The Young Miss and the Seagull

Lin Yu and Li Nian carried the two brass toads and, guided by the shopkeeper, soon set out on the road to Apricot Grove Medical Hall.

"Zhu Qiansi isn't as famous as I imagined," Li Nian said calmly, her hands tucked into her sleeves and the newly bought brass toad balanced atop her head. "From that puppet's description, I thought she was famous throughout the Prison Mountain Realm, like a sun people had enshrined, with townspeople everywhere grateful for her kindness."

"In a town of a million people, no fortune-teller could become that famous no matter how good her reputation was," Lin Yu said helplessly. "Besides, that puppet was clearly hiding things, exaggerating, and trying to whitewash Zhu Qiansi... Otherwise, if seven or eight out of every ten people in Willow Town were entangled with Karma Threads, did she personally tell all of them their fortunes?"

"Even using the lowest estimate, that's seven hundred thousand people. She lived in Willow Town for more than ten years—let's round that up to forty thousand days. She would have had to tell the fortunes of one hundred and forty-five people every single day without a break."

"So Willow Town became the largest town in the Two Mountains and Six Hells back then because she single-handedly boosted its GDP by telling fortunes... That's certainly one way to stimulate the internal economic cycle."

As Lin Yu spoke, Li Nian burst out laughing.

"That's true... That puppet's words about its master were all beautified and filtered. We really can't take them completely at face value."

"Come to think of it, the fact that even some random street vendor knew Zhu Qiansi already means she was quite famous."

As Li Nian spoke, Lin Yu nodded.

The two hurried through Willow Town's streets, continuing toward Apricot Grove Medical