Chapter 813 — Ambushing Wei Zhao

"What's so bad about it? We can do it on the sly and pretend it was an accident," Shen Yushu said with a mischievous grin.

"But..." Gu Mengyao frowned. "He's weeding. How can we go and mess with him?"

"It'll be fine. It's hot out—a good way to cool off. Look, the water on our clothes is almost dry already, isn't it?" Shen Yushu said, shaking out her tracksuit. It was lucky they were both wearing tracksuits; at home they usually didn't, and if they'd been wearing only thin shirts, they'd have been showing far too much.

"It still doesn't seem right," Gu Mengyao said. She wasn't as wild as Shen Yushu.

"Oh, come on, Sister Yaoyao. Think about it—when you were in the hospital before, you already sprayed Arrow-Brand Guy all over his head and face. So what's one more time?" Shen Yushu egged her on.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" The mention of that embarrassing incident made Gu Mengyao flush with annoyance. She glared at Shen Yushu like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. "Don't you ever bring that up again!"

"Oh, Sister Yaoyao, don't be shy. I hear lots of boys like that sort of thing—what's it called, being flirty or something? Maybe Arrow-Brand Guy likes it too!" Shen Yushu said. "We sisters need something special if we're going to team up and beat Tang Zhi!"

"Say one more word of that nonsense and I'll stop talking to you!" Gu Mengyao reached out to pinch Shen Yushu's cheek. "Xiao Shu, you've gotten lewd lately. You weren't like this before."

"Oh, maybe I'm about to hit puberty..." Shen Yushu said carelessly.

"Puberty? Xiao Shu, I hate to burst your bubble, but you're eighteen now." Gu Mengyao looked at her and shook her head. "Your chest has already stopped growing—that means your puberty is over."

"Who says? Impossible! Just yesterday I thought they'd gotten a little bigger!" Shen Yushu retorted, puffing out her chest in defiance—so much that she nearly burst her tracksuit.

Gu Mengyao felt a pang of envy. Why did Xiao Shu's chest have to be so big? If only she could share a little of it, wouldn't that make her perfect? So, green with jealousy, she said, "That's just because you've been eating more lately. You've gotten fatter, that's all."

"Oh, all right. My chest got fatter." Shen Yushu nodded.

"..." Gu Mengyao ground her teeth in frustration. A chest getting "fatter" and a chest getting bigger—was there any difference? "We're getting off topic. Anyway, I don't want to spray Wei Zhao."

"Oh, Sister Yaoyao, if you won't do it, then I'll do it myself. But you have to keep it a secret for me," Shen Yushu said.

"Fine..." Gu Mengyao nodded. Sticking to her principle of non-participation, she would just watch Shen Yushu make trouble.

Wei Zhao was off to the side weeding. The mower was loud, but he could hear Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu's conversation perfectly clearly, and he found the two girls rather adorable. If he could be around them every day from now on, he wouldn't have to worry about life being dull.

At first, Wei Zhao hadn't paid any mind to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu playing with their water guns, but he never expected that little mischief-maker Xiao Shu to set her sights on him! Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, he could only pretend he hadn't heard and keep on weeding.

Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao went on scrubbing the wall over there, but Shen Yushu was already looking for a chance to spray Wei Zhao with her water gun.

"Sister Yaoyao, look, the wall over there is really dirty. The water gun's pressure doesn't seem to be enough—I don't think it can wash it off?" As she spoke, Shen Yushu suddenly hoisted the water gun high, as if she were trying hard to make it spray higher and farther.

A stream of water instantly swung toward the lawn where Wei Zhao was.

But at the very instant the water was about to douse Wei Zhao, he gave a slight sideways shift, as if he had just finished mowing, and the entire stream sprayed onto the lawn instead. Not a trace of water landed on Wei Zhao.

"Huh?" Shen Yushu hadn't expected Wei Zhao to be so lucky—to dodge at the very instant the water was about to hit him! She had been secretly observing him the whole time, and she'd noticed that Wei Zhao weeded in a regular pattern: after moving to a new spot, he would stay there weeding for a while, and that interval was about five minutes.

But who would have thought that this time Wei Zhao would shorten his weeding time—only three minutes!

"What's going on?" Wei Zhao turned his head and looked at Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao with a puzzled expression. "What are you two doing?"

"It's nothing. Xiao Shu was trying to spray a bit higher up the wall and didn't quite get the force right," Gu Mengyao explained nervously upon hearing Wei Zhao's question.

"Oh," Wei Zhao nodded, said nothing more, and turned back to his weeding.

Gu Mengyao shot Shen Yushu a glare, thinking: You're the one who stirred up this mess, and I'm the one who has to cover for you?

Shen Yushu stuck out her tongue. "I didn't aim properly this time. It won't happen next time..."

Gu Mengyao said nothing and went back to spraying the wall.

Shen Yushu, meanwhile, kept spraying while studying Wei Zhao out of the corner of her eye.

This time Shen Yushu gave Wei Zhao no advance "warning." She didn't bother with the sort of excuse she'd used before—saying the wall over there looked a little dirty to justify herself—but instead abruptly swung the water gun around and fired straight at Wei Zhao.

But as luck would have it, Wei Zhao happened to crouch down just then, as if to check how well the lawn beneath him had been trimmed, and the spray swept harmlessly over him.

The stream of water passed right over the top of Wei Zhao's head; only a few drops landed on his back, with hardly any effect at all.

"Eh?!" Shen Yushu was startled. How was that possible? Arrow-Brand Bro had dodged it again? But how could it be such a coincidence? "Arrow-Brand Bro sure is lucky!"

Gu Mengyao frowned. She had probably sensed something—perhaps Wei Zhao had done it on purpose. Given his skill, dodging a spray of water like that would be child's play. So she said, "That's enough, Xiao Shu. Stop fooling around."

"Oh..." Shen Yushu was a little unconvinced, but with Gu Mengyao saying so, there was nothing she could do but nod.

After a while, Shen Yushu grew restless again. She refused to believe it was a coincidence every time, that Wei Zhao could always dodge her water gun, so she kept secretly watching him. Before long she finally found another opening—she saw Wei Zhao turn around and start weeding a different section of the lawn.

Shen Yushu felt her chance had come at last. Surely Wei Zhao couldn't have eyes in the back of his head?

She gritted her teeth and suddenly swung the water gun around again, firing at Wei Zhao. This time, to keep him from dodging by accident again, she chose to sweep up and down and left and right in every direction. She refused to believe that even a broad spray like this couldn't hit him!