Chapter 984 Sea Small Seal
Sang Yin also stood up, very curious about what kind of book could be auctioned for ten thousand taels.
Helian Chen had just turned to the first page of the booklet when he saw Ye Qianning stand up. Without even having time to look at him, he also stood up quickly: "Wait for me."
Shui Xingqi glanced at the page that Helian Chen was looking at. It was the list of people staying at Baimu Xun. Even the list of people was so detailed. Could it really have been bought with money?
Although he was quite interested in the person, it was a mean act to look through her belongings without permission.
Shui Xingqi withdrew his gaze, stood up and walked towards the door.
The noise on the first floor was deafening, with the voices of bidding getting louder and louder.
There were a lot of people on the first floor, and the families with some power sat in the seats below, where the seats were determined by price.
The closer you are to the stage, the higher the price. Those who don't have a seat have to stand outside the dotted line of the seats and lean back in rows.
Ye Qianning walked out of the door, lazily leaned on the railing, his eyes fell on the round table.
The master of ceremonies wore a Qilin mask. On the round table in front of him was a book that looked a bit thin and worn.
"Eleven thousand taels."
Ye Qianning looked towards the source of the voice. The person who was bidding the price was a middle-aged man who lived on the fifth floor opposite them. According to the order in the booklet, the man was from a family of scholars in Xiyan.
"Thirteen thousand taels."
The price was only fixed at half a cent, and then someone raised the price again.
"Fourteen thousand taels..."
The guest in Room 16 on the second floor followed suit and raised the price.
Fourteen thousand taels is the highest bid among the seven items currently being auctioned.
Ye Qianning also didn't quite understand the value, secretly taking in the expressions of everyone who raised the price: surprise, greed, excitement...
And we must win!
"Twenty thousand taels."
Following the shout, the crowd groaned and looked towards the source of the sound.
People in the world don't understand literati, but when a tattered book was auctioned for 20,000 yuan, people couldn't help but look at it differently. They also wondered which tomb the Haishang Xiaozhuan was buried with.
Ye Qianning also looked down, and when he saw the young man shouting out the price, a playful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
In the noisy crowd on the first floor, Wan Weizhi was pushing forward with his hands raised. Behind him, Wan Lingling's hair was messed up by the crowd, and Zhang Mao protected her as she moved forward.
Everyone looked at it for a while, then realized what was happening and made way.
Wan Weizhi walked out of the crowd and shouted again, "Twenty thousand taels."
"This young man bids 20,000 taels. Is there anyone else who would like to bid?" the emcee asked with a smile.
"Sea Seal Script? Why does it sound familiar?" Helian Chen muttered to himself, touching his chin.
"You know?" Ye Qianning looked away.
"I have heard of it, I have definitely heard of it." Helian Chen pondered.
"This is the handwriting of the ancestor of the Xuan family." Shui Xingqi said lightly.
Helian Chen's eyes lit up, staring at him in surprise and said, "Yes, yes, I remember now. It's Xuan Shi, Xuan Changji. Yes, it's him."
"Xuanshi?"
Ye Qianning frowned.
"Well, I heard from Uncle Wang that four hundred years ago, the patriarch of the Xuan family, Xuan Changji, was a prominent figure in the four countries. People only knew that he wrote a book of small seal script, but no one had ever seen it. They always thought it was a legend, but they didn't expect it to be true." Helian Chen liked to listen to these stories when he was a child, but later he returned to his fiefdom and no one told him the stories. It had been so long that he didn't remember them for a while.
Ye Qianning was slightly surprised when she heard the surname, Xuan. She remembered that Sang Zhi's mother was a descendant of the Xuan family. There were so many Xuans in the world, it couldn't be such a coincidence, right... ?
(End of this chapter)
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