Chapter 179 Yanyan in Danger (1)_1
Looking at the table stacked with various colored gift boxes, Mo Yan felt a bit of worry. She originally intended for the servant duo to take them back, especially since that day the head guard had already given them one thousand taels of silver as a reward. Little did she expect that as soon as she uttered the offer, Xiao Ruiyuan’s face turned cold. Accompanied by Xiao Eleven, he walked away without looking back, leaving her in quite an awkward situation.
On the topmost purple gift box, the words ’Bai Wei Zhai’ were printed, suggesting that inside were the signature pastries of Jing City’s most famous pastry shop, ’Bai Wei Zhai.’ The pastries from Bai Wei Zhai were always in limited supply and business was exceptionally good. If you wanted to buy some, you had to get up early and line up.
However, rare as they might be, they were just pastries after all and not that precious. Accepting them wasn’t really a problem.
The next few gift boxes also contained only ordinary trinkets, nothing of great value. Surprisingly, two of the boxes were filled with hairpins and other jewelry made entirely of gold, each piece substantial in weight and dazzlingly bright, nearly blinding Mo Yan.
If Mo Yan could reluctantly accept those, the sight that greeted her when she opened the two boxes at the bottom nearly made her snap the lids shut and rush off to return the gifts to Xiao Ruiyuan. Inside lay hundred-year-old ginseng as thick as a toddler’s arm.
In this time and space, wild ginseng wasn’t particularly rare, but hundred-year-old ginseng was extremely uncommon and quite expensive, each piece valued at over five hundred taels.
Xiao Ruiyuan had given two of these ginseng roots, and they were of exceptional quality, with the roots preserved quite immaculately. Their total value was definitely more than one thousand and two hundred taels.
Such a grand gesture was really too much!
Mo Yan silently closed the box and stashed the two ginseng roots into her space. She planned to return them when the chance arose. However, Xiao Ruiyuan’s taste really wasn’t that great. Those glittering gold items, heavy and flashy—who could actually wear them out?