Chapter 1150 — Inadvertent Cooperation: Had He Run into the Legendary Ghost Wall, with the Tent Conjured by the Female Ghost Herself Rather Than Gu Mengyao's, and Had He Been in Her Clutches All Along, Never Escaping for a Single Moment?
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At the very thought of it, Su Taizao's face went white with terror, and he reeled around and stumbled out of the tent, screaming at the top of his lungs as he took off in the direction of An Liwen's tent!
He had genuinely been scared half to death. Poor Su Taizao had always been prone to wetting the bed, and under the unbroken string of frights he had wet his trousers again!
"A ghost — there's a ghost!" Waving his arms wildly, Su Taizao ran and ran for all he was worth.
"Ha ha ha ha!" Shen Yushu watched Su Taizao come bolting out of the tent and clutched her belly in helpless laughter. "Looks like Sister Yunyun played along beautifully — Su Taizao is probably about scared to death! Sister Yaoyao, you and Sister Tang Zhi really cooperated with me perfectly!"
Gu Mengyao did not know whether to laugh or cry. It had always been Feng Xiaoxiao who helped Shen Yushu with her pranks before, yet this time she and Tang Zhi had, without the slightest intention of it, lent the girl a hand and made a proper fool of Su Taizao!
"All right, let's go and see how Tang Zhi is doing!" Gu Mengyao shook her head in resignation and set off toward the tent.
But just then, Tang Zhi was every bit as baffled by Su Taizao's behavior. He had bolted out of the tent, and she had followed him out; she failed to catch sight of Su Taizao, but she did see Yaoyao and Xiaoshu walking back.
"Yaoyao, Xiaoshu, you're back!" Tang Zhi breathed a sigh of relief at the sight of them. "I think Su Taizao was just here. Did you see him? Why was he carrying on like a madman — as if he'd run into a ghost?"
Tang Zhi's utter confusion set Shen Yushu off into a roar of laughter!
"Ha ha, Sister Tang Zhi, tell me, do we look like ghosts to you?" Shen Yushu asked with a grin.
"Us?" Tang Zhi stared. Then she glanced at Gu Mengyao's and Shen Yushu's getup, and at her own, and could not help saying: "Xiaoshu, you don't mean to tell me that Su Taizao took the three of us for ghosts?"
"Yep, that's exactly how it happened!" Shen Yushu nodded.
"Good heavens!" Tang Zhi slapped her forehead. "How can he be such an idiot?"
"Hee hee, no idea. But thank you, Sister Tang Zhi, for playing the ghost with me!" Shen Yushu said.
Tang Zhi could only feel a measure of helpless amusement. By nature she was not the sort of girl who liked to roughhouse; she could never go about pranking people all day long the way Shen Yushu did — that had never been her idea of a good time. It was only today, without knowing what she was doing, that she had done Shen Yushu a good turn.
Still, Tang Zhi found nothing objectionable in it. After all, it had deepened their bond, and that was a fine thing. She used to be a guarded, wary sort of person and so had never had many friends — only Liu Xinlan and Xiaofen, which made her rather like the young miss in that respect.
So now that Tang Zhi got along well with Chen Mengyan and Shen Yushu, she hoped this friendship between them would last. It was a rare and precious thing; once they grew older and stepped into the world, such pure friendship, untouched by any self-interest, would be very hard to find again.
Meanwhile, An Liwen could sit still no longer and had already come scrambling out of his own tent. He had been waiting for Su Taizao to dress up as a ghost and frighten Gu Mengyao, so that he could rush in and play the hero. He had it all worked out: Wei Zhao was off canoodling with Feng Xiaoxiao — who on earth had time to spare for Gu Mengyao and her friends? This was the moment for a real man like himself to prove useful. Even if nothing whatsoever happened between him and Gu Mengyao that night, it would still draw them closer together.
But the moment Su Taizao went out, for reasons unknown he suddenly started bellowing about ghosts, and An Liwen's heart sank. Is this what you call playing a ghost? A ghost shouting that there is a ghost? Who on earth is going to be scared of you now?