The truth is that their families could afford a thousand taels of gold a gram and would surely seek any opportunities to buy it. This level of tea leaf [the highest form of Wisdom Leaf] was highly sought by high-level masters and even the Emperor! Sadly, the supply was scarce and the demand was extremely high, a thousand taels would be the market price and reaching two thousand in auctions. There were countless previous examples of ordinary people rising into prominence when they offered these kinds of things as a tribute to great sages of mountains or the Emperor himself.
Anyway, if they could get this lucky and poor disciple's experience of drinking tea and immediately breakthrough, a few hundred gold coins or ten taels would still be too cheap for them.
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