Coincidental Encounter

The old woman, now free, had no idea why she had suddenly been unable to move moments ago, nor why her hand had let go on its own, but she immediately started wailing again: "Everyone saw that, right? This man bullied an old woman like me, actually snatched my things! Is there no justice, no law anymore..."

Coincidentally, a man nearby who didn't understand the situation spoke up: "Young man, aren't you going a bit too far? Snatching something from an old woman?"

"Everyone, call the police quickly, surround him, don't let him get away..."

Hearing this, Ning Wangshu was once again angered into a laugh. He glanced at the man and said coldly: "I snatched her things? Are you sure this is hers?"

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"This jade pendant is a pair with the one on my stall! You can ask them yourself—is this their jade pendant, or mine?"

The man opened his mouth but was momentarily speechless. He too saw that what Ning Wangshu had just taken back from the old woman was a Dragon-shaped jade pendant, while there was a Phoenix-shaped jade pendant on the stall. Clearly, they were a matching set.

Still, he stubbornly insisted: "Even so, you can't just snatch it back from an old woman's hand by force! If you accidentally hurt her, can you take responsibility?"

Ning Wangshu sneered: "So taking back my own property is wrong now? Let me ask you this—this jade pendant of mine is worth one million. If this old woman damaged it, would you pay for it?"

One million!?

The man was startled, as were the people around him, all staring in shock at the Dragon-shaped jade pendant in Ning Wangshu's hand. None of them expected such a small pendant to be worth a million!

The man stammered a couple of times, as if feeling embarrassed in front of so many people, and continued to argue: "You're just bragging. A piece of broken jade like that, worth a million? Who are you fooling? In my opinion, this pendant of yours is at most a few hundred or a thousand, tops!"

No sooner had he spoken than the old woman, as if finding validation, immediately shouted: "Exactly! I just took a look at the pendant, and he immediately said a million. Isn't that clearly trying to scam someone?"

"I offered him eight hundred, and he wouldn't sell. Not only that, but he laid hands on an old woman like me. Is there no justice in this world?"

"Everyone, judge for yourselves—is this how you do business?"

Ning Wangshu couldn't be bothered to argue with them. He said flatly: "A few hundred or a thousand? Ha, you sure have nerve! But how much I sell my pendant for is my business. Whether it's a million or ten million, it's none of your concern."

"If you don't mind embarrassing yourselves further and want to keep making a scene here, be my guest."

With that, Ning Wangshu calmly sat back down.

The onlookers had now figured out the situation. Someone couldn't help but advise: "Old woman, I think you should just leave. Since it's his thing, how much he wants to sell it for is his own business."

"If you think it's acceptable, buy it. If you think it's too expensive, just walk away. Why make such a fuss?"

"Exactly. I only know a little about jade, but I can tell those two pendants aren't cheap stuff worth a few hundred or a thousand. At the very least, they'd start at eighty or a hundred thousand, maybe even hundreds of thousands."

Another person chimed in.

Times were different now. Most people no longer rushed to take sides based on first impressions, since too many cases had flipped around.

Now that the facts were clear, who would still side with that old woman?

Unexpectedly, the old woman, hearing the others' advice, glared angrily and cursed: "What do you mean by that? Are you saying I'm making a fuss?"

"He clearly hit me and bullied an old woman, and you're taking his side? Are you in cahoots with him, ganging up to bully me?"

The few who had spoken were left speechless.

"You seem full of energy to me. How did he hit you? He just took back his own stuff. You're being way too unreasonable, old lady!"

"I think she's just playing the age card. It's true what they say—it's not that the old have turned bad, but that the bad have grown old..."

"Old woman, you'd better leave now. Trying to buy something that might really be worth hundreds of thousands for eight hundred? That's practically forcing a sale. That's not how you do things..."

Facing the crowd's criticism, the old woman started wailing again: "Heavens, is there no justice? You're all ganging up on an old woman like me! Is there no fairness in this world? Who will judge fairly..."

Seeing the old woman start her act again, the people around shook their heads.

They even looked at Ning Wangshu with a hint of sympathy.

Running into such a troublesome old woman... what rotten luck!

But Ning Wangshu paid no attention at all, watching her tantrum like a monkey show...

Meanwhile.

Not far away, an old man was strolling through the antique market with his granddaughter.

"Hey, Grandpa, why are so many people gathered over there?"

The granddaughter noticed the crowd ahead and asked in surprise.

The old man paused, then said: "Let's go take a look."

"Okay, Grandpa!"

The girl replied and quickly followed the old man over.

Because the crowd was thick, they couldn't see what was happening inside, but they soon pieced it together from the surrounding chatter.

"Grandpa, from what they're saying, that old woman in there is really being unreasonable. Trying to force-buy something worth hundreds of thousands for eight hundred."

"And when the guy took his pendant back, she just started throwing a fit..."

The girl said.

The old man nodded slightly. "Still, I'm curious what kind of jade pendant would be priced at a million."

Then he added: "Let's go in and take a look. If it's really a top-quality pendant worth a million, I'll buy it for you as a gift for starting college, hehe..."

With that, the old man smiled.

Soon enough, the two squeezed into the crowd.

When the girl saw the scene inside and her gaze swept over Ning Wangshu sitting in front of the stall, she couldn't help but freeze, exclaiming in surprise, "Ning Wangshu? What are you doing here!"

Ning Wangshu, who had been watching the drama unfold, suddenly heard this voice and was taken aback. He instinctively looked up, and upon seeing the girl, he was similarly surprised, then smiled and said, "Lin Class Beauty, it's you!"

"Didn't expect to run into you here—what a coincidence..."

The girl was none other than Lin Qingzhu.

The old man beside her was naturally Lin Anguo.