Leaving Wine Alley, Zhao Huai planned to head next to Azure Dragon Gate Market.
Azure Dragon Gate Market was the largest market in Jinzhou, located within the Inner City. Whether one wanted beds, tables, chairs, and other furnishings, or luxuries such as jade, ivory, and spices, or even fine horses, cats, dogs, birds, fish, and insects, everything could be found there.
At street corners and alley mouths, all manner of performing and selling cats and dogs, along with birds of every shape and color, clamored merrily along the bustling streets.
Zhao Huai stopped to take a look whenever he passed a shop.
Madam had said to buy some small animals, but she had not specified whether she wanted cats, dogs, or birds. She had simply told him to use his own judgment.
She said it so casually, but this was hardly the attitude of someone who truly wanted a pet. It seemed she merely wanted to add a little life to the shop.
He stood before a wooden cage for quite some time, because he had noticed that the dog inside had been staring at him.
Zhao Huai unceremoniously locked eyes with the Shiba Inu before him.
Man and dog glared at each other, making for a very friendly scene.
What are you looking at?
Zhao Huai could not help thinking bitterly.
"Sir, are you looking to buy a dog? All the dogs here are fine specimens raised for dogfighting. Every last one of them is guaranteed lively and vigorous." Seeing Zhao Huai staring at the dog, the dog shop owner approached with a beaming smile.
"No, I'm just looking."
The moment Zhao Huai heard it was a dogfighting shop, he immediately shook his head.
These days, the wealthy gentry in the city liked pitting one thing against another whenever