Volume 1: Wind Whispering City Chapter 9: Treasure Pavilion, Auction
Fengyu City is controlled by the Lu family, but not all of them are under control, some of them are still in the hands of the Wang family, such as the streets in the city, and the Wang family has three percent. In addition, there is a treasure pavilion, which does control 60% of the transactions in the city, and is a well-deserved giant in the city, but this treasure pavilion has always been low-key, in line with the concept of business-oriented, and has never participated in disputes in the city, but if you think that this treasure pavilion is easy to bully, then you are very wrong.
According to rumors, a few years ago, there was a loose cultivation of the Yuan King, who was very jealous of the daily profits of the Treasure Pavilion, so he quietly sneaked into the Treasure Pavilion that night, intending to have a big sweep.
But not long after he entered, the people outside heard a scream, and there was no movement after that!
The next day, the people found the body of the king outside the city.
Since then, the prestige of the Treasure Pavilion has spread far and wide, and people in the city are spreading that there are at least high-level Yuan Kings in the Treasure Pavilion, even the Yuan Emperor!
After all, the existence of being able to kill the Yuan King in seconds is already the most powerful in this Wind Whispering City, and even the city lord Lu Xiangnan can't do it. Therefore, although it is low-key, in the eyes of the people, this treasure pavilion is a docile lion, you don't provoke it, it doesn't bite you, and once you provoke it, it will inevitably show its fangs and give you a bloody response! The various families in the city also sternly warned their children and grandchildren not to provoke the treasure pavilion, otherwise there will be a disaster of extermination!
Affected by the turmoil a few years ago, in this Wind Whispering City, the Treasure Pavilion has established its hegemony in one fell swoop, and in people's hearts, the influence of the Treasure Pavilion is even greater than that of the City Lord's Mansion where Lu Feng is located! In this regard, the Lu family is also helpless, after all, this world is compared to strength, whoever has the big fist, who has the right to speak, and the strength of others is stronger than themselves, and it is reasonable to have such a status today. The Lu family is even quite grateful to the Treasure Pavilion, just imagine that with the strength of others, it would not be difficult to completely control Fengyu City at all! Now it is very rare for people to do their own business.
Lu Feng walked out of the City Lord's Mansion and went straight to the Treasure Pavilion, his family's shop was closed a few years ago, there was no way, he couldn't compete with the Treasure Pavilion at all, this was still a case of legitimate competition. Therefore, Lu Feng's father decided that the Lu family would close the shops in the city, and the city lord's mansion would rely on collecting fees in the city to maintain expenses. Fortunately, I don't know if it's because of the decision made by Lu Feng's father to give the Treasure Pavilion enough face, and the Treasure Pavilion sends a large amount of finance to the City Lord's Mansion at the end of each year, and even more profit than the previous store, which is called "City Protection Fee". For this reason, the relationship between the Lu family of the City Lord's Mansion and the Treasure Pavilion has always been very good, and anyone who has a deal must go to the Treasure Pavilion.
In front of the door of the Treasure Pavilion, I saw a three-storey loft, the decoration was magnificent, and the dragon and the phoenix danced on the gate with the three gilded characters of "Treasure Pavilion"!
Walking into the Treasure Pavilion, a waiter hurriedly came up to greet him, "Yo, Young Master Lu, welcome, welcome, you are a rare guest, what does Young Master Lu want, just tell the small one, and the small one will prepare for you." ”
"You go get busy first, I'll take a look at what to buy, and I'll call you when the time comes." Lu Feng instructed.
"Okay, the little one will go down first, and you will call me if you have something. By the way, Young Master Lu, we have an auction in the Treasure Pavilion today, and there are a lot of good things on it, if Young Master Lu wants to find some good things, you might as well go and take a look. The waiter said.
"Oh, there's an auction today! It's such a coincidence, I'm sure I'll be able to buy something useful for repairing mental power. You take me to see it. Lu Feng took out a few gold coins and handed them to the waiter and said.
"Yes, Young Master Lu, please come with me. Putting away Lu Feng's reward, he led the way in front of him with a smile.
It wasn't until the third floor that the waiter said, "That's it, Young Master Lu, the young master is fine, the little one will go down first, you have something to call me." ”
"Well, go for it".
Speaking of this auction, it is a monthly event of the Treasure Pavilion, and there are always some strange things or some rare treasures at the auction. Although Lu Feng was the young master of the City Lord's Mansion, in his memory, this was the first time he had participated in the auction of the Treasure Pavilion.
Entering the No. 3 box dedicated to the Lu family, Lu Feng quietly waited for the start of the auction, and looked around at the box he was in. According to Lu Feng's memory, this box was given to the Lu family by the Treasure Pavilion, symbolizing the recognition of the Lu family by the Treasure Pavilion, and every time the Lu family came to participate in the auction, they would be in this box. It can be said that this box is a representative of the friendship between the Lu family and the Treasure Pavilion, in this regard, the Wang family is very jealous, why can the Lu family be recognized and befriended by the Treasure Pavilion, but not their own family.
Quietly waiting for the moment of incense, the hall was already full, but just looking at the situation of this auction, you can figure out how profitable this treasure pavilion is. After waiting for a while, an old man came up on the stage in the center of the hall, holding an auction hammer in his hand, dressed as an auctioneer, it seems that this auction is about to start, Lu Feng thought to himself.
"Welcome to my monthly auction of the Treasure Pavilion, I am Li Fei, the chief auctioneer of the Treasure Pavilion, welcome everyone here, I won't say much if I say anything superfluous, anyway, everyone is familiar with it, let's start the auction directly!"
After the auctioneer finished speaking, he was drowned out by the thunderous applause in the hall, and the atmosphere of the scene became warm.
He is worthy of being the chief auctioneer of the Treasure Pavilion, although it is only a few short words, but the atmosphere of the scene is perfectly mobilized. Lu Feng thought to himself.
'Smack', I saw Li Fei slam the auction hammer, and the audience fell silent, and the scene was really perfectly controlled.
"Okay, let's auction the first auction item today: Xuanjie Intermediate Treasure Knife, Flame Knife, this knife is made of fire spar doped with thousand-year-old Xuan Iron, using Yuan Force to control this knife, it can emit fire and increase the power of martial arts, it is a rare good knife, start the auction now, two thousand gold coins will start to bid, and each bid shall not be less than one hundred gold coins. "Sure enough, all the things in this auction are good, and the first auction item is the Xuan-rank Intermediate Treasure Knife, so wouldn't the latter be even more precious!
Here I have to say that the weapons of this Yuanling Continent are divided into levels, and the weapons that can be advanced are from low to high, respectively, yellow-level weapons, Xuan-level weapons, low-level weapons, heaven-level weapons, and the legendary emperor weapons! Among them, the weapons of the fourth order of Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang have four small levels: low-level, intermediate, high-level, and superb. So far, there has not been a ground-level weapon in Wind Whispering City, so the first auction item in this auction is a Xuan-level mid-level weapon, which has to be said to be a big deal! As far as Lu Feng knows, only his grandfather Lu Zhufeng has a Xuan-level superb spear!
"Two thousand one hundred gold coins," a casual cultivator in the hall immediately called out.
"you, you're embarrassed to increase the price of one hundred gold coins, I'll give you two thousand five hundred gold coins" One person bid.
The price of "2,800 gold coins" was immediately raised again, and the first lot of the auction made the atmosphere of the auction unprecedentedly enthusiastic. As a result, the flaming knife was auctioned by a small family for three thousand two hundred gold coins.
Alas, this auction item will cost thousands of gold coins, and when I thought about it, my mother said that the 10,000 gold coins I would give thought it was a huge amount of money, after all, a common family only has an income of 100 gold coins a year, and they all use silver coins and copper coins on weekdays. The currencies used in the Yuanling Continent are gold, silver, and copper, one of which is equal to ten silver coins, and one silver coin is equal to ten copper coins! It is recorded in the book that in some larger and more prosperous cities, Yuanshi is used for trading! Lu Feng originally planned to shoot a few more things, but now it seems that he can only shoot two or three things at most, Lu Feng thought very speechlessly, it seems that he has to save money, buy drugs to help repair mental power first, and take a look at the others first.
"Let's start the auction of the second auction item Xuan-level intermediate elixir Wind Eye Flower three! I think everyone also knows that this Wind Eye Flower grows in the eye of the wind and has been baptized by hurricanes since childhood, so this Wind Eye Flower is very valuable to people who practice the body method, and when practicing the body method, if there is the assistance of this Wind Eye Flower, it will definitely be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort! Let's start the auction, three Wind Eye Flowers, 5,000 gold coins as the reserve price, and each increase shall not be less than 200 gold coins. "This Li Fei is really a business talent, who doesn't know that each of these Fengyan flowers is worth a maximum of 1,500 gold coins, as a result, in his hands, he touted it a lot, and forcibly raised the price to 5,003 flowers, but there are still many people who rush to it.
In fact, Lu Feng is also very jealous of this dazzle, and he is about to cultivate "Shadow Separation Legs", if he has the assistance of this dazzle, he will definitely be able to save a lot of effort. Alas, he only has 10,000 gold coins on his body, and if he buys this dazzle, he can't guarantee that he will have enough gold coins for auction when he encounters drugs that assist in repairing mental power. Thinking of this, Lu Feng could only give up in pain, comforting himself in his heart that cultivating spiritual power was his first priority now, and nothing else mattered, yes, it didn't matter. God knows how much Lu Feng wants to buy this dazzling in his heart.
"I am parting with Jian Jianghe and am willing to give 5,200 gold coins to shoot these three wind eye dazzles, the dog cultivates the body method, and I am asking for the assistance of this wind eye dazzle, I hope that all friends will give me face in the next one. In the hall, a middle-aged man with a long sword in his hand spoke.
"It turned out to be a farewell to Brother Jiang and Hejiang, since you urgently need this dazzle, we naturally can't win people's love, and it just so happens that this thing doesn't have much effect on us, so we won't earn it with Brother Jiang. "You and I are talking in the hall. Unexpectedly, after his wife became pregnant with a child, he became seriously ill, and Jiang He sought medical treatment everywhere, and finally made his wife persist until the day her son gave birth, and after giving birth to her son, Jiang He's wife also passed away, leaving Jiang He and a newborn child to depend on each other! Jiang He was greatly saddened to see his wife die. After sitting quietly in front of his house for three days without moving, he was deeply shocked, but he fell into an epiphany by chance. Jiang He created his own parting sword technique in an epiphany, a low-level sword technique of the Xuan Rank, which also became quite famous in Wind Whispering City.
"Hehe, why can't we auction what you want, the auction in the Treasure Pavilion has always been the highest bidder, this dazzling Wang family really wants to auction, my young master also needs the assistance of this thing in his cultivation now. My Wang family paid 6,000 gold coins to buy this dazzling!" said Wang Bao, the housekeeper of the Wang family, in the fourteenth box.
"You," Jiang He was angry, but he only had more than 5,000 gold coins in his pocket, and he couldn't compete with Wang Leopard, so he could only stare there.
"What are you, if you want to, let's compete fairly, lest others say that my Wang family bullies people. Wang Bao knew at a glance that Jiang He had no money in his pocket, so he was picking on it.
"I'll give you six thousand five hundred gold coins!" At this moment, a voice came from the third box, although it sounded a little immature, it was indeed very clear.
"Who did I say, it turned out to be the waste son of our Lu Da City Lord's family, can you take out the six thousand five hundred gold coins? Don't come up with the money after bargaining here, let the Treasure Pavilion go to the City Lord's Mansion to ask for it, and then you will lose the face of your Lu family!" Wang Bao heard this voice and sneered.
"Whether I can take it out is my business, the adults in the Treasure Pavilion haven't said it yet, what are you calling here? Do you regard this auction house as your Wang family's one-third of an acre of land? It just so happens that this dazzling young master also needs it, why don't we two compete fairly." "Isn't it Lu Feng who made the noise? If Lu Feng heard Wang Leopard's words in the past, he would definitely be furious, but unfortunately, the current Lu Feng is no longer the Lu Feng of the past. As a modern person whose thinking is ahead of him for I don't know how many years, how can he be moved by that inferior radical method.
"Hmph, competition is competition, how can you be afraid that you can't succeed, I will give seven thousand gold coins. "Seeing that he can't provoke Lu Feng, Wang Bao plans to wait for me to see what will happen when you can't compete with me!
"Oh, then I'll give you seven thousand five hundred gold coins" Lu Feng responded lightly, looking like a stubborn child, as if he was calling out not gold coins but leaves on the tree.
"I'll give you eight thousand gold coins!" Wang Bao was a little angry, after all, this was more than twice the price of these three wind eyes, and he had to think about whether it was worth wasting thousands of gold coins for the sake of fighting spirit. After thinking about it, Wang Bao decided to give up after waiting for Lu Feng to ask for a price.