On both sides of the spacious streets, stalls selling all kinds of goods are neatly placed, and the vendors standing behind the stalls are attentive to the guests who come to buy their own things, introducing their goods. Buyers will bargain with vendors for their favorite items in order to get some attractive discounts.

The middle of the avenue was originally a place for horse-drawn carriages to pass, but today there are a lot of people on the street, and the paths on both sides are obviously no longer able to stop with the pedestrians rubbing their shoulders, and I don't know who led the way to the middle of the street, which immediately attracted countless people to follow suit;

"Let's go, let's go!" The occasional hysterical roar was noticeable on the crowded and noisy street, but it was quickly drowned out by the noise of the crowd. As a last resort, the passing carriages and horses could only muster up the courage to squeeze with the pedestrians who occupied the middle lane, and they did not squeeze many steps to squeeze around, which was even slower than the people walking.

"Tsk, brother, we have to keep the horses in the stable!" Wang Luotong frowned as he looked at the street in front of him that was about to not even be able to insert a needle.

Without waiting for Mo Shuang to answer, the little official in the post station next to him greeted him with a smile on his face and said, "What this guest officer said is that the horses are absolutely safe when they are placed here with me." When you enter the city in front of you, you think about riding a horse and driving, and you two look at the streets in the city, it is better to walk on horseback. The price here is absolutely fair, don't worry!"

Mo Shuang didn't speak, and directly led the horses to the little official, who took the two horses and said, "Pay the deposit first, and two taels of silver." ”

"Two taels of deposit?" Wang Luotong widened his eyes and said angrily: "The most expensive in other places is only six yuan!"

"Yo, guest officer, where can Tianzhuo City compare with other places these days, the two of you are here to participate in the tea tasting party. Recently, there have been a lot of people, and many post stations are full, so there are still a few vacant seats in our house. Besides, if you inquire about the price elsewhere, I will not charge it very much!"

"How much do you have to pay later?" Wang Luotong said angrily.

"Three taels of silver for a horse, six taels in all. The little official smiled.

"I think you're fucking robbing money!" Wang Luotong said that he was going to take the horse away.

"If you want to take it away, take it away, why are you scolding, you are!" the little official was also a little angry.

Just as the gunpowder between the two was about to be ignited and erupted, a silver bead was handed to the little official. The little official's eyes lit up suddenly, and he hurriedly put away the beads and led the horses away.

"You!" Wang Luotong looked at Mo Shuang, and said with some anger and amusement: "Little brother, I really feel a little distressed that you have made a generous move along the way!"

Mo Shuang frowned slightly and said, "Yinzhu, it's already the smallest denomination." ”

Wang Luotong was immediately stopped on the spot, and said helplessly for a long time: "...... Okay, I don't have anything to say here. Let's find a money dealer to exchange some copper coins and loose silver. ”

"So much for the best. Mo Shuang nodded, and he really forgot to change money along the way.

The two walked into the city and suddenly felt a wave of heat rushing towards them.

"Keep up!" Although it was not far away, Wang Luotong still shouted out with his loudest voice.

The two of them walked with the crowd, and because there were so many people, they could hardly distinguish the direction, so they couldn't help but go wrong a few times in a daze, and then turn back and find their way again.

It was so difficult to walk, and when the sun went down and the moon rose, and the people on the street were finally less than half, the two of them walked to their destination, which could have been completed with two incense sticks, and the two of them took most of the day.

"It's time to arrive. Wang Luotong looked at the old mansion in front of him and breathed a sigh of relief, and led the ink cream to go inside; patiently waited for the ink cream to redeem the loose money, and then took him across the arch bridge in front, bypassed several high-rise buildings, and came to a huge courtyard; there was a luxurious big restaurant near the wall; Wang Luotong pointed to the restaurant and said: "This is the backyard of Zizai Xianshan Villa, and this restaurant belongs to their family." The day after tomorrow is the tea party, and today we will definitely pick up people, let's go inside to rest. ”

When I arrived at the restaurant, although there were many people, the luxurious and spacious hall easily accommodated these guests. Seeing that the two were about to come in, the little guy who greeted the guests at the door bowed to the two of them and said politely with a smile on his face: "Two guest officers, do you have an invitation?"

Just when Moshuang didn't know what to do, I saw Wang Luotong take out a red and gold-edged invitation card from his arms and hand it to the little guy, who opened it and looked at it and said with a smile: "It turned out to be the Wang family of Huanshuichuan, there is a loss of welcome, please inside, please inside!"

waited until the little maid welcomed the two into the private room of the restaurant, and Wang Luotong and the two finished ordering. Mo Shuangcai said: "Do you have an invitation card and still live in the broken temple?" The voice was faint, there was no complaint, it seemed to be a curious random question.

"This restaurant was opened three days before the tea tasting meeting, and it was specially designed to welcome people with golden posts. You should be given a month to eat for nothing!" Wang Luotong picked up the melon seeds in the delicate small plate and knocked them.

"Don't want money?" Mo Shuang is a little strange, the first time I saw a restaurant that didn't need money, and this restaurant is so luxuriously decorated and has many small houses, no matter how you look at it, it's a lot of expenses, and it's eighty percent of it is raised in the idle villa. But it is indeed a waste to open a restaurant in this villa but not operate it.

"No, this restaurant is mainly used to receive people with gold and Cambodia for tea tasting, and it is usually operated sometimes, but the objects are all palace nobles, and ordinary people can't get in even if they have money. Wang Luotong had a smile on his face, and after a while, he suddenly said: "Little brother, I found that after this journey, your curiosity finally can't be held back?"

Ink Cream was slightly embarrassed, although she tried her best to restrain her curiosity all the way, firstly, so as not to ask any unpopular questions and be laughed at, and secondly, she did not pretend to be old outside, for fear of being fooled. However, there are still times when I can't restrain myself, but when I think about it, the questions I asked are not so embarrassing.

Wang Luotong looked at Mo Shuang and was silent, patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Young man, it's not a bad thing to ask more." Look at your shallow experience in the rivers and lakes, let's come out for the first time!"

“...... Hmmm......" Ink Frost knew that she couldn't hide it, so she simply admitted it.

"It's always good to hone and hone on the rivers and lakes, and it's always good for young people to have a long and knowledgeable experience. There are a lot of strange things in this world. Wang Luotong took a sip of wine and said: "There are wonders in the world, and there are all things in the world, and they are all unpredictable." ”

Looking at the exquisite dishes served by the little servant, Wang Luotong unceremoniously picked it up and said: "You are also lucky, you followed me to the tea tasting party, and when the conference begins, you will have a long experience." ”

Ink Cream slowly sandwiched the dish and said, "...... Tea is just bought and sold. ”

Wang Luotong said with a smile: "Little brother is wrong, the tea is just a beginning, after the first three horses are auctioned, the latter is the main one." Otherwise, do you think that a mere tea auction can make people from all over the country crowd here?"

"What is the Lord?"

"You will know on the day of the conference!" Wang Luotong pretended to be mysterious, and then said with a serious expression: "But the purpose of our visit is not to buy tea and drink tea. Things still have to be retrieved as soon as possible, lest they be unable to deliver. ”

Ink Frost nodded faintly, the two of them didn't talk much, and went to the guest room to rest after eating and drinking.

Two days later, the Leisure Villa was officially opened to the public, and all those with and without invitations were accepted, but those without invitations could only sit on the periphery of the main field, that is, the outer courtyard, and those with invitations were divided into the main field.

Walk through the finely carved white marble corridor and many elegant pavilions, walk through the green space with green grass and rockery, and flow through the man-made creek and blue lake in the courtyard. After a crowd shoulder to shoulder, the idlers began to scatter in all directions, those who did not have invitations consciously stopped, and those who had invitations went to a strange attic and took their seats with them.

The two of them chose a private room with an unobstructed view of the interior and exterior and sat down. The subordinates of the villa put a pot of good dragon wells, a pot of mellow spirits and a few plates of small and beautiful food on the table of the two, and then consciously retreated.

"Do you think Wang Hu will sell the tea cakes?" asked Ink Frost the question she had been hiding, "It's just half a piece." ”

Wang Luotong shook his head and said: "Little brother, that half of the tea cake is the best "glutinous fragrant Nanyun"; this kind of tea is produced on the ice field, and the yield is very small, and the half of the tea cake collected by the master is soaked for a hundred years, and it has always been regarded as a treasure and is not willing to drink." Not to mention half a piece, even if it is skimmed a little from above, it is also worth a fortune!"

Ink Frost nodded and said, "In this way, it can be sold for a good price." ”

"Well, I'll see if there are any in the first three games, and if not, I'll have to bother the little brother to go around and take a look. If I were to leave at the same time, it would be unpleasant. Wang Luotong scratched his beard.

Ink Frost nodded in agreement.

At the beginning of the conference, the originally lively lobby was instantly quiet with the sound of a bell.

A well-dressed young man with a handsome face walked to the sunken wooden table in the center of the lobby and bowed respectfully to the full crowd of distinguished guests. Lang said: "Thank you for coming here from all walks of life. The rules of the tea tasting conference, three auctions, one pat. The three auctions are jade, utensils, and tea, and the first ring of the golden bell is a bid, and the three rings are the price setting, and after the price is set, it is deemed that the goods are the owner. ”......

Everyone ate tea and drank wine, and listened impatiently as the elegant man explained the many rules of the assembly, but no one dared to shout and express their dissatisfaction.

After a stick of incense passed, the man's words made people feel a little excited. "The first piece of the first scene, Hongshan jade, starts at two thousand taels. Then the two women who were also dressed elegantly carried a pitch-black and shiny tray together, on which was a red jade with a peak of more than two feet high and a foot wide, the whole body of this jade was red, crystal clear, and the jade contained purple-black filaments like tiny blood vessels, these filaments were arranged extremely beautifully, and the whole was like a pine frozen in blood-colored ice. Someone in the audience already sighed.

The man smiled slightly, took the wine jug from a small guy next to him, and poured the wine in the pot onto the jade, only to see that the wine that was originally on the surface of the jade slowly soaked inside, and after a while, the world in the jade was like a waterfall flowing, and the originally static "pine" slowly twisted, and the purple-black body slowly turned into purple gold.

The man put down the flask and struck the bell next to him with a tiny hammer, saying nothing. However, the people in the audience couldn't hold back and rushed to shout.

"Three thousand taels!", "Three thousand five!", "Five thousand!", "Seven thousand five!", ...... In the end, it was 15,000 taels. After three golden bells, the man smiled and nodded at the final owner of Hong Shanyu: "Congratulations!"

Then two simple women carried out a jade, this time the jade was obviously polished and carved by hand, the shape was a strange thing with a phoenix body and a deer head and a dragon's tail, the jade was white all over, but it was glowing with a hint of gold. If you look closely, it is a snow-white jade, naturally with some extremely fine golden sand.

When Ink Frost saw the object, she was a little sluggish.

I only heard the auction man say: "The legendary Golden Life Amethyst Frost is the Holy Spirit of the Demon Realm, and it is also a symbol of wealth and power that many tribes believe in. This is the best Tianshui jade, the color is soft and smooth to the touch, and the whole body is golden. After five years of meticulous carving by the master of Nanhuaifeng, it has become a gorgeous posture. A thousand gold beads to shoot!" With that, the two women took the tray and spared it in the infield. When he returned to the man, the first bell struck.

"......" Mo Shuang looked at the carved amethyst frost that was not very similar, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, thinking: "Zuo Quan makes the first-class is still a mascot in the world? Then I thought about my deity and was black, if the human world really likes to look at people with "color", then wouldn't I be regarded as a sign of evil?

Just when Mo Shuang was still thinking about it, he heard the man next to him sigh heavily: "Oh, Master Feng is really a good handicraft! Look at the carving...... Hahahaha, it's a pity that I don't have enough money with your brother. ”

Mo Shuang turned his head to look at Wang Luotong, who was infinitely regretful on his face, and heard him say before he could speak: "Forget it, I know that you have money, little brother, but we still have to get down to business, get down to business!"

At this moment, the Tianshui jade has been photographed with more than 6,000 gold beads, and it is still rising, and finally it was taken down with more than 10,000 gold beads. Mo Shuang secretly laughed: "The left envoy is really valuable." On the surface, he is calm and composed, his eyes do not squint, and his face is expressionless.

Next is a few rare pieces of jade, natural, polished, carved everything, after more than a dozen pieces of jade auctioned, it is the second scene of various utensils playthings, the pattern is endless. After more than a dozen more shots, it was followed by tea.

Ink Cream felt a little tired, and her waist seemed to be about to break. After three consecutive auctions, there was no stop, but the voice of the man who auctioned Wushi was still clear and gentle, and the arm of the woman holding Wushi was still steady, and it seemed that except for himself who was about to sit still, looking around, the others were full of interest.

After the last tea shot in the third scene, Wang Luotong's brows furrowed into Sichuan characters, and after thinking for a while, he said to Mo Shuang: "I'm afraid the little brother will have to look around." You focus on going to the backyard, and I'll come out in the middle of the fourth game. ”

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