Chapter Twenty-Three: Auction Chatter
The prepared Phantom Liberation Yang finally waited for the opportunity, and on a sunny morning, the Illusion Liberation Yang put on a full dress, the loose sleeves drooped the elder, the fat hem covered the top of the feet, and the belt tightly clamped his little belly.
Looking at himself in a woven gold brocade robe in the mirror, Phantom Shiyang was very dissatisfied, this dress was already very troublesome to wear, but I didn't expect it to be more awkward to wear, and it was difficult to walk, although the style of purple woven gold silk was very good-looking, but Phantom Shiyang had a feeling of being tied into a zongzi, and it was not as comfortable as the cloth robe with tight sleeves and tight clothes in the past.
But who made him worry about the spirit beasts in the auction! Although Phantom Tebei agreed to let Phantom Shiyang choose a few spirit beasts, he also released his conditions, and Phantom Shiyang had to follow the two of them throughout the whole process this time.
This condition sounds very simple, and Phantom Shiyang simply understands that his father just doesn't want him to run around and cause danger, so he readily agreed, but this early morning was wrapped like a zongzi, which made him feel as if it was not so simple.
After breakfast, Phantom Shiyang followed his parents out and went straight to the most lively auction house in the city, all the way to the road opened by soldiers in heavy armor, and the three people who were carefully protected by the soldiers were carried slowly by the Flame Lion King.
With such fanfare, the purpose of the phantom family is only one, to "show off". On the back of the huge and burly Flame Lion King, the three Phantom Family members looked very small, but in the eyes of the onlookers, they had already been infinitely magnified, and being able to raise a ninth-order spirit beast or such a fierce Flame Lion King must be glorious as a summoner family.
"Showmanship" is meant to be shown to others, so that the countless people from the Seven Kingdoms of the Human Race who have poured into Lionheart City to participate in the Spirit Beast Festival know that the Phantom Family is not weak, and they have enough strength to eat the beast tide every year, and they don't need the assistance of other forces.
It's been a long journey, at least that's what everyone around them who doesn't belong to Lionheart City thinks, but the Illusory Yang who is sitting on the back of the Flame Lion King also thinks so.
"Huang Da is walking too slowly, and it's not stable at all, when will he arrive!" Phantom Shiyang kept complaining in his heart, he didn't know that there was still this experience, but there might be many things he didn't expect.
Surrounded by the guards, Illusion Liberation Yang was carried into the venue by Fang Yuning, and he was naΓ―ve and defeated by reality again.
"Isn't the auction a group of people eating, drinking, patting prices, and buying things? How can there be so many people who don't need to buy tickets when they come in?" Seeing that there were more than 1,000 people in the venue, he couldn't help but secretly marvel.
Under the guidance of his parents yesterday, he thought that the auction would be a very short purchase link, and it would be over in one morning at most, but now it seems that it would be good to finish it in the evening, but the problem is that the spirit beast he wants is not here.
"I've been deceived!" Sensing his parents' tricks, Phantom Shiyang said in his heart, "They didn't plan to take me to the Spirit Beast Warehouse today, they definitely wanted to take me here for a whole day." β
The desperate Illusion Yang in his heart can only be helpless to accompany him, he can't let his parents lose face at this time in public!
But it's not all bad, Fang Yuning hugged him and quickly followed her husband upstairs, there were less than a hundred people in the hall on the second floor, all of them were VIPs who had booked a box, and they were specially waiting for the Phantom North couple here, and Phantom Shiyang felt a little more comfortable when he saw this situation.
Seeing the Phantom North couple coming up from downstairs, several people hurriedly came over to greet them.
"Hello Phantom City Lord! I am a protΓ©gΓ© of Haiyi Guoshi of the Tianma Kingdom, surnamed Huang, you can call me Xiao Huang, thanks to your invitation this time, our Tianma Kingdom has the honor to participate in this grand event!"
Phantom Bei was a little unhappy in his heart, "I send invitations every year and you don't reply, and then secretly send people behind my back, who are you bluffing? The Pegasus Kingdom's approach made Phantom North not very satisfied, but he also knew that Haiyi was also forced to survive in desperation.
"The senior apprentice of Haiyi Guoshi, who is also the same generation as me, how can you be called Xiao Huang! Brother Huang Xian, it was the subordinates who sent the invitation to the wrong one before, the Pegasus Kingdom is so close to my Lionheart City, how could I not invite neighbors and friends, so unkind!"
"Mrs. Phantom is holding Ling Gongzi in her hand! Look at the cleverness, it's really likeable!" said another envoy who came up.
"Shi Yang, say hello to Uncle Wu. Fang Yuning obviously knew the person in front of him, and he had no choice but to perfunctory the Illusory Liberation Yang Dao.
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An hour later, Phantom Shiyang was finally taken to the box, he finally relaxed without outsiders, his belt was untied, he took a few breaths, broke two bananas from the fruit plate on the side and gnawed them one by one, only hating that he couldn't take off this golden brocade robe, and he couldn't roll up his sleeves, and he was a little unhappy to eat.
The Phantom North couple chuckled and didn't care about him, and discussed several new people from different forces this time, and Haiyi's high-ranking disciple Xiao Huang was one of them.
"It seems that the attention of various forces to us has been reduced this year, otherwise Haiyi would not dare to let people come over in a bright light. β
Fang Yuning agreed: "The Southern Front Demon Clan has invaded from the sea on a large scale, and the entire border has retreated more than a hundred kilometers in a year, and several large coastal cities have been lost, the pressure is too great, and it is also appropriate for us to relax." β
Illusory Shiyang breathed a sigh of relief, and heard his parents complain in a lofty manner: "You all deceived me, and you are still pretending to be so serious there!"
Fang Yuning said innocently: "Where did I deceive you! β
"This is an auction? I just said hello to no less than 50 people, what Uncle Hei, Uncle Bai, Aunt Huang, Aunt Lu (Lu), Uncle Qing (Qin), who is who! What does it have to do with me?"
Fang Yuning suddenly became anxious, came over and grabbed Phantom Shiyang's ear and said, "I don't care about others, but that one just now is really your own uncle, and I really want to beat you if I talk nonsense." "It turned out that Fang Yuning's elder brother also rushed over from the Oath King Capital this time.
"Got it! let go, let go!" said Illusion Shiyang in pain.
Seeing Fang Yuning let go of his hand, Illusion Yang hurriedly retreated and shouted, "It's no problem for me to admit my uncle, I have to get my hands on the spirit beast first." β
At the same time, the people in the hall on the second floor who knew each other well also sat around the table in twos and threes after the Phantom North couple entered the box, and there were dozens of piles, and they did not return to the box in advance, and chatted before the auction began.
"Brother Fang, I heard that your nephew was almost killed not long ago, why don't you care more. One of the intelligence ministers of the Oath Kingdom said to a man with a delicate face beside him.
"Yes, maybe the master did it. A black-faced man sitting with him glanced at the laughing fat man in the distance and said, the fat man was Qi Tu's cousin.
The man surnamed Fang hurriedly said: "You can't say that, it's not so serious, it's all done by villains, it's forbidden to enter this city, it's really so easy to assassinate my nephew." β
"You can't say that, this Lionheart City seems to be tight now, but it can't keep the dog sitting at the table......" The black-faced man looked in the direction before and said, "One day their master's big black hand reached out, and then your brother-in-law ......"
"Who can say for sure!" replied the man surnamed Fang noncommittally.
"But the Phantom City Lord has slowed down in recent years, so he didn't want to mess with that fat man?" said Haiyi's apprentice Huang, sitting at the table.
"Eh, you don't know about this, Qi Tu and his father haven't been angry for a few years, it's really burning high incense. The Minister of Intelligence of the Kingdom of Oath said.
"What do you say?" asked the envoys of the Black Blade, Pegasus, and Moon Shadow at the table at the same time.
"The old boy Qi Yuan is jealous of the Phantom City Lord, and every year before the beast tide comes, he will ask our Majesty to play, and let His Majesty send his son Qi Tu to clear the beast tide, saying that he can't let the Phantom family take advantage of everything cheap. β
"It's really shameless, he's an old moth who dares to say that! This will be severely punished in our Black Blade Empire. The black-faced man before said.
"Listen to me! Our Majesty has always been merciful, and has been annoyed by Qi Yuan several times, all of which are thought of his old age and frailty, but I didn't expect him to come this year, our Majesty finally made a ruthless decision this time, and directly ordered to send Qi Tu to the northwest to clear the beast tide, and at the same time take over the defense of Lionheart City, and replace the Phantom North. β
"That old boy listened to the first half of the sentence, what are you waiting for him to listen to the second half of the sentence......" The Minister of Intelligence paused for a moment before he continued: "His legs were weak, and he was so frightened that he lay on the top of the hall, his head was like a rattle, and he shook and said, 'No need, Your Majesty'." β
The people sitting around the table laughed when they heard this, and they couldn't even hold back the man surnamed Fang who knew about it.
After laughing for a while, he listened to the Minister of Intelligence and said: "But the order has been issued, how can it be easily changed, Qi Tu was urged to report to Lionheart City in a few days, where did he dare to go, although he is said to be a military general, he can be regarded as a general, but he has never even been on the battlefield, and the position of general is all begged by his father with a shy face with our majesty." β
"What a shame, he's a general!"
"This time, relying on his father Qi Yuan, he stood in front of the palace without eating or drinking for three days under the heavy snow, and finally fainted. β
"But I didn't expect this kid to quit, he returned to the city and said that he wouldn't get off the horse, and he didn't even go to see his father who had passed out without eating or drinking for three days, guess what?"
Everyone was confused, only the man surnamed Fang had a helpless face, and only heard the last words of the intelligence minister, and once again pushed the emotions of everyone sitting around the table to *.
"That Qi Tu was scared to pee on the horse, and he didn't dare to dismount after returning to the city, and his pants were still wet when he was pulled off the horse!"