Chapter 3055 — Butting In
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
With that, Wei Zhao drove off toward the ** Practitioners' Trading Association. This was his second visit. He parked the car at the foot of the mountain below the ** Practitioners' Trading Association, and with the pills in hand, went dashing straight up the mountain!
The same mountain gate, with the same two guards at the entrance—except these were not the men from last time. The ones from last time had been beaten to death by Wei Zhao. These two clearly had no wish to follow in their predecessors' footsteps, and made no trouble for the ** practitioners who came here, so Wei Zhao entered the ** Practitioners' Trading Association without the slightest hitch.
Wei Zhao did not linger. He went straight to the office and found Vice President Ouyang on duty there.
"Vice President Ouyang, it's been a long time. I trust you've been well!" Wei Zhao stepped forward with a smile and greeted him.
"Mr. Ling, you've come! Please, sit!" Vice President Ouyang's face broke into a smile at the sight of Wei Zhao. He knew Wei Zhao's strength well and naturally did not dare treat him lightly. "May I ask what Mr. Ling has come to trade this time?"
"All the pills I've brought this time are right here. Please have a look, Vice President Ouyang. As for what I want in exchange, I have a list here—take a look and we'll talk." As he spoke, Wei Zhao handed over both the pills he had brought and the list of medicinal ingredients he needed.
As for the pills Wei Zhao had brought this time, most were rank-one pills, refined by Han Jingyi to pass the time when she was bored. They were of little use to Wei Zhao sitting in his hands, nor were they worth much, so he had simply brought them along to trade for what he needed.
"Rank-one pills... so many of them!" What Vice President Ouyang saw was business opportunity, not the grade of the pills. In a commercial institution like theirs, rank-one pills might be low-grade, but they were still hot-selling goods. So he did not think the pills low-grade in the least—so long as there was profit in it, he was happy. "The pills are no problem. We can take them all. It's just a question of whether we have the medicinal ingredients you need—let's see about that first!"
"Very well!" Wei Zhao nodded and said, "Vice President Ouyang, have a look first, and then we'll talk."
Vice President Ouyang carefully read through the list of ingredients Wei Zhao had brought over, then said, "Of these, only two are rare ingredients and fetch a rather high price. One of them is extremely precious—we have only a single piece in stock. But the quantity you need here is fairly small, so what we have should be enough."
"Oh? You have them all? That's wonderful! Then can I trade these pills of mine for them?" Hearing Vice President Ouyang's words, Wei Zhao was both astonished and delighted, and asked at once.
"You can. In fact, I should say you'll have more than enough—I'm getting the better of you here. But you know as well as I do, that's how barter works. Pills absolutely cannot be valued at their retail price, only at their pawn price. That being so, it comes out just about even..." Vice President Ouyang explained. (To be continued)