After a morning and the entire noon had passed, the market finally became somewhat quieter.
Of course, this quiet was only relative to the morning and noon. In reality, the market was still bustling with an endless stream of people.
Merchants who had entered the city that day and missed the best selling hours had begun appearing in the market, asking about prices while searching for suitable places to set up their stalls.
Qin Ran and Mimosa, having changed their attire, mingled among them.
Qin Ran wore a smile, occasionally stopping at a stall to ask a question or two, while Mimosa followed closely behind him like a proper little attendant.
The two wandered and stopped along the way. After more than half an hour, they arrived before a jewelry stall.
A grayish-white square of leather cloth, about a meter wide, held only a scattered few rings, bracelets, earrings, and necklaces, most of them made of copper or iron.
Do not expect to find gold or silver jewelry at a stall like this.
If you wanted such things, you needed to visit a shop rather than a roadside stall.
Of course, those were not Qin Ran's true target.
His target was the inn behind the stall.
From a corner window on the second floor of the inn, a strip of red cloth fluttered in the wind, exceptionally conspicuous.
After glancing at the red cloth, Qin Ran casually picked up a ring.
"How much is this?"
Qin Ran asked.
"Eight copper coins."
The stall owner gave him a price after a quick glance.
It was neither expensive nor cheap.
Although most of his earlier wandering through the market had been an act, it had still been enough for Qin Ran to learn the general prices.
At other similar stalls, a copper