Chapter 1837 — On Tenterhooks
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"I don't know..." Gu Mengyao glanced at the tightly shut courtyard gates of the houses and thought how wonderful it would be if they could hide in one of them. But they knew no one here. Even if someone were willing to take them in, Gu Mengyao would hardly dare accept — this was unfamiliar ground, and who could say whether these people harbored ill intentions...
From somewhere in the distance, the sound of footsteps drifted over, unnaturally distinct in the utterly deserted alley, and the hearts of both Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu leaped into their throats.
In that instant, the fine hairs on their bodies stood on end, for they were wondering — could it be Yu Liu, who had tracked them all the way here?
The footsteps drew nearer and nearer. Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu instinctively shrank back, but though they were hidden behind a pile of clutter, anyone passing by and turning their head would still catch sight of them.
Just as the newcomer was about to pass by, a cough suddenly sounded — the cough of an old woman, clearly coming from whoever was approaching.
"Cough, cough..." That cough made both Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu breathe a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, it was not Yu Liu.
Before long, a short, small old woman came slowly pushing a handcart. She walked very slowly, and as she walked her eyes seemed to be scanning the ground to either side, searching for something.
She was a scavenger; her cart was piled high with crushed cardboard boxes, along with drink bottles, scrap iron, and the like. Her glances to left and right were, in truth, a search for discarded drink bottles.
And as she passed by Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, she caught sight of the two of them huddled behind the pile of clutter.
Seeing two young girls hiding there, the old woman's eyes flickered with surprise. She had no idea what these two girls were doing here, but instinctively she looked at them a few more times — and then an expression of utter astonishment came into her eyes!
"Fairy maidens — you're the two fairy maidens!" The old woman came to a startled halt and cried out in amazement at Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
Hearing this, both Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were taken aback, but a moment later they recognized who the old woman was. She was the scavenger from the back gate of Tiandi Entertainment City — the one Zhen Yingjun had humiliated, until Wei Zhao "transferred" the illness from her body onto Zhen Yingjun!
At the time, the old woman's chronic ailment of many years had suddenly vanished, so of course she took Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu for fairy maidens. After all, in her eyes, only fairy maidens could accomplish such a thing. Even the finest doctors could merely cure her illness — but these two had transferred it, shifting her suffering onto the young man who had bullied her. Such power belonged only to immortals.
With that, the old woman set down her cart and made to kneel in worship before Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu. To meet a fairy maiden once was already a blessing upon her ancestors; to meet them a second time — one can well imagine the old woman's excitement!
"Granny, we're not fairy maidens..." Gu Mengyao hurriedly moved to stop the old woman out of sheer reflex, preventing her from kneeling. After all, they could hardly accept such reverence from an elder.
"You must be fairy maidens! If you weren't, how could you have cured this old woman's ailment of so many years? And how could you have transferred that ailment onto the villain?" the old woman said.
"That..." Gu Mengyao had no idea how Wei Zhao had done it, so she had no way to explain the matter. If not for the fact that she knew Wei Zhao possessed many wondrous abilities — and had she encountered such a thing for the first time herself — she too would have found it exceedingly strange.