Su Li carried the meat tightly wrapped in lotus leaves and headed for Ginkgo Alley.
Saina had complained several times in the bathtub last night that eating vegetarian food every day left her without a drop of oil in her diet. He had to go back and properly nourish her today.
He pushed open the familiar courtyard gate.
Saina was in the courtyard, vigorously scrubbing clothes. The huge wooden basin was filled with snowy white soap bubbles.
Wearing that red dress, Elena sat on a stone stool, leisurely drinking tea.
"You bought meat?" Saina's nose was sharp; she immediately lifted her head from the wooden basin.
"Pork belly. I'll make braised pork for lunch." Su Li casually set the meat on the stone table.
Elena shifted aside in distaste. "What a nasty bloody smell. Su Li, how much did you make at the black market today?"
"Didn't sell a thing. I just went sightseeing today." Su Li sat down, relaxed.
"You spendthrift!" Saina shook the foam from her hands in displeasure. "Yesterday, you spent eight hundred Gold Coins on a useless broken bathtub, and today you didn't make any money either. We can't go on living like this!"
"Quit yapping. I ran into an interesting long-ear today." Su Li skillfully poured himself a cup of tea.
"An elf?" Elena sharply seized on the key point.
Su Li recounted the strange blade-testing process at the black market from beginning to end.
After hearing it, Elena gave a cold laugh. "They're from the Elven Merchant Association. They treasure their Magic Forgers. They probably saw how you stole their thunder at the black market, so they deliberately came to seriously investigate your background."
Saina nervously wiped her hands on her apron. "Will they send more people to beat us up?"
"Beat us up?