Putting these thugs behind them, Lin Fan brought the two girls to the best business street in the city.
This was a place that was designed for nobles that was open for the public, so it was the best place to tour when it came to the capital city.
After the last interference, Lin Fan and Angela had learned their lesson and decided to hide their appearances with their laws so that they wouldn't attract as much attention. However, they found that even if they didn't, they wouldn't have stuck out as much since this place was filled with beautiful people.
It was only natural that there would be beautiful people here since these people were all rich people that cared about appearances if they could afford to shop here. So naturally there would be very few ugly people here.
Still, it was better to be safe than sorry, so they didn't release their barriers as they walked around.
Xin'er hadn't been affected at all by the sudden disturbance earlier. Rather, she became even more excited after getting some exercise, so she quickly pulled Lin Fan and Angela up and down across the street.
In just fifteen minutes, she already had a stick of candied hawthorns in one hand, a stick of cotton candy in the other, and a toy mask on her face.
Seeing this, Lin Fan couldn't help smiling as he remembered something.
She really looked like a kid who was enjoying a festival back on earth…
But of course, this place wasn't earth. This was a cultivation based society that had many things that the society on earth didn't have.
For example, most of the stores here were actually based on cultivation.
There were pill stores, pet shops, artifact houses, and many different places that would help one improve their cultivation and increase their strength.
However, those places weren't as exciting to Xin'er since she didn't really care about cultivating.
If it hadn't been for Angela insisting, she wouldn't have learned how to cultivate in the first place.
So they moved quite quickly down the street, moving past many of the stores that were there. The only times that they stopped was when a toy caught Xin'er's attention or there was a new food place for the two girls to try.
There was no need to talk about Angela, but it turned out that Xin'er's stomach was just as bottomless as Angela's when she was excited like this. She was able to keep pace with everything that Angela ate and at times, she even ate more than Angela since Angela stopped to feed her.
Lin Fan couldn't help shaking his head when he saw this as he thought, "Kids really do have a lot of energy sometimes, don't they?"
They continued going from shop to shop like this until they came to a certain shop.
This shop was different from the other shops because this shop wasn't a shop that was selling something. Instead, this shop was a place for gambling.
Of course, it wasn't traditional gambling or else Lin Fan and Angela definitely wouldn't have let Xin'er come here.
Drugs and gambling, those were the two taboos that Lin Fan and Angela would never allow to approach Xin'er. Once she was addicted, it would be too late for them to do anything to help her.
This place was a rock cutting store.
Rock cutting was buying raw ores and then cutting them to see what was inside. Sometimes there would be spirit jade, sometimes there would be special minerals, and sometimes there would be nothing. Everything depended on one's luck, so it was a form of gambling, but it was also a form of entertainment and business since it was exciting and one could become rich if their eyes were good.
If their eyes were good enough, naturally they would be able to see which ores contained the good stuff.
Xin'er was only interested because there was someone that had cracked a good ore and the shine of the jade inside had caught her attention.
As she looked at the different ores, she couldn't help feeling excited since this was like a game for her.
She immediately turned back to Lin Fan and pointed at the rock cutting store, "Can we try that store? It really seems interesting."
Lin Fan narrowed his eyes to look at the store.
He really didn't have a good impression of these stores because he used to run a store like this back on earth, so he knew what kind of tricks this store used.
Most of the time, the products that were placed in the front were those that had a very low chance of having anything inside. Even if they did, they were only small items that wouldn't cost the store that much.
The chances of getting lucky and hitting the jackpot in a store like this was close to zero.
After all, they would keep the stones that had the highest chances of having rare ores to themselves since they would earn more money from cutting these stones themselves than selling them.
So he really didn't want to go to this kind of store if he didn't have to.
But seeing the sparkling eyes that Xin'er had, he couldn't say no to her.
Not to mention, he could also see the sparkling eyes that Angela had to his side…
It seemed like she was just as excited as Xin'er to try out this stone cutting…
Lin Fan found it funny how aligned Angela and Xin'er's interests were sometimes. Perhaps this was why they had clicked in the beginning and why Xin'er had embraced Angela as her mother so quickly.
So in the end, Lin Fan gave a nod and the two of them ran off hand in hand while he slowly followed behind them.
He looked around the store during this time and found the usual suspects for a place like this.
The people who were running the store were clearly people who were skilled at sweet talking customers and tricking them into buying the worst stones.
While he wasn't worried that Angela would be tricked, he was worried that Xin'er would be tricked since she was still too young and pure to go against these people. If Xin'er was tricked, Angela wouldn't be able to say anything and would just go along with her.
So it was his responsibility to keep them safe.
When these store clerks saw these two girls coming into the store, their eyes immediately lit up.
They could tell with their experience that these girls were clearly new to this and they were fresh prey for them. As long as they were able to talk to these girls, they knew that they would be able to trick them out of their money.
So many of these clerks were excited about coming forward to talk to these two.
It was just too bad that Lin Fan stuck to them like a bodyguard. As soon as one of the clerks came over, he would immediately use his glare to freeze them and scare them away.
As a former young master on earth, he had plenty of experience dealing with people like this, so it was no trouble for him scaring them away.
None of the clerks dared to approach after seeing Lin Fan's gaze.
It was as if they felt something instinctively repelling about him and they couldn't approach no matter how they tried.
This allowed Angela and Xin'er to browse in peace.
After walking around for a bit, Angela and Xin'er still weren't able to find a single piece of ore that they liked. It was as if there wasn't anything in this store that could catch their eyes.
As time passed, Xin'er couldn't help feeling more and more sad as she couldn't find the right ore for herself.
So in the end, she was about to give up and to suggest that they leave this place.
However, before she could, Angela suddenly squeezed her hand.
Xin'er looked up and saw that Angela was pointing at something. She turned her eyes in the direction that Angela was pointing in and her eyes fell onto that rock as well.
As soon as she saw this, her eyes immediately lit up as she said, "That's the one!"
Lin Fan had been busy scaring off clerks, but he turned his head when he heard her say this.
He looked at the rock that caught their attention and he couldn't help being surprised.
It wasn't because the rock was very big or small, it wasn't because there was any special shape or pattern to the rock. It was because this was a very normal rock that didn't have any special defining features at all.
It was a regular shape, size, and had a regular pattern. No matter how one looked at it, it was just a normal rock.
Even the price for it was as normal as can be.
But since this was the one that they had picked, Lin Fan chose to buy it.
Finally, he let one of the clerks approach and had them bring the rock out for cutting.
The clerk just revealed a bitter smile as he wasn't allowed to sell them anything else and after receiving the money, he just wanted to cut it as fast as he could to get them out of the store.
This man, he was clearly a jinx since once people saw him, they also left the store out of fear of provoking him.
Business was down, so the sooner he left, the better.
But when the rock was cut, the clerk was suddenly filled with even more regret.
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