Chapter 22 - A collection of Stones (2/2)

All these unattractive stones piled up together, forming many “small hills” in the store.

There were some stones that were placed on exquisite shelves and they looked very strange.

The people who had gathered at the store were all quarreling, some even almost got into a fight from trying to vie for the stones. There were also some people donning tattered clothes who were entering the store from the other side, each of them were carrying a large wicker basket filled with stones on their backs. When these people carrying the baskets walked into the store, the storekeepers immediately attended to them, whereas the people in the noisy crowd all stared intently at the stones in the basket.

As if those stones were actually gold bars.

“This sir, what are you all doing?” Ji Fengyan squeezed to the front of the crowd—using the advantage of her small body—and asked a burly man beside her who was shouting until his face was red and flushed.

The burly man’s eyes kept on following the stones in the store. When he heard Ji Fengyan’s question, he was surprised, and looked down to see a fellow who was only as tall as his chest, “Brat, this is not a place you should be at, shoo!” The burly man waved his hands impatiently.

But Ji Fengyan said with a good temper, “Why can’t I come here?”

The burly man frowned and looked at Ji Fengyan who had the look of a curious baby and said, “Brat, are you not from this city?”

“Sir you have such good judgement!” Ji Fengyan nodded.

“No wonder you did not know,” the burly man moved the corner of his lips.

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