"Just watch, she'll definitely buy more of those pretty-but-useless pieces of junk. That elven incense she bought yesterday kept me awake all night. I felt like an old slab of cured bacon being smoked."
Su Li sat on a stone stool, sipping tea.
"She has money. Let her spend it. Those three chests of Purple Gold Coins are just sitting in the Space Ring anyway."
"That's called not knowing how to run a household!" Saina retorted earnestly.
Late in the afternoon, as the sun was about to set.
Heavy footsteps and shouts came from beyond the courtyard gate.
"Make way! Move aside! This thing's damn heavy—don't chip the corners!"
The courtyard gate was pushed open.
Four brawny dwarven craftsmen, bare-chested and drenched in sweat, carried in an outrageously massive solid-wood bathtub.
Elena followed behind them, leisurely fanning herself with an exquisite lace folding fan.
The water ladle in Saina's hand dropped straight to the ground.
The bathtub was absurdly huge—big enough to swim a couple of laps in. It was made of expensive rosewood and gave off a faint woody fragrance. Most outrageous of all, six crystalline fire-element magic ore stones were embedded in its base, arranged into a complex constant-temperature formation.
"Set it a little more to the left. Yes, right there, against the wall." Elena directed the dwarven craftsmen as they installed the bathtub in the center of the bathroom.
The old wooden tub was roughly tossed into a corner of the yard.
Wiping away their sweat, the dwarven craftsmen took out a parchment bill and handed it to Elena.
"Madam, please inspect the goods. Finest rosewood, and as requested, the water temperature will remain at the most comfortable level at all times. Eight hundred gold coins."
Hearing that number, Saina nearly forgot how to breathe. She turned