Chapter 391: Chapter 391 Is this money enough for treatnt?
On the other side, Qi Yu was still staring at her own hands in shock.
She tried to push the door again, but the situation was exactly the sa as before; her hands went through without any hindrance.
“What’s happening?” she asked, looking at Li Mingjue in confusion, “Don’t tell we’ve beco ghosts?”
Li Mingjue knitted his brows but still replied calmly, “That shouldn’t be the case. We would only beco ghosts if those ghosts gnawed on us.”
Qi Yu felt slightly relieved, but the scene in front of her was still beyond her comprehension.
She tried clenching her fists again and, fortunately, she could still feel her hands.
“Could it be related to this door?” Qi Yu speculated quietly, but the problem was too complicated, and she had given up thinking about it. She turned to Li Mingjue, “Maybe there’s sothing behind the door, shall we go take a look?”
Li Mingjue nodded slightly, “Alright.”
After passing through the thick city gate, they were greeted by an extrely bustling scene.
This bustle was different from what they had seen in Ghost City. The people here did not have that eerie chill emanating from their foreheads, and each face seed extra real and vibrant.
Qi Yu looked down at her hands, then whispered to Li Mingjue, “Do you think these people can see us?”
Li Mingjue glanced down with a hint of teasing in his eyes, “Why don’t you test it out?”
Qi Yu shrugged nonchalantly, “Let’s do it!”
With that, she approached a nearby shop and casually picked up a handkerchief.
This ti, her hand didn’t pass directly through the cloth.
But judging by the screams from the people around, they probably couldn’t see her.
Qi Yu glanced at the horrified looks of those people and silently put down the handkerchief she was holding.
She returned to Li Mingjue’s side, her eyes twinkling with mischief, “Test complete!”
Li Mingjue shook his head silently and pulled her forward, “Let’s go, don’t scare them.”
“This place is really strange, we can see them, but they can’t see us,” Qi Yu said, glancing at a roadside shop selling pastries.
As the cage was opened, a puff of hot steam sprayed out, along with the sweet scent of pastries, which was very enticing.
Qi Yu tugged at Li Mingjue’s sleeve, her intention clear in her eyes.
Li Mingjue let out a soft snort and took out two copper coins from his chest, handing them to her.
Qi Yu tossed the two copper coins in the air and praised half-heartedly, “The Prince is really well-prepared, even worried about not paying debts after becoming a ghost.”
Li Mingjue raised his eyebrows slightly but didn’t refute her statent.
Qi Yu squeezed her way to the front quietly, grabbed a piece of pastry when no one was looking, stuffed it into her mouth, and then left the two copper coins behind.
All that was left behind was a puzzled voice, “How odd, nobody ca to buy just now.”
After wandering around Luoyue City for a while, they found a teahouse, hoping to take a break and gather so information.
Upon entering a private room, Qi Yu poured two cups of tea without any restraint.
There was a folding screen in this private room, blocking the view from the outside.
Otherwise, it would have scared soone to death for sure.
She sipped her tea, looking out the window, and then narrowed her eyes, “Have you noticed that the layout here is very similar to Ghost City?”
Li Mingjue humd in agreent, speaking lightly, “Perhaps Ghost City evolved from Luoyue City.”
Qi Yu casually poured another cup of tea and, after reflecting for a mont, whispered, “It looks like I’ll have to take a look inside the Imperial Palace.”
She wanted to verify sothing.
In the tea house, it didn’t take long before every seat was filled.
The waiter initially thought the elegant seat by the window was unoccupied, but as he approached, he seed to hear so noises.
Not daring to push the screen open and enter on his own, he could only stand outside and ask, “Would the two honored guests like to add so more tea?”
A gentle female voice ca from inside, “No need, thank you.”
The waiter had no choice but to leave it at that and continued with a teapot in hand to refill tea for the other tables’ guests.
As the sound of footsteps faded away, Qi Yu breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Mingjue, “I was really afraid he might suddenly co in.”
Li Mingjue teased her on purpose, “What’s there to be scared of? If he had co in, the Princess could have simply scared him away.”
Qi Yu shot him an annoyed glance and went back to her tea in silence.
A mont later, the storyteller clapped the gavel, beginning to tell so legends from Jianghu.
Qi Yu listened with half an ear, finding nothing particularly novel, and continued to leisurely gaze at the scenery outside the window.
It was strange, Luoyue City and Ghost City were almost identical in structure, but the two cities were worlds apart.
Even at noon, when the sun was at its brightest, Ghost City still carried a chilly and eerie air, while Luoyue City conveyed a sense of peaceful and tranquil tis.
However, the mont she thought this city was a fabrication, a chill rose from the bottom of her heart.
If everything was an illusion, then who had created this dream?
She glanced at the distant Imperial Palace, and although everything here was baffling, she always had a premonition that they were getting closer and closer to the truth.
After the storyteller finished the first story, a sudden rain began to fall outside.
The sound of the rain mingled with thunder, exploding in everyone’s ears.
All at once, people raised their heads to look outside, to find the originally colorful sky now overshadowed by dark clouds, and large drops of rain pounding incessantly on the eaves and the ground.
Unperturbed, the storyteller continued with the next story.
But the audience below had already beco distracted.
After a while, people began to leave in fits and starts.
Qi Yu also looked out the window, not to watch the rain but to observe a person.
Across from the tea house was a dical Hall where a girl, around fifteen or sixteen, had just been kicked out. She was dressed in a white garnt washed to the point of discoloration, her hair ssy and unkempt.
The proprietor of the dical Hall, after pushing her out, cursed, “No money and yet you co seeking dical treatnt!”
The girl stood in the rain with an embarrassed look, clutching the infant in her arms, and knelt down to plead, “Please show so rcy, my little brother is about to die.”
Hearing this, the proprietor scoffed twice and said maliciously, “Show rcy? If everyone were like you, would our dical Hall still be in business?”
The girl was at her wits’ end and could only plead helplessly.
The proprietor was unmoved and even spit a couple of tis, clearly feeling that the girl was disrupting his business.
Qi Yu couldn’t stand by any longer and was about to go down to help when she suddenly heard the sound of hooves. A figure in red ca into view, her face blurred in the misty rain.
She saw the woman in red dismount, pull out a purse from her bosom, and throw it to the proprietor, saying coldly, “Is this enough money for his treatnt?”
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