"One hundred and fifty taels!" Nie Qingyi quoted the price.
Su Jin took a deep breath and said, "Two hundred taels!"
Nie Qingyi's lips curled into a smirk as she continued bidding without the slightest hesitation. "Three hundred taels!"
Su Jin frowned deeply.
The crowd seemed to have discovered something interesting and waited for the upstairs bid to continue. Logically speaking, those who could go upstairs must be extraordinary people, and they shouldn't lose to those downstairs.
However, there was no movement from upstairs for a long time.
Su Jin wanted to call out, but she only had two hundred taels of silver left!
So he became increasingly angry, completely unaware that blood was seeping from his palms.
"Is there any more bidding upstairs? If not, then this Red Flame Whip belongs to the young lady downstairs."
The auctioneer knew that the Phoenix Lord was in this room, so he proceeded with the procedure somewhat hesitantly.
Shen Qianxue stood up, pulled Su Jinxia's hand over, and gently held it, feeling the slight stickiness in her palm.
His eyes held doubt, but even more so, heartache.
"Five hundred taels," Shen Qianxue said casually, her determination evident.
Everyone gasped in shock and immediately added two hundred taels!
Upon hearing the change to a male voice, Nie Qingyi vaguely guessed that it was the Phoenix Lord.
But she wasn't satisfied and continued to bid, "Six hundred taels!"
"One thousand taels."
Shen Qianxue did not hesitate at all, just like Nie Qingyi who had bid without hesitation when facing Su Jinxia.
Nie Qingyi was furious and wanted to bid again, but the man beside her pulled her hand and whispered, "Don't forget our important business today. The Phoenix Lord is rich and powerful, we don't need to compete with him."
Nie Qingyi gritted her teeth inwardly and had no choice but to give up!
Is anyone else bidding?
No one responded.
The auctioneer breathed a sigh of relief and announced loudly, "Congratulations to the person upstairs for winning the Crimson Flame Whip!"
Upon hearing the result, Shen Qianxue paid no attention and took out a handkerchief to carefully wipe the bloodstains from Su Jin's palms.
Su Jin waited anxiously for a long time, anticipating Shen Qianxue's questioning.
But Shen Qianxue didn't ask anything.
Relieved, Su Jinxia felt a pang of regret again, "A thousand taels is too expensive."
Shen Qianxue gently raised her eyes and parted her thin lips slightly, "As long as you're happy."
Su Jin was stunned for a moment, her heart pounding so hard she forgot to breathe.
After a while, her face turned bright red, she coughed a few times, and quickly drank a cup of cold tea to calm herself down.
Then, she silently withdrew her hand, her head flushed, and sat up straight, looking straight ahead.
The auction continued to be heated, but Su Jin remained silent, watching coldly.
Until the very last item was auctioned.
The auctioneer introduced: "The items for this auction are still provided by Phoenix Pavilion. I can't really say what they are, so please just take a look."
A maidservant carried up a white jade box. The box was crystal clear, and one could vaguely see that the contents inside were black.
The box was opened, and everyone craned their necks to look inside; the final item in the auction must be extremely valuable.
However, voices of disappointment rose and fell.
"What is this? Are you kidding me?"
"I don't understand, that's a bit childish."
"I think the jade box is exquisitely crafted. I wonder if the box comes with the contents? If it does, I might as well bid on it."
Everyone burst into laughter; that was too mean.
Su Jin sat down on the second floor, where the contents of the box were clearly visible.
A three-foot-long wooden sword lay quietly in a brocade box. The wood was an unusual pure black, but that didn't matter, because everyone was attracted by the craftsmanship of the wooden sword.
The sword looked like something a father would casually carve out of a piece of wood to appease a child; the blade was simple and rough, without any patterns, and was really not worth looking at.
However, Su Jinxia was already utterly shocked.
The secret treasures of the Ruri Society are just like that, so casually presented.
But Su Jin kept a stiff face and dared not show the slightest surprise.
Su Jin could easily find any excuse to cover up the matter of the Red Flame Whip, but now she couldn't let Shen Qianxue notice anything unusual.
Shen Qianxue calmly observed the crowd below, her knuckles lightly tapping the table as she waited for the fish to take the bait.
The starting price for a wooden sword is only five taels of silver.
There weren't many bidders. The price increased by five taels of silver, and it took a long time for the price to reach fifty taels before no one else followed suit.
The auctioneer was a bit embarrassed. This was the final item to be auctioned. Was the auction going to end so abruptly?
Just as the auctioneer was about to proceed with the process, someone suddenly raised the price again.
Sixty taels!
Everyone looked toward the source of the sound, and there was the woman who had bid for the Red Flame Whip.
"This girl has really unique taste!"
Some people laughed and joked that the red-flaming whip in front and the broken wooden sword behind looked like the worst of the worst.
I really don't understand what they were thinking!
Everyone tacitly agreed not to compete with Nie Qingyi.
The auctioneer looked around for a moment and asked, "Anyone else want to bid? If not..."
"Eighty taels."
Suddenly, a masked man in black spoke softly from the corner.
Only then did everyone realize that this person hadn't even spoken up in the bidding.
Nie Qingyi frowned, thinking to herself: Here we go again!
"One hundred taels!"
"One hundred and twenty taels!"
"One hundred and fifty taels!"
"Two hundred taels!"
...
The two men argued fiercely, quickly raising the price to five hundred taels, neither willing to give in.
The others figured it out: these two, who had been silent all along, were suddenly at odds over an insignificant item.
It seems like they came specifically for the wooden sword!
Is there something fishy about this wooden sword?
As a result, many more people joined in and started bidding.
Soon, the price rose to two thousand taels.
Too expensive!
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