Chapter 41: Who Wins and Who Loses

  As time passed by, more and more people gathered around, soon surrounding this place with three layers inside and out.

  Zhang Wei looked at the situation in front of him and understood that it was impossible to continue picking up leaks. However, he also picked up four precious medicinal materials, and if calculated with the value of Blood Lingzhi, it had already exceeded the number of Golden Tail Teng purchases.

  His eyes scanned over the shopping bag in Gu Xingyue's hand, and he suddenly looked at Hou Tianpeng and said, "Hou Lao, let's leave here first!"

  Hou Tianfang at this time listened to Zhang Yi's words, as if he was listening to an imperial edict. He hastily nodded and said: "Everything is up to you, wherever you go, I'll follow!"

  Five minutes later.

  The shopkeeper of Bai WeiTang looked at Hou Tianfang, Gu Xinyue and old acquaintance Zhong Haitao who were following behind Zhang Yi with a strange expression.

  "Old Hou, when did you arrive? How come you're with them?" The old shopkeeper asked in surprise.

  Found the Blood Spirit Mushroom, Hou Tianfang was overjoyed, so his smile was exceptionally radiant. Smiling, he replied: "I heard that there's a medicinal material conference these few days, so I rushed over to try my luck, hoping to find the Blood Spirit Mushroom. Didn't expect that as soon as I arrived at this medicinal market, I saw Young Master Zhang Yi holding the Blood Spirit Mushroom, so I followed him here."

  The old shopkeeper's eyes widened in an instant, staring at Zhang Yi in horror and exclaiming in a voiceless cry:

  "Do you have cordyceps?"

  Zhang Yi smiled and said: "I was lucky, I picked it up at a stall."

  "Hiss..."

  The old shopkeeper couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air.

  Reishi mushroom!

  That is a precious medicinal material in traditional Chinese medicine, which is rare and pitifully scarce.

  He...

  Does he know Xue Lingzhi?

  Found it?

  He swallowed hard, and the old shopkeeper's shock had already stunned him into a daze.

  Guxin Yue beside him also had a complex look in her bright eyes, no doubt about it, she lost the bet with Zhang Yi, and she lost thoroughly.

  Even so, she was very unwilling and resentful in her heart, thinking that Zhang Yi had good luck to find the Blood Lingzhi, while she found two precious medicinal materials!

  Hou Tianfang shook his head and said: "This is not good luck, this is strength. As the saying goes: Grass can't hide the eagle's eyes, water can't hide the fish's eyes."

  The old shopkeeper slowly came back to his senses from the shock, and said with a face full of approval: "That's right, eyes don't recognize treasures, and lingzhi is treated as a weed. This is one kind of manifestation of strength."

  Zhang Yi smiled faintly and turned his head to look at Gu Xin Yue, opening his mouth to ask: "The bet between us, is it still on?"

  Arrogant! Overbearing!

  It's just good luck to have found the Blood Spirit Mushroom, a valuable medicine worth a city. What's so great about that? Hmph... You know you've already won, but you're still being petty with me, are you even a man?

  Gu Xinyue's heart was filled with great anger and her face turned as cold as frost.

  "Alright, I admit you win."

  Zhang Yi shook his head and said, "I think you misunderstood my meaning. Since the Blood Spirit Mushroom is to be given to Old Hou for treating his wife's illness, I won't count it in, nor can I sell it to Bai WeiTang again. I'll use other medicinal materials I've gathered to bet with you."

  He was clear in his mind that if he didn't sell the Blood Lingzhi, it would be difficult to make up the 5.88 million. Since Gu Xin Yue acknowledged the bet as valid, once Bai WeiTang gave a fixed price for the three medicinal materials later, the difference would need to be made up by Gu Xin Yue.

  Other medicinal materials?

  Gu Xinyue's eyes widened in surprise and she exclaimed: "You've even managed to get your hands on other medicinal herbs?"

  Zhang Yi's expression was calm and unruffled as he smiled lightly: "Isn't that right, are you going to take out the medicinal herbs you found first or should I?"

  A surge of anger suddenly emerged from the bottom of Gu Xinyue's heart, she felt that today was really too unlucky, compared to Zhang Yi who came late to Bai WeiTang, and the result was that JinweiTeng was booked by him.

  When he was gambling, his luck was so good that he even picked up the rare and precious Blood Spirit Mushroom. Moreover, from what she heard, it seemed like he had also picked up other medicinal materials. This made the emotions that were suppressed in her heart suddenly erupt. With a hint of discontent, she said in a low voice: "I'll go first."

  Zhang Yi shrugged and smiled: "Please!"

  The old man looked at the shopkeeper, took out a red-hearted lotus and an ink stick from his shopping bag, handed them over and said: "This red-hearted lotus, I spent 2,000 yuan to get it, the ink stick cost 600 yuan, a total of 2,600. Shopkeeper, we are old acquaintances, I trust you, so can you help me price it?"

  The old shopkeeper nodded slowly, after a moment of observation, and said: "Red heart lotus is not bad medicine material, it has a very good effect on treating heart disease. The market price I can offer is 12 million. Ink bamboo is more precious than red heart lotus, for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it has a magical curative effect. The price I can offer is 24 million. The total value of these two medicine materials is 36 million."

  Zhang Yi silently calculated the prices of the other three medicinal materials he had obtained, and when he heard the old shopkeeper announce the total value of the two medicinal materials Gu Xin Yue had obtained, he secretly let out a sigh of relief.

  Gu Xinyue seemed extremely satisfied with today's harvest, with a hint of arrogance in her tone. She glanced at Zhang Yi and said disdainfully: "It's your turn now! I'd like to see what else you can dig up besides the Blood Spirit Mushroom."

  Alas!

  Arrogant woman!

  Zhang Yi mentally defined Gu Xin Yue, then took out three Qingyun fruits; a Xiangyun grass, and eight pink Xiyang flowers. With a faint smile, he said: "Boss, I bought these three Qingyun fruits for 5,500 yuan; this Xiangyun grass was bought for 1,200 yuan; and these eight Xiyang flowers were bought for 128 yuan. Please evaluate the price! If it's reasonable, I'll sell them to you."

  He didn't take out the three pieces of Zi Jin Ye, because the Zi Jin Ye from an 800-year-old Zi Jin tree was truly too valuable. This treasure should be kept for future use.

  As Zhang Yi took out the three precious medicinal materials in one breath, Gu Xin Yue suddenly became stunned, as if she didn't dare to believe her eyes. She raised her arm and rubbed it, and when her vision cleared again, she realized that she wasn't seeing things, and Zhang Yi had indeed found the three precious medicinal materials.

  More than yourself?

  How is this possible?

  He's so young, looks even younger than me, how can he be that capable?

  The old shopkeeper, Hou Tianfang, and Zhong Haitao, who had followed him, all showed a strange expression in their eyes. They glanced at Gu Xinyue without leaving any trace, each of them secretly sighing in their hearts.

  "After the old shopkeeper finished appraising, he slowly said: 'Three Qingyun fruits, one is 500,000, three are 1.5 million; a hundred-year-old Xiangyun grass, 12 million; Huayang flowers, market price per flower is 3 million, eight flowers are 24 million. The total value of these three medicinal materials is 51 million. Are you satisfied with the price I quoted, young brother?'"

  Zhang Yi nodded heavily and said straightforwardly: "Satisfied, I'll sell it to you."

  As he spoke, he directly pulled out his bank card and said again: "Shopkeeper, previously I sold you a withered bone grass for 4.5 million, plus this 51 million, that's a total of 55.5 million. The difference from buying the golden tail orchid is still 3.3 million, right?"

  The old shopkeeper nodded with a smile: "That's right."

  Zhang Yi turned his head and looked at Gu Xinyue with a smile that was not quite a smile, saying: "Miss Gu, I know you're a rich person, 330,000 yuan is just a drop in the bucket for you, but it's very important to me. So, this 330,000 yuan still needs to come out of your own pocket!"

  Gu Xinyue was so angry at Zhang Yi's words that her nose almost crooked.

  At this moment, if there was a crack in the ground, she would have liked to crawl into it.

  How embarrassing!

  It's really too embarrassing!

  She has never been so embarrassed since she was a child.

  She stormed over to the person's place, proposed a bet, and ended up losing miserably. She felt her face burning with shame.

  Glaring at Zhang Yi's seemingly smiling yet not quite smiling expression, Gu Xin Yue's small fist clenched involuntarily, her voice almost seeping out from between her teeth: "I concede defeat wholeheartedly, 330,000, I'll pay. Shopkeeper, all the medicinal materials I've gathered, sell them to you, deduct 330,000, and deposit the rest into my account!"

  The old shopkeeper looked at Gu Xinyue's appearance and knew that the girl must be angry and frustrated to the extreme, so he sighed secretly and didn't say much, proceeding with the transaction directly.

  Ten minutes later.

  Thirty-three million seven hundred thousand has been transferred into Gu Xinyue's account.

  The 450,000 yuan on Zhang Yi's card was then transferred back to the old shopkeeper's account, and what was handed over to Zhang Yi was that golden-tailed wisteria.

  "Little brother, the blue is out of the blue and wins over the blue! In a short time, you can earn enough money to buy a golden tail, great!" The old shopkeeper gave Zhang Yi a thumbs up, his eyes full of praise.

  Zhang Yi smiled and said: "It's just luck, I didn't expect it either. The stalls area actually had so many precious medicinal materials, but they were ignored by those medicine merchants."

  The old shopkeeper shook his head and said, "This isn't luck. You can pick out the rare and precious medicinal herbs from among the tens of millions in the market stalls. This is real ability, absolute ability. I don't have many people that I admire, but you're one of them."

  Hou Tianfang hastily said, "Right, right, right! Moreover, you even recognize the Blood Spirit Mushroom, which is simply too amazing. I have consulted with some Chinese medicine masters before, and they told me that in the entire Chinese medicine community, there are less than three people who can identify the Blood Spirit Mushroom. And yet, young brother, you actually recognize it - this is absolute strength."

  Zhong Haitao had been silent all along, and at this moment, he couldn't help but nod his head in admiration: "I also admire it with all my might! In recent years, many people have been searching for this Blood Lingzhi, but I didn't expect that you, little brother, would be able to find it from a pile of medicinal materials. It's too amazing!"

  Zhang Yi smiled wryly and said, "Everyone, please stop flattering me! I'm young and lack self-control. If you continue to praise me like this, I'm afraid I'll become dizzy with pride."

  Gu Xinyue was very dissatisfied with Zhang Yi's attitude and snorted: "I think you're calm on the surface, but your heart is already floating!"

  Zhang Yi's expression froze, and he was speechless in his heart.

  However, he did not want to provoke Gu Xin Yue, because God had said: the person who bleeds every month but does not die is the most powerful.

  And Gu Xinyue was precisely this kind of person.

  Woman...