Chapter 81: Included Them

Hearing the lady at the counter, Li Jinglan and Pan Ru raised their heads and saw that Shen Chengjing was actually here and wanted to buy the blood ginseng.

“A kept woman dares to buy blood ginseng in the open? It seems that the money she gets from selling her body is indeed a lot.” Li Jinglan had suffered a loss from her, and consequently, her words were unusually harsh.

Pan Ru picked up the blood ginseng and tried to break it in the middle.

The salesgirl looked at the two shrew-like ladies and exchanged glances with another salesgirl. This was the first time she had seen such a thing.

“Madam, you can’t do this! This blood ginseng is a precious medicinal ingredient in our shop. If you continue to do this, we will call the police.”

The Salesgirl went forward to persuade her, afraid that she would get tangled in this matter. The goods were about 80,000 yuan which equaled two years of her salary. They couldn’t eat anymore if they did not say anything.

“Get lost.” Pan Ru pushed the Salesgirl away forcefully and broke the blood ginseng. She put it there and observed how much Shen Chengjing wanted it.

Shen Chengjing just quietly watched the two of them talk. She kept silent, but a hint of craftiness flashed in her eyes.

“I’ll take it for 82,000.” She raised the price.

The Salesgirl was dumbfounded. She was willing to pay 2,000 more for the ginseng?

“I’ll pay 82,001,” Li Jinglan said, trying to pretend to be rich. She did not want Shen Chengjing to get her way.

“I’ll pay 8…”

Before Shen Chengjing had a chance to finish her sentence, Pan Ru stuck out her chest and stepped forward. “I’ll pay 85,000.”

Shen Chengjing played with her phone as she said to the lady at the counter, “Please help this madam pack it up. 85,000, thank you.”

“You, you…” Pan Ru was so angry that she could not breathe for a moment.

The lady at the counter didn’t know what was going on. She didn’t know whether she should actually pack up the things or not.

“What? Don’t you want to earn money? Madam has a lot of money. At least she’s doing a good deed. If you don’t do what she wants, she won’t be happy,” Shen Chengjing continued.

“Oh, okay.”

When the lady at the counter heard that, she skillfully picked up the blood ginseng that had been broken into two and went to pack it up.

Li Jinglan looked deeply at Shen Chengjing. The more she looked at her, the more she disliked her. However, she was even more glad that this time, it wasn’t her who was scheming against Shen Chengjing, but Pan Ru. Otherwise, she would have been the one to spend the 85,000 yuan in vain.

“Shen Chengjing.” Pan Ru pointed at her and gnashed her teeth in anger.

“Aunt, I still have something to do, so I’ll take my leave first.” She played with her phone as she walked out.

Pan Ru didn’t know whether to leave or stay. When she thought about how she had spent almost a hundred thousand, her face turned green with anger.

“In-law, don’t be angry. Although this is a little expensive, it’s still for Ziqian. It’s just a little money. It doesn’t matter,” Li Jinglan pulled her along and comforted her.

The more she comforted her, the angrier Pan Ru became.

She had just been tricked in the morning, and now she had been tricked again.

‘Shen Chengjing, you just wait and see,’ she thought in her heart, but she still had to show a smile on her face to avoid being misjudged by Li Jinglan.

But if Shen Chengjing had not heard the conversation between Shen Zhicai, Pan Ru, and Shen Ziqian in the study that day, perhaps she would not have fallen out with them. Now, she had finally escaped from their clutches, and since Shen Chengjing didn’t want to attach herself to them anymore, naturally she did not want to look at the expressions of these people anymore either.

“Madam, didn’t you want to buy anything?” Ah Ze asked curiously when he saw Shen Chengjing come out empty-handed.

“No.” As she spoke, she suddenly thought of a very serious question. “Do you know what he likes to eat?”

She had never asked this question before.

Ah Ze looked at her in embarrassment. “We’re soldiers. We eat everything. Brother Chen is not picky. Back then, when we were trapped in the forest, we even scraped off tree bark to alleviate our hunger.”

Her heart sank. Was this what his past was like?