Following the road he had come by, Wang Ba soon found the spot where he had agreed to meet Ye Lingyu.
From a distance, he saw Ye Lingyu standing there with a long face, looking as though she had been waiting for quite some time.
And just as Wang Ba spotted Ye Lingyu,
she too caught sight of him in the crowd and waved in delight. "Uncle, over here!"
Feeling the gazes turning toward him, Wang Ba felt inexplicably guilty and quickly hurried over to Ye Lingyu.
Still, standing beside this Inner Sect disciple did immediately put him much more at ease.
"Immortal Ye, I just found..."
Wang Ba was about to tell her about the high-grade Spirit Chickens he had seen at the Hundred Beasts Garden when an impatient Ye Lingyu interrupted him.
She asked pitifully:
"Uncle, Uncle, do you know how to haggle?"
"Uh..."
The moment he heard the word "haggle," Wang Ba recalled his painful experience with Shopkeeper Lu.
He immediately felt even less confident than before.
But remembering that he had, at least, successfully achieved the feat of bargaining a price down by half, he slowly regained a little confidence.
To be safe, he still asked carefully:
"Immortal Ye, do you need me to help you haggle?"
"Yes, yes!"
Ye Lingyu said in vexation, "I found that Myriad Treasures Pavilion just now, but the Spirit Chickens there are too expensive. I'm a little reluctant to spend that much, but I-I couldn't bargain the price down... I'm so mad!"
This was the first time Wang Ba had seen Ye Lingyu so flustered and exasperated.
Yet even angry, this rather simple-looking girl had an air of silliness about her.
Well, to put it more nicely, innocence.
For some reason, Wang Ba had originally meant to take the opportunity