Many cultivators have abandoned their land and deliberately abandoned their land to grow madder, hoping to get rich one day. In addition, some fiefdom lords distributed madder seeds to their serfs, instructing them to grow madder instead of corn. Driven by the sky-high price of orchid madder, the price of high-grade madder and bluegrass that can be refined is also rising.

All kinds of chaos, the entire Hubei country, including Fandi and the attached Yibu territory, has been in a mess for the word "grass", hot and happy, completely out of order.

Wu Kui listened quietly, and an imperceptible sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It's a good mess, what you want is the word 'chaos'!"

At dusk, a bronze cart drove into the boulevard leading to the former palace.

However, four or five years ago, it was a privileged area where the nobles and ministers of Fanguo lived, but now it is a brightly lit Huai Shang Fang. After the successful annexation of Fanguo, under the planning of the rich country of Huaiqing, the prime minister of Hubei, it was changed into a Huai merchant workshop that gathered the big merchants of the world. Fancheng is located at the port of Suizaojin Road, and by virtue of the advantages of transportation on land and water, the world's big merchants enter like flowing water, so that Fancheng presents an unprecedented rich elegance, and Huai Shangfang has become the land of flowing gold and wealth in Hubei.

For a time, the luxurious wine shop of Huai Shangfang became the most prominent amusement gathering place in the entire Hubei country, and also became a place where the world's giant businessmen and wealthy people gathered.

The bronze high-tech chariot came and stopped in front of the most lit Xiangping wine shop.

On the car, an old man with white hair and a slight vicissitudes of life walked down, his robes and crowns were all luxurious, but there were faint traces of dust that could not be cleaned; A bronze rod in his hand, the head of the rod was impressively empty, and an inlay hole with a jewel had fallen off; The carriages and horses are excellent, but the wheel compartment is worn and the harness is repaired everywhere; Even the driver of the car was wearing dirty clothes that had not been removed from the mud. All this, the wine servant standing solemnly at the entrance frowned: this person seems to be a down-and-out nobleman, who should have come to see the excitement, not a really powerful buyer of Orchid Madder.

"Your Excellency, please come with me." The wine servant stepped forward quickly and helped the old man out of the car.

"Jujuju." The old man only faintly said two words.

"My lord, the Jujiu Garden is the place where you want to buy and auction orchid madder, and you are not allowed to enter without a gold deposit......" The wine servant stopped cautiously.

"The old man knows." The old man said coldly and indifferently, and strode away.

"Your honor." The wine servant hurriedly caught up with the old man and said, "Today is the first day of the auction, and the general manager has told the Wuxiang Mansion to not enter the Juju Wine Garden. My lord, please come here."

The old man suddenly became angry, and threw an object coldly and angrily, "Isn't it just a kuanjian token? Here's it! The appearance of a dignified state, such a scraping of wealth, in the end will only bring humiliation on himself!"

The wine servant took the wide and simple side, and in the middle has been branded a mark like yellow and white, the lines are simple and complicated, and the rough looks like a river flowing and like a group of mountains, although he is illiterate, but he has been specially trained to memorize this word, which is a "Qing" character. This is a kind of inscription engraved on the bell in the third dynasty of the Xia Shang dynasty, because it is difficult to write in ancient times, and the daily writing is not used, because of this, Huaiqing specially engraved the word "Qing" in this inscription to show his own profound knowledge.

The old man's loud shouting had summoned the attention of many guests in the hall, and a rebuke spread in a rage. A charming woman who was obviously the foreman deacon immediately floated over lightly, took the Kuanjian token and glanced at it, and immediately personally supported the old man, while laughing and groaning, "My lord is angry, he is a newcomer, and he has no eyesight! Come, come, come, little girl serve the adults and go in, and gather in the wine garden."

The old man paused fiercely with the bronze staff, and with a look of disdain for dealing with others, he was helped by the deacon to enter another grand gate.

As soon as he entered the gate, countless half-human-high cubicles under the brilliant bronze lamp were heavy, and the buzzing sound was pervasive, and the old man couldn't help frowning. The deaconess smiled earnestly as she walked, "My lord, Xiangping Liquor Store is originally a first-class and elegant place, but now there are no rules and regulations...... People who want to buy orchid madder are like crucian carp across the river, and there are too many promises. How about a little girl serving an adult to a secluded place?"

The old man stood still, shook off the deaconess coldly, and asked, "How long is it going to start?"

The deacons smiled and pointed in the direction of the piano platform: "It's almost there, it's almost half a burnt incense gong."

Husband."

"The old man is looking for a place to go, and the deacon is busy at home."

The deacon, who was accustomed to seeing the pretentious and open-minded appearance of the down-and-out aristocracy, smiled and drifted away.

The old man strolled on the thick red felt, looking at the drunken people on both sides of the road, but from time to time he looked at the empty piano platform with greedy and eager eyes, and a subtle sneer twitched from the corner of his mouth. All the guests are drinking and chewing, all the wine cases are in a mess, anyway, they have paid a deposit for the deposit, and the food and drink in the wine garden are all covered (this is not too picky), and the luxurious and erosive atmosphere completely floods this small world.

The second entrance is more magnificent, the compartments are large and small, the bronze table table is shining with gold and jade wine utensils, and the wine maid shuttles to and fro. The old man angrily muttered to himself and walked into a large cubicle, patting the empty case and shouting, "Good wine and good meat! It's coming! A daughter is not made for nothing!"

The guests at the adjacent tables only glanced at the old man, and then drank bitterly to themselves, continuing to glance at the central piano platform from time to time. When the wine and meat were delivered, the old man immediately ate and drank by himself with a black face, and no one looked at him.

"Look, the case is lifted!" I don't know who shouted, and the whole hall suddenly burst into a buzz, and everyone stood up from their seats and looked in the direction of the piano platform. I saw two wine servants carrying a large mahogany case, and two servants behind him, each holding a clay pot. The thing in the pot is green and faint, and the young seedlings are needless to say, that is the orchid madder that makes everyone's eyes red. br>

An old steward followed behind, instructed the servants to set up the mahogany case, and then carefully placed the two orchid madder plants in place, and then turned around and made a downward gesture. The hall immediately fell silent, and only the voice of the middle-aged steward echoed: "Ladies and gentlemen, today is the first day of the auction, and only two madder plants will be produced, male and female, and the price of one plant will start at 500 gold, and the highest price will win!"

The middle-aged man's voice fell, and a sigh of exclamation quickly sounded in the hall: "Oh my God, a plant starts at 500 gold, if you want to grow young grass, you have to buy two, so it's a thousand gold!"

"It's too expensive, why don't you buy a male plant, and I'll buy a female one to grow young grass together." What about the profit sharing?"