There’s still a great chance
Ye Xiudu squinted his eyes, pushing himself up to a sitting position. He smoothened the wrinkles on his clothes and let out a sigh: “I have been asleep for quite some time, it seems that the outside has become quite lively.”
After saying that, he looked at Yu Qingluo meaningfully, got up and started walking towards the door: “So lively that it even makes me feel the urge to go and join the bustling crowd. In any case, it’s fine to just go and check out who this big fish might be. And if we hit it off, I might as well have a few more words with him.”
“…”
“…”
Yu Qingluo and Jin liuli looked at each other. Yu Qingluo placed the cup of tea on the table in an abrupt manner with an unsteady hand so the tea inside swayed for a bit before turning over and spilling all the tea over the tablecloth.
She was sitting just a moment ago but had already rushed forth like a whirlwind and grabbed Ye Xiudu’s clothes, pulling him back. Between gritted teeth, she said: “Ye Xiudu, you win.”
Jin Liuli turned her head in silence. She was not his opponent in the least. Why hasn’t this little wench poisoned him already?
Ye Xiudu stood still in place, speechless. He raised an eyebrow inquisitively at her as if he was expecting her to give him an answer.
“Go back to your nap. In any case, this big fish will be here soon and you’ll be able to see who he is when the time comes.” Yu Qingluo rubbed the space between her eyebrows and turned to Jin Liuli: “Go and get a few tokens, then go to the private room of number 3. Ask for Shen Ying, Mo Xian and Wen Tian to raise the prices on the auction at opportune moments.”
Damn it[1]. Since Ye Xiudu is going to know anyway, it’s better to use the resources on his hands as much as she could.
Ye Xiudu gave her a sideways glance: “Aren’t you too comfortable ordering my subordinates around?”
Yu Qingluo ignored him and just dragged him by his clothes, pulling him back to sit on the couch. Then she went to sit in front of Jin Liuli and explained to her some minor details of the plan before letting her leave.
When there was only the two of them left inside the room, Yu Qingluo took in a deep breath and poured a cup of tea for Ye Xiudu, after handing it to him she sat opposite to him and smiled: “Ye Xiudu, let us discuss a little something.”
15 million silver tael… 15 Million silver tael… 15 million silver tael…
“Discuss what?” For Yu Qingluo to pour a cup of tea for him… It was a really flattering gesture.
“Our relationship is one of a doctor and her patient, isn’t it?”
Ye Xiudu frowned, his face turned overcast slowly. He faced up while taking the cup of tea delivered to him and then placed it securely over the table.
He already knew that the price for having this cup of tea poured by her wouldn’t come cheap.
After a moment of silence, he unhappily nodded: “Uhum.”
Yu Qingluo’s smile deepened: “Since our relationship is such, then our exchange is from equal to equal. You pay and I treat your condition, that’s all. Therefore, we each have our own private lives and people who we want to get back at. Today, I am offering medical services and made an exception for you to stay here and rest. In addition, our friendship can be considered to be pretty solid since we have been living together for these last days.”
Ye Xiudu’s eyes narrowed, staring straight at her.
Yu Qingluo was thrown off guard by the look he was giving her, her body leaned back, farther from him. It took some time before she could summon the courage to finish speaking: “So, It’s better if you just stand by and not interfere with what I want to do afterwards, nor how I want to do it. Just pretend like you came to watch a play or something.”
‘See? Isn’t my tone very humble right now? To even let him spectate everything like a funny attraction.’ Those 15 million silver taels had just too big of an allure to her. But if he still didn’t agree then he could just go and die for all she cared.
Ye Xiudu’s mood was still bad. Listening to her nice-sounding and quiet voice, the corner of his mouth curved into a cold smile: “I have no intention of caring about your lousy matters.”
Lousy matters? Lousy matters?! He actually dared to say that her problems were lousy ones.
She… must endure!!
Taking a deep breath, Yu Qingluo nodded and kept smiling: “Then let me invite Great Lord Ye to continue resting here.”
After speaking she went back to sit on the side of the table and sipping on her tea.
The two went silent again. Ye Xiudu originally was not a person who spoke much to begin with, and Yu Qingluo right now was restraining herself from the urge of throwing the idea of those 15 million out of a window, so she would not open her mouth to speak any time soon.
At this moment, the dining hall’s atmosphere was the complete opposite of the dead silence in the room. The air was filled with joy and happiness, one that seemed to reach each and every one of those people in there since they had learned that the auction would bring them many benefits, and none of those present was willing to let this happiness fly away from their hands.
To the point that even those that had already turned around and left some time ago had also returned to the Fulong Tavern after hearing the news.
On the second floor, Yang Yansheng stood on the private box of number six by the window, holding his wooden token of number six. His voice was steady and strong.
“Everybody, the token of number six is on my hands right now, and, to avoid any more unnecessary disputes, it’ll be transferred to another part by the means of an auction. Since it’s getting late and everyone has already been here waiting for an entire day, I believe everyone must be a bit tired. So I hope that this auction does not take long. Therefore, I ask everyone who isn’t interested in seeing the Ghost Doctor not to join the auction just to pull on another person’s leg.”
As soon as he finished speaking to those in the dining hall below, Da Wu took a drum from God knows where and slammed it.
The loud sound announced the official start for the biding.
However, even after Yang Yansheng explanation a lot of people hoped that the price of this auction was the biggest possible. After all, the bigger the price, the better the benefits they would receive. So why not join the fray?
Therefore, it took just a moment for the price to shoot directly to 200 taels of silver.
After rising to 200 taels, the voices offering biddings became less and less. This was because, although everyone wanted to join the fray to increase the price, they were still afraid of making it so expensive that no one would be able to afford it.
After all, they were only common folk, and their abilities were limited.
But…
Although the biddings from the dining hall had almost come to a halt, that didn’t mean that the ones coming from inside the private boxes had.
Those guests who were able to secure a private box were all-powerful and rich personages. They didn’t take those 200 taels of silver seriously.
So, after the bidings coming from the dining hall quieted down, the biddings from upstairs increased more and more.
Yu Feng stood behind Yu Zuolin, his face flushed as his expression started turning anxious.
“Young master…” they still hadn’t started to bid yet and neither knew when the bids from the other boxes would end.
Yu Zuolin tightly squeezed the cup of tea he held in his hands, scowling.
His eyes swept over the curtains that covered the windows of each of the private boxes. As far as he knew, the Fulong tavern had offered 10 private boxes for the guests to buy and occupy.
The rooms numbered 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 had already been selected by Jin Liuli and had gone to see the Ghost Doctor, so they should not be participating in this auction.
As for the room of number 6, that was where Master Yang was located and so, it could be ruled out as an adversary.
This only left rooms number 1, 4, 8 and 10 as competitors.
There were not many of them so there was still a great chance of being the winner.
“Yu Feng, 500 taels.” After giving his assessment, Yu Zuolin’s heart calmed down and he turned around to hand his wooden token to Yu Zuolin, asking him to make the bid.
The previous bid just happens to be of 400 taels. Yu Feng was quite clever and after hearing the last bid he shouted out of the window: “Number 1, 500 taels.”
The dining hall was in an uproar. To ordinary folks like them, to add 100 taels in a single shout made them exclaim inside their minds ‘filthy rich!’
Downstairs, Jin Liuli smiled at this. Her finger tapping against the tabletop gently.
Immediately a person came from outside into the tavern and raised his hand to say: “Number 230, 550 taels.”
Translated by C, The Apostle of Coffee
Edited by NoveLeo, Life is a Drama
Translator’s Notes
[1] She uses ‘妈的’- ‘your mother’. It’s the equivalent of “Damn it!” and you may see it as TMD (Ta ma de – the pinyin abbreviation for 他妈的).
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