Yingyi lowered her head and said respectfully: "There are about 50,000 taels in the slave's hand, plus those silver tickets handed over to the Pearl Pavilion, the remaining amount should be around 70,000 taels." ”

"Seventy thousand taels ......" Gongliang Rongruo muttered to himself, his fingers tapping on the table. For this auction, he asked Yingyi to bring all the profits of Tianqin Pavilion over the years, a full 270,000 taels, he thought that it was enough for anything, but now it seems that it is a little dangerous.

After signaling Yingyi to continue bidding, he asked Xiao Shunzi to ask Pearl Pavilion to borrow pen and ink, wrote down a note for taking 200,000 taels of silver, and took out the green jade Jiaolong Seal that he carried with him, stamped it, and handed it to Xiao Shunzi, "You take my edict and go to the household department immediately, and ask the household department Shangshu to take 200,000 silver taels." He originally guessed that Yingyi's silver ticket might not be enough, so he specially brought this seal, but he didn't expect it to come in handy.

When Xiao Shunzi left, the price had already reached 250,000 taels, close to the limit of their current use, and the rules of the Pearl Pavilion have always been that they are not allowed to shout indiscriminately when the guests have no guarantee.

Seeing that the other party was still raising the price, Gongliang Rongruo called Yingyi and ordered: "You go and discuss with them, and delay the auction for half an hour, I believe that they will not have trouble with the silver." ”

Yingyi agreed, walked to the stage, and whispered a few words to the middle-aged man, who looked embarrassed, "This is not in accordance with the rules." ”

Yingyi smiled slightly, "I understand, but the higher the price, the more profit Pearl Pavilion will gain, besides, this is not without precedent." Please also ask my husband to be accommodating, my son-in-law is really sincere. ”

At an auction a few years ago, several princes and nobles refused to give in to each other for a rare treasure, and the bidding was fierce, and one of them did not bring enough silver, and he had some friendship with the owner of the Pearl Pavilion, so he deliberately delayed for a quarter of an hour to let him go back to his house to get the silver.

Seeing that Yingyi brought this matter out, the middle-aged man was a little helpless, and beckoned a little guy to whisper, and the little guy nodded and left. After a while, he returned, whispering a few words in the middle-aged man's ear.

"Got it." After sending the little girl away, the middle-aged man smiled and said, "My boss has agreed to the girl's request, and this auction will be extended for half an hour according to the girl's request." ”

"Thank you, sir." Yingyi gave a shallow salute and turned to step down. After she left, the middle-aged man said to the guests below: "At the request of the No. 13 distinguished guest, this auction has been delayed for half an hour. ”

As soon as these words came out, several guests who participated in the auction were suddenly unhappy and questioned one after another. However, the middle-aged man didn't pay attention to it, just smiled coldly, and said lightly: "This is agreed by the owner of our pavilion, if a few distinguished guests don't agree, you can leave now, Pearl Pavilion will not stop you, please!" ”

Although those people couldn't be angry with the arrogance of the Pearl Pavilion, they couldn't bear those three questions after all, so they could only forcibly swallow this breath.

When half an hour was approaching, Xiao Shunzi ran to Gongliang Rongruo's side out of breath, didn't care about taking a breath, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the servant has handed over the 200,000 taels of silver tickets to the account office of the Pearl Pavilion, and you can ask for another price." ”

"Good!" Gongliang Rongruo nodded with satisfaction, and after the auction restarted, he added 120,000 taels in one go, raising the price to 400,000 taels.

As soon as this price came out, the entire Pearl Pavilion was boiling, and they all speculated about the origin of this thirteenth guest. As for the rich businessmen, their faces were extremely ugly, although they had a lot of money, they couldn't withstand such a sky-high bidding, so they had no choice but to withdraw from the auction.

"Four hundred and twenty thousand taels." It was a thin old man who shouted the price, although he was still continuing, but his hands were already trembling, and he was obviously about to lose it.

"Four hundred and fifty thousand." Gongliang Rongruo took the folding fan resting on the table and shook it gently. He is determined to win these three problems, and no one wants to take them away from him.

Hearing this price, the old man's face was like ashes, his lips trembled a few times, and he didn't shout out again after all. With the hammer of the middle-aged man, Gongliangrong got the right to ask those three questions as he wished.

The middle-aged man came to Gongliang Rongruo's side and said respectfully: "What is this son's name?" ”

Yingyi replied: "My son-in-law is surnamed Gongliang. ”

"It turned out to be a good son." The middle-aged man arched his hand and said, "Congratulations to Gongliang Gongzi for winning the most expensive thing in the history of this pavilion." Mr. Tianji is already waiting in the East Courtyard, please come with me. ”

"There is labor." Gongliang Rongruo casually closed the folding fan, and took Xiao Shunzi and Yingyi through the atrium of the front yard to a small courtyard on the east side.

In the warm pavilion, heavy shark yarn falls to the sky, separating the warm pavilion from it, on the long table near the window, there is a gilded beast head copper furnace, the furnace is burning with a quiet smell of Suhe incense, and the fine green smoke rises from the furnace hole, and disperses into every corner of the room.

No matter how hard Yingyi tried her best, she could only vaguely see a person sitting behind the curtain, as for whether the person was a man or a woman, and what he looked like, she couldn't see it clearly.

"My son-in-law is inside, just ask any questions you have. Remember, I can only ask three, and I must not involve my son-in-law himself. Zhao Feng's maid Yingchun said.

Xiao Shunzi was also very dissatisfied with the curtain, frowned and said: "My son-in-law spent more than 400,000 taels of silver to take pictures of the right to ask questions this time, shouldn't Mr. Tianji meet him?" ”

Yingchun glanced at him and said unceremoniously: "Don't say that it's only more than 400,000 taels, even if it's more than 4 million taels, you may not be qualified to see my husband!" ”

When Xiao Shunzi heard this, his face immediately sank, and he scolded: "You girl, you are not very old, but your tone is very big!" ”

Yingchun didn't put his anger in his eyes, and said indifferently: "In short, Mr. won't see you, if you don't want to, please go back!" ”

When Xiao Shunzi wanted to say more, Gongliang Rongruo had already said: "Stand down!" ”

Seeing that he spoke, Xiao Shunzi didn't dare to say more, and bowed down and took a few steps back. Gongliang Rongruo stared at the layers of shark yarn with sharp eyes, as if he wanted to cut them, "Mr. Tianji really knows nothing, knows nothing?" ”

Zhao Feng, who was sitting behind the curtain, said in a light tone: "If I can't answer, the silver will be returned twice." ”

"Okay." Gongliang Rongruo nodded slowly, "First question, who is in the hands of the Dark Night Camp?" ”

Really......

Zhao Feng smiled silently and said slowly: "Since its establishment, the Dark Night Camp has been in the hands of those in power in the Song Kingdom, and it has been passed down from generation to generation. ”

Gongliang Rongruo's eyes were cold, and he said coldly: "It seems that Mr. Tianji is just a vain." ”

"Listen to you, I seem to be wrong?"

Gongliangrong smiled coldly, "As far as I know, the Night Camp is not in His Majesty's hands at all, isn't it wrong?" ”

As soon as the words fell, a chuckle of "snort" came from behind the curtain, which was quite sarcastic, which made him unhappy in his heart, and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"When did I say that the Dark Night Camp was in the hands of Emperor Song? In my opinion, the one in Xingdedian is not the ruler of the Song Kingdom at all. ”