The old shadow and the others looked at each other, but they didn't understand the meaning of Lin Ruhai's words. Lin Ruhai hooked his lips slightly and smiled: "Although the chief is not obvious on his face, he is actually shrewd inside." It's not that he doesn't know the Great Elder's true intention of leading us to the auction, it's just that he doesn't want to tear his face with the Great Elder. However, he didn't want to offend us, otherwise he wouldn't have proposed to introduce us to the owner of the gem mine. ”

"Then why didn't the master ignore the chief's words and buy gems directly from the owner of the gem mine?" Uncle Eight asked.

"Although I am not afraid of the Great Elder, I don't want to be his enemy, not to mention that he has a good saying, the best gems should be in the hands of those foreign gem merchants, but it is a matter that can be solved with a few more silver, so why bother?"

Everyone also knows that although Linjia Island is the most victorious, but the population is too small is also their disadvantage, and many tasks need to be done by the aborigines on other islands, such as the two iron mines they sold, they found local strong labor to mine, otherwise the two hundred secret guards on Linjia Island alone are not enough. Therefore, maintaining a good relationship with the surrounding islands is very necessary for today's Linjia Island.

"When this happens, my subordinates will send people out to find orphans, so that our Linjia Island will also prosper as soon as possible!" The old shadow muttered.

"How many orphans have been brought to the island today?" Lin Ruhai asked.

"There are less than a hundred, and more than half of them are still milk dolls. There are only four who can go out of the school, and the fifty grandfather said that these four will be small servants and guards for the young master, and the others will have to be trained for a few more years. ”

"Hmmm! When you go out to look for orphans, try to avoid the islands near us, and go to Daming everywhere to look for them, and the most important thing is to rather lack than overuse. ”

"Yes! Subordinates understand! "The old shadow thought the same thing in his heart, so most of the nearly 100 orphans on the island today were found by Da Ming, and only a few were found from Goryeo and Tatar, and he was also thinking about what might be of use to the young master in the future. In their hearts, they still think that they are not of my race, and their hearts must be different, of course, they still have to try to find Daming's orphans to be more assured.

After the conclusion was reached, everyone stopped talking and just waited for the auction tomorrow, so they went back to the house and slept without mentioning it.

The next day, in the evening, Rotlett sent someone to pick up Lin Ruhai, and Lin Ruhai took the old shadow and his party to the palace of Rotlett again. There were already several ice basins around the palace, and it was noticeably cooler than when I came yesterday.

"Hahaha! Lord Lin, this recipe you gave is really good, you see how cool and pleasant it is in my palace! Rottlett happily gave Lin Ruhai a seat.

Lin Ruhai's carriage also placed an ice basin, so he didn't sweat any sweat on the way, and when he entered the palace of Rotlet, he felt that it was like two worlds compared to the outside, so he smiled and said: "Chief, although this ice can remove the heat, but if you use it too much, it will also hurt your body, beware of the wind and cold!" ”

"Oh! I know, I'll pay attention to it in the future! Rottlett said seriously. Now Rotlett is very convinced of Lin Ruhai, Lin Ruhai's words are almost good words to him, how can he not listen?

Lin Ruhai had dinner with him in Rotlet's palace, and then drove to the auction venue together. The auction was held in a restaurant near the marina. This restaurant was opened by a businessman from a Western country, and of course he held the auction.

Rottlett entered the restaurant with Lin Ruhai, and saw a very tall middle-aged man walking towards them and saluting Rottlett respectfully. The man was extremely white, blonde and blue-eyed, and had a very exaggerated hooked nose. Lin Ruhai glanced at Uncle Twenty-Seven and got a positive answer from Uncle Twenty-Seven, this man was the one who met with the Great Elder last night.

Rottlett introduced Lin Ruhai with a smile: "Lord Lin Island, this is Mr. Smith, his father is an earl, and his family is also a nobleman in their country. Mr. Smith, this is the owner of Linjia Island! ”

"Hello Lord Lin! An honor to meet you? I have also heard of you and your Lin Jia Island, and I have always wanted to get to know the owner of Lin Island, but I have never had the opportunity! Smith gave Lin Ruhai a very respectful and elegant salute.

Lin Ruhai smiled and nodded, "Mr. Smith is polite!" ”

Smith led Rottlett and Lin Ruhai to a private room, which was not very large, with only a railing on one side, facing a small round platform in the hall below. Smith ordered refreshments and fruit and left. It didn't take long for the guy at the restaurant to bring in a booklet with the items to be auctioned at today's auction.

Lin Ruhai glanced at it roughly, and saw a pink diamond and two bags of high-grade fire oil diamonds of different sizes on it, yesterday the twenty-seventh uncle clearly told him that the Great Elder gave that Smith a bag of gems, but today these gems were divided into three points, this Great Elder is too greedy, does he really regard him Lin Ruhai as a wronged leader?

Lin Ruhai looked through it carefully, and among the goods in today's auction, there were only these three gemstones, and the others were spices, porcelain, pearls, silk and other items. It seems that this Great Elder really took great pains to get him to sell those gems at a high price.

Lin Ruhai sneered in his heart, he could indulge the Great Elder's greed, but he couldn't tolerate the Great Elder calculating him like this. Quietly gave the old shadow a look, the old shadow nodded slightly, and quietly said a few words to Uncle Twenty-seven, and Uncle Twenty-seven took advantage of people's inattention to leave the private room.

After another cup of tea, the auction officially began. Today's auction is hosted by Smith himself, who is wearing a silver-gray Western-style tuxedo suit with a golden pocket watch hanging from his chest, he looks down at the time on the pocket watch, and puts the pocket watch in his breast pocket.

"Distinguished guests, this auction is now officially open! First of all, I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to all of you for coming, and I hope you can harvest your favorite goods tonight! So let's start the auction of the first item of the day......"

After several rounds of bidding, the first item, a pair of blue and white porcelain vases, was successfully auctioned off by a Malay. The next few items also found their new owners very smoothly, but the prices of the transactions were not very high, of course, those goods were just ordinary things in Lin Ruhai's eyes.