"Pop!" At the sound, Cheng Tian immediately recognized the snap pops he had loved playing with as a child.
Fifty cents a box! Enough to keep you and your friends entertained for ages!
"Yours isn't as loud as mine! Let me throw one." "That one's too quiet! It's not even louder than my voice!" "I say we might as well throw a whole box at once and see what happens!"
The snap pops kept going off, leaving Cheng Tian itching to join in.
"Grandpa, I want to buy a box of snap pops."
"Sure." Grandpa took the sunflower seeds Cheng Tian was carrying. "I still have some things to buy here. Come find me here once you're done."
The fair was full of small stalls. Cheng Tian and Frogadier walked for who knew how long, asking several firecracker sellers along the way, but none sold snap pops.
"My family's TM factory went bust! My family's TM factory went bust!"
Just then, some inexplicably familiar music reached Cheng Tian's ears. Turning to look, he saw quite a few people gathered around a stall piled high with TMs, with familiar music and an advertising pitch ringing in his ears.
"The boss ran off with his sister-in-law, leaving 350 million in debt! We have no way to collect our wages, so we can only take TMs as collateral. Originally over five thousand! Over six thousand! Over seven thousand! Now everything is just two thousand! Yes, you heard that right! Everything..."
Cheng Tian: ???
Now that was a crossover...
In his previous life, whenever he heard something like this by the roadside, he would basically take a couple of looks and walk away. After all, their goods might not even have cost twenty or thirty to make... But this time, his interest suddenly