Bling was overjoyed to have successfully obtained twenty-six gems using a worthless broken bowl.
However, she still remembered the important matter.
With Lao Fang and the other three, they strolled leisurely through the small market, stopping every now and then.
When they reached a stall in the corner, Old Fang tugged at Bu Ling's sleeve without making a sound: "Mother, this fabric is pretty. I'll buy some to make you some clothes."
Bling immediately understood, "You're lucky you still have a conscience, you still remember your old lady."
Old Fang chuckled憨憨地, took two steps forward, carefully examined the cane next to the man, and when he saw what he wanted, he raised his honest face.
How much is this fabric?
The man lazily smoked a cigarette. When he saw someone coming in, he raised his eyelids and said, "Ten catties of grain for one rice."
Old Fang hissed, "This is too expensive! Can you make it cheaper?"
The man waved his hand impatiently: "That's the price!"
Old Fang was furious, but he was also bad at talking and didn't know what to do for a moment, so he could only turn to his mother for help.
Aunt Bu glared at him and said, "Useless trash, get out of the way!"
Old Fang pursed his lips and obediently withdrew.
Aunt Bu stood imposingly in front of the man's stall, saying nothing, and began fiddling with the cloth on the stall:
"This fabric of yours won't do; it's too flashy. Nobody will want it."
The man continued smoking, seemingly unmoved by reason.
Grandma Bu didn't care what the man thought: "How about this, since you're a cripple, I'll take pity on you and give you a pound of grain and a rice."
The man, dragging his injured leg, leaned against a tree, head bowed, smoking without uttering a word.
"Don't be ungrateful. I'm only buying from you because of the country. Otherwise, who would buy things from you, you cripple?" Granny Bu relentlessly rubbed salt into her wounds.
Then he muttered under his breath, "If it weren't for Engelev, who would bother with you?"
As soon as the name "Eunev" was uttered, the person who had been hanging their head immediately looked up.
Aunt Bu glared at him: "What are you looking at? Is it wrong for me to love my country?"
The man seemed to have been touched on a sore spot. He quickly finished his cigarette, threw the butt aside, and said coldly, "I'm not selling!"
Aunt Bu: "Oh my, you're so high and mighty, doing this?"
The man paused, as if thinking of his own situation, and then stopped in humiliation, saying, "Five catties of grain for one rice, or I won't sell!"
Aunt Bu was well-versed in the art of pushing her luck: "Two jin, at most two jin."
The man suppressed his anger and bargained with Granny Bu for a while, finally settling on a price of three catties of grain for one meter of cloth.
"Eldest son, here, go exchange it for some grain." Granny Bu took out a ruby and gave it to her son: "Don't get cheated."
Old Fang took the gemstone and left. A short while later, he returned carrying two sacks of grain.
After weighing it, it totaled 180 jin (approximately 90 kg). Aunt Bu was extremely dissatisfied upon seeing it: "Is this all you've replaced?"
Old Fang stammered, unable to speak.
"Who did you trade with?"
"That person is gone."
Aunt Bu was furious and scolded her son in front of everyone before she had to swallow her pride and bear the loss.
She looked at the fabric seller with a sullen face: "How much fabric do you have?"
The man gave a number.
Upon hearing this, Granny Bu directed four strong men to weigh out the corresponding amount of grain, saying, "Here you go."
Spurred on by the old woman's words, the man seemed to have dropped some burden. Dragging his crippled leg, he personally checked the grain and said, "Madam, ten pounds are missing."
The old woman looked uncomfortable and kept saying, "Where is it missing? Where is it missing? Maybe you weighed it wrong."
That person persisted.
The old woman had no choice but to reluctantly add ten more jin of grain.
"Boss, Monkey, get the cloth, let's go!" Granny Cloth glared at the man and gave the order.
The four burly men behind her obediently picked up the cloth.
Aunt Bu snorted coldly, "I'm going back!"
"Mother, aren't you going to take another look?"
"What are you looking at? Can't you see they've all gone home? If you don't leave now, it'll be too late." The old woman gave her son another scolding without any mercy.
Old Fang shrank his neck. "Mother, I'll listen to you."
Bling: "Idiot!"
As she spoke, she swaggered out with her son and three accomplices.
As he left, he touched each of the fabrics, his affection for them evident.
The five of them blended in with the retreating main force and were not noticeable at all.
At most, some people were curious because there was an older woman in the group, but after what happened, they weren't curious anymore.
There's nothing else to it; the old lady's role among these five people is quite evident.
In short, without this old lady, those four men would have been swindled out of all their money.
She didn't know what others thought, but she knew that on the way back, the five of them were on edge.
They were afraid of being stopped.
But fate was kind to them; their journey back was smooth and uneventful.
Even after returning to their lodgings, the four of them still felt somewhat surreal.
Was this mission really that smooth?
But after waiting for a long time and Huang Yuming and Captain Xu's team still hadn't returned, the four of them were no longer so relaxed.
Including Bu Ling, the five people, some sitting and some standing in the room, stared intently at the doorway, their expressions serious and their fists clenched.
They waited from sunrise to sunset until the sun began to set. Fat Fish couldn't sit still any longer, so he jumped up and said, "I'll go look for it."
The monkey immediately chimed in, "I'm going too!"
The other two were also anxious, but there was still Bling to protect, so they kept quiet.
However, "Stop!" Bling shouted softly, "No one is allowed to go!"
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