Convulsed

"How is this possible? How could I have possibly paid such a high price for this thing?" He stared at his guard in disbelief: "Why didn't you stop me?"

"Second Master, servant tried to stop you, but you you…" His face was tearful. He had obviously tried to stop him, but as soon as he tried, his Master stared at him like he was about to bite his head off. What else could he have done? 

"But, why did I buy it then? I didn't even intend to buy this thing! What's more, I bought it at such a high price, this…" He thought of the two hundred and fifty thousand spar that had been given to him by his Patriarch to buy the blood jade ginseng, and now that the blood jade ginseng was nowhere to be seen, yet all the money had been spent. How would he explain this when he went back?