The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Chapter 1699 - 1698: Targeted

In order to find out Tang Rao's identity, for a while there, there were quite a few people willing to shell out money to treat him to a meal.It was just that Tang Rao, who had already left first, had no idea he'd become such a hot commodity in these people's eyes.

"Hey, don't you feel like there are way more eyes on us than before?"

Shu Yi wasn't unfamiliar with being in the spotlight, but normally that only happened when he attended certain events, or at banquets between families. Just coming to the market to buy something and having so many people staring at them—this was a first in all of history.

"What's the big deal, why are you making such a fuss?"

Every Stone he picked produced a big chunk of Purple Crystal. With eyes more powerful than X-ray vision, whoever got their hands on them would be set for life!

Tang Rao knew very clearly that right now there were quite a lot of people scheming about him, wanting to rope him into their own teams.

"Hello, I'm Hai Lai of the East Island Hela family. I see the two of you came together, and it looks like you're about to hit the jackpot soon. How about we team up, so we've got some company? What do you two say?"

The Hela family was famous on East Island. Although Hai Lai wasn't the eldest son of the Hela family, because of his outstanding ability he had caught the Clan Leader's eye, and many important internal missions were handed over to him. Every time, he completed them with flying colors. This time was no exception. The Hela family's Clan Leader had gotten word early that the shipping-out window would be in the next few days. An event as major as shipping out was taken extremely seriously by every family, and the Hela family was no exception. So, in the shortest possible time, the Clan Leader quickly made a decision and secretly sent Hai Lai up the mountain.

Hai Lai had brought a team with him. They had money and resources, and they were determined to secure the goods. In order to increase their odds of getting a shipment, after watching Tang Rao pick Stones and catching that ruthless glint in his eyes, he made up his mind: no matter the effort or cost, he had to pull Tang Rao and Shu Yi into his team.

"Hai Lai?" Tang Rao thought for a moment, then said mercilessly, "Never heard of you."

There were plenty of people in this world who wanted to deal with Tang Rao, but it wasn't like everyone who spoke to him would be met with a smiling face. Those who didn't get along with him, even after meeting him, might not even be remembered by Tang Rao.

Hai Lai sincerely wanted to get on Tang Rao's good side, but judging from Tang Rao's attitude, he clearly had zero interest in Hai Lai.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know me. If you did, we'd already be friends. It's exactly because we don't know each other that we should introduce ourselves, then slowly become friends, right?"

Hai Lai being able to reach his current position had a lot to do with his innate thick skin.

After listening, Tang Rao directly rolled his eyes at Hai Lai, clearly expressing how much he despised this kind of pickup line.

"Bro, the guy standing in front of you is from the Hela family. I've heard of him—he's pretty shrewd, and very valued in his family. Since he's already taken the initiative to befriend you, why don't you give him some face and not leave him hanging?"

It wasn't that Shu Yi was desperate for Tang Rao to build connections with the powerful; he just simply didn't want Tang Rao to offend someone from the Hela family.

"Leaving him hanging? I just want to find a place where I can quietly buy a few Stones, that's all. Making friends wasn't part of my plan, and I don't intend to casually break my own plans."

What, you need a plan for making friends now? Is that something you can schedule?

If Hai Lai still couldn't read Tang Rao's expression at this point, then he really had lived in vain.

"Let's go. Don't waste your getting-rich time on some irrelevant person. While our luck's still going strong, we should hurry up and find more Stones. If we find anything good again, I'll cut you in."

Faced with the huge profit Tang Rao promised, Shu Yi stopped trying to persuade him to be friends with Hai Lai.

Convincing someone to make friends didn't benefit him. Sticking close to Tang Rao, on the other hand, meant he'd get the benefits Tang Rao had promised. That alone was enough.

After Tang Rao and Shu Yi left, chatting and laughing, from the spot where Hai Lai was standing, the easygoing smile on Hai Lai's face vanished completely. At this moment, darkness almost shrouded his whole face.

"You're the first person who doesn't want to be friends with me, Hai Lai. So you'd rather drink the punishment wine than the toast, huh?"

Watching their figures grow more and more distant, Hai Lai etched Tang Rao and Shu Yi into his heart—and began to deeply hate them.

Shu Yi still couldn't figure out what medicine Tang Rao was selling in his gourd. When it came to people he liked and found pleasing to the eye, Tang Rao didn't care about their status; he'd happily take the initiative to befriend them. But if he didn't like someone, no matter how powerful they were, Tang Rao wouldn't spare them a glance.

"That guy's from the Hela family. We can't afford to offend them. If we piss him off and he comes after us, it's just you and me—we're no match for them. And if trouble comes, it's not like anyone will step in and help us."

By rights Shu Yi was stronger than Tang Rao, but the moment it came to people causing trouble, somehow his courage shrank way smaller than Tang Rao's.

Just as Tang Rao walked up to the entrance of a small stall and hadn't even had time to really take in what Shu Yi was saying, the Little Hedgehog inside his portable palace was already getting restless.

"Tang Rao, go in and take a look. There's good stuff inside. Hurry up and check it out."

Urged on by the Little Hedgehog, he once again picked a small, completely deserted shop and walked straight in.

"Take your time and look around. Everything here is top-quality stock, cheap prices, guaranteed to satisfy you."

The owner was a woman, whose smile had a bit of a goofy charm—maybe it had something to do with her naturally chubby figure.

With a face like that, Tang Rao didn't find her annoying at all. On the contrary, he felt this woman looked easy to get along with.

"Thanks, boss. Then I won't be polite."

Tang Rao really wasn't polite. He wandered freely through the large shop, picking as he pleased. Every time he passed by a Stone, he would pause for a moment. Only after the Little Hedgehog spoke up, saying whether there was any goods inside or not, would he move on to the next Stone. Like this, Tang Rao spent nearly an hour browsing the shop.

In the end, under the curious gazes of others, Tang Rao picked three Stones. These were the only Stones in the shop that had goods inside. After his picking, the shop's business would probably be dead quiet for years.

But whether business was quiet or whether they could ship anything out had nothing to do with Tang Rao. Business is business—one side wants to buy and the other wants to sell. Once the deal was done, whatever consequences came later had absolutely nothing to do with him.

"These three Stones, help me calculate how much they cost."

Tang Rao put the Stones that the boss had marked in front of her, urging her to settle the bill quickly, so no one else would come and covet his things.