“In three days’ time, ten sisters of the Yi Shui Courtyard will be put up for auction. Sister Ren’e has reached the upper age limit and is also on the list of those listed. Sister Ren’e is the prettiest sister in Yishui Courtyard, excluding the three Mei sisters. There are many gentry waiting for her in Xijia City, not to mention that she has her heart set on the stone, even if she doesn’t have one, her future fate will be extremely miserable if she is bought. Alas, it is a pity that the stone can only go to meet her but cannot help her ……”
Liu Hanyu said seemingly remembering her own situation and sighed with an extremely downcast expression. In another three years, it would be her who would be put up for sale. Ren’e at least had a Tai Shu Shi to remember her by, even if Tai Shu Shi could not help Ren’e, he could always give Ren’e some comfort in her heart, but she had no one at all.
She subconsciously looked up at Ning Cheng, she knew very well in her heart that Ning Cheng had no feelings for her. But even so, she took out the little bit of spiritual tea that she had treasured for many years and gave it to Ning Cheng to drink, willingly. She likewise had a young girl’s dream and a longing for something beautiful.
Ning Cheng was speechless in silence, it was all too normal to sell women as goods here. Not to mention that he could not help, even if he could, he would not be able to help countless women like this.
The atmosphere was awkward for a while, and Liu Hanyu had no desire to continue teasing Ning Cheng, while Ning Cheng was thinking about how he could help Tai Shu Shi.
With this popularity of Ren’e’s, since she was listed, she would need at least three hundred spirit stones or more to do so.
The spirit stones he had on him only added up to three hundred, and once someone bid for them, this amount of spirit stones he had would not be enough at all. Apart from the spirit stones, the only thing he had with him that was worth anything was a Grade 4 Spirit Gra*s. There was no telling if the Grade 4 Spiritual Herb would fetch a price in Xijia City, and besides, he was indeed a bit reluctant to part with it. Ning Cheng shook his head, as much as he could support.
Over three hundred spirit stones was a large fortune to others, but to him it was a drop in the bucket and would not make much difference.
At that moment, Liu Hanyu’s room was suddenly knocked on sharply. Liu Hanyu hurriedly went up to open the door, and Tai Shu Shi stood in the doorway with an anxious face.
“Ning Cheng, hurry up and accompany me to the auction in Xijia City. The latest auction is tomorrow, and I’m going to auction off a little something.” As soon as Tai Shu Shi saw Ning Cheng, he said eagerly.
Ning Cheng already understood Tai Shu Shi’s meaning, he stood up and said to Liu Hanyu with a smile, “Thank you for the tea, it’s very good.”
“Thank you.” Liu Hanyu bent down and said a thank you, and did not send Ning Cheng or Tai Shu Shi.
Tai Shu Shi had calmed down from his anxiety by now, and he knew that the most urgent thing now was how to get spirit stones. Seeing that Ning Cheng followed him out of the Yishui Courtyard without taking out anything and placing it on the tea table, he sighed a little in his heart that Ning Cheng should not come to such places much and did not know that he had to give spirit stones for drinking tea. The tea was not something from the Yi Shui Courtyard, it was all the female cultivators’ own stuff, and usually the guests who came would come forward to pay spirit stones after using it.
As for the amount of spirit stones offered, it was based on the wealth of the guests.
“Actually, you should have left a spirit stone, it’s not easy for them either. The two spirit stones we entered the courtyard were both gotten away by the Yi Shui Courtyard, there was no share for them.” Only after walking a long way out of the Yi Shui Courtyard did Tai Shu Shi say with a sigh.
Ning Cheng certainly knew what Tai Shu Shi meant, these female cultivators in the Yi Shui Courtyard all lived off the tips given privately by the guests, if the guests were stingy, then the female cultivators could only work for nothing.
Ning Cheng fell silent, it was not that he could not spare a single spirit stone, nor was he unaware of this rule. Even if he had never been to such places again, he had seen many.
The reason why he did not give the spirit stone was because he could feel that Liu Hanyu was still a bit pretentious towards him at first. But after entering the room, the kind of attitude Liu Hanyu had towards him should have been moving. He didn’t know where Liu Hanyu had gotten this kind of tea from, but he was sure that there weren’t many of them. She shouldn’t have taken out this kind of spirit tea just to earn a few spirit stones. Even if she wanted to earn spirit stones, Liu Hanyu would not choose someone like him.
Ning Cheng was a person who valued love and justice, and there was no way that he and Liu Hanyu would ever be able to get along. But he also did not want to use a spirit stone to make Liu Hanyu feel hurt about her status, and Liu Hanyu’s thank you when he left had made everything clear.
A woman of the dust had the pride and self-respect of a woman of the dust, and to use a spirit stone to shatter that self-respect was a cruel thing to do. If he could, Ning Cheng would rather help Liu Hanyu once elsewhere.
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Tai Shu Shi led Ning Cheng to stop before a circular building, above which was written ‘Xijia Auction House’.
“What do you want to sell?” Ning Cheng asked as he looked at Tai Shu Shi who seemed to have made up his mind.
Tai Shu Shi said decisively, “I must ransom Ren’e back, and I have a third grade spirit herb.”
“An ordinary third grade spirit herb is probably difficult, right? It might not even be able to be sold.” Ning Cheng reminded Tai Shu Shi.
Tai Shu Shi bit his lip, apparently he also knew that an ordinary Grade 3 Spiritual Herb definitely wouldn’t sell for many Spiritual Stones, and he would have to think of other ways to redeem Ren’e.
“If it’s really not possible, I still have the Tai Shu Family’s gong method. Although this gong method is missing too much, it can at least be counted as a True Grade gong method, right?” A struggle appeared in Tai Shu Shi’s eyes, his Tai Shu Family’s gong method was missing not bad, but it had been pa*sed down.
The Tai Shu family’s gong methods were not even recorded in jade slips and were pa*sed down by word of mouth, yet he was using them for sale, which was simply treacherous. It was a good thing that he remembered that the Golden Cicada Fruit belonged to Ning Cheng, otherwise he might have even had to take it out.
“Stone, how is the price of Grade 4 Spiritual Herbs in Xijia City? Also are there any Xuan-grade merit methods for sale?” Ning Cheng patted Tai Shu Shi’s shoulder and asked.
In fact Ning Cheng did not feel that there was anything wrong with Tai Shu Shi, if it was his lover in the Yi Shui Courtyard, he would still find a way to get her out even if it would tear his bones apart. There would definitely be no twisting and turning like Tai Shu Shi and having to think about it for half a day.
Tai Shu Shi looked at Ning Cheng in surprise and said, “The price of a rank four spirit herb is outrageous, if it is an extremely precious rank four spirit herb, it is normal to sell it for tens of thousands of spirit stones. As for Xuan-grade merit methods, you shouldn’t be joking. If even Waki Continent could easily get a Xuan Grade gongfa, then the whole Waki Continent would be in an uproar. Once a Xuan-grade merit method appears, that will cause almost all the powers to come and fight for it, do you think it can be bought?”
When Ning Cheng heard Tai Shu Shi’s words, his body was covered in cold sweat, Fang Yi Jian had casually taken out a bunch of Xuan-grade merit methods, he thought that although Xuan-grade merit methods were not as bad as cabbages, they were just something ordinary. He didn’t expect them to be so precious.
He had originally planned to take out a Xuan-grade merit method for the auction, but fortunately he had asked Tai Shu Shi, once he really took a chance and took it out, it would be a death wish.
Giving up on the idea of taking out a Xuan level gongfa, Ning Cheng said with a smile, “There is no need to worry about the stone, although there are few good things in the depths of the Great An Forest, they are not absent. I went through the Da’an Forest and had some good luck in getting a Grade 4 Spiritual Herb, I will take this Grade 4 Spiritual Herb to the consignment auction later.”
Such things as Grade 4 Spiritual Herbs were also very precious, and compared to Xuan Grade Merit Laws, getting one could only be described as luck. Ning Cheng didn’t feel much pressure in his heart when he took out a Grade 4 Spiritual Herb.
“You have a Grade 4 Spiritual Herb?” Tai Shu Shi became excited all of a sudden, “An average Grade 4 Spiritual Herb can also be bought for hundreds or thousands of Spiritual Stones, redeeming Ren’e will definitely be enough ……”
But Tai Shu Shi quickly woke up to the fact that this Grade 4 Spiritual Herb was not his, “But this is your Spiritual Herb, I ……”
Ning Cheng patted Tai Shu Shi’s shoulder and said, “You also said that we have met each other at first sight, so there is no need to be so squirmy.”
Tai Shu Shi sighed and said, “Brother Ning, you’ve said this twice, you’ve helped me twice. And I said it once, just once.”
“Haha.” Ning Cheng laughed, “Don’t be a mother-in-law, it’s more practical to call Ning Cheng, what’s this Brother Ning again.”
“No, from now on you will be my stone’s big brother, no matter what, I stone will be the one to charge ahead.” Tai Shu Shi said firmly.
Seeing Ning Cheng looking at himself with some confusion, Tai Shu Shi repeated, “Big brother, I am serious. You give me the spirit herbs, I will a*sess them first, and then we will go in together to discuss them.”
Ning Cheng suddenly remembered a line that he often heard on Earth, he took out a jade box and handed it to Tai Shu Shi, smiled and said, “I have not been a big brother for many years.”
“Ah ……” Tai Shu Shi did not understand Ning Cheng’s meaning of this sentence at all, could it be that Brother Ning had a sad past before?
“I mean it’ll put a lot of pressure on me if you call me that. I’ll have to take care of you in the future, and when I think about it, it seems a bit uneconomical ……” Ning Cheng said as he shoved the jade box into Tai Shu Shi’s hand.
Knowing that Ning Cheng was joking, Tai Shu Shi still said very seriously, “Don’t worry big brother, I definitely won’t pull my leg.”
Ning Cheng had to say, “Just kidding, don’t be so serious.”
Tai Shu Shi opened the jade box in his hand, and then his hand shook, almost dropping the jade box to the ground, “This, this is Neaguang gra*s? The Grade 4 Spiritual Gra*s you mentioned is actually Neiguang Gra*s?”
“Yes, this is the only one I have.” Ning Cheng nodded and said, he knew that the Neiguang gra*s was very precious, but he really did not have any other rank four spirit gra*ses, if he did, he would definitely not have taken out the Neiguang gra*s. As for the Soul Nurturing Wood, that thing was even more precious than the Ne Guang Cao, Ning Cheng would not take it out, nor would he dare to take it out.
Tai Shu Shi hurriedly handed the jade box to Ning Cheng once again, “Big brother, this is too precious, this kind of thing should be put up for auction in the middle level continent, or even in the high level continent. Even if it’s no good, it should be taken to the Chemical Continent. Even if it’s not sold, this kind of thing in your hands is still a great safeguard. This is a good thing that can repair the Dan Lake, taking it out and selling it like this is really, really ……”