After Transmigrating, The Fat Wife Made A Comeback! Chapter 398 - Coming to Request for Ginseng

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Qiao i pushed hard on the door of Xia Mao’s house and realized that the Xia family’s main door was double-layered. The outer door was locked once it was closed. One needed a password even to open it from the inside. Unless she had a key or a password, she was unable to open this door.

“Forget it, we can talk about it tonight,” Qiao i said with a sigh.

From what she could hear from the phone conversation just now, it seed that everyone would get together that night to see how much money they had managed to pool together. The Xia family mbers were either political officials or soldiers, and their salaries were not high. They were not able to save much from their salaries and depended on subsidies to help out with their expenses.

The Xia family received a lot of subsidies and did not need to spend money on food and clothing at ho. This was how they managed to have more savings than other families. Nowadays, ordinary families with only a few hundred dollars in savings could be considered to be rich.

Liu Fen’s maternal family was from the countryside and they were self-sufficient by growing their own food. Qiao i did not know how much savings they could have and thought that they probably would not be able to help much.

Qiao i still had a small 20-year-old wild ginseng she brought along to cater to ergency situations. She had no idea about the prices of goods and houses in the capital and was worried that a 100-year-old ginseng might not be enough to exchange for a house. That was why she had hidden one more ginseng in the compartnt of her bag in case of any ergency.

Xia Zhe did not even know about these things. He did not have the habit of going through her bag.

Actually, there was sothing even better in her bag. It was ant to save Xia Zhe’s life back then, but it was sothing a little too extre. If she took it out, it would probably shock the entire country…

At this mont, Qiao i suddenly heard soone ringing the doorbell. She opened the inner door and saw an unfamiliar man through the glass of the outer door. However, she felt that he looked a little familiar.

“Hello, who are you looking for?” Qiao i asked politely with a smile.

The stranger was clearly stunned for a mont before he quickly sized Qiao i up. He smiled faintly and said, “Are you Miss Qiao i? I’m here to look for you.”

“Looking for ? Then who are you?” Qiao i looked at the man in puzzlent.

This was the first ti soone had co to the Xia family’s house to look for her. She had no relatives or friends in the capital, so she did not expect soone to co looking for her.

“My surna is He. I’m He Ning,” He Ning said.

It took Qiao i by surprise.?So this was He Ning. No wonder he looked so familiar.?She had seen him from afar when she went to the nursery to absorb the ginseng energy.

“So you’re He Ning,” Qiao i said.

Qiao i also sized him up. He was in his late twenties and tall with fair skin. He stood very straight but he was very thin. She did not expect a ruthless person like He Ning to look so gentle and refined.

“Why? You don’t believe ?” He Ning asked.

“No.” Qiao i just wondered how such a person could actually seem to have a similar temperant to Xia Wen. However, when she conversed with Xia Wen, it felt like there was a spring breeze blowing on her, while this man was just unfathomable.

“In that case, can you let in to talk?” He Ning said with a smile.

Qiao i shook her head and said, “I’m sorry, but you can’t. There are no other n in the house now, so it’s not convenient for you to co in. If you have anything to say, you can say it here. Or you can co another day.”

During this era, n and won still kept a distance from one another as it was not in line with societal norms to get too close. Qiao i’s answer was not inappropriate at all.

“Alright,” He Ning said helplessly.

He Ning knew that Qiao i was telling the truth. After all, he had used all kinds of excuses to divert away all the occupants of the house. Otherwise, he would not have been able to pay her this visit.

“It’s like this. I’m not in good health and need ginseng to save my life. I heard that you still have a 100-year-old ginseng? I wonder what it would take for you to sell it, Miss Qiao. I’m willing to pay any price, just na it,” He Ning said.

It was now that Qiao i understood what Xia Zhe ant. He Ning was indeed an unpredictable person who did things decisively and according to his own whim and fancy. Not long ago, he had frad the Xia family and almost killed them. Now, he was openly coming by to buy ginseng.

It looked as if He Ning had been in very poor health for the past two days. After she had drained all the energy from all the plants and dicinal herbs in his house, it seed to have made his life very difficult.

Qiao i held back her laughter and looked at He Ning politely without saying anything.

Then, Qiao i pretended to look at He Ning in confusion and said, “Oh? Didn’t the Cao family give you the ginseng?”

At the ntion of this, He Ning’s head hurt even more. He was really too embarrassed to say it out loud that he had wasted such good ginseng. He found it to be a great humiliation and a reckless waste of natural resources.