Lord Lan

Chapter 56
As he spoke, he wiped his shriveled and yellow face with his right hand, and the face instantly turned into the makeup of a clown in a Sichuan opera, with a pair of raised eyes slanted left and right, his white nose wrinkled, and he made a funny salute expression to that old man Huang.

The appearance of this clown immediately amused many people, especially that Mr. Huang, who clapped his palms and laughed, stretched out his hand and grabbed a few gold coins piled on the table and threw them over, shouting: "Okay, then I will reward you with a few gold coins." vision."

The few coins were tossed a little scattered, and when they fell in the air, they were caught one by one by Lu lame grabbing the hat, and the laughter and applause resounded again, and he put it in his arms with a smile, and shouted: "Okay, today's coin" The opening will be rewarded by Mr. Huang, so let’s start our first auction today.”

He held a gong and a wooden stick in each hand, and banged wildly. Two strong men escorted ten slaves who were chained together. "Gentlemen, ladies, look! These ten men are all good! You look at this tall and straight, look at this tough size, these pectoral muscles, these six-pack abs, and this strong Waist! It’s very cheap, and the auction starts at three gold coins. Ladies and gentlemen, you can buy it back with confidence. Don’t look at their tough appearance, but as long as you give them something to eat, you must be as docile as a sheep. If you ask them to lick their toes, they will lick them very clean. ! One is worth two, good things come in pairs!"

The lame Lu stretched out his hand to pinch and slap these slaves while talking, inevitably punching him a few more times, then shook his sore hands, looked around with grinning teeth, and said, "Look, I'm still waiting!" Hit!Traveling at home, part-time meat shield and bodyguard!
An old woman held the pamphlet and immediately raised her hand, "Five pieces." Although the quality improved as the auction went on, these ten strong men only needed such a few gold coins, which was less than what she paid for drinking a bowl of bird's nest to nourish her face on weekdays. No, she bought it back and added the role of warming the bed.

"Ah, Mrs. Gao is really bold, and it will be increased to five gold coins immediately! Is there any more? No one has bid for it yet? Once, I shouted for the second time, and for the third time, Mrs. Gao won the auction! Congratulations!" Lu lame beat the gong again, and then ordered the ten slaves to be escorted to the iron cage below the bidder.

Gongsun Jinbi listened to Lu Lame's words, and when he looked at the proud Mrs. Gao, his eyebrows raised, and he sneered at the color, "There are so many kitchen knives on the word color."

Su Julan looked at the slaves who had become Mrs. Gao's "possessions", and also closed the booklet in her hand, and said with a smile: "Indeed, although she is a good slave, she has to be patient and raise it when she buys it back, otherwise the sewer The boat has to capsize too. Don’t you think so, Mr. Qian?”

"Ah, this... this?" Mr. Qian was struggling with how to test the princess, but found that there was something hidden in her words.

In fact, no matter how the slaves sold in Qu Huangcheng were divided into high, middle and low classes, most ordinary buyers selected slaves and bought them according to their own definition of "full slave" and "half slave".

"Full slaves" are those slaves who have been completely domesticated. They have lost the ability to resist and have nothing to do but live. Therefore, they are the easiest to control and have the best market among all slaves.

"Semi-slaves" were reduced to slaves due to various reasons. They didn't understand anything and always wanted to escape. They were wild and hard to find. Moreover, most of these slaves were high-level slaves, and only rich people could afford them.

What Mr. Qian struggled with was that the two of them knew the inside story of Qu Huangcheng very well!
He also saw that although the slaves Mrs. Gao bought were strong and strong, they were still unruly after being domesticated for a long time, so they were sold at a low price. Anyway, once the slaves were sold, they would not be held responsible.But the princess asked, if he answered honestly, wouldn't he smash his own signboard, if he didn't answer, he would be lying, and he could only play sloppy.

Su Julan knew it well, so she didn't ask further, just smiled, and after deliberately creating a deep and unpredictable image for Mr. Qian, she sent him away.

Her eyes lit up as the second batch of slaves came up.

The second auction was also a group of tied slaves, about 23 people.

Most of them were young and strong men, burly and fierce, but no one escorted them to the stage. They were dressed in tattered coarse linen clothes like a marching team to the auction stage, and then lined up neatly.But it didn't take long to discover that they were deliberately covering up three skinny old men and five babbling children.

Lu Lame just quoted a price, "Ten gold coins!"

Someone yelled impatiently: "What the hell, didn't you say that high-level slaves are only auctioned? Why are there some old and young children mixed in here?"

Obviously, only fifteen people can use it after buying it back, but the old man and the child will only waste food, and waste money and energy if they are tortured to death!
Many people began to worry about the price and waste, but Su Julan wondered why these seemingly "dangerous" people should not be imprisoned?They stood very honestly, but their eyes were both sharp and downcast, and there was an arrogance on their faces that was not befitting for a slave?
After Yan Hongxi blinked those eyes that were still clear in his calculations, he said lightly: "These men look sideways at the elderly and children with gentle eyes, but they become fierce when they look at other buyers. Usually they will be locked up or detained." People are wild and unruly, and they always want to escape, but these people are more unruly than the previous group of people, and if they are not locked up, it means that they have never thought of escaping."

"It's ridiculous! Since you said that they are more difficult to tame than the last group, why are they locked up and these people don't? And they haven't thought about escaping? Who wants to stay in such a ghost place?" Hu Sha She retorted, anyway, thinking of the Wushuang ring on her wrist, she definitely had a good impression of the royal family.

Yan Hongxi smiled and said nothing, obviously disdain to answer.

After a while, Shao Le said in a low voice: "Because neither the old man nor the child can run away."

A small white hand was slowly raised amidst their discussions.

They stared blankly at Su Julan, why are you joining in the fun?
Seeing the cold Lu lame also looking this way, as if he was about to receive an amnesty, he immediately praised Su Julan who raised his hand, "Hey! This unique, beautiful and noble lady in the world, you are really a wife and a smart lady These slaves are good stuff. Elderly people and children can’t eat much rice anyway, so it’s really not a waste to raise them! Ah, ladies and lords, you see this lady is so knowledgeable, do you need to reconsider, these slaves are really very Not bad! Otherwise, how could this young lady with both talent and beauty make a move?"

This lame Lu started yelling at others for prices, and a foreign merchant who didn't understand the market immediately couldn't hold back and shouted: "Twenty gold coins!"

"Thirty gold coins!" A man with a big belly also choked, and many surprised eyes were cast. The man was a little complacent, looked at Su Julan from a distance and smiled, and said with a smile on his face, "If Miss If necessary, how about I buy these slaves and give them to Miss?"

(End of this chapter)