“Ghosts?”
Fatty Wong was taken aback.
He was still somewhat afraid of such things.
But Opal, standing beside him, snickered, “Ghosts? There are no ghosts in this world, it’s just that you folks from remote villages, who haven’t read much, mistake physical phenomena for ghosts. Indeed, lack of education is terrifying, a bunch of bumpkins.”
Her credentials were quite good, a university graduate who scoffed at ghosts.
If you truly believed in them, then all the years of her education would have been in vain.
Furthermore, she was here to buy pearls.
Leaving before buying them was just odd.
Initially, Fatty Wong was a little scared, but upon hearing his girlfriend’s words, he naturally couldn’t show fear, after all, he was a man, and he patted his chest, “Right, ghosts or no ghosts, that gentleman said we have to defeat all demons and monsters, the more ghostly they are, the more they appear in uneducated places. Fortunately, I am very cultured, a master’s degree.”
He only graduated from elementary school.
His master’s degree was bought.
And it was a fake diploma.
But this fake diploma didn’t stop him from posing as an intellectual to pick up girls.
Didn’t you see how Opal was hooked by his act?
However, deep down, Opal was cursing like crazy, “Master’s degree, you blockhead, do you really think I can’t see through your fake diploma? I’m here to scam your money, who cares about your degree.”
Externally, Opal still clung to Fatty Wong, sweetly saying, “Darling, let’s go buy pearls.”
“Okay.”
Fatty Wong nodded.
Seeing Opal looking so admiringly at him, he felt great.
Indeed, diplomas were useful.
And at that moment, Robin Bailey’s car also arrived, and Fatty Wong saw them, sneering, “I never expected these poor folks would come down unscathed. Probably, they’ve lost all their hard-earned cash for that sixty-six thousand. I wonder why they came to such a place, to buy pearls? Haha, they must have the money for it too.”
“Come, darling, I’ll take you to buy pearls, big pearls, we’ll show them later.”
With that, Fatty Wong left with Opal.
They entered the market.
The waitresses looked at them strangely, murmuring, “Is this guy crazy? In our village, there really are ghosts at night. If you don’t believe it, they can scare you to death at night.”
Then, he sighed and looked at Robin Bailey and the others.
Hoping that these three would take his advice.
Otherwise, three more deaths wouldn’t be good.
Suddenly, the waitress walked up to Robin Bailey and said earnestly, “Sir, there are ghosts haunting this village at night. It’s best for you not to come, it’s still not completely dark, so leave quickly.”
“Ghosts haunting? Just smack them and leave.”
Robin Bailey said, then led the three of them away.
Leaving the waitress looking dumbfounded.
Just smack them?
These three were even more peculiar than the two before.
He wanted to say more, but Robin Bailey and his group had already walked away.
In the end, he could only shake his head, today he had really met two strange people, and now it was getting dark, so he closed the gate and didn’t go out.
And at that moment, others also started closing their gates.
Of course, some shops were still open.
After all, it wasn’t completely dark yet.
The village was paved with large stone slabs, resembling big rocks, with a road running through it, surrounded by various households or shops, and the shops had some nice things.
After all, they were all fishermen.
There were treasures in the sea.
Some things in the sea were common, but to the inland folks, they were extremely rare. Even Robin Bailey walked along, admiring them.
But Fatty Wong and Opal, both from the mainland, were overwhelmed.
“Look, this bracelet is so beautiful, the patterns on it are so pretty.”
Opal held a bracelet from a stall, marveling at it repeatedly.
The bracelet was indeed very beautiful.
And the stall owner, sporting a shrewd look with a goatee, saw Opal’s excited eyes and immediately said, “Little girl, don’t be fooled by the size of my stall. As the saying goes, treasures are hidden in the most inconspicuous places. This bracelet is extraordinary, it’s been in my family for several hundred years. Back then, during a massive ebb tide, my ancestors went to collect shells, and discovered these small stones that were shining, with patterns on them. My ancestors brought them back and made this bracelet. Want to guess what happened?”
“What happened, what happened?”
Fatty Wong and Opal, curious, asked repeatedly.
“That night, this bracelet saved my dying grandfather. At that time, he was my ancestor’s three-year-old son, suffering from a terminal illness, but it was this bracelet that saved his life. After that, we often wore this bracelet in our family, and my ancestor lived for a very long time, over a hundred years, and made all the women in our family as beautiful as flowers, preserving their youth.”
The goateed man said earnestly, as if it were true.
And Opal was truly taken in by his story.
Especially at the mention of ‘making all the women beautiful as flowers,’ her eyes lit up.
“Sir, how much is it?”
Opal immediately asked.
“Eighteen thousand eight hundred, no bargaining. This thing, if it weren’t for the difficulties in my family now, needing money, I wouldn’t sell it even if I was beaten to death. This is a priceless treasure, extremely rare.”
The goateed man whispered.
Upon hearing “eighteen thousand eight hundred,” Fatty Wong’s head went numb.
Eighteen thousand eight hundred for a bracelet.
It was crazy.
But he couldn’t resist Opal, who was already falling for it, tugging at Fatty Wong and saying, “Eighteen thousand eight hundred, darling, darling, I want it, I want it.”
“It’s too expensive.”
Fatty Wong gritted his teeth.
It was really too expensive, eighteen thousand eight hundred for a bracelet, it’s robbery.
“Humph, you just said that when I’m with you, I’ll live it up, and now I can’t even buy a bracelet. You heartless person, hmm, I really overestimated you.”
Opal started acting coquettish.
This made Fatty Wong start to hesitate, and the goateed man also noticed, speaking on the side, “Brother, wealth is but an external thing, this bracelet can make you live over a hundred years, money can’t compare to it.”
“Seems like it.”
Fatty Wong was also deeply immersed in the story, half believing it. In the end, under Opal’s coaxing, he reluctantly pulled out the money from his bag.
Eighteen thousand eight hundred.
He specifically brought cash.
Because he knew that you couldn’t swipe cards in a place like this.
He didn’t expect to lose eighteen thousand eight hundred in one fell swoop.
“Thank you, sir.”
The goateed man was grinning from ear to ear.
And then, Fatty Wong walked out with the item, and Robin Bailey happened to pass by, glanced at the dyed bracelet, and said, “Why did you buy a dyed bracelet? Later on, once it gets wet, it’ll probably return to its original state.”
“Dyed?”
Fatty Wong was stunned.
No way.
Immediately, he wiped the bracelet on the ground where there was some water, and he found that the beautiful patterns on it started to blur.
Suddenly, he was dumbfounded.