After hearing Zhu Guangbao's explanation, Ye Li immediately understood that Jujin City was about to hold a large-scale auction.
As the four major chambers of commerce jointly organized this event, one can imagine that the scale must be huge and the items sold must be extremely rare.
Ye Li's heart was moved. After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, Pavilion Master Zhu, I will join in the fun."
Hearing that Ye Li accepted the invitation, Zhu Guangbao nodded with a smile on his face and said: "Your participation in the auction is also a support for us.
We will arrange a seating area for you at that time, but the VIP rooms have been allocated and we cannot add more now, so we can only reserve a seat for you in the ordinary auction area.
In fact, we originally invited your master, Master Ou Qianxie, and he was invited personally by the head of the family. Master Ou also agreed to come, and we also reserved a VIP room for him.
But half a month ago, Master Ou suddenly said that he had something important to attend to and could not come. We turned around and invited Master Pei Ku, but he declined our invitation due to his busy schedule, so we allocated the reserved private room to other people.
I really didn’t expect you to come here in the end, otherwise we could have reserved the private room for you.”
Hearing Zhu Guangbao's words, Ye Li quickly waved his hand and said, "Master Zhu, you are too polite. I wouldn't dare to sit in a private room even if there is one.
After all, the people you arranged in the private room are all people of my master's level. It would be embarrassing for me to sit there. I would be relying on my master's influence and there would be gossip."
After hearing Ye Li's words, Zhu Guangbao nodded. He could see that Ye Li was a very easy-going guest.
“Thank you for your understanding, Master Ye, don’t worry, even in the ordinary auction area, your position will definitely be with other people of higher status.
No matter what, you are also Master Ou's disciple, so we dare not make any arrangements too casually."
Ye Li himself didn't care about these things, but he knew that the Treasure Pavilion would definitely take his identity into consideration, so he nodded in agreement with the other party.
At this time, the guy who had just left had rushed back, followed by a burly man who looked like a guard, holding a large box in his hands.
"Master Pavilion Master, all the Fire Spirit Stones purchased by this distinguished guest are here."
The waiter asked the guard to put the large wooden box on the table, and then spoke to Zhu Guangbao.
Zhu Guangbao nodded and waved for the other party to leave. He then opened the box and carefully counted the items. Then he said to Ye Li, "Mr. Ye, here are the Fire Spirit Stones you requested. I have counted them and there are exactly 100 of them.
If you are unsure, you can count again by yourself. ”
Ye Li shook his head and said, "Of course I trust your Excellency. There is no need to count them."
After saying this, he lightly grabbed the box with one hand as if it were a tea bowl and casually stuffed it into his Qiankun bag.
Zhu Guangbao was watching from the side with a slight surprise in his eyes. He naturally knew the weight of one hundred Fire Spirit Stones. Considering Ye Li's age and cultivation level, he could pick it up as easily as lifting a tea bowl. His physical strength was beyond his expectation.
After Ye Li put away the Fire Spirit Stone, Zhu Guangbao said, "Master Ye, I wonder if you have anything else to do. If not, I will take you to your residence to settle down."
Ye Li nodded and said, "I don't have anything else to do. I'll have to trouble Pavilion Master Zhu with the accommodation."
Zhu Guangbao smiled and shook his head, saying: "Don't be polite with me, according to the regulations, the holder of the golden VIP order can stay in any treasure pavilion of our Guan's Chamber of Commerce for free for one month.
It is also our obligation to arrange accommodation for you.”
After saying this, Zhu Guangbao led Ye Li all the way back to the first floor again.
Just as he was about to walk out of the shop, Zhu Guangbao seemed to remember something and said to Ye Li, "Master Ye, please wait for me for a moment. I will tell the stewards here and take you to your residence."
Ye Li smiled and said, "Master Zhu, please go ahead. I'll just wait for you here."
Zhu Guangbao nodded and quickly walked into the manager's room not far away.
Just as Ye Li was casually looking around and waiting for Zhu Guangbao, the young man who had spoken to Ye Li at the door before came down from upstairs again.
He brought his guards with him, and with a smug smile on his face, he quickly walked to the gate.
At this time, Ye Li was still standing there, looking at the counters around him. The waiters all knew that he was a guest personally entertained by the Pavilion Master, so they didn't dare to come over to disturb him.
The young man who looked like a young master also recognized Ye Li when he passed by him.
Seeing him standing in the store with no one paying attention to him, he immediately smiled contemptuously and said to the guard next to him: "I didn't expect this country bumpkin to actually come in. This time he has really broadened his horizons. I guess he can brag about it for a year when he returns to the village."
After he finished speaking, the young man yelled at Ye Li, "Hey, country bumpkin, leave right after you finish watching.
Fortunately, Treasure Pavilion is a big store after all, so they didn't kick you out. If it were a small store, you would have been kicked out long ago."
Ye Li also recognized the other person and couldn't help but frowned, with an angry look on his face. This was the second time he had been ridiculed by this man.
After the other party finished speaking, he did not stop, but walked out of the Treasure Pavilion with a big laugh.
Although Ye Li was unhappy, he did not go up to argue. He had suffered much more hurtful sarcasm and ridicule from childhood to adulthood than these two sentences. Besides, there was no point in arguing with the other party. He might never see these people again in his life, so why bother to create unnecessary cause and effect.
After taking a deep breath, Ye Li put the matter behind him and continued to look around.
Zhu Guangbao finished explaining the matter quickly, and hurriedly walked out of the steward's room, came to Ye Li, and said apologetically: "Sorry for keeping you waiting, Master Ye, let's go now."
Ye Li smiled indifferently and followed Zhu Guangbao out of the Treasure Pavilion.
Zhu Guangbao took Ye Li all the way to the outside of the South City Gate, and walked upstream along a clear stream. Not far away, they saw a huge courtyard.
It was already dark at this time, but Ye Li could still see the pine trees and bamboo branches planted there with the help of the lights in the courtyard.
There were two guards standing at the gate of the courtyard. After seeing Zhu Guangbao from afar, they quickly straightened their bodies and saluted him, saying, "Master!"
Zhu Guangbao waved his hand and said, "This is Mr. Ye. He will live here for a while."
The two guards quickly saluted Ye Li and called him "Young Master Ye".
Ye Li responded with a smile, indicating that they didn't need to be polite, then he looked up at the plaque on the gate of the courtyard, which had four big characters "Songzhu Bieyuan" written on it.