In an elegant box on the inner patio, two men and a maid stood respectfully on the side, and the steward on this floor asked with a smile on his face, "May I ask what the son and the young lady use?" ”

Rick was attracted by the lively auction atmosphere under the window, and he didn't have time to pay attention to him, so he waved his hand and said, "Just bring me twenty or thirty dishes." ”

The steward was stunned when he heard this, how could there be such a dish, making twenty or thirty dishes would be effortless for Yunxiao Pavilion. However, the price of these dishes is quite difficult to consider, as little as one gold coin, as much as hundreds of gold coins, how to distribute it, the steward is really embarrassed, and he also doubts, a meal of twenty or thirty dishes, can the few people in front of him eat it? Fortunately, the empathetic Chrissy said at the right time: "Send a set of tea sets first, we want to have a cup of tea first." The best dishes are served with nine dishes first, and then serve them if necessary. Seeing that Rick had no objections, the steward bowed down.

In the center of the courtyard in the Sky Pavilion, there is an auction hall, at this time the audience is crowded, as the price of the auction items rises to 100,000 gold coins, the sound of applause is higher and higher, and the scene is extremely lively. Rick had a clear view on the third floor, where a set of jeweled blue diamond jewelry was placed on the auction table in the center of the patio, and several wealthy businessmen were bidding at the instigation of the ladies around him. It can be seen that the women around those rich businessmen do not look like their inner relatives, and they are likely to be the Qinglou women in the East Pavilion. This can be seen that the Yunxiao Pavilion is not simple, and several Qinglou women moved their mouths, and easily let a piece of goods be sold for several times more than the original value.

The man brought a set of delicate white porcelain tea sets, and the flower waiters among the four phoenix attendants first cleaned the tea set with warm water, and then took out a tightly wrapped tea bag from the carry-on treasure bag. A handful of jade-green tea leaves were poured into the pot. She did this process elegantly and delicately. Apparently proficient in this. It's also the first time Rick has seen her make tea. He withdrew his gaze from the patio and watched intently as the flower waiter made tea. In fact, all of them were so impressed by the tranquility of her tea that they were making tea that they were afraid of ruining the atmosphere of tea drinking.

The history of tea drinking in Lanjiang is less than 1,000 years, but since the advent of tea, this calming drink has become more and more popular with people, with the development of history. Tea drinking gradually became a status symbol. Who drinks what kind of tea has become a conventional social etiquette in high society. Ordinary people generally do not drink tea, nor can they afford to drink tea, and the tea ceremony is only valued by the aristocracy in high society. Of course, Yunxiao Pavilion often receives all kinds of magnates and dignitaries, and the guys have naturally received special training in tea ceremony, they can distinguish the grade of tea, and they will know whether it is good tea at a glance. However, the two men and a maid standing in the box were very unfamiliar with the tea leaves in the hands of the flower waiter. But it is certain that such a tea with all colors and aromas should be the best of the best.

Tea is not boiled. The fragrance has penetrated the nose end, and not only the guys have never seen it. Even Rick is seeing it for the first time. When he was at Haggs, he drank tea with the forest camel a few times and listened to him talk about the tea ceremony. However, he now knew that the tea he had drunk before might have been made from leaves.

Rick took a deep sip of the aroma floating on the rim of the cup, and then drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, the feeling was really "soft as morning dew, dark as petals; As high as the middle of the court, the fish leaps and the whale floats", and the aura of the entire heaven and earth seems to be sucked into the stomach by itself.

"It's the best in the world. It's a pity that there is only one cup. Rick shook his head.

Chrissy sneered and said, "I'm afraid I won't have to taste it in the future, you just need to take the flower girl with you." ”

At the same time, Alva continued: "Good things should not be enjoyed all at once, and one cup is enough to make people remember forever." I am afraid that this kind of tea is not easy to get. ”

"Sister Yue is really good eyesight." Flower waiter.

"Dare to ask Miss, where can I buy this kind of tea." A fellow suddenly asked, it seemed that he was quite business-minded, and knew that if the Yunxiao Pavilion had this tea supply, those dignitaries would compete to taste it no matter how many gold coins they spent.

"In a far away place." Wind Servant Road.

The guy didn't ask anymore. He also knew that such tea would definitely not be prolific, and it was likely to be privately grown, or simply wild. However, he still kept the situation in mind and prepared to report it to the steward afterwards. Since the Sky Pavilion has taken a fancy to a good thing, it will desperately try to get its hands on it, and quickly turn it into a lot of gold coins. That's the secret of his success.

After the tea set was removed, the dish was quickly served. Before Rick could pick up the vegetables, there was already a "mountain of vegetables" piled up on the plate in front of him. Everyone, including Miss Emma, invariably served him food. Now he felt not happiness, but horror. It turns out that it's not good to have too many women, he sighed in his heart.

Emma opened her eyes and asked, "Brother Rick, why don't you eat it?" After speaking, he added a small hat to "Caishan". Rick's stomach twitched, he closed his eyes in pain, and bravely attacked "Nayama" with the spirit of "I don't go to hell, who will go to hell". I don't know if I can take it!

The meal was finally over, and Rick burped several times in a row. The steward brought the bill, and Rick asked Chrissy to pay the bill without even reading it, and ate a total of 500 gold coins for one meal. This number is enough for a well-off family for a year, and it seems that the Yunxiao Pavilion is really piled up with gold coins, and people with a little family background can't even stand on their feet here. (Blue Xinjiang currency exchange: one gold coin = one hundred copper coins, one copper coin can probably buy two steamed buns.) Before the Qinge Dynasty, Lanjiang also used crystal coins, one crystal coin = one hundred gold coins. Now this kind of crystal coin has been very rare, and gradually become an antique, and gold coins can be directly exchanged for huàn, but the value has far exceeded a hundred gold coins, about one crystal coin = one thousand gold coins, so most people will sell crystal coins as antiques. So far, there has been no such thing as silver coins on the Blue River, whether it is a historical accident or has something to do with the production of silver, or there is another reason, it is still a mystery for the time being. ）

Coming downstairs, Rick suddenly became interested, and suddenly squeezed into the auction room. Originally, a "rich man" like him could have sat in a box, condescending, and if he had anything to buy, he could just bid upstairs. But he likes to be lively, and no matter what status he has, he will drill wherever there is excitement.

At this time, two men came to the auction hall with a large iron box three feet square. The steward looked down on the box very much, and lazily pushed the deputy and said: "Tell them to put the box on the table, act quickly, if they can't sell it today, they will return it, and we will not lack the commission of a few hundred gold coins." ”

As soon as the iron box appeared, many people in the audience turned a blind eye, and many people simply turned their heads to greet friends, or simply flirted with the fans around them. I don't know who muttered: "It's been seven days of shooting, don't take out that pile of stuff to show ugliness." ”

It didn't sell for seven days, and Rick became intrigued by it.

When the box was opened, he was disappointed, those can also be auctioned? It's all broken copper and iron. It turned out that there were a bunch of broken swords in the box, all of them missing arms and legs, and none of them were intact. The only guy who looked like a sword, and he was missing a handle. Most of these daggers are rusty.

The deputy steward came to the stage and announced that the box of broken swords would start at 10,000 gold coins, and the audience was in an uproar. Someone sneered: "Yesterday it was 8,000, and today it will be 10,000, really take it as a treasure, see which unlucky ghost is fooled!" ”

Rick's heart moved, maybe these things were really useful. However, he was unwilling to spend 10,000 gold coins to buy a bunch of broken copper and iron, although he didn't care about that money. But people can't afford to lose it.

The deputy steward on stage began to urge the shooting. Alva suddenly walked up to Rick and said, "Childe, that's an unusual bunch of swords. ”

Rick knew that Alva, the goddess of the Nymph, rarely spoke, but the words she said carried a lot of weight.

Therefore, he quickly raised his hand and bid 10,000 gold coins. The deputy steward in charge of the auction on the stage looked at him in surprise, and he couldn't imagine that there was really a fool who hated too many gold coins. However, he did not hesitate, and quickly ordered the man to carry the iron box to Rick, and the two sides exchanged money. Rick then led the group out of the Sky Tower.

Along the way, Rick didn't say much, just asked Alva to put the iron box into that dimensional space.

Walking out of the Cloud Pavilion, it happened to be sunny in the snow, and the group found an inn and settled down.

Rick couldn't sit still, it was still early, he decided to go to the Fire Dragon Slave Auction to have a look, he had never seen an auction slave when he was so big.

The four phoenixes had no opinion, they were determined to follow Rick, but Chrissy and Alva did not want to go, on the one hand, they knew the chaos and filth of that occasion, and on the other hand, the two girls also wanted to communicate closely with each other. As two important women around Rick, it is necessary for them to discuss Rick's future. There are so many questions in Chrissy's mind that she desperately wants to find out what kind of mission Rick's future shoulders, and why more and more people are starting to gather around him, and many of them are women.

In the end, Rick had no choice but to take Sifeng and Emma to the slave auction in the east of the city.

The Fire Dragon Slave Auction House is different from its buildings in Yundu, in front of it, there is a wide square, and small slave transactions are carried out in the square. The slave auction house looks like a theater, and it can be called magnificent.

Rick leads the little girl Emma and the four phoenixes into the slave auction house, and is attracted by the hot auction scene, where slaves have become the easiest goods to trade, and anyone can take a large number of slaves from here in an instant as long as they can afford to pay the gold coins. (To be continued......)