Jiang Rou wanted to find a carpenter to build a small cabinet for her. She had many items in her personal storage space, but she couldn't simply take them out without a reason. A small wooden cabinet would serve as a perfect cover, allowing her to store less important items and providing a plausible explanation for their existence.
As soon as Jiang Rou finished speaking, the old man in the felt hat suddenly tapped his fingers on the edge of his stall, a flash of wariness in his cloudy eyes.
He glanced around, then lowered his voice. "Lass, looking for a carpenter in these times..." Before he could finish, a bald man selling clay pots diagonally across the way raised his voice: "Wang Laosan! Did your second boy go into the woods to chop trees again yesterday?"
Chapter 18