OFR – Chapter 279 Middle-aged man

“Ding! Your shop has received a message from an important customer.”

Hearing this prompt, Mu Bai paused what he was doing and shifted his attention back to the store’s inquiry window.

He was a little curious as to which customer had responded so quickly.

After all, it was already the middle of the night, and very few people were still awake at this hour.

Moreover, the two important customers he had just tagged were both quasi-four-star users.

On the black market, a quasi-four-star user likely meant someone with a net worth of at least tens of billions in the real world.

He hadn’t expected that a top-tier wealthy person of this level would still be awake this late — and reply almost instantly to the message he had just sent.

This prompted Mu Bai to return to the shop interface. He glanced at the list of inquirers and saw that the message was from Zhan Huaqiang, the quasi-four-star user interested in bulk purchasing.

Mu Bai had briefly looked over Zhan Huaqiang’s profile earlier.

This was also a shopkeeper on the black market, but he mainly dealt in high-end pharmaceuticals, focusing on rare medicines.

The medicines listed in his shop were the kinds rarely seen in the regular market — top-tier treatments.

For example, some agents with special effects, or medicines that could treat or alleviate extremely hard-to-cure diseases.

Mu Bai had even noticed that some drugs in the shop claimed to control and alleviate terminal illnesses, and there were actual records of such illnesses being cured successfully.

That really went beyond ordinary imagination.

Diseases declared terminal by official hospitals worldwide — being curable — was something almost unbelievable.

Not just ordinary people, but even some professors and doctors in the medical field might see this as representing the peak of modern pharmaceutical science.

Mu Bai wasn’t exactly shocked, but from this, he could tell that Zhan Huaqiang was definitely a powerful and wealthy buyer.

In addition, Mu Bai sensed that Zhan Huaqiang likely wanted to use the premium wild ginseng in his store as a raw ingredient for producing more advanced medicines.

For a customer with such a strong intent to purchase, Mu Bai naturally held a very welcoming attitude.

Thinking this, he casually opened the shop’s chat window and read Zhan Huaqiang’s message.

Quasi-Four-Star User Zhan Huaqiang (Shopkeeper of Huaqiang Pharmaceuticals):

“Hello, shopkeeper. I’ve been waiting for your reply, staring at the screen. From your last message, I see you’ve guaranteed that the wild ginseng is genuine. Since the quality is assured, I wanted to ask — can we trade based on weight instead of by piece? Approximately how many grams is each root?

Because I work in pharmaceuticals and am also a businessman, I have to consider costs. If it’s by root, it’s hard for me to calculate costs on my end. I hope you understand.

Also, wild ginseng that’s over 200 years old is extremely rare and highly valuable for both nutrition and medicinal use. If we go by grams, I’ll definitely offer a very fair and satisfying price.

If this transaction goes smoothly, I certainly intend to maintain a long-term business relationship with your shop.”

After reading the message, Mu Bai could clearly sense the genuine intent behind Zhan Huaqiang’s purchase.

So he thought for a moment and sent back a “please wait” emoji, then mentally activated his Mystical Space to measure the weight of a premium-grade ginseng root.

At this point, when Mu Bai entered the mystical space, it was already the deep hours of the night.

The Xuanwu Zhongshan Villa District was quiet, with only a few villas still lit.

Meanwhile, in the heart of the elite residential area in Anxi City, North China, a dazzlingly luxurious mansion was still brightly illuminated.

Inside its spacious master bedroom, pink, ambient lighting created a suggestive atmosphere.

On the soft and comfortable bed lay a middle-aged man in his fifties, dressed in a white bathrobe.

His figure was slightly bloated, likely due to age, and his appearance didn’t fit modern aesthetic standards — a square face, thick eyebrows, large eyes, exuding a natural air of authority.

Normally, such an older man wouldn’t attract much attention from young women. Yet now, three stunningly beautiful, curvaceous young women lay beside him.

Each of them would easily score between 85 to 90+ in terms of appearance and figure.

In the eyes of ordinary men — and in today’s male-dominated dating world — these were goddess-level women that many would go crazy over.

Yet at this moment, these three gorgeous women lay quietly on the bed, their pretty eyes focused on the man messaging on his phone — not daring to disturb him at all.

Because this man was none other than Zhang Fengyi, Chairman of Longyun Pharmaceuticals and the wealthiest man in Anxi City, North China.

Even across the vast North China region, Zhang Fengyi’s net worth ranked in the top three.

Under his command was one of the most elite pharmaceutical research teams, and many of their recent formulas required over-100-year-old wild ginseng as a core ingredient.

This made him constantly attentive to all sources of such rare ginseng — both on the black market and in real-world medicinal herb markets.

A few days ago, when the shop named “Treasure Pavilion” listed premium wild ginseng, he immediately took notice.