Chapter 3249 — Digging Two Big Pits
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So even though Wei Zhao knew perfectly well that the Right family had a third-grade medicinal cauldron in their possession, he made no move to seize it. For him, this was a matter of personal principle.
"Right Panhu, I hear your family has quite a few medicinal cauldrons?" Wei Zhao asked, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"Ah? There's only one third-grade cauldron..." Right Panhu started in fright and blurted out without thinking.
"I didn't ask about third-grade ones. You've got plenty of second-grade ones, haven't you?" Wei Zhao said.
"Second-grade? Oh, yes, we have a great many of those." Right Panhu breathed a sigh of relief. He had no idea what Wei Zhao was getting at, but so long as Wei Zhao did not want the third-grade cauldron, all was well. The second-grade ones did not matter much—they were hardly cheap to make, but they could not even be mentioned in the same breath as the third-grade.
"How many?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Several dozen, I'd say. Boss Wei Zhao, what do you want them for?" Right Panhu was baffled. He could not fathom why Wei Zhao cared about the number of second-grade cauldrons.
"Oh, sell them all to me," Wei Zhao said.
"Sell them to you? What do you want to buy second-grade cauldrons for?" Right Panhu was all the more puzzled. What use could Wei Zhao have for so many second-grade cauldrons? "Boss Wei Zhao, if you need one or two, I'll just give them to you. Buying this many is pointless—it's not as though these things break easily, is it?"
"Why so much blather? Are you selling or not? One word!" Wei Zhao frowned.
Seeing Wei Zhao frown, Right Panhu thought, This is bad—surely he isn't angry? At that thought, he had no choice but to say, "Sell, of course I'll sell. These aren't exactly rare goods. In fact, Xuandan Sect has consigned quite a few second-grade cauldrons to the cultivators' guild. Their asking price is fifty million each. Just give me the cost price of thirty million apiece..."
Here Right Panhu glanced cautiously at Wei Zhao. Thirty million was indeed the cost price—it was the very price the Right family had paid Xuandan Sect. Right Panhu truly did not dare open his mouth too wide with Wei Zhao. Yet even as he refrained from naming a high price, he feared that Wei Zhao might not even pay the thirty million. In truth, if Wei Zhao refused to pay at all, he would simply have to accept it. Who would dare provoke Wei Zhao?
"Thirty million, then. Fine. How many do you have?" Wei Zhao did not haggle. After all, thirty million was fairly cheap for such an item, at least compared with the price at which he sold his own second-grade automatic cauldrons.
"A little over thirty, I think. Boss Wei Zhao, why don't you give me a billion and I'll hand them all over to you? That should cover thirty-five or thirty-six of them." Seeing that Wei Zhao had not bargained, Right Panhu breathed another sigh of relief and voluntarily rounded the sum down for him.
"Done." Wei Zhao nodded. "Tell your people at home. I'll send Wu Chengtian over to collect them right now."
"Oh, right." Right Panhu nodded and hurried off to call home.
Kang Jinglong, meanwhile, stood to one side without saying a single word. His brow was slightly furrowed. What use could Wei Zhao possibly have for so many second-grade cauldrons? As Kang Jinglong saw it, there was no chance Wei Zhao meant to use them himself; he could not possibly need that many.
If not for his own use, then to resell? But this market had always been controlled by Xuandan Sect. If Wei Zhao bought them and then resold them, where was the profit? Unless... it had something to do with the first-grade automatic cauldrons? Were they meant for developing a second-grade automatic cauldron?
Only research could consume so many cauldrons. Otherwise, if they were used merely for refining pills, they would never wear out.