The auction gradually got into its main topic, and things that attracted the attention of the wealthy businessmen and their wives began to appear: a tiara inlaid with gems the size of pigeon eggs, a pink diamond necklace made by a famous artist from Country Y, a set of sapphire jewelry, and especially the piece of Sichuan embroidered brocade worth a thousand gold coins per foot. Such top-grade fabric, with extremely fine color and embroidery, was most suitable for making cheongsams, and it was one-of-a-kind. Who wouldn't want this jackpot?
Song Yun was not interested in any of this and just sat there quietly. Jiang Ganmei went to the bathroom and never came back. She changed her makeup in the bathroom and left.
After the Shu embroidery brocade was handed over, the auctioneer produced a mahogany box and opened the lid to reveal a box of golden spheres. Each sphere had a slightly different shape, clearly a natural artifact, not manufactured. Each sphere was only the size of a fingernail. "Do you know what this is?" the auctioneer began to tease.
Someone saw something and said, "Could it be that there is a golden bead called earth gold?"
The auctioneer gave the man a thumbs-up. "Boss Xu, you're very knowledgeable. This is the Golden Pearl, also known as the Earth Gold Pearl. It's collected from the snowy mountains of the plateau and only appears once every hundred years. This box contains eight Earth Gold Pearls, a treasure trove accumulated by generations of plateau residents. It's a testament to their rarity. It's said that these Earth Gold Pearls, when used as medicine, can strengthen the body and have significant effects. Starting price: 10,000 yuan."
Although the auctioneer praised the earth-gold bead to the sky, as if it were a truly wonderful item, there were only a few people present who knew what it was, and no one knew how to use it, so they were not very interested.
Among them, only Mr. Xu from Tujinzhu was recognized at the beginning.
Each time the price increased by at least one thousand, Boss Xu offered a price of eleven thousand.
Song Yun raised her sign, "Fifteen thousand."
Boss Xu was sitting in the first row. He glanced at Song Yun with a puzzled look in his eyes.
Boss Xu's wife quickly leaned over and whispered something into his ear.
Boss Xu understood, then smiled at Song Yun and stopped raising the sign.
Boss Xu stopped bidding for two reasons. First, to give face to Song Yun, which was also a way of giving face to the Bai family. Second, because Song Yun was a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, the Earth Gold Bead was more valuable in her hands than in his.
Song Yun smiled and nodded to Boss Xu.
Seeing no one bid any more, the auctioneer called out the price twice and was about to strike the hammer when Li Baozhu, who was sitting in the first row, suddenly raised her paddle, "Twenty thousand."
Many people looked at Li Baozhu. Li Baozhu raised her chin and stared at Song Yun in front of her with a proud look. Well, to be precise, she was staring at the back of Song Yun's head, because Song Yun didn't turn around to look at her.
Song Yun raised the sign again, "30,000."
Li Baozhu was furious when she saw Song Yun ignored her and also raised her sign, "Fifty thousand."
Song Yun raised her sign, "One hundred thousand."
Li Baozhu didn't think about anything else at this moment. She just wanted to overpower Song Yun and shouted, "One hundred thousand."
The auctioneer didn't expect such a turn of events, and his mouth almost curled up with joy.
"Are you still willing to raise the price by one hundred thousand?"
Everyone looked at Song Yun.
Song Yun smiled and raised her sign, "Five hundred thousand."
She expected that the lady behind her would raise the price even more.
Suddenly, Li Baozhu stood up and shouted, "One hundred thousand."
There was an uproar in the field.
So many items were auctioned before, but except for the pair of gold bracelets with antiques, even the jeweled tiara was only sold for 350,000 yuan.
Now, a box of earth and gold beads of unknown use has been priced at over one hundred thousand.
Li Baozhu looked at Song Yun with a smug look on her face, and was also waiting for Song Yun to make her next bid.
She had made up her mind that she would raise the price to one million and make this Song guy bleed a lot of money.
No matter how much Song Yun offered, as long as it was not more than one million, she would follow until the price reached one million.
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