"Okay!" Nong Chun was already thoroughly impressed with Jiang Ning and nodded without questioning further upon hearing her.
After keeping two rabbits, seven remained.
Nong Chun, carrying the seven rabbits, approached Ling Bo and the others, and, sure enough, after the morning’s ground squirrel and rabbits, everyone was prepared to accept the price of 20 million, except for Mu Mingxuan’s party of three, who were visibly indignant and voiced their displeasure, "Why should we pay 40 million!"
Ling Bo, Jian Tiantian, Yuan Wei, and Lin Qi each bought a rabbit, and it seemed they had already agreed to not split the cooking this time since there were enough rabbits; everyone would eat their own. So, if Mu Mingxuan’s trio didn’t buy, they’d have nothing to eat.
But one rabbit at 40 million, three rabbits... 1.2 billion!
If you add this morning’s meal, the sheer cost of nearly 1.4 billion for just two meals!
Even as the heir to the Huo Corporation, Mu Mingxuan didn’t have that much liquid funds at his disposal. Though the three of them could pool the amount together, spending 1.4 billion just to eat a few rabbits? Clearly not worth it.
Mu Mingxuan had never encountered such robbery before in his life!
Jiang Ning was treating them like pigs for slaughter. Even rabbits carved out of gold wouldn’t be this expensive!
Mu Mingxuan, watching Jiang Ning approaching, repressed his inner resentment and said, "Jiang Ning, aren’t these rabbits of yours priced a bit too high? Why do the other guests have to pay only 20 million when we have to spend 40 million?"
"Fixed price, take it or leave it." Jiang Ning looked at Mu Mingxuan with a smile that was not quite a smile, "The Mu Family’s young master can’t be lacking this bit of money, can he?"
Mu Mingxuan felt like he was about to explode with anger. Taking a deep breath and keeping a stern face, he retorted, "Of course I have it, but why should I spend so much money on these worthless things!"
"It’s up to you," Jiang Ning said with a shrug and then said to Nong Chun, "Take any unsold rabbits back home."
The implication being, they would rather throw them away than give them to you!
Watching Jiang Ning’s indifferent departure, Mu Mingxuan couldn’t understand and turned to ask Huo Ziheng, "How did she become ?"
"I don’t know." Huo Ziheng shook his head wearily, "This is how she’s been since getting discharged from the hospital."
"Are you buying or not? If you’re not, I’m putting them back," Nong Chun reminded, since he still had to prepare lunch!
Mu Mingxuan clenched his teeth, "Then just one."
They themselves couldn’t catch any other prey, and if they didn’t eat, they would have no energy to continue traveling this afternoon. If anything happened, dying in the forest was a real possibility.
"We’ll take all three!" Huo Miao suddenly spoke up from the side.
Mu Mingxuan and Huo Ziheng were only planning to buy one or two each; although they were rich heirs, they actually didn’t have much liquid cash on hand.
Startled by Huo Miao’s voice, both of them looked at her with incredulous expressions, signaling with their eyes.
But Huo Miao acted as if she hadn’t seen their looks, reaching out to take the bag of rabbits from Nong Chun’s hand.
"Remember to return this bag to me later," Nong Chun reminded.
This was the bag he used for carrying tents.
Huo Miao nodded perfunctorily, she didn’t care for just a bag.
After Nong Chun had left, Mu Mingxuan and Huo Ziheng both looked at Huo Miao with disapproval, "Miaomiao, buying three is too much."
Huo Ziheng nodded, "40 million a rabbit, three for 1.2 billion..."
Their combined assets didn’t even amount to so much.
"Or return one or two back," they suggested.
"What’s the big deal, it’s not like we wrote an IOU or need to pay Jiang Ning right now," Huo Miao whispered conspiratorially to the two, lowering her voice so only the three of them could hear, "Jiang Ning just wants us to show her screenshots of donations. I have a way; you don’t need to worry, you won’t have to pay this money."
[What is Huo Miao talking about?]
[Goodness, so you can still whisper —and we seriously can’t hear a thing... Outrageous]
[But Jiang Ning really knows how to fleece people, making 2 billion in a day... It’s just a ground squirrel and eight rabbits, the prices are outrageously inflated, this has got to be illegal, right?]