The thought of Ru Meng being defiled by such a man made the guests present lose their appetite.
They all raised their paddles again to join the competition.
"Forty thousand taels!"
"Fifty thousand taels!"
"Eighty thousand taels!"
"One hundred thousand taels!"
Finally, everyone's eyes fell on Xiao Yuanche and the man with the mustache.
The two raced neck and neck like horses, neither willing to give way. Occasionally, others would try to join the competition, but they would quickly be eliminated.
Seeing the price skyrocket to 170,000 taels, Xiao Yuanche's attendant anxiously reminded him, "Your Highness, it's already 170,000 taels!"
"If we raise the price any further, I'm afraid we'll have trouble explaining ourselves later."
You should know that he himself had to make up for the 500,000 taels.
"roll!"
Xiao Yuanche was now in a bloodthirsty frenzy, and his voice boomed like thunder in the private room.
He had only one thought in his mind: this time, no one could take his true love away from him, no one could!
"Seventeen thousand and five thousand taels!"
When she saw Xiao Yuanche continue bidding, the old woman breathed a sigh of relief.
If the other party stops now, she will be unable to complete the task assigned to her.
The view from here was completely visible to the people in another private room on the third floor.
Murong Anle chuckled and stroked his beard.
He waved gently.
"grown ups."
"Go, it's time to unleash your ultimate move."
"yes."
While closely monitoring the Yue Kingdom delegation these past few days, Murong Anle was also secretly investigating the past of the Second Prince and the Third Princess thoroughly. She also managed to uncover incriminating evidence against several Yue Kingdom officials within the delegation.
It's quite a coincidence.
Back when Li Xuanji was young, he went to the Yue Kingdom with Murong Gan, who was then the fourteenth prince, and met Xiao Yuanche, who was still a child.
At that time, Murong Gan came to a conclusion: Xiao Yuanche likes that wet nurse.
This doomed love left the two of them with a myriad of emotions.
This time, Li Xuanji used his powerful memory to copy a portrait. "Human memory automatically beautifies things; the person you find only needs to be three-tenths similar."
In this way, the Jiaofangsi, which was directly under the Ministry of Rites, came in handy.
"Finding a girl is really not easy, Second Prince. You must not let this old man's efforts go to waste..." He chuckled.
Downstairs, a group of onlookers who loved to stir up trouble kept fanning the flames and even openly set up a temporary betting pool.
Who will this dreamlike girl end up with?
Will it fall into the hands of that ugly, mustachioed merchant, or will the elegant and handsome young master from Yue win the heart of the beauty?
When Xiao Yuanche traveled in the capital, he used the identity of a merchant from the Yue Kingdom. Although the common people knew that he was the second prince of the Yue Kingdom, no one dared to expose him.
In the Yue Kingdom, no one dared to snatch a person from the Second Prince, but this was not the Yue Kingdom. That tiny boy with a small mustache was quite bold.
However, when the price was bid so high, he couldn't help but hesitate.
He bowed in Xiao Yuanche's direction and said, "Young master, it's not worth going bankrupt for a woman."
Xiao Yuanche's eyes were bloodshot, and all he could see was Ru Meng. "Dream on! I'm far from being bankrupt."
"Well then, how about this: let Miss Rumeng kiss me in front of everyone, and I won't bid."
"I'll give you the 180,000 taels."
The man with the mustache looked generous, and his tone carried a hint of condescension.
"Absolutely not! If I allow you to get even a fraction closer to Miss Rumeng today, I, Xiao... will take your surname!" Xiao Yuanche refused to back down an inch.
The attendants beside him were too frightened to utter a sound.
He secretly prayed that these words would not reach the emperor's ears after returning to Yue.
The man with the mustache's face suddenly turned cold, and he snorted disdainfully, "Since that's the case, then don't blame me for being impolite."
He turned to look at the old woman, took out a thick stack of silver notes from his pocket, and slammed them heavily on the table.
He paused slightly, then picked up the silver notes and said loudly, "This is 450,000 taels of silver, which I used to buy grain. Not a single penny is missing."
"I'm determined to have this dreamlike girl today."
"I'm not only going to sleep with her, I'm going to make you all watch me sleep with her!"
The girl on the stage, Ru Meng, was so humiliated that her face turned red, and she bit her lip hard, swaying as if she were about to collapse.
It's even more heartbreaking.
Seeing that Xiao Yuanche was about to bid again, his attendant quickly stopped him.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, didn't you hear that man say that he used the 450,000 taels to buy grain?"
"Who would carry so much silver and buy so much grain?"
Although Xiao Yuanche wasn't very bright, he could still figure things out in an instant.
Such a large quantity of grain could only be used for military supplies.
That man with the mustache is definitely not from Yue, as people from Yue don't look like that. He is also certainly not from Qing, otherwise why would he go to such lengths to buy grain?
Considering the situation in the surrounding countries, he quickly concluded that this mustache-wearing man was most likely from the Liao Dynasty in the north.
Haha, no wonder!
The 300,000 taels of silver that the Qing Kingdom had originally promised suddenly turned into a loan, and they even insisted on exchanging it for grain.
It must have been all for the sake of making this deal happen.
If... he were to steal the money from that mustache-wearing fellow, the other party would have no money to buy food.
With the Qing Kingdom hoarding so much grain, grain prices will inevitably fall.
Then, you can buy back the grain at a low price...wouldn't that make you a fortune?
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