Chapter 48: The Jewellry
Ye Lingyue hissed. "What are you doing?! Careful not to break them."
A look of complication crossed his face, and he stayed silent.
However, the siblings’ reaction caused the jewellry seller to be filled with doubt. He was about to reach out to take a look at the beautiful jewellry when Ye Lanxi beat it to him first.
"Is there something wrong with the jewellry?" He asked them, already determined not to accept them.
These two also looked like two nobles running away from home. If he accepted the jewellry and got into trouble... he shuddered just by thinking about it.
Ye Lingyue took the hairpin and jade bracelet from his hand, offering them to the jewellry seller to inspect. "Here, you can take a look at them. I won’t charge you a high price."
The jewellry seller was definitely tempted by how beautiful and intricate the hairpin and carving on the bracelet looked. However, he shook his head, deciding not to give in to his greediness and regret it later.
"This miss... I-I can’t accept them." The jewellry seller decided to reject them, pulling his eyes away from the high-quality items.
Ye Lingyue’s smile faded, and the imaginary money in her mind vanished. She gave the jewellry seller a confused look. "Why?"
"I don’t accept such items, Miss. I-I can’t pay for those," he stammered a lousy excuse. "Honestly, I haven’t sold a lot of items since this morning..."
Seeing the jewellry seller trying so hard to get rid of them and Ye Lingyue’s insistence, Ye Lanxi couldn’t take it anymore and pulled her away.
She was wearing a thin veil, and Ye Lanxi had half of his face covered with a mask.
"Lingyue, where did you get those?" Ye Lanxi asked, his face hardened slightly.
Ye Lingyue blinked, and she looked down at the hairpin and jade bracelet on her hands. She actually just pulled random items in the pile of jewellry she had taken from the Ye family’s room.
Then, she remembered the box filled with jewellry that Ye Lanxi had protected until he got beaten up. These jewellry were actually his...?
She coughed. "Are these jewellry yours?"
After falling silent for a moment, she continued. "Do you have a girl you like and planning to give these to her? But... now that we are here, you can’t do that anymore. How about we just sell it to fill our stomachs?"
Her words sounded so self-righteous that she couldn’t help but blush slightly in embarrassment.
Ye Lanxi’s mouth twitched, and he let out a deep sigh. "Let’s just sell them then."
She looked up, tilting her head. "Really? You are not going to give it to your beloved anymore?"
He flicked her forehead in annoyance. "What girl? You are just making up nonsense."
"Then, who is it for?" Ye Lingyue asked mischievously. "Your jewellry book is safe with me, Second Brother. Don’t tell me it’s actually your... personal items? Do you use them yourself?"
Ye Lanxi knew that his blood pressure would always skyrocket whenever Ye Lingyue opened his mouth. It was as if she was pouring out her years of quota to be annoying at this moment.
He gritted his teeth. "Let’s go! Don’t you want to buy some supplies?"
She grinned and let herself get dragged away.
After searching for a long time, they finally found a jewellry seller who was willing to buy their jewellry.
"How much should we buy?" Ye Lanxi asked.
They could still hide it in the wagon cart if it was just a small amount, but if they buy too much, they wouldn’t be able to hide them.
Ye Lingyue blinked and she pointed at the stalls selling snacks. "Second Brother, can you buy these snacks for the twins? Buy a lot of them!"
She gave him some money. "I will go find some supplies myself. You are surely brave enough to go by yourself, right?"
Ye Lanxi’s protest died down in his mouth when he heard the second sentence. He snorted. Not wanting to be looked down upon, he took the money.
"We will meet here. Don’t make trouble or get lost on the way."
She nodded, and they separated.
Ye Lingyue broke into another shop selling paddy rice sacks. She left after throwing some money and went to find other supplies like flour and spices for seasonings.
When she passed by a merchant caravan, she saw some of them had chickens.
"Brother, how much does the chicken cost?" she asked.
There were two people besides the chickens, and their attire by no means were cheap. Ye Lingyue didn’t understand why wealthy people would earn money by selling chickens at night, but she still wanted to buy them.
"We don’t—"
His words were cut off.
"Little sister, how many do you want to buy?" The girl who seemed to be his sister asked Ye Lingyue with a kind look.
Ye Lingyue blinked. These chickens were big and healthy. She couldn’t imagine how tasty they would be if Ye Zhiqiu were to roast them. "Ten!"
After she paid for ten chickens, she went back to the place they had agreed upon, carrying one sack of rice. The chickens were already gone to her space storage.
Ye Lanxi was already waiting, bringing a lot of snack packages with him. Ye Lingyue’s eyes lit up when she saw them.
She really couldn’t wait to get back and tasted all of them one by one.
When she lived in Qin Ruichen’s mansion, she often ordered her servants to buy street snacks for her. Each one was absolutely delicious.
"Lingyue?"
She looked up, already snatching a candied hawthorn from his hand and started eating it. "Hmm?"
"I am just wondering whether I have seen it wrong." Ye Lanxi’s face seemed to be complicated.
"See what?" She was still saying it in a nonchalant tone.
He pointed in a certain direction, and when she saw it, her pupils constricted. She sucked in a deep breath and almost dropped her candied haws!