'To know is to feign ignorance, and not knowing is even worse.' She, for one, knew absolutely nothing. And she certainly hadn't found that the jewelry boxes, large and small, numbered exactly eleven.
Nor did she know that someone had also hidden two bags—one filled to the brim with gold bracelets, and the other, astonishingly, holding a bundle of twenty gold chains of varying thickness.
'Wrong. I almost forgot about the bag full of gold rings and earrings.' Xu Changqing glanced again at Shen Weimin, who had told her to put away the payment on the table. Suppressing a laugh, she asked, "All settled?"
"I've gone over everything that needed to be said. The rest can wait until right before Fengzi leaves. You were out for a long time earlier. What was so interesting to see in the courtyard across the way?"
'Are you testing me, or are you just testing me?' As Xu Changqing gathered the payment from the table and picked up an inventory list, she replied in a soft, unhurried voice.
