"Oh? Is it difficult? Do you need any special medicinal herbs or treasures? Tell me, and I'll do my best to gather them for you," Huang Xiao asked, his brows stirring.
Chen Jiao shook his head. "It isn't very difficult, and I don't need any particularly special herbs, just some ordinary ones. I should be able to gather them all if I look through a few more medicine shops. It's just..."
"What's the problem? Tell me."
"These herbs are rather expensive, and I don't have enough silver on me," Chen Jiao said quietly.
"How could I let you bear the expense? How much do you need?" Huang Xiao asked.
"I still need to experiment first, so I won't need too many herbs for now. It's just that some of them are rather expensive, so I think I'll still need a hundred thousand taels," Chen Jiao said.
Hearing this, Huang Xiao felt relieved.
Anything that could be bought with silver hardly qualified as a truly rare treasure. Treasures of that sort could only be obtained through barter.
When Chen Jiao said he lacked money, Huang Xiao had thought he needed a vast sum this time. If the amount was too great, he had nowhere to find that much silver for him right now.
Fortunately, it was only a hundred thousand taels, and he had that much on him. Even without counting what Liu Jinyi and Liu Yu of the Transcendent Immortal Escort Agency had given him, he had found quite a few gold notes and silver plaques after killing that lower steward from Imperial Remnant Manor. There was more than enough for a hundred thousand taels.
Huang Xiao turned his hand over and handed the gold notes and silver plaques in his palm to Chen Jiao.
Chen Jiao briefly looked through