Chapter 476: Fragrant Party or Stinky Party
Yun Qichen looked at her smiling face and poured some cold water on her. "This is only the first auction. Scarcity makes things valuable. With more auctions, the price of these fruits will drop."
Yun Qimu waved his hand. "I know, brother, don't worry. But as for the leeks, it's better to pull them as far as possible. We'll deal with it later when the price drops. I think Pei Yu has a good talent for marketing. Maybe he can come up with a good way to sell them at a high price in the future."
Pei Yu, who was given high hopes, was happily calculating in his mind how much commission he could earn this time.
Suddenly he sneezed.
Hey, who is talking about him?
However, this thought only flashed through his mind before he turned his attention back to the auction table.
The servants of the Nebula Auction House were grunting as they carried up something that looked like a small hill and was yellow and covered with thorns.
The smell comes before the thing arrives.
The people in the first floor hall who were craning their necks to look backstage suddenly reacted. Some narrowed their eyes, their faces revealing an obsessed expression, "What a nice smell!"
Some people covered their mouths and noses with lightning speed, looking as if they had fainted. "What the hell, it stinks so bad."
Their reaction immediately made someone guess what was being auctioned.
"I know, I know. It's durian. I saw it in a holographic ad before," Magna exclaimed in the box, her face brimming with excitement. "It's a pity I'm not on the first floor. Otherwise, I could have smelled the durian myself."
As she spoke, she looked at her good sister beside her with sparkling eyes, "Junjun, Luo Xian, are you the fragrant party or the stinky party?"
Jin Mingjun raised his chin expectantly, "Of course it's the Xiang Party."
Magna cried out, hugged Jin Mingjun's arm, and said with tears in her eyes, "Junjun, we are really good sisters. We have the same taste. I am also a member of the fragrant party. I am also the leader of the fragrant party. This morning, I silenced those stinky party members. You don't know that I am very powerful on the Star Network."
After the excitement, Magna did not forget her other good sister Luo Xian. Although Luo Xian could not be compared with Jun Jun in her heart, at least she was a rare friend who did not despise her lovelorn friend, so Magna still valued her very much.
"Luo Xian, it's your turn. Are you a member of the fragrant party or the stinky party?"
Luo Xian twitched her lips slightly, revealing an awkward smile, "Sorry, I haven't seen that ad, so..."
Magna's eyes widened in shock. "What? Luo Xian, you're so out of touch! You don't even know this! The sweet vs. salty battle of durian has been trending for over ten hours, and it was just overshadowed by Salina's ugly photos. And you don't even know this? So, are you just hiding at home practicing music, chess, calligraphy, and painting instead of browsing Star Network?"
She looked at Luo Xian's delicate, elegant, flawless face with an inquiring expression, as if she wanted to see if she was a fairy from heaven who only drank toilet water and didn't read gossip.
Luo Xian gave a helpless smile. "I'm indeed a little behind the times. The tutoring schedule my mother hired for me is very full, so I don't have much free time."
Magna and Jin Mingjun showed sympathetic expressions.
Luo Xian's Luo family had just moved to Saint Roya not long ago, so they didn't know much about the Luo family, but they knew that some families were very strict in educating their children. Even if they didn't send their children to the Imperial College, they would hire a tutor to teach them at home.
Of course, neither the Count Jin family of Jinming County nor the Marquis Kaiser family of Magna had strict family education. Their two families adopted a laissez-faire model. As long as their children had good moral character, they could study whatever they wanted. If they had not been admitted to the Imperial College by the age of 28, their families would interfere in their affairs.
Therefore, their families can still tolerate minor flaws like being obsessed with handsome men.
Therefore, although Jinmingjun and Magna did not have a very good reputation among the nobles, many noble ladies secretly envied them.
After two claps of the hammer, Pei Yu's smiling voice rang out, "I believe everyone has figured out what we're auctioning this time. That's right, it's the highlight of our auction - durian."
"Durian is not only delicious but also nourishes the body and replenishes nutrients, which is unmatched by ordinary fruits. "
Pei Yu opened his mouth and eloquently described durian as being the best in the world. Even those who found the smell of durian unbearable were shamefully tempted.
"The durians are now up for auction. The starting price is NT$500,000, and each bid must be no less than NT$10,000."
Magna, a loyal member of the Xiang Party, quoted the price without hesitation, "800,000."
How could such a big durian not even fetch the price of a bunch of grapes? So she decisively raised the price by 300,000. Although she might not be able to afford it in the end, she had to have the durian's reputation.
The price suddenly increased sharply, and the common wealthy people on the first floor looked resentful. Why didn't this person play by the rules? Which prodigal son would raise the price by 300,000 yuan directly? He didn't even give these little people a sense of participation.
If they add ten or twenty thousand in the beginning, they might be able to join in the fun, but if they were to directly add three hundred thousand, no, no, they are not impressive enough. They should leave it to the wealthy nobles.
The nobles who were eager to bid up the price also choked and silently raised the price on the quoter tenfold.
Humph, who doesn’t have a few mines at home? Just add 300,000, and I’m not afraid of you.
So, with Magna's performance, the nobles' vanity immediately soared, and the names and amounts that cycled on the big screen soared faster and faster. The scene was unprecedentedly hot.
Pei Yu, who had already drafted a plan in his mind on how to trick the nobles into raising the price, said: ???
My goodness, does he still need to fool people with such enthusiasm?
Forget it, Pei Yu simply grabbed a handful of bayberries, ate them with a smacking sound, and happily watched the numbers soaring on the big screen, feeling very happy.
Finally, the price soared to 2.8 million, and the alternating numbers on the big screen gradually slowed down. In the end, only three names were left in the competition, one was Vice Dean Lan Xuyan, another was Granhan Garcia from the Garcia family, and the other was Dusido Lopez from the Lopez family.
These three names were quite familiar to everyone at the auction. Vice President Lan was the one who bid on the first bunch of grapes, while Granham Garcia and Dusido Lopez were the ones who bid on peaches. In Pei Yu's eyes, they were all fat sheep with a lot of money and stupidity.
Pei Yu stared at the big screen with sparkling eyes, and shouted excitedly in his heart: Fight, fight.
(End of this chapter)
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