Taking advantage of the chaos, Shi Zhongyu grabbed a random garment and bolted.
Once he had a chance to look at it, he realized it was a top-quality, exquisitely crafted cotton-padded robe. This was a stroke of luck—to walk away from such a mess with this! If he took it to a pawnshop, he could flip it for twenty or thirty taels of silver, more than enough to cover his recent losses.
He had originally purchased a jade thumb ring and made a profit of over ten taels, but in the heat of the confusion, some thief had inexplicably snatched it, leaving him penniless. Finding this robe in the scramble was a perfect stroke of fate; pawning it would fetch him a few dozen taels, meaning he wouldn't be out of pocket after all.
Chapter 172