"Auction?"
Seeing the puzzled expression on Gu Shi's face, Wendel explained to him the origins of the auction.
"Yes, this is also a tradition of the royal city over the years.
The year-end auction hosted by the Emerald Trading Company is held at the end of October every year, and every ten years it is upgraded to an extra-grand large-scale auction.
This year happens to be the year-end auction. How about it? Are you interested? Even if you don't buy, it's good to join in the fun and broaden your horizons.
Gu Shi was a little hesitant. He was indeed somewhat interested in this auction, but he didn't know how Field would arrange the next itinerary.
"Well, I'll ask the teacher when I get back.
I'm not sure whether we should stay here for a few days after the banquet or go straight back to Congleton. If the teacher agrees, I'll go with you to see the year-end auction."
"Okay, then it's settled. The year-end auction starts in five days. If you want to go, remember to write to me in advance. Here, this is my address."
Wendell took out a pen and paper and wrote down the address for Gu Shi. "If you have time, you can come and visit me. I'm always welcome."
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After collecting the address during the care, Wendell brought up another topic.
"Speaking of which, how do you get along with Professor Burns? When you were in the academy, you only visited him occasionally. Now that you're on vacation and living there for a long time, isn't that stressful?
I've heard from others that Mr. Burns is very strict."
"It's okay. The teacher wasn't too strict with me and gave me very attentive guidance."
"Really? Tell me about your training routine."
Gu Shi casually mentioned it twice, and saw Wendel's face with an expression of "as expected". "What's wrong?"
Wendell shrugged and grumbled, "You're the only one who thinks this is easy. You two are truly worthy of being teacher and student. One dares to think and the other dares to do."
"I think it's okay. Wait, look at that carriage over there. Has anyone left already?"
Gu Shi was originally admiring the scenery in the garden outside the terrace, but unexpectedly saw a carriage driving out of the manor.
Wendell looked in the direction of Gu Shi's finger and saw a carriage slowly leaving. "That should be it. I think it's almost time. The banquet is probably coming to an end."
Finally able to go back, Gu Shi stood up happily, "Then let's go back too."
Wendell nodded, "Okay, let's go."
Sure enough, when the two returned to the banquet hall, the crowd inside had dispersed a little.
"It's time to go back." Field walked towards Gu Shi and saw Wendel standing next to him. He asked, "Is this your new friend?"
Gu Shi explained: "This is my roommate in college."
Feeling Field's gaze on him, Wendell, who had always been somewhat intimidated by this mentor, immediately introduced himself: "Hello, Mr. Burns, I'm Wendell Brest."
"Oh, hello, the youngest son of the Brest family." Field nodded in understanding, greeted him casually, and then signaled Gu Shi that he could leave with him.
Gu Shi waved to Wendell and said, "I'll be leaving now. See you later."
"Well, bye."
After seeing them leave, Wendell also went back to look for his eldest brother.
After returning, Gu Shi naturally did not forget the auction invitation that Wendel mentioned yesterday, so he found Field the next day to inquire about the next arrangements.
Gu Shi found Field in the study and asked, "Teacher, when are we going back?"
Field took his eyes off the book in his hand, looked at Gu Shi and asked, "Why, are you not used to living here? Is there something Colin didn't do well?"
Gu Shi quickly denied it, "No, no, Butler Colin is very kind to me. Wendell invited me to the auction at the banquet yesterday, and I was curious about going, so I asked how long we would be staying here."
Field thought for a moment and said, "Oh, so this year's year-end auction is indeed in the next few days. If you want to go, of course it's no problem."
"Thank you, teacher. I'll be leaving now."
After getting Field's affirmative answer, Gu Shi was about to turn around and write a letter to tell Wendel about this, but was stopped by Field again.
"Wait, here, take this. If you find anything interesting at the auction, just buy it."
Field extended his hand and handed over a space ring. Gu Shi took it and looked at it. He couldn't help but exclaimed, "So many!!"
This space ring contained mountains of gold coins. Gu Shi had never seen so much money before. He felt that his eyes were about to be blinded by the light emitted by these gold coins.
Field didn't care about this small amount of money at all. "It's not a lot, only 10 million gold coins. You can use it. If it's not enough, you can ask me for more. Have fun at the auction."
"Okay, thank you, teacher."
Gu Shi felt that he was stuttering when speaking. He returned to the room in a daze with the ring in his hand and was once again shocked by Field's wealth.
After expressing his feelings, Gu Shi wrote a letter to Wendel and gave it to Colin, asking him to help mail it.
Colin was naturally very cautious in his actions, and the next day Gu Shi received a reply from Wendel.
In the letter, Wendel first expressed his happiness that Gu Shi could go with him, and then wrote that he would come to pick up Gu Shi on the morning of the auction, and Gu Shi only needed to wait in the manor.
After reading it, Gu Shi wrote him another letter with only a short sentence in it: OK.
Watching Colin walk out with the envelope he had written, Gu Shi couldn't help but sigh, "Oh, this communication is so troublesome. Mobile phones are better. They can communicate directly in real time."
Since coming to the other world, Gu Shi has more deeply experienced the greatness of technology. Although the magic here is also very wonderful, technology is indeed more convenient in daily life.
Just like the letters he and Wendell wrote to each other, which only took a few minutes with a mobile phone, but took two or three days to arrive here.
This is the case when two people are in the same city. If they are far apart, it is not certain whether the letter can be delivered.
"Since there's alchemy here, there should be similar communication devices, right? Maybe I'm just not very knowledgeable. I'll ask the teacher next time."
Gu Shi felt that there must be someone researching this kind of communication device, but it might only appear in the upper class, so he just didn't know about it.
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