Gina absolutely refused to lose face in front of her niece, even if paying forty million dors for it hurt a


    lot.


    Even Johnny was left dumbstruck.


    Selling a panacea polypore for forty million dors? This would probably never happen again!


    He quickly turned to Frank and Kenny. “Gentlemen, are you going to raise the bid?”


    Both men were frowning.


    Raise? They only had thirty million dors together.


    That being said, they did not expect Gina and her niece to be that stupid to buy a polypore for forty


    million dors!


    And since neither man spoke, Johnny turned to Gina and Cindy with a smile. “It’s all yours, Ms. Zonda.”


    Gina whipped out her card while shooting Frank a gleeful, triumphant look despite her heart bleeding.


    And once the payment was made, Cindy got her wish as she took the wooden chest containing the


    polypore.


    “I’ll definitely be a partner of the Szars with this!” Her eyes were ame with excitement as she


    opened the door.


    The panacea polyporey still within the velvet cushioning, but where it should be wlessly white, it


    was instead glistening in red. To make things worse, while normal polypores tended to be plump and


    meaty, this one was rock hard and rotting on the edges!


    “What the…” Cindy gaped. “What the hell is this? Why is it rotting? And it’s so hard!”


    Frank moved forward for a look and chuckled coolly. “Oh, so it’s dead.”


    It must have been kept in the chest for too long–the herb itself had wilted, losing moisture and hence


    drying up.


    Moreover, the withered edges were signs that the herb itself had been hurt during harvest!


    “Dead or alive–what’s the difference?” Johnny shrugged nonchntly.


    “How is it not different?!” Cindy bellowed furiously. “I’m giving this as a present! Who would give a dead


    herb as a present?! And it’s even starting to rot!”


    “I never said it was alive,” Johnny snapped impatiently. “Quit making a fuss.”


    “Haha!” Kennyughed mockingly without holding back at all. “Forty million dors for a dead herb! You


    ladies are geniuses!”


    Gina and Cindy were both left ashen–faced. After all that posturing, it turned out that they were the


    clowns all along!


    “We’re not buying this,” Cindy snapped angrily. “Refund us right now!”


    “That’s right! Refund us, you snake oil salesman!” Gina bellowed, pointed at Johnny in the


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    nose.


    Johnny frowned and growled, “Watch your words,dies. I never stopped you from checking the goods


    before you buy it or browbeat you into buying it. You’re the ones who insisted on outbidding the two


    gentlemen, and you’re demanding a refund now that you don’t like the merchandise? That’s not going


    to happen.”


    Gina and Cindy were left stumped.


    However, even if Gina was unable to muster a retort, Gina promptly threw herself on the floor, howling


    at the top of her lungs, “We’re not leaving until you give us a refund! Help! The owner here has just


    tricked us! Come here, see it for yourself!”


    Kenny pursed his lips and leveled Frank a look of sympathy right then–he was now starting to


    understand why the man was divorced.