Chapter 257: The First Round of Auctions
The man was wearing a navy blue jacket, and a fox fur of the same color as this carpet, about thirty, with a Chinese face, and his appearance was not outstanding, but his eyes were extremely clever, and as soon as he saw Chu Yunsheng and Yu Shen Yuan and his party from a distance, he already had a little smile between his eyebrows and said: "Siniang, is there a distinguished guest here again?"
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Hearing this, the old bustard hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, second master, these two are going to come to see the auction, so I will bring them." β
As she spoke, she turned her head to look at Chu Yunsheng and Yu Shenyuan and said, "This is the second master in charge of the auction. β
Chu Yunsheng nodded politely, but he was secretly thinking in his heart, this old bustard seems to have a lot to do with this dark market auction, the second master, the fourth mother...... So what kind of person will this dark market auction boss be?
I was puzzled, but I didn't show anything on my face, and the person called the second master clasped his fists at them and saluted, then turned around and led them inside.
Chu Yunsheng raised his eyes and glanced at Yu Shenyuan, seeing that his expression was calm, with a faint smile between his eyebrows, it was no different from usual, and he didn't think much about it, so he followed them in.
Lifting the layers of curtains sprinkled with gold threads and moire, I saw the home of the so-called dark market auction, although it was also an auction underneath, but the red sleeve trick was nothing compared to this.
I don't know if it's because of the privacy and identity of the guests or something else, the light inside is much dimmer than the outside, only the scattered night pearls inlaid on the stone walls on both sides illuminate the huge space, but the visibility is very low, and the expressions of people three steps away are difficult to see clearly.
And in the middle of this huge room, there is a round platform with a height of one zhang, the four corners of the platform are lit with palace lamps, and the golden silk moire tent is hung, which covers the inside tightly, and it is impossible to see what is inside from the outside.
When Chu Yunsheng and Yu Shenyuan entered, basically the tables were full of people, and the facial expressions of these people could not be seen clearly in the dim light, only the deliberately suppressed conversation sounded in all directions, and they did not attract any attention when they came in, everyone was talking about each other, and they had no time to care about the people who came in behind, the middle-aged man called the second master took them down the wide aisle, and walked to the position in front of the round platform closest to the center before whispering to them: " The auction will start in a while, so please sit down here. β
As he spoke, he instructed Siniang to entertain Chu Yunsheng and Yu Shenyuan, and he disappeared into the dim light after a few turns.
After he left, Yu Shenyuan and Chu Yunsheng sat down in front of the desk, one left and one right, while the old bustard moved a stool and waited on the side, and lowered his voice to the two of them and said, "Childe doesn't know, the higher the position here, the more noble the identity of the person who came." β
The closer to the round platform, the more carefully the auctioned items can be seen, and the more noble the status, the more money the owner will naturally be arranged in the position closest to the round platform, which is basically the rule of all underground auctions.
"Oh?" Chu Yunsheng pretended to be puzzled: "How can the mother and the second master know that our identity is noble?"
Hearing this, the old bustard sneered and laughed, and hurriedly covered his lips and said: "Mom, I have been in the Fengyue place for so many years, and I still have this bit of eyesight, and the two sons are by no means ordinary dignitaries. β
When she said this, her eyebrows were flying, with a little smugness, hearing this, Chu Yunsheng couldn't help but tease her, she said, "Isn't it my mother who wanted to catch us and put it here for auction before?"
As soon as these words came out, the old bustard, who was immediately choked, blushed with shame, slapped his old face in embarrassment and said, "That's not that I'm confused for a while! β
As she spoke, she stepped aside, not daring to say anything more, for fear that the sycophants would be set on fire in the wrong place.
And when she was a little farther away, Chu Yunsheng turned his head, raised his eyes to look at Yu Shenyuan who was sitting beside him, and said, "It's strange, why did we come to this auction, we were just here to buy a mask, how can we sit here in a dignified manner?
Hearing this, Yu Shenyuan didn't even raise his eyelids, and he didn't pay attention to Chu Yunsheng, although he looked no different from usual on the surface, Chu Yunsheng always vaguely felt that today's Yu Shenyuan was a little strange.
Could it be because he inadvertently revealed to her before that he and Brother Dumb were back then?
However, Chu Yunsheng's intuition didn't feel like it.
Just thinking about it, the sound of drums suddenly sounded at the side door in front, Chu Yunsheng followed the prestige, and through the dim light, he could only see a few screens set up there, and there seemed to be a few musicians playing behind the screens.
Sheng Ge together, everyone's attention also followed Chu Yunsheng, looking in that direction.
Seeing that everyone's attention was focused there, behind the screen, he leisurely turned out the second master who had led the way for Chu Yunsheng and Yu Shenyuan before, he hugged his fists at everyone present, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "Let the distinguished guests wait for a long time, now our auction has officially begun." β
Before the voice fell, the huge lantern in the middle of the round platform in the field was suddenly lit, and the round platform with the sprinkled gold silk moire tent was instantly covered clearly.
And then, the tent slowly rose, and as the tent rose, revealing the scene on the round platform.
In the center of the platform stood a young woman, with a goose egg face, willow eyebrows, and her skin could be broken by blowing, although it was not stunning, but her appearance was handsome, and she looked very cute, and there was a desk next to her, on which were placed several swords, jade, and a few ancient books.
When the tent was completely raised, she walked to the front of the stage, smiled at everyone, obeyed her body, and said crisply and sweetly: "Today, the slave maid will preside over the first round of auctions for all distinguished guests. β
As she spoke, she walked to the side of the case, raised her hand, and said to a sword: "This is the famous sword left by Feng Xiaoyin, the first swordsman in the world sixty years ago, as one, it is rumored that this sword not only sharpens iron like clay, but also can be as one with the master's mind, dispelling evil spirits, such as a sword, with a starting price of 100,000 taels." β
Chu Yunsheng has naturally heard of the fame of this sword, and the sword is naturally a good sword, but it is a bit too much to say that it is to dispel evil spirits, but it is just that the traders who resell it in the middle are touting it in order to raise the net worth of the sword, but he didn't expect that in this dark market auction, the first price that came up was ...... One hundred thousand taels.
100,000 snowflakes of silver is enough for how many poor people to live a lifetime!
However, what Chu Yunsheng didn't expect was that the girl's words had just fallen, and the back seat had already begun to raise prices one after another.
"One hundred and one thousand taels. β
"One hundred and two thousand taels. β
"One hundred and five thousand taels. β
β¦β¦ With the sound of price increases one after another, in the end, the sword was slapped down by a table behind Chu Yunsheng and their right for 300,000 taels.
The auction continued, but in addition to the initial smacking, Chu Yunsheng finally understood why the decoration of this dark market was so magnificent and luxurious, and the manipulators of this dark market were really not ordinary rich.
At the moment when these people were all busy bidding for the auction, Chu Yunsheng turned his eyes and looked at the old bustard sitting behind her, but seeing that she looked as usual, she seemed to be used to seeing such a scene, and she didn't show surprise in the face of a random auction price of hundreds of thousands, Chu Yunsheng couldn't help but speak: "Mom, do you know who the owner of this dark market is?"
Hearing this, the old bustard, who had just been thinking about the auction, immediately came to his senses, approached Chu Yunsheng a little, and said nervously: "Childe asked what is this for?"
Chu Yunsheng raised his hand and grabbed a grape and threw it into his mouth, and said slightly sideways: "It's just curious, where can ordinary people do such a low-level auction, not to mention that these lots are not bad." β
Seeing that she was really curious, the old bustard burst out laughing, she patted Chu Yunsheng's shoulder and said with a smile: " This, the little boy doesn't know, the first round of the front is not the top grade, the more back, the more the finale of the boutique, but there is a little bit of misunderstanding, the lots here are not all Liu Ye's, he just ran such a dark market, providing everyone with such a place to trade, you see, here, the owners can buy their favorite things, and the people who have these good things are relieved to entrust them to Liu Ye, through this auction to sell a good price, and Liu Ye will extract profits from it, which is a good thing for the three parties, mutual benefit and reciprocityγ β
"Master Liu, so he is the boss of this auction house?" Hearing Lao Bustard's explanation, Chu Yunsheng couldn't help but be in awe of this Liu Ye's business talent, such a large-scale underground auction must not only have courage, strong funds, connections, but also a strong backstage to support.
Hopeless Town belongs to the border of the Chu State, located at the junction of the Chu State and the Zhao State Weiguo, it used to be a three-way zone, and it has only been taken over by the Chu State in the past two years, but those who want to gain a foothold here are afraid that they must also have some connections and backgrounds in the court of the three forces.
As if he had seen through Chu Yunsheng's thoughts, the old bustard had a little smugness on his face, and raised his eyebrows: "It's not, it is said that Liu Ye is also a divine dragon, and the last time I saw him was a few months ago, but I am not exaggerating, he is really a peerless character, and he is not inferior to the two sons." β
Although she was praised once, Chu Yunsheng didn't have much joy, she thought of the character who was described by the old bustard like this, and her aura and posture were not inferior to Yu Shenyuan, and it is estimated that there are few people in the world!
A guess suddenly popped up in her heart, but this guess will emerge in the bottom of her heart, and her heart hurts as if it had been cut by someone.
Reason told her to be calm, but her whole body trembled involuntarily at the thought of this speculation.
Someone who can have an aura and posture that is not inferior to Yu Shenyuan, and someone who also has such a strong background in the Chu State...... Could it be him?
I think that at the beginning, in the Red Sleeve Move, the underground auction was also manipulated by the gods.
Thinking about it like this, Chu Yunsheng became more and more sure of this guess, and her heart hurt a little.
"Childe, Childe?" The old bustard saw that Chu Yunsheng's face turned pale in the blink of an eye, and beads of sweat rolled down her forehead, and she thought that she had said something wrong, so she was immediately stunned and was about to confess: "But what did I say wrong?"
After a few words in a row, Chu Yunsheng's mind was pulled back, she nodded, waved her hand and said, "It's okay, I just remembered other things." β
Although she said this, her face had regained her composure, but in the blink of an eye, the beads of sweat in her palms and the sweat on her sideburns were still reminding her...... How important he really is to himself.
It was so important that every time she thought of his name, her heart hurt, and every time everything about him was involved, she panicked and didn't know what to do.
The news of the death of the crown prince of Chu has spread all over the world, and there has never been a way to hope for the town, she has not heard much of those people talking after dinner, and in a few days, it will be the day when the new emperor, His Royal Highness Su Jingxuan, the former emperor of Chu, ascended the throne.
It seems that he still survived, and her Ah Shuo ......
I don't know what his expression and psychology were when he learned that he was dead, but Chu Yunsheng knew that if it was him, he would definitely be in pain, and her Ah Shuo was experiencing this kind of pain not long ago.
However, she could not walk up to him alive now, and happily told him that she was still alive, let alone know him.
It's not time yet, Mr. Su said.
She has to wait, when Ah Shuo finally becomes the overlord of one side and controls the government of Chu State, and is no longer subject to anyone.
And she herself is strong enough to slay those enemies to her feet, and she can stand in front of him neatly and confidently, and tell him that she is alive and well.
His thoughts stretched out for a long time, and when Chu Yunsheng came back to his senses, he realized that he had inadvertently burst into tears.
Yu Shenyuan on the side didn't seem to see it, he only raised his hand slightly, picked up the tea cup on the desk and took a sip elegantly, then raised his eyes, and fell to the center of the round platform and said, "Even if you cry dry, you can't afford this thing." β
Hearing this, although Chu Yunsheng knew in his heart that he was diverting his attention, he still glared at him with teary eyes, and said angrily: "Of course, I can't compare to you as rich as the country, by the way, you can take a closer look, and don't be robbed if there is really a stunning woman in the city." β
"A stunning woman?" Yu Shenyuan seemed to have heard some funny joke, turned his head, raised his eyebrows, and said with thousands of stars in his narrow Danfeng eyes: "Is there a woman in this world who is more beautiful than me?"
As soon as the words fell, Lao Bustard and Chu Yunsheng, who were listening clearly, were both angry. (To be continued.) )