Tang Changsheng had vanished for so long, his whereabouts unknown. Now that he had reappeared, if anyone took him for a spy of the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court, he would have no way to explain himself.
That was why Tang Changsheng had sought out Shopkeeper Old Wu: he wanted to see whether he could learn anything from him.
But there were things he could not ask outright. Having to circle around them left Tang Changsheng feeling stifled.
"Oh, right, Shopkeeper Old Wu. That wasn't very fair of you. Last time I bought sixty-four Scattered Characters from you, more than half turned out to be fake..."
Tang Changsheng brought it up deliberately. Startled, Shopkeeper Old Wu hurriedly waved his hands. "True Person Tang, please don't say that! My humble shop has never sold counterfeits."
"No counterfeits, true. They were all Scattered Characters. But you mixed Acquired Scattered Characters in with the Innate Scattered Characters, didn't you?"
Tang Changsheng smiled. He had certainly not come to demand an accounting. He knew perfectly well that even with genuine and inferior jade characters mixed together, he had gotten an enormous bargain.
A genuine Innate Jade Character would have been cheap at a hundred taels of gold. Selling one for a thousand would have been perfectly normal.
In fact, Shopkeeper Old Wu had wanted to befriend him that day. That was why he had sold Tang Changsheng the entire batch of Scattered Characters he had acquired.
Only then did Shopkeeper Old Wu smile. "True Person Tang has a keen eye. If I'd met a muddleheaded fellow, I could never have explained it to him... If those had truly been a complete set of sixty-four Innate Scattered Characters, they could have formed a Heavenly Secrets Seed. At the trading fair, the starting price for that would