Xu Taiping calmly met the woman's gaze, slowly pushed the pouch of Gold Essence Coins back onto the table, and said solemnly:
"Not for sale."
He had already changed his appearance with the Flame Emperor Body Tempering Art. Gone were his usual fresh, handsome features; he now looked like a sickly scholar with deathly pale skin and a cold, sinister face.
"You're an outsider, aren't you?"
Rejected by Xu Taiping once again, the woman did not grow angry. Instead, she became perfectly calm.
Xu Taiping did not answer. He merely turned his head and looked toward the storyteller.
He treated the woman as though she did not exist.
Seeing this, the woman simply watched Xu Taiping quietly for a moment, then turned and walked toward the richly dressed boy without another word.
"Mother, he won't sell it? If he won't, I'll kill him!"
Seeing the woman return empty-handed, the boy immediately shot Xu Taiping a vicious glare, Killing Intent rising from him.
The sudden Killing Intent sent an inexplicable shudder through the hearts of everyone in the teahouse.
But when they discovered that it came from the richly dressed boy, many turned away, looking back at the storyteller as though they had seen nothing.
"Our Cheng'er really has grown up!"
Hearing the richly dressed boy threaten to kill someone, the woman not only refrained from scolding him but hugged him with delight written all over her face.
Then, after she whispered something into his ear, the Killing Intent around him gradually faded.
The woman took the boy by the hand and headed toward the private rooms on the third floor as though nothing had happened.
"Eldest Brother, that fierce woman just told her son in her mind that she's already notified their gang's people at Heavenly Hero Ferry. As soon