As the crowd dispersed, Ding Bu Er sighed beside Mo Wuji, ”Alas, I finally realise why Miss asked us to help find the Double Leaf Flame Grass, she must have used it to give it to a certain Immortal Master as well. Wuji, it would have been good if you had left one plant behind in the first place. Maybe when we get to Changluo, we can also exchange it for a journeyman disciple.”
Mo Wuji hemmed and hawed and whispered, “I really did leave behind a plant, but the value of the Double Leaf Flame Grass is nowhere near as high as the Bright Eyes Fruit. If just a random low grade spirit medicine could become a miscellaneous servant disciple, then there would be too many miscellaneous servant disciples.”
Ding Bu Er nodded, “That’s true.”
“I’ll take number seventeen, bidding twenty gold coins.”
“Number seventeen, I bid twenty-three gold coins.”
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The clamour of voices came, Mo Wuji looked over in confusion and subconsciously asked, “Is there another auction going on there? What’s being auctioned?”
Ding Bu Er said, “That’s where female slaves are sold, I’ve been there. To be honest, those slaves are all prettier than one another, and they are all untouched. They were specially shipped by merchants to be sold to the geniuses who went to the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly.”
Mo Wuji asked doubtfully, “Didn’t it say that geniuses attending the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly can only bring four household servants each? If we sell female slaves again, can we allow them to be brought on board?”
“That’s what you don’t understand, it will be several days here before we leave. Those rich sons and daughters came to attend the Leaping Immortal Sect Assembly, naturally they can’t bring women to sleep with them. They always need someone to accompany them when they stay at this kind of seaside with little entertainment, those female slaves are actually bought by them to use for a few days. Want to go and take a look?” Ding Bu Er heatedly laughed.
“Forget it.” Mo Wuji shook his head, he was extremely angry about the trafficking of women, it’s just that he was powerless to stop this kind of thing, so why bother going to see it to add to the problem.
“Congratulations to this friend for obtaining number seventeen for twenty five gold coins, the next one to be sold is number twenty six. Everyone pay attention, this number twenty-six is by no means inferior to number seventeen, and her appearance is even a bit more elegant. There is another selling point for number twenty-six that you may not know, she was born in a county king’s family. I heard that she is a descendant of the Northern Qin County King Mo Clan ……”
Mo Wuji suddenly retracted his footsteps and turned his head to look at the place where the female slaves were being auctioned off in the distance, his hands already clenched into fists.
Even though his soul was not from the Northern Qin County King clan, well, at least the blood in his body was from the Northern Qin County King clan. What’s more, he was originally surnamed Mo as well.
This time, there was no need for Ding Bu Er to speak at all, Mo Wuji had already hurried over.
Ding Bu Er was naturally clear about Mo Wuji’s origins, and when he saw Mo Wuji’s face angrily go over, he was worried in his heart that Mo Wuji would accidentally do something wrong and hurriedly chased after him.
“Wuji, we mustn’t mess around here. Otherwise, others will pinch us to death as if they were pinching an ant.” Ding Bu Er grabbed Mo Wuji’s arm and said eagerly.
Mo Wuji said in a deep voice, “I’ll pay attention.”
“I’ll offer thirty five gold coins ……,” a man who stood like a short winter melon shouted.
“It must taste good to try a County King’s descendant, I’ll offer forty gold coins.” Another lewd voice called out.
Mo Wuji had already seen a green-skirted girl who was chained to her ankles, this girl had a hint of indignation and despair in her eyes. As the obese merchant had said, this was a very clear and beautiful young girl. The dress on her body had obviously done some tidying up, this should be to sell a little more gold coins.
“One hundred gold coins.” Mo Wuji took a breath and said.
There was a ball of anger burning in his heart, he couldn’t wait to immediately pull out that sharp knife from his boot and rush up to finish off this fatty with a single slash.
Reason told Mo Wuji that impulse was the devil. He could only clean this fatty up through the gold coins, otherwise he would die even more than this fatty. As for the people he wanted to save, I’m afraid that they would suffer even worse.
The noisy crowd suddenly quieted down, the slave girl was for sale until now, everyone had raised the price by a maximum of ten gold coins. Just now someone from thirty-five to forty is considered a very high increase, and now there is a guy who directly increased the price to one hundred gold coins. This is how much of a loser he is, a hundred gold coins, he can buy a few female slaves.
“This woman is not bad, I’ll bid one hundred and one gold coins.” Because Mo Wuji had bid one hundred gold coins, the scene was a little quiet. Now that someone had abruptly called out one hundred and one gold coins, it was even more abrupt.
This place was already cluttered with people, an open air venue only. A female slave being called out at one hundred and one gold coins was like a firecracker landing in the crowd, and the crowd roared. More people were shouting and bidding higher prices.
Mo Wuji saw this guy who bid one hundred and one gold coins, cupping a pretentious folding fan in his hand, his hair combed with oil. Mo Wuji didn’t recognise this guy at all and didn’t know why he was competing with him.
“One thousand gold coins.” Mo Wuji was not in the mood to haggle with this guy and directly increased the price by ten times.
The obese merchant who was selling the female slave was shaking with excitement when he heard Mo Wuji call for a thousand gold coins. Dozens of female slaves were still not as high as the price that this one female slave was selling for, how could he not be excited? However, he still turned his gaze towards the guy with the folding fan in his hand, he wanted to see two people competing that would allow him to earn more gold coins.
The onlookers became even more excited and boomed together. A female slave sold for a thousand gold coins, this was unbelievable.
“Kid has guts, dare to snatch a woman from me, one thousand and one gold coins, you have the guts to dare to raise it again.” The folding fan man simply put his folding fan away and stared fiercely at Mo Wuji.
Mo Wuji acted as if he didn’t hear this guy’s threat and directly called out, “One thousand and one gold coins and one copper coin.”
“You ……” The folding fan man pointed his folding fan at Mo Wuji’s forehead, if it was said that Mo Wuji’s previous price increase still smacked of claptrap, then Mo Wuji’s price now was clearly slapping him in the face.
He could add one gold coin to Mo Wuji’s price, but Mo Wuji absolutely could not add one gold coin to his price. No, it wasn’t adding a gold coin, as long as he called out the price, this guy who was just in the status of an underling should just shut his mouth.
But not only did this guy not shut his mouth, he even directly added a copper coin under his threat.
This was not only slapping his face, but slapping his face without gloves.
When the obese merchant heard that Mo Wuji had only added one copper coin, his fat face twitched a few times as he dropped his gaze on this folding fan man, who he hoped would start adding gold coins in anger.
Unfortunately, to his disappointment, this folding fan man just pointed at Mo Wuji angrily, but did not follow the price increase. It wasn’t until after he had called out three times that this folding fan man still didn’t seem to have reacted and was still staring angrily at Mo Wuji.
This obese merchant thought that this folding fan man should have deliberately done so because he didn’t want to raise the price and was afraid of losing face, so he simply called out, “Congratulations to this friend, for obtaining this Northern Qin Descendant Female Slave for 1,001 gold coins and one copper coin.”
“Who told you that I won’t raise the price, old me bid two thousand gold coins.” The man with the folding fan stared viciously at the obese merchant and shouted.
