Chapter 159: Friends
In fact, it is also a gamble.
Zhou Yu is betting on information asymmetry, betting that the people of Duban do not know how to get to Solaxia. Of course, this is not his blind arrogance, it is well-founded. If anyone knew how to travel to the warm, humid New World, would they still endure cave life and eat dry-fried cave creatures here?
The Governors don't think so, they probably don't know. Even if someone knows, it's hard to get past the Destiny Peak Station guard. Zhou Yu guessed that the task of the guards was two-way: to prevent the Solas from climbing up and destroying the source of sorrow; It is also necessary to prevent the cave people from running out in a car and disturbing the order of the two continents.
Say a thousand things and ten thousand, and in the end, you still have to rely on strength to speak. The mercenaries buried in the avalanche were equipped with guns and ammunition, which was not something that ten or eight rogue bandits could have. The Metropolitan Governor had every reason to suspect that these soldiers were directly ordered by the Fire King Chi and the Water King Li to guard the fortress.
"Okay, since there are two young masters, Qi Bee and Diao Silkworm, the last trump card in the next hand will naturally be able to make a good fortune." Zhou Yukou said with a smile. He used the trust of the two of them to steal the concept, and they did not say that they were guaranteeing the auction, but only believed that he and the child were introduced to the outside world.
"Ladies and gentlemen, look here, and do not be stingy with your gaze, applause and cries! The world is big, and there are opportunities that you should see. Without further ado, the third auction, the ticket to Soracia, begins! Zhou Yu took the posture and waved the steel pipe in his hand.
"Five hundred bags of chestnuts!" After winning the second bid, Qi Bee's self-confidence was bursting, and the opening was five hundred. Zhou Yu didn't know what this price code represented, but judging from the diameter of Zhang Chengzhengyuan's mouth of many spectators around him, this was a huge amount of money.
"Hmph, Strange Bee, can you still get five hundred bags of chestnuts? Don't play the trick of the white wolf with empty gloves, report an imaginary number and benchmark with Lao Tzu here! Diao Silkworm's suspicion is not unreasonable. Under normal circumstances, a certain amount of security deposit must be handed over to a third party for safekeeping before the auction, but the incident suddenly happened on the train, and it is indeed a little difficult for the family to issue a certificate of such financial resources at one time.
"I'm dignified... Forget it, don't bother with people like you. Someone's coming! With a wave of Qi Bee's colorful sleeves, Zhou Yu was fascinated. How can the Wing Clan have this virtue, will they die if they are masculine one by one?
Where everyone's eyes gathered, one of Qi Bee's subordinates opened the cowhide bag he was carrying, took out something from it, and held it high.
It was an object the size of a mineral water bottle, and its whole body was extremely white, as if it had been polished with plaster, but its surface was much more glossy than that of plaster, so it was guessed that it should be made of metal or porcelain. Zhou Yu rubbed his chin, frowned and stared at the cylinder, there are holes up and down, small at the top and big at the bottom, what is this sleeve-shaped thing?
"It's a God-given arm!" Someone in the crowd recognized this thing, and with a bang, the scene got out of control, and many handsome men and women began to rush to the center of the venue, scrambling to stand on tiptoe to catch a glimpse of the so-called God-given Divine Arm.
What is the Divine Arm? Zhou Yu was confused, it must be a good thing to let these people flock to it so much.
"How's that, Diao Silkworm. That's proof enough, right? "Although the strange bee looks more than ten years younger than Diao Silkworm, his momentum has always been aggressive and has never fallen behind.
"Cut, who knows if your God-given Arm is true or not! Besides, everyone knows that God's arms and feet are paired objects. You only have one, what kind of storm do you want to raise? Diao Silkworm rolled her eyes, unmoved.
"You, you scoundrel, you can take out some hard goods for me to see?"
Zhou Yu looked at this and that, and felt that both of them had reason to be anxious.
"Hahaha, it's really not to scare you. Come on! "This time it's Diao's turn to show off his wealth. Of course, Zhou Yu couldn't fit into it at all because their so-called "wealth" was a bit floating in the eyes of the Grand Duke.
Two men carried a sack from the corner, walked over and leaned in the center of the field, looking at their posture, the sack was not sinking, but it was difficult to judge what was inside.
One of the servants opened the rope that tied the mouth of the bag and kicked it on the side. Hundreds of golden plastic pieces poured out of it and scattered all over the floor.
It's all amber, mostly transparent, and quite a few have reached the level of beeswax. Zhou Yu is an eye-opener, in this era and in this continent, there should be no one who uses synthetic methods to engage in second-generation amber and second-generation beeswax, naturally it is genuine.
"So many yellow worms!"
"Good guys!"
"Wow, that's a big deal!"
Before the onlookers could recover from the heat of the Providential Arm, they were drawn by a whole sack of amber. However, what is a yellow worm? Why did it sound so familiar, Zhou Yu thought of the blue worm on the Kuzsia continent, the excrement of Dai Taimeng. Wouldn't this yellow worm also be excreted from the special parts of some insects, and most of them had a chill.
"Qi Bee, if I guessed correctly, the Heaven-Sent Arm was sent to you by Lao Tzu, don't lose it, break it, and let your father discount your leg. Fight with me, don't weigh it, wait until your old man dies! ”
Diao Silkworm's words were loud and heavy, and everyone in the entire carriage heard them very clearly. Zhou Yu secretly thought in his heart, this kid is bad enough to speak, and he clarified a few important information in just two sentences, although he wanted to remind the other party and point others, but he didn't expect it to play a role in enlightening the Dudu.
First of all, although the Strange Bee is an important figure of the Wing Clan, it is not the number one person. Diao Silkworm said that if he wants to succeed to the throne and have a dead father, then he is very likely to be the eldest son of the patriarch.
Secondly, Diao Silkworm Count Strange Bees did not leave him a little affection, which shows that the relationship between the Zerg and the Wing Clan has been extremely poor. Otherwise, even if it is not a cooperative relationship, there is no need for the two groups of nobles to be tense and tear their faces when they meet.
In the end, the two of them didn't seem to be interested in the auction, and their real purpose was to play an alternative gladiatorial fight with their own prop. Zhou Yu sighed, it turned out that he was the gambling equipment.
"Two, two young masters, don't, don't do this. I'm sure you can all be responsible for the price you shouted, let's go on, go on! "There are many dreams at night, Zhou Yu feels that he has been delayed long enough, and if he drags it on, he doesn't know what demons and monsters will pop out. In short, he believes that both sides have the strength to pay the auction money.
At this time, Qi Bee and Diao Silkworm are facing east and west, and if you want to find what they have in common, there is really one - they both look at people with the back of their heads.
"Young Master Strange Bee, five hundred!" The Metropolitan Governor hurriedly continued the scene of the broken strip just now.
"Six hundred!" Diao Silkworm raised her wrist angrily, and glanced at the Heavenly Divine Arm with disdain on her face. The Strange Bee's subordinates put the divine arm into a cowhide bag like a great enemy, and the person hid behind the Strange Bee.
"Eight hundred!"
"A thousand!"
"A thousand! It's already a thousand, and there is no one to bid! Diao Silkworm still had a nonchalant expression when he shouted a thousand bags of chestnuts, obviously he could still afford this little drizzle.
On the other hand, the strange bee is not so comfortable. The boy's face was red and white, and his eyebrows and nose were twisted together. Diao Silkworm's loss in the second game just now gave him the illusion, and he thought Diao Silkworm had no money. But just a few seconds ago, the Strange Bee realized that he was wrong, and he was very wrong. The reason why Diao Silkworm raised the price with him was to catch the ducks on the shelves, and people didn't pay attention to the second game at all, but they were actually playing with children and having fun.
"What, if you shout again and you're afraid to go home, your dad will spank you? Hahaha! Diao Silkworm took the lead, and a group of gentlemen behind him laughed.
"Bastard, you, don't be too rampant, Diao Silkworm!" The strange bee gritted his teeth and roared, and the reserved nature of the cream boy no longer existed. At the same time, it also shows that he really doesn't have that much money.
"Okay, a thousand bags of chestnuts, and the young master of Diao Silkworm bid a thousand bags of chestnuts. Is there a brother with more than a thousand bags of chestnuts? 1,000 bags of chestnuts, once; A thousand bags of chestnuts, twice... Just as Zhou Yu was about to drop the hammer and quickly end the good show he directed and acted in, someone came out to disrupt the situation.
Why do you always come out like this when everything is falling into place and your pants are taken off?
"My master is out of Tanuki City!" A man's voice interrupted Zhou Yu, and it also forcibly tore apart the brawl between Diao Silkworm and Qi Bee.
"What, what? Brother, you come closer to speak, the back of your ears doesn't hear clearly! Zhou Yu put his palm on the pinna, he really didn't hear clearly.
"Our master is out of a city, Tanuki City!" The voice repeated.
There was a commotion again at the scene, and it turned out that the Governor was not the only one who did not hear clearly. Or maybe everyone heard it clearly and just asked this person to confirm it.
Tanuki? Shouting with a city! Isn't it, playing so big? Zhou Yugang was thinking about whether to buy fritters or buns first when he got a thousand bags of chestnuts, and he would kill a Cheng Cheng to bite the gold, and he wanted to exchange the city for freedom.
Girl, could it be more exciting?
"Who, such a big breath?" Diao Silkworm, who was smug and slaughtered his opponent half a minute ago, was a little unhappy. When you first started playing, you tucked it and hid it, and I was ready to close the stall, you plugged in a bar, not to find fault?
Qi Bee's face was furrowed, and the clouds of sorrow gradually dissipated, obviously because someone had disturbed Diao Silkworm's good deeds and was happy not to fight. He gloated and looked into the corner where the sound was coming from.
Not only the two of them, but the whole audience, including the Grand Duke, were looking for the source of that voice all over the world.
Sure enough, it came from the farthest corner.
"This, this gentleman, would you like to ask your master to talk to the front?" There are too many people, and Zhou Yu can only step on their heads if he wants to go over.
"No, just ask you if anyone else is bidding higher than Tanuki?" The man dressed as a subordinate shouted again, and everyone heard this sentence more truly, because they had found the target.
Tanuki City, what kind of city is Tanuki City? Zhou Yu has no concept of Suoli, and he is even more confused about the word Tanuki, just like seeing the exam paper of the first high number. It should be a city of dog people, but I don't know where it is, how many people there are, what it produces, and how well it is built.
However, even if it is a dead city, it is much more than a thousand bags of chestnuts. Because there is a city in hand, a man cannot be counted as a man, but a man is a man. Thinking about the Three Kingdoms period, Liu Guanzhang guarded Xiaopei, although the city was small, the city lord and the city lord shouted, and Liu Bei's compulsion was improved.
If anyone present stood in Zhou Yu's position, he would have dropped the hammer without any suspense. Some people always shout "Oh, don't care about the gains and losses of a city and a pool", "Lose a city and a place, gain thousands of miles", give you a 49 city to try in front of you, let you be the lord of the city, can you just leave? The heart is not moving, the liver is not trembling and turning his head away, that is Qian Zhongshu not you.
But it just so happened that you said that Zhou Yu was the only one who was not interested in the city. However, any smart person will make a wise and rational judgment: first, he has no generals, no soldiers, no sphere of influence, and no accomplices, how long can he defend a city for nothing? To put it mildly, if your ass is not hot, you will be pulled out and beheaded. Second, if a city flies out of thin air, if the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, the people are rich and the walls are strong, what if the old, weak, sick and disabled, and the family is surrounded by walls? Where to feed so many people? Do you want to be a city lord or work for the poverty alleviation office?
Third, don't get involved in politics, don't get involved in politics, don't mix politics with politics, do you have to say important things three times to be enough? When he first arrived and was unfamiliar with his life, he stepped into the ranks of fighting with the five clans and the other two forces that did not know the details, should the governor think that his life was too long?
Thinking of this, Zhou Yu had a plan in his heart.
"A thousand bags of chestnuts, deal! The only ticket to Soracia, congratulations to Master Diao Silkworm for winning the bid! The Governor took the lead in applauding.
The scene was stunned for a while, and then a few seconds later, a few unseemly applause were squeezed out. Many people don't understand the choice of the old pig's head, but since they say so, they have made it clear that they don't want to collect money. No problem, the seller's market has the final say, he just collects horse manure and doesn't want money, isn't it also tempered by others?
"Hahaha, brother is smart and wise, far-sighted, Diao Silkworm admires and admires!" Diao Silkworm, who thought he was losing, didn't expect the person in front of him to have such a demeanor, which simply impressed him. He even began to wonder if the identity of the Grand Governor was a train-driver.
"Where, where, smallholder consciousness, smallholder consciousness. Guys, guys, small ears aren't good. I couldn't hear what the gentleman in the distance was shouting just now. Regrets, regrets! But it doesn't matter, a thousand bags of chestnuts are content with my old pig's head! Contentment, hehe! ”
Zhou Yu didn't want to offend people, especially the mysterious person who didn't want to show his face in the back, and there would not be many people who could afford a city bargaining chip in the entire Dubancia. If you want to survive to get off, it's best not to tear your face with these big guys.
Even if you don't accept other people's offers, it's always okay to sell personal favors along the river. That's why he said he didn't hear people's bids clearly. Of course, everyone who understands knows his thoughts, the scene is over, the scene is over, people talk about the consciousness of small farmers, it is very obvious that they want to say that I am a train, you let me be the county magistrate, I'm sorry, I can't do it, I have good intentions.