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Looking at the white closed pearl-shell in the moonlight, his lips lifted in a sad smile remembering something.
"Allah, please help me find the closed pearl-shell..."
"What will you do with that?" He was amazed to see her praying so heartily for something like that.
"Don't you know? Last year a friend of Anjum's cousin found a closed seep here, and when She opened it, she found a bean-sized pearl inside it."
He just stared at her in disbelief. "And you believe that? Who told you this lie...?"
"Anjum told me..." After telling him, she kept walking, but Huzaifa didn't go with her and stood there thinking for a while, but two or three seconds later he called out to Moomal.
"You know, I have enough money in my account to buy you a whole string of pearls."
