Tomb Robbery: Immortality starts from Laojiumen

In the cold winter in Peiping, the heavy snow seemed like someone grabbed a handful of salt and sprinkled it in the air, making it cold and astringent.

But inside the Crescent Hotel, it was as warm as spring and bustling with activity.

There are dignitaries everywhere in the hotel, singing and dancing everywhere, and there is a sense of luxury.

Cong Ye and Zhang Qishan were sitting in the box on the second floor, waiting for the auction to begin.

This is the second day after Cong Ye and Zhang Qishan arrived in Peiping, and the auction will officially start in a few minutes.

The private rooms were separated by screens and bead curtains. Cong Ye looked around and saw that in addition to the ordinary seats on the first floor, there were four people sitting in private rooms.

Apart from him and Zhang Qishan, there were three remaining boxes. One was Mr. Beile from the former Qing Dynasty, one was the president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, and the other one had a screen placed to pretend to be mysterious.

When he revealed the identity of the person sitting in the box to Zhang Qishan, Zhang Qishan looked slightly surprised:

"How did you know?"

As Cong Ye came to Peiping, there were many people from Chunshan Hall. The auction held at the Crescent Hotel was a well-known event in Peiping. It was not difficult to get the information with a little trick.

"The mountain man has his own plan."

Cong also raised his eyebrows and focused his attention on the auctioneer who walked up to the central platform.

The auctioneer's voice sounded, and the first round of auctions had begun.

Zhang Qishan chuckled lightly and didn't get Cong Ye's answer, so he stopped asking.

Crescent Hotel delivered all the items for this auction in advance.

The deer grass that Cong Ye needed was mainly in the second round, so neither he nor Zhang Qishan paid much attention to the first round of auctions.

After Cong Ye's observation, most of the first-round auction items fell into the hands of dignitaries sitting in the ordinary seats in the hall on the first floor.

The people sitting in the box didn't move at all.

It seems that they have the same purpose, they are all heading towards the second round of medicinal materials.

Cong Ye didn't panic, the auction would naturally be for the highest bidder.

Gold is hard currency, he has inexhaustible gold, and he will definitely get the deer and grass in his pocket.

The first round of auctions ended, and there was a half-hour break between the two rounds of auctions.

The servants and maids of the Crescent Hotel served tea, served snacks, and entertainers performed in the center of the hall to prevent the guests from being bored.

Cong Ye scanned the entire venue and was attracted to the private room on the second floor facing the entrance of the Crescent Hotel.

The box was empty when Cong Ye and Zhang Qishan arrived, but now it was neatly filled with maids and servants.

Yin Xinyue, who was wearing a white fox velvet dress, put her hands on the railing and looked at Cong Ye with her round grape-like eyes and a smile like a flower.

Cong Ye paused and nodded towards her politely.

Yin Xinyue's smile became sweeter, she held her cheeks up and waved to him.

Cong Ye simply withdrew his gaze and stopped looking in that direction.

However, Zhang Qishan followed Cong Ye's line of sight and looked over.

Naturally, he received the same treatment as Cong Ye.

He frowned and asked, "Is that the eldest lady of the Crescent Hotel, Yin Xinyue?"

Cong also nodded.

Zhang Qishan took a sip of tea and stopped looking in Yin Xinyue's direction.

Half an hour passed.

The second round of auctions begins.

The auctioneer swayed onto the high platform with a teasing expression and a coquettish look on his eyebrows and eyes:

"Next, our auction rules will change!"

Zhang Qishan frowned slightly: "What are they doing?"

Cong Ye shook his head: "Just wait and see what happens."

Some people in the crowd couldn't help but asked curiously.

After the sale was completed, the auctioneer solved everyone's doubts:

"In the second round of auctions, Crescent Hotel will use a blind auction."

Blind shooting?

Zhang Qishan's expression changed slightly.

The blind auction is to put all the three herbs in the current round in the same box, so that no one can guess which herbs are inside.

They wanted deer live, but they didn't know which box the deer live would be in.

They must acquire all the lots in this round, so the funds required will be sky-high.

The auctioneer looked at Zhang Qishan in the box, and Zhang Qishan suddenly felt something bad in his heart.

"This round of auction is also related to the marriage between Mr. Peng Sanbian of the Northwest and Miss Yin Xinyue of our Crescent Hotel. If Mr. Peng can buy one of them, he will treat it as a betrothal gift."

The news from Chunshan Hall was indeed correct.

Cong Ye coughed twice and got ready to look at Zhang Qishan's face next to him.

Zhang Qishan was staring at him, with a calm expression on his face as if a storm was about to come.

"You already knew?"

Zhang Qishan already has the answer in his mind.

No wonder Cong also asked him to play Peng Sanbian, it turned out that he had already planned it.

How could Cong Ye admit it at this time? He immediately denied it: "I don't know."

Zhang Qishan squinted his eyes and smiled instead of angry. The corners of his mouth raised in a subtle arc. He leaned back on the chair again with a leisurely and relaxed expression:

"It's ok."

So generous?

Cong also didn't believe it.

Zhang Qishan's reaction was beyond his expectation.

Auction has started.

The dignitaries in the lobby on the first floor just casually called out the price to warm up the place, and then disappeared.

The people in the box on the second floor began to take action.

The first person to raise prices was the president of the Japan Chamber of Commerce.

The rule of the second round of auction is that each bid increase shall not be less than 20.

The people in the box don't need to make a sound, they just need to ring the bell at hand, and the people at the Crescent Hotel will naturally calculate the auction amount for each person.

For a while, the bells kept ringing.

In the box where the president of the Japan Chamber of Commerce was sitting, someone suddenly opened the bead curtain and came out, saying to the auctioneer: "We ask for a sky lantern to be lit."

The auctioneer's smile widened: "Okay."

She glanced at the waiter beside her and ordered: "Light up."

One of the four-cornered palace lanterns hanging in front of the Japanese box was lit.

"What does it mean to light a sky lantern?"

Zhang Qishan frowned and looked at Cong Ye.

"Lighting up sky lanterns means reserving the space in the auction house. No matter what is sold in this round or what the price is, the person who lights up the sky lanterns will pay for it."

Cong Ye did his homework before coming to Crescent Hotel.

Keep some of the rules in the auction house in mind.

"Then the medicinal materials belong to them?"

Zhang Qishan's brows furrowed more and more tightly.

Cong Ye shook his head and stood up: "They can light it, and of course we can too. If two families fight for lanterns, the one with the highest price will get it."

He opened the bead curtain and looked at the auctioneer in the audience:

"Light on."

The palace lantern is on.

The Japanese's face changed slightly.

Cong Ye let go and the bead curtain fell again. From the corner of his eye, he saw Yin Xinyue's increasingly sweet smile.

His expression remained unchanged and he sat back down.

Zhang Qishan turned the ring twice and stood up: "I'm going out for a while."

In a blind shooting format, they had to light up three sky lanterns.

According to the money he exchanged before leaving, he might not be able to hold on to the third light. He had to call Master Jiu. No matter what method he used, he had to let Changsha Bank get the money together as soon as possible.