"Eight thousand guan!"

Because this was the last auction item, the auction time was plenty, and Zhao Qi did not urge them. When the two of them added to 7,500 guan, Su Houyou seemed to be unable to withstand this torture, so she simply raised the price to 8,000 guan in one go.

The venue was silent, and everyone looked up at the second floor, but for a full half a minute, no sound came out.

"Eight thousand guan once...Eight thousand guan twice...Eight thousand guan three times...Congratulations to Mr. Su, this guqin belongs to you. Please go to the finance office to deliver the money!"

The wooden hammer in Zhao Qi's hand hit the auction table hard.

"Bangmao!" In the second floor private room, Lu Yuntai snorted coldly with a pale face and stood up.

At this time, Wu Yuchan stood in the corner with a disappointed face and looked at the guqin in the center of the auction table, her eyes were slightly red and a little sad.

Su Houyou, who had won the bidding, walked to the center of the stage and picked up the guqin with both hands, then turned around and walked straight to Wu Yuchan.

"Miss Yuechan, Su Houyou, Mr. Dongpo is the ancestor of Houyou. I am so grateful to see the relics of our ancestors at the charity sale today. Since Miss Yuechan likes this piano, Houyou will give this piano to you today. I hope the girl can keep it well and play beautiful music with this piano!"

"Wow~" While the entire venue was in an uproar, many people also stood up and applauded and cheered, all moved by Su Houyou's gift of the piano.

At this time, the news that the guqin auction was sold at a sky-high price had already spread outside, which also caused a clamor on the street. Suddenly, an old Taoist priest with fairy spirit and a young Taoist priest squeezed out in the crowd. The old Taoist priest held a whisk in his hand, and the young Taoist priest walked straight into the gate of Baihua Tower with a copper box in his hand.

"Hey, two Taoist masters stay, why are you going in?" A turtle man stopped the two.

"The old Taoist heard that he was donating money for the frontline charity sale here. The old Taoist happened to have the same treasure in his hand. He wanted to take it in and sell it and donate it to the frontline!" The old Taoist priest bowed his head seriously.

"Old immortal, don't brag. You Taoist priests are all poor and can't even eat enough. Where did you come from? If you are a monk, we would believe it!" Someone in the crowd laughed and said loudly.

"The old Taoist will let you see what Taoist treasures are today..." The old Taoist waved the whisk, and with a click, the bronze box in the young Taoist's arms bounced open, and a brilliant purple light radiated in the golden sunset.

"Wow~" The crowd of onlookers was in an uproar in an instant, and the turtle man standing next to the young Taoist priest even raised his eyes and his mouth was wide open and his face was as dull as if he was a ghost.

"This... what kind of treasure is this?" The onlookers rushed to rush around the two Taoist priests.

"Haha, this is a purple jade crystal treasure gourd, which is used to hold the elixir..."

The old Taoist priest proudly took out a crystal glass gourd about a foot long from the bronze box and raised it. It was blue-purple and crystal clear, reflecting an extremely attractive light in the setting sun.

"Wait a minute, there is another peerless treasure outside to donate..."

At the auction stand, just as Zhao Qi was about to announce the successful end of the auction, a turtle man stumbled in and shouted loudly.

"Perfect baby?" All the guests who were getting up at the scene were stunned.

Zhao Qi was also very strange. Hearing the bustling noise at the door, he soon saw a Taoist priest with fairy style and a big sleeve in his hand. A young Taoist priest was following him, holding a copper box in his hand.

"The old Taoist is polite!" The old Taoist priest walked to the auction table and bowed his head.

"What do you call Taoist priest and where does it come from?" Zhao Qi asked curiously, holding his fists.

"Old Taoist Yun Songzi, this is my disciple. My master and disciple have been traveling around the world to find treasures and refine weapons. Today, I passed by Qingyuan Mansion and learned that there was a charity sale here to raise military pay. The old Taoist also wanted to contribute to the fight against the Mongolians!" The old Taoist said.

"Thank you so much. I'll ask the two Taoist priests to come on stage and take out the donated treasures to display them!" Zhao Qi invited with a grateful face.

"Okay!" The old Taoist priest walked to the stage, reached out and took a cloth bag from his waist, opened it, and took out a small purple crystal gourd about two inches tall from it.

Zhao Qi:...

Damn the liar came, Zhao Qi thrust his face a few times, forcibly resisting himself from looking up at the private room where Lu Yuntai was on the second floor.

"This is the purple jade crystal treasure gourd made by the old Taoist for decades, using the stone essence and chalcedony in the cave. It contains the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon, and is used to store the spirit pills for thousands of years..."

The old Taoist priest raised the crystal clear purple crystal gourd with a proud look. Under the sunlight shining down from the courtyard, the crystal gourd emitted a charming light.

"It's indeed a good baby!"

"Tsk tsk, crystal clear, and the shape is like a natural one!"

"It's as beautiful as crystal and as bright as purple stars, it's simply a miracle!"

"It looks like glass, but it is more transparent than glass, and it looks like glass, but it is more crystal clear than glass, without any flaws..."

The guests sitting on the first floor were all attracted by the crystal gourd in the hands of the old Taoist priest, and they rushed up to watch and were amazed.

In the private rooms on the second floor, all the bearded heads were poked out from all the windows. They stared at the crystal bottles in the old Taoist priest's hand and looked at them without blinking. Some people even felt that they couldn't see clearly, so they went downstairs to squeeze into the auction table to watch.

Zhao Qi soon came to his senses and waved to call Han Lei and Zheng Zhen and other people over. After seeing this crystal gourd together, he muttered and started discussing.

"Shopkeeper Zhao, what the old Taoist priest outside just now was not showing this small gourd, but a big gourd..." The turtle man who was guarding the gate suddenly squeezed into Zhao Qi and others and gestured with his hands and said excitedly.

"Big gourd?"

Han Lei and others were surprised, but Zhao Qi felt extremely excited in his heart. These two Taoist priests must have been liars found by Qian Wuliang, and then took this opportunity to seduce Lu Yuntai to be fooled.

But since they are all in a group, I have to help with it.

It is probably also a double insurance measure that Qian Wuliang is afraid that these people will not be able to handle.

After thinking about it, Zhao Qi grabbed Gui Gong's arm and asked excitedly: "Where is the big gourd?"

"It's in that copper box..." The turtle man secretly pointed to the copper box in the young Taoist priest's arms.

"What do you think the purple jade crystal treasure gourd in front of you is worth?" Zhao Qi asked Han Lei and others with his eyes.

"This kind of treasure has never been seen before. Its shape is similar to glass, and its material is similar to crystal and glass. It must be valuable, but the shape of the instrument is too small. If it is sold, the value should not exceed ten thousand yuan. Han once saw a colorful glass jade Ruyi in the Great Inner, which is more exquisite and beautiful than this. It only cost 13,000 yuan at the beginning!" Han Lei was a bad person in the Great Inner, so he naturally had a lot of knowledge and compared it and expressed his own judgment.

"Brother Han said it is reliable. Both glass and crystal objects are very expensive, but more than ten thousand yuan are still rare. If this purple jade crystal gourd is five inches high, it may be easier to make it more than ten thousand yuan, but Cao thinks that seven or eight thousand yuan will be over..."

"Yes, I agree with Brother Cao!"

"Since this is the case, we have a clear idea when auctioning. This is a charity sale, and we cannot let friends from all walks of life who come to bid for too much, so as not to hurt this patriotism!" Zhao Qi nodded.

"Brother Zhao is right. The starting price is set at 4,000 yuan. I am also very interested in this one. I will try to buy it..." Han Lei said with his eyes shining.

"Haha, such a rare good baby, I can't help but get into it!" Zheng Zhen, Cao Feng, Gao Yucheng and others nodded excitedly.

Chen Ji and Yao Ran were still huddling beside the old Taoist priest and looked at the crystal gourd. Like the guests around, they felt saliva flowing.

Gold, silver and jewelry are good things, but only the crystal-clear colors of glass crystal can really arouse everyone's interest. Otherwise, the skeleton-filled glass jars like the big cannibal would not be sold for hundreds or even thousands of coins.

You should know that ordinary families in the Song Dynasty only earn about a hundred chunks of money per year, and they can only maintain the family’s food and clothing. If they have an income of more than three hundred chunks, they can be considered middle-class families. Those with income of more than ten thousand chunks of money per year are considered wealthy families, while those with income of ten thousand chunks of money per year are rich families.

The richer people like to collect gold, silver and jewelry. Luxury and precious items like glass and jade are also competing items. If a wealthy family doesn’t have many silver tableware, they may be laughed at, but if a wealthy family does not have glass and jade, they will be laughed at.

But gold, silver and jewelry are often found, and glass and jade are rare.

This has also caused a huge demand for glass and high-end jade among the people, resulting in a complete lack of supply and demand relationship. Many people can only settle for the second best to buy a glass that can bring to the storefront. However, the people of the Song Dynasty were not blind or fools after all, and the glass of the big zodiac was just like that. Even if it was expensive, it still could not be put on the table and had low collection value. At most, it was used to arrange flowers and fish in the living room and study as an ornament.
Chapter completed!