Tianqiong Academy was on holiday today, and it was while going to the Marketplace to buy vegetables that Gu Jiao heard travelers passing by talk about it. The National Master had returned to Shengdu in the middle of the night, and early in the morning, a long queue of people seeking an audience with the National Master had formed outside National Master Hall.
"So many people want to see the National Master?"
The vegetable vendor asked the merchant drinking soy milk at the stall next door, then turned to Gu Jiao and said, "Ten knife coins."
Gu Jiao handed over ten knife coins to the vegetable vendor and packed two fresh melons into the small backpack behind her.
The merchant guzzled down half a bowl and only then, with his head sweating profusely, said, "How could they not? The line stretched for three li! Carriages could hardly get through! If I wasn't in a hurry to leave the city for business, I would have joined the queue myself!"
