The owner and proprietress of the grilled-fish shop obviously had no idea what Annie had done with her tablet while she was cooking. She hadn't given it a second thought, either. As far as she was concerned, it was just a little girl using it to watch some cartoons, browse Douyin videos, or play a few games.
After all, Annie didn't know her payment password, so she hadn't thought there was any need to worry about her causing trouble.
But to her utter surprise, things still went badly wrong.
First of all, there was the bill!
That troublesome little girl had done exactly what she'd worried about from the start: she'd finished eating without paying.
Honestly, when the girl told her she had no money, the proprietress had been completely dumbfounded.
Fortunately, though, the girl had given her something else.
Anyway, even after Annie had eaten her fill, casually tossed her a round, heavy object, patted her little belly, and left, the proprietress was still standing there in a daze, holding the "gold nugget." It was about the size of an egg, heavy in her palm, and could very well have been worth several years' revenue.
"What is this...?"
"G-gold?"
"Is it real?"
"It's so heavy..."
"It's way heavier than the few-gram hollow gold necklace I wear around my neck, the one that even floats in water..."
"Could it actually be real?"
She stared at the heavy object in her hand, which was called a gold nugget but was really more like a "golden egg." She even bit it, and saw a clear row of tooth marks appear on it. Then she weighed it on the eight-tael scale in her shop, which showed more than 1,200 grams. Before long, she was feeling torn.
She was worried it might be real