On the day of the Daoist temple celebration, the main people buying rice dumplings were Xia people.
Most of them were involved in building the temple. There were also people like Fourth Master Lin who had come to show support, as well as some Xia tourists.
One company owner had brought his employees on a trip, along with his wife—nothing unusual about that.
His wife had suffered from chronic neurasthenia and had been especially exhausted by the trip, yet she had fallen asleep yesterday afternoon and slept wonderfully.
One of his key employees had shoulder periarthritis. Autumn in the Leo Kingdom was exactly when it tended to flare up, but after eating two rice dumplings... he was perfectly fine, healthy enough to play basketball.
Foreigners did not believe in the Daoist Order and merely considered it some amusing novelty. Xia people... actually, Xia people did not believe much either, but back home, the general attitude was still, "Better believe it exists than believe it does not."
The employee with shoulder periarthritis thought the dumplings were excellent and wanted to buy more. The boss's wife thought so too. Learning that they were not sold back home, she planned to buy a thousand to take back—ten thousand yuan was hardly anything.
Unfortunately, the temple said they were not for sale. Yesterday's ten yuan each had been the cost price; today, they would not sell them even for twenty yuan. The boss raised his offer to one hundred yuan each, partly out of spite, but he could certainly afford it.
Yet even one hundred yuan was refused because "supplies were limited." Sophia expressed her deep apologies.
Kate and Daisy were utterly dumbfounded. The two of them had specifically withdrawn three hundred yuan from the bank to buy rice dumplings—Daisy had said they could