Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 57: Don't Sell Out of Anger
Xu Qingyan's price was much higher than those of the rough guys off the field, which cooled down the originally fierce bidding for a while.
Tang Zheng looked back at Xu Qingyan in surprise, with an exaggerated expression, and looked him up and down: "Oh my, Old Xu, it turns out that you are really interested in this fox girl."
Xu Qingyan looked calmly at someone in the audience who surpassed his price again, and asked the servant to add another five taels of purple gold, without saying a word.
"Hey, hey, hey, did you hear me? Old Xu, you already have a beautiful girl named Tianxiang hidden in your house, and you are still so unsatisfied? Tianxiang is an exceptionally beautiful woman, and you are being unfair to her by doing this."
"Second, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you're already old, you're twenty-seven this year, right? Lust is like a sword hanging over your head, it's wrong to indulge in beauty, you must take care of your body, you're Miss Tianxiang, and you're a girl from the fox clan, can your body handle it?"
"Third, you see, as your boss, I'm still single. You already have Miss Tianxiang, so that's fine. Are you planning to have two girls on both sides and enjoy the happiness of having two wives? I'm telling you, you've already caused tons of damage to a single guy. Don't force me to turn into the FFF group and burn you as a heretic!"
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Tang Zheng kept talking a lot, but Xu Qingyan didn't reply. He just watched the bidding silently and bid silently, always maintaining the bidding advantage over the fox girl.
Until the price was called up to one hundred and ten taels of purple gold, Xu Qingyan remained silent in the box for ten breaths before he called the servant at the door in again and raised the price to one hundred and fifteen taels.
"Old Xu, is this fox girl so charming? I think Tianxiang is no worse than her, and she is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Why didn't you spend so much money to redeem Tianxiang?" Tang Zheng smiled and patted Xu Qingyan's shoulder and continued to harass him.
"I couldn't afford Tianxiang at the beginning, but I can afford this for now." Xu Qingyan still looked at the auction table and answered without turning his head.
One hundred and fifteen taels of purple gold, this price is much higher than the average price of most of these demon slave girls.
The hormones of the men present gradually subsided in the face of this painful amount of money.
After all, this fox girl is just a plaything to most human warriors.
It seems not worthwhile to spend enough money to buy a good weapon or good martial arts for a toy that you don't know how long it will break.
The atmosphere in the venue suddenly turned cold.
No one bid anymore. Tang Zheng, who had been watching Xu Qingyan's bidding with great interest, saw that Xu Qingyan's stern expression seemed to relax a little.
At this time, a lazy voice with obvious pride rang out in the already quiet auction hall: "I'll offer one hundred and sixteen taels of purple gold!"
Hearing this voice, Xu Qingyan's expression, which had just relaxed, hardened again. Tang Zheng narrowed his eyes and asked the servant standing at the door with a playful look, "Hey, this game is not right, isn't it? Isn't it at least five taels of purple gold per bid? What the hell is one hundred and sixteen taels?"
The waiter at the door gave Tang Zheng an apologetic smile and replied, "This customer may be visiting our bank for the first time. You may not know that if a customer is recognized by our bank as a top-level customer, he has the right to raise the price at will. The customer is sitting in Room 5, so he naturally has this right."
The boy lowered his head and looked very humble, but the mockery in his eyes did not escape Tang Zheng's eyes.
Tang Zheng was very familiar with the subtext of that expression, which was nothing more than "Stop talking nonsense, you country bumpkin, you can't afford to offend her!"
Tang Zheng did not answer, but nodded with a smile: "So that's how it is. The top-level customers can play as they please, right? That's great."
"So... can this be regarded as the highest level customer?" Tang Zheng took out a token, threw it to the servant and asked.
The servant took the token casually, a trace of disdain flashed across his face, thinking that a person from the private room number 12 of Dizi would not be able to come up with anything extraordinary. Just as he was about to shake his head, he glanced at the dazzling symbol on the token and immediately shouted, "Jubao Pavilion, Purple Gold Token?!"
"Oh, you are not blind. It's the Purple Gold Order. Are you qualified? If you don't have that one, then add this one!" Tang Zheng threw a more exquisite nameplate over without waiting for the servant to answer.
The servant now completely stopped being negligent. The auction house would identify any customer with a spending power of more than 500 taels of purple gold as a top customer.
What is the Purple Gold Order? It is the identity certification issued by Jubao Pavilion, the most powerful business force in the entire continent. It is directly affiliated with the Purple Gold City and is given to top customers. The minimum consumption amount to obtain the Purple Gold Order is one thousand and two purple gold!
In the Di room, anyone with a spending power of more than fifty taels of purple gold is eligible to sit inside. This is twenty times the spending power, and of course, one is also eligible to sit in the Tian room, and of course is also eligible to enjoy the right to play freely.
The servant carefully took another nameplate thrown by Tang Zheng. This nameplate was not as luxurious and exquisite as the purple gold order, nor did it have the aura of a wealthy man that would blind people's eyes, but it was full of an otherworldly artistic atmosphere, like a miniature ink painting that made people reluctant to take their eyes off it.
"This is... the world-famous house, Cuihu?!" The servant's mouth opened even wider and his face turned even paler.
"Oh, not bad. You have quite a good eye and can even recognize the nameplate of Tianxia Minglu. Now do I have the qualifications to play around with them?" Tang Zheng took the Purple Gold Token and the nameplate of Tianxia Minglu back from the dazed servant, and raised his eyebrows while playing with them casually in his hands.
"Yes, yes, yes, that's right! Please wait a moment, sir. I will report your situation to the supervisor!" The servant couldn't straighten his waist at all in front of Tang Zheng. He didn't even dare to look at Tang Zheng's face. He bent over 90 degrees and faced him with the back of his head.
"Wait, don't rush to report. By the time you report back, the fox girl will be gone. Name my price first. The one just now is from Room 5, right? You should increase the price he offers by the same amount." Tang Zheng grabbed the boy and ordered.
"But..." the servant was about to speak.
Tang Zheng casually slapped him on the head: "But that's bullshit, just add it when I tell you to, don't talk nonsense!"
The servant had a bitter face and dared not say a word. He had to pay one hundred and seventeen taels of purple gold.
The customer in Room 5 that day originally just wanted to quietly show off, but he didn't expect that someone would actually argue with him. His originally lazy tone became several degrees higher, and he replied in seconds: "One hundred and eighteen taels!"
Except for newbies like Tang Zheng, those who can come to the auction house to participate in the auction all know that they have the qualification to bid freely, and they are all rich or noble.
If you rashly participate in this level of angry auction for the sake of a toy, you will lose money at the least, but you will offend people at the most.
As a result, all the customers in the entire auction hall stopped bidding.
Just look at this fox girl, who was being offered the same price as these two weird guys, who kept raising the price up to one hundred and fifty-three taels!
The customers in the hall have all come to watch the fun, wanting to see who will have the last laugh between the customer in the Di private room who was originally very low-key and the customer in the Tian room No. 5 who was ostentatious from the beginning to the end.
"Two hundred taels of purple gold!" The customer in Room seemed to have been annoyed by this childish and angry bidding. Finally, he stopped bidding one tael at a time and directly raised the price by nearly fifty taels of purple gold in one go!
Many ordinary customers gasped, it turned out that people with money can do whatever they want!
This kind of demon plaything, whether it's a fox girl or a cat girl, generally has an average price of about fifty taels of purple gold. Although the fox girl today is indeed outstanding in appearance, her price wouldn't be as exaggerated as four times the original price.
The customer of Room No. 5 in Tianzi saw that after he called out a high price of two hundred taels, the damn guy from Room No. 5 in Dizi finally stopped following his lead, and he felt relieved.
"I don't know which bastard dares to argue with me and waste about one hundred taels of my purple gold. Don't let me find out who you are, or I will make you pay me double!" The customer of Room No. 5 not only failed to show off, but also spent a lot of extra purple gold. He was so upset that he cursed without hesitation in front of the servant in the room.
The identity of customers, especially those in private rooms, was originally the absolute privacy of the auction house. If anyone dared to touch the identity information of the auction house's customers, the auction house would make sure he understood why the flowers were so red.
But in Room No. 5, facing the guest's blatant provocation about the taboo topic, the servant still kept his head down, as if he had heard nothing.
Just when the customers in Room No. 5 thought that this auction farce was finally coming to an end.
In Room 12, a new offer was once again heard: "Two hundred and one taels of purple gold!"
"Fuck his ancestors! Two hundred and fifty taels of purple gold!" The customer in Room No. 5 almost roared out the price.
At this time, all the customers turned their eyes to Room No. 12, wanting to see if Tang Zheng still had the courage to continue to accept this price.
Sure enough, Tang Zheng did not disappoint everyone: "Two hundred and fifty-one taels!"
This time, it was the customer in Room No. 5 who remained silent.
Just when everyone thought that the customer in Room No. 5 could no longer bear it and was about to give up, a voice was heard again in Room No. 5.
However, this time he did not directly offer the price, but revealed his identity: "Friends here, I am Zhen Renxin, I am studying at the Seventh Rank Academy, and my friends in Feishi City should all know me. This time I want to give my father a special toy for his birthday, so please give me this fox girl, how about it? Two hundred and sixty-six taels, I'll give you a lucky number!"
