Chapter 2485 — Yu Xiaoke Arrives Too
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"Thank you, Master!" Skinny Scarecrow was overjoyed and hurried to express his gratitude.
Wei Zhao, Han Xiaohu, and Yang Qiqi wandered among the stalls, yet never paused in their steps—for nothing on offer was anything Wei Zhao needed, and most of it he had already seen in the hidden Han family's treasure vault. Nor could it be called especially rare natural treasure.
In truth, it was hard for low-rank cultivators like these to produce anything of real quality.
Yu Xiaoke had come today as well—not to trade with anyone, but to see whether there was anything of value here she might spirit away. Wei Zhao had helped the orphanage obtain a great sum of money before, true, but the orphanage was being expanded now, and there were more and more children inside. They could not live forever on the charity of Wei Zhao and Lai the Fatso!
Wei Zhao had said he wanted nothing from her, but Yu Xiaoke could not shake the feeling that she must not owe him too much. Owe too much, and the accounts would grow impossible to untangle; and when the day came that Wei Zhao truly asked her to repay it, what would she have to repay him with?
So Yu Xiaoke meant to stand on her own two feet, and a market where fine things could be spirited away was naturally not one she would let slip by.
Her eyes swept back and forth across the crowd and the stalls, searching for her quarry, when suddenly her eyes lit up, and a flicker of inexplicable delight and excitement passed through them!
She had seen him again—it really was him! He had actually come to this cultivator market too?! Yu Xiaoke was both startled and thrilled. This man was the male thief she admired most, most of all in her heart; she had not seen him for so long, and a sense of loss had gathered in her heart, more or less. To meet again—words could not say how happy she was.
But then Yu Xiaoke noticed Han Xiaohu and Yang Qiqi beside the male thief, and she did not know what they were. These two were plainly not the female thief Qiu Lingshan and the hanger-on Chen Yuxuan who had followed him in the ancient tomb. Though the two had their faces covered, Yu Xiaoke could still tell them apart by the differences in their dress and bearing.
So Yu Xiaoke hesitated and did not rashly step forward to call out to Wei Zhao. She did not know what his purpose was on this trip, and she feared to disturb him or delay whatever plan he had. Yet she did not want to lose this chance to make contact with him either, and so she could only watch Wei Zhao and the others from afar in silence, meaning to wait for a fitting opportunity.
What Yang Qiqi sought was very simple—something to keep Little Nine's condition in check. So she, like Wei Zhao and Han Xiaohu, needed only a glance at each stall to know what it held.
Before long, Wei Zhao had all but finished going through the stalls the cultivators had set up, and he was rather disappointed—there was no colored steel such as he had imagined. So he turned to Han Xiaohu and asked, "Pure yellow jade... none to be had?"
"Boss, that can't be. The word I got was that there really is pure yellow jade for sale at this cultivator market," Han Xiaohu said. "But if it's not in these cultivators' hands, then it may well be in the hands of the Cultivator Trade Association. They'll be selling it by auction in a little while—we'll know once we go and look."
"An auction? Bidding with cash? Or..." Wei Zhao asked. RQ