"Don't put it that way!" Chu Chen waved his hand. "I can settle this, but I'll have to use my connections. You know as well as I do that favors are hard to repay these days!"
Ma Xiaoqiang, who was standing nearby, deeply sympathized with Chu Chen. If he hadn't owed Old Ma a favor, how could he have helped Old Ma "handle" this matter? At this point, all he could do was pray that Old Ma and his group could leave Wucheng safely. Otherwise, if they were arrested, he would inevitably be charged as an accomplice. That would be incredibly unlucky.
Ignoring Ma Xiaoqiang's sighing and lamenting, Old Ma chuckled after hearing Chu Chen's words. "Young Master Chu, since that's the case, I can't let you suffer a loss, can I? How about this? I'll give you a discounted price for these things. Seven million in total. What do you think?"
Under normal circumstances, selling these things for seven million would have meant that Chu Chen had gotten an incredible bargain. But the reality was that none of these things had been obtained legitimately. If the four items were still priced according to their market value under such circumstances, it would be nothing more than a joke.
So Chu Chen immediately chopped the price down by more than half. "I think two million should be about right."
"Young Master Chu, that price is a little too low. No matter how you calculate it, these items are worth more than that..."
After that, the two sides haggled back and forth. In the end, the deal was settled at four and a half million.
Old Ma was dissatisfied, but the price still reached his psychological bottom line. Besides, he had felt that something was wrong these past two days. This price