Soon the auction time for the Category B treasure will come. At the last moment, Li Mingyi, under the urging of Xie Yarong, wrote a twenty taels and threw it into the box in front of the jade pendant. Seeing this price, Xie Yarong wanted to reach out to stop it, but Li Mingyi's hand was too fast and didn't give her a chance at all.

"Why do you only write twenty taels?" Xie Yarong asked angrily, "Don't you have two hundred taels?" ”

Li Mingyi explained: "Only twenty taels is enough, and the people in front of him only give fifteen taels at most." ”

Xie Yarong obviously didn't believe this, and said angrily: "You lied to me, how could it be that you only got fifteen taels, this jade pendant is worth at least one hundred taels." Don't I want to accompany me to Shengjing? ”

Li Mingyi didn't know how to explain this to her, after all, he couldn't explain it in a few words. I can't tell her that the people in front of her are all fooled and lame. If so, Xie Yarong will definitely ask why. So Li Mingyi could only say righteously: "Don't worry, if you can't shoot the jade pendant this time, I will sell my body and help you buy the jade pendant." ”

When Li Mingyi said this, although Xie Yarong still didn't believe it, she just followed him with suspicion to see Lu Buti.

At this time, Lu Buti was negotiating with businessmen and officials who were familiar with him. Obviously, for him, this kind of informal negotiation is the real meaning of participating in the treasure appraisal conference here. Li Mingyi and the others didn't bother him, just sat down at a table in a corner and rested by themselves.

After a while, the Class B treasures began to announce the winning bid, and Lu Buti and they also ended chatting and began to gather on the side of the stage. At this time, Li Mingyi and Xie Yarong came to Lu Buti's side together.

Seeing the two of them, Lu Buti preemptively said, "Can the two Li Gongzi have the confidence to buy what they want?" ”

Xie Yarong was just silent after hearing this, but Li Mingyi said confidently: "Naturally confident, Boss Lu will see if I pick up the leak in a while,"

Lu Buxi didn't care too much about his words, thinking that it was just a young man's exaggeration, so he said: "Then I will wait for the good news of Li Gongzi." ”

On the stage, Wufeng appeared again, reporting the names of those treasures and the numbers of the auctions. There are always people happy and some sad in auctions, and Li Mingyi is obviously not within the scope of sorrow. He compared the announced winning number with the record in his hand one by one, and the more he compared, the happier he became.

Seeing the smile on his face getting brighter and brighter, Lu Buti couldn't help but ask, "Li Gongzi, this is a lot?" ”

Li Mingyi was happy, so he said honestly: "No, I won a jade pendant." ”

Lu asked tirelessly, "Then why are you so happy?" Could it be that the price of the jade pendant is very low? ”

Seeing that Li Mingyi fell for the jade pendant, Xie Yarong was originally very happy, but looking at his villain's face at this time, she couldn't be happy. Xie Yarong said helplessly: "He spent twenty taels to win the jade pendant." ”

Lu Buti smiled: "That's worth being happy about." Presumably, only Li Gongzi made a bid. ”

"Nope." Li Mingyi said happily, "There are a total of seven people bidding. ”

Lu Buti was stunned for a moment and asked, "None of the seven people have ever produced twenty taels?" ”

"That's right. They are all kind people. Li Mingyi didn't want to dwell on this topic more, after all, this kind of thing was not good to say in public, so he changed the topic and said: "Boss Lu can buy what he likes." ”

Lu Buti didn't plan to get to the bottom of it, after all, it's hard to say about luck, so he changed the topic and said: "It should be that I took a picture of a Western Regions gold plate and a calligraphy and painting." It's okay, and it's considered to have completed the task of this trip. ”

Seeing that he didn't seem to care very much, Li Mingyi asked curiously, "Boss Lu didn't come here for the auction?" ”

Lu Buti did not hide his selfishness, and said truthfully: "I came here this time mainly to support Beigu Building. Treasures don't really mean much to a businessman like me. ”

Li Mingyi asked puzzledly: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"The essence of a merchant is to circulate goods in order to make a certain profit in them. Therefore, treasures are valuable only if they have buyers. For merchants, without buyers, no amount of treasure can only be pressed into the warehouse. Therefore, these treasures are not as important to me as goods such as grain and silk. Lu Buti explained.

Hearing his words, Li Mingyi suddenly understood something, saluted and said, "Thank you, Boss Lu, I have been taught here." ”

Lu Buzhi smiled and said, "You guys go and help me get the lot." The auction of these Class A treasures is a large amount of several thousand taels. If you are willing to stay and watch, you can watch, and if you don't want to, you can go back to the Lu family pawnshop first. ”

The two naturally didn't want to stay and continue watching, so they went directly to the bail office to get bail. After getting the jade pendant, Xie Yarong thanked Li Mingyi very seriously.

After hearing Xie Yarong's thanks, Li Mingyi didn't appreciate it, and said mockingly: "Forget it about your thanks." After all, I lied to you, and the jade pendant that I bought for two hundred taels only cost twenty taels. ”

With such a weird rhetoric, according to the past, Xie Yarong would most likely go back to the past, but this time she didn't reply, just said: "I was wrong, apologize to Li Daxia." ”

Xie Yarong softened, and Li Mingyi didn't say much, just said: "You go back first, I still have some things." ”

Xie Yarong asked curiously, "What's the matter?" ”

"Debt collection."

Xie Yarong asked again: "Debt collection?" What debts to collect? ”

"You care about me."

Li Mingyi did not leave the treasure exchange office immediately, but came to the door of the treasure exchange room, took a piece of paper, and carefully checked the list. Xie Yarong didn't leave, she was a little curious about what Li Mingyi was going to do, so she followed him.

After a while, a rich outsider appeared. This guy was happy on the outside, and obviously photographed the item he wanted. When he saw Li Mingyi in the corner, his smile froze. The staff looked around, and after making sure that there was no one, he quietly came over and stuffed a piece of silver to Li Mingyi.

Li Mingyi quietly weighed the weight of silver in his sleeve, and then said: "The outside is really honest. ”

"Don't dare to deceive Childe, thank you Childe this time." The staff hugged their fists and left as if nothing was happening.

Shortly after the staff left, an official approached. Under Xie Yarong's widening eyes, the official quietly stuffed a piece of silver into Li Mingyi's sleeve. Half an hour later, Li Mingyi had no choice but to find a box to hold silver. An hour later, the people on Li Mingyijue's list were almost here, so he hurriedly left the manor with Xie Yarong.

On the carriage back, Xie Yarong, who was full of doubts, couldn't help but ask, "What the hell is going on, why do so many people give you silver?" ”