"Chapter 23: The Auction"

After Zhou Lao left, Li Yiming and Zhao Dezhu were left behind, and at this time, the two looked at each other with big eyes, and finally both of them laughed.

"Big brother, I can't go out, you have to come out, see that there are so many bad things today, if Mr. doesn't come, we don't know how it will end!"

"Brother, how did I know that I could meet a disciple of the Imperial Dynasty when I came here for a meal, it was really unlucky, I didn't stay in the Imperial City, I had to come to our small Xiangyang City to show off my majesty, it was really redundant!"

"Brother, seeing that the hour is coming soon, why don't we go up to the fourth floor and participate in the auction?"

Just as Zhao Dezhu proposed to leave the second floor, Miss Xia He walked up to Li Yiming with a richly dressed middle-aged man!

"Li Gongzi don't leave in a hurry, this is the chief director of Xiangyang City's "Treasure Pavilion", I also told me everything that happened today, and I specially came to Li Gongzi and Zhao Gongzi to make amends!"

I saw this richly dressed and extraordinary man said: "I am the chief director of the Xiangyang City Branch of the "Treasure Pavilion", I didn't know everything that happened today, and I specially confessed here, and I heard that Li Gongzi was only eight years old, and his literary spirit was flying, and he made a song of Mingzhou, I don't know if I can show it to the next!"

Li Yiming also promised Zhou Lao to hide it, and he was low-key, which really made Li Yiming embarrassed!

The principal seemed to see Li Yiming's embarrassment: "Li Gongzi, I don't mean anything else, I just admire you talented students, and I have no other intentions!"

Li Yiming had no choice but to take out the Mingzhou work, and the chief steward slowly opened the scroll, and what should be in front of him was the work "Winter Tour to Tianxian Tower".

"A good sentence: This woman should only be born with it, how many times can I find it in the world! Good verses, good verses!"

Li Yiming said modestly: "The main thing is too prestigious, the kid is only shallow in learning, and the time to contact Confucianism and Taoism is still short, and it takes more time to precipitate, learn, and be ashamed!"

"I don't know if the little brother can sell this poem to my "Treasure Pavilion", of course, a copy is enough, you don't need your original, the price is negotiable!"

"This ...... The tutor just instructed me to keep a low profile in everything, and don't become famous at a young age, which will cause me the harm of pulling out the seedlings and helping me to grow.

"Li Gongzi, do you think this is okay, you only need to authorize, transcribe a copy of "Winter Tour Tianxian Building", if you don't want to disclose your name, we will not sign who wrote it, we can secretly sign the agreement, not only can we be worthy of your teacher's instructions, and our "Treasure Pavilion" can get such a masterpiece, why not?"

Just when Li Yiming hesitated, Zhao Dezhu stood up, he is not good at poetry, but he is good at business, after all, as a young owner of a commercial house, he has been exposed to it since he was a child.

"What price are you willing to offer? First quote the number, I have to see if your sincerity is worth the money of a work by Naruju!"

Seeing that this matter had taken a turn for the better, the chief manager hurriedly said: "Naturally, it is a gold tael start, whatever you want, the matter of money is easy to discuss!"

Gold is valuable, articles are priceless, and what is praised on this "Winter Tour of Tianxian Tower" is the quality of your "Treasure Pavilion", just gold, we can't look down on it!"

"I don't know what you two want, please speak up, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"

"We want Yuanjing, we are all people who want to participate in the imperial examination, my two brothers are already cultivators, and they definitely need Yuanjing as a cultivation resource!

"Zhao Dezhu This is a lion's big mouth, one million yuan of crystal, it is already the normal expenses of a sect for a year, it is estimated that it is difficult to reach this value with a pair of Mingzhou's works alone, but this is Zhao Dezhu and other him!"

"This, this... One million yuan of crystals, placed in the Eastern Shenzhou Headquarters, is also a huge cultivation resource, can you give it a discount?"

"Then make a discount, 500,000 yuan crystal!" Zhao Dezhu directly cut half in order to show sincerity, another layer of meaning, I am already so sincere, if you bargain again, I won't sell it!

The chief steward shook his head: "It's still too much, my bottom line is 200,000!"

After hearing this, Zhao Dezhu scolded in his heart, part-time jobs are profiteers! But he had an idea: "I can't sell you for 200,000 yuan, it's okay to rent you for 50 years, and after 50 years, we will take back the copyright, and you will no longer be allowed to hang my brother's "Winter Tour Tianxian Tower" in these four major states!"

The chief steward originally planned that 200,000 yuan of crystal would be enough to impress this little doll who had never seen the world, but this Zhao Dezhu was obviously not good at stubble, although 200,000 yuan seemed impossible to buy a pair of Mingzhou's works, but as long as he added a little, it would not be rental!

Just when the chief steward was hesitating, Zhao Dezhu had already taken back the scroll with Li Yiming, looking at the situation, he wanted to leave!

"200,000 leases for 60 years, this is my biggest concession!" said the chief steward immediately!

Zhao Dezhu and Li Yiming whispered: "You and I will go to Eastern Shenzhou later, there is no Yuanjing by our side, in case of a situation, this Yuanjing is better than gold, and money can make ghosts grind this truth, you don't understand! Not to mention rent!"

Li Yiming nodded, feeling that what Zhao Dezhu said was very reasonable, he and his eldest brother would have to set foot on the road to Eastern Shenzhou sooner or later, and there was no Yuanjing on their bodies, how to do it, people in the secular mortal world would say, "When you go out, you have no money, and you are the most insecure!"

After Li Yiming finally agreed, Zhao Dezhu just wanted to draw up a contract with the chief manager, sign a lease agreement, and a confidentiality agreement.

"The agreement is slow, the chief steward, my brother and I came to you today The biggest purpose of this "Treasure Pavilion" is to participate in the auction, I will now add a request, give us two privileges, as long as our brothers fancy something at the auction, we will buy one by one without spending a penny, if you don't agree, we will turn around and leave, and the signing matter will be stopped!"

"You... Okay, good, it's all up to you!" "It's all come to this point, if you can't leave this masterpiece, wait for these two people to one day win the scientific examination, leave this Xiangyang City, and go to the bigger main city, where there is also the existence of "Treasure Pavilion", sell this work to any Treasure Pavilion branch, it is a signboard used to attract business!

Li Yiming signed a confidentiality agreement and a lease agreement with him. I saw the chief steward take out two cards. One is black, and one is purple.

"This black one is the Yuanjing memory card issued by the largest trading house in Eastern China, the "Treasure Pavilion", and this purple one is the membership card of my "Treasure Pavilion", with this card, the consumption on the first and second floors of the "Treasure Pavilion" of any branch is free, and the consumption on the third and fourth floors is eighty-fifty off!"

Zhao Dezhu asked curiously: "They all said that your treasure pavilion has nine floors, I don't know what kind of business you have on the other floors!"

"This business above the fifth floor, according to the age of your little doll, you don't need it, and you can't afford to consume it, as far as the 200,000 yuan crystals are concerned, it may only be enough to buy one news!"

After Li Yiming and Zhao Dezhu heard this, they glared at each other, "What? 200,000 yuan for one news? Who is such a loser! Sure enough, it is not something that they can contact at their current level."

Li Yiming put these two cards into the storage bag, and after a brief greeting with the chief manager, Li Yiming personally transcribed a copy of "Winter Tour to Tianxian Tower", and then climbed the four-story building with Zhao Dezhu!

There was less than a quarter of an hour before the auction began, and at this time, the guests who had signed up for the auction had almost taken their seats, and because Li Yiming and the two of them had successfully rented Mingzhou's work, under the instruction of the chief steward, the reception waiter arranged them to the Tianzi No. 1 private room!

Tianzi No. 1 private room is the most noble private room of the four-story auction, even if there is an auction, but no one may have the qualifications to sit in this private room!

Where someone settles in the Tianzi No. 1 private room, you need to ring the bell, light the lamp, express welcome, and respect, and all the items that Tianzi No. 1 fancies, no matter how much you increase the price, he will always be higher than you!

Therefore, guests who are not very powerful are not qualified to sit in this "Tianzi No. 1" box at all!

Li Yiming and Zhao Dezhu sat in the box, accompanied by Xia He, and Dongmei, the two girls, Zhao Dezhu didn't know if he had fallen into the evil of Dongmei girl, usually lazy, and the image of being naïve, today swept away its decline, as if the injuries on the buttocks were healed!

As soon as the lights outside Tianzi No. 1 were turned up, the people outside could only see that there were people stationed in the dark Tianzi No. 1 box, but they couldn't see who was inside from the outside, but Li Yiming and Zhao Dezhu could see the people sitting under the hall one after another! This matter enchantment was a kind of formation in the cultivation realm.

Zhao Dezhu was enjoying the fact that Miss Dongmei rubbed his shoulders and legs at this time, so unhappy, and Li Yiming motioned to Miss Xia He to help him make a pot of tea, but he didn't ask her to do anything else.

"Boring!"

A gong sounded, which meant that the auction had officially begun, and the person presiding over the auction was a mature woman in her thirties dressed in all black!

I saw that this woman's figure was concave and convex, and there were no traces of time on her face, only the mature charm, red plum phoenix eyes, and a tall nose bridge, which is really the most mature sign of a woman!

"Today's auction is presided over by my Lu Siniang, and on behalf of the "Treasure Pavilion", I would like to thank you for your presence and make my Treasure Pavilion shine!"

"Second, we welcomed the guests of Tianzi No. 1 in the Treasure Pavilion today, here, the concubine is polite, and I hope that the guests of Tianzi No. 1 can return with a full load!"

This Lu Siniang's opening remarks of just two sentences stabilized the aura of the entire auction, and also specially named the distinguished guests who settled in "Tianzi No. 1" today, Li Yiming instantly felt that this woman was a good means, so sophisticated, and a veteran!

"Without further ado, let's get the first lot!"

I saw that the waiter took a scroll, this scroll was flowing, and it had not yet been opened, Li Yiming affirmed that this work must be the work of Confucianism and Taoism!

"This work is a thousand years ago, the Confucian "painting saint" Wu Zisheng made "A Glance at the Mountains", this painting, for thousands of years, the painting in the painting, all the towering mountains, small bridges and flowing water, is a rare landscape masterpiece!"

Li Yiming stared at this scroll, attracted by the scenery in this painting, depicting many mountains in the painting, an old man in the painting, standing in the highest peak, "a glance at the mountains", this majestic scene, really made Li Yiming feel Pengbai, as if with the traction of this painting, personally visited in this mountain!

The more Li Yiming looked at it, the more he tasted it, and suddenly an idea came to Li Yiming's mind, looking at the terrain, how is it a bit like the direction of the 100,000 mountains?

I have lived in these 100,000 mountains since I was a child, not to mention the terrain and landforms, and a third of them have also climbed, probably I have been away from my hometown for some time, and I see this majestic mountain, a bit like the villagers!

Zhao Dezhu saw that Li Yiming was engrossed in this painting at this time, and thought that Li Yiming had taken a fancy to this painting: "Brother, there are beautiful women around here, you don't look at it, what kind of painting do you see, if you like it, just buy it!"

Li Yiming shook his head: "I entered the Tao with poetry, painting is not my field of expertise, but the Confucianism and Taoism family, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all connected, I just appreciate it, and I am not obsessed with it!"

"This lot, 1,000 yuan crystal starts!" Lu Siniang's voice just fell. There was already an uproar below, a thousand yuan crystals, but not a thousand taels of gold, gold is valuable, yuan crystals are priceless, that is an iron cultivation resource!

But soon, there are still a lot of people who know the goods, this masterpiece, I can't use it, I use it to give away, it's an absolute good product, not to mention that there are still a lot of Confucian disciples below, for this painting is still determined to get!

"I'll give you 1,100!"

"What kind of picking, you are still fighting with me, I will give one thousand two!"

"You all get out of the way for me, Uncle Ben has taken a fancy to this painting, two thousand yuan crystals!"

With the price of everyone, a masterpiece in the painting was directly raised to 9,200 yuan crystal, and finally this price has reached the top, no one fights anymore, Lu Siniang inquired three times, no one bids again, "bang", the deal!

Li Yiming sighed that today's scholars are really rich, and it is no longer the era of talented people from poor families!

Then Lu Siniang's voice started: "The second lot below is a three-grade magic weapon, it is a flying sword! There are junior disciples of sword cultivation at home, you can just buy it back and give it to the younger generation, although the grade of the third-grade flying sword is not high, but compared with many entry-level flying swords, it is more powerful and sharper! The starting price is 3,000 yuan crystals."

The flying sword, as the most precious weapon in the cultivation world, is also the natal magic weapon of the sword cultivation, and it is the best-selling among the magic weapons.

As soon as Lu Siniang's words fell, the pot had already exploded below, if it was said that among the Confucian disciples in the human race, there was only one in five existences, then the status of sword cultivation in the cultivation realm was also the same!

With a scramble for price increases, the price of a third-grade flying sword rose to the point of 22,000 yuan crystals, and was finally pocketed by a richly dressed son!

Li Yiming couldn't help but sigh secretly, he really couldn't understand this rich man's world.

The next few lots are all ordinary cultivation materials, Li Yiming is full of money at this time, but he really doesn't know what to buy, he can only wait for the treasures he really needs to buy, and then calculate!