Forensic Imperial Concubine novel Chapter 728

"That's great! It has been a while since the last time I encounter a great buyer like you. Please follow me, madam." The shopkeeper clapped his hands and burst into laughter.

Glancing at Matthew, Harper then followed the shopkeeper into the backyard. The mansion consisted of a storefront with warehouses and living space in the back. After the shopkeeper brought them directly into the innermost part of the warehouse, he opened the door and said, "Feel free to look around and see if there's anything you want inside."

As Harper roamed around, she noticed that there were a lot of shelves with various kinds of boxes on them.

"Some of the medicinal materials can't be mixed together. Some are poisonous, and some are not, so we have to store them in separate specially made boxes. Otherwise, the medicinal materials will lose their effects. Each box has a label that states the function of the medicinal material inside it. You can choose the ones you like."

As Harper walked inside, Matthew simply stood at the door and waited. Harper carefully examined the medicinal herbs with the shopkeeper following her closely behind. Whenever Harper focused her attention on a specific box, the shopkeeper would tell her the name, price, and effect of the medicinal herb inside it right away.

Harper simply nodded her head without telling him whether she would buy them or not. Despite that, the shopkeeper seemed patient enough to tell her all he knew.

After a while, Harper finally finished scanning all the boxes and got a rough idea of all the materials they could offer. With that, the shopkeeper asked, "Madam, which medicinal herbs have you taken a fancy to?"

"I like all of them. Make a price," Harper said in a flat tone.

Left a bit dumbfounded, the shopkeeper asked, "Madam, do you mean you want to buy all of them?"

"Yes, I want all of them."

"All the herbs that we have here are precious. Meaning to say, they are all very expensive. If you want to buy everything, you're going to need to spend a large amount of money. Take this herb as an example. A single plant already costs five hundred taels of silver, let alone the other rare herbs."

"A hundred thousand taels of silver. Is that enough?" Harper showed him a bank note worth such amount of money and put it on the table. "Don't tell me you think it's not enough."

The shopkeeper wanted to raise the price, but then, he thought of the fact that it wouldn't be easy to fool Harper. After all, she could tell all of the medicinal materials in the tea just by taking a sip. From that, he concluded that she was not a simple person. So, he had better not offend her.

"Madam, that's too little. You're going to need to pay me at least this much." The shopkeeper raised three fingers.

When she heard this, Harper squinted her eyes and thought, 'He wants three hundred thousand taels of silver? He's asking for such an unreasonable amount. The medicinal herbs in this place should, at most, only be worth a hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver, but he's asking for twice that amount.'

"I can offer one hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver at most," Harper replied.

"Madam, believe me. They are really worth three hundred thousand taels of silver." A peculiar grin appeared on the shopkeeper's face as Harper looked at him without saying anything.