In a dressing room in the background on the first floor of Wanhualou, Wan Ruyi sent everyone else out, and then whispered to Liu Menglu: "The loser of the Zhou family is here, and he will use 400,000 silver coins to redeem himself for you."

It's hard for me to refuse now, after all, the price of 400,000 silver coins, if I refuse, it's easy to make people suspicious.

I have to use the excuse that I have an agreement with you that if anyone wants to redeem you, it must be with your consent. ”

Liu Menglu smiled slightly, "Sister Ruyi, the current Zhou Rui is no longer a loser."

An all-steel battleship and two large armored cruisers were purchased, and four infantry regiments of more than three thousand men were expanded!

In this series of operations, the status of the Zhou family in Ganyang City not only did not decline because Zhou Xiaozheng was seriously injured and Zhou Kang was killed in battle, but it was also able to improve a lot, and there was already a faint momentum to suppress the other five families.

Such a person, where is still a loser! It seems that we have all been deceived by this Zhou Rui before! ”

"That ...... Young Master Zhou, it really seems that his speech is not the same as before, and even his temperament seems to have changed.

The rest is up to you, alas—how nice it would be if you were really my girl! ”

Liu Menglu stretched her waist, "Sister Ruyi, could it be that 400,000 silver coins made you tempted?" ”

"Hehe, or Menglu, you'll be gone! I think Young Master Zhou is infatuated with you. ”

"I'm reluctant to leave Sister Ruyi, I'll go over now, and I also want to know, where did the Zhou family get so much money?"

Wan Ruyi continued: "The Jiedu Mansion also asked our Intelligence Department to find out the origin of the Zhou family's huge sum of money as soon as possible, and also hoped that our Intelligence Department would closely monitor the Zhou family to see if the Zhou family had colluded with forces outside Fengwu Town." ”

Liu Menglu frowned, "Jiedu Mansion is now less and less able to control these families who control military power.

People will expand the army if they want to, and they will buy warships if they want to buy warships, and they won't even say hello to Jiedu Mansion. ”

Wan Ruyi shrugged, "We just need to do our own thing, and we won't have to worry about other things." ”

When Liu Menglu came to Zhou Rui's seat, she sat next to Zhou Rui with a smile, "I heard Sister Ruyi say that Young Master Zhou wants to use 400,000 silver coins to help me redeem myself?" Am I worth that many credits? ”

Zhou Rui looked at Liu Menglu, who was full of charm, and couldn't help but feel a little dry.

In the last life, since the collapse of the Zhou family, Zhou Rui, who has lived at the bottom of the society for more than ten years, although he has also secretly gone to the Qinglou to find women, but those women are basically cheaper in the Qinglou.

Now seeing a big beauty of Liu Menglu's level, Zhou Rui feels that his heart can't help but be a little restless.

"Yes, if Miss Menglu is willing, she can follow me out of Wanhualou tonight."

"Hehe, Young Master Zhou, are you willing to marry me?"

"Huh? Formal wedding? This one...... Miss Menglu, you should know that in a family like mine, who the wife chooses is not something I can decide alone.

But I can assure Miss Monlu that she is a concubine. ”

Zhou Rui's answer was the same as Liu Menglu expected, but it was a little different.

According to Liu Menglu's previous understanding of Zhou Rui, Zhou Rui, who has a flamboyant personality, will not speak so calmly.

"Young Master Zhou, I'm very sorry, I don't want to be a concubine for others.

My mother is a concubine, and I don't want to spend my life like my mother. ”

When Zhou Rui heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

How bad was she before, this Liu Menglu would rather stay in a place like Wanhualou than be her own woman.

As for Liu Menglu's saying that she doesn't want to be a concubine, in Zhou Rui's opinion, it is just an excuse.

"That's a pity, but it's okay, at least I'll be able to continue listening to Miss Monroe sing in the future.

Miss Monroe's singing voice is the most beautiful voice I have ever heard. ”

"Hehe, I found that Young Master Zhou is really getting better and better at talking."

Liu Menglu accompanied Zhou Rui to drink a few glasses of wine, and then said goodbye and left.

When Liu Menglu returned to the dressing room backstage, Wan Ruyi asked in a low voice, "How is it?" Did you get some out of it? ”

Liu Menglu shook her head, "This young master of the Zhou family does seem to be a different person, and the tone of his speech is very different from before, he may have been afraid of his eldest brother Zhou Kang before, and he has been hiding his clumsiness. ”

Wan Ruyi frowned and said, "It seems that we have to focus on investigating and monitoring the Zhou family next." ”

"Sister Ruyi, the investigation and monitoring of the Zhou family's affairs can only be handed over to your people, and those people under my command can only fight and kill."

"No problem, I'll ask you for help if you need it."

After Zhou Rui left Wanhualou and got into his car, Li Donghu said with some indignation: "Young General, this Miss Menglu is too ignorant of lifting, Wanhualou is ...... after all What the hell!

The major general was willing to spend 400,000 silver coins to ransom her, but she was still unwilling! ”

Zhou Rui smiled indifferently, "Everyone has their own ambitions, but if others don't want to, I can't force them."

And today I found out that this Miss Monlu doesn't seem to be very simple, if she is really taken away, there will be a lot of trouble in the future. ”

"Young Master, now ...... Go home? Li Donghu asked.

"Of course you go home, where can you go if you don't go home?"

"Young master, you forgot, at 12 o'clock tonight, there is an auction in the Nine Star Hotel, and I heard that there are fox beauties in the lot.

Since the young master is not short of money, why not buy a fox beauty?

I think the beauty of the fox clan should be no worse than that Miss Monlu! ”

"Auctions? Oh! Come to think of it, there was such an auction!

Then let's go see it tonight, let's go! Go to the Nine Star Hotel! There should be too late!

The sixteen brothers in the guard battalion, let them go back to their homes first, and by the way, I may not go back tonight. ”

At present, all countries in the world, including the Han and Tang Empires and the six major beast countries, have relatively sound laws, but there is inevitably still a dark side, such as the underground slave trade.

The nine-star hotel will hold auctions from time to time, and the auction items are varied, among which there will be slaves for auction, and most of them are beautiful slaves.

Hearing Li Donghu mention the auction, Zhou Rui suddenly remembered.

In my last life, I heard that at the auction of the Nine Star Hotel tonight, there were fox beauties who would be auctioned, and I rushed to the Nine Star Hotel to see how beautiful the fox beauties were.

It's a pity that because he entered the auction, he needed to pay a deposit of 30,000 silver coins in advance, but Zhou Rui, who was shy in his last life, didn't even enter the door of the auction.

Later, Zhou Rui didn't pay attention to this auction anymore, and he didn't know who bought the fox beauty.

The current Zhou Rui is not bad for money, if the fox beauties who are auctioned are really as beautiful as the legend, Zhou Rui doesn't mind losing once.

When Zhou Rui arrived at the Nine Star Hotel, it was only twenty minutes before 12 o'clock in the morning.

Under the guidance of the hotel waiter, Zhou Rui took Li Donghu and Li Dongbao all the way to a banquet hall on the top floor of the Nine Star Hotel.

After paying three golden tickets with a face value of 1,000 gold coins as a deposit for this auction, Zhou Rui received an auction card numbered seventeen.

Walking into the palatial banquet hall, Zhou Rui unexpectedly found several acquaintances, Cui Wentao of the Cui family, Chen Kai of the Chen family, Pang Bo of the Pang family, Dong Bixin of the Dong family, and Kong Youpeng of the Kong family, all of whom were sitting on the seats in the banquet hall at this time.

Cui Wentao, Chen Kai and others, seeing that Zhou Rui was also here, couldn't help frowning slightly.

The financial strength shown by the Zhou family recently is simply shocking.

Cui Wentao and Chen Kai participated in tonight's auction, mainly for one goal, and now Zhou Rui is also here, which is equivalent to adding another strong opponent.

Zhou Rui also felt very strange when he saw these five people, these five people can be said to be the leaders of the next generation of their respective families, could it be that they are all running for the beauties of the fox clan like himself?

At 12 o'clock in the morning, a leonin in a suit stepped up to the podium in the banquet hall.

"Everyone, welcome to tonight's auction!

The sixteen lots we have prepared for you tonight will definitely satisfy you.

Below is the first lot, an amphora from about a thousand years ago, with a starting price of 4,000 silver coins and a minimum price of 200 silver coins each time! ”

Zhou Rui has no interest in antiques, jewelry, and real estate, and Zhou Rui has not even raised the four antiques, four jewelry, and three properties in front of the auction.

The twelfth lot is a newly discovered coal mine near Ganyang City, with reserves estimated at more than 3 million tons.

Zhou Rui had never heard of this coal mine in his previous life, and he felt that it should not be a large coal mine with huge reserves, so Zhou Rui did not participate in the bidding.

The coal mine was eventually bought by Dong Bixin of the Dong family.

When the thirteenth auction item appeared, Zhou Rui's eyes were full of shock, and he almost stood up excitedly.