"Do you think we can accept just letting you free to steal stockings?" Lower Your Head replied, "Or do you plan to say that you'll share a portion of your stockings with us if we cooperate?"
Going by Lower Your Head's tone, it was clear that she didn't believe that they would do this. As for Xiao Shiqin, was unable to respond due to their tone. While on the battlefield, he had no trouble using deceiving and cunning tactics against his opponent, but for something like this, he found it hard to make false promises.
As for using stockings to bribe the two? Too little, and they wouldn't think it was worth it; too many, then why would they still need to go after Ye Qiu? There was no way to implement this realistically, yet Xiao Shiqin couldn't bring himself to deceive them either.
