Wander Bar had always been the best-informed place for off-campus news at First University, without question.
As the owner of Wander Bar, the Wanderer Wizard naturally was no shut-in wizard cut off from the world—among the young publicly funded students, the old man was known to be extremely shrewd. Anyone who thought he was muddleheaded with age would surely suffer for it.
So Zheng Qing merely rolled his eyes at the Wanderer Wizard's polite greeting, then put it out of mind and led the old wizard deeper into the shop.
As they walked, Zheng Qing spoke with half pride and half complaint. "You came a little late... All the good stuff in the shop has been snapped up. Especially the rats—don't be fooled by the ones still in the cages. They've all been reserved already. At least until winter break ends, our shop won't have any more rats for sale."
As the manager of Puji Island's largest gray market, the Wanderer Wizard was naturally familiar with First University students' much-complained-about "extracurricular practical assignments." Though Wander Bar disdained to involve itself in such a paltry business, that did not mean the brokers listed at Wander Bar would ignore it.
After all, even a mosquito's leg was still meat.
When customers had needs, a proprietor naturally did everything possible to meet them. Thus, after hearing that Zheng Qing could procure large numbers of live rats, the Wanderer Wizard had more than once expressed interest in further cooperation with D&K. But in order to sustain the new shop's business, after repeated discussions with his companions, Zheng Qing ultimately reached an agreement with the Wanderer Wizard: Wander Bar could take all of D&K's unsold "rat stock," but if D&K had no unsold stock, Wander Bar would still receive a quota of fifty rats per