Chapter 302: Bargaining
Qin Ran ate something beautifully before following Elder Sun to the place where the pills were stored.
Yesterday’s talk was all gossip, no talk of business, but today it’s time to formally talk about the purchase of the elixir.
Qin Ran and Elder Sun were walking side by side, and as they walked, he suddenly sighed, “Fei Yan is gone, but it’s really uncomfortable.”
“Yes, such a beautiful female child.” Elder Sun followed his words.
Elder Sun knew that Feng Feiyan was the one Qin Ran had killed, so Qin Ran had a shitload of discomfort. He knew that Qin Ran said that, but it was just a starting point, the important thing was what he was going to say right away.
“Previously, the purchase list, accounts, are Feiyan do, this is to do …… yourself,” Qin Ran said, “until their own hands, do not know the difficulties.”
Although he knew that on such occasions, the words of people like Qin Ran could not be trusted in half a word, but hearing Qin Ran say so, Elder Sun was still a bit secretly happy in his heart. Because knowing that it is difficult to do accounts, that means that Qin Ran may not be good at these, which also means that, down the road there is still to operate ……
“This matter is indeed difficult ……” Elder Sun nodded his head, but then falsely asked Qin Ran, “But don’t you have this little friend Yan? Wouldn’t he be able to do the same?”
“Alas!” Qin Ran shook his head and sighed, “Don’t say it, he doesn’t know any more than I do, he has to learn everything from scratch.”
When Yan Yi heard this, he lowered his head in shame.
Elder Sun’s heart was happy and smiled, “Difficult is difficult, but it’s still fine to learn slowly. However, the good thing is that you all come to us for purchasing, our two families have been friends for hundreds of years and already have a practice, yet we won’t owe you anything. The accounts are also good to do.”
“I naturally trust Elder Sun.” Qin Ran nodded his head, but he then frowned, “It’s just that there are some things that are really tricky, and as a novice, I always make mistakes. Let’s say, there are some medicinal herbs that have four or even twelve different prices throughout the year, depending on the season of maturity, and this thing will lead to different prices for pills of the same quality. I wouldn’t be able to handle it.”
Hearing this, Elder Sun slowly came back to his senses, Qin Ran really wasn’t easy goods to deal with.
More than that, let s say that he took over the Dao Jian Sect s pills for hundreds of years, and never said that any kind of pills would have four prices a year …… Qin Ran hid the knife in his words.
However, he was likewise an old fox and knew that this could not be taken hard, and only said, “This is something that Elder Qin but does not need to worry about, our Chi Ginseng Valley has a large reserve of medicinal herbs, which is enough to ensure that the price of each and every type of elixir tends to be stable, and will not change with the external changes. And what we give to your Dao Jian Sect is always the most conscientious price.”
However, Elder Sun didn’t know that Qin Ran was heartbroken about Dao Jian Sect’s annual spending on pills in the Chi Ginseng Valley, and had long since made up his mind to press down on the prices therein today, no matter what he said.
So before Elder Sun’s words fell, he had already pulled out the ledger there, forcing the matter, flipping through the ledger and pointing to a medicine with Elder Sun:
“Let’s say this Heavenly Heart Grass, although it’s a second-grade spirit medicine, it still follows the four seasons of the heavens; it grows in the spring and withers in the fall. That’s why in spring and summer, the price of the Heavenly Heart Grass is four spirit stones or two, but in winter, the price of the Heavenly Heart Grass soars to seven spirit stones or two.
“Tianxin Grass is an indispensable herb for refining the Qi Gathering Pill, so the price of the Qi Gathering Pill also shows a difference between winter and summer. It’s only eighteen spirit stones in the summer, but in the winter it’s already sold for twenty-one spirit stones.”
Qin Ran’s words confused Elder Sun’s disciple, who couldn’t help but ask out loud, “But it’s winter now? The average price of the Qi Gathering Pills we sold you was only twenty, and you still made a profit!”
His chitchat caused Qin Ran’s side to nod repeatedly and smile, turning back to speak with him, ”Right, right, that’s what I meant. Now that each Qi Gathering Pill has been sold at twenty-one spirit stones, you guys from Chi Ginseng Valley are only selling it at twenty spirit stones, you’re losing money. Our two sects are on good terms, letting you guys lose money is always something I can’t bear in my heart.”
This disciple couldn’t help but feel smug in his heart, and was about to say a few more words, but suddenly he saw his own master staring at him sorrowfully, he couldn’t help but be shocked, and he couldn’t say the words that were on the edge of his mouth.
“Hey …… a little loss is a little loss!” Stopping his disciple from talking nonsense, Elder Sun hurriedly laughed with Qin Ran, “We’ve been friends for a hundred years, there’s no need to say something about outsiders.”
“There’s a saying in my hometown that says that blood brothers are careful. This kind of matter involving belongings cannot be done without carefulness.” Qin Ran earnestly said, he was not as quick as Elder Sun to speak and pointed at another herb, “Look Elder, this is the Condensed White Fruit. It blossoms in the spring, bears fruit in the fall, and is only picked in the winter. That’s why this fruit also exhibits winter and summer anisotropy.
“When there were fewer in the summer, it could be sold for ten spirit stones a piece; when there were more in the winter, it couldn’t be sold for ten spirit stones a catty.
“The Condensed White Fruit is an important herb for refining the Barrier Breaking Pill, and in doing so, it affects the price of the Barrier Breaking Pill. It is rumored that ……”
The more Qin Ran said, the uglier Elder Sun’s face became, and by the time Qin Ran reached the price, the frost around him could already be felt.
“It is rumored that the market price of the Barrier Breaking Dan can sell for two hundred spirit stones a piece in summer, but in winter ……” Qin Ran, however, did not care about Elder Sun, and said on his own, “It should rightly sell for one hundred spirit stones a piece in winter. ”
“One hundred spirit stones?!” That disciple couldn’t help but be shocked out again and coldly snorted, “Are you not talking in your sleep?”
Regardless of whether it was winter or summer, the price for the Dao Jian Sect to buy a lower-grade Barrier Breaking Pill from the Zhi Ginseng Valley was two hundred spirit stones, and it hadn’t changed for years. If the price changed in spring and summer, how much less would they have to earn?
“You don’t need to be terrified …… afterbirth,” Qin Ran smiled and comforted him, “This seat is just based on market research, say something truthful.”
Well, posthumously, Elder Sun’s disciples are at least a hundred years old.
“Elder Sun, look, there’s also this Ice Mountain Snow Lotus ……”
Qin Ran was still about to introduce with Elder Sun some medicinal herbs that had different prices in winter and summer, or whose prices had been lowered in recent times due to a variety of reasons, but Elder Sun suddenly reached over and pressed his hand on his ledger.
Elder Sun’s face was extremely ugly because if he let Qin Ran continue to talk like this, he would have to lose over a million spirit stones this time.
With bloodshot eyes, he stared at Qin Ran and said, “Name a number.”
“We ……” Qin Ran just pretended not to understand and continued, “It’s still standard.”
“Eighty percent off!” Elder Sun gritted his teeth.
“Elder Sun, you look at a blood python relic ……”
“Sixty percent off!”
Qin Ran collected the ledger and nodded, “Deal.”
In fact, he did not dare to force too deep, after all, the Chi Ginseng Valley side is engaged in the Dan Dan monopoly, really forced the emergency, do not sell Dan Dan to him, he also had to be stupid. See the good thing to accept.
What’s more …… he knows the principle of boarding thresholds, this time it can be 60% off, then next time it can be 50% off, and then the next time, everyone will just follow the standard market rules ……
“Whew!” Elder Sun let out a sigh of relief.