Chapter 88: The Deal, Nine-Age Trading Company

Chu Junhan looked around and saw nothing she recognized. All she could do was clear her throat and ask, "What do you sell here?"

The shop assistant had been all smiles, assuming she was someone from the trade. At her question, the smile froze on his face. "So you don't even know what our merchant house sells?"

His attitude shifted in an instant. Chu Junhan felt uneasy and said timidly, "I... of course I know what you sell. I just... I don't know what I should buy, so I wanted you to introduce it to me."

To make her claim sound firmer, she nodded and repeated, "Yes, I need you to introduce it."

The smile on the assistant's face became lively again, and he said with practiced politeness, "Our merchant house deals in all kinds of business, near and far. As long as you have money, we sell anything!"

"Do you sell information?" The child regarded the assistant's boastful words with indifference and let out an old-souled sneer.

At once, the assistant's expression changed. He looked around nervously, craning his neck this way and that, and after confirming no one else was near, he hurried out from behind the counter and lowered his voice. "I never expected such a young customer to be an expert!"

Chu Junhan raised a brow slightly. She had only been joking just now, but seeing the assistant's reaction, it did not seem false. She, too, lowered her voice in a furtive way. "How is it sold?"

The assistant wore a bitter smile. "Information is no trivial matter. I have to wait for the boss to decide. What sort do you want, young customer? I'll ask on your behalf."

"Hm... what sort?" What Chu Junhan lacked most now was manpower. "I want to know who in this Liao Kingdom hates Avolgan Tamon the most. The kind of hatred that ends only in death."

She was afraid the shop assistant was lying to her, and also afraid of exposing herself, so she could only test the waters with a question that would reveal nothing and be hard to verify.

The assistant nodded, stood, and cupped his fists. "Please wait a moment, young customer. I will ask our guild master at once." With that, he withdrew from the front shop.

Once in the back room, the assistant dropped to one knee, reverent to the extreme. "My lord, a girl has come to buy information. Please make the decision."

Even the way he addressed his superior had changed from guild master to lord.

In the dim little room, a shadow stood there, only a faint outline visible, making it impossible to tell what was real and what was not. The shadow moved slightly, and the assistant shuddered with it.

The shadow spoke at last, voice calm and unhurried. "Give it to her."

After receiving the order, the assistant nodded and left. When he returned to the front room, the stacked-on smile was back on his face. "Thank you for waiting, young customer."

"And?" Chu Junhan gave a slight nod.

The assistant squeezed out a smile. "Our guild master said that since this is your first purchase, this information will be given to you free of charge. Consider it a gesture of friendship. We hope to work with you often in the future."

"Oh? Is that so?" Chu Junhan raised a brow slightly. She had been deceived too many times to believe much in friendship anymore.

The assistant kept smiling. "Naturally. Please wait a moment, young customer. I will draft it for you right away." With that, he began grinding ink and taking up his brush.

Leaning against the desk, Chu Junhan teased, "What, do you prepare your information in advance here?"

The assistant kept his head down as he wrote, yet still answered the child's words. "You're joking, young customer. It's not that it's prepared in advance, only written in advance. A single sheet of information can be worth a fortune. I wouldn't dare leave it lying around, so I can only keep it in my head."

"If that's the case," the little figure stepped forward with a playful smile, "then if I tied you up, wouldn't I possess all the wealth in the world?" With that, she held up the incense that dulled the mind.