Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Blocked Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Blocked Chapter 39: Blocked
ngyu again felt sothing was off: If the vase was stolen, it was naturally because of its value, so why would it be readily given away as cover for selling flowers?
To be on the safe side, she put the newspaper-wrapped vase into the cloth bag hanging in front of her chest, which actually ended up in the storage talisman hanging over her heart.
Holding the bunch of plastic flowers, she hurried to the market, and when no one was looking, she tossed the newspaper-wrapped plastic flowers into the storage talisman as well.
What she didn’t notice was that at a dicine stall not far from this stand, an old man with a goat beard who was taking soone’s pulse saw her take the vase and his face showed a look of great anxiety.
ngyu bought a section of pork ribs at the market. At this ti, no one liked to buy ribs, so the ribs were priced the sa as pork, at 1.8 yuan per jin.
The marrow bones were even cheaper, just 50 cents per jin. She bought two and spent a total of 12 yuan and 58 cents on the ribs and bones.
At this ti, there were no plastic bags and everyone carried baskets for shopping. ngyu simply bought a basket for 50 cents and put the ribs and large bones in it.
After buying so vegetables, radishes, and mushrooms, she spent another 62 cents. She bought a five-jin pot of soybean oil, which cost her six dollars and fifty cents.
Seeing local chicken eggs for only nine cents each, she spent 1.8 yuan to buy twenty.
In total, she only spent 22 yuan and her basket was full.
Seeing she had bought almost everything, she intended to find a secluded spot to take out a bag of rice and a bag of flour from the storage talisman.
She turned into an alley from the market and took out a thirty-jin bag of rice from the storage talisman, placing it in a cloth bundle, carrying it in one hand and the bamboo basket in the other.
Just as she walked out of the alley, she was blocked by soone.
Seeing the old man in front of her dressed in Tang attire with a goat beard, ngyu’s heart sank – could it be that she had guessed correctly, that the vase given to her by the middle-aged farr was stolen?
“Excuse , why are you blocking my way?”
If that middle-aged farr were here, he would certainly recognize this goat beard as the “teacher” who told him that the vase carried Evil Energy, would bring disaster to people, and had to be given away.
Goat beard stood in ngyu’s way: “Young lady, take out the things you shouldn’t have.”
At this ti, although the alleyway was not as crowded as the market place, seeing soone causing trouble, the crowd-loving people imdiately gathered around, and soon a dozen people had surrounded them.
ngyu looked baffled: “What things shouldn’t I take?”
But her heart was sowhat uneasy: could it be that the middle-aged farr looking guy gave her the vase to transfer so dirty things?
Yet once the object was in her possession, she would absolutely not hand it over.
After the farr at the stand took the money and stuffed the vase to her, he hurried away hastily; he wouldn’t likely co forward to expose her. And even if he did expose her, she couldn’t admit it.
Besides, if she took it out at this point, she might be frad with a theft charge.
Goat beard looked at ngyu: “Did you take an antique vase from soone today? It’s not sothing you should have. Take it out!”
ngyu was startled in her heart: as expected, it was the antique vase causing trouble.
But how could she simply hand over this vase, valued at 50 million in later eras and worth over 200 million when paired up?
She feigned confusion: “You must have mistaken for soone else. I only bought so vegetables today, I didn’t buy any vase.”
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