Although the lady was a little stingy with him when it came to money, she was by no means ignorant of the overall situation. When he returned, he could tell her the reason and then buy her some new and interesting things to appease him. The problem would be easily solved!

Wen Daoming thought happily in his heart.

A hint of sadness also appeared on his face.

Chu Bitao asked, "Brother Daoming, why did you come back so late? You just auctioned off a lot of good things."

Wen Daoming laughed, "It's just that I was greedy for a moment, and I have a stomachache."

Touching the banknotes in his chest pocket, he felt at ease.

With this money, it should be no problem to buy the jade cup with two handles and ox head.

Unfortunately, he had too much in mind.

One hundred thousand taels might be a lot somewhere else, but here, it is not even a hair.

The items auctioned at the beginning, such as pills, jade materials, pearl masks, ancient books, calligraphy and paintings, were not considered too rare. The materials were not spiritual.

Even if it is expensive, it is still within their acceptable range.

But later on, things like spiritual honey, spiritual wine, spiritual rice, spiritual liquid, talismans and even spiritual exercises all appeared.

At this stage, there were not many people present who were able to participate in the auction.

But who can resist the appeal of these things?

Therefore, many people in the venue left the table under the pretext of going to the toilet. Some of them borrowed money from the foundation nearby like Wen Daoming did, or used special channels to notify their families to send money quickly! Seeing this, Shen Yizhi simply asked Xiao San to announce a half-time break for two quarters of an hour. Should it be enough for them to raise enough funds? However, some people had other thoughts in this half hour.

"Brother Liu, I'm very interested in that bottle of Soul Restoring Liquid. I guess you are too, right?"

"Haha, of course. If you have a bottle of Soul Restoring Liquid in your hand, it's like having an extra body of spiritual power. It's a pity that such a good thing will definitely attract everyone to fight for it."

"I have a way to get the things."

"Oh? Brother Zhao, can you tell me about it?"

…

This is a conversation that took place in a toilet cubicle.

What the two didn't know was that nothing they planned could be hidden from the perception of Shen Yizi and Xuan Ting.

Xuan Ting bit Shen Yizhi's ear: "What are you going to do?"

Shen Yizhi lazily leaned against him and snorted, "If you want to play tricks on my territory, you have to see if I agree or not."

The man with the surname Zhao is Zhao Zeyuan, the head of the Zhao family in Langcheng.

His plan was simple. He wanted to win over Liu Qi first, and then work separately with him to persuade several other competitive opponents to deliberately write down low prices when bidding.

At that time, Zhao Zeyuan will be able to bid for the Soul-Restoring Liquid at a relatively low price, and then split it in half with Liu Qi after getting it.

Of course, this is what he said, but as to whether he will turn against us at that time, no one knows.

Anyway, Liu Qi agreed to his proposal after he promised him some benefits.

Then, the two of them went their separate ways to look for other people.

"Miss Bai, can you please talk to me for a moment?" The first person Zhao Zeyuan approached was Bai Xiaoshu.

This is because Bai Xiaoshu has really stole the limelight several times in previous auctions, and her skillful use of money is astonishing.

She was willing to spend thirty thousand taels of silver to buy even a jade bracelet, so she must have spared no expense in order to get the spiritual liquid back.

But Zhao Zeyuan was confident that he could convince her.

"You deliberately wrote a low price during the auction? Will you give me half of the spiritual fluid after the deal is done?"

After listening to Zhao Zeyuan's conversation, Bai Xiaoshu quickly extracted the key sentences.

"That's right. This way Miss Bai doesn't have to spend a lot of money, and she can also get half a bottle of Soul Restoring Liquid for free. It's a good deal, isn't it?"

Bai Xiaoshu pondered.

She is weighing the pros and cons.

What Zhao Zeyuan said was indeed very attractive. Even if she wrote a high price during the auction, she might not be able to win the Soul-Restoring Liquid. But if she did as Zhao Zeyuan said, she would be able to get half a bottle after the deal was done.

Of course, the premise is that he can also successfully convince others.

But what if Manor Master Shen knew about this? No, not just a chance, but a high possibility. She could feel that there were layers of formations set up throughout the manor, and maybe Shen Yizhi had heard everything they said at the moment.

As a fellow monk, she understands the monks' methods best.

And this Zhao Zeyuan was just a mortal and knew nothing about the methods of cultivators.

And he thinks he is smart.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiaoshu was about to refuse him: "I still like..." Take it by herself so as not to spoil Master Shen's favor.

Halfway through his words, a voice suddenly sounded in his mind: "Promise him, and trick him at the same time. Afterwards, I will give you a bottle of soul-restoring liquid."

Shen Yizhi! Bai Xiaoshu's pupils shrank suddenly.

It seems that her guess was correct. Their every move was probably within Shen Yizi's perception. Otherwise, how could she transmit the message so promptly?

She couldn't help but feel fortunate that she made the right choice, otherwise she wouldn't know what would be waiting for her.

Bai Xiaoshu paused: "...Get the benefits first, who knows if Mr. Zhao will fulfill his promise later? If you trick me, I will have nowhere to complain, right?"

Zhao Zeyuan knew that she had given up, but he deliberately showed a bitter smile on his face, "Miss Bai, how could Zhao be the kind of person who doesn't keep his word?"

Bai Xiaoshu shrugged. "I'm not familiar with you, how would I know?"

Zhao Zeyuan choked and took out something with determination, "This is my Zhao family's heirloom, passed down from generation to generation by my ancestors. Miss Bai, you should trust me now, right?"

What he took out was a square leather box, about the size of a mahjong tile, and it looked very old.

Bai Xiaoshu thought it was some kind of treasure, but when she opened it, she found a melon seed inside? Although this melon seed was unusually large, almost four or five times the size of an ordinary melon seed, it was still a melon seed! It was just a mutation at best!

What's so strange about that!

Bai Xiaoshu closed the box and said, "Master Zhao, you are not kidding me, are you?"

As he spoke, he released a trace of the pressure of a cultivator, which immediately made Zhao Zeyuan bend his waist.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead with difficulty, "Don't get me wrong, Miss Bai. This is really something passed down from my ancestors. If you don't believe me, you can try it. This melon seed, no, this treasure, is impervious to water and fire, and it can't be smashed or flattened. It's definitely not an ordinary thing!"

Really? Bai Xiaoshu looked doubtful.

She tried it and found that it was just as Zhao Zeyuan said, this melon seed was not ordinary!

but--

"Since you knew this was a treasure, why were you willing to give it to me? Just to prevent me from participating in the auction?"