I'm Afraid You Can't Afford It

"Buy it all?" Li Botong turned to look at Six Eyes.

"That's right!" Six Eyes nodded. "We'll take it all. However much you have, we'll buy it."

Though Li Botong felt uneasy after hearing Six Eyes's confirmation, he didn't hesitate. He cupped his hands toward the young man standing in front of the shop beneath the boxes. "Since your employer has shown us such favor, we won't stand on ceremony. We'll take it!"

"We'll take it!"

The shopkeepers shouted in unison. The shop assistants immediately poured out the door and carried the silver eggs from the boxes into the shop, one by one.

These twenty-four silver eggs were a special form of savings unique to money houses. Breaking open each one yielded twenty thousand nether coins.

Twenty-four silver eggs came to four hundred and eighty thousand nether coins.

It was no small sum, but after a quick calculation, Li Botong felt much more at ease.

At the prices they'd set, that money could only clear out all the best-selling goods in the display cases. It wouldn't even touch the stock in the warehouse.

As they watched the twenty-four silver eggs being brought inside, Jingqi Pavilion didn't seem to make so much as a ripple. The onlookers began whispering among themselves.

"Four hundred and eighty thousand nether coins! With that kind of money, why doesn't Fusheng Money House just open its own shop? Why go to all this trouble?"

"What do you know? You couldn't buy a location like Jingqi Pavilion's for four hundred and eighty thousand—not even for a million. And is this really about buying the shop? They're obviously trying to crush them with money. Once the shop is theirs, so are your goods. Even if you try to start over somewhere else, they can just keep throwing money