Chapter 16: You Shouldn’t Trust Her Easily
Xu Xiang left the grain store and bought everything on the market street. After settling the payment at the last store, she went to the alley outside the market street to pick up the goods. After making sure that no one was around, she quickly put everything into her own space.
She waited patiently until the last store delivered the fabric. After the delivery person left, she put the boxes of cloth into her space, and then walked to the gate of the city. When she arrived, she saw the middle-aged officer and the other two officers had just arrived.
She looked at them with a smile and said, "Sir, I want to buy an animal and cart. Can you wait a minute?"
The middle-aged officer looked up at the sky and said, "We will wait for fifteen minutes before leaving. You can go to the animal market to buy it."
"Thank you." She thanked him with a smile on her face.
After leaving them, she hurried to the animal market, where she bought two mules and a cart for fifty five taels of silver. On the way back to the city gate, she also bought a lot of pastries and snacks. She put everything in her space, took out a little bit of other items and drove back to the city gate.
When she arrived, the officers saw two mules pulling a sturdy and big cart full of bags and boxes. She jumped off from the driver seat and took three small paper bags that she prepared before from the cart.
Walking in front of the three officers, she handed over the paper bags to them while saying, "I bought these steamed buns to thank the three officers. Please accept these with ease."
Smelling the aroma of steamed buns, the three smiled and took the paper bags. When the middle-aged officer looked at her again, he felt that she looked more and more pleasing to his eyes.