Under Pan Yue's dismissive gaze, Huo Rou quoted prices to her word by word.
Initially, it was one thousand, two thousand.
Pan Yue's eyes were filled with disdain. Under her contemptuous stare, Huo Rou's lips moved rapidly, and the amount quickly escalated to hundreds of thousands. A bead of sweat had already formed on Pan Yue's forehead. By the time the price for this small experimental plot was finished, the total had reached a million.
"You're lying!" Pan Yue couldn't accept that such a small patch of muddy ground could yield something so valuable. What's more, this was just a small part of the backyard.
Huo Rou couldn't be bothered to argue with her. Her gaze shifted to another plot of land.
This plot was even more interesting. Huo Rou's lips curled, and she continued to state numbers.
The strings of numbers flowed from her mouth as if they were just numbers. To Pan Yue, however, they represented several years of her allowance.
No, perhaps after her father learned this number, she wouldn't have any allowance left.
Pan Yue was incredulous. She took out her phone to check the value of these herbs, "You must be tricking me..."
She muttered to herself. An An rolled her eyes. Didn't this person investigate before acting?
Even when he argued with those annoying kids in the village before, he would choose a good spot. This clumsy aunt seemed to have done bad things before, yet she hadn't even considered this.
Pan Yue didn't see An An's eye-roll. All her attention was focused on her small phone screen, which displayed a long string of numbers.
"Tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands..." Pan Yue counted softly, her face growing paler.
Then, unwilling to give up, she looked up at Yao Jian, asking him for the names of the herbs to search again. She didn't believe Huo Rou, but Yao Jian was at least honest.
However, the search results made her face even whiter.
Huo Rou continued to quote prices. When she reached the medicinal herb that Qin Ningyi needed, she gave him a deep look and spoke figures that had already reached the "hundreds of millions."
Pan Yue screamed, "Stop!" but Huo Rou couldn't be bothered. She acted without thinking, causing Granny Yao's hard work to go to waste, leaving those who needed the medicine in an emergency without any. Was she afraid of mere financial compensation?
Pan Yue's voice grew increasingly frenzied and hoarse, and finally, Pan Yue fainted.
"Heh." Huo Rou was no longer being accommodating. She looked at Pan Yue's closed eyes, her own eyes full of deep meaning.
Qin Ningyi called his subordinate, "Throw her back. And take the bill A'Rou just recited to her father."
If a daughter makes a mistake, how can the father not know?
Although the Pan family wasn't well-known, he had heard some stories about them on occasion. Merchants chase profit, and the Pan family is even more so.
He just didn't know if the Pan family would sell their daughter to pay the debt or sell their projects.
Qin Ningyi's deep eyes gradually calmed.
A father's failure to discipline his child is his own fault.
"Yes!"
The subordinate who received the order came over, grabbed Pan Yue, and dragged her away without any pity.
The medicine that their young master Qin had been searching for so long was ruined, and the young lady Qin that young master Qin had been searching for had been angered to this extent. He wouldn't show any mercy to someone like her!
After taking a few steps out, the subordinate suddenly remembered something and dragged Pan Yue back.
The few steps Pan Yue had already been jolted awake. Before she could even regain her senses, she was dragged in another direction and walked back. Couldn't they go back and ask about it after putting her down? Pan Yue fainted again from anger.
The subordinate glanced coldly at the person who had suddenly become heavier in his hands and turned to Qin Ningyi, "Young Master Qin, that bill I..."
He hadn't heard it clearly from afar and didn't remember it, but he was too embarrassed to say so.
Qin Ningyi quickly repeated what Huo Rou had just said in front of him. The subordinate nodded and dragged Pan Yue out again.
Granny Yao looked at Qin Ningyi, her eyes filled with surprise. "You're also knowledgeable about medicinal herbs?"
Most of these herbs were rare, and ordinary people had hardly heard of them. Yet, Qin Ningyi could recite their names and prices without a single error. This earned him a lot of goodwill from her, a person who had dealt with medicinal herbs her entire life.
Qin Ningyi shook his head gently. "No. I just happened to remember everything A'Rou said just now."
His memory was already good, let alone words spoken by Huo Rou.
"It's just..." Qin Ningyi looked at the unripe medicinal herbs on the ground that could no longer be used. "I'll have to trouble you to ask the Little Medicine King for me. This batch of medicinal herbs is very important to me. Feel free to name your price."
The words "Little Medicine King" came out of Qin Ningyi's mouth with such reverence and respect that Huo Rou's cheeks flushed redder and redder.
Granny Yao looked at Huo Rou beside her. She rarely saw such a spirited look on her face. A mischievous thought arose in her mind.
"You really want me to ask?"
It wasn't that she was being careless anymore. Originally, she was wondering how to bring this matter up with Huo Rou smoothly. Now that Qin Ningyi had brought it up directly in front of the person involved, she couldn't help herself.
Might as well let nature take its course!
Granny Yao's gaze flickered between Qin Ningyi and Huo Rou. At worst, if something went wrong, she could have Xiao Shan or her son step in. She wouldn't let the little girl suffer any losses.