Swordsman the Wanderer
Ch 26's. New Friends
After the tournament was over, Zhang En immediately left the location of the Tournament and passed through the exit gate of the palace where the royal tournament was.
On exiting the gate of the emperor's palace, 2 young men wearing bright blue clothes approached him and one of them immediately stopped his steps.
Zhang En looked at the 2 young men who seemed to be deliberately restraining and blocking the path he was walking through. Zhang En inevitably stopped and tried to find out the reason for the 2 young men who blocked his return trip. Suddenly one of the men behind him headed straight for Zhang En.
"Sorry for interrupting your journey" the young man said while saluting.
Zhang En squinted one eye at the young man who spoke.it turned out that the man in bright blue clothes that he had defeated before.
"Ohh. Its alright.. Just why are you blocking my way?" asked Zhang En.
The young man understood his mistake. "Sorry for blocking your way."
Zhang En thought that this young man would avenge his defeat and seek trouble with him.
"Hmmm... If you want to fight with me, not now because right now I am very hungry and want to go home for rest" Zhang En replied.
"I don't want to look for a fight with you, I intend to talk to you. Since you seem hungry, if you don't mind, let's find a place to eat together. Incidentally we also want to find a place to eat and all take you" said the man was friendly.
Hearing the man's words and showing no hostility to him, Zhang En seemed to think for a moment to refuse or accept the man's offer. After being silent for some time, Zhang En decided to follow them.
"Alright, I'll come with you" Zhang En replied.
Zhang En and Ke two young men immediately looked for a place to eat. On the way, the three of them just remained silent without speaking.
After walking for quite a while, Zhang En immediately stopped in front of the restaurant door that he often went to.
"What if we eat here?" ask Zhang En.
"alright.. Let's go inside" the young man replied following Zhang En from behind who first entered the room.
After entering the room and looking for a seat, the man in bright blue clothes immediately ordered food for the three of them.
The current atmosphere was a little awkward as it was Zhang En who looked extremely reserved and cold in the eyes of the two men who were in front of the table at the moment.
Since no one started the conversation, the man immediately introduced himself to start the conversation to melt the awkward-looking atmosphere.
"Include me, my name is Ching Li and it's like my school name is Fang Yao." Ching Li introduced herself while pointing towards the man next to her.
"My name is Zhang Xian En" Zhang En replied kindly.
"It's nice to meet Mr. Zhang" Ching Li said.
"Don't call me Master, just call Zhang"
"alright. Then I will call you Brother Zhang" Ching Li said again.
"It seems like such a call is suitable for us. I will also call you Brother Ching Li" Zhang En replied.
"Ha..Ha..Haaa, I'm so glad that we became brothers" Ching Li said with a laugh.
"Master... Sorry to interrupt, it's the food you've ordered" a woman stopped their conversation while putting the dish on the table.
"Thank you" Ching Li replied.
Finished finishing the meal, Zhang En immediately called the passing waiter to deliver the food at the table of one of the visitors there.
"Servant, please give us 1 bottle of wine jar" Zhang En said
"Yes Sir. Wait a minute" replied the waiter then took 1 bottle of wine and placed it on the table.
Zhang En immediately picked up the wine and immediately poured it into the glass. While drinking wine and allowing the two men to enjoy it.
Fang Yao who from earlier was just silent and did not speak from earlier, then asked Zhang En.
"Brother Zhang, if you may know, where is Brother Zhang from? and we know brother Zhang doesn't have a sect either!"
"I come from a small village in the Empire. A very remote village that existed in the Northern region of the empire. Why do you two know that I don't have a sect?" clearly Zhang En while asking.
"Northern Territory? it's a very distant area from where we are today" Ching continued in surprise.
Zhang En frowned seeing the shock from Ching Li and was thinking of something.
"It seems like I and brother Ching Li have been there and found out about the area in the north of the empire" Fang Yao said, recalling something.
"really?" Zhang En asked curiously as he poured wine into the glass and drank it.
"We had a mission to the northern regions of the empire and there was a village that we were going to investigate something" Ching Li said.
"If you may know, brothers both." said Zhang En and was immediately cut off by Fang Yao.
"I remember.. At that time, we were sent there to carry out the mission of the emperor and when the mission was carried out, it was, The 3 great sects were asked by the emperor to immediately send each of his disciples to head to the North to investigate the group that was doing the chaos in that area and we were both one of the people who were sent to run mission" Fang Yao said as he explained.
"Missiness? a group?" zhang En murmured In his heart. Zhang En grew curious about Fang Yao's explanation and immediately asked, "If you may know, where is the northern village you came to for the mission.?"
"If it's not wrong, the name of the village is Turtle Village" Fang Yao replied.
Hearing the Village Name said by Fang Yao, made Zhang En instantly startled and his face looked dejected.
"Brother Zhang, why do you look sad?" Fang Yao asked as he glanced at Ching Li.
"Before I answer, can you tell me anything you know and why the Emperor sent you there?"
"As Fang Yao's brother had already explained, The two of us became one of the representatives of the 3 sects who had been chosen to investigate a very dangerous group of organizations that had committed crimes by stealth starting the Northern regions of the empire. At that time we found no trace of them and only found a village that had been destroyed and we met 1 young man who was the same age as us from him also we knew the name of the village was turtle village" Ching Li replied telling her everything.
"And until now we did not know who the group of people was because there was no one who could be an eyewitness to search for information and know their characteristics because every village we came to did not exist the living even survived and were slaughtered"
Zhang En, who was silent, heard the explanation, immediately said "I come from Turtle Village and the people and my family have been slaughtered by a group of people in black robes and in the snow they have a Bird-shaped symbol resembling a Crow"
Ching Li and Fang Yao were almost aghast and shocked from their seats hearing the words from Zhang En. What surprised them was the characteristics of the clothes worn and the pictures that were altered used by the group.
"really? Aren't you mistaken to see brother Zhang?"
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