huaijun knew the bitterness in Wei Zhao's heart, so he said this.

"Forget the certificate and the pension for now. They never found the body, did they? Perhaps Pangolin is still all right!" Wei Zhao stopped him hastily. According to what Yang Huaijun had said, Ying Ziyu should still be unaware that her brother had died, and with the entrance exams so close, the news would be a terrible blow. So Wei Zhao did not want to tell her outright. If it had to be said, it should at least wait until she had gotten into high school.

"True. No news is good news!" Yang Huaijun nodded.

"All right, I will go see her in a bit. I have nothing pressing at the moment anyway." If Wei Zhao had not known, that would have been one thing, but now that he knew Pangolin had a sister, he truly could not stand aside. He had to go and see how Ying Ziyu was living.

With Pangolin gone, he himself was her brother now, and he should shoulder the duty of caring for her! Pangolin, like Yang Huaijun, was a man with whom he had shared life and death!

"Good, let us leave it at that for now. As for the Yu family, do not be in too great a hurry. Do not alert them." Yang Huaijun's final warning not to alert them was in fact meant to restrain Wei Zhao.

"Rest assured, Brother Jun, I know my limits." Wei Zhao nodded.

After hanging up, Wei Zhao was in low spirits, his heart heavy. Though there were countless children in the world like Ying Ziyu who had lost parents and brothers, those others had nothing to do with him. But Pangolin's sister was different!

Wei Zhao was a ruthless man, and yet a deeply loyal one! Toward strangers and enemies he was cold, but toward friends and loved ones he cared beyond measure!

"Husband Wei Zhao, what is wrong? You look unhappy?" Feng Xiaoxiao had been watching Wei Zhao's expression. Though she did not know whom he had been speaking with, she could feel the heaviness in his heart.

"It is nothing... Xiaoxiao, are you free now? Will you come out with me?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Oh? To see that sister of someone you mentioned?" Though Feng Xiaoxiao had not quite followed Wei Zhao's phone call, she had caught the general meaning.

"Yes, the sister of a comrade-in-arms of mine..." Wei Zhao sighed. "That comrade is gone. He was my good brother..."

"Then let us go. I will go with you!" Feng Xiaoxiao truly could understand how Wei Zhao felt. Her father worked in a similar line, and some of her uncles had died on missions, which had left her father in great pain as well.

For the fastest updates, please read without pop-ups.