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This is Part 2 of an on-going book. Of you haven't read Part 1, none of this will make any sense to you.
NB: [-in the process of editing-]
[comments are to be deleted coz the ones i got so far were abominable...
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From there on, it was really easy. Lan Xichen got so engulfed in the tasks that he truthfully did not feel hungry now.
He browsed through the numbers of the goldsmiths in town, but as it was a rare, dying profession, it was just a handful of numbers. Biting his lips, he bitterly thought that his mother would most probably be an expert on this topic... She had always had a lot of jewelry. Loads.
But calling her was out of the question. Not after the pain she had caused Wangji at Christmas. Not any more. He was done.
He was unaware that he was clenching his teeth again, but kept on working, putting a list of the phone numbers to ring through. He picked the three with demand for the highest fees and just called those.
The first one sounded bubbly, even high. Far too cheerful, he was happy to babble on the line and explain that he was only dealing in orders booked at least 3 months in advance. Oh, because he was so very busy!
- I don't have 3 months. – Lan Xichen growled on the line.
He apologized, still quite cheery, and went on to recommend a colleague, but the young lawyer did not wait up for him to finish his pitch, Lan Huan just hung up. If that was the idiot's way to bait clients – by telling him he had too much work, making them wait and sweat – yea, he had no time for this bullshit.
The second one told him that he was specializing in purity rings, and mostly worked with the Church, the Catholic Church, working on rings for cardinals and bishops, and Lan Huan directly hung up, getting more and more annoyed.
This was bad.
Why was it so hard to get his hands on a simple ring?!
- Ugh.... – he groaned, dialing the last number. – This better be good, or I swear I'll get married with a couple of beer cans pull-tabs! Wanyin will definitely be happy!
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