Chapter 4753 — Buying a Walkie-Talkie
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
As for the daytime, Ning Xuefei led Wei Zhao and the girls around the various parts of West Island, just as Wei Zhao had once shown her around North Island. They visited basically every place of note. The local customs and ways, utterly different from other places, truly opened Wei Zhao's eyes.
Still, awkward moments often arose along the way. Wherever they went, the crowds would jam up tight, with throngs of West Island folk scrambling to catch a glimpse of Wei Zhao, the prospective son-in-law of West Island. That feeling of being stared at like an animal in a zoo left Wei Zhao at a loss for words, and time and again he could only beat a hasty retreat.
By contrast, no one paid much attention to beauties like Ning Xuefei and Huo Yudie. Had the four of them gone to an outer island, they would surely have received the same treatment as Wei Zhao. But this was West Island, and the streets of West Island were full of women—men were not permitted to show themselves about at will.
While Huo Yudie was happily out and about with Wei Zhao and the others, Ren Zhongyuan remained utterly unaware of it. He still assumed Huo Yudie was in seclusion these past few days, and every day he yearned only for a chance to curry favor, lest the earlier misunderstanding leave a bad impression on her.
Ever since that day when he saw the chastity mark on Huo Yudie's arm, he, like everyone else, had dismissed that photograph as complete rubbish.
No matter how the two poor wretches Li Yuzhou and Sun Baolu begged for mercy—and without even needing Liu Ziqi to lift a finger—he was the first to beat the two of them half to death, hoping thereby to show Huo Yudie his goodwill. At the same time, he rushed to delete the photograph, lest it spread and ruin the reputation of the woman he adored.
Still, giving his two lackeys a sound thrashing was only what was expected of him. Ren Zhongyuan knew that this alone was unlikely to win Huo Yudie's forgiveness. He had heard that Huo Yudie was very interested in secular-world cell phones, so he decided to prepare a gift to her taste.
Unfortunately, although the Central Merchants' Guild dealt mainly in all manner of technological products, cell phones—the most common item in the secular world—were rarely sold. After all, there were no base stations on Tianji Island; a cell phone was purely an ornament. Surely he could not go and become a network operator himself just to sell phones...
Here on Yunjie Island, if one wanted a cell phone, one had to have one specially made. But Ren Zhongyuan was not Ning Xuefei. Though he had some standing at the East Continent Academy, the West Island's Central Merchants' Guild would not defer to him, and having a phone custom-made was pure fantasy.
With no other choice, Ren Zhongyuan wandered about the Central Merchants' Guild for most of the day, and in the end had to abandon the idea of buying a cell phone. Instead, his eye fell on a pair of walkie-talkies. In his view, these were quite impressive too—their function was not much different from a cell phone's—and he was sure Huo Yudie would like them when she saw them.
Gritting his teeth, Ren Zhongyuan tightened his belt and, sparing no expense, bought the walkie-talkies at an astronomical price. He was about to hurry off to find Huo Yudie at once and give his beloved a great big surprise!
But seeing Huo Yudie was not so easy. He was staying at the West Island envoy's residence, whereas Huo Yudie, owing to the close ties between Liu Ziqi and Ning Shanghe, was lodged within the Island Master's palace. Without special reason, no outsider was permitted to set foot inside the Island Master's palace—let alone a man like Ren Zhongyuan!
Yet this did not stop Ren Zhongyuan. As a consummate Nascent Soul cultivator, and moreover a prodigy disciple from the East Continent Academy, even with the Island Master's palace guarded so strictly, when he set his mind on slipping in, he could still find some opening to exploit. (To be continued...)