Chapter 8: The Reconvened Council of Elders
This special jade currency was the most popular in the Celestial Dragon Dynasty, and there were four types of coins, namely gold, silver, copper, and iron, with one gold coin equivalent to ten silver coins, and so on.
Wang Lung's 600 gold coins are considered a lot of wealth, and the Wang family, as the head of the three major families, has a total income of only 200 gold coins a year, so Wang Lung is also a little sure of getting the stone cave chalcedony in tomorrow's auction.
Walking out of the Wanli Pavilion, it was already evening, Wang Lung no longer stayed, and when he returned to Wang's house after passing through a patch of red and willow green, so that at night, Wang Lung had been running the Qi Refining Technique in his body for a week, and then rested.
Soon, after the night passed, Wang Lung got up early, came to the back mountain, and after practicing the wild fist, he rushed to Huajian Fang to participate in the auction held by Wanli Pavilion today.
At the same time, the large and small family forces in Tiankeng Town who got the news also began to rush to Wanli Pavilion, and the Wang family, as the head of the three major families in Tiankeng Town, was naturally no exception, led by the Great Elder, and the group rushed to Wanli Pavilion.
When Wang Lung came to Wanli Pavilion, there was already a long queue in front of the door of Wanli Pavilion, and Wang Lung had to line up behind, this was the great elder who arrived with a few outstanding children of the Wang family, and this time he brought them out, but also intentionally wanted them to have a long experience.
When those children saw that Wang Lung was also queuing, they couldn't help but start talking about it, laughing while talking, and at the same time pointed at Wang Lung who was queuing up with their fingers, the meaning couldn't be more obvious, Wang Lung didn't care, with his current strength, there was no need to argue with them.
At this moment, Master Wu happened to come back from his friend Master Liu to study the refining method of Xiao Lingyu, and when he passed by the door, he found that Wang Lung was actually queuing, so he walked towards Wang Long.
The children of the Wang family behind the Great Elder who were laughing at Wang Lung also found that Master Wu was coming towards him at this time, and as the descendants of the Wang family, he naturally knew the only third-order elixir master in Tiankeng Town.
At this time, when they saw Master Wu walking towards them, they couldn't help but be very excited in their hearts, could it be that Master Wu saw his talent in the elixir, so he came to take him as an apprentice, just when they were fantasizing about a better future, they found that Master Wu bypassed them and walked in front of Wang Lung.
"Xiaoyou is here to participate in today's auction, then come in with me", Master Wu stepped forward and asked, seeing Wang Lung nodded, he sent out an invitation, Wang Lung had already heard enough of their cynicism, so naturally he would not refuse, so he followed Master Wu into the door of Wanli Pavilion together, and only stopped when he came to an Accord on the fourth floor.
"Then I have wronged the little friend waiting here", after Master Wu finished speaking, he took Wang Lung into the Accord, and then left.
And when everyone on the side saw Master Wu personally greet Wang Long, their jaws dropped in shock, and even the Great Elder was a little surprised, revealing a contemplative expression.
After a while, after the people who arrived were seated, a platform slowly rose on a high platform surrounded by many accords, and a bewitching woman's figure appeared.
"Welcome to the auction held by my Wanli Pavilion." Yu'er smiled, that smile was full of amorous charm, which made the eyes of many men in the audience glow golden.
"Now start selling the first treasure, a pair of heart arms, the starting price is ten gold coins, each increase must not be less than one gold coin, now start to increase the price." Yu'er winked at the audience after speaking.
Under this stimulus, the people in the audience also began to bid frantically, until the auction of eighty-five gold coins, only a few people were left shouting, and finally by the leftmost room on the third floor, with ninety gold coins, Wang Lung tried to try the spiritual sense, and found that these Accords could actually block the spiritual sense, so he gave up this move.
Then there were a few more treasures, Wang Lung had no interest in making a move because he was thinking about the stone cave chalcedony, they were a long knife and two sets of yellow-level high-level exercises, the long knife was auctioned by the Li family for 80 gold coins, and one of the yellow-level high-level exercises was auctioned by the Wang family for 145 gold coins, and the other was auctioned by the Zhang family for 137 gold coins.
After a while, it was finally Wang Lung's turn to wait for the stone cave chalcedony, Wang Lung hurriedly opened his closed eyes, his heart was a little excited, and the long-awaited stone cave chalcedony was in front of him.
At this time, Yu'er began to introduce: "Stone cave chalcedony, with the effect of washing the marrow and changing bones, the higher the year, the better the effect, the starting price is one hundred gold coins, and each increase cannot be less than ten gold coins."
Because the starting price is too high, it blocked a large number of people, only a few Accords on the third floor are still bidding, and when it reaches 300 gold coins, only the Zhang family, the Wang family and the Li family are still bidding.
Seeing this, Wang Lung no longer hesitated, and directly quoted 400 gold coins, looking at the sudden price increase, everyone was looking for who was so arrogant, and even added a hundred gold coins at once, and when he found that the owner of the voice was on the fourth floor, he whispered: "When did such a person come to Tiankeng Town to sit in the Accord on the fourth floor?"
Only a few insiders, including the Great Elder, knew that it was none other than Wang Lung, who had always been called "waste", which made Wang Lung add a bit of magic to the eyes of the Great Elder.
In the Accord where the Zhang family is located on the third floor, Zhang Tianzhi also came with the second elder of the Zhang family today, before Master Wu welcomed Wang Long into the door, he also saw it inadvertently, and then thought of Master Wu beating his own servants a few days ago.
He naturally didn't dare to blame Master Wu, so he blamed all this on Wang Lung, thinking that Wang Lung made him so ugly, seeing that Wang Lung looked like he was bound to win the stone cave chalcedony, he would definitely not let go of such a good opportunity to pit Wang Long, so he said: "450 gold coins!"
The Zhang family also knows who is in the Accord on the fourth floor, even if they are a little angry, it is impossible to fight in the public in the public, and naturally they will not bid again, and the Li family has also begun to rank at the bottom of the three major families because of the strong rise of the Zhang family, and it is impossible to risk offending the big man on the fourth floor, so naturally they are happy to be a favor, so they will no longer bid.
Only Zhang Tianzhi and Wang Long were left in the audience, and the two were raising each other's prices.
"500 gold coins!" Wang Lung saw that there were people bidding in the Accord on the third floor, but the other two were silent, but because the Accord had the function of shielding the divine sense, Wang Lung didn't know who was bidding with him, and after waiting for a while, he reported a number.
At this time, Zhang Tianzhi still wanted to bid again, but the second elder of the Zhang family next to him hurriedly stopped: "Second young master, we only brought 500 gold coins this time, don't forget the business behind." Zhang Tianzhi thought about it, and when he went out today, his father explained his task, but he really couldn't swallow this breath.
Zhang Renzhu, the second elder of the Zhang family, saw that his second young master refused to give up, so he had to persuade again: "Why should the second young master fight for a while!" Zhang Renzhu had not seen the scene of Master Wu inviting Wang Long before, because he had entered Wanli Pavilion in batches with Zhang Tianzhi, so he didn't know who was on the fourth floor.
When Zhang Tianzhi heard this, he felt that he still focused on the task assigned to him by his father, although he didn't know what method Wang Lung used to enter the Accord on the fourth floor, but he couldn't believe that Wang Lung could fly on the branches and become a phoenix overnight, so he naturally felt that there was an opportunity to rectify Wang Lung in the future, so he gave up the bidding.
Wang Lung was still a little worried, after all, the price was about to reach his limit, but he didn't think that the voice on the third floor didn't sound again, and he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, the last spiritual material stone cave chalcedony of the little spirit jade that had been waiting for a long time was finally successfully obtained.
Seeing that no one was bidding, Yu'er on the stage knocked down the gavel in her hand, and this auction could be regarded as settled, since she had obtained the last spiritual material, Wang Lung also lost interest in the next auctioned items.
Hurriedly left from the special passage set up by Wanli Pavilion in order not to reveal the identity of the people in the Accord, and when he left, he saw Yu'er blinking in his direction, it seemed that Yu'er also knew that he was on the fourth floor, which accelerated the pace of Wang Lung's escape.
Out of the back door of the Wanli Pavilion, Wang Lung noticed a few black shadows following him, made a few turns, and after getting rid of those black shadows, he went straight to the last medicine shop to buy the jade dew juice and spirit core that he had used up before, and he was still received by Wang Liu, so he gave Wang 60 copper coins, Wang Liu took the tip and sent Wang Lung to the door, the auction was also over, and the forces of all parties had begun to return, Wang Lung no longer stayed, and returned to Wang's house.
As soon as Wang Lung arrived at the Wang family compound, he found that Zhao Quan, the patriarch's cronies who had also been the best to Wang Lung, had already been waiting in the courtyard, looking at Zhao Quan's somewhat anxious look and the pace of wandering back and forth, he thought: "Is there something urgent?" Thinking of this, he hurriedly went up and shouted: "Uncle Zhao, but what's the urgency?"
Zhao Quan was thinking about his thoughts, but when he heard a familiar voice, he raised his head and looked around, and found that it was Wang Long, who he had been waiting for a long time, calling himself, and hurriedly greeted him and said: "The Great Elder brought back a message just now, and now the Council of Elders is being held, the patriarch just ordered to wait for you to come back, let you also go in to observe, look at the frowning brow, it seems that there is something important, you go quickly." ”
After speaking, he pulled Wang Lung and rushed to the conference hall, along the way, Wang Lung was thinking about the reason, was it because the Great Elder saw that I had a close relationship with Master Wu, or did something big happen after I left?
After a while, he heard Uncle Zhao shouting to himself, and when he looked up, he found that Zhao Quan had come to the door of the conference room with him, and was calling for himself to enter, he was also too involved in thinking about it, so he didn't notice this.
After thinking about it, Wang Lung no longer hesitated, and stepped into the conference room, as soon as he entered the conference room, Wang Lung heard a "hum" He looked carefully, and found that it was the nose of the third elder who exhaled, "What do you see, it's so late, let's all wait, it's really a big shelf."
Seeing that Wang Lung dared to look at him, the three elders spoke, and his appearance was full of dissatisfaction with Wang Lung.