Chapter 39: Blocked
Mengyu again felt something was off: If the vase was stolen, it was naturally because of its value, so why would it be readily given away as cover for selling flowers?
To be on the safe side, she put the newspaper-wrapped vase into the cloth bag hanging in front of her chest, which actually ended up in the storage talisman hanging over her heart.
Holding the bunch of plastic flowers, she hurried to the market, and when no one was looking, she tossed the newspaper-wrapped plastic flowers into the storage talisman as well.
What she didn't notice was that at a medicine stall not far from this stand, an old man with a goat beard who was taking someone's pulse saw her take the vase and his face showed a look of great anxiety.
Mengyu bought a section of pork ribs at the market. At this time, no one liked to buy ribs, so the ribs were priced the same as pork, at 1.8 yuan per jin.
