"If anything catches your eye, just say the word. As long as I can afford it, I'll buy it. Of course, don't go overboard."
"Of course not," Xu Tong said. "Neither the senior nor I would do anything like that."
Only then did Geng Shu say, "Let's go, then. What caught your eye?"
Of course, she knew Xu Tong was hardly short of money. She had offered, and he had promptly climbed up the pole she had held out to him.
In any case, she owed much of the credit for clearing the remaining poison from her body to Xu Tong.
Geng Shu would not be stingy about something like this. It was only buying a few things, after all. She trusted Xu Tong to know his limits and not choose anything too expensive.
Before long, they reached a small stall. Xu Tong pointed at a pendant on display and asked, "How much for this?"
The old man held up two fingers. "See?" Xu Tong said. "Only twenty taels. I'm not fleecing you, am I?"
"Young man, I think you're trying to fleece me! This pendant costs two hundred taels. It's a top-quality piece, and you think you can buy it for twenty?"
The old man sounded rather displeased by Xu Tong's words.
Xu Tong froze for a moment, while Quan Wuxiang and Geng Shu laughed without restraint beside him.
A mere two hundred taels naturally meant little to Geng Shu, but before she could take out the money, Xu Tong stopped her.
"Old man, which of us is trying to fleece the other? You want two hundred taels for this tiny pendant? I doubt I'd pay that much even in a proper shop."
"Besides, you're just running a little street stall. You probably don't even earn two hundred taels