Jiang Luohan Regrets It A Little

Although Zhang Heng was in a frantic state, he forced himself to maintain his composure in front of Jiang Luohan and managed a smile. "Don't worry, Luohan Jie, I'll handle this small matter. How many do you need? I'll have someone fetch them right away."

He quickly calculated in his mind. The stock of high-quality Qi Nurturing Pills in the storeroom might not be high, but it shouldn't be a problem to spare a few dozen. He could deal with it for now and replenish them later when things improved.

Jiang Luohan's face showed satisfaction upon hearing this, and she said matter-of-factly:

"Before, Zhang Yu used to give me two pills on average every day to help with my cultivation, all to please me.

You should prepare three months' worth for me based on that standard."

"Two pills a day? Three months?"

The smile on Zhang Heng's face froze instantly. He wondered if he had misheard. "Luohan Jie, are you saying... Zhang Yu gave you two Qi Nurturing Pills every day for a full three years?"

"That's right."

Jiang Luohan nodded, her tone as casual as if she were discussing the most ordinary of matters.

"He started giving them to me not long after he returned to the estate and never stopped until he was imprisoned. The quality was always excellent and greatly benefited me."

"Two pills a day... two pills a day..."

Zhang Heng repeated subconsciously, his mind racing. Combining this with the pill costs and selling prices he had seen on Dingsheng Workshop's accounts today, a number that made his scalp tingle quickly surfaced.

The price for a top-grade Qi Nurturing Pill was 800 taels externally, with a cost of around 400 taels.

Even at cost price...

Two pills a day amounted to 800 taels in cost!

Thirty days a month meant 24,000 taels in cost!

Twelve months a year meant 288,000 taels in cost!

Three years... amounted to 864,000 taels in cost!!

If calculated at the selling price, three years would be 1.73 million taels of silver!!

Zhang Heng felt a surge of heat rush to his head, his vision blurring, and a suffocating pressure building in his chest.

While he had known that Zhang Yu had given Jiang Luohan many gifts and incurred huge debts, those numbers had been abstract.

Now, as he truly began to engage in business, gaining a more concrete understanding of money and resources, and hearing the details of "two pills a day for three years," he finally grasped the suffocating extravagance and foolishness of it all!

"Zhang Yu, that prodigal son, that idiot."

Zhang Heng finally couldn't help but roar in a low voice, his voice distorted by shock and anger.

"A pill worth 800 taels, that's 48,000 taels a month, and over a million taels in three years.

He just... just gave them away like candy?

Does he even know what that money could do?

How many armies could it support?

How many businesses could it establish?"

He simply couldn't comprehend it. Zhang Yu was merely an unfavored "useless" Eldest Young Master of the Marquis Estate, so where did all this money come from?

Even if he had some hidden means, spending it like this was too outrageous.

No wonder he could owe the Wang Family hundreds of thousands of taels in debt.

This was simply a foolish person who knew nothing but how to please women.

In fact, Zhang Heng and Jiang Luohan should be grateful. Grateful that Zhang Yu's Qi Nurturing Pills were delivered every three days, making the accounts too fragmented for him to communicate with the Wang Family in time and issue exorbitant IOUs.

Otherwise, if this over a million taels were written into an IOU, it would be enough to bankrupt the Marquis Estate.

Zhang Heng's loss of composure caused Jiang Luohan to frown slightly. She felt Zhang Heng's reaction was a bit excessive.

In her eyes, Zhang Yu giving her pills was only natural, it was his duty to "please" her.

As for how much money was spent, that was Zhang Yu's business, what did it have to do with her?

Now that Zhang Heng was in charge of Dingsheng Workshop, wasn't it natural for him to provide some pills for his future wife?

Why make such a fuss, even resorting to harsh words?

"Heng Di,"

Jiang Luohan's tone turned slightly cold as she reminded him, "Watch your words. What Zhang Yu was like is in the past.

Now that Dingsheng Workshop is under your management, can it not even supply this small amount of pills?"

Zhang Heng was jolted awake by Jiang Luohan's slightly displeased tone, realizing he had lost his composure.

He quickly suppressed the storm raging in his heart and the heartache, forcing a smile that looked more like a grimace than a smile.

"Luohan Jie misunderstood. I... I was just momentarily stunned by the sheer extravagance of that fool Zhang Yu.

Supplying you for your cultivation is, of course, only right."

He said this, but his heart felt like it was bleeding.

Three months, 180 top-grade Qi Nurturing Pills, which at cost price would be 72,000 taels.

Dingsheng Workshop is currently facing a crisis, where every cent and every pill is extremely precious.

But the words had already left his mouth, and for the sake of his pride, he couldn't refuse.

"Shopkeeper Qian."

Zhang Heng gritted his teeth and ordered the Shopkeeper Qian, who was standing by, "Go, retrieve one hundred and eighty of the highest quality Qi Nurturing Pills from the storeroom and pack them for Miss Jiang."

"Young... Young Master,"

Shopkeeper Qian approached with a troubled expression and whispered, "The storeroom's... high-quality Qi Nurturing Pill inventory, because the Earth Fire has been unstable these past few days making refining difficult, coupled with fulfilling orders for several old customers, is already... already less than fifty pills.

And future replenishment... I'm afraid it won't keep up either."

"What?"

Zhang Heng's face grew even uglier.

He hadn't expected the situation to be this dire, to the point where he couldn't even gather one hundred and eighty pills.