Chapter 152 There is someone in the cage!

As soon as Chi Yan finished speaking, the scene suddenly became quiet.

Even Dieyi, who was sitting in the audience, was shocked.

She glanced at Chi Yan with a dark look in her eyes, frowned, and fell into deep thought.

Who are the guests at table number 99?

He quoted prices without hesitation every time, as if what came out of his mouth was not real money, but a string of meaningless numbers.

Chuntao was very happy. This was the first time that her young lady was in charge of an auction. The transaction price had already exceeded the highest price of 1,888 taels achieved when Liu Siniang opened the auction last year!

Next, as long as she creates a good atmosphere, the final transaction price will definitely continue to rise!

By then, I will be able to trample Liu Si Niang under my feet!

"Dear guests, there is only one girl left on the stage!"

As soon as Chuntao finished speaking, someone started bidding.

This round of bidding was indeed more intense than the previous three rounds, with the bid soaring from fifty taels to more than four thousand taels.

Seeing that no one was bidding any more, the guests turned their attention to Chi Yan at table 99.

Chi Yan did not bid this round. Seeing that everyone seemed to be waiting for him to bid, how could he disappoint the guests who were watching the excitement?

Then, he raised his hand covered with huge gems again, "I'll pay five thousand taels!"

The moment he called out the price, everyone present felt that although Chi Yan had a lot of money, he was actually stupid.

For a young girl like this who hasn't even lost her virginity yet, it's worth spending a few hundred taels of silver to try her out.

But! Even if the four of them were added together, they wouldn't be worth a thousand taels of silver.

"My dear brother, I advise you not to ask for an exorbitant price. If you don't pay that much money when the time comes, you may not be able to leave the brothel tonight!"

The brothels employ so many thugs and bodyguards, not only to look after the abducted children, but also to scare off the customers, to prevent any of them from deliberately running away under the pretext of being drunk and causing trouble.

Chi Yan sneered, "Is the small amount we spent tonight considered a lot? I have plenty of money, so I advise you to stay out of the business of rich people!"

The guests present looked at the four girls standing behind Chi Yan and said sourly, "Miss Dieyi, you only had a few girls prepared for the auction, and all of them were bought by one person. What are you going to do with the other guests who came here for the auction?"

Dieyi stood up from the table, looked around, and said with a smile, "What we have the most in the pleasure house is girls. Please be patient, the highlight is still to come!"

As she spoke, she nodded to Chuntao, who walked to the side of the stage, grabbed the red silk decoration on the stage and pulled it hard.

Suddenly, all the red ribbons hanging from the second floor were torn off.

The red silk fell to the ground, and everyone saw that there was a huge cage behind the stage.

And in the cage stood a little boy who was about ten years old.

The little boy was thin, and the light-colored robe made him look empty. His small face had more delicate and beautiful features than the girl's.

When he was exposed in front of everyone, his curled eyelashes trembled, and his clear and blank eyes were filled with panic.

"How bizarre! There's a person in a cage!"

I don't know who shouted, but the people in the audience suddenly became very interested in the androgynous person in the cage.

"Miss Dieyi, why does the person in the cage look like a boy?"

"Why are you guys selling boys in this brothel? We want girls, pretty girls!"

"I think this little thing looks very unique. Maybe it's a little girl wearing men's clothes!"

A middle-aged man in his forties stared at the boy in the cage and shouted, "I've taken a fancy to the little thing in the cage. It doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl. Miss Dieyi, you name a price and I'll take the person away!"

"Hey! My dear, you can't break the rules of the auction. The items on the stage can only be won by the highest bidder!"

The guests looked at the little boy in the cage with particularly wonderful expressions on their faces.

Friends who often visit kilns know that some people like to hunt for novelties, while others are born with a preference for dragon and yang.

Now when they see the boys in the cage who are prettier than the little girls, they all have interested expressions on their faces.

When Dieyi recognized who the boy in the cage was, her face changed immediately.

She ignored the guests' teasing and waved to Chuntao.

Chun Tao received the instructions and hurried to her side, "Miss, what's wrong?"

Dieyi couldn't get angry in front of so many guests, so she could only lower her voice and ask Chuntao, "Is Liu Si Niang crazy? Why did she bring him up here?"

Didn't you say that the pressing shaft is ready?

Why was he the one sent to the stage?

He was the most handsome of all the abducted boys, and an adult had already taken a fancy to him.

If I sell him to someone else tonight, will that gentleman just let it go?

Chun Tao had never expected that the items in the cage had been replaced by Liu Si Niang. "Miss, I don't know what happened. Liu Si Niang must have done it on purpose. She wanted to embarrass you!"

Recently, the common people whose children were abducted have reported the case to the police. The Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple attach great importance to the missing cases and have dispatched additional personnel to track down the whereabouts of the missing children.

Although the brothel is protected by a master, selling boys in it is already conspicuous.

If they are targeted by the government, will they still want to do business?

Dieyi raised her hand and stroked her forehead, and ordered her in a deep voice, "Hurry up and find a way to get him out, and find a few girls to replace him!"

However, before Chun Tiao could reply, a guest got impatient and said, "Miss Dieyi, why hasn't this round of auction started yet? Everyone is waiting to take pictures of this handsome boy!"

When Dieyi turned around and looked at the man who asked the question, she was smiling again. "I'm so sorry, the one in the cage is the apprentice of our security master. I don't know who put him in the cage as a joke! I'll go and urge the girls to go on stage now!"

After hearing her hidden message, one customer was immediately unhappy. "The rule of the pleasure house is that as long as the item is shown on the stage, it must go through all the auction procedures. It just so happens that my yard is short of a security guard, so I want to buy him back!"

"What a coincidence! I'm also short of a security guard in my yard. I want to bid too!"

Many customers were determined to get the boy locked in the cage.

They are rubbing their hands, just waiting to bid.

Dieyi was in a dilemma, her palms sweating with anxiety, "Where is Liu Si Niang? She stabbed the basket, does she want me to clean up the mess for her?"

The pleasure house does have rules. Once the item is displayed, the auction must begin and cannot be stopped halfway.

If the brothel does not want to sell the boy, it can only offer a price higher than that of all the other customers and buy the item back.

Chun Tao replied, "I'm afraid Liu Si Niang is still teaching that little girl a lesson!"

Dieyi decided to report what happened tonight to her master tomorrow and let her master severely punish Liu Si Niang!

Now, she could only bite the bullet and say, "Everyone, in order not to spoil everyone's fun, the items on the stage will be auctioned now, and the starting price is still fifty taels. The bid will be increased by ten taels each round!"

"Fifty taels!"

The first one to make an offer was Chi Yan.

After seeing clearly that there were children in the cage, he was so angry that he almost rushed up and killed these beasts!

However, thinking of the emperor's instructions, he held back.

Once Xuanming has rescued all the people, he will definitely not let go of these bad women who treated children as commodities!

On the other side, Wang Dali led Xue Youli and Chu Xinyue through a long corridor and walked for a long time before arriving at the place where the children were kept.

This is the deepest part of the backyard, far away from the front hall. The two followed Wang Dali and did not climb over the wall, but pushed the door directly into the yard.

The moment Xue Youli stepped into the yard, she felt it was surprisingly quiet here.

The noisy and drunken sounds in the lobby of the pleasure building seemed to have disappeared and could not be heard at all.

This courtyard was so quiet that there was hardly any living person to be seen. There were only two lanterns hanging in the empty courtyard, and the light was dim.

It was very quiet all around. No one was in sight and no sound of a child crying was heard.

Chu Xinyue looked around, not to mention the shadow of a person, not even a ghost. "Strange! Why is there no one here? Could it be that they have all been transferred to the lobby of the pleasure building to maintain order?"

After all, there are several times more customers visiting the brothel tonight than usual, and if there are no thugs keeping an eye on them, chaos could easily occur.

Wang Dali came up to them and whispered, "The sentries here are all here, but they are hiding where you can't see them."

Chu Xinyue asked in confusion, "Why didn't anyone come to stop us when we came in?"

"Because we were all wearing brothel clothes, they thought we were one of their own."

Just as Wang Dali finished his explanation, the door of a room not far away opened and a woman in her forties walked out.

[Name: Aunt Zhao, 45 years old, a maid who served the former madam of the pleasure house. Now she is responsible for training the abducted children.]

At this moment, Aunt Zhao looked at the three people in the courtyard, and a dark light flashed in her shrewd eyes, "Who allowed you to come here?"