Why did you provoke me?

Li Yiqing fell silent. It seemed their Li family had only produced fewer than a hundred [items] over the years. Dali said it was very easy.

Yu Meng noticed something amiss. She asked softly, "This stone skin is very rare." She stated it as a statement.

Li Yiqing nodded. "It's considered a sought-after commodity in the city."

Yu Meng listened without saying anything, but only glanced at her older sister.

Dali is confused herself. Is this really that difficult? She thought it was okay when her younger sister taught her.

Dali glanced at the beads on Jiang Mingfeng's wrist. Those beads were made by her from the stone skins found along the village's stream.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Mingfeng glanced at the beads on his wrist and understood their value. He opened his mouth to say something, but Dali tugged at him.

Li Yiqing, of course, clearly saw the expressions on their faces. A thought struck him: "You two can do that?"

Jiang Mingfeng ran up to Li Yiqing and proudly held up the beads on his wrist in front of him. "This is the engagement gift Dali gave me back then."

Dali was furious. She muttered under her breath, "You idiot, couldn't you have waited until we got home to tell your cousin?"

Li Yiqing wasn't so polite to Jiang Mingfeng; he reached out and took off the beaded bracelet from his wrist.

"Cousin, that's mine! What are you doing?"

"I'm just looking at it, I won't take it from you." Li Yiqing held the string of beads in his hand, feeling them carefully.

When your mind focuses on the beads, you'll feel the joy of the pebbles rolling around, finally free from their static state. It's a joy of being turned over.

Jiang Mingfeng stared longingly at the beaded string in Li Yiqing's hand. He stretched out his hand and waited, "Cousin, are you done yet? Hurry up and give it back to me."

Li Yiqing twirled the beaded string in her hand several times before placing it back into Jiang Mingfeng's hand.

"Dali, can you still make beads like this? Sell me one at a high price."

Dali turned to look at Yu Meng. "Little sister, can I earn this money?"

Yu Meng had no choice but to nod. "Your cousin has plenty of money, you can raise the price a bit."

Dali's eyes lit up. "Cousin, how many gold coins are you going to offer?"

Li Yiqing looked at Yu Meng. "We're relatives, after all. Can't you let me take advantage of you a little?"

Yu Meng nodded. "By bringing my older sister here this time, you've already gotten a huge advantage."

Li Yiqing paused, then asked in a low voice, "For this mission, are you willing to hand over this kind of dough?"

"What else can we do? There are rocks everywhere here; we can't exactly go looking for those few stray blades of grass!"

"So, you know this skill too?" Li Yiqing's face broke into a wide smile. "I've really struck gold this time."

Jiang Mingfeng put the string of beads back on and returned to Dali. "Honey, I won't dare to show off like that again next time. If we run into that scoundrel, he'll definitely try to steal it. And Mom will side with him too."

"You don't listen to your wife, you're destined to suffer," Dali said angrily from the side.

A few people stood there talking for a while, while the other three groups had already disappeared from sight.

Li Yiqing looked at Dali with a cold gaze. "Dali, there are no outsiders here. Why don't you give us a demonstration right here?"

This involves the methods of the unmasker, so Dali certainly wouldn't refuse; she had to let Li Yiqing see her value.

Dali didn't try to find the big rocks; she just found a rock about the size of a soccer ball and sat cross-legged on the ground.

Li Yiqing and Jiang Mingfeng squatted down beside her, ready to go.

Dali's five fingers moved rhythmically on the stone.

Ten minutes later, wrinkles began to appear on the surface of the stone. Dali slowly pinched it between her thumb and forefinger, but she didn't lift it up.

With her other hand, she reached to the bottom of the stone, and no one knows what she did, but she easily peeled off the entire surface of the stone.

The whole process took 11 minutes. Li Yiqing looked at the minute hand on his wrist. This speed was incredible. At this rate, how much would they gain in these seven days?

Li Yiqing felt that he was about to become famous again, and not just any famous person.

Yu Meng sighed and said softly, "Don't think too much about it. This kind of thing is very mentally taxing for the mask revealer. They can only reveal two masks a day."

Li Yiqing glanced at Dali's unchanging expression, then looked up at Yu Meng.

Yu Meng is right, he was too greedy.

Dali looked at her younger sister in confusion. She didn't feel anything at all, and it didn't take her as much effort as her sister had said.

But when you're out and about, you can't go wrong by listening to your younger sister; she's the smartest one in the family.

Jiang Mingfeng quickly tidied up the stone skin and put it into the box he carried with him. His eyes sparkled as he looked at Dali. His wife was indeed the most capable woman he had ever found.

Yu Meng pulled Dali along, "Big sister, why don't you rest for a while?"

Although Dali didn't quite understand what Yu Meng meant, she still nodded in agreement.

Li Yiqing was quite understanding this time. "You must be tired too. Let Mingfeng take you back to your tent to rest for a while."

The two people left.

Yu Meng looked at Li Yiqing. "Who are you working for? Do you even know what he specifically needs?"

Li Yiqing's heart tightened, her eyes filled with complex emotions. "How did you come up with that?"

"None of that matters. If you take it a step further, do you think you can handle it? If you can, I'll do everything I can to help you this time. But similarly, if something happens to me someday, I'll need you on my side."

Li Yiqing thought for a long time. "Didn't you say you didn't want to be famous?"

"I was too young back then. I had little ability to withstand unknown risks."

Li Yiqing lowered his voice. "It seems that some important figure has suffered a mental breakdown and needs a special medicine, and the raw materials for making the medicine can supposedly be found here."

Yu Meng frowned. "It's the kind of medicinal stone that can be absorbed by the human body."

"You know that?" This time, Li Yiqing was genuinely surprised. That was a technique only top-tier mold makers could use, and it was priceless.

"I have to thank you for that, the teacher who introduced me to you at the tea party last time."

Li Yiqing was stunned. Could this be the cause and effect the old man had spoken of?

"They wouldn't actually want this kind of stone skin, would they? There seems to be nothing but stones around here." Li Yiqing seemed to realize why they had been placed in such a place.

"Can we just peel off any one of them?" Li Yiqing asked.

Yu Meng shook her head. "The spirituality contained within each piece of stone is different." Yu Meng walked slowly. "Can you guarantee that my things will be accurately registered in your name?"

Li Yiqing narrowed his eyes. His Li family wasn't even among the top-tier wealthy families in the city, let alone doing something like currying favor with powerful figures. If they did well, they might rise to the top in one fell swoop.