Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 697 - 342: Bargaining and Being Rich and Capricious_1

Chapter 697: Chapter 342: Bargaining and Being Rich and Capricious_1

"People there value internships, and she’s studying economics, so it’s like she’s getting advance social practice experience," Miss Xu Xiaoyan explained for the Sixth Miss Guo.

Seeing his wife defending her, Yan Fei stopped talking, but couldn’t stop complaining in his heart: Internship? Just say it if you are skipping school and don’t want to study! In that case, I can also tell people in the future that my not going to school is social practice.

Next, the second-year junior high school student Yan Fei stood weakly beside the small street stall, talking aimlessly with the bodyguard driver, watching the three girls chirping away as they picked and chose what to buy.

Once the items were selected, the two men were frustrated as the three girls began to talk about the price.

"Why can’t three books be five bucks? The person before us bought two books for five bucks, why can’t we get three for the same price?" The Sixth Miss Guo stared at the stall owner with her large eyes, a determined look on her face as if she would argue till the end of time if she did not get her way.

"Miss, be reasonable! Those two books that cost five dollars are thin, these three you’ve chosen are thick, at least twelve dollars is the bare minimum, I’m not even making a dime from this price." The stall owner, a middle-aged woman, was at a loss for words with this girl’s sense of logic, and patiently tried to reason with her.

The bargaining was so intense that even Xu Xiaoyan felt embarrassed to intervene. Nana, supporting her own young mistress, said, "We’ve traveled a long way to come here. It’s said that people in Gao City are warm and hospitable; can’t you slash a little profit for us?"

"Being hospitable doesn’t mean I have to lose money!" The stall owner looked extremely helpless. "Fine, three books for ten dollars, okay? As you are here on a trip, I won’t let you feel that people in Gao City aren’t hospitable. I’m selling them at a loss at this price!"

"How about six dollars...." The Sixth Miss Guo decided to raise her price.

"..."

As time slowly passed, Yan Fei waited in anticipation, and with Xu Xiaoyan also joining the negotiation, the price was gradually reaching both parties’ bottom line. The current price was fluctuating up and down by fifty cents. However, it seemed like this last half a dollar was a tough nut to crack— it might even take ten more minutes to settle.

One has many people, and the other has plenty of experience—all for just half a dollar—the price negotiation war was dragging on.

Yan Fei was puzzled, he understood that his wife bargained to save money, but why were these two girls haggling for a dollar or half dollar, unwilling to leave the place, wasting so much saliva to save that half a dollar, would that even be enough for them to buy a drink to replenish their fluids?

It was late at night, and the weather was not too hot. It wasn’t easy for people to run a little stall! This little rich girl from Hong Kong was haggling with them over fifty cents, would it be better to go to bed earlier? Weren’t they tired from running around all day?

In the end, the three girls finally agreed on the price: three books for eight dollars.

Yan Fei thought that the price was a bit unfair. Not that the bookseller was unfair, but that these three girls who were negotiating the price were too nasty. Even if it was a pirated copy, the books the girls had chosen were not thin, and yet, they only gave her eight dollars. Judging by the stall owner’s expression, there probably wasn’t much of a profit.

When it was time to pay, Xu Xiaoyan wanted to, but the Sixth Miss Guo stopped her and waved at the bodyguard driver, "What are you waiting for? Pay up! You let Xiao Fei pay for dinner earlier, do you have no shame?"

Yan Fei couldn’t be bothered to argue. Xiao Fei is what your mouth called, right? That’s how my wife calls me, okay? We just got familiar with each other, and you’ve already started calling me that!

The driver quickly took out his wallet, found there was no small change, and directly handed over a hundred-dollar note. The stall owner’s face froze, "Big brother, I’m just a small stall holder. Don’t you have any smaller bills?"

Miss Guo waved her hand gracefully, and the sentence she uttered almost choked Yan Fei to death, "Forget it, if you don’t have change, don’t bother. Just let us choose a few more books."

Not only the owner was stunned, even Yan Fei and Xu Xiaoyan were flabbergasted, looking at the young mistress as if she had lost her mind.

You’d wasted half an hour for just a few dollars, now you’re paying one hundred dollars for an eight-dollar item and not expecting any change? What on earth were you haggling for earlier? Came here to practice your negotiation skills, didn’t you?

Miss Guo didn’t notice other people’s alien gazes. Taking advantage of the stall owner’s shocked pause at her "How can I do this?" she brushed off Xu Xiaoyan’s offer of small change, picked out a few more books from the stall, turned around and gave them to Yan Fei, "You treated us to dinner earlier, this is my gift to you!"

Then, like a victorious general with his head high, he took the still somewhat dazed Xu Xiaoyan and his assistant and prepared to leave.

Cradling his books, Yan Fei felt a bit dizzy, "Why’d you buy me so many books? I don’t read these useless ones!"

They were all sort of feelgood essays and notebooks, and something called ’Cultural Journey’. How could Yan Fei be in the mood to read such books? A book about raising cows and chicken soup for mushroom cultivation would be of more interest, he can take it home and learn something from it.

"How are they useless?" The Sixth Miss Guo stopped and turned around, her face a mix of a smile and a smirk. "We’re all university students now, except for you. You should take these books home and cultivate your morality!"

Yan Fei was rather miffed by these words. Is she looking down on my education? He retorted, "What use is cultivating morality?"

"Cultivating morality allows you to maintain a good mentality at any time, even when you’re unhappy, or dealing with unreasonable people, you can communicate with them in a calm and rational manner." Miss Guo expounded confidently, "Reading is for understanding, do you get it?"

"Oh!" Yan Fei nodded in understanding. "Well, I don’t need to read then. I’ve never encountered an unreasonable person, and if I did, they’d eventually calm down and talk sense with me!"

"Tsk..." Sixth Miss Guo looked down upon him, "I don’t believe that everyone will have a calm and rational conversation with you!"

"Believe it or not, I don’t care." Yan Fei was too lazy to argue with her, and he took the book and led the way. "Think about it, wasn’t your Fifth Brother quite unreasonable at first, but in the end, he did calm down and talk reasonably with me, didn’t he?"

"Uh...", as if a little chick with its neck pinched, Miss Guo was unable to utter a word.

Last time they were here, her Fifth Brother, indeed didn’t behave well, but in the end he did ’calm down’ and ’talked reasonably’ with the guy in front of her. Not only that, Miss Guo thought, if this guy were to go along the same route as before, the village where the ’dead’ person was lying on the roadside charging a fee; she guessed that most of those people would also ’calm down’ and ’talk reasonably’ with him, wouldn’t they...

"Let’s get going," Miss Xu Xiaoyan took the lead, pulling the speechless Sixth Miss Guo, "It’s useless talking to him about this, he’s the unreasonable one. He only reads books that he finds useful, and dislikes the ones that he doesn’t. He doesn’t even like going to school, yet has written several large notebooks on raising cattle and brewing alcohol..."

Yan Fei wasn’t interested in arguing with Miss Guo, but he was indeed interested in teasing his wife. He leaned over to object, "Don’t wrong me, darling! How am I being unreasonable? She just said that reading is for being able to talk sense into unreasonable people calmly. I don’t need to read to make unreasonable people speak calmly and reasonably with me, so what’s the point of me reading these books?"

"You certainly have some twisted logic," Ms. Xu flicked him a glance. "Step aside, don’t block my way!"

Yan Fei obediently stepped aside, mumbling, "How is it twisted..."

"If Sister Xu says your logic is twisted, then it’s twisted. What, you dare to deny it?" Seeing someone who can subdue an unreasonable person, Miss Guo seemed to have regained her confidence and walked past Yan Fei triumphantly, boasting.

"Fool!" Yan Fei glared at her. "After half a day of bargaining, and you still ended up giving them an extra few tens of bucks. I’ve never seen such a fool!"

"I did so willingly!" Sixth Miss Guo held her head high, nestled closer to Xu Xiaoyan, and walked pass Yan Fei in high spirits. "What do you know? When buying at a street vendor, of course you have to haggle. If you don’t, they might think you’re a fool, right? After all, haggling is so much fun, why miss the opportunity! Thanks to Sister Xu being here today, otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to haggle with the shopkeeper, right Nana?"

Nana could not help but nod her head in agreement, recalling their earlier encounter. "That’s right! She wanted to charge us fifteen at first, but thanks to the three of us working together, we brought the price down to seven!"

You spent half an hour haggling over seven bucks, then ended up overpaying by at least seventy. How can you be so excited about it?

Yan Fei trailed two steps behind, turning to the mute bodyguard driver who positioned himself at the end with a constipated facial expression, "Doesn’t your Miss have a screw loose?"

The bodyguard driver’s constipated expression worsened, and after holding it in for a while, he muttered under his breath, "Rich, reckless!"