Maybe they should sit down and catch up more in depth. They have time to spare for it before they must leave for Caiyi Town.

Is Zewu Jun injured? Did he escape safely?

No and yes respectively; he hasn't been sleeping well, having to be always on his toes and ready to move before they could catch him, but he has, in fact, completely avoided capture. 

Meng Yao is very, very glad to hear that.

How much information has reached him about recent events?

Not much. Nothing from outside of Gusu. 

Well.

One positive update is that they have Wen Chao as a hostage, now. He has already been quite informative.

Whoa what really when did that happen? It sure explains some of the kicked-anthill behavior people have been talking about on the part of the Wens, that much he's heard about. 

Lan-guniang and Wei-guniang abducted him when they escaped from Nightless City. The Wens indeed seem to be quite aggravated about this.

When they did what?

"Lan-guniang was taken prisoner by Wen Xu when the Cloud Recesses burned," he says quietly. "Wei-guniang helped her escape nine days later."

"...I am very grateful to Wei-guniang, then. How are they doing?" 

They are doing well. Wei-guniang aggressively tends to Lan-guniang, it's quite sweet. Wei-guniang has been wearing disguise, since in order to protect the Jiang Sect they made it appear that she was also captured by Lan-guniang.

Lan-guniang's leg was broken, but she walks on it without visible difficulty. To his knowledge, any other wounds she sustained as a prisoner have already healed completely.

Aww. Yes, that sounds like Wei-guniang. That's good then. 

Now all he has to do is get through two days alone with Meng Yao without seducing him. No mean feat, that.

DESPITE EVERYTHING, nobody gets seduced in the next two days. And then he can go see his sister please. 

"Xiongzhang - "

"A-Zhan." 

HUGS. 

HUGS.

"You are alive." Her voice is muffled against his shoulder.

"I'm alive, A-Zhan, I've been perfectly alright, nobody else found me before Meng-gongxi." 

Cling.

This sure is a distressed sister. He is Worried. But he doesn't say anything, just hugs her. 

She is not going to emerge from his shoulder any time soon, because it would be bad for him to see her face right now. He would see that she is trying not to cry.

Then she starts crying anyway - her breathing fractionally choppier, her shoulders barely moving.

WOW OKAY IT'S WORSE THAN HE THOUGHT. 

He hugs her gently, letting her cry. It's the least he can do right now, when he wasn't there to protect her from whatever is causing this. 

Wei Ying takes a long look at the hugging Jades and starts casually walking around the edge of the clearing. The way she's fingering the talismans in her sleeve is surely a coincidence. 

Those who weren't already considerate enough to go elsewhere disperse very quickly. 

Except for this one guy who seems pretty interested. He's sticking around.

Would He Like To Reconsider :)