"Auntie, I don't know if there's something wrong with your head, or if you think there's something wrong with my head?"
Hearing her words, Ning Hong's eyes turned cold. "Everyone in this village knows what happened to Qian Duo in my family. Ten taels of silver. You just used your words to exchange the dying Qian Duo for ten taels of silver, and now you want to use ten taels of silver to take back the living Qian Duo that we raised. Do you really think we're fools?"
"If you want to take more money, then give me back the money we spent on treating her illness and conditioning her body."
"How much money could that be—"
"This, I picked a hundred-year-old ginseng on the mountain, and used it all on Qian Duo. There are also two Ganoderma lucidum and some medicinal herbs. All in all, it's worth at least two hundred taels of silver."
"Two hundred taels of silver?"
Mrs. Qian was stunned. How could this be? "Are you kidding me?"
"Of course not."
The price of 200 taels is somewhat inflated, since the herbs were all picked from deep in the mountains. However, if he were to actually sell them, the price would certainly be higher.
"Go, bring out the soup we made for Qian Duo today, so that your future mother-in-law, with whom you've already severed ties, can see it."
Ning Anuo nodded and brought out a bowl of soup from the room. "Take a look for yourself. Today it's ginseng chicken soup. We didn't lie to you."
The strong smell of ginseng stimulated Qian Mu's nose.
It's real ginseng! They actually paid extra to eat such good stuff, what a waste!
Qian's mother wanted to say something more, but she couldn't say anything.
She swallowed hard, then turned and left.
Dealing with someone like Qian Mu is much simpler; just talking won't get you anywhere.
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