The owner of the tofu pudding stall was a beautiful woman, jokingly known on this street as the Tofu Beauty.
Because of the time of day, there were not many people eating tofu pudding just then.
Seeing the proprietress slicing side dishes, Xue Fuyao leaned over and asked curiously, "Do you sell tofu pudding here every day?"
Without looking up, the proprietress said, "Yes, it's been four or five years now. I'm here every day."
"Has anything unusual happened these past few days?" Xue Fuyao asked.
"Unusual? Does yesterday's theft of the King of Sealing Stone count? That caused quite a commotion. Surely you heard it?"
The proprietress was clearly a lover of gossip too. The moment their eyes met, they knew they were kindred spirits.
"Of course I heard about that. They say someone deliberately stirred up trouble."
Xue Fuyao deliberately offered a version she had just heard.
"Nothing of the sort! Nobody was stirring up trouble at all. Someone actually opened up a Dream-Fantasy Sea Anemone. You know those things, right? They're perfectly ordinary underwater, but the moment they touch the air outside, they give off white mist.
"I saw it clear as day yesterday. The person who opened up the Dream-Fantasy Sea Anemone looked young, about your age, but that was a boy."
Xue Fuyao had not expected anyone to have seen her. She could not help feeling thankful that she had changed back into women's clothes before coming out today.
Then she put on a look of sudden understanding and said, "So that's what happened! Was he the one who stole the Sealing Stone?"
The proprietress shook her head. "Probably not. He was probably just an unlucky fellow. There was such a commotion yesterday that the whole street was thrown into chaos. Someone might have been