Chapter 4708 — Any Clothes?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
This was exactly the effect Wei Zhao wanted. He had no patience to waste on these irrelevant people. While standing guard for Huo Yudie outside, he simply sat down and cultivated. Women always took forever to bathe, after all—no telling how long the wait would be—and so long as he kept his divine sense extended at all times, he need not worry about any unexpected trouble.
How long passed thus, he did not know. As he sat in meditation, he suddenly heard Huo Yudie calling his name and asked, "What is it?"
"Do you… do you have any clothes…?" Huo Yudie asked hesitantly.
"Clothes? What clothes?" Wei Zhao was puzzled.
"Oh, it's just—my clothes are washed but not dry yet, so I'm asking if you have anything I could wear!" There was a hint of coquettishness in Huo Yudie's tone; when she realized it, her cheeks flushed faintly. Apart from her master, who was both teacher and mother to her, she had never spoken to an outsider in such a voice.
Wei Zhao was speechless at this, shaking his head with a helpless, rueful laugh. "Out in these barren mountains, where am I supposed to find clothes for you? Dry them yourself with true qi."
"I…" Huo Yudie hesitated, then said weakly, "This is the Million-Year Canyon, you know. I can't afford to waste my strength on a thing like this. I saw you pull out pastries from nowhere, so I thought I'd ask whether you have any clothes from the secular world…"
"Hm? What kind of logic is that?" Wei Zhao was struck dumb by the question. If he could produce pastries, then he could produce clothes—and clothes from the secular world at that. This girl's reasoning truly soared off into the heavens, as untraceable as an antelope hanging by its horns.
But on second thought, she had a point. Clothes of Yunjie Island's ancient style for women, he of course did not have—but clothes from the secular world, he actually did!
Before setting out from the secular world, Wu Chengtian had prepared a huge pile of things for him, among them new clothes for the beauties he was close to on Yunjie Island, in every style imaginable. There was enough to open a women's clothing shop.
Wei Zhao roughly considered the figures of the various women. After mulling it over, he concluded that although this girl's figure was a little more voluptuous than Tianchan's, they were about the same size. So he rummaged through the jade pendant's space for a while and finally produced a denim tracksuit.
"I actually do have something you could wear—but how am I supposed to give it to you?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Why don't you toss it over?" Huo Yudie suggested from inside.
"Toss it over? Won't it land in the water?" Wei Zhao shook his head, speechless.
"Uh… then how about…" Huo Yudie was clearly hesitant and torn, but finally gritted her teeth and said, "Then how about you come over and set it down at the edge?"
"Me, come over?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. Was this girl so open that she'd let him in while she bathed?
That didn't seem like her. From these past few days of contact, though she was rather hard to pin down, and though they had shared that awkward, ambiguous encounter before, his overall impression was that she was fairly conservative—her sense of propriety between men and women might not be dearer to her than life itself, but it was certainly not something she took lightly.
"Mm, I'll duck under the water, so you won't be able to see anything…" Huo Yudie said shyly, her voice low. It was fortunate that Wei Zhao had exceptional hearing, or he truly would not have caught what she said. (To be continued)