Su Yingxue walked to the front hall and went up to the second floor, where Qin Ziqing and the three of them were already sitting there waiting for her.

"How's it going?" As soon as Su Yingxue sat down, she asked hurriedly. Time is running out, and they have to think of countermeasures.

Qin Ziqing said first: "Although there are many people who came today, most of them came to see the excitement. There are only four people who are really capable of bidding for the Yongchuan Inn, and they are the wealthy local merchants of Fengcheng, Zhou, Chu, Wu, and Wei. These families cooperate with each other but all have competition, this inn is a piece of fat, and there must be a fierce competition for it. ”

Su Yingxue also knew that she would run into her opponent, and asked, "Do you know their reserve price?" ”

Qin Ziqing shook his head: "These people are very shrewd, it's okay to talk about some simple things, and once it comes to the inn, they don't say a word." ”

Su Yingxue sighed: "It is also reasonable. Are they interested in buying a few other stores? ”

Qin Ziqing twisted his eyebrows: "If they say that they are intentional, it doesn't seem like it, if they say that they have no intention, but when others talk about those shops, they look like they are listening seriously." I see that the people in charge of several of their families seem to want and fear that they will spend money and lose their position at the last critical moment. ”

Su Yingxue only showed a smile at this moment, "Then let's burn a fire and let them fight." At the critical moment, it is also very important to miss a few hundred taels. Then after asking Jiang Yue and the others about the situation of the shops, and then asking Qin Ziqing about the main business of the four families, he had an idea in his heart. gave them a look, and several people lowered their heads and gathered together, obeying Su Yingxue's orders. When several people heard this, they all smiled, and the girl's idea couldn't be better, so she quickly dispersed to do things.

Su Yingxue was not idle, Qin Ziqing had already told her that the person over there, who was slightly fat, wearing an orange silk coat and a short beard, was the head of the Wei family.

Su Yingxue walked into the man, looked at a tall and thin businessman with a shrewd look next to him and said, "Brother, you are also here to buy a shop, right?" ”

The tall and thin man saw that it was a young man who greeted him, and when he had nothing to do, he also accosted a couple of sentences: "Just look at the situation." Even if you can't buy a shop, it's good to see who dies in the end of the Yongchuan Inn. ”

"Then brother, do you have a favorite shop?"

"Yes, yes, but I'm afraid I can't afford to bid, after all, the four major families are here, and any of them fancy those small shops, even if I put together all the belongings, I may not be able to afford it."

Su Yingxue nodded approvingly, and said loudly: "Yes, yes, but I heard that there seems to be a big incident in the Yongchuan Inn, so I am in a hurry to make a move." And I just heard that the Zhou family took a fancy to the shop that sold rouge gouache, and I heard that it was a buyer who wanted to buy it in the name of another family, and wanted to start from here and stop the monopoly of the Wei family! I thought I had heard about the Yongchuan Inn, and I didn't care much about buying the Yongchuan Inn. ”

When the tall thin man heard her say this, he hurriedly stopped her, "Shhh ”

Su Yingxue had already seen Wei Yuanwai turn her head slightly when she shouted, listening to her words very carefully, and then looked around, as if she was looking for the Zhou family. Su Yingxue smiled with satisfaction, looked at the thin and tall man, and apologized: "Oh, I didn't pay attention for a while, thank you for reminding me, I'd better stay away." ”

The tall and thin man looked at her sympathetically and nodded.

Su Yingxue finished her work, she was very happy, sitting there eating snacks and munching on melon seeds, but after a while, Jiang Yue and several people also came back one after another.

"How?"

Everyone made a reassuring gesture, and then they all got happy and waited for the bidding to begin.

Sure enough, after a while, I heard someone beat the gong and drum, singing: "Today's guests who want to participate in the bidding please go to the first floor to buy a license plate, because of today's special situation, the license plate is positioned as one or two silver, please bring your own broken silver, no change." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a commotion below. It turned out that this license plate was just a penny on weekdays, but now it has risen tenfold. Originally, those who came purely to join in the excitement refused to follow, who would spend a silver or two to see such a lively? But he couldn't make trouble with Mingyue Pavilion's wealth, and finally lost the battle, and walked away wave after wave of people.

The hall soon became much quieter, Su Yingxue took a general look, and there were about sixty or seventy people left, and these people all brought slaves, and it seemed that there were only about thirty people bidding at most.

There were already many people lined up in front of the counter where the license plate was bought, and all of them were minions who went to line up instead of the master. Su Yingxue glanced at Caiyun, Caiyun took out four ingots of broken silver from his sleeve, each of them divided one ingot, and went to line up to buy a license plate together.

Su Yingxue was originally worried that several of them were originally in a group, but now they are all ranked last, if the number plate is connected, if someone sees the clues, I am afraid that they will cause trouble. I don't want this number card to be randomly issued. She received a number six, Jiang Yue's eighteenth, and Caiyun's twenty-third, but Qin Ziqing received a number one. So the few people who understood each other dispersed.

Suddenly, the person who struck the gong sounded the gong and drum again, but this time only raised his voice slightly: "According to the rules, there is at most one person in front of each guest, please take your seats in the order of the number plate." ”

As soon as the voice fell, there were those who had brought a number of slaves, and the servants hurriedly packed their things and went in with their masters.

It turned out that the back of this Mingyue Pavilion actually led to the third floor, and Su Yingxue walked at the end, observing the surrounding situation. When I went up the stairs, it was a small hall, neatly arranged in four rows of chairs, six chairs in each row, and a small pestle on one side of each chair. There were a total of twenty-four people who came to bid, and in addition to the four major families, I don't know if the remaining sixteen people will be able to give themselves enough help.

After everyone sat down, Fang Youyi looked at the young man who was quite delicate, stood behind the table above, and said, "Today's bidding starts now." He took out a stack of files from the side, showed them to everyone, and briefly introduced the situation of the shop. The first shop was a buyer of silk fabrics, and the young man explained the reserve price, so that as soon as the words of the auction fell, someone below raised a sign and shouted the price.

Su Yingxue couldn't help but be overjoyed when she saw the person who shouted the price. This person was none other than the servant of Wei Yuanwai. His mouth is two hundred taels. Such a high starting price is the best help to attract the four major families.

Sure enough, the seats began to raise signs and shout prices, knowing that the price had finally risen to three hundred taels, and the voice gradually became smaller.

"Four hundred taels." A familiar voice sounded, and Su Yingxue looked at Qin Ziqing with a smile. I saw that he was holding up a sign by himself, and his face was full of words that it was inevitable.

As soon as the voice fell, there was silence everywhere. Seeing this, the young man struck the first drum, and the drum was beating so hard that it made people feel like they were in a state of confusion. Su Yingxue guessed that this must have been done by Mingyue Pavilion on purpose, after all, the higher the bid, the higher their commission. This voice makes people only feel like someone is going to take their most important thing, but anyone who still has a little desire in their hearts can't help but increase the price.

Sure enough, before the first drum was beaten, someone raised a sign, and the young man signaled to stop the drum, and the man shouted: "Four hundred and twenty taels." ”