"Really can't let people worry."
Since Xu Qing learned about this, he couldn't just ignore it. He immediately put on the pocket watch given to him by Feng Xiaosheng, tucked a matchbox into his pocket, and headed straight for the Feng Family.
Flower and Bird Street—Xu Qing hadn't yet reached the Feng Family when he spotted a foreigner with a pocket watch performing a smoking 'stunt' at the street corner.
They called it a stunt, but it was really just someone standing by the street, striking a match to light a pipe, and then intentionally extinguishing the match by shaking it.
The bearded foreigner didn't say a word, just puffed away under his top hat, while two local ruffians, posing as agents, pitched the greatness of foreign matches.
After they hyped up the matches as if they were the only treasures in the heavens and the earth, the foreigner conveniently opened his watch cover in front of everyone to take a look.