Su Guohua's head buzzed. He was utterly dumbfounded.
A thousand-year-old... what?
Seeing his blank expression, Zhou Yun roared, "Do you have any idea how much this is worth?! At Guardian's autumn auction in Longdu last year, Li Bancheng of Hong Kong Island paid thirty-six million for an eight-hundred-year-old Wild Mountain Ginseng!"
"The one in front of you is at least four hundred years older! Its medicinal potency is on another level!"
"This is a priceless treasure that can prolong life! You couldn't buy it even if you had the money! If word got out, the entire traditional medicine community of the Dragon Kingdom would go mad!!"
Thirty-six million?!
For one that was only eight hundred years old?!
Su Guohua felt as though a sledgehammer had struck the top of his skull. Stars burst before his eyes, and his legs went weak. He nearly slid off his chair.
Yesterday, he had casually tossed a treasure worth at least fifty million into a storage cabinet? And called it a rotten tree root?
Beside him, Su Wanning was stunned speechless too.
Her face had gone deathly pale, and her own words from yesterday kept echoing through her mind.
"That rotten tree root? Did you just dig it up on some mountain? What a joke."
Her cheeks burned as if pressed against hot coals. She wished the ground would open up and swallow her!
But it wasn't over yet.
As if possessed, Zhou Yun snatched up the second box and flipped open its lid.
When she saw the dark red, translucent "bird nests" inside, her pupils contracted sharply once more!
"My God..."
A moan escaped her, dreamlike and close to tears.
"Golden-Thread Blood Bird's Nest... No, this isn't ordinary Blood Bird's Nest... That color, that texture... This is the legendary Dragon Saliva Blood Bird's