Chapter 1419 — An Exorbitant Price
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Old Yu, you are mistaken!" Zhao Qibing waved a hand. "Old Yu, think about it — these are all treasures of heaven and earth, priceless medicines. Our Zhao family's stores are not plentiful either; we keep them above all for my grandfather and the family's finest to cultivate with. Now, to cure your poison, we must expend so many ingredients. If later some member of the family needs them for a breakthrough, there will be no place left to seek such treasures! My grandfather is on the verge of breaking through from the Earth Rank into the Heaven Rank... you know very well what a great sacrifice our Zhao family is making for your Yu family!"
These words made Old Yu furious beyond measure. Even if all those treasures of heaven and earth were genuine, they still should not cost a billion! Did they take him for a fool? The Yu family had treasures of heaven and earth too — no thousand-year fleeceflower root or ten-thousand-year snow lotus, perhaps, but lesser ones they did have. He did not believe the Zhao family possessed so many fine things!
Yet even in doubt, there was nothing to be done. Old Yu's life was now in their hands; he truly could not afford to fall out with them.
"Young Master Zhao, this fee is nothing short of astronomical to me. My purse is thin — could you see your way to... lowering it a little?" Old Yu asked, forcing down his anger. He had no choice but to ask; were he truly to let his fury drive him to turn and walk out, he would only go back to the hotel and wait to die.
"It cannot be lowered!" Zhao Qibing waved a hand. "Old Yu, I will speak frankly with you: this is only because it is you. For an ordinary man, our Zhao family would not be willing to part with treasures of heaven and earth for a billion!"
"This..." Old Yu nearly cursed aloud. So you fleece me and I am supposed to remember your kindness? But he dared not curse. "My purse is truly thin!"
Old Yu knew the wealth of the hidden Yu family inside out. Much of the hidden Yu family's money had been earned for them by the mundane Yu family — how could he fail to know that? But how could the hidden Yu family possibly hand over money to cure his poison? That phone call earlier had left Old Yu thoroughly disillusioned with the hidden Yu family; his heart had gone cold as ice.
In his eyes, he was nothing but a dog to the hidden Yu family — whether he lived or died was no concern of theirs at all! So Old Yu simply did not even entertain the thought of calling the hidden Yu family again to ask for money.
As for the mundane Yu family, Old Yu believed that if he asked Yu Shuixing for money, Yu Shuixing would surely give it to him — but he knew even more clearly just how much the mundane Yu family had at bottom! Though the mundane Yu family was wealthy, much of that money was earned for the hidden Yu family; over the years, the cash the mundane Yu family had actually made came to only a billion in total!
If that money were brought out to pay for the cure, how would the mundane Yu family manage then? Would it not be marching into decline? Such a thing Old Yu could not bring himself to do either!
"Oh? I have heard the Yu family's assets come to a billion. Old Yu, saying what you just said — are you not lying to me?" Zhao Qibing dug at his ear. "I may not be very clever, I, Zhao Qibing, but you cannot fool me as though I were a fool, can you?"