The Malaysia National Museum opened from nine in the morning to six in the evening.
But it was past eight that evening, and there were still people inside.
"Aren't these just a few lousy rocks? Nothing worth looking at."
"Shadow puppetry. Now that's something I haven't seen!"
"Porcelain... how much is this stuff worth?" Gu Sheng stood before the porcelain display case, pointing at its contents.
"What are you planning?" He Qing turned to look at him. She had heard something else in his words.
"Nothing. I'm just a little curious. How much is this worth?" Gu Sheng really had no other intentions. He merely thought the museum's security was rather lax.
"If it were very expensive, do you think they'd put it here?" He Qing said, her eyes shifting.
"You have a point!" Gu Sheng nodded. Beside them, the museum director was explaining in Malay, "This was excavated in Rouran. It's sixteenth-century porcelain, recording the long friendship between Malaysia and the great nation to the north. Over there, we also have documents from that period..."
"How much is this worth?" Gu Sheng asked the museum director in Malay.
"One appeared at an auction in England before. It sold for eighty thousand pounds..."
Gu Sheng immediately lost interest.
Half an hour later, the two emerged from the museum with their entourage. He Qing told Gu Sheng, "We really owe the director... showing us around so late at night..."
"You should thank me instead. I paid! A hundred thousand just to walk around inside. That's such easy money, I want to get into that business myself," Gu Sheng scoffed.
"How do you manage to make everything sound so unpleasant?" He Qing could not help sighing.
"The truth just sounds unpleasant! Let's go to Jalan Alor! I hear it's a red-light district...