Coming across someone who knows their stuff naturally allows one to raise their price.
Therefore, Jin Lao Qi was straightforward, taking out the items he had prepared, including porcelain, jewels, calligraphy, paintings, and decorative pieces, "If it wasn't from the imperial palace, then it was from the nobility's households. During the war era, I avoided numerous lootings to preserve these. Now that I am old, who knows how much longer I'll live? What use are these things to me if I keep them at hand?"
At this point, he laughed in self-derision, "The items I'm offering are more numerous and valuable than those from Qiao San. I don't want a penny from you; I only want food, at least three hundred catties of fine grains!"
"We don't have that much on hand right now," Lu Jiang chimed in; they had only brought a little over one hundred catties of fine grains.
