Chapter 258
“What nonsense! Ouyang Na, do you think I’m the same as you, always flirting with men?”
Gao Tian’ai wasn’t a weak girl. She talked back aggressively.
Anyone could tell she and Ouyang Na didn’t get along well.
“So he’s your friend?”
In a quarrel between women, the one who got irritated first would lose. Ouyang Na ignored her and directed the spearhead at Jiang Chen again.
“Daughter of the family of the inheritance of phoenix blood. Bad taste in friends,” the woman beside her said in a voice dripping with sarcasm.
“An aristocratic family of inheritance doesn’t have to make friends with someone from another aristocratic family. I can make friends with anyone whom I get along well with,” Gao Tian’ai said.
“What do you mean?” Jiang Chen didn’t understand the terms the steward had used.
“We’ve classified spiritual herbs into several categories: common, few, rare, valuable and rare, and exceptional.”
“Star grass and ghost head mushroom are valuable and rare. The other two are rare.”
“So, do you have them?” That was what Jiang Chen cared most about.
“If you want them immediately, we don’t,” the steward said meaningfully.
Business was about making money. Of course, he wanted to maximize the profits.
Jiang Chen knew that. He asked calmly, “How long will you need to collect all of them?”
It took the steward a good while to think. Then he said, “Between six months and a year and a half. We’ll charge you a fee between 50 million and 100 million yuan stones for them.”
He glanced at Jiang Chen and added, “Middle-grade yuan stones.”
Gao Tian’ai had almost said it wasn’t expensive, but then she was shocked. Her expression told him how high this price was.
The exchange rate between low-grade and middle-grade yuan stones was 50 to 1.
Jiang Chen had ten million low-grade yuan stones. That would be half a million middle-grade yuan stones. It was far away from what the steward had asked for, and these ten million low-grade yuan stones had been the compensation paid by the Black Dragon City. Jiang Chen hadn’t earned them himself.
“It’s too much. If you charge so much for unprocessed spiritual herbs, how much will you charge for refined panaceas?” Gao Tian’ai said.
“Miss Gao, besides how much the spiritual herbs are worth themselves, there are other expenses included in this price. If this client can let us know where each of the spiritual herbs is located, it will be forty percent cheaper. If we only sell the information of these spiritual herbs so that the client can collect them by himself, the information fee is only twenty percent of this price.”
The steward said when he thought he had explained everything, “If you’re interested, we’ll nail down the deal after receiving your deposit. We can guarantee you we’ll find all of them in two years.”
It was beyond Jiang Chen’s expectation, in a good way.
It had been impossible to purchase these spiritual herbs with middle-grade yuan stones 500 years ago.
Money was never his concern, although he didn’t have it at that moment.
“I guess you have one of them now, don’t you?” Jiang Chen asked.
“Yes, we have ghost head mushroom now. You want to purchase it alone?” the steward asked.
“That’s right. How much?”
“Thirty million middle-grade yuan stones.”
“That can’t be right. You charge between 50 million and 100 million for four kinds of herbs. How could one of the four be so expensive?”
“I’ll give you a discount then, for Miss Gao’s sake. Twenty-five million. It can’t be lower.” The steward didn’t explain. He made a concession, but managed to nail down the price.
“Okay. The thing is, I don’t have so many yuan stones now,” Jiang Chen said.
The steward was astonished. They had spent so much time in bargaining, but he had turned out to be penniless?