Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

Chapter 1652 7 Heart Tablets 33

Luo Pinting was nervous, but she was actually quite clever. She was afraid the boss would ask too many questions, so she smiled sweetly and took the initiative to greet her and explain her purpose: "Sister, I brought my brother to take care of your business. He needs to choose a special gift for someone."

Luo Ren seemed to be following Luo Pinting calmly. When the boss looked over, he nodded slightly, as if agreeing with Luo Pinting's words. In fact, he had already glanced at most of the store.

The items on display and sold here are all large and small items that look old-fashioned, including embroidery, wood carvings, and porcelain. Although the items seem to be the same as other folk shops that target foreign tourists, the decoration and display style are indeed unique and refreshing.

Especially today, the boss was wearing a moon-white cheongsam with bamboo patterns embroidered with silver silk thread, paired with white jade earrings in the shape of bamboo nodes on her ears and a gold necklace on her chest, which made her look more elegant.

Luo Ren almost immediately confirmed that this boss must be the daughter of the white-haired woman they were looking for, and the owner of the third amber!

Lian Shu, the owner of a small shop called Lianyan that buys folk items, had a strange reaction when she saw Luo Ren. Luo Ren could clearly see her surprise at his appearance, but when he looked closely, he could see that she seemed more willing to stay with Luo Pinting.

It's not that Luo Ren is narcissistic and insists that everyone should be interested in him, but Lian Shu already has a good impression of him, but seems to have some concerns and can only watch from afar.

After exchanging pleasantries, Lian Shu asked directly, "Is the person Mr. Luo wants to give a gift to a lady?"

Luo Ren pretended not to know Lian Shu's probing and nodded with a smile, "Yes, she is a very special lady, so the gift I want to give her must be special enough."

Lian Shu nodded in understanding and smiled as she took out a crimson silk bellyband, which was embroidered with two faceless people, a man and a woman, and surrounded by auspicious patterns that symbolized a perfect match.

Lian Shu smiled and explained, "This bellyband is something a woman wears next to her skin. These two faceless figures symbolize the man and woman on their wedding night. Because marriages in ancient times were mostly decided by parents, this small garment worn by a woman on her wedding night has no face."

Luo Ren hadn't expected to encounter such a... feudal young person in modern society. He didn't rush to express anything, but simply disapproved, "That's not good. There's no such thing as blind marriage these days. She'll just see it as society's oppression of women, not something worth spreading."

Lian Shu simply put the bellyband back gently, and then introduced several items with increasingly higher prices. Luo Pinting could only shrink aside and watch Lian Shu's face become increasingly worse, not daring to make a sound.

Finally, Lian Shu took out what she claimed was the store's most valuable treasure: two pairs of embroidered shoes with velvet cushions, carefully placed on a silver tray.

Lian Shu pointed to a pair of shoes with silver bell tassels on the heels and asked, "Mr. Luo, do you know the use of this silver bell?"

Luo Ren was genuinely confused for a moment. "It's just decoration, how could it have other uses?"

Lian Shu explained with a slightly smug smile, "This silver bell rings with every step, but to sound good, it requires a steady and slow rhythm, so it requires a woman to have extremely high demeanor."

"The highest level is to wear a silver bell but not make it make any sound."

Luo Pinting couldn't bear to listen any longer. She wiped the sweat from her head and kept thanking herself in her heart that she was born dozens or hundreds of years later, otherwise how could she have such a good life?

Seeing that Luo Ren and Luo Pinting were silent, Lian Shu thought she had intimidated them. She proudly pulled out a small drawer from under the heel of another pair of three-inch golden lotus embroidered shoes and boasted, "This place can be used to store perfume. There are hollow carved patterns on the heels. When you walk, the perfume will leak through the hollow carvings and form a lotus pattern on the ground."

"This is called 'Bu Bu Sheng Xiang', or 'Bu Bu Sheng Lian', which means that women—"

Before Lian Shu could finish, Luo Ren interrupted her, "You can see that these shoes are only suitable for the feet of poor women who have undergone foot binding. I don't know where you got these feudal and old-fashioned ideas from, but you shouldn't use the blood and tears of those women as your capital for showing off today!"

After confirming that there was something wrong with this woman, Luo Ren had no interest in staying any longer, especially since there was a wooden sculpture here that looked just like the one hanging in the abandoned village halfway up Moon Mountain.

Luo Ren pulled Luo Pinting over and said goodbye to Lian Shu: "It seems that it is impossible to choose the right thing today. Boss, we will take our leave now."

After turning the corner, Luo Pinting couldn't wait to grab Luo Ren and ask, "What's going on, brother? Are you sure there's something wrong with the other party?"

Luo Ren dragged Luo Pinting into the nearby cafe, where everyone was waiting for the results. He sat down and nodded immediately, "That young boss, Lian Shu, is a complete old-fashioned person. He actually believes in the oppression of women from over a hundred years ago. He keeps saying things like women should remain chaste."

"Most importantly, I saw in her shop a Qingtianpo (Sunny Sky Po) in a style similar to the ones hung in every household in the abandoned village halfway up Moon Mountain."

Yisanyi clapped his hands, "Wow, it turns out they're really just around us!"

Cao Yanhua asked Jiang Xinxin excitedly, "Then Miss Jiang, should we just go get the amber next?"

Yan Hongsha snorted coldly and asked Cao Yanhua, "Then how do you say we take it? Do we sneak into their house at night? Or do we just rob them?"

Kido also said: "Although there are reasons for this, there are some things that cross the bottom line that we cannot do."

So everyone looked at Jiang Xinxin and Luo Ren.

Jiang Xinxin said, "Maybe we need a bait. She came up to me on her own initiative. She can't be scheming for nothing, right?"

Luo Ren disagreed with Jiang Xinxin's approach: "I don't agree. No matter who serves as bait, they won't have a good ending if they fall into Xinjian's hands. This is too dangerous. I don't agree!"

Yan Hongsha and Mu Dai exchanged a glance, then hesitantly said, "Mu Dai and I are both quite skilled. As long as we wear our tracking devices, I'm sure as long as you arrive in time, we won't have any problems..."

Luo Pinting also raised her hand cautiously: "Maybe Sister Lian Shu's target is me?"

"The first person she contacted was clearly me..."

Jiang Xinxin made a straightforward decision: "We'll send Pinting and Xiaoye somewhere else to stay for a while. One of them has been possessed by the Heart Tablet, and the other has kept the Heart Tablet. They're both vulnerable to being found by anyone who has come into contact with the Heart Tablet."