Chapter 49 - They Do Exist!
Yang Ru was pleased with himself. He and his sister had arranged for all the food on the list to be picked up in three days’ time, and the cost was only forty-six thousand taels, a staggering sum to him but much less than the budget that Master had given them.
Of course, that success was mainly due to Yang Xiu’s talent at haggling, but Yang Ru had done a nice job of “standing behind her and looking menacing.”
The nice lady as the market had even helped them make sure all of it would fit in the wagons that they had described to her. He thought those would definitely be overloaded for a long trip, but that was okay. Master would probably be storing all of it in his ring anyway once they were out of sight of prying eyes.
Why Master didn’t seem to care if people knew he had a spatial ring but went through much effort to conceal the treasure’s size was beyond Yang Ru’s comprehension, but that lack of understanding was okay. Master was supposed to be unfathomable.
After arranging for the food purchase, they had found a textile shop, and Yang Xiu purchased bolt after bolt of fabric in silver and a few different shades of blue, lamenting the entire time that no one in the city apparently had enough of a single hue for so many robes. Total, the seventy-five bolts cost eight hundred taels, leaving them way under their overall budget.
That they had saved money was good. The most important thing, though, was that their master had given them a task, a learning opportunity, and they hadn’t let him down.
Head held high with his sister trailing him, Yang Ru walked toward the warehouse.
“Don’t look,” Yang Xiu said quietly, “but there’s trouble up ahead to the right.”
Yang Ru looked, spotting a young man wearing a dark green cultivator robe with the symbol of a claw on the left breast. The guy noticed and turned his attention toward the pair. He didn’t look happy.
“I said not to look!”
Honestly, who doesn’t look when someone tells you not to look? If Master had said it, okay, probably not, but his sister?
“This is not good,” Yang Xiu said.