"Haha, it turns out to be this young man!" The shopkeeper smiled, bowed to him, glanced at his bandaged wrist, and said with a smile: "The three children have already left after buying things, and are no longer in our store."
"Gone? Where did you go?" the man in green asked.
"I don't know about that." He shook his head.
"You just took my crystals, give them back to me!" The man in green stepped forward and shouted, grabbing the shopkeeper's collar with one hand. Thinking of the crystals that were taken away by the shopkeeper, he felt a pang of pain in his heart.
"Haha, sir, you are joking. Those crystals are your compensation for the broken wine in our store. How can I give them back to you?" The shopkeeper smiled, reached out to take down his hand that was grabbing his collar, and gently patted it to smooth out his wrinkled collar.
Seeing the shopkeeper take his hand away easily, the man in green was stunned and distracted for a moment.
"Well, since it's compensation, don't talk about taking it back." The man in blue glanced at the man in green, then looked at the shopkeeper and asked, "Shopkeeper, did you see which direction they went?"
"Yes." The shopkeeper nodded, smiled, walked outside, and pointed in the opposite direction: "I saw them going that way."
"Thank you." The man in blue said, bowing, glancing at the others, and said, "Let's go."
The man in green followed him out somewhat unwillingly. After walking for a distance, he asked, "Brother, why don't you take the crystal back? Obviously..." He was interrupted before he could finish his words.
"Get it back? Ha!"
The man in blue sneered, glanced at him, and said, "Which store in this city doesn't have a backer? The owner of that grocery store has a reserved aura, and it's obvious at first glance that he's an expert. Maybe his strength is even better than ours. You want to take the crystal back from him? You're really naive."
"Are we just going to let it go like this?" The man in blue was somewhat unwilling.
"If we find those three little ghosts, what can't we get back?" The man in blue said, and snorted coldly: "What's more, how can a ten-year-old little ghost reach the peak of the golden elixir? I also want to meet him and see what he is like!"
Because the direction the shopkeeper pointed was the opposite of the three children, they intended to find the three children, but unexpectedly, the further they walked, the farther they were from the three children.
At this time, after the three children had bought everything, when they passed by the snack shop, Yue Er licked her lips like a greedy cat, looked at the shop with shining eyes, and said to the two brothers beside her: "Brother, brother, let's go in and buy some snacks, okay?"
Seeing her greedy look, Hao'er and Muchen couldn't help but smile dotingly. They said, "Okay, let's go in and buy some to take back!"
"Okay, okay, then I'll pick some more and keep them for later." Yue'er said with a smile, holding their hands and walking happily inside.
The Qing Emperor, who was drinking tea in the teahouse and waiting for the three children, was holding a Bagua-shaped mirror in his hand and looking at what the three children had encountered outside.
When he saw the three of them walking hand in hand into a snack shop, the corners of his lips lifted slightly, revealing a faint arc.