Outside the auction house.
Tap, tap, tap!
Short boots clicked crisply as Jiang Nannan walked along, gently swaying her slender, willow-like waist and stretching out her hands to complain.
"The auction was so boring. It felt like we couldn't afford to bid on anything."
After watching the battle, they hadn't bought a single thing—either they weren't interested, or they simply couldn't afford the price.
The Soulshock Coins they had just obtained from the auction proceeds totaled 315,000, which could be said to be the most.
"And these seats are so hard. My butt hurts from sitting."
Having spent so much time together, Jiang Nannan didn't hide anything at all. After finishing her stretch, her hand drifted down to her backside and patted it gently.
This auction had been quite long, lasting about three hours without a single break, and sitting through it the whole time was indeed a bit of torture.
"Hehe, would you like me to rub it for you?" Jiang Mu raised a hand.
"Stop being a rogue, or I'll kick you."
Jiang Nannan lightly lifted her right leg and stamped down hard, as if treating the ground like Jiang Mu whom she wanted to beat up.
Tang Ya, standing beside them like an outsider, watched the way the two of them interacted and felt a sense of envy.
Perhaps it was also true that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder; the feeling of unrequited love was just like this, always making one feel that whatever the other person did was right.
If anyone else had spoken like that, Tang Ya would have already labeled them a rogue and wouldn't even have bothered to look at them.
Yet right now, what she could feel was simply a sense of ease.
Jiang Mu lightly pressed his lips together and hesitated for a moment before speaking.
"Do you two have any other plans right now? If not, why don't you come with me to the blacksmith shop? I'll give you the hidden weapons so you can have something to protect yourselves."
As for mentioning self-defense, Tang Ya was actually considering that Xu Sanshi might play dirty tricks.
For instance, sending people to forcefully seize commoner women and the like—there was a high probability he hadn't done it just once or twice. With his vengeful personality, it was impossible for him to let it go.
"Is that alright?"
Jiang Mu was silent for a moment before finally nodding. Putting everything else aside, this was Tang Ya's intention, and these hidden weapons could also give Jiang Nannan quite a few more means of self-defense.
"However, I'd like to buy two Storage Soul Tools first, otherwise it's inconvenient to go anywhere."
In a fantasy world, not having something to store items in was rather inconvenient.
Even with the System Space, that wasn't easy to explain.
"Mm, that's true too."
Tang Ya nodded in agreement.
"Let's just walk around. There are so many people right now; maybe someone is selling Storage Soul Tools."
Hearing this, Jiang Nannan felt puzzled. "Why are we just walking around instead of going to a big shop?"
"Hehe, it's mainly because..."
Mid-sentence, Tang Ya suddenly froze. What she wanted to say seemed to somewhat slap her own face from earlier.
"What's wrong? Could it be that the things in those shops are too expensive and we can't afford them?"
Seeing this, Jiang Nannan didn't think too much into it, assuming the other person was considering the price aspect for them.
Hearing this, Jiang Mu felt rather strange.
"Uh, what you said is actually pretty close."
Tang Ya wore an awkward expression.
"Shrek City naturally has Storage Soul Tools for sale, but compared to those from the Sun Moon Empire, the ones sold in Shrek City are of lower quality and higher price, and there are always some people whose funds fall a bit short."
"Right now Shrek Academy is holding admissions, and Shrek City is crowded, so people naturally assume there's a business opportunity here."
"Some people will smuggle some Soul Tools over from the Sun Moon Empire side to sell."
"There were some back then too, but there are definitely more now. Can we compare and pick better ones?"
Jiang Mu: ...
Listening to Tang Ya's reasoning, this was a very normal product selection process.
Picking items with suitable prices and good quality from among several transactions.
It just felt rather strange coming from Tang Ya.
Because the other person was still spouting words about looking down on Soul Tools, yet she harbored thoughts like this.
It proved that she was fully capable of thinking of this point.
It was just like the competition between hidden weapons and Soul Tools; no one would choose the inferior option.
Jiang Mu was silent for a moment, ultimately concluding that the other person simply wanted to find a scapegoat to relieve her inner pressure.
Tang Ya couldn't possibly blame the sect rules, nor could she blame herself for being too useless, so she could only blame the Soul Tools laid out in plain sight.
Jiang Nannan hadn't considered as much as Jiang Mu. "Then how much is the price?"
Seeing that her expression, though strange, didn't carry any mockery, Tang Ya breathed a sigh of relief before explaining.
"Well, based on what I inquired about last time, for the cheaper ones, one cubic meter is about 900 Gold Soul Coins. Since they come here to make a profit off the price difference, the price might go up by five or six hundred."
"So expensive, and the price hike is huge."
Jiang Nannan frowned.
She had never been to the Sun Moon Empire, only having heard of it, and had no idea how far away it was.
It felt like it had increased quite a bit. For a little money-lover like her, she was reluctant to spend this money; if possible, she would rather travel to the Sun Moon Empire to buy cheaper ones.
Tang Ya didn't react much, but after pondering for a moment, she explained, "With more people, more things get sold. Who knows, we might find other stalls where they might lower their prices to sell."
After all, quite a few people held this kind of mindset.
"Alright, Nannan, these things are necessities. It's convenient for packing things, and it's not that expensive. When you need to buy, you just buy."
Jiang Mu spoke up at the crucial moment to persuade her, preventing Jiang Nannan from saying anything further.
"Alright."
Sure enough, the persuasion of her beloved still had some effect, and Jiang Nannan stopped talking.
Just like that, Tang Ya took the lead and guided Jiang Mu and Jiang Nannan as they walked along the roadside.
The noises from the roadside stalls were endless, with people selling all sorts of things.
Yet the stalls selling Storage Soul Tools that the other person had mentioned were still nowhere in sight.
Continuing forward, since they still hadn't found a stall, Jiang Nannan grew a bit bored and started chatting with Jiang Mu.
"By the way, where are we staying tonight?"
Hearing this, Jiang Mu rubbed his chin as well. This was a question worth pondering. "How about we find an inn?"
Only, as he said this, he was also a bit uncertain whether it would be very expensive or if there would be no rooms left.
At that moment, Tang Ya spoke up, "You guys can come with me to the inn. My inn room is a double, and there's also a sofa so we can manage for a night."
"You live in a double room by yourself? Or are you sharing with that person?"
"What are you talking about? Bei Bei is just a disciple of the Tang Sect, and he has already been expelled. I'm the only one left in the Tang Sect. As for the room being a double, it's because the inn was almost fully booked." Tang Ya waved her hand.
Jiang Nannan's interest was piqued. "Aren't you a student of Shrek? Why aren't you living in the dorms? Could it be you don't even have a dorm room?"
"Uh..."
Tang Ya drooped her head, her complexion not looking very good.
The two of them beside her could realize why.
"Sorry..."
"Hehe, there's nothing to apologize for. Actually, it's nothing hard to talk about either—it's just because of my status, so my dorm roommates targeted me."
Tang Ya spread her hands. Being fancied by Bei Bei didn't bring many good things; after all, the gap in status was right there, and the other person was the great-grandson of a Limit Douluo.
No matter how she thought about it, Tang Ya felt like she was trying to climb a high branch, so some people felt envy, jealousy, and hatred, subjecting her to all sorts of sarcasm and ridicule.
Naturally, Tang Ya wasn't willing to live inside that place. As it happened, she could also earn a little money; back then the rent wasn't considered too expensive and she could afford it, at least sparing her from such mental exhaustion that she couldn't even cultivate properly.
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